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

That type of sniffling annoys the hell out of me too, but in her meager defense, there are some nasty colds and sinus infections I've had where blowing my nose just doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Those times I try to leave my sniffling at home, but it happens sometimes.

i really dislike when you're 500 feet away from someone, you cough a few times, and they wheel around and glare at you like you're spreading bubonic plague.

I'M COUGHING DEAL WITH IT YOU COCK

haha once on public transport i inhaled something tangible which stuck in my throat and wouldn't dislodge, so i got to spend the whole half hour trip home coughing constantly. i felt like saying to all the freaked out people around me, "it's ok, i'm a smoker"

I cant get with sniffing for ANY reason, even if you have a cold. You shouldnt sniff. It is really REALLY bad for your eustachean tubes/ears/sinuses. Prime way to get a nasty ear infection. Makes me want to tear my own ears off when I hear sniffing.

OK maybe I am the one with the neurosis on this issue, granted.

i believe there was a Seinfeld episode about sniffing

I HATE SEINFELD AS WELL.

...Im sorry, I havent had much sleep.

can we get this thread locked? i'm pretty sure you guys have listed every possible irrational thing to get angry about

i mean, approx. 3,500 posts. that's got to be about it, right?

well i just thought of another

ok ONE more

then that HAS to be it

I really feel like you guys are family, i want you to know that

us indoors

ha the ONE thing I've been tempted to post on this thread is the phrase "'er indoors" but I held off because there's just one poster who uses it (a lot) and it seemed dickish to post about something one poster in particular does. I have nothing against Autumn Almanac, I realize this may be a popular Australian phrase that lots of people say, but I find it very annoying and kind of gross. It sounds like the speaker is referring to a woman's vagina.

mine own indoors

^went there

Um, its a phrase from a well known UK television show, actually. But yeah anyhoo.

xpost OK yeah "mine own" is fingernails on a board for me, I gotta say.

so...lock thread?

i was just joking about locking the thread. as long as life continues, there will be innocuous things to get angry about. i just wish that my revive of the innocuous things to get happy about thread had stuck.

Um, its a phrase from a well known UK television show, actually

ok explain pls?

i actually looked up "'er indoors" on wikipedia to find out what it was from, don't know why my brain processed it as Australian instead of British. sorry.

oh ok nm

i liked when we were calling er indoors pamela or w/e it was

(btw aa's use of it did by no means make me irrationally angry, i just wasn't sure who he was referring to)

Yeah its the guy from Minder's phrase for his missus.

she could be so good for him

Men: does your partner have a NAME? Hate so much when guys marry and suddenly it's 'my wife' all the time instead of 'Lisa' etc.

Well, same goes in reverse too - plenty of women saying "hubby". Ugh.

Plenty of little boys saying "mommy"; dads saying "son".

(not to be snarky! just to point out that there is a lot of background for calling somebody by their familial relationship to you.)

i was just talking with mike about this the other day

oh you guys don't know who mike is? sucks for you

mike hunt?

(mike is a person i made up for this rhetorical example)

it's nice of you to protect his identity

I cant get with sniffing for ANY reason, even if you have a cold. You shouldnt sniff. It is really REALLY bad for your eustachean tubes/ears/sinuses. Prime way to get a nasty ear infection. Makes me want to tear my own ears off when I hear sniffing.

no problem, I like when the snot runs into my mustache and beard

There's these things called tissues!?

yeh, I keep my tissues hydrated by drinking lots of water!

I havent been able to make heads or tails of "er indoors". does it refer to the woman or the house?

his wife. as in "she who dwells indoors", I'm assuming.

got it, sort of. thanks.

fyi if u dont stop using the phrase "er indoors" i will fly to ur indoors and kill er, and u

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I am enjoying this descent into 'Innocuous posts in the *Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry* thread that make you irrationally angry'.

aaaaaagh mosquito bites right on the edge of the sole of my foot. fuck you mosquito, that shit is uncalled for! aggghhh so fucking itchy

Potato chips. Specifically the eating of said in quiet public places. Oughta be outlawed.

jon you have issues with snack foods haha.

1. I hate listening to constant repetitive sniffing too. My coworker who sits right behind me does a lot of it, and every day he eats curry for lunch which stinks the office out and makes his nose run and he sniffs for the next hour. Once he asked if I had a tissue and I was like "oh thank fuck, he's going to blow his nose and I might get some peace and quiet for more than 20 seconds at a time" but he just dabbed ineffectually at his face for a moment and carried on sniffing.

Though every time I go on buses I am reminded that everyone under 30 does it and I am heading towards a cranky Daily Mail middle age. All the more so cz I worry it is a racist thing to dislike, since iirc in the Middle East and Asia sniffing is totally a-ok whereas blowing yr nose is disgusting and rude (PS my coworker is not Asian despite the curry thing). But it is totally nails on blackboard to me.

2. I call the bf "the bf" or "mr spacecadet" online and "the other half" or "my partner" at work instead of his name, am I a bad person? I don't expect people to remember the name of someone they've never met. Meanwhile someone at my work's other site has the same name, so if I accidentally use his name I can see this brief look of confusion like "why were you having breakfast with that guy? have I missed the news?"

Ballsing up a cork pulling.

Shut your fucking mouth when you chew. It really is not a difficult thing to do. If you are physically incapable of that, go to a doctor immediately.