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

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.

oh fuck, so sorry to hear it

just feel bad for the parents, first time parents and were so excited about having her last year...and they're both carriers of the SCID and could pass it onto another child, although now that they know they are I'm sure the child could be tested for it after birth, thankfully.

this is why I think I could never be a parent!

I'm sorry San Te, that is so sad.

ppl who work in PR/agencies/management/some sort of combination thereof who you email, asking for a high resolution photo of one of their clients/charges/whatever, because you want to write about them

they then go to their own website, right click and save a pissy low res img and email it to you

which is great because not only was it just what I asked for, I couldn't have done that myself

am I being unreasonable expecting someone who works in a promotional capacity to know the difference between a high and low resolution photo?

I don't think it would be unreasonable, but in the end probably unrealistic, if that distinction makes sense?

I guess. It seems to me like it should be part of their job though!

It's probably one of those things that's in the job description but maybe they don't exactly get grilled about it at the interview. : )

It's annoying, but you get the PR 'assistance' you deserve if you don't tell them they're doing it wrong when the opportunity presents. I'd hit back with a curt 'no, that's low-res from the company website, need something hi-res and 'exclusive' for publication'. That gives them the chance to do it right and you can kind of funnel them into giving you something that isn't replicated elsewhere 50K times.

which is great because not only was it just what I asked for, I couldn't have done that myself

am I being unreasonable expecting someone who works in a promotional capacity to know the difference between a high and low resolution photo?

What's amusing is that usually on those corporate websites, they've got a 2000 x 2750 jpg crammed into a tiny thumbnail.

my roommate has an aversion to getting the mail. I don't always notice unless I'm expecting something or have a delivery confirmation that it was delivered. I can't have a mail key as I guess we can only have one per c0ndo unit, so I often have to ask him to do it after it's evident he's going to just let it pile up in there.

this time, I'm purposefully saying nothing to see how long he'll go. so far he hasn't picked up the mail since Thursday. I have half a mind to prank him by sending him a letter indicating he's won a prize and asking him to act by the next day....

also the mail unit is literally twelve steps from the house.

IF I put in my zip code on the jobs site, I don't want to see Executive Editor, Palm Springs --- U.S./National in the search results.

(Note: I do not live near Palm Springs.)

he's won a prize and asking him to act by the next day....

do it.

Dead car battery! Stopped at Peets for a coffee, a mere block from my *first ever massage* (mr veg got me a gift cert for Christmas). Get in the car, won't turn over. And no, can't just get a jump from AAA, turns out the battery was completely dead so they had to replace it. Lame. Stupid day, stupid battery,

Oh and had to cancel massage :(

I often use FB invites to invite my friends to karaoke cuz it's easier to figure out how many people are coming and if everybody is too busy, it lets me cancel it in advance.

lately everybody marks 'maybe' and then says 'oh sorry can't make it' the day of, leaving me to cancel it and scramble to find something else to do.

I'm cool with the whole answering "Maybe" to mass invites where there are hundreds of people invited, but when it is a private event and you clearly know you ain't gonna be there, how fucking hard is it to say "No" immediately.

just gonna go and drink by myself tonight, probably best if I'm not around people anyway given my moodiness the last month. dunno what it is about Januarys and Februarys but I'm hard to be around this time of year all the time.

guess I'm just moody as I dont' get the whole 'wishy washy' nature of plans, like if I say I'm going to be somewhere, then I show up. radical concept, I know, but not sure I get why people have trouble staying true to commitments (barring of course illness and other unforseen circumstances).

Oh and had to cancel massage :(

Awww :( You can reschedule, rite? Man I'd love to have a full hour-long pro massage some time, or even go to one of those day spas with the full on treatment rooms and stuff. Surefire IA diffuzer.

they then go to their own website, right click and save a pissy low res img and email it to you

You forgot the bit where they embed it in a Word document before emailing it

xpost Trayce: yeah they were cool with rescheduling. Looking forward to it...maybe it will help my IA lol

Really piss-mad at the office manager right now. She insists its my responsibility to handle requests from law enforcement agencies to hand over info on our customers. Inc billing details, which I dont even have access to.

I have repeatedly said this seems like a management level thing and I am not paid as a manager and I dont wanna do this shit but noooo, its my job, &%^%$%^$

Ugh! Ive really let this get to me! Office manager can be so blunt sometimes, she puts me WAY on the defensive and I start getting narky and making excuses and I hate it when I react that way. grr.

speak to her only in cure lyrics imo

Trayce I don't blame you, people who talk to you that way over time get you to the point where you start pre-emptively defending yourself and you hate yourself for it but they forced you into it over time!

Starting to get really ia about those pseudo-empowerment fridge magnets/postcards with a drawing of a '60s-style American housewife along with a droll 'I'M A BITCH IN THE KITCHEN' type quote.

I do like the "how about a nice cup of shut the fuck up?" one tho.

Yeah that one's cool, and the other day I saw one that was basically 'lol i just said a blonde thing', but 98% of them are things like 'WATCH OUT HUSBAND I AM A BITCH AND I AM CARRYING AN IRON'

It's just I dunno, I really don't think these days there are men who see those fridge magnets and suddenly think 'wow, women can think for themselves now'

just did a gis for 'female empowerment fridge magnets' and got this

http://images7.cpcache.com/product/women-sex+-+relationships-sex/469661757v6_225x225_Front.jpg

hahaha!

I want one of those for my fridge just to CONFUSE EVERYONE.

bahahaha

Also ia: those greeting cards with a stock photo of a cute old nanna in the 1940s and a caption that says something like 'NORMA WAS GREASING UP FOR HER SIXTH FISTING OF THE DAY'