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

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.

I can't see this thread in Zing anymore, I think it's too big.

^ ia

Yeah this is broken in zing i think cos of a character in it somewhere upthred.

AA is quite the character

http://www.hellohaw.com/Logo/haw-logo.jpg

I am very princess/pea about pretty much everything to do with butter and rejecting all substitutes. One bite of a sandwich with margarine is enough to ID it and discard. If you go for posh butter, I recommend the versions with sea salt crystals throughout.

I can't stand butter or overly-flavoured spreads. I use such things purely for filling lubrication (sorry), not to have a mouthful of salty yuck (no really, I'm sorry). People have recommended a light use of olive oil instead but I can't get with it.

I just tried to post about Lurpak 3 times and got a weird error, wtf ever, meh. LURPAK. is tasty.

smang te

I can't see this thread in Zing anymore, I think it's too big.

― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:11 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Was just about to post the same.

but you couldn't rite

I had to wait to come back from here. And this thread is tailor made for Zing too, with hardly any images or links.

Lady are you really going to let your kids jump onto and run around and then jump off of the bench I'm sitting on. Yea, they were doing it first, but benches are made for sitting, it's the only one free, I just got off a 13 hour train ride, and I'm waiting for my bro who is fifteen minutes late.

Would it kill you to make them play elsewhere?

ie, somewhere where its safe to play and not taking pratfalls off of a bench that is wobbly where the kids could get hurt

Like a lot of tall buildings, my building has two banks of elevators, one set which stops at only the first 8 floors, and another that only goes to floors 9+. They are clearly delineated that way at the entrance to the elevator banks. Nonetheless, as I get on the elevator with six other people this morning, a woman at the back suddenly says, "Wait, does this not stop at 8?" and has to push her way off.

WHY.DO.PEOPLE.NOT.READ.THINGS.

People who have absolutely no concept of how to use public transportation. This morning this girl got on an already packed train and proceeded to push and shove her way all the way to the very rear of the car only to get off at the very next station and push and shove her way through everyone again to get out.

was gonna let this slide, but now since I feel exhausted....

Amtrak is really annoying for many reasons, but I'm getting used to riding it. So last night, as always, I take my placard which says I'm going to Orlando, and put it above my seat like I'm supposed to. for anyone who hasn't taken a train, the reason for this is because they don't make intercom announcements between like 10 pm and 8 am, so they wake up anybody who is asleep when the stop arrives. Good system.

So why then DID YOU COME AND WAKE ME UP TWICE WHEN I WAS SLEEPING TO ASK ME WHERE I WAS HEADED WHEN THE PLACARD ABOVE MY SEAT CLEARLY SAID 'ORLANDO' AND NOBODY ELSE WAS SITTING WITH ME? I was sleeping soundly both times and got pulled out of it.

http://www.londongastronomyseminars.com/upcoming.htm

Butter is pervasive, both as an ingredient and as a condiment. At this session, co-hosted by The SOAS Food Studies Centre, accredited butter grader and dairy technologist Jayne Hickinbotham will lead a tutored tasting of yellow fat spreads running the gamut from vegetable-oil based spreads to farmhouse whey butter. Along the way she'll cover the properties of milk fat, the history of butter and its imitators, the properties of saturated fats and hydrogenated and trans-fatty acids, and the microbial stability of butter. She'll also debunk some common urban myths surrounding this most familiar of foods.

GO GET THE BUTTA BABY.

WHY.DO.PEOPLE.NOT.READ.THINGS.

i've noticed that many people who aren't "readers" don't think to look around for information they could read that would tell them useful things. so they end up not looking at those signs that are right in front of their faces.

related: one of my big pet peeves is people who must think they're incapable of figuring things out/looking things up for themselves and are always bugging people with questions. RTFM, yo.

http://www.londongastronomyseminars.com/upcoming.htm

Long Dong Astronomy Seminars.

You can't unsee it.

related: one of my big pet peeves is people who must think they're incapable of figuring things out/looking things up for themselves and are always bugging people with questions. RTFM, yo.

so otm

JBR, I think you and I must be psychic twins or something -- I've thought "jbr otm" more than anyone else on ilx including nabisco. Nothing pisses me off like a lack of basic competence in getting through life.

I've noticed that many people who aren't "readers" don't think to look around for information they could read that would tell them useful things. so they end up not looking at those signs that are right in front of their faces.

