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

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'

Yeah an ex gave me a bday card like that once, a 50s guy wielding a glass of milk with some caption about it being a glass full of his own jizz, or something idk o_0

Is that why he became an ex?

Hah! No :) Actually at the time I recall finding it rather amusing.

What used to be my favourite card shop for finding birthday cards which were actually nice (not just a rubbish cartoon captioned "lol u old! time 4 a pint!!") now seems to devote 95% of their stock to these, and you can't reach the other 5% because the shop is full of teenagers sniggering at the rude cards.

Dunno if I'm angry but it's certainly mildly annoying. Still, as a business model, it seems to work for them.

Costs for postage
CD Single	UK £1.06 Europe £3.24 USA/Canada/ROW £2.99
CD Album	UK £1.50 Europe £3.98 USA/Canada/ROW £3.98

Are they heavier with more songs on them?

When ppl say "mute" point instead of "moot" point

When none of my friends can come out to a show and I bail on the whole thing because I don't want to go on my own.

I get to work early, and the lights are usually off or mostly off. It's still fairly bright in the room with the lights off (skylights). I work in a big barn of an office - there are about 50-60 people on the floor. I realize that the lights must be turned on at some point, but there is this one guy who turns them on almost every day, and he never ever gets them right the first time. So, for twenty seconds or so I'll be distracted from my work by this same guy turning all the lights on and off. He should know how they work by now.

Also, some annoying person in here has a cricket ringtone on their phone.

That is all I have today.

office recaps of the Grammys, "who ARE Arcade Fire anyway, I've never even HEARD of them!"...aghghghgg shut up

^^^^

Heard way too much of this today, particularly (surprise, surprise) popcorn girl who thinks that "people who no one has ever heard of shouldn't be allowed to win awards". Gah.

popcorn girl probably loves bieber.

Strategy: pretend you don't know who Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or Katy Perry are. And Gaga? 'Eh, I think I've heard of her but I'm not sure.'

During my entire music journalism career I have implemented this strategy on PEARL JAM.

I'm sorry, who?

Thank heaven someone finally has the balls to knock Pearl Jam down a peg.

office recaps of the Grammys, "who ARE Arcade Fire anyway, I've never even HEARD of them!"...aghghghgg shut up

Rosie O'Donnell tweeted pretty much exactly that. ^

LOLrel wins.

(Reverse chrono order here)

Rosie O'Donnell
@realtracywalton - wow shit boppers!!!! CHILL- i downloaded them tonight - i just said i never heard of them and its true
13 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

@drexonair -arrogance? more like ignorance...and age
13 hours ago

@hugh hugh - i bet donald never heard of them either - i am 48 - what can i tell u
13 hours ago

@Peaches66 just i tunes them
13 hours ago

@June8th1984 me 2
13 hours ago

Rosie Rosie O'Donnell
album of the year ? ummm never heard of them ever

Rosie Rosie O'Donnell
@justinbieber - i saw ur movie today - u r an amazing young man - there will be many more awards 4 u - and ur performance was amazing - xxx

his performance was amazingly terrible and I was kind of hoping he would spontaneously combust

we could only be so lucky.