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

They're not mandating it. There's an app which doesn't exist on any other tablet or OS that I've already bought for the iPhone ($60-odd) and needs the bigger screen to be properly useful. I could go without it but the iPhone version basically transformed my learning so.

You cant use a netbook/laptop?

oh ok.

Writing directly on a touch screen is a world away from scribbling blindly on a track pad.

drag

i <3 ios so

ponce

j/k

pfft

when you're leaving a building to go somewhere with people, and instead of just getting in your cars and heading over, people start long-assed convos with keys in hand for 20-30 minutes first. YOU CAN RESUME THE CONVERSATION WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING.

bonus points for when as a result of standing and talking for 20-30 minutes, one or more people decide they're 'too tired' to go after all.

fwiw those people probably never wanted to go to the second location, but didn't want to immediately end the conversation so they precipitated the 20 minute linger

evil, evil tactic

This week's Modern Family was ace *** SPOILERS *** Jay didn't like a couple of people he was talking to *** SPOILERS *** so he told them to their faces *** SPOILERS *** all very nicely and politely *** SPOILERS ***

Basically I wish we could all do that when people are standing around a car talking for 20 mins, 'I HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO SO SHUT UP'

Apparently the Dutch do that sort of thing.

actually I'm pretty direct about it now, usually I just say "dunno what the hell y'all are doin, but I'm headed over". tonight though it was one particular person who was supposed to join me, then changed her mind after 30 mins, which now meant there was no point in me going as it was by myself.

not angry over it tho...just more 'ehh i wish you'd told me 30 mins ago'

I have some relatives who would never, ever tell you they need to be somewhere, and some who would good-naturedly say, "I really loved seeing you! I'm sorry I have to run, but Joanne is waiting for me...." in a casual way. Toss-up.

I use my rels as a reference because my NY friends are pretty much former or current ilxors and would just cut you off. ;)

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

also ia @ people who big-note themselves, just as a general thing.

oh and people who refer to themselves in the third person.

what about people who answer questions by asking questions

A: "Did you like the movie?"
B: "Did I like it? Yes. Would I see it again? No."

and they always roll their eyes up towards the ceiling as if they're thinking REALLY CRITICALLY

xp oh god yes, along with people who say 'question' before asking a question.

I am full of ia today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKU_hwj2o

Also: the way every sciencey article on Wikipedia is 100% written in sciencey terms like a god damned thesis. I don't want the freaking molecular details of this freaking drug, just tell me what it does in actual words ffs.

ikr just say whether it'll get me fuckt up damn

question: is estela full of ia today?
answer: no, she is not.
question: was she full of ia yesterday?
answer: no, she was not.
question: is that because estela has wonderful command of her emotions and wears the world like a loose garment?
answer: why, yes it is.

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

This happens to me ALL THE TIME on ilx - I've actually said "what am I, invisible?" more than once before.

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

back when I used to post on the Megadeth message board (which even for a bunch of metalheads had an idiot quotient off the charts), this dude came on one night overexcited that Megadeth had played some new unreleased (shitty) song live.

this other dude (with the unoriginal nickname Bl@keMustaine) insulted and harassed the guy and accused him of making it up for a day or two, then he went to a show and heard the same song live...came back to the thread and essentially took credit for breaking the news, and when other guy piped up, he said "fuck you you fuckign fuck, why on Earth should I have believed you that they played a new song when you had no proof".

oh god what a wanker.

Also when you ask for help on the internet and one person:

- doesn't read your question properly
- offers you stupid and completely inappropriate help that involves hours of potentially destructive work and isn't even related to your problem
- insists again and again that you try it 'just to see what happens'
- full-on gets the shits with you for refusing
- gets all entitled because she/he didn't HAVE to offer you help and you're just an ungrateful bastard, don't come crying to me again etc etc

when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

aw, man!

j/k sorry t

i dunno who I dislike more, people who ask for medical advice on Yahoo Answers, or people that answer it and have no real background in medicine.

I remember some idiot asking whether they could have sex when they had an enlarged spleen from mono (really, you turn to YAHOO ANSWERS for this), and this equally stupid lady remarking how this was the first time she'd heard of an enlarged spleen from mono (it actually happens in 50% of mono cases), and said they shouldn't have sex because she'd get reinfected with mono over and over (which is impossible).

i am truely sorry for your lots

i'm mad that the wu tang clan doesn't really know kung fu

I'm mad that the Ben Folds Five was only three people.

i'm mad that the Cowboys play in the NFC East

LOL enlarged spleen/liver is like one of the MAIN mono symptoms ffs.

yup...I had a very enlarged spleen when I had mono in 09. lost 15 pounds or so during that, the feeling full all the time really sucked :/

Don't remember what my spleen did but I was basically bed-ridden for six weeks and ate bread. The worst moment was being in so much pain that I had to crawl to the medicine cabinet for paracetamol.

Why's it called glandular fever here? That's like calling pneumonia 'nose fever'.

i assumed cos glands swell up + fever happens (well for some of the time)

I had a nasty case at 21, had no idea I was sick, worked thru it in a job involving a lot of heavy lifting, made it worse, ended up with CFS on and off the next 2 years as a result. Yeah that was fun.

Sorry, well obv I was SICK, I mean I had no idea what was wrong.

IA - why do all Eagles songs go for like a thousand years and or conatin sections more annoying than the worst advertising jingles. Fucking Eagles on the radio or in the supermarket makes me insane

when you're leaving a building to go somewhere with people, and instead of just getting in your cars and heading over, people start long-assed convos with keys in hand for 20-30 minutes first. YOU CAN RESUME THE CONVERSATION WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING.

bonus points for when as a result of standing and talking for 20-30 minutes, one or more people decide they're 'too tired' to go after all.

ia: people who don't know how to edit themselves in conversation. i value brevity and getting to the point as quickly as possible. i value the voice in my head that goes "there's someone listening to this, you're not just writing in your diary."

storytelling is awesome, if you know how to tell a story. most people don't.

ia when you post some breaking news on a thread (not here) and three posts later some thick twat posts EXACTLY THE SAME LINK and ponces about as though they were first with the news.

This happens all the time on ILX, fwiw. Everyone gets in the same mad rush to post something that they saw on metafilter or gawker, and the first poster's left to say, "what, am I invisible?"

So I'm on this apple fanboy forum full of apple fanboys and I'm saying that I assume 'retina display' is when you slam the thing up to your face and can't see pixels but really I don't care what it is, and some fanboy smartarse replies 'NO, it's when you hold it A REASONABLE DISTANCE from your face ACTUALLY'. The only reason anyone would respond like that is to display peacock-like their incredible encyclopaedic fanboyism.

Also: the way every sciencey article on Wikipedia is 100% written in sciencey terms like a god damned thesis. I don't want the freaking molecular details of this freaking drug, just tell me what it does in actual words ffs.

YEEESSSSSSSSS

it's an encyclopedia not a fuckin textbook.

ia: when basic cable shows depict a scene in a strip club, ergo the stripper is wearing more clothes than MOST PEOPLE WEAR ON THE BEACH. NOT VERY REALISTIC.

xp o yes. i don't know how many times i've come across a scientific or mathematical thing that i've tried to quickly look up the significance of and ended up spending twenty baffling minutes trying to extract something from the wikipedia article.

- people fucking talking to me

FUCK YOU!!