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

Americans I love you but your plumbing sucks. Wax rings for toilet seals? Seriously?

- also when people on the internet say 'please recommend any vacuum cleaner except a dyson' and 9384732972398574298345793874539 clueless fucking twats say 'get a dyson'

- vacuum cleaners other than dyson

- vacuum cleaners

- vacuuming

- cleaning in general

seriously fuck cleaning a house today

yeah we are out because of that

At a performance of "Chicago". Told the audience three times if you leave during Act One, you can't re-enter until Act 2 and told everyone to use the facilities then.

One dude in the crowd left twice, returned once, and fell on one of the people in his row as he came back in.

Guess who's sitting next to him?

a justifiably homicidal axe wielding maniac?

No, me! And dude was drunk

So I guess you can re-enter the theater.

Theatre owner who is a friend of mine later mentioned that guy somehow eluded them the first time, and teh second time came out to the bar asking for another drink (they close bar at intermission, asshole), then he told him "you aren't going back in until intermission".

guy never returned to the show.

Yours may be an isolated incident, but that's on my IA list in general: careful almost-condescending instructions that are barely enforce and broken by everone anyway.

radio commercials which use a "car horn" sound effect that makes you think someone's honking at you. Drives me crazy every time it happens.

radio commercials which use a "car horn" sound effect that makes you think someone's honking at you. Drives me crazy every time it happens.

― Roz, Monday, 24 January 2011 04:36 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah me too

locally-produced radio spots in tiny markets can be hilarious though

Curb Your Enthusiasm had a good episode where Larry heard an AAMCO ad and caused szome road rage.

Also hate a commercial being interrupted by a needle scratching across a record.

I fucking hate vacuums. Can't someone design one that doesn't sound like aural hell?

No wonder nature abhors them!

heard a local radio spot yesterday that sounded like a guy reading off a sheet into a cell phone recorded on the answering machine of the radio station

I didn't hate it, I'm just commiserating or something.

sick of these asshats who drive through the parking spaces to get around a parking lot instead of using the lanes designated.

if it's 11 pm an the lot is empty, that's one thing. some asshat just almost fucking smashed into me in a Best Buy parking lot cuz he was doing that and I was lawfully driving in the lane and he didn't see me.

oh and yes this isn't innocuous and I think all these people should be executed.

- my mother has learnt how to text
- jesus h

- also the way people say 'VALE' when someone dies

vale AA's sanity

people that careen around corners in a building recklessly, almost collide with you, and say "EXCUSE me" in a blithe voice as if you was your fault.

I made an entire career out of that in high school!

- I didn't go through puberty until halfway through high school so I was crazy short
- I had some crazy tall girls at my school
- I would walk around a corner and accidentally find my face slamming into breasts

That doesnt sound like something to be angry about! ;D

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

― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:35 AM (6 days ago)

xx-post

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.

― sectarian chicken (mh), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:43 AM (6 days ago)

Ollie has a lot of character. He is quick tempered but he can hold back his anger and let things go! Plus he is a sweetheart.

Laurel is dumb as bricks but even he won't put up with Ollie every time he is mistreated.

So I guess pure slapstick means LACK OF DEPTH TO ANY CHARACTERS.

In that case I understand why my friend likes The Three Stooges but not Laurel and Hardy. Because he's an idiot!

Yes, the complete point of The Three Stooges is the lack of depth, Lorax. This isn't the thread for that since it's a very specific comparison gripe.

As for innocuous things, how about people who think people are idiots because their casual tastes in comedy differ from their friends.

actually I made a career out of being clumsy too....it's only been in recent years that I'm no longer a klutz

how about people who have too many gripes

captain idk that you get this thread

I hate when my manager makes simple grammatical errors. I like her a lot, but between the "ain't"s and some subject-verb errors, she about drives me nuts.

Sorry, Deb!

I guess I don't have any innocuous things that make me irrationally angry. I tried posting something upthread about getting lost while driving but that isn't really innocuous

I have innocuous things that make me think "dude, how could you" though

Yes, the complete point of The Three Stooges is the lack of depth, Lorax. This isn't the thread for that since it's a very specific comparison gripe.

As for innocuous things, how about people who think people are idiots because their casual tastes in comedy differ from their friends.

― sectarian chicken (mh)

I do have to point out that the only reason I had that argument with my friend is because my taste for Laurel and Hardy is not casual - it's hardcore. My taste for Laurel and Hardy originates from my grapmpa and it means a lot to me.

Yeah I was mean to my friend when I was tipsy and told him repeatedly "how can you not like Laurel in Hardy" but he deserves some meanness every once in a while

"how can you not like Laurel in Hardy"

dude

This is just for homeless romantic: The Laurel and Hardy short where they push a piano up an endless flight of outdoor stairs was filmed at my great-grandmother's house. (Just the big stairs; the mansion they wind up at wasn't hers.)

Wow that is cool! (also did you mean hopeless, not homeless? Lol)

psst

― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:01 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh hahaha

Brane not smrt today

That's pretty cool unperson. I just watched that one again recently. Was it in California?

My grandpa had Flying Deuces and I watched it a fair bit at his place.

Ok, ok, when people close to you say, in social situations: "Tell them about X!" I feel like it shouldn't bother me, but it's such a derail and it puts you on the spot.

agh I hate that!

Man yeah I can only talk about Wild Gift so many times before I feel like I'm rehearsing a speech.

'withdrawl'

- people who hardly ever post on Facebook except when they randomly decide to educate everyone on a chosen issue and do so in a series of longwinded preachy posts .intermittently throughout the entire weekend ..and all their flunky friends say "ooh that is so true wow and blah" ...and I hide them from my feed. Go write a damn blog, jesus christ.