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

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.

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

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

This worked in the building I used to work in in Virginia. If you were riding the elevator and could feel it getting ready to stop for another floor, holding in the "close doors" button would cause it to slow down, then just keep going. Everybody in the building knew it, too, so often I'd be waiting for an elevator and I could hear it coming, slow down, the bell would ring, then . . . nothing. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

Also apparently most close-door buttons aren't plugged in to anything.

when I worked at best buy if someone came in to buy the new Petey Pablo (it was 2004), they wanted us to upsell them like $100 worth of storage space and get em to sign up for rhapsody

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'?

To counter, any time a tornado blows across the Central Time Zone, someone Down Under will ask if we had to seek shelter.

I went to a local cooking store the other day. At the register there was a small bowl of homemade candy set out with a little hand-written sign that said "Peanut Brittle." And right below where it said "Peanut Brittle," in letters just as big, it said "Contains Peanuts."

I looked up at the woman behind the register and said/asked "really?" And she said "you'd be surprised..."

Omg lol

On the lotto machine at our supermarket there was a handwritten OUT OF ORDER sign. Below that was scrawled PLEASE DO NOT PUT MONEY INTO THIS MACHINE.

Remember when "out of order" was enough?

we have two addresses at work we give out, one po box, and one our street address for overnights only. So this lady calls up upset that we didn't get her overnight parcel yet, and she talks to a manager. She's not angry, but really panicky, wanting to know what could have happened to keep it from getting there.

our rep asks her how she sent it (UPS/FedEx), and the lady sounds confused, and our rep asks her if she actually sent it overnight mail, and the lady goes "no, but I sent it to the overnight address!"

xp what sucks is they're probably required to say that shit and get in trouble if they don't — basically a shit job

Yeah, a friend was fired from Starbucks for refusing to ask customers if they wanted a muffin with their coffee.

ugh I hate the shit those people have to put up with (starbucks employees)

You guys are going to stay angry your whole lives if your bothered by the fact that not 100% of the population reads instructions.

I should really just stay off this thread. I sometimes think about how mad you guys get and I feel a little concerned! I suppose irrationally so.

we also had this lady fill out a hardship request form, which you have to meet specific criteria to take, all of the eligible reasons are listed on the form in checklist format, etc, no exceptions cuz it's government-qualified.

so this lady writes in a new reason really sloppily in black ink, even makes the actual check boxes, and sends it in. when we call her to tell her you can't write in extra reasons on the form, she claims it was on the form and that isn't her handwriting.

xposts -- Yeah, my daughter was let go at Books a Million for not selling her quota of discount cards. I think it had to be five per 8-hr shift...?

truthfully most of the stuff I post to this thread is for LOLs, I mostly am at my most angry when

A. I am driving
B. I am at work (and this one will likely change as I'm switching departments in less than two weeks).

your

threadbait

haha I thought about correcting myself there but I try to do something for everyone...including making ppl ia

lol i totally missed that

actually that fucked with me the first time I ever logged onto ilxor was seeing everybody using abbreviations like "yr" and "u"

I don't know where to put this but how can anybody like the 3 Stooges but not like Laurel and Hardy? What's wrong with you

I post here bc Mr Veg gets an earache from all my Andy Rooney esque whining about minutiae that gets on my nerves. Its either this or talking to myself in the car on the way home from work lol