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

Somebody better than me pls make a Brian Eno word clippy !

'It looks like you're trying to find a cohesive rhythm in one of my songs!'

It looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

(was inspired to get the obliq strats app)

Can never read about sentence fragments without thinking of

http://www.accesswave.ca/~rclancey/linguo-dead-grammar.gif

"It looks like you're trying to reform Roxy Music."

t looks like you're trying to write a document:

- Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
- Use cliches
- Repetition is a form of change

LOL

It looks like you're trying to collaborate with Robert Fripp! How do you wish to delineate the apprentice/journeyman/master metaphor?

- the apprentice acquires skill
- the craftsman acquires sensitivity
- the master acquires vision
- the genius attains freedom
- the apprentice is noisy
- the craftsman shapes sound
- the master shapes silence
- the genius is silent
- the apprentice practices the craft of craft
- the craftsman practices the art of craft
- the master practices the craft of art
- the genius is artless

Fuck why dont I have photoshop at work grrr

paint dot net trayce!

Oh neat.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1380.snc4/163283_485291167756_726857756_6381396_4433054_n.jpg

That font looks wrong but it could be due to the screencap of the og pic

omg I love it

that is great

Were I not at work I'd have tried to properly make an Eno-paperclip head, but that'll do.

omg wow

btw I have a v clear picture of 'Clippy for Films' cover art in my head now.

- buying greeting cards
- the whole concept of greeting cards

congratulation on new babby

wasn't it Seinfeld wh obasically said buying greeting cards = "I agree with everything this guy says"

I posted oClippe Strategies on my livejournal and someone replied with "is that the guy from the Human League? I dont get it"

love that trayce

fixed his wagon

Bwahaha nice one.

How is Brian Eno in any way like anyone out of the Human League, wtf

synths iirc

mmmm

I think Oakey is a baldy now too fwiw

he is but i mean

http://www.glam-ou-rama.co.uk/users/276/gallery/potm.jpg

y

will not post pic of baldy oakey with tubby goth fan

oh shit aa just did

'It looks like you're trying to get away!'

btw this competes in the lol stakes

http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/phil-oakey.jpg

the shading makes the position of the nip look really really odd

Holy shit I actually thoguht that was a photo of myself for a split second.

That first pic i mean not the one just above!

Haha, I did too.

I dont even have hair like that anymore! but it made me spittake.

the shading makes the position of the nip look really really odd

also the way he's standing. but it looks like he has one nip and it's in the middle.

phil oakleela

ia: the name "bethany." whenever i hear it i refuse to believe it's a real name -- that it's just some mashup of "beth" and "stephanie" and the parents couldn't make up their mind. yes, i know "bethany" is actually a biblical reference, that's why i posted this on the innocuous/irrational thread.

btw i stopped myself from writing "portmanteau" instead of "mashup" because i was self-conscious of sounding like that awl nyt parody.

2 unrelated things this morning:
1) I take a bus to the nearest metro station and everyone morning at least one person will run from the bus stop OUTSIDE the station like they are going to catch the last train. They run every 3 minutes at this hour ffs.
2) iphone autocorrecting apple's fucking 'i' words so you always look like some pedantic fanboy writing iPhone, iPod, iPad, etc.

having to attend 2 day wedding celebration, including getting up at 7am!!!1!!1 on saturday

It's bad enough when I go to a chain grocer to get the lazy junk food pitch at the check-out. ("Are you interested in any of out special value deals today?" Points to strawberry-flavored Cheetos.) But I've noticed over the course of the last year or so that Trader Joe's has started to do this, too, albeit slightly more subtly. Today, for instance, the woman at the register, apropos of nothing (apart from promotion) mentioned off-hand that she tried their new buffalo jerky (on display nearby) and found it "spicy," but also "sweet" and "tangy." I looked at her and was, like, OK. Glad you liked them.

I have good feelings for TJ's in general, but this annoyed me a lot.

Oh, that's not going to be a good trend.

I've yet to have that happen in my grocery shopping, but when it does, a little part of me will die.

That said, I'd like to hear more about these strawberry-flavored Cheetos.

"15 stamps please"

"would you like this packet of jelly babies?"

...

Suggestive selling sucks. Worked at KFC for abt 5 years through high school/college and even when someone had ordered a 21pc family meal with everything you had to upsell them freaking icecream or something. And so you have do it in a way that seems friendly but you hope is secretly code for "look, I have to do this, I know you hate me for it but please just say no thank you and we'll get out of this quickly and painlessly."

It felt even more awful bc this was back home in Australia in a tiny small town. I mean, we didn't even have McDonalds at the time and there were tons of farmers who would only come into town once a week to sell livestock or whatever who really didn't get out much otherwise and they just stare at you like "I asked for chicken, just give me chicken wtf is wrong with you."

This suggestive selling is about to completely chase me away from Caribou Coffee. They just added breakfast sandwiches and have been really adamant about the hard sell. My conversation this morning after ordering my coffee:

Barista: Would you like a breakfast sandwich too?
Me: No thanks, just the coffee.
B: Are you sure? They're really good.
M: I'm sure they are, but no thanks.
B: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! You should get one.
M: Nope, it's okay. (in my head: SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T WANT A DAMN BREAKFAST SANDWICH)