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

dunno how innocuous this is but people who occupy your seat in work drive me around the twist. like i wouldn't mind if it's a normal office, but there are assigned seats for each role, so person x is meant to be done at 7am and i come in at 8am, but frequently one person is too fucking absent minded and disorganised and you get in and she's having a quasi panic attack and saying "oh i'll be done in a second" and instead of preparing for the morning meeting and reading emails you're left standing up, clueless about what's going on cos of this moron (who is supposed to be an editor)

Ejector seats, controlled remotely, could help u with this problem imo

Became possibly irrationally angry on a) learning the word "twestival"; b) going to see what was on at the local "twestival" except the 6000 posts on the twitter are all ":)" "RT me please :)" "follow me please :)" "thank you for RTing :)" "please use my hashtag :)" and no actual information; c) finally determined that they have arranged TV and radio appearances for themselves but not actually organised a lineup, or booked a venue, or...

ugh. Have to say I can't stand the word "tweet up" either

Tweestival is probably more to the point...

Twitstival

bored.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5095/5471358059_7d5a66d1ec.jpg

lolol

Ha.

I was going to say that while the profusion of irritating smileys is pretty twee I associate "twee" with "self-effacing" and relentless self-promotion doesn't seem twee. But actually I guess all the twee kids I've known have been unnervingly good at self-promotion, so yeah, I guess tweestival otm.

- accidentally bumping into walls/furniture/doors/tables when you're walking around the house

for some reason this really does my head in, i can't fathom how much it frustrates me, i just want to punch fuck out of something when my walking path is disrupted. i also really dislike being pushed or bumped into by anybody else.

my flatmates' garlic grater. it's about >< yay big and infuriates me with its pointless lilliputianism.

Stores that have double doors to the street and only open ONE OF THEM. Because either coming or going, you're going to hit the door on your "correct" side of travel (aka the right-hand side) AND IT'S GOING TO BE LOCKED.

I'm sitting here listening to five(!) different people in my office in various stages of horrifying coughing fits and really cursing the entire culture America has of "work work work, staying home sick is for losers". ARGH.

People who do nothing, ever, but go on about how busy they are.

we need to make it a board project to use "liliputianism" more.

I'm sitting here listening to five(!) different people in my office in various stages of horrifying coughing fits and really cursing the entire culture America has of "work work work, staying home sick is for losers". ARGH.

^^^ this. i'm sick today and contemplating staying home, but if i take the day off, everyone else will be disgruntled about having to do my share of the workload.

people who start posts with "Uhhhh, "

phew I'm safe, I only use one h

People who do nothing, ever, but go on about how busy they are.

Sub-category of this: people who fail to notice that the reason you are not engaging in their moaning about being busy is because, duh, you're actually busy, and assume you aren't that busy because you aren't moaning about being busy. Because you're too busy being busy.

colleagues/bosses who say "Are you busy?"

colleagues/bosses who say "How easy would it be to... (x)"

colleagues/bosses

indeed

People who randomly engage you in conversations about kids and assume you either have kids or hate kids without ever assuming there might be a middle-ground of why you don't have/want kids. Jesus. I'm so looking forward to getting to the age when this isn't an instant topic of conversation.

People who love to describe things (especially partying, hedonism, etc.) as "crazy" (e.g. "those were such crazy times," "I like this club because its full of crazy people." etc.)

I think I do that. Sometimes those things are a bit crazy surely?

One today that always fucking annoys me, people who hover around the shelves in a supermarket, getting in your way when you know exactly what you want. Or if you take a second to browse they then start looking at the same thing you just looked at. Or people just generally standing too close to you or in your personal space in the supermarket. If you want to see thing x, don't lean into my face, just wait two mins.

^this plus...

looking at CDs/books in a shop, standing far enough back from the shelves that everyone can see then some guy stands in front of you with his nose against the fucking shelf like you were fucking giving way to him or something.

not everybody has great eyesight OK!!

Honestly I don't see this very often, but ran into this woman doing this in several aisles last night so its on my mind, but people that walk alongside of their grocery cart instead of pushing from behind it like a normal person, ensuring that they block the ENTIRE fucking aisle instead of just half of it while they lazily stroll along, talking on their cellphone, and pretending not to hear you as you practically shout "EXCUSE ME" at them.

I don't mind people standing close to CD shelves - but if it's clear I was already looking at that exact spot then you're blind ignorant rather than plain old short-sighted.

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yeah god that drives me mad too, the standing in front of thing.

tweestival

http://www.indietracks.co.uk/
http://londonpopfest.com/

Scrolling down on a website with the wheel and the cursor hitting a YouTube video and stopping. Have to manually move the cursor and start scrolling again.

HUGE PROBLEM.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, February 5, 2011 3:34 PM (2 weeks ago)

gah! i hate this! also slashdot just changed their rss feed to include a scrolling iframe for their comments so when im scrolling down i get suck and start scrolling through the comments. not cool. unsubscribed

whenever my leg falls asleep I get pretty angry at it.

People who preface a question with the word "Question."

And people who have some weird attachment to where they went to school -- to regular-ass university culture/mascots, rather than, say, an inspiring professor, or specific friendships -- however many years/decades ago. "Texas A&M! I love my Aggies!"

People who preface a question with the word "Question."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKU_hwj2o

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

i hatei t when yer watchin porn and it starts buffering repeatedly, ruins the flow yo

people using the word 'insouciance'

people making connections between a record in one genre of music and a different record in a different genre of music made in a different year

when i move my mp3 player and the line to the headphone bit gets caught on the button of my coat and yanks the headphone out of the mp3 player

- people who "rub" their oyster card against the reader

STOP MOVING IT AROUND, THAT'S WHY IT'S TAKING SO LONG

- people who sniff loudly every 10 seconds ALL MORNING instead of just BLOWING THEIR NOSES, JESUS

People who huff and sigh in queues or on buses in jams.

I try really hard not to do that.

Honestly the Oyster card rubbing thing has gotten out of hand and should be ID'd by CCTV and all those people sent leaflets to their homes that explain that you don't need to MAKE FIRE every time you touch into the Tube.

Though they are really just a subset of the people who think that you have to PAUSE every time you touch in. If touching in correctly (i.e. not RUBBING your card on the reader and not lightly waving it near the reader) you do not have to slacken your pace! Whatsoever! Keep the fuck up, people!

i am instinctively on your side but have been burnt, and seen people been burnt, by the ERROR SEEK ASSISTANCE red light that pops up if you don't wait for the person ahead of you to go through fully - we should save our ire for those who reach the barriers, stop and THEN START RUSTLING THROUGH THEIR HANDBAG for their oyster card as if they couldn't possibly have predicted that they'd need it

currently i get angry at the daily ritual of the postman ringing my doorbell w/a package, and me having no fucking idea where my keys are, and by the time i've located them he's buggered off. i'm not really angry at the postman, i don't expect him to wait, it's like...WHY DO I NEVER KNOW WHERE MY KEYS ARE? how do organised people do it?

There's a solution for that red light Lex and it's to wait for the person ahead of you to go through fully. Admittedly difficult if they stop STONE STILL at the LAST SECOND, HALFWAY THROUGH THE BARRIER by which point you've already touched your card as well but it hasn't registered yet you're through and then you have to go to station staff to get it sorted out while hundreds of people behind you stream merrily down the escalator to get on the train that you're now missing GAH