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

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!

Well I'm pretty sure this would drive anyone around the bend, no matter how you pronounce it:

" Hey, (x) has flaaaaahn at her desk. You have to go try some"
"You must try the flaaaahhhn"
"Have you tried the flahhhn?"
"Omg this flaaaahhhn is amazing"
"Oh I love flaaahn"
"This flaaaahn is so good!"
"...flaaaahn"
"....flaaahn"

tbrr overly pronouncing words doesn't bother me that much unless that person corrects my probably-okay pronounciation — "well actually it's..." just stfu dude

I accept that I'm an island on this one.

xpost yeah correction is definitely worse

However you say it, to my tastebuds flan just tastes like gooey sponge with syrup

I have never once heard anyone pronounce flan to rhyme with van.

pleased to meet you

Does anybody say hamburger "ham boo gah" cuz if so pls get out of my sight

Harm booger

I call them hamboogers to be silly. Sorry dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwRHGHNeOtI

haahahah

- people who say 'I'm on a seafood diet', then pause for like five seconds and insist on saying 'whenever I SEE food, I EAT IT!!!!!!!' even though everyone in the universe has heard the punchline a billion times

you wd hate my Mum :)

ok this ain't innocuous but I've given to putting anything that makes me angry in here lately, so here goes:

My roommate watches Oprah, and right now she's doing a segment on "miracle detectives": one of the guys a former Rolling Stone writer who claims to have been in a bad situation, then saw nuns praying, prayed with them, and they 'disappeared', which he claims made him believe in God. The other a scientist who needs hard evidence.

I mean it was all in the wording, she talks about the 'faith' guy reverently, and then when it's time for the scientist, she talks about how the detective needs 'hard evidence' in air quotes like that's inherently a bad thing. God forbid we actually require evidence before drawing conclusions!

I mean could you find two bigger caricatures to represent either side? and Oprah's trying to get the scientist to disprove the other dude's miracle, how the hell do you do that, nobody was there, nobody can replicate what happened....fucking so ridiculous.

next time you're being horribly scatological on a thread i will think back to you being annoyed right now by oprah and i believe it will cheer me up.

might be waiting a while!

xp reminds me of Montel Williams getting psychics in to give false hope to people with missing sons and daughters, "he is alive and well" etc etc. Sickening charlatans preying on the weak and desperate (and the psychics are no better, b'dum tish).

The people who rhyme flan with Stan also pronounce "pasta" as "pass-ta".

Flan is just a gross word — it reminds me of phlegm.

xp wrong way round shirley

In addition to Sherry, Cher, Karen, Kerry, Sherin, etc, you can now add "Jen" to the list of names on my "Okay sbux thats not my name but whatever" list

Sha-ron. I get that its a loud place but it happens often enough that I wonder if I have a speech impediment

The people who rhyme flan with Stan also pronounce "pasta" as "pass-ta".

My name is Stan, and I say Flan to rhyme with it - and I say pass- ta. I've never heard anyone say 'Flaaahn', and 'Pawh' sta' in that Lloyd Grossman way is filling- stripper.