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

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.

Actually, as luck would have it, I ordered a coffee from McCafe this morning as I was in shit creek and didn't have access to a proper coffee shop. It was the level worst coffee I have ever tasted. Properly fucking disgusting.

And now for some ia things:

- when you can't find something and people (a) go 'when did you last have it?' as though that will magically fix everything and (b) go 'did you look in the bathroom? did you look in the bedroom? did you look in the kitchen?' i.e. unhelpfully reeling off every room in the house
- in films when a neon sign loses 2-3 letters and suddenly says a whole new thing that's sort of awkward and doesn't really work

An e.g. of that is in Batman Returns (on right now iirc) when Catwoman smashes the O and the T in the 'HELLO THERE' neon sign in her flat (what's it even doing in her flat ffs) so it says 'HELL HERE' which is just stupid.

Have irrational anger at our other office being so shit at everything.

Now they are complaining because our geocoding system doesn't correctly position addresses they send us. This is because (and they admit this) the addresses they send us are crap and not proper addresses. Yet they expect our system to handle this and use different rules for them, rather than maybe fix their system so it doesn't send us shit.

I really don't understand people who are too embarrassed to put a 'wrong order' right - especially in a coffee shop. The only time I won't do it is in restaurants run by non-English speakers but that's avoided by getting the waiter to read your order back to you before taking it to the kitchen.

not innocuous anger but the corporation i work for can't seem to staff its central hr with people who can do the job, meaning they paid me a week late at christmas then shortchanged me by 600 quid. no doubt they won't remedy this for a few weeks either, just to delay me even further in paying back the two siblings i've had to borrow from.

I'm pretty nonconfrontational but like I'll for damn sure correct someone who fucks up my order. Politely, though.

What I hate (and this is rational) are people who are snide about it -- mistakes happen, and if you're a dick about it, who is going to want to help you?

Correct way:

"excuse me, I ordered a Big Mac but this is a Big 'n Tasty?"

Incorrect way:

"Doesn't ANYBODY listen here? Does this look like a Big Mac to you?"

people in the elevator at work -- head towards the back and fill in the spaces so the elevator doesn't appear full when only six people are in it.

Person who says "i'll get the next one" when the elevator has more than 6 people on it -- there's plenty of room, why don't you get on rather than pointlessly stopping multiple elevators until you find one that's mostly empty.

- in films when a neon sign loses 2-3 letters and suddenly says a whole new thing that's sort of awkward and doesn't really work

It can be fun in real life, though. There was a Country Market store near my dad's house in Frederick, MD in which the "o" and "r" in "Country" burned out and were left unfixed for months, leaving "C UNT Y MARKET" visible from the freeway for all to enjoy.

hahah

Got a Bruce Springsteen boxset for Christmas (/brag, brag, lol) and all the cds/dvds in it are in paper sleeves. Which is fine.
One is a double CD.
The paper sleeve is a gatefold like a mini album..BUT THE CD OPENINGS FACE THE CENTER FOLD INSTEAD OF OPENING ON THE OUTSIDE EDGES.
I CAN'T GET THE CUNTING CDS OUT WITHOUT ONE SLIDING INTO THE OTHER SLEEVE AND I FUCKING TORE THE STUPID SLEEVE ON MY FIRST ATTEMPT

Of course when I demonstrated my ire for Mr Veg he just smiled and easily slid the cds out of their sleeves, suggesting that perhaps it was some kind of skill test aimed at me.

sigh.

did the boss appear when you ripped open the cd's and drag you onto the stage to dance with him?

No. Max Weinberg appeared and made me do the Conan String Dance.

Owen Pallett's Heartland CD is the same way. it's a damned shame too, seeing as the artwork was so nice. I wish he could've appeared and dragged me onstage to capture my cries of disgust with a loop pedal, but it hasn't happened yet.

- when you can't find something and people (a) go 'when did you last have it?' as though that will magically fix everything and (b) go 'did you look in the bathroom? did you look in the bedroom? did you look in the kitchen?' i.e. unhelpfully reeling off every room in the house

^^^problem with this is that the person that did this the most, and most irritatingly, was my mother, and it invariably worked, which made the whole thing even more annoying. like i'd be all gahhh shut up i am not a moron of course i looked there and she'd say well how about the ____ did you check there? "....no." and there it would be.

Worst part of all Springsteen CD sleeve crisis is that all of the other discs in the set have their own slipsleeve inside the paper sleeve, so much easier to get out.
But the 2-disc is just as is, no slip sleeve.
WTF SPRINGSTEEN WHY DO U HATE ME AND MY CLUMSY FINGERS?

gbx,

your mom put it there.

i had to say something

haha

worst is when you lose your wallet, swear up and down that you can't find it, cancel your cards, and then find it somewhere completely obvious, like inside a jacket hanging in the closet or under the corner of the bed or something.

misplacing things, in general, makes me irrationally angry

but not as angry as spilling stuff. like for real if i spill orange juice or something all over the counter and the floor i get apoplectic for like 5 seconds. just furious. i think its the combination of stupidity, the onerous task of cleanup, and the fact that some spills have the potential to be disastrous if you were dumb enough to get it on anything

fuck yeah. partic spilling something that took effort to put together, be that a cuppa tea or dinner.

spilled dinner cycling into work with the plate balancing on the handlebars once, landed arseways all over a delicious bolognese. could have nuked the world gladly for the next hour

i dont cycle with plates of food anymore btw

yeah, spilling a plate of food (esp when yr cooking alone) makes me feel like the last person on earth, just total despair and feeble fist shaking at the caprices of fate