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

Not innocuous and my anger is not irrational but posting here as I consider you all my "waaaaaaaah!" family!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a gambling site is shady, but sportsbook.com is a legal gambling site, so still!

Wanted to direct deposit my winnings, and in the withdrawal page emblazoned in bold letters is "Direct Deposit", and it states two free per month, so I do it. Find out three days later they took an undisclosed $30 fee.

I went all through their help section online, anywhere to find info on this fee...nothing. The payment option isn't even discussed. So I emailed them politely to ask.

They told me I did an ACH withdrawal which is different than Direct Deposit, and has a $30 fee.

Nowhere does the site say "ACH" withdrawal or disclose the fee, nor was I informed before processing (I read through the fine print beforehand, always). The site ITSELF said "Direct Deposit". In addition, the help section says "unless otherwise noted", only the first withdrawal is free per month. The DD entry says "2 free per month" in bold letters, which means otherwise noted.

So now I've demanded restitution and offered to send Snag-It shots of their own website to them to prove it. Gah.

That sucks!

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.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), jueves 13 de enero de 2011 5:55 (9 hours ago) Bookmark

I have the same problem, only it's the left one that won't stay in the correct place, ever. It's fucking annoying. Hate you Apple.

I constantly look like a 1910s cartoon character with his monocle popping off.

And now post office didn't deliver my packages to the office, they left notes. There are thousands of people in this building, there's no way ill see that note. Also there's a gazillion people in the mail room who could have received it.

Why r mail service fuk me now?

SERENITY NOW!

i have so much to contribute here. i hardly know where to start.

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

this infuriates me, and in my work it makes you pick a diff password each time, one that can't be one of your last six or some bullshit, i've started making my password FUCKOFF or c u next tuesday etc in silent protest at this.

also a long held one for this thread, i really really hate people who walk around the street in weird directions when making a phonecall. like outside a pub or whatever, someone wandering back and forth on the phone as you try and walk by. it's like they need to tread the public boards or some shit as they hold forth on the phone. i can understand the impulse to do this, i wander around my house on the phone all the time. but it's fucking rude on a pavement where people might want to walk past.

garda OTM x 1000

conversely, people who stop DEAD whatever they are doing to answer their phone or text. Like in the doorway of a supermarket. Or in the middle of a parking lot. It's like their brain just totally disconnects.

There was a cold winter's night a few years ago where I was waiting for some Mexican takeout and some asshole was walking circles around the lobby foyer and kept opening the automatic door to the smoking patio, letting arctic blasts of chilly air freeze everyone's nuts off again for a few moments. At one point, he even said into his precious cell, "What the hell? This door to the outside keeps opening," completely oblivious to the radar gun pointed at his head from seven feet up.

Who to blame? The asshole, first of all. The restaurant for not having that door turned off anyway (maybe a fire thing, I dunno.) Or me, for just standing there stewing instead of tapping him on the shoulder and making an exaggerated gesture toward the fucking door.

I called the post office to find out where they are holding my packages, and lady gives me an address and phone number for a branch no longer in service. Geezus!

First they don't deliver to a building that handles 1000s of pieces of mail a day and has people who can sign...meaning they probably tried tp deliver it to the wrong place, now this. I'm just going to go to the post office that does exist in the area and see if they have it.

Ridiculous passwords requirements are stupid because people respond by writing their passwords on post-it notes and sticking them to walls. Idiotic security officers don't think about the way people respond to dumb policies, they just go 'wah wah do what we say shut up the end'.

San Te, you need to start a 'waaaah family' thread imo. I would be all over it.

conversely, people who stop DEAD whatever they are doing to answer their phone or text. Like in the doorway of a supermarket. Or in the middle of a parking lot. It's like their brain just totally disconnects.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 14 January 2011 05:30 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow, you just described every single person in melbourne

every person in Sacramento too, lol.

Melbourne's just put up a load of tram 'superstops' which are fenced off and TAPERED at the end for some fucking reason, and the bogans get off the tram and just stand in the tapered section and nobody else can get out. I do not know what the fuck is wrong with those people.

My response to this problem is to walk into those people as though they're not there, but 99.94% of the time THEY STILL DON'T MOVE as though they are actually the undead and completely unaware that (a) they are actively blocking a major thoroughfare and (b) some angry bastard is barrelling into them at full force.

i get panic attacks when i have to use the "superstops". so now i get off a stop early instead

I mean why would anyone walk into the narrowest part of a very busy entry/exit and just stand right in the middle of it? This can only be actual literal brain damage on a catastrophic scale.

xp that's a good plan, might start using it myself.

ugh yuk they sound like a nightmare.

also if memory serves, bogans are the undead, aren't they?

essentially yeah

I dunno, maybe they can't walk and think about power bracelets at the same time.

- ppl who come to you at the last minute and ask to borrow something of yours or ask for a spare (whatever) and when you give them what they ask, explaining you don't really have much, or you don't think it's really what they want, they turn up their nose and say 'oh. Do you have anything else?" and then start making jokes about how lame whatever it is you have is and RARRGH WTF FUCK OFF IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, IF IT MATTERED THAT MUCH YOU WOULDN'T HAVE WAITED TO THE LAST MINUTE TO SCROUNGE IT OFF ME, WOULDJA?

ugh

Dactyl is from the Greek daktulos which does have 3 syllables (I think it even is actually a dactyl - at least it would be in English, but Greek/Latin metre is confusing because they measure it by whether vowels are long or short rather than where the stress is, never got the hang of that)

You have blown my mind!

- when people say '5 am in the morning', just to be sure you don't go thinking it's 5 am in the afternoon

that always bothered me about that song "Moonlight Shadow" ("four AM in the morning")

Oh god I hate "am in the morning" too! As if we dont know what AM means? Come on.

