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

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/

aaaaaaahhhh flash excresence

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ffs there's an iphonist

This dude in the elevator at work looks like a grown up version of my mortal enemy in middle school. Ergo I hate him.

My internet provider has a new faster better shinier fibertastic formula that I might want to subscribe to.
Today I get a letter in the mail: the first 5000 customers who enter their account number on some site get the installation of the new modem for free.

I go to the site, and the whole deal only happens through a Facebook button.

I don't have, need or want a Facebook account.
Result: I'm keeping the subscription I had. I can't even be bothered to install it by myself anymore.

Sacramentoist is under construction - lol

these blog names are making me pist

maybe we should start one: The Irrationalist

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.

i don't like putting the receipt in the bag! i keep my receipts -- if it stays in the bag i forget it's in there and throw it out.

also, it's the "cashless society" people that are always up a creek in "cash only" situations, which do still exist. it's good to carry a little cash around, cuz you never know.

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The sugbanist

sugbannister

Here's the epitome of irrational: complaining about money being sent to me.

But, every six months, Allstate Insurance rewards me with a "refund" check because we're all such good drivers and all. Fine. How about next time, you factor in what swell motorists we are into our original bill and just charge us thirty bucks less? I do pretty much 99% of my banking online now (I pay the water in person because it's next door to a deli) and sending me a check only sends me out on a needless errand that could've been taken care of in the original billing.

I'm with you on cheques. Not sure why they even exist anymore tbh.

My mother insists on always paying us back by cheque, which she either posts to us or hands over when she sees us. Bloody direct debit takes, what, two days?

I mean yes I see your point but yes.

I havent used a check in years, and even then I was only using them to pay rent as one realos didn't have bpay. I've paid every single bill with bpay/online banking/visa card by phone for like 10 years now.

lol @ me still having a 'cheque account' when i haven't written a cheque or indeed even had a chequebook in probably 6 or so years

check

tsk!!

If you're with the same bank as someone else, also, you can xfer money to 'em via netbank and it appears instantly.

This was very handy a couple weeks back when I ran out of cash on the way to the FAP jaymc was at. I rang my housemate, asked him to xfer me $40, and went to the atm 2 mins later and there it was.

I love the future.

Oooh I said check wtf is wrong with me argh.

Been having driving lessons lately (these make me ia) and the instructor likes cheques for some reason. So I had to get a new chequebook, had to confess I'd lost the old one, and got charged £13 to cancel the old one. Which made me (possibly rationally) angry because the woman on the phone didn't tell me that the old one was being cancelled or that there was a charge, just "OK, we'll get a new one in the post".

Also angry that even now everything is computerised, nobody uses cheques and no money has to be physically moved across the country by horsepower, we all still have to wait a week for banks to "clear" funds, i.e. cream off the interest and presumably hope that the extra week will knock you into overdraft or make something bounce so that they can charge you for your own money