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

When I lived in a Br0ough4m St, we didn't know the correct pronunciation and just used the British place name as a guide. The hilarious thing was the number of people who insisted we were saying it incorrectly, but every one of those people used a completely different pronunciation! In the end we just told them all to get fucked.

er Br0ugh4m

assholes setting off fireworks outside my room.

HELLO, IT'S JANUARY 2ND, AND 4:30 IN THE AFTERNOON, FUCK OFF.

There are EASTER EGGS in the shops this week. EASTER EGGS.

Are they skipping Valentines?

Easter Eggs already? fuckers!

> tourists can always be spotted when they pronounce it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

No fireworks here, amazingly. After July 4th it took them like a month to stop lighting firecrackers.

Lol at Goguuugghh St; we had European friends trying to find Lyon St in SF and all the locals apparently called it 'Lion st'.
Also one of them is called Philip and every. single. person. in the US attempts to spell it 'Phillip' with 2 'l's. Is it really that much more common over here?

- ppl who drive down the middle of a narrow rd when you are coming in the other direction

-ppl who sit in parking spaces with gearshift in reverse fucking around & generally NOT REVERSING

/driving/ia

people on bicycles who ride the wrong way in the bike lanes (ie against the flow of traffic rather than with). just much less safe, if something dangerous happens, you're both converging on each other and critically reducing reaction time. not to mention if another biker is riding correctly you may collide with him.

WHY DO PEOPLE NEVER KNOW WHAT 'MERGE' MEANS WHEN THEY FUCKING DRIVE. NOPE, JUST KEEP SPEEDING AWAY, NO YOUR LANE ISN'T DISAPPEARING, THAT ISN'T THE SHOULDER YOU;RE DRIVING ON, THAT WASN'T ME YOU JUST CUT OFF WITH YOUR SPORTS CAR, JESUS IF ONLY THERE WERE WRITING ON THE STREET THAT SIAD 'MERGE' WITH AN ARROW TO WARN YOU MAYBE THIS WUODN'T HAPPEN

people who ask you point blank "what church do you go to"?

way to assume I'm one of you -- I'm an atheist and then I get to enjoy either avoiding the question or answering honestly, where inevitably the reply is "ohh......"

"whichever one the wedding is in"

The Church of Uranus

sometimes I just say "Branch Davidian compound"

Metalchurch

Whenever anybody does "Dueling Banjos" as part of a skit or other 'humorous' routine it really annoys the hell out of me and feels like a super cheap grab for a laugh.

Conversation cards. If you're so boring that you need a packet of non sequiturs in order to converse, I do not want to spend time with you.

you just made those up

I thought those things were for peopel who didn't talk to people to practice talking at home. Ppl actually use them in public?

I only have one conversation card and it says
"What church do you go to?"
on it.

ahahahahahaha

esoj: waaaht, these conversation cards are everywhere. You buy them in packs of 50 or whatever and hand them out to your boring friends at dinner parties.

hahaha

I saw a food one yesterday. 'The Art of Food Conversation'. Presumably it's just I Love Cooking but without wit or content or interest.

"Waht are u eating"

"Waht are u eating"

oops double post lol

I just feel weird saying that Cutler is the best of anything. He seems like an accident. Or something.

jesus. give me awkward silence any day

(over this conversation card thing obv)

I can get seeing these in shops. but I refuse to believe ANYONE has ACTUALLY used them at a party or club. No way.

People who don't love my penis

oh and xxpost lol wrong thread, oops

First two questions my neighbors asked me when I moved in:

"What church do you go to?"
"How much did you pay for it?"

'What church do you go to?' is exactly like 'how many kids do you have?' i.e. disingenuous bullshit.

Something about church-asking feels incredibly rude, like going through someone's purse.

"I guess the one you don't go to!"

"The church of this conversation is over"

I don't think I have ever been asked what church I go to. Its not that common to come across Active Xians round here. Least not among anyone I know (workmates etc inc)

people who ask you point blank "what church do you go to"?

No one has ever asked that.

In Ireland they ask 'where do you drink?'

(and since I don't, it's as awkward as the church question: but I don't get annoyed)

^^^
Asked me that....

xpost yeah in Australia it's like you only find out someone is religious when they die and they have their funeral in a church, lol. Ppl do NOT talk about it. At least the people I grew up with. My Mum and Nan were, but you never heard them tell anyone else.

Yeah nobody has ever asked me the church question (I get the kids question a lot these days though).

I don't think the church question is 'innocuous' or resultant anger 'irrational' either: it's plain rude to ask.

I liked back when I was engaged – I'd tell people I was getting married, and I got asked by so many people, "Is it a church or state wedding?" Something about that question really amused me.

When my father met my mother the first question he asked her was 'are you catholic?' He required a no in order to proceed.

The ultimate lol is that I married into a family of catholics.

I shopped a pic of myself to add inverted crosses and satanic markings to use in these situations

Everyone I know who is even remotely "religious" is token Catholic, or Jewish by bloodline, and none of em follow it.