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

Now I'm kind of curious to know what their cut off was before they apologize? Only 12 months?

At this one intersection, there's a left turn lane, a straight-only lane, and right turn only lane. Today and one other time in the last month cops NOT on cop business illegally turned from the straightaway lane and made a left turn.

Today resulted in him forcing cars to block traffic as they hadn't anticipated his turn.

Lead by example, amirite...

The crook of the elbow, hand in air, wrist cocked backwards style of handbag carrying.

aka "i'm a little teapot"

lololol I'll second that emotion.

dude, at the gym, with headphones in, and weightlifting gloves, grunting and groaning with every fucking rep, and it's early in the morning so nobody has turned the radio on, man, fuck you. and burping every now and again. you're an asshole. and occasionally singing along to whatever the ef you were listening to.

plus you appeared to be doing nothing but bicep exercises? with shitty form? the fuck is with you man.

he picks things up and puts them down

Puts the lotion on his...well, anyway.

People who pronounce salmon "sahl mon"

I've heard the "sahl mon" thing so often lately I'm worried that this pronunciation is taking over. I think it starts with ESL restaurant wait staff or chefs, then it gets passed down to younger native-born wait staff who don't know better. Perhaps it's all exacerbated by confusion with the word salmonella. Which, perversely, many people now pronounce as if it has something to do with the fish. (In fact it was created in a lab by Dr. Sal Monella).

salmon king's red shoe diaries

dude, at the gym, with headphones in, and weightlifting gloves, grunting and groaning with every fucking rep, and it's early in the morning so nobody has turned the radio on, man, fuck you. and burping every now and again. you're an asshole. and occasionally singing along to whatever the ef you were listening to.

plus you appeared to be doing nothing but bicep exercises? with shitty form? the fuck is with you man.

― goole, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:46 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Who ARE these dudes? There's one or two in every gym. One guy would just come into the changing room and sit in front of all the lockers sweating and burping and panting. And then you see them using the weights and they're lifting them all wrong, like really really quickly and smacking them against each other. I'd say something, but he'd probably deck me.

Yeah, those guys drive me nuts, but I think they are pretty much a fixture of every gym. There's two dudes I see in mine that seem to spend an uncomfortable amount of time walking around the locker room completely naked, farting and burping.

DJP and Ned?

not unless it's the women's locker room

People who hoot their F'ING car horns out of impatience.

The last time I got irrationally angry at someone's car horn it was someone I knew who'd seen me & got the middle finger before I recognised him too :-/

So, add to the list: jerks who get irrationally angry at a friendly "hey! it's me!" car horn hoot. (but they sound the same! We should have two car horn sounds!)

Yeah, and obv the horns I bridle at so are all desperate husbands driving their overdue wives to hospital - could do with another horn sound for genuine emergencies.

How stupid is it to use your horn at every little inconvenience? It is alarming. There is this one street near my house where, for some reason, people use their horns all the time and since it is crowded, you never know if someone is honking at you or not.

You should only honk when someone is putting you in danger or breaking the law, I find people who sit behind the wheel of their car assuming someone else is an idiot kind of domineering and creepy.

Do not honk at people who are obeying the law. I mean, we had a blizzard and someone honked at me for doing 25 mph on a snow-covered street! Learn to deal.

Friendly "toot" - VERY quick little peep with the horn. If you don't know what that is, don't drive!

Also, you shouldn't do that on a busy street, it is mostly appropriate in parking lots or residential areas.

A general study showed that horns are more useless than effective.

I pretty much never honk unless the person in front of me is napping at a green light and I can see they aren't paying attention.

Doesn't NYC have fines for honking in Midtown?

Which is kinda lol cuz everyone does it anyway...

Next item, places that serve coffee in plastic/styrofoam cups but don't carry those mini straws to go w/ it. I burn my tongue easy!

I wish we honked more. It's supposedly an old law that you're supposed to toot your horn before passing someone. In Mexico, if the cars didn't honk, you'd be a dead pedestrian.

There's an alley I sometimes take a shortcut through on the way to work. I still slow down, but I'd like to honk too before driving across the sidewalk, just so I don't surprise anyone. I don't because I don't think my good intentions would be received as such.

