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

this sort of grosses me out more than makes me IA but:

- eating "knife and fork food" with your fingers. My friend does this all the time and it almost makes me nauseous. Like say a grilled chicken breast and vegetables on a plate in a restaurant, and she'll tear pieces of the chicken with her fingers, and just not actually ever properly eat. Even burgers, she sort of takes them apart and tears off pieces, like a very slow autopsy or something and ugggggghhhh I hate it.

I don't know why I hate it so much. Mr Veg thinks I'm a nut because I got mad at him for eating a whole battered fish fillet with his hands at a pub once. Wrapped in newspaper at the park, hands are fine...at home, sure...but at a sit down pub where they give you a knife and fork and a plate. I don't think that's super crazy. Hmph.

- eating "knife and fork food" with your fingers. My friend does this all the time and it almost makes me nauseous. Like say a grilled chicken breast and vegetables on a plate in a restaurant, and she'll tear pieces of the chicken with her fingers, and just not actually ever properly eat. Even burgers, she sort of takes them apart and tears off pieces, like a very slow autopsy or something and ugggggghhhh I hate it.

Fuck, that's subhuman. In a restaurant, where everybody can see her? Does she scratch her ass and sniff her hand, too?

lol, no thank god.

all good imo but not the whole meal, gotta be at least 2/3 finished so it looks like am casual offhand adjunct to your normally civilized habits, instead of the way you get down every night watching THE WHEEL

exactly!

like if you're done and you casually pick at a few green beans afterwards, that's cool. But watching someone eat a whole meal with her fingers is just vomitorious to me.

How about chicken pieces with bones? I try the slicing meat off a breast thing at first, but eventually pick it up with both hands and gnaw.

dont know about angry but it bugs me when i can see random junk stacked up against the windows of an office building (looking from outside). invariably this happens with rec centers and nonprofits for obvious reasons (low paid staff, got better things to do than worry about it etc.) and it's not like outside facing windows have to be some kind of 'showcase' but it's like, stack stuff lower, hell, tape construction paper on the windows = the building is 50% more respectable and it didn't cost you hardly anything.

― contrflowvers-e (tremendoid), Friday, January 28, 2011 2:34 PM

Sounds like you've walked past the new Europane in the Western Asset building, Keith. The public half is a very nice, modern cafe, but the other storefront half is their kitchen, and it's not an "open kitchen" style presentation, it's shelves with beat up pots and pans, boxes of garbage bags, etc. I kind of cringe when I see that, but I wouldn't call it anger.

xpost No, that's cool. In a knife and fork situation, slicing off as much meat as you can and then going at the bone is pretty okay imo. For me it depends on the setting as to whether picking up the bone is cool or not though. I'm usually mindful of who I'm with, where I am, that kind of thing. Home eating and 'out' eating can be kind of different.

xp ha i haven't seen that but i was thinking of the "innovation center"? up the street from PCC, i always notice it.

D'oh! Not the Western Asset building, btw, it's in the Montana condo building to the west. $1M+ condos with that on the ground floor.

I know the innovation center building (Alexandria something?) you're talking about but never noticed that.

people who spell 'ridiculous' wrong (usually "rediculous") drive me nuts.

+1 for forgetting work fob/card. Our building is shared, so the receptionist doesn't have a key card for our office. I just have to stand knocking on the door until someone stops pretending they can't hear me and gets off their seat, or someone else goes in/out.

within the past week, my electronic key card has stopped working. it hasn't demagnetized -- it still beeps when i tap it against the reader -- but the light on the reader doesn't turn green and the door doesn't open. so i'm stuck tailgaiting behind other people, and i feel like such a chump.

Maybe you should go to HR and make sure you're not like Milton from Office Space!

except i totally am milton from office space.

:(

I know what you mean. I am a one-man team in my office, and sometimes meetings will happen and I'll look up and be like "wait, where did everyone go?"

people who knock on your door while you're masturbating.

eva wiseman's fringe

- 'anyways'

- me saying "Hi there" all the time instead of "hello". WTF is wrong with me

Ugh the train this morning. A peak hour one on my line was cancelled, so everyone must know the next train will be double-full, it just makes sense.

