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

The Eccentrist
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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.

the conversationalist
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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

there is also fraud mitigation involved in the 'clearing' process

tho 5 days is ridiculous

Fucking Google Reader keeping on reinstating blogs I've deleted, but not listing them in the list of blogs, so that I suddenly have 300 posts that need deleting individually

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.

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by making you drive to the bank they are trying to increase the chances you are involved in a fender-bender so they can raise your rates

"we placed your check in the middle of a drawbridge..."

"Standing next to the check is a troll with an axe."

You have:
- a bank account
- a lasso

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Crazy thing is that I made a $500 claim last summer, so I don't know why I'm so great.

did you kill someone annoying or something

(b) people who refer to their iGoods like they're people

orrite this has just moved from irrational anger to table-thumping blood-spitting rational anger. I am very very sick to bloody of death of apple fannies saying 'oh hi i am using iphone'. NO YOU ARE NOT YOU ARE USING AN IPHONE, AN AN AN, IT IS NOT A FUCKING PERSON. What the HELL is wrong with those people.

wrong thread I know whatEVER

...cant say ive ever seen anyone do that and if I did, I'd just assume they were lazily skipping words?

like, "i am using interwebs"?

Yeah or 'I am vacuuming with Hoover' or 'I left my keys in Hyundai' or 'I am eating Big Mac'.

or 'I am sucking Buffalo Bill'

Whoa

I am Chokito?