Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

especially when said by people who lean back in their chair after saying it, like they're Burt Reynolds.

I have seen "you can't polish a turd" used to:

insult Jay Fiedler
insult politicians
insult directors
insult musicians
insult Jay Fiedler
insult athletes
insult movies
insult Jay Fiedler
insult toilet paper

and never once did it ever make me go OH WOW I totally get what you mean, thanks for looking out brah...just made me think SOMEONE USED A LOT OF INTERNET AND HAD VERY LITTLE IMAGINATION!

- garden centres
- posting to the wrong thread by accident
- gardens

"don we now our gay clothes" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

^^^^That usage of 'apparel' doesn't bug me!

Noticing I'm also really set off by things like hearing the word 'associate' (as in 'sales associate') in a stupidly broad Minnesota accent.

Euphemistically referring to genitalia/buttocks as meat products. The cheerleading cheer that begins "how funky is your chicken" is what set me off today. See also "ham canyon."

oh god all coy euphemisms for sex and related stuff, as exemplified by the house style at http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gayspy/blog/gayspy/ which makes perving on hot boys as sexy as saturday night light entertainment tv. "fitty fitster" - WHO SAYS THIS?????

tbh digital spy generally as a website makes me livid but that's pretty rational.

Hahahahaha, Jon, I may live in London but I'm very American and home in Minnesota visiting my family.

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, April 10, 2006 8:39 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno it was missing america's smug expatriate self-hatred of its own working class until now

― +++++, Monday, April 10, 2006 8:43 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Its amazing us dumbass, hillbilly Americans can set down our guns and triple bacon-burgers long enough to rest our cankles and bang out a post on this message board.

Okay, asshole - you try switching places with me for a minute. I've got a mother constantly drinking FOX-flavoured kool-aid and identifying any view to the left of John Birch as 'socialist' - that is, when she's not yelling about 'entitlements' and 'illegals' and Somalis. My sister is married to a guy whose Michigan Militia dad trained him to moan about Paying For Other People while avoiding all kinds of taxes (so we're all paying for his useless ass) and justifying his racism with 'I grew up in Detroit' and the classic 'there's black people, and then there's n....'; my sister says her yapping dogs remind her of people 'speaking Hmong' blah blah ad nauseum. I should note that all these people do is discuss how not to be accountable for various things - taxes, DUIs, you name it - while complaining that brown and black people are sneaky, on welfare, or somehow not pulling their weight according to the Stupid White Person's Micromanagement of the Other handbook - and that's before they get started on their outrage over Michelle Obama having a 350k job and going on holiday.

If you don't think that gives me the need or the right to vent about a certain set of over-entitled, undereducated (and sweatshirt-clad) white person, fine, but I cordially invite you to look in the fucking mirror and ask yourself if you're not actually the smuggo here.

Wow.

Thread finally lives up to the "irrationally angry" part of the title.

My anger, not rational? O RLY.

xpost You thought it was false advertising?

I swear I have such deep shame for the views of these people that I dread introducing a future partner to them.

It'll probably make them appreciate you more :)

I'm not saying you aren't right to be frustrated by people like that, but you seem to be willing to paint Americans with a pretty broad brush.

Also, aiming your ire at us Americans posting on ILX seems pretty fucking misguided.

Dude she already said she's an American herself. Family members at Christmas preclude patriotism, surely

Yeah yeah, my idiot family infuriated me over the holiday too, but I'm not going around calling other ilxors "asshole".

LOL, I started writing that post after jaymc's - and he was totally being a dick with that repost.

I was playing some basic rudiments on my nephew's toy drum and one of my extended family members came up to me and said "who dat man wit dat jungle riddim?"

^not irrational anger. Just talking about Christmas now.

O_o ... Families, man

http://capitalbrand.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/ispeakjive.jpg

Lol

LOL, I started writing that post after jaymc's - and he was totally being a dick with that repost.

Oh yes, always a classy move to laugh off calling someone an asshole.

Oh, just back down already...

Yes, I'm the one who clearly needs to back off. Sincerely, fuck off.

http://tjsullivan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/crying-baby.jpeg

I think I empathize more with your racist family after your little tirade. Does it make you feel better to elevate yourself high enough to look down on everybody?

Behave or she'll start name-dropping.

Y'all take a chill. You need to cool that shit out. And that's the double-truth, Ruth.

Yes, lets just all cool down and completely be okay with her calling other posters "asshole", completely unprovoked.

both of y'all. omg.

You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the I-L-X.

biggest overreaction of the day goes to the backslash guy

Jesus. Fine, I'll just back down and continue to take being called an "asshole" for no reason.

I'm more concerned about Kerm now, jon.

Jon, I already explained that jaymc's post is what made me all ragey. I'm sorry you got caught in the crossfire but you've got to admit that's exactly where you put yourself.

lol, classy, "I'm not sorry for what I said, I'm just sorry you got offended"

u guys

^this

Yipes. We get irrationally angry about windshield wipers and typography, not each other. This ain't no octagon.

Tbh, I don't consider being called an "asshole" an "innocuous thing".

p sure that was for jaymc, tbh?

also p sure that was an hour and a half ago.

Oh, okay, in that case, I can feel okay calling suzy an annoying cunt? She should be over it in an hour and a half, iirc.

o wo wo wtf

Dude, seriously. Are you high?

I'm over it like NOW, little boy, since it would only hurt me if I had any respect for you - but I lost that c. 90 minutes ago.