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

colleagues/bosses

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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.

xpost

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

tweestival

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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

Lex I'm pretty sure they leave the mortice key in the lock after they've locked it. If there was a fire you'd want to be able to like, leave!

Though they are really just a subset of the people who think that you have to PAUSE every time you touch in

idk, with arm outstretched ready and no rubbing it's still touch and go whether or not i have to slow my I'M A BUSY MAN london style walking pace to get through the barrier.

Fucking amateurs

The secret is to keep walking even as your hand (and card) stays in one place on the reader - your body is past your hand by the time you hear the beep so there is a bit of faith involved but as long as you maintain good contact, keep walking and stay relaxed I have never once had this fail

u walk 2 slow

But I walk consistently and predictably, which is key for efficient crowd movement

what are you some kind of socialist

You hold out the hand with the card in it, your arm is fully extended and the card comes down on the reader. Do you slacken your pace? No. Do you move your hand? Not til you see the barriers open. So you've got one stationary body part - your hand - and the rest of your body keeps going. As you continue through the barrier, your elbow rises and your arm folds up a bit, the barriers open and your hand comes off the reader, catching up with the rest of you as you expertly glide into the scrum.

Which brings me to: missing a train because slothful morons are walking together in a tunnel and as if by the clairvoyance of the pathologically stupid, they innately know where to go so that speedier walkers cannot pass them to get to the arriving train. What are they thinking? "Oh, there's a train..."

Nothing in all of Tubage can turn me into Carrie at the Prom QUITE LIKE THIS.

(will admit to queue-huffing on occasion, but when I do this it's because I am expressing solidarity with the other waiting people in the face of some form of technical intransigence, a member of the public nearby who may have gone full moron as we watch, or service-industry ineptitude).

xp i do all this! but i still have to momentarily slacken my pace to avoid colliding with the accursed barriers which are too slow to cope with my dynamic go-getting anti-collectivist ubermensch rationally self-interested pace.

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.

Is this something I would have to have a British front door to get?

yeah lex why are you locking yourself in?

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

I'm not sure I get why this would make anyone IA.

Laurel - lots of front doors have a deadbolt that you need a key to open as well as a spring lock. Having had one house fire, I would never lock us *in* with the deadbolt. Always use it to when we're going out though.

My deadbolts all use a key on the outside but a lever or knob on the inside of the house.

Maybe it's just britishers deadbolts need the key from inside then?

The deadbolt part is sensible but they have a KEY for the INside?? Here they just have a little turny thing, kind of a lozenge or rectangular shape so you can see if it's lying sideways or up-and-down, and therefore whether the bolt is on or not.

xp Yeah, that's what I meant.

Which brings me to: missing a train because slothful morons are walking together in a tunnel and as if by the clairvoyance of the pathologically stupid, they innately know where to go so that speedier walkers cannot pass them to get to the arriving train. What are they thinking? "Oh, there's a train..."

fucking hate this, people lack self awareness so badly. also can't fucking stand people who only move to the right at the last possibly minute, after ambling towards the escalator in slow motion and getting in everyone else's way. or anyone who leaves bags/anything in the way on the left, then gets miffed as you bash into it.

my advice to you lex would be think of one place on your person and one place in your flat and always leave your keys there. mine are almost always on a small ledge near the door, or in my back pocket.

Aha. I think the drawback with the US design then is that a dog left at home could lock you out with the deadbolt if it was scratching at the door and you wouldn't be able to get back inside and it would probably starve to death. xp

Dog would have to be v.v. tall, my deadbolts are at about shoulder height on my doors!