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

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

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Friday, January 16, 2009 8:02 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

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.

XP

Oh, yeah, and trying to get all the little flitters of cork out without them going into your glass or falling back into the bottle

Spacecadet, I'm with you--I don't expect anyone to remember the names of other people's spouses they don't know.

was doing the sniffing thing this morning on the metro because I was out of tissues. Probably made some people irrationally angry. Sorry about that.

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.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 February 2011 08:40 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have not read this thread in a week but THIS THIS OH MY GOD

btw I have a sniffing problem (especially in the hay fever season) but I at least do things like blow my nose, apologise, leave the room &c. I'm not oblivious to how revolting it is.

this is innocuous only in that the poster didn't likely mean any harm, but....

a friend/acquaintance of mine and his wife have a daughter who they found out has SCID, and has been hospitalized, because she has pneumonia as a result of it. it's been a lot of procedures and life support machines, induced comas, but many of us have been reading daily updates to find out the status.

As of today, the father's been very positive and upbeat, despite the rough odds...and posted a positive yet concerned message about how they were going to have to put the baby on dialysis to help out the kidneys.

When I go to check the father's FB status today, I'm horrified to see a post from a friend who has tagged both the parents in a status update begging friends to pray for the child, saying the doctors are giving her a .01% chance to live, have done all they can, and are giving her 24 hours.

So I scroll down, expecting to see the child took a turn for the worse in a recent update from the father, but no, nothing, and no mention of any such bleak prognosis from anybody else. an hour later, still nothing...

It completely contradicts what the father said, in which even though he admitted it was a rough road ahead, he offered that there was still more the doctors could and had offered to do once things improved with her kidneys and lungs. Likewise, it seems quite unlikely that the father would choose to speak to one individual about a prognosis and leave everybody else in the dark about it.

I don't know where this dude got his information, but his message is probably giving other people startles like it did me, making people think she's on her deathbed. Even if this dude is privy to information that the father hasn't made public yet, it isn't his business to be the first to break the news...buti n all actuality, I think it's the guy just A. misinterpreting the info or B. sensationalizing it. Not sure a doctor would ever give such an abstract chance as ".01%".

Still have high hopes that the child will recover, I don't know the friend well, but he's a very good guy. but really not happy about the 'shock' of reading that the child had 24 hrs to live only to see that the father never said this at all!

Ha, I've seen those updates...I think we have the some of the same friends!
fwiw, SCID pretty much kills you infancy, unless you get a stem-cell transplant.

she's needing a bone marrow transplant but is too weak to get one currently.

honestly I'm fairly aghast at the number of mysterious deaths/illnesses going around lately with people and friends/family of people on my FB friends list, from a friend of a friend dropping dead of an aneurysm, a 30 year old mother of two having a fatal heart attack with no prior warning, friend's life partner going in for what he thought was routine illness and dying of pneumonia...urgh....

the baby passed away :(.

just a lot of unfair shit like this happening to a lot of people right now.