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

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.

(see also pierced tongues)

^^^

People who say BROUGHT when they mean BOUGHT.

- 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.

― Cyclone Yazoo (Trayce), Tuesday, February 1, 2011 7:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sometimes dudes just offer their seats to ladies. one of those "polite" gentlemanly things that dudes do.

As a male, you don't want to appear selfish or unchivalrous so you offer your seat to the lady standing up next to you. She then accuses you of calling her fat/old. It's a modern conundrum.

Joggers! Joggers make me angry.

When I saw a pair of joggers (m/f couple in matching tracksuits) coming towards me taking up the nearest 90% of the pavement, I knew they were not going to drop to single file or move to the other side of the pavement, because joggers don't do that. So, since I was carrying a lot of heavy shopping, I thought I may as well move off the pavement to behind a little foot-high wall thing to pause for a moment till they'd gone. And one of them takes a detour to jump onto and leap off the wall straight towards me, barely missing me.

In my head, where I am a prettier, sassier lady, I considered some choice words. In the real world I couldn't think of any, and fat old women shouting in the street generally do not change people's minds about anything. Couldn't hold back an audible sigh though.

douchey joggers and bicyclists need to be herded up and fired into the sun.

lately the thing I can't stand is bicyclists who can't just STOP at a traffic light, they have to weave and wobble and generally make a show of how awesome they are. Pedal clips, I get...but on a stupid regular bicycle or bmx you just look like a fool. Put your foot down and wait like a normal person.

sometimes dudes just offer their seats to ladies. one of those "polite" gentlemanly things that dudes do.

Exept in 90% of cases it's been women :/

And on another related note - and perhaps this one is me being a bit inreasonable - women with children in large prams, who feel the need to try and get onto a city tram in peak hour.

Lemme asplain: because Melb has trams on the roads, in the CBD people tend to hop on one to go 34 or 5 blocks from say, a train station to their work. Thus at around9am the trams are SARDINE CANS.

So why any mother in her right mind would be possessed with the idea of getting on a tram, and standing in the doorway with her fucking pram, I dont know. TWO did that on this mornings Collins st tram. They were in everyones way and stood there looking embarrased and unhappy. Fucking dont go to the shops in peak hour stupid women!

4 or 5 blocks, obv, not 34. I need a lobotomy.

- people who tell someone they're 'so funny' when all they do is repeat a saying/phrase that's been a cliche for 5 years, ie "I just threw up in my mouth".

^ indicates deeper self-absorption. I really really really hate people like that. Can't even begin to explain what I mean.

normally i'm very sympathetic to retail/food service people. not always, though.

this afternoon, at subway:

dude: "may i help you?"
me: "hi. i'll have the turkey on 9-grain bread, footlong."
dude: "you want that toasted?"
me: "no, thanks."
dude: "wait, what kind of bread?"
me: "the 9-grain, um, 'omega 3'." (they have this now. i feel silly ordering it, but whatevs.)
dude (grabbing the bread): "with what?"
me: "turkey."
dude: "footlong?"
me: "yeah."

oh yeah, and he asked me a second time if i wanted it toasted. i still didn't.

bloke in front of me in shop today must've picked up and looked at all 2 dozen oranges twice each before settling on one.

sandwich 'artists' r doofus

re bicycles vs pedestrians: when it's don't walk at a crossing, green light for traffic -i'm riding on the road and over the crossing, but people decide it's okay to walk because its not a car but just a bike and somehow I DUNNO MAYBE IT WOULD HURT LESS IF I HIT YOU BUT ID STILL RUN YOU OVER YOU FUCK

people are in such a rush to get anywhere.

also sometimes my ear gets itchy for no reason and that makes me angry and i can't scratch inside it grr

In my town, some asshole cyclists ride on the sidewalk and in the crosswalks. Nice invitation for a clothes hanging.

Especially the guy who gave me the egg eye as I was coming out of an alley as he was biking the wrong way on a one-way on the sidewalk.

which is worse

the existence of the term sandwich artist.

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