This is very true. If you've ever worked in an establishment where you had to put a big sign on the door saying "Please Close Door Behind You" you'll find that something like 60% of the people don't. It's either they're not "readers" or they're very averse to reading something they didn't anticipate reading.

I do feel that I am slightly falling out of the habit of looking for information. Whether it's laziness, learned helplessness, or just cz every time I stop to look for information that would answer my question (e.g. pause to look at a timetable or a map) whoever I'm with gets all "c'mon! let's move! ask a stranger, pick a random direction, anything but stand here!", I dunno.

related: one of my big pet peeves is people who must think they're incapable of figuring things out/looking things up for themselves and are always bugging people with questions. RTFM, yo.

my coworker asks me everything, and I tell him an answer and he furrows his brow like it isn't good enough and asks 60 more questions. and then eventually he'll go "oh hey I know!" and tell me my first answer like it is some brilliant new idea that he's just had! hey, why did you even ask me if you were capable of this amazing man-idea on your own and I just sat here flapping my mouth open and shut while stupid woman noises fell out?

JBR, I think you and I must be psychic twins or something

aww, we're psychic friends :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxCx6KIpJVE

People who have absolutely no concept of how to use public transportation.

Getting VERY VERY irate atm at people who push on before people get off, ESPECIALLY when I'm politely waiting and they cut ME off to push in. My EXTREME ANGER should be in evidence by ALL THE CAPS.

Basically everyone who catches a train or tram is scum and ought to be shot.

Assholes at sporting events who get up to go get beer in the middle of a play, and push their way back into the seats IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLAY. Fucking. Asshole. And go ahead and do that at least five times, please. It's fucking great, can't get enough of it.

Oh and leaving an arena parking lot and having people aggressively not let people in front of them, pretending that they are in such a hurry that they just cant possibly do the "you go, I go" dance that makes life easier. You would rather be a selfish cock and fuck with the natural order of things. I hate you.

my coworker asks me everything, and I tell him an answer and he furrows his brow like it isn't good enough and asks 60 more questions. and then eventually he'll go "oh hey I know!" and tell me my first answer like it is some brilliant new idea that he's just had! hey, why did you even ask me if you were capable of this amazing man-idea on your own and I just sat here flapping my mouth open and shut while stupid woman noises fell out?

LOL there's a Fast Show set of skits like this but I cant find one on youtube. WOman comes up with idea. men ignore her, then come up with same idea and think its awesome.

Office moves make me irrationally angry, especially when none of my shit works afterward.

People who get so impatient at stoplights that they have to constantly be inching forward while the light is still red, to the point that their front ends are sticking out in to the intersection, but then suddenly aren't paying attention when the light actually does turn green.

Assholes at sporting events who get up to go get beer in the middle of a play, and push their way back into the seats IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLAY. Fucking. Asshole. And go ahead and do that at least five times, please. It's fucking great, can't get enough of it.

^ this x 100000. Was at a game a few weeks ago and some lassie sitting beside us walked in and out of our row like 23 times in less than 90 minutes, meaning we had to get up to let her past, blocking the view of the 25 rows behind us, who all had to get up to see over us. Sit down one row at a time, then have to do the whole charade to let her back in. Five minutes later she'd finished her drink and had to go pee, lather rinse repeat ALL FUCKING GAME.

FUCK OFF GO HOME AND WATCH THE GAME ON TV, FFS! (the game wasn't on TV, but that's not the point)

People who have absolutely no concept of how to use public transportation. This morning this girl got on an already packed train and proceeded to push and shove her way all the way to the very rear of the car only to get off at the very next station and push and shove her way through everyone again to get out.

― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:15 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if people had moved themselves as far back into the train as possible to start with this needn't have happened.

This, more than anything: people who use the flap on a letter-box set into the front door as a 'knocker'.

if people had moved themselves as far back into the train as possible to start with this needn't have happened.

It definitely annoys me when people don't move back, yes, but in this case people were actually fairly distributed. She could have chosen quite a few spots to stand in, but insisted on pushing all the way to the back regardless.

when i would take the T home from work it never failed that I got some dudes rotten armpit right in my nose for the entire ride home. Once i even got a seat next to a guy who had a fucking colostomy bag hanging out. I love public transportation.