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

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!!

Shop assistants who say "That'll be £3.45" and then just as you hand over the money, start needless faffing around with bags or napkins or whatever leaving you with your arm hanging in mid air like a pillock.

Also shop assistants who hand you the bills first and coins second so they slide dangerously around on the smooth paper till you deftly extract the bills with your other hand.

new lows for pedantry itt

Not really. What are we supposed to do with that, make a little parcel of coins? ARGH.

this thread ISN'T ABOUT PEDANTRY

GOD

i guess it's cuz it makes more sense for cashiers to count & return change beginning in the higher denominations i

idk, unless u have ataxia you can probably manage

yessss, i have tried to complain about the coins thing to friends but no one has appreciated my annoyance. i accept that i'm an unusually undexterous person (probly not quite ataxic), but still.

Honestly, I'm more perturbed by getting a huge receipt together with the money, which then winds up in my wallet wrapped around a tenner and a bunch of change instead of in the bag where it belongs.

Oh yes I get that coins thing. These are the two available options, as far as I can see:

1. They do the notes first and the coins second, and the coins slide off the notes and you fumble about in mid-air like a twat.
2. They do the coins first and the notes second, and the notes glide off your hand and you fumble about in mid-air like a twat.

So really, fuck money.

nah nah. coins first, close 4th and 5th fingers over them, take notes between thumb and 1st and 2nd fingers.

I think it's worse for us because all our notes are polymer. They don't bend properly but they do form an effective coin chute xp

xp and then flip the cashier 'the bird' with your mysteriously free 3rd finger.

Why are we even using money? It's the 21st century ffs, where's my etc etc.

I was about to say that's why god invented debit cards, but even then I always get my card handed back gift-wrapped in a zillion receipts, so fuck that an' all.

I've begun pre-empting the receipt thing with 'please put the receipt in the bag' with ohhhhh about 60 per cent success.

new trend of making a noun by adding 'ist' to the end of something

like 'photographist'

fuck

Guys on another messageboard I'm on moaning about Twitter and Facebook being just a pointless way of telling people your unimportant/dull/trivial thoughts. DUDES! You're on a fucking messageboard here!

According to Mr McNamara, a pure photographer knows nothing about the technical side - he knows which button to push, and which end to face towards the scene, and that's it. He takes hundreds, if not thousands f photos, and some of them come out nicely, purely by accident. A photographist, on the other hand, is so in love with the technical aspects of photography - the exposures, the f-stops, the focal lengths and white balances, that the photos that result are dull, lifeless and boring - but perfectly correct from a technical point of view.

from a tumblr called photographist

"I'm Chris. Art student. Silent type. Eclectic soul."

it's very bloggy, i.e. "the sartorialist"

i wou;dn't be at all surprised if there were blogs called "the footballist" or "the eatist"

first return for footballist is a blogspot

see like many other entries itt that is perfect nocuous, and were you to get angry it would be something of an exagerrated affect but certainly rational

...that was last updated in 2005 xp

http://dcist.com/

DCist please desist

haha

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motion to change term 'ilxor' to 'ilxist'

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I dunno how french works but flaneurist makes me think that there are sites called photographerist or footballerist or ballerist out there

...shouldn't have googled those terms. brb gonna delete the internet

shotcallerist.blogspot.com

probably unsuitable for rappers to adopt this.

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srsly is there any vaguely 'cultured' term that doesn't have an istblog

Everywhere I go shopping just gives me the receipt, notes and coins in a pile. Coins slide everywhere and the receipt sticks to the notes. Then again if anyone tried to give me them separately I'd probably just stare at them blankly.

I am quite happy for them to put them all down on the counter so I can pick them up however I like them, but on some other ILX angry thread someone declared this very rude, so you can't please all of the people etc

part of my brain thinks an eccentrist should possibly be irrationally prejudiced against eccentric people, like sexist/racist, but I guess that is an even newer (if less currently faddish) and more questionable formation

Eclectic soul. *vomits*

there must be some lolcraptown blogs following the lead of londonist, chicagoist etc

on that note — people who put periods at the end of one or two words that aren't even a sentence (e.g. "Neat." )

Yes, that little wait while the receipt unspools. I stand there, bag in hand. You stand there, my change in your hand. You could give me my change. I'd put it in my pocket. Then you could give my receipt and I'd put that in my bag. But you don't. You wait. You get my receipt, you give me my receipt. Then you seize the moment and place my coins onto the receipt. They slide everywhere.

I make a miniature fuss every time this happens - coins on counter, bag on floor, receipt in bag, pick up coins, check coins, coins in pocket, pick up bag - like shop assistants have a collective memory and next time things will change. I don't feel good about it.

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I like this one

http://www.chinist.com/