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

- our haunted HP Officejet printer and it's stupid alerts that go off every day when the ink is barely half empty and that doesn't really work properly and probably needs a clean but holy christ it's so NEEDY now that it's crapping out on us. Work. Don't work. But don't flash your alerts at me and have me troubleshoot you when you're only going to do half the job.

- taking down the Christmas tree. It's pointy and scratchy and now is when I wish we had a real tree that I could just drag into the street for the garbageman to take away.

If you live in the country, real xmas trees that have dried out are awesome to set on fire.

here we have to break our tress into segments and put them into plant waste bins, which means lazy people have taken to sneak-dumping their trees in odd places, like the side of highways, the middle of public parks, etc.

I'm surprised they haven't implemented that in Sacramento. Must be a huge pain

I dunno what people do with their trees here. Bins are not obviously full of trees but nobody's fly-tipping them either.

Always sort of a sad sight post-Christmas seeing all the tree corpses lying in the street

a copse of corpses

haha!

Adam: rly? You never notice all the dead trees on the nature strip in Jan-Feb? Ppl here just hard-rubbish em, I think.

It always depresses me. Holidays over, air hot, mood down, sad dead trees lyimg in gutters.

- the phrase 'back to school'

'Oh here, you forgot your 5c change'
'NO I DIDN'T'
'But it's your 5c'
'FUCK OFF FUCK OFF'

― goldenarsehat.jpg (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:15 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dudes, if you dropped a crummy receipt for a latte, you would pick it up, right? So why not pick up that 1p coin if it's just going to clutter the place? Plus, there's that possibility that a toddler will see the coin and go ooh, and attempt to pick it up but overbalance and land on their head and oh wait...

I'd take the coins and put em in the charity slotbox/tip jar.

In that scenario the shop assistant is waving the coin about the place, not dropping it on the floor.

and shouting "Look everyone, Sheikh yahmani, yeah? ha ha ha"

this happened today - shopkeeper* dropped coin 'ha, i'm thowing it away'.

* tesco till monkey

i like the take-a-penny, leave-a-penny thing they do in america.

Instead of saying "NO I DIDN'T", you should just say "KEEP IT, OR GIVE IT TO THE NEXT GUY" or even "I DON'T WANT IT."

THIS:

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* bus drivers who, when they stop to pick up or drop off riders, do not pull in completely parallel to the sidewalk but instead leave the back of the bus sticking out into the road, thus completely blocking a lane of traffic until it starts moving again

pennies. they just keep accumulating in my pockets and I never use them.

roll them and cash them in! or put them in a tin or something.

I used to give them to homeless people, but they always seemed disappointed and sometimes almost angry about getting pennies (completely understandable by the way).

I think I fully realized how completely useless pennies were when I was buying a drink in a bar a couple of years ago and I'm paying in coins (this is in Canada, so 1 and 2 dollar coins) and I had like 4 or 5 pennies lying around in there so I also give those to the waitress and she just picks out the pennies from the coins I gave her and throws them in the garbage.

i guess inflation has done for 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'.

I always pick up dropped change and would never throw money away; most UK small shops have a charity box if I truly don't want my small change. Pennies are also useful as a defense against getting more pennies in change, eg. you're at the shops, your total is $16.02 and you slide them two cents to avoid 98 cents' worth of change.

They raised the price of a sandwich at one of my lunchtime joints from $5.48 to $6.02. The cashier told me she was already hating it.

* bus drivers who, when they stop to pick up or drop off riders, do not pull in completely parallel to the sidewalk but instead leave the back of the bus sticking out into the road, thus completely blocking a lane of traffic until it starts moving again

And the corollary, drivers making left turns who do not get into the left-turn lane until the last possible second, leaving their asses hanging into the thru traffic lane.

Or, what I see in my town, cars taking up the whole lane at a light they plan on going straight through, not allowing room on the right for those cars who want to turn.

No, there aren't two lanes marked, but there's plenty of room.

^ this might be caused in part by the dbs who get into the right-hand turn "lane"/space and then instead slam on the accelerator and go straight through the light as soon as it turns green (ie use that lane to jump ahead of a couple of cars instead of turn right)

see this a LOT in chicago, think it's almost accepted as part of the city's driving culture now

That would be an asshole move. At most intersections around here, you'd find yourself slamming into the first parked car up ahead, especially if the original pole position had a bigger engine to play chicken with ya.

We have some other issue where people who are turning left think that if they go through really fast when the light turns green it's cool, instead of yielding to oncoming traffic.

I am not as much angry as aghast at that one, though. Seriously people, do you want to... die?

I think that's normal driving as well? I was never very brave in situations requiring acceleration because I drove a diesel. But I'm sure other people did that?

When you click on a trending topic on twitter to find out why it's trending and you get pages and pages of people going "OMG Peppa Pig is trending!" "Why is Peppa Pig trending?" "LOL Peppa Pig is trending!"

lol @ "peppa pig"

Wait, that's a real thing. I was hoping it was made up :(

I would have made up an example but that actual trend seemed apt. I assume someone made a swine flu gag that was retweeted 1000 times or something.

Instead of saying "NO I DIDN'T", you should just say "KEEP IT, OR GIVE IT TO THE NEXT GUY" or even "I DON'T WANT IT."

Oh and another one: WHEN THE IPHONE DOESN'T REGISTER MY FULL STOPS GAGAGAHGAHHHHHH

GAGAGAHGAHHHHHH ooh la la
watch out bad romance

And the corollary, drivers making left turns who do not get into the left-turn lane until the last possible second, leaving their asses hanging into the thru traffic lane.

lol dan

ahaha oh brilliant

i wonder what percentage of the "things" on this thread are driving-related.

Or, what I see in my town, cars taking up the whole lane at a light they plan on going straight through, not allowing room on the right for those cars who want to turn.

No, there aren't two lanes marked, but there's plenty of room.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains)

Or the people that do leave enough room on the right for your right turn, but between the time of you passing their rear bumber and finishing the turn, they decide that they want to make the right turn too. The couple of times this has happened to me I narrowly avoided a collision, so nowadays I'll usually just sit it out till the light is green and they've moved out of the way.

The other day we were in a queue of traffic, and we reached some lights and they went green but there were still cars in front of us so we didn't move

and then the lights went red again and the cars in front moved to free up like 2 car lengths of road but we waited at the lights (obv)

and then a car behind us moves out into the turn-left lane (which had been free all along) and drives through the red light past us, and is now stuck in the 2-car-length behind all the rest of the traffic

and then when the traffic finally moved he turned left anyway, like he could have done without queueing

???

At most intersections around here, you'd find yourself slamming into the first parked car up ahead, especially if the original pole position had a bigger engine to play chicken with ya.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:49 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do that a lot here, but that's because our drivers are so GLACIALLY SLOW that you can do it comfortably with no danger of crashing into anything. If the car in the other lane doesn't wait six years before pulling away, you don't need to jump in because chances are you won't be held up.

Okay, to paint the picture: Traffic here does 67 km/h. Everywhere. So you can be held up by some dick-cheese doing 67 in an 80 zone, so you pass them, and then it becomes a roadwork 40 zone and suddenly they're trying to push you along at 67.

The other thing they do is form a convoy across highways. 99.94% of all traffic jams here are caused by five cars perfectly aligned across five lanes all doing 67 km/h in 80 zones.

Glacially slow? Dunno where you drive, but whenever I'm in a taxi, he's always pushing the limit and then some. Which, when you're crossing the Bolte bridge on a high wind day hemmed in by semis and everyne is doing 120, is fuckng terrifying.