Old law, heck -- the current edition of the Ohio Driver's Manual states:

The limits above do not apply to traffic traveling on a one-way street or on a roadway with two or more lanes for travel in the same direction.
When passing to the left, the law requires that a driver overtaking another vehicle do these things:
1. Sound the horn to warn the driver of the vehicle being overtaken that he/she is about to be passed.
2. Signal the intent to pass.
3. Pass to the left of the vehicle being overtaken at a safe distance and return to the right side of the roadway only after the overtaking vehicle is safely clear of the vehicle being overtaken.
4. Return to the right lane as soon as the pass has been safely completed
and before coming within 200 feet of any approaching vehicle.

There's an alley I sometimes take a shortcut through on the way to work. I still slow down, but I'd like to honk too before driving across the sidewalk, just so I don't surprise anyone. I don't because I don't think my good intentions would be received as such.

― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I always understood the polite-honk-in-an-alley as a basic rule of the road, but I don't actually know anyone who does it. I do it fairly habitually, and only once was I reprimanded for it. An elderly woman in DC -- whom I would have mowed down had I not honked -- flagged me down to patiently lecture me on manners. I patiently lectured her on having not gotten splattered by my car.

nah next time hit her with the car and lecture her as her soul escapes her body, sounds like that is what she preferred

People who start every sentence with "Look,..." Infuriating, even if you're the president of the USA.

mayonnaise should not exist but if it has to, it should be opt-in ALWAYS. so tired of having to be VIGILANT every time i order a sandwich, and getting it half the times you ask for none. and any company that thinks bbq and mayo goes together can get fucked, its like they're trying to ambush people at this point.

Asking me if I want something buttered and using margarine to 'butter' it.

"Do you want this muffin earth balanced?"

mayonnaise should not exist but if it has to, it should be opt-in ALWAYS. so tired of having to be VIGILANT every time i order a sandwich, and getting it half the times you ask for none. and any company that thinks bbq and mayo goes together can get fucked, its like they're trying to ambush people at this point.

― tremendoid, Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:27 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

QFMFT. i can usually deal with a tiny (minuscule) amount of mayo in tuna salad, but most places totally over do it and put mayo *on the bread* as well as in the tuna. my favorite tuna salad in town is mayo-free and is flavored with rice wine vinegar or something. *they* understand.

i just don't like most "creamy" food that much. i also have to be vigilant about getting taquerias to leave off the sour cream.

yeah sour cream is just wrong. i thought tuna salad was lost to me forever where is this place? i suppose in n' out's miracle sauce is an argument for mayo, tough call tho

coral tree cafe: locations in brentwood, century city, and encino.

can't do the in 'n' out sauce; thousand island is p. vile. i always order it without.

cool. in'n out's TI tastes as little as possible like mayo i guess. iirc oinkster's sauce crosses the line but its still tolerable

Asking me if I want something buttered and using margarine to 'butter' it.

― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:38 AM (2 hours ago)

I try to be good about this but it has since been pointed out that actually what I use isn't even marge, it's 'spread'. So now I have given up.

When I ask for "black coffee" in a restaurant 80% of the time I'll get served coffee with a little pitcher of cream on the side; 20% of the time I'll actually get asked, "do you want cream with that?" Never been able to understand this.

sour cream hate should not be tolerated imo.

"Do you want this muffin earth balanced?"

What does that sentence even mean???

http://hippiechick02.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/earthbalance_vegan_vivagranola_margarine.jpg

Do you want this on a muffin
instead of using the inaccurate verb "BUTTERED"

Maybe people should start saying "butteried" for sharing fake butters.

Actually I would do anything to keep Earth Balance the Hell off my food. LOOK AT IT. Then, consider the alternative:

http://www.caviar-line.com/caviar/customer/image.php?type=P&id=17297

I still to this day don't know if I've ever had real butter.

Get some whipping cream and make some by 'overwhipping'.

Apparently Actual Butter in the US has to have colouring added to it cause it isnt naturally yellow? (It is here)

suzy I am in awe, and in a little fear, of your tiny basket butter wrapped in gold!

Probably bigger than it looks (250gm = ~half pound). Damn cute though!

I may not have had real butter until I was 18 or so, my family always bought margerine.

I think the yellow-ness or not of the butter depends on what the cows have been eating? And dairy cows here are almost certainly fed some totally processed, nutritionally sufficient artificial diet that contains no carotene or whatever makes more natural butter yellow, and none of whatever makes real farm butter totally amazing.