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

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.

"amazing" -Louis CK shd school Rosie on correct usage, lol

1. [company name here] will donate $$$$ to charities if you do x! [company name] is the best!

2. public perception: [company name] is great!

3. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/After-hockey-fan-s-50-000-goal-charities-almos?urn=nhl-320928

4. "he wasn't behind the line so we're not paying" <- then don't promise you'll donate you sad losers!

REALLY hate that. Also hate the whole 'buy this box of fried chicken and we will donate FIVE CENTS to the so-and-so appeal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' How about I just give 50c to that appeal and eat properly.

man that's like going "dude didn't spin around enough" at a dizzybat competition

this is really innocuous and I feel bad for being IA about it but
wtf with grown adults in my office handing out weird paper valentines to everyone. And not even like 'valentine' valentines, but Toy Story valentines that look more like birthday messages than valentines.

I don't understand. I mean, I'd never hand anything out to everyone I work with, I give christmas cards but only to people I talk to -- i've gotten 3 valentines from people I hardly ever talk to, and they've handed them out to everyone on my floor.

I don't know. I don't get it. It's cute, and a kind gesture I guess but seems a little OTT to me.

I didn't get any at work today and was more than fine with that.

Valentine thingo was weird yesterday. Loads of young guys clutching huge ????s of flowers (can't think of the collective noun wtf is wrong with me) and looking worried.

maybe they were "sorry i fucked up" flowers

upstairs neighbors getting all passive-aggressive about noise. at like 10 a.m., my wife was trying to get our baby to nap in the crib, the baby started crying (for like two minutes), we hear some thump-thumps from upstairs. i assume it's just a coincidence. then at 10:45 a.m., I play some music at a normal volume on my stereo, hear some more thump-thumps from upstairs. don't know why adults think this is an appropriate way to communicate displeasure with sound issues, especially minor sound issues taking place in the late morning on a weekday. maybe they work nights and are trying to sleep that late? that would be fine, if they actually communicated that they would prefer for us to keep it down in the morning, instead of thumping on the floor like cavemen.
this has made me tense all day, especially because we were going to try and start sleep training the baby this weekend, which is probably going to involve some crying.

i wasn't looking worried, just a little anxious

you shouldn't have to feel like you have to walk on eggshells because of their pussy-assedness. IMO, just keep doing what you're doing until they have the stones to come over and 'complain'.

that said, wtf is the baby supposed to do about the issue, it's a baby, they cry, fuck those neighbors.....

(xpost)

and we don't just sit there and let the baby cry! we don't want the baby to cry! anytime she cries, we are actively doing all we can to make her stop. and loud thumping noises coming from the ceiling are not likely to help soothe her. aargh.

I have irrational anger today and I dont know why or what at, so it's all leaking out and getting all into areas of my life I am not angry at. I feel bitchy and irritable and defensive but the more I worry about how that's making me behave the worse I get and the feedback loop is giving me a fucking headache.

xpost I mean it's your fucking house, what are you supposed to do, sit in silence? It's one thing if you're like me and you blast kung-fu movies loudly and the neighbor comes over to ask to turn it down...then you turn it down, but I mean even if they're on an irregular schedule, they should understand that everybody else isn't.

A couple of years ago we had a harpist downstairs. Harps are REALLY REALLY LOUD and she'd be striking up at all hours. We spoke to her and said we understood she needs to practise but please don't do it under our bedroom and at stupid hours. She was considerate (after a fashion) for about three months then just lost interest. If ever we get a harpist down there again I'm down there in a flash. Fuck it, we're not having our goodwill abused like that again.

xxpost maybe the IA's all need a group outing for a yearly massage and trip to the shooting range

xp but then we've had an incredible string of arseholes down there. I think I did a list here once.

It is difficult if youre a professional tho. My friend Kat is a concert French Horn player (French Hornist? idk) and she has to practice. Her housemated used to bitch at her cause housemate worked from home or something and wanted peace, I was like ffs dont move in with a musician then?

housemated?