So we all cram in (I decide to chance it cos its one with aircon) and after we're all shuffled into tetris position in the doorway and head off, I realise there is a HUEG SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AISLE.

I didn't want to be one of those nobs who shouts "everyone move down there's plenty of room" but this fat fuck just stood there reading his kindle and havnig 4 ppls worth of space all round him while we all stood in the door area like chumps. Grr.

Srsly the only way round it would have been for me to be an asshole and shove people our of the way aggresively. And I couldnt be fucked.

A peak hour one on my line was cancelled

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yeah yeah. Actually S'ham line trains arent cancelled much. Late yeah but not cancelled in peak.

Distinct improvement then, although I'll stay away until a pattern of consistent non-cancellation emerges tvm.

(I did consider getting a train this morning but changed my mind, clearly twas the right thing to do)

We're about to get an upgrade to trains every 8 mins in peak if this new radical timetable goes through. I'll def start getting thr train all the time if so.

I shoved past people to that sweet oasis mid-train car all the time when I had a full-time job and commuted. Fuck 'em if they're too stupid to get there themselves.

I usually do too, but there were a few people so firmly planted in their spot and lost in their ipods/books that my subtle movemebts to hint I wanted to move past got nowhere.

Gotta speak up I guess.

I am such a bullish prick on PT now. Sick of politely letting one person go ahead of me and having 20 of the fuckers push in. Fuck everyone.

facebook friend of mine is now perpetuating the rumor that Chr!stian Sl@ter* is dead because she apparently didn't bother to check any mainstream websites or notice that typing in "Chr!stian sl@ter" and "dead" only pulls up message board postings titled "CHR!STIAN SL@TER DEAD?" and that the 'ski accident' death rumor has been going around all month.

Seriously, how dumb do you have to be in this day and age to fall for shit like this.

(*googleproofed so that we aren't invaded by message board idiots trying to find news on this fake incident)

That "skiied off a cliff in NZ" thing gets attached to various slebs every 6 months, srsly.

yea someone posted all of the different permutations of it, it's the same article with diff names plugged in every few months.

- highway collectors

Like tollbooths? Or rubbish picker uppers?

or ppl who collect highways,,..

people with cups

ohhhhh. Lol. Yeah I'm not a fan.

dag you are angry a lot, aa

I feel ya AA, i just don't like people collecting for anything in the middle of the road because it's unsafe for them, another object I have to account for when the light turns green, and because I have a natural feeling of discomfort when a stranger approaches me in my car (or on the street)!

I'm much more sympathetic to homeless people that do this because they don't have much other choice, but people trying to raise money, I mean....go in front of a supermarket or something, ya know?

cuz then I usually do give

What if they have a golden voice.

- 'down under'

- 'the land down under' doubly so

- people who don't know when to mind their own fucking business

hmm this probably isn't all that innocuous

- ugh cosign to that. Stupid nosy gossipy dental hygenist does the 'are you taking any medications or prescription drugs' survey every 6 months at my cleaning, and EVERY time, when I say "Nope!" she says "Not even birth control?" and I say "Nope!" and then she gives an eyebrow raise and finds a way to ask if I'm trying to have a baby and I want to ram her stupid teeth cleaning tools up her fucking nose. Leave. Me. Alone.

- on a related note, people who offer me a seat on the tram. Presumably they think I'm pregnant :( I really gotta stop slouching and do some situps. Sigh.

omg really??

on a similar note to people not minding own fkn bzns

- people who remark on elements of the private phone conversation you just had

(the content of the call doesn't matter, if it's not about you and doesn't involve you stfu and gtfo)

not innocuous, but dont' wanna find the other thread...

went to see professional tour of West Side Story tonight, first time I've seen it professionally, and this dad was there with his daughter and I'm like 'aww how sweet he's taking his daughter to see WSS'.

then asshole starts singing along, he thinks under his breath, but it's audible to most everyone. I figure he's just doing it for oen song.

nope, does it for the whole show, though when I loudly shushed his daughter kinda shot him a look and he quieted down. until teh second act, when he started to hum along to "I Feel Pretty" in Maria's octave.

Fortunately I still enjoyed it, but he flat out ruined some big moments.

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hate it when ppl talk with cough drop or hard candy rolling around their mouth. clattery, slurpy, ick.