No one ever says "11pm in the evening" tho do they?

Great now I'm gonna have Mike Fecking Oldfield stuck in my head all afternoon, thanks a lot Corey ;P

It means Anno Momini, for "in the year of our in the morning."

ahahahahaha

I had ~10 Word docs open (all saved coz i am anal) and Word crashed. When it restarted it gave me a list of docs I had open and wanted me to manually save EVERY SINGLE ONE in a new location! JUST FIX IT, DO NOT HASSLE ME, JUST FIX IT

"x years of age" instead of "x years old". Is this some kind of new anti-ageist POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD thing? *Everyone* on the tv seems to say "years of age" now.

"Itunes terms and conditions have changed. Before downloading the app you must accept the new terms and conditions".

ppl who come to you at the last minute and ask to borrow something of yours or ask for a spare (whatever) and when you give them what they ask, explaining you don't really have much, or you don't think it's really what they want, they turn up their nose and say 'oh. Do you have anything else?" and then start making jokes about how lame whatever it is you have is

I'm struggling to imagine this, can we have a concrete example? Bits I don't understand:

- last minute? before what?
- you don't have much. Is this a foodstuff, or money? What things do people ask for where "having much" is an option?
- making jokes about how lame it is. So they're expecting a better version of whatever it is? It's not a pen then, or a fiver. What could it be??

"Itunes terms and conditions have changed. Before downloading the app you must accept the new terms and conditions".

So tired of this shit with my PS3 - "to play this game you need to update your console" *does system update* "you have updated your system and need to sign the T&Cs*" (*that haven't even changed) -- just let me play the fucking game!

However did we manage with MegaDrives and SNESs that we couldn't update? Oh I remember, we just played the fucking games!

Ridiculous passwords requirements are stupid because people respond by writing their passwords on post-it notes and sticking them to walls.

And by choosing the simplest passwords ever, i.e. myoffice2 which gets changed to myoffice3 or whatever..

My PSP does the PS3 thing too, unsurprisingly I guess.

"To play this game you need the new firmware"
uh well uh-huh I guess
(brief pang of regret that I'd been meaning to go over to the p!r4te firmwarez to run homebrew games/apps, which would be easier if I kept the old firmware, but I want to play my new game which I have spent money on, plus don't really understand if these games that check the firmware would shout at me if I put a non-Sony one on)

"Your current firmware is too old to upgrade to the newest firmware, you must do 3 incremental updates instead"
uhhh-huh (sigh)

"To install this new firmware, please confirm that your soul is the property of Sony Inc and that you will never even think of doing anything naughty with your PSP like playing homebrew games or putting an mp3 you haven't paid for on it"
(repeat 3 times for the incremental updates)
(notice that the time/date has probably reset to midnight of 1 Jan 2003 if you haven't played it for a week and don't leave it on the charger 24/7)

Good grief. Having pretty much gamed so much on the DS and having had to update firmware on my wii all of about once, this sounds hideous. And not very innocuous either ie totally justified! Eff you Sony.

tbh it probably only happens every 6 months, but then I only play my PSP once every 6 months when I've got a new game, play my new game for a week, then forget about the PSP again

definitely feeling new password fatigue, too - they used to bother me less, when song titles and computer games about aliens seemed an inexhaustible supply of fresh, memorable non-words, but now I don't spend my time thinking about either of those much, and my brain is already full of passwords I used once 6 years ago

We have the ridiculous password problem at my job too, capital letters, numbers & punctuation are compulsory on one of the domains. Which means I store my password in a text file on my desktop. Fuck you, idiotic system administrators.

> "Itunes terms and conditions have changed. Before downloading the app you must accept the new terms and conditions".

flash updates always make you read the new adobe terms and conditions. which are delivered as a pdf. which you need adobe acrobat reader for...

We have the ridiculous password problem at my job too, capital letters, numbers & punctuation are compulsory on one of the domains.

Must include: cap letters, small letters, at least one number or symbol but it turns out only about 5 of the total keyboard symbols "count" toward this, must be between 8 and 12 characters and can't have more than 3 characters in common with the last 3 passwords you picked. All this, and it has to be changed every 90 days.

I realize they're trying to stop people from making it "password01" and stuff, but why are we even doing this? I promise you, neither I nor my email are that important, and most of our other systems are only accessible on the premises. Are you worried that the UPS guy is going to try to find out how many widgets we just sold?

Really complicated password req's: Smarter or dumber than keyfobs with a code number that changes every 60 seconds?

As someone who has to occasionally deal with computer security issues I'm just shaking my head and reserving comment here.

Well that's good then

Oh c'mon, what?

My IT friends all get butthurt too when I complain about the needless difficulty of passwords, but c'mon, there has to be a middle ground between "password01" and insanely complicated procedures that cause you to spend half an hour every 90 days trying to come up with a password that fits the weird criteria precisely.

btw I work in IT and EVERYONE in my dept also thinks complicated passwords are counter-productive precisely because of the tendency for people to write them down.

You know how long it takes to brute force break a password right?

ur just cranky cos of ur sore foot

I hate when stupid insignificant web sites make you register for stuff then present you with a visual showing your password going from "weak" to "very strong" - you just keep typing till it goes green then click the "remember password" button on the browser - making it all completely pointless.

Our password criteria at work isn't too annoying. I was getting IA at the fact that it reminds me every day for 18 days that it's about to run out.

Think I may have already mentioned this in here but since it happened again this morning and made me IA all over again, I guess it bears repeating - you are a horrible human being if you insist on bringing a full-size newspaper onto a crowded commuter train and read it all spread wide open instead of folding it.