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

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

You guys should read the "customers suck" comm on livejournal if you think having to put "contains peanuts" signs etc is shocking. Some of the tales there would curl yr toes. People forcing open locked doors with closed signs, angrily demanding service. People letting their toddlers play with the debit machine buttons at mcdonalds. People abusing bookstore employees for saying Twilight is locatedin the YA section because thats insulting and "it isnt a teen book it is sci fi"

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Because the Three Stooges are pure slapstick and Laurel and Hardy is all about a fat angry man mistreating a sheepish "less intelligent" man?

I mean, I'm a Marx Brothers guy myself, but I can definitely see where there's room for that.

Thanks for making me remember the best part of the Borat movie, though.

I get ia when I go into a bookshop that has a separate sections for 'fiction' and 'literature', I mean that's just being a wanker.

Same with music shops that separate 'pop/rock' from 'alternative' (that one's being a bogan).

I also get really really ia when the genre of music I d/l is labelled something completely made-up and judgemental like 'indie'.

One of the plan managers here today replied to an email by saying he shared the same 'sediments" as another employee. Oh the English language died in this office in 2005

lol

I love you, for sedimentary reasons

today if i love anything it's for sedentary reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmop7EAY1Zg

^^ the narration of this video made me want to punch my computer

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

why do films at the cinema always start at inconvenient times?

6.30 is really too early; 9/10pm is too bloody late. is it really that hard to accommodate a screening between 7.30 and 8.30?

One of the plan managers here today replied to an email by saying he shared the same 'sediments" as another employee. Oh the English language died in this office in 2005

The Irish deputy Prime Minister (and Minister for Education!) declared on radio recently that her party - widely forecast to be on the brink of electoral oblivion - would have a 'seismic' presence in the next parliament (she meant 'sizable')- and it was just a slip, because she repeated it (as she does most things)

'wasn't just a slip'

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

― nickn, Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:00 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dear god, yes.

I'm enthusiastic, but skeptical.

I probably think too much.

I definitely talk too much.

I have poor posture and a chip on my shoulder from being bullied at the public school my rich parents thought I'd get "something out of" attending.

Join me this Thursday at 5 for "Thinking About The Things I'm Thinking About."

See you then!

British utility companies and local government offices have this annoying habit of sending things which require URGENT RESPONSE via second-class post. Mixed message much? My BT bill is not on direct debit (see also 'why not switch to direct debit?' advice on bills... BECAUSE OF YOUR LEVEL OF ANALOGUE FUCK-UPS, MAYBE?) but was paid on 8 January on my return from the US. Today I get a late-advice notice dated the 11th, shot through with the by-now-meaningless language of urgency.

This morning I was walking in to my building, which I think I've mentioned has both standard doors and revolving doors. In the winter, to cut down on wind problems, the standard doors have signs on them reading "Please Use Revolving Door." Which, of course, nearly everbody ignores.

Anyway, a woman was entering the building in front of me, tugging one of those goddamned fucking rolling carryon luggage style things that qualifies as a briefcase these days -- those make me irrationally angry enough!! -- and, looking RIGHT AT THE SIGN, started tugging on the door handle like a moron. Apparently building management just gave up on the ability of adults to read signs and locked the doors. So then she made a big production number out of taking the damned thing through the revolving door. I swear, I just wanted to neck-punch her from behind.

Does This American Life make you want to punch your radio?

― nickn, Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:00 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dear god, yes.

― kkvgz, Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:02 AM Bookmark

This morning I was walking in to my building, which I think I've mentioned has both standard doors and revolving doors. In the winter, to cut down on wind problems, the standard doors have signs on them reading "Please Use Revolving Door." Which, of course, nearly everbody ignores.

we have a similar thing, but no revolving door. building mgmt put up orange tape in front of and behind the standard doors and employees have to go through the delivery entrance on the side.

people who "can't find things"...example: my wife is constantly asking where are my keys, i lost my cell phone, where is this where is that. Typically these things are right in front of her face, i think she is just too lazy to look.

Usually I feel like the inability to locate things stems from not having any kind of mental map from when you set them down. Any skills I have in the "knowing where things are" dept are mostly a result of the "thought to self: I need to remember that I put that there" when the item left my hand.

- people, having the fucking temerity to be around me, ever

There is an SOP and online workbasket here for mailed documents that has been titled "Unsolicated Mail" for years. Both used firmwide. Nobody in apparently the last decade has noticed or done anything about this, just sits there, remaining misspelled.

(And yes, I reported it this morning after being tired of seeing it for five years and realizing the people that created both make way more money than me)

unsolicated advice

That's probably how they will respond

Nothing worse than an illiterate line manager

You could write "fuck you" on a slate and hold it up to him and he won't know what it says!

my wife would lose her head if it wasn't attached. oh wait, she did.

Murdered for trying to put a stop to ur unyielding affair with pissvag girl

HAHA!~

Okay not so "innocuous", but I don't want to start a thread just for this and not sure where else to post it. I'm irrationally angry that the dumb woman who becamse a viral video star after falling into a mall fountain while texting is going to sue the mall for not "coming to (her) aid". Fuck this country sometimes.

I'm guessing she is hoping for a huge payday out of this, because why in the hell else would you come forward to the media revealing yourself as the dumbass in a grainy security camera video?

that is incredibly lame and def makes me angry

Websites that have a "print" link that only activates the CTRL+P function of your browser, instead of taking you to a cleaned up page free of clutter where you can hit "Read It Later".

ugh I had to document a site like that recently. Two buttons, one said 'print' and the other said 'download PDF', but they did exactly the same thing. Spent the best part of half a day trying to explain that one.

We link PDFs on our website too and my question every time is "Who in the hell is downloading PDFs on the Internet?"

Lists of the top mortgage lenders, sure. But a freaking google map capture of where the new mall is going to be built?

I download PDFs from websites all the time - product brochures, cut sheets, spec sections.

ikr, ridiculous. Second only to restaurants with all-flash websites.

xp if it makes sense, fine, but too often it's just a map or a one-page information sheet that should just be in the browser.

But why not make those brochures and cut sheets just a part of a web page?

I don't get irrationally angry about the PDFs, I just don't get them.

Our company is big on digital editions too (for example) and they get a lot of hits. I just can't figure out what crazy person would rather mess with that than just going to this.

Well a lot of times I have to send these cut sheets and specs on to other people and I can't always depend on them having internet access at any given moment. Plus, you never know when a company is going to revamp their website and temporarily (or permanently) lose links to this information, so it pays to have a digital copy on our server.

I hear you, but on the other hand, I think Web-based media is just being lazy when they pull stuff like this.

(This is the publication I work for, and I think there's got to be a better way of displaying that information instead of with a downloadable PDF.)

that digital edition maxes out my processor even when i'm not zooming or dragging or anything. which in turn makes the fan come on and increases the background noise.

I'm not saying I disagree with you PP, just explaining why I end up dling so many PDFs.

Tech stuff is one thing, but like when a restaurant presents its menu in PDF form (though that's usually the least of a restaurant's website problems.)

It comes down to utility. If you're implementing PDFs because it makes sense to the user, all good. If you're doing it because you're lazy, gtfo.

Subject line of an email from one of our suppliers - this is an official email from marketing @ the 3rd biggest telco in the fscking country mind you.

"Reminder: Your Invited to the AAPT Frontier Launch Breakfast – Melbourne"

&U^&^$%^$