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

this is really innocuous but: the way ppl pronounce the word 'flan' as "FLAAAAAHHHHHN"

And the way ppl say 'omg so and so made FLAAAHHHN you have to try it.' The word 'flan' tells me nothing except that it's custard. It's like someone saying 'omg so and so made cake'. Tell me what's in it and then we'll talk.

ppl dont pronounce it 'flan'?

No! Everyone around me right now is saying FLAAAHHN FLAHHHN and its' driving me bananas.

FLAN. It's FLAN. Hard 'a'.

I say flan (rhymes with stan). People who overpronounce foreign words in an attempt to appear cultured are awful. It's especially bad among classical music people — "Next is the concerto for two violins by Johann Sebastian BAAHHHHGHHH"

i dont cycle with plates of food anymore btw

few months back i rode on my bike to RICE and bought a good few things, starters, thai rice dish, noodle dish, about £20 quids worth in total. they popped it all in one of those brown paper bags and i rode merrily on home. went over a bump in the road and the handle split, the bag fell to the ground and my bike wheel rode over the entire thing crushing it to mush on the dirty road.

it was a back streetish area in the city centre and on the other side of the road about 10 or so tramps were all having a kind of outdoor party, drinking cider and living it up. they saw the whole thing and let out a massive roar and applauded afterwards. one of them even had the gall to come over while i was stood staring at the carnage, devastated, and asked for 50p. no shame in admitting i told him to fuck right off, neither the time nor the place.

other side of the road a couple of floppy-fringed students were sat in a doorway eating a mcdonalds. one said "awww mate, rice is dead dear an all innit."

manchester in a nutshell really

aw that is p. sad

I would probably have cried a little. Riding the bike over the food too is the final crushing blow

I would've fought somebody, or cried, or have thrown my bike into a river.

i rode home feeling like the biggest dipshit on earth. happy ending though, i rang them and said i was walking back and the handle split all on its own (no mention of riding a bike back over bumpy ground). had to really mither them and in the end went back, peeled the sodden stinking mushed up brown paper bag off the floor and gave to the RICE bods saying LOOK WHAT YOU DID to get the whole thing replaced. they totally didn't believe me though and so i've never been back since, out of wonky guilt.

For like the tenth time in the last few weeks, I got sent an email at work meant for someone else with a similar name (our first and last names only differ by three letters).

I mean yea our names are similar but he works in TEXAS, which is clearly imprinted on the address. How hard is it to double check?

It's usually pretty innocuous and annoying as we always forward each other the misdirected email but it sucks when it happens when one of us is out of the office and the sender gets huffy

There is an apartment manager in Oakland with the same government name as mine, and I get missives from his supervisor every week.

That's what I get for being Johnny-on-the-spot with the original gmail address.

you should write back "FUCK YOU, PORCUPINE FUCKER"

pro tip

People who get on the up elevator and are wanting to go down. HOW FUCKING DIFFICULT IS IT TO LOOK AT THE ILLUMINATED ARROW IN THE MIDDLE OF ELEVATORS THAT SHOWS YOU WHICH WAY THE ELEVATOR IS GOING? stop SLOWING US DOWN!!!

^^^Sometimes you've waited for that elevator for so long that any elevator will do, as getting on represents some forward motion. Or the other ones are out of order. So you get on and let the others go to where they need to be and then the elevator is yours.

yeah, tbh

Someone once told me she used to think the arrows represented asking for elevators in that direction, eg pressing ^ meant "elevators above me, please come help me on this floor." Which is why she pressed both buttons each time. "Otherwise how would the elevators know where I was?"

omg i think i thought that until this very instant

i guess i've never really considered elevators

consider...the elevator

very inconsidered of you

well, first things first, it's a lift

second, there weren't any in ireland until 1997

^^^Sometimes you've waited for that elevator for so long that any elevator will do, as getting on represents some forward motion. Or the other ones are out of order. So you get on and let the others go to where they need to be and then the elevator is yours.

Let me be specific -- at work, where I use elevators the most, we have 5. you're never waiting for more than 20 seconds for one. half the time they get on and go "oh I'm sorry, I thought this was the down elevator", after shoving their hand in the door to stop you from going!

