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

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.

xp bahahahaha that train thing, oh dear

Technically Australia is considered part of Asia, isnt it?

Australia is both a continent and a country

Australia's part of Asia Pacific, not Asia iirc.

yea i think they call the region Australasia or something. dude was trying to say it was like a stone's throw from China though.

Oh ok no, thats not so haha.

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

there are many people in los angeles itself who don't understand los angeles. some teenager in the northwest san fernando valley asked me what bus to take get to l.a. -- i didn't want to be a dick and tell him that he was already in the city of l.a.!

I also dislike people who can't use simple logic to estimate the time it takes to get somewhere....because it makes them late.

ie...if your destination is 20 miles away, and only 10 of it is on an interstate with a speed limit of 65, you are NOT going to get there in 20-25 minutes, no matter how fast you drive on the interstate.

likewise, if you're driving under 60 mph on an interstate, you aren't going to cover 1 mile per minute!

also dislike people who, after you tell them traffic is 'awful' at a certain time of morning, tell you to leave ten minutes later, because traffic has cleared, and you'll get there at the same time or earlier.

Obvious reasons why this is RONG:

1. If you take the same route as someone who left ten minutes prior, the only way you could get there sooner is if you passed them.
2. If traffic clears up for you, it means it cleared up for them too.

I had a conversation with a co-worker about the movie The World's Fastest Indian, and she said something like how she loves Australian movies and the scenery is so beautiful whatever and I mentioned that it was a New Zealand film and she said "Oh but they're the same country right, just different parts." And I was like, "Uh. No. They're different countries." And it was like I had blown her mind.

i had a friend who didn't realize until age 25 that in 'man in the mirror' michael jackson was singing about himself

heee HEEEEEE

It took me uh... too long to twig that "scarecrow" means literally to... yeah, shut up.

wait, whut?

i knew a girl once who claimed you could cum out your ass, because her friend said she did it, then she later corrected herself and said her friend was referring to "butt nut" all along...

then she also asked us if you could get pregnant from anal sex (I don't mean like via drippage, i mean like she wanted to know if you'd carry a baby in the butt). chick was 25 btw.

also when asked what World War I was fought over, she said the North and South fought over slaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjKL9UZiMU

was she.... not very bright?

Needs to be an ignorant people thread imo, all this stuff is gold.

there are many people in los angeles itself who don't understand los angeles. some teenager in the northwest san fernando valley asked me what bus to take get to l.a. -- i didn't want to be a dick and tell him that he was already in the city of l.a.!

i get so confused when trying to figure out what is and what isn't technically considered LA - seems like there's a kind of tension here between what actually is incorporated into and under the jurisdiction of "los angeles" and what just "feels" like LA (but this is probably a discussion for the LA threads)

xpost co-signed

I had someone ask me once whether Illinois was in Chicago.

haha!

oh btw this same girl claimed there were 52 states and that Mexico was part of the US

That reminds me of the people who were selling tickets to the olympics in the US (possibly when they were in Georgia) who kept telling callers that they had to call the international line to buy passes if they were from New Mexico.

I'm sure I mentioned the colleague who thought .sa was the internet county code for South America.

COUNTRY code

i get so confused when trying to figure out what is and what isn't technically considered LA - seems like there's a kind of tension here between what actually is incorporated into and under the jurisdiction of "los angeles" and what just "feels" like LA (but this is probably a discussion for the LA threads)

this link is a map of the individual cities within l.a. county:

http://ceo.lacounty.gov/forms/09-10%20cities%20alpha.pdf

i couldn't find a map like that at the neighborhood/community level, but there's a wikipedia page...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_districts_and_neighborhoods_of_Los_Angeles

oh btw this same girl claimed there were 52 states

This is not uncommon. I've heard many people say shit like "there are 50 stars on the flag but that was before we added Hawaii and Alaska" - I've also heard DC and Puerto Rico listed as states.

This just happened when I bought a greeting card:

'Do you want to buy a desk calendar? Only $5!'
'No'
'Do you want to buy a bottle of water? 10c from every bottle goes to the qld flood appeal!'
'I have already given like way more than 10c so'
'Do you want a bag? If you say no you will be helping to save the...'
'JUST GIVE ME MY FUCKING CARD'

xp I thought DC was a state until last week.