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

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.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

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?

'I have just put one up Mrs Fields'

irrational ianger

look at this fucken thing

iPad will see a hardware revision this year
we’ll possibly see a more modest bump to 512MB, bringing it up to speed with iPhone 4.
Already included in iPhone 4, this will basically make iPad more aware of its orientation in a 3D space
Although this resolution would still equate to a lower pixel density than on iPhone 4, iPad is generally held at a greater distance from the user

AHSGHGAHGDAHGFAHSGAHGAFHGFGJSH

i.e. a person called iPad is saying 'omg I am aware of my orientation in a 3D space'

Seeing twats walking down the street reading an iPad is always delightful hilarity.

ikr. In fact this morning I saw man on tram reading iPad, not holding bar or anything. Seriously if driver had slammed on brake he would have fallen straight on face and broken nose.

him name hopkin green frog.

Re: cheques, my landlord still insists we pay our rent by cheque, I have no idea why when standing orders exist. This was particularly annoying this month because he didn't even cash the cheque for 4 weeks so I ended up ringing him to see if it had got lost in the post!

xxpost

then him end up sad in room

I hate - hate! - people who turn against several lanes of traffic rather than just going around the fucking block. They end up blocking every lane of traffic as the creep across, perpendicular to the flow of cars.

The word "understands" replacing fact-checking/official confirmation in journalism's hurry to publish first.

About 403,000 results (0.27 seconds) for "the bbc understands"

"It's okay you can tell us, we understand"

People who get up to the cashier to pay for their food in our cafeteria and only THEN start digging for their wallet. Soup nazi to cafe pls

Tired of people getting on the elevator at the 2nd floor at the end of the day. TAKE THE GODDAMN STAIRS, how hard is it to walk down a flight of stairs? And its faster.

I'm just grumpy being on the top floor and feeling like it takes forever to reach the bottom!

I'm like that too - but some places the only stairs are fire stairs yr not allowed to use.

does yr elevator have a 'close doors' button? try pressing it at the same time as you press the floor button #elevatorhack #possibleurbanlegend

Was the grocery on Mon, stood in line TWICE cos I picked up the eggs that were thirty cents over my budget and had to put them back and find the cheaper ones, and the second time, the two Uggs and leggings-clad glossy haired princesses in front of me were talking about how many times a week their mothers play tennis.

My IA isn't their fault but if looks could kill....

Tired of people getting on the elevator at the 2nd floor at the end of the day. TAKE THE GODDAMN STAIRS, how hard is it to walk down a flight of stairs? And its faster.

I'm on the second floor of my office building, and I *always* see people waiting for the elevator at the end of the day. Makes no sense.

one of my jobs is in a four-story building, with my office on the fourth floor. there is some government group that has offices on the second and third floors, and it seems like they always take the elevator back and forth. the worst is getting on at the first floor to ride up to the fourth, someone else gets on at the second floor and rides it to the third, so you have to stop at every floor.

Customer's tech - who is just a shitty Mac network tech and knows arse-all about Cisco afaik - is bitching at us because we provisioned thier sydney office over a diffrent data type than we'd quoted them.

This is possibly a legitiamate complaint. Except that THEY HAVE HAD THIS SERVICE A WHOLE YEAR NOW.

i was that guy tonight. got in the 10 items or less line with like 20 items. I had glanced when I got in and thought I was in a regular line, but by the time I found out my mistake I had already unloaded the cart.

walk of shame and all i don't deserve to live.

dies irae dies il la

not exactly IA, just...a certain group of wideyed people I work with that ask if my family is anywhere near the floods in Australia. These are the the ones who think Australia is the size of Guam so when you say the floods aren't nearby they sort of look at you like, 'how is that even possible'? (I've been here 8 years and I have had long conversations with thesse pppl about where my family is...I believe we even talked about it during the horrible bushfires last year)

It's gotten to the point that I just say basically my family is in Florida and the floods were in Maine, so they're safe, thank you for asking. And then they're like "Ohhh. Well that's good."

And i'm not even making this a 'dumb murican' thing...really this is specifcally a handful of chowderheads who think that Australia and NZ are the same continent, surprised we have electricity, shocked that we were in any way affected or knew about 9/11...the kind of ignoramuses who you will find in every single country of the world.

I need flashcards, I think.

wtf

Once I had a huge argument with a bloke who insisted that Mauritius and Mauritania were the same place and that I was just getting the words muddled.

I'm always suprised at ppl who dont grok the size of certain continents.

Was on a bus once with a british lass going from Melb to Canberra. She mused that she'd looked at a map and thought she'd make a day trip from Sydney to Cairns. On a bus. Til someone righted her spatial specialness.

xxpost you should play into their stereotype and say your dad is Paul Hogan and then threaten them with an oversized knife

i had a chat with a dude who claimed Australia was in Asia, so.....

I was once on a train in Europe, and an Australian girl asked me how close Los Angeles was to California.

'er lived in Alice Springs for a while. Routinely she'd get foreign tourists approaching her in Todd Mall, walking shoes on, camera slung over shoulder: 'WHERE'S THE ROCK?' The rock is a five-hour drive from Alice Springs. I dunno, if you've made the effort to fly 22 hrs to the NT you might want to pick up a fucking atlas at some point.