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

hmm most of my sons christmas presents, mostly toy story 3 related have all sorts of ridiculous anti-theft wiring on them...20 minutes to open Buzz Lightyear while your son screams at you is not fun.

Oh yeah, that stuff is over-the-top.

Pretty smart from the retail end though, I guess.

and the fact that in one aisle i can get the "limited" edition toy story 3 mr potato head for only $60! In the aisle right next to that one i found good ol classic my potato head for $10. Fucking Disney

people who are returning shit without a receipt and who haven't even attempted to remotely familiarize themselves with the store's return system who HOLD UP THE DAMN LINE for someone who just wants to BUY ONE GODDAMN BOOK AND HAS THE MONEY IN HAND TO PAY FOR IT.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE STORE

anger is rational

truth

people wh osay "only you control your happiness".

bullshit.

angry

as we have proven time and time again in this thread, our happiness is held at the mercy of morons on a daily basis

"Boy, it sure is hot, ain't it?"/"Man, is it cold!"/"Oh, wow, is it pouring!" and pretty much any variation on those comments.

I know talking about the weather is a staple of small talk and thus human interaction, but really? So what? It's the weather, it's there, do we really need to discuss it? If you're not mentioning how it's going to effect your plans or about to blow me away with your plans for an actual weather controlling machine, I don't care.

rong 4 lyfe, imo. It's the weather, it hits everyone

I love people who talk about the weather – esp strangers – it means they are NOT doing something like assuming I am their buddy in hating "illegals" and complaining abt them, por ejemplo. Weather is beautifully, perfectly neutral.

abbbott otm. I do wonder though why we don't make small talk about breathing, etc...since that's pretty much universal too

i mean i come from farmers and fisherman, i can talk all day to fuckin goebbels about the weather

small talk abt breathing = health, imo. And ppl that get into their health as small talk are the worst

"Irrational" anger, yes?

I'm content to just stick my finger out of my front door first thing in the morning and, regardless of whatever that bodes, stoically get on with my day.

yeah, true.

with Darrragh re small talk from farmers. My Dad and I bond over talk of the weather. Even though I'm here and he's there and we don't have a lot in common we can talk about how much water's in the lake and the flood in woop woop and have a nice conversation.

xpost didn't mean to be dissing your IA. Have at it :)

R Baez, I hope you are now irrationally angry – at me! Use your hatred!

http://www.andybaird.com/travels/skylarking/2010/Villains/Emperor-Palpatine.jpg

hahahaha

oh yeah, by all means blast away RB be a short and boring thread if we all agreed

maybe we could totally disrupt ILX with 'THREAD OF THINGS WE ALL AGREE ON"

From now on I'll just bottle up all my irrational anger and shout them into holes in the ground. Or walls, like at the end of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.

Constructive, y'know?

but we like your IA, RB!

we're gathering it all up to make a big mashed potato-like sculpture of that mountain in Close Encounters

ur irrationally angry bout all this imo

I'm as cool as a cucumber in actual life. Beyond grimacing whenever I realize someone's about to bring up the fact that "hey, we're in Texas, it's hot, wot?", I'm as calm as the surface of the moon.

sea of tranquility a misnomer imo...that place is KERAZY

It's the new Ibiza.

having to stop drinking coffee because i was getting a pain in my side and my balls. doctor feels relevant bits, looks really worried... then says "hmm... everything seems to be okay. what's your diet like?" so i get around to mentioning that i drink three cups of really strong instant coffee a day and he replies "well give that a rest for a while and see how you feel." pain went after two days. but it looks like no more caffeine ever :(

that's harsh

instant coffee is pretty rough tho, have u tried like having one cup a day of good coffee>

Kidney stones can happen as a result of drinking too much coffee and not enough water on a bad diet.

tbh i don't miss it much, i sleep better and i have more energy. prob will try a decent cup of joe again sooner or later, but at the moment even a can of coke brings the ache back a little bit.

yeah, doctor mentioned that. if the pains stay away in the long term i should be alright as long as i watch what i'm eating/drinking.

xpost

if only 'notes from the underground' narrator learned to lay off the caffeine

xpost/Friend of mine got a massive kidney stone on a diet of coffee, bagels, ramen and all-nighters to finish up an architecture degree-related stress. If this sounds like you, be careful out there.

then he got comissioned to do the jewish museum in berlin and the rest is history

xp nothing wrong with coffee. everything wrong with bagels and ramen.

• People who don't take care of themselves in any way shape or form helplessly blaming all their health problems/inconveniences on "getting old."

Coffee is very tough on you to digest.

About orders being screwed up... whenever my friend gets anything in my town someone always seems to mess up his order and he never does anything to correct it no matter how easy it would have been! He'll just start throwing a fit: (Standing a few feet from the register) "I wanted a frappe! They gave me a coffee" Me: "Well tell them?" Friend: "No! Arrggh" Is anyone else like this?

me

Why don't you correct it? If it isn't a hassle for anyone?

I'm sort of like that but I won't usually say anything. Lack of entitlement or soemthing, idk. I just assumed it was an Australian thing.

i have a complex guilt relationship with anyone i'm paying for services, i dunno

yeah I sort of feel like it's ungrateful to complain unless it's completely screwed up

About orders being screwed up... whenever my friend gets anything in my town someone always seems to mess up his order and he never does anything to correct it no matter how easy it would have been! He'll just start throwing a fit: (Standing a few feet from the register) "I wanted a frappe! They gave me a coffee" Me: "Well tell them?" Friend: "No! Arrggh" Is anyone else like this?

― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

people who order anything but drip coffee in coffee shops. grudging tolerance extended to americanos, lattes and espressos/cappucinos. but with plenty of the "grudging" part to wash it down. grudge only vanishes if the place is owned & staffed by europeans and makes its own pastries.

took my little sister to wet seal to buy clothes, and on the counter in between the two cash registers they had an enormous metal bucket full of panties, buy three get one free. the line was backed up to the end of the store because everyone would get to the counter and be like "wow what a good deal!" and spend TWENTY GODDAMN MINUTES rooting around for four appropriately sized and stylistically distinct pairs of panties instead of just BUYING THE DAMN CLOTHES they already picked out.

according to knowledgeable sources, macy's = buy 3, get 3

people who order anything but drip coffee in coffee shops. grudging tolerance extended to americanos, lattes and espressos/cappucinos. but with plenty of the "grudging" part to wash it down.

i never joke! and i wholeheartedly defend drip coffee. certainly relative to the laborious sugar & fat vehicles people cue up for at shitty chain shoppes. if you wanna drink straight espresso and are selective about who provides it, i defer to the superior sensitivity of your tastes. otherwise half-decent drip more than holds its own.

fwiw, i use a french press at home, which works very well, but "french press" coffee at many supposedly respectable shops is brewed ahead of time, in vast graceless batches thick with bitter silt, and afterwards left to sit and curl in upon itself. given the choice, again, i'll take drip.

Ah. We don't do chains.