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

lady at work kept accidentally kicking me at the round table we were sitting at. first time was 'lol oops', second time was "lol u", third time was "wow u got spazzy legs", fifteen time was JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU MOVE OR SOMETHING.

This is why I carry my passport everywhere.

lady at work kept accidentally kicking me at the round table we were sitting at. first time was 'lol oops', second time was "lol u", third time was "wow u got spazzy legs", fifteen time was JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU MOVE OR SOMETHING.

― mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:14 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is why I carry my passport everywhere.

― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:16 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know it was really an xp, but I enjoyed this exchange.

haha that threw me too

This is why I carry my passport everywhere.

also expired, and twice as much to renew :(

i am unidentified!!

Haha I didnt even realise how lolworthy my xpost came out.

"what's your business here in Scotland?"
'Lady keeps kicking me in the leg, couldn't take it anymore'

Renewed my Aus passport last year and was flabbergasted that the cost of renewal is exactly the same as the cost of getting a first-time passport. I figured since they had all my info there'd be some kind of fee reduction but NOOOO. I can understand people crying about how the governement is robbing them blind with taxes but holy crap they fleece immigrants for all they're worth. Swear we spent almost $3k in fees when I was immigrating to the US.

Yeah I thihk my ppt cost $105 when I got it and $140 to renew? I forget now. I rushed to renew it before it expired so I'd not have to start from scratch with all the ID. In doing so, I got the most HIDEOUS EVER photo takem - they make you remove your glasses now (facial recognition or something?) and mine now looks like the mugshot of a 45 year old alcoholic Wournos-esque serial killer :(

I'm seriously expecting to be stopped at customs with "wait, this is NOT you" when I show it going overseas, it is so bad I am tempted to get it re-done.

or they arrest you on site for being the 45 year old alcholic Wuornos esque serial killer :)

Yeah the glasses removal is a downer. My pp and drivers license photos always make me look stoned and/or soft in the head

One feller told us they make you do an expressionless face and close your mouth because that's how you look when you're dead. Another told us that's rubbish.

For the sarf efrica I grew my hair to look as much like my 8yo passport photo as possible, because I was worried about being knocked back at border crossings. Problem with that is that I am going fucking bald so the hair growth looked slightly ridiculous. I made it as far as Zambia and just cracked the shits and had it shaved off. Most annoying part is that I had no border hassles even without hair, so I could have just shaved it off in the first place. IRRATIONALLY ANGRY.

one of my long time friends failed to pass a CLEP test for a math credit. This guy does all kinds of DIY projects I would be terrified of, brews beer, works hard like an ox, totally reliable, all that.

A. I am extremely good at multiple choice tests and as such I feel qualified to call bullshit on exactly all of them

B. This has also done no favors for my class guilt "Once In A Lifetime" problem because A. is not really a helpful piece of knowledge to have in life unless you can genuinely own the douchebag title and just say HA HA FU to everyone who can't game our modern phrenology system

fuck you clep
fuck you higher ed
fuck you retarded checkbox human resources departments of USA for indirectly sponsoring a whole sack of lies and the lying liars who make them up, although it's probably not your fault because you were trained to believe those lies were valuable information, by other liars, probably
ok fuck you everyone for not having the sense to think for themselves, how about that

Adam I havent seen you in ages, have you shaved off all yr hair?

Yer because it is all falling out as per anecdote ;_;

ia @ people with whiny voices, because i can't tell whether they're actually whining about something or if that's just how they sound all the time.

ia @ the title of 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo. Still. After all these years.

ia @ Brian Cox's 'American' accent in Bourne - he's not even fucking trying!

ia @ the theme to The Larry Sanders Show, even though I know that's the whole point.

- stinky perfume. A girl in the cubicle across from me occasionally 'freshens up' with a gale-strength blast of what smells like vanilla-scented air freshener. The smell of it makes me want to kill her.

- this humidity. It is making everything I touch sticky and slimy, my house smells fusty and gross no matter how clean I keep it, and everything goes off after 5 minutes. I realise given the circumstances in this country right now bitching about humid weather is stone cold stupid. but RARGH.

now is the time to cultivate exotic rainforest plants and new and various forms of mold...

How do people in permanently humid climes manage it? Its GROSS. Maybe I need to go buy some of those moisture sucking tub things.

Yeah, dry heat rules. Humidity is pretty disgusting.

Stupid ipod earbuds. I must have weird-shaped inner ears, because those fuckers won't stay in.

It makes me a little irrationally angry that the names of poetic feet don't have the same stresses/# of syllables as what they're describing – eg the word "dactyl" should have three syllables in its name!

Wld make them so much easier to remember!

How do people in permanently humid climes manage it?

Some of them just leave open their cupboards for three months, doesn't do a lot tbh.

Keep trying to grow gills...haven't managed it yet.

Bit angry that everyones having a love-in about a nutter shooting a couple ppl in the US and meanwhile we're having a 3 x Katrina level disastre over here with dozens drowning and no one seems to give a shit :(

^

also

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/13/3112044.htm

More than 250 dead amid Brazil floods

Posted 1 hour 6 minutes ago

Floods and landslides devastated mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro and killed dozens, bringing the death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's south to at least 257.

Yike. Didnt even know about that *feels ashamed now*

I didn't mean to shame you ;_;

(I only heard about it this morning)

was in drivethru at mcdonald's and dude in front of me had a bumper sticker that said "Obamacare -- you can't cure stupid". I mean wtf does that even mean? It isn't witty, it isn't funny, and it doesn't even make any sense and this redneck (trust me he was) spent money on it and proudly put it on his car!

Makes me want to start a company that specializes in responses to stupid bumper stickers that you can slap on other people's cars.

it means he's stupid, so it won't cure him.

or maybe there was a comma missing?

and because he was stupid he didn't notice?

Stupid ipod earbuds. I must have weird-shaped inner ears, because those fuckers won't stay in.

Even worse (maybe), I have one ear (the left) that will accommodate an ear bud just fine. It's the other ear (the right) that can't "hold" on to anything.

I hate them too. They make my ears hurt.

I hate them cos I hate things going in my ears ick ick.

I roll w over ear headphones butnforget to bring them home from work, then I have to use the evil iPod ones. And the sound is for shit, to make matters worse.

I still remember the moment in the early '00s when I walked out of my front door wearing earbuds and realizing I was hearing music inside my head without a big strap across my skull or big cans on the sides of my face like Princess Leia, just like I remember the moment of walking out of the optometrist's office with my first pair of glasses and realizing that the trees actually had individual leaves on them.

earbuds=ear wax transportation devices

I was earbuds only when I had my Walkman, thought they were the most awesome things ever. But I think they either made my ears too sensitive or I got old and crotchety but I can't hardly wear them at all anymore

earbuds=ear wax transportation devices

Not gonna deny this, which brings me to my next item

• Not just once, but twice now, I've had to turn down someone in the office wanting to borrow my ear buds, and each time, I get this "Oh, pp, you're so picky!" type of commentary from the peanut gallery.

Ear buds are like chapstick. Just ... don't ask.

Totally. And I have ridic earwax so there's no way I would ever loan them out. A used q-tip would be slightly less offensive. For all this crying about communism and such ppl often expect you to share the weirdest things

"can i borrow toilet paper you've already used pls"

It makes me a little irrationally angry that the names of poetic feet don't have the same stresses/# of syllables as what they're describing – eg the word "dactyl" should have three syllables in its name!

ia @ "Your password will expire in 18 days, do you wish to change it now?"

Tell me in 18 days!