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

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.

My friend of a friend of a friend is currently holding forth on gun control. It's awesome.

a true raider would set that person straight

or hold a press conference looking like death and ramble about jim plunkett, yr choice

- 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.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 15:08 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah me too

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.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, January 24, 2011 11:02 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agh I hate that!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, January 24, 2011 11:05 PM Bookmark

Thing is a certain person I am married to happens to do it. But I am trying to be more don't-sweat-the-small-stuff, which will probably just lead to passive agressiveness anyway.

xxpost don't you have brats to soak for the superbowl or something mookie? leave a poor Raider fan be

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ALLOW ROW TO BREAK ACROSS PAGES

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'withdrawl'

― hipsterPad (Schlafsack), Monday, January 24, 2011 8:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yes, this. it's withdraw-al. like apprais-al or repris-al. nobody's drawling.

also ia: pronouncing "realtor" like "real-id-er." where does that third syllable come from??

That reminds me -- every website now having a "registration" with a login and password. How the fuck am I supposed to remember my login and password for a concert ticket vendor or some random foreign newspaper?

Won't help with buying-things websites, but for newspapers and such, Bugmenot is your friend: http://www.bugmenot.com/
There's an extension you can just use to get past these things

What's "VALE" btw?

Brit funeral irrit would be "well, he had a good innings" and "tragically short", often about the same person.

Mark, you didn't do Latin at school, right? It means 'goodbye'.

oh right. (no)

Never heard this, then again not been to many funerals. Enough, though..

I remember John Peel concluding a rambling tale of trying to find something in a pile of demo tapes heaped all over the car while driving with something like "that's probably how I'm going to die, staring at badly-labelled tapes in a dark car instead of looking at the road, and everyone will say 'oh, it's how he'd have wanted to go', and let me assure you now, listeners: it is not how I'd have wanted to go"

so, "it's how he'd have wanted to go" for a posthumous irritation, I guess

Mmm, I also remember he often talked about gong on holiday but was put off by the "cheap holiday in other people's misery" line in the Pistols' "Holiday in the Sun", eventually people were "oh for gods sake man"....

many xposts, but mr spacecadet does the "tell them about ___!" thing too, and I don't have time to get my thoughts together and the lame, wrongly-ordered version of the story which flops out inevitably makes everyone present think "well that wasn't worth being told about"

worst is when I stumble my way through one story about ___ and he goes "no, I meant the time when ___ ___ ___" and I have to start on another one, having already bored and embarrassed everyone present with one rambling anecdote only to have it declared not the one that anyone might want to hear

ps gently amused at an "i" appearing in "realtor", since I assume it's like the US version "specialty" vs "speciality", where the "i" fell out because that position wasn't phonologically stable either. (not that we use "realty"/"realtor", and obv telling someone you deal in "reality" would be a pretty weird declaration and not involve real estate)

> he often talked about gong on holiday

Gong on holiday:
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?artist=Gong