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

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.

Pass-ta is Northerner British English, right?

See now this fake pronunx guide is confusing me. "pass-ta" just sounds like "pasta" in my mind in an aussie accent (long a sound - ie "parsta").

Tho I assume it means short-a "passta" like "canasta"

Linguists to thread, lol

linguinists

NICE

Pass-ta is also a Canadian thing; pah-sta is American.

Yeah, reporting from Denver here (which, for all the international ilxors of mystery here, is entirely devoid of the twang common in the surrounding states), pah-sta is the pronunciation Stateside.

I've always called (English) flan flan rather than FLON which is why that Friends episode where they go on and on about flon confused me no end. But I thought par-sta was an aussie thing, at least that's what they called it on Neighbours, EVEN THE TIMMINS FAMILY. Pasta as in "Asda" is all British (not just northern) afaik, if you call it "parsta" you're poe-sh.
This is relevant to my interests because they have a similar problem with my name which basically doesn't really exist in US English.

Great now I'm hungry

Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry

Getting hungry when you read about food.

It's my own fault. Bloody stupid flan

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I'm sorry I couldn't help it ;_;

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My wife always takes the piss out of me for saying passta with a short A instead of pahsta, but then someone told me that the shorter A sound is actually closer to the Italian and that Americans pronounce it with a long A because they are used to Spanish pronunciations? Or is that a load of old bollocks?

"colonel poo"

I pronounce flan and pasta like van and canasta because I from Yorkshire and always pronounce everything with a short flat A.

what does kind of weird me out is that thing that some Yorkshire people and also Geordies do which is to pronounce all words with a flat A ...except the words master and plaster

Only the other week I was wondering if (US) Americans even have the long, back-of-mouth "ah" sound, because every word I could think of that I would use one in gets a sometimes elongated version of the front "a" of "van" instead (compare the two pronunciations on http://www.forvo.com/word/plaster-cast/#en ) so I guess this thread is timely

but is the "ahh" sound that people are getting so excited about being in "flan" and "pasta" the same as the second sound on that page or something else entirely?

people who refer to 2010 as "oh ten". it's not 20,010, so that's wrong. it's just "ten", or "twenty ten", not "oh ten".

tbh there is an oh sitting right in front of that ten.

I think I'm not good at this thread.

yea but like there were two "ohs" in front of the 9 in 2009 and nobody said "oh oh nine"!

I was sad when 2010 started that I couldn't keep thinking of the year as "the oh-X" but then I realized there's still that oh there, and that unless I live to be 117, I won't have to worry about this.

Are we finally going to start saying "20" instead of 2-thousand? I'm ready for that.

2010

you're 20 late, m8

I refer to it as JesusWatch 2k10

MMX, y'all.

two thousand and hate
two thousand and fine
two thousand and zen
two thousand and heaven