I am really not having a good day. I need to see a brain specialist /mrgumby

that's the thing, i'm a good neighbor! if they came down and said they were having problems, i'd do whatever i could to make things better. i've had noisy neighbors before, I know what it's like. but if they're just going to thump on the floor, fuck em

It is difficult if youre a professional tho. My friend Kat is a concert French Horn player (French Hornist? idk) and she has to practice.

Two points there (mainly directed at this harpist woman but hey):

1. If you're in a block of flats and your instrument is that loud, consider practising elsewhere
2. If you must practise at home, speak to your neighbours at least once, don't slink around avoiding them then blast their tits off with daily noise

yeah I agree with the whole thumping-on-the-floor thing, it's sort of weak. Being nice to people usually gets the best results.

Yeah being pass-agg about that stuff is nagl in the extreme.

In my first flat when I moved out, a friend who visited one day was basically confronted when he went to leave by an angry old man weilding a hammer. Turned out the old cunt was a shift worker and he'd been piss mad at the TV going on at my place innocently in the daytime for WEEKs and never said a word, and just lost it one day at my poor friend paul who happened to walk out my door at the wrong time.

The dude could have just said he was a shift worker, problem solved. Ugh.

Yeah I mean what's everyone supposed to wrap themselves in blankets and wear headphones and eat soup through a straw for fear that one/all neighbors hate noise of any kind and might one day snap?

Shiftworkers need to be telling people these things. Hard enough being a shiftworker, without dealing with noise when you're sleeping. I'd be introducing myself to everyone in the building the day I moved in.

even so though having explained that, you can't expect everyone else to shut down their lives during the day...not blasting music/television is really the most they can.

Iworked rotating day and night shifts, and I just Dealt With It /sunglasses.gif. I mean I couldnt expect my neighbours to be across my ever-changing shifts. I took on the work, I knew what was involved. God, it fried yr synapses living like that for too long though I tell you what.

xxp Yeah, you can't expect everyone to just know that your requirements are abnormal. As usual communication resolves ~98% of conflicts.

We used to pad around the place until we realised no bastard returns the favour so now we just do what we like. We don't make noise late night or anything, though.

Trayce did u ever go on a hammer wielding spree y/n

Oh and we've been wearing earplugs to bed for almost 10 years (even if we had quiet neighbours 'er indoors clicks in her sleep so)

Veg: no, I'd just blearily go to goth clubs right after my shift and dance like a spaz til I was exhausted then go home and sleep for 2 days.

Good times.

lol

worst I've ever done is evening shifts, though that's cuz I've never worked anywhere open after 11 pm

One of my old housemates was a midwife and she usually did nightshift for 3 or 4 go-rounds a year, maybe a month each time. But she was really good about it, she'd tell us a couple of weeks ahead of time, but since we all worked full-time none of us were ever home much during the day and it worked pretty well.

But also, to be honest, normal life generates noise, and if you can't handle that, maybe living in a block of flats is unwise

Many many xp

yea I mean to be honest if someone came up to me and said "hey I'm a shift worker, can you keep the noise down", I'd ya know make sure not to listen to my Motorhead cds at volume 50 at noon, but like I'm not going to inconvenience myself and deny myself the ability to watch television or do things that I usually enjoy just because you work a different shift. Because after all, are you going to make the same accomodation for me?

I dunno, I don't ever think like that. I'd just try to be considerate.

Pro musicians are in a bit of a pickleboat tho. When I was with R, the neighb came over one Saturday - middle of the damn afternoon (and they dont have kids/work nights) to complain that "the bass is coming trhgou the walls". We dont live in a flat, we live in a house. Admittedly the house next door is butted up v close to ours. But R was playing digital music on a PC . I couldnt even hear it from the NEXT ROOM.

The neighbour's a whiny priq.

The time R was emulating Battles tracks VERY LOUDLY with his guitar was extra roffley though. That was prob worth complaining about hahaha :D

what kind of moron shows an Elmo cookie to a 2 year old, a cookie that they are not intending to give to the child.

I'd fucking cry too, ya bastard.