Okay, that's totally annoying.

but yea, I can see if you're in one of those small divey places with 1-2 elevators how the waits are annoying, which is why I became a stairs person due to my impatience!

It can be fun in real life, though. [...] leaving "C UNT Y MARKET" visible from the freeway for all to enjoy.

Where I work there are 2 lifts and only 1 of them goes to the basement. For some reason, the other lift is the default lift. So if I want to go to the basement I have to call both lifts by pressing Up and Down and then when the wrong lift comes I just send it up to the top floor. PITA, but so far I've been quite lucky in not inconveniencing people, it's been empty every time iirc.

Every year I give this guy I work with a Christmas card. But whenever I do, one from him will show up on my desk the same day.

In one sense, it's very cool of him to do that. Sort of old-fashioned or something and I do like that.

But something about the kneejerk reaction of it irritates me. I don't give cards expecting them in return. I just give cards to ppl I like. If you didn't give me a card, big woop. You know?

I dunno, it just makes the card giving thing unnecessarily intense. Not exactly an IA thing but it's been bugging me.

Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry

-The wind when it blows against me.
-People who smile when I frown.
-People who frown when I smile.
-Everyone else.

I dunno, it just makes the card giving thing unnecessarily intense. Not exactly an IA thing but it's been bugging me.

I think I've got a pretty easy solution to your problem!

I say flan (rhymes with stan). People who overpronounce foreign words in an attempt to appear cultured are awful

OK, I get the annoyance at people who go over-the-top with foreign pronunciations -- a friend of mine insists on pronouncing Bjork as BYERK (apparently truer to the Icelandic) -- but I have literally never in my life heard "flan" pronounced to rhyme with "Stan." Do you pronounce "burrito" as "burr-EYE-toh"?

Um, what? Flan is always pronounced to rhyme with Stan. And man and can and tan and van. It is not FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN.

Australians pronounce flan like Stan. Or at least the Australians that I rolled with.

xpost lol yeah PP, I guess not giving him a card would remove the annoyance, huh.

Which would imply that Australians pronounce Stan like Staaaaaaaahhhhn.

Also, I pronounce Bjork 'Byerk', not only because it is meant to be closer to correct, but because it is easier to say than 'Buhjork'.

Think the pronunciation is a little closer to "bee-york".

the ö makes an "uh" sound

The bottom line of my IA at 'FLAAAAAAHHHHN' is that the overpronuniation of the word by people around me makes me not want to eat the stupid thing. It's just a bloody tart.

I'll exclude present company if it's making anyone paranoid that I'm including them under the umbrella of my IA. How's that.

Is the flan thing a US vs UK English thing?

(Referring to this: I say flan (rhymes with stan). People who overpronounce foreign words in an attempt to appear cultured are awful) I've never thought of flan being a foreign word, sure it's derived from French but so are thousands of other words that have been anglicised and absorbed into the language. I've never heard anyone pronounce it flahn.

I just read that there are apparently 2 types of flan - English flan and Spanish/Mexican flan, and that the Spanish/Mexican version is the overpronounced version.

I don't care. Flan is flan. A man with a flan named Stan has a van. GTFO with flaaaaaahhhhhhn

Actually the spanish pronunciation of flan is "flahhhn", the stan pronunciation is just the anglicized way of saying it. So people that say "flahn" aren't wrong at all.

Also, I pronounce Bjork 'Byerk', not only because it is meant to be closer to correct, but because it is easier to say than 'Buhjork'.

No one says "Buhjork," c'mon. 99% of people say "Byork."

Like I've always called it "flahn" due to first learning about it in Spanish I in high school.xpost

I just read that there are apparently 2 types of flan - English flan and Spanish/Mexican flan, and that the Spanish/Mexican version is the overpronounced version.

Ah see, I did not know that there was an English version!

Custard sounds less pretentious

Et tu, San Te?

Ha, yeah, pretty sure I first learned "flan" in high-school Spanish class, too.

Lol sorry VegemiteGrrrl, we'll always have Paris...

lol I didn't know there was a Spanish version til now!