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

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!

Maybe if you had a wolfhound like the one I saw on the subway platform at Union Square this morning (which I'm pretty sure isn't even allowed!). Deadbolts are usually placed higher on the door, sometimes a lot higher, like, shoulder-level or so. And they're not easy to turn.

xp again!!

Wolfhounds need lots of food so they would starve to death quicker. Terrible cruel design.

May as well nail a steel trap to your door.

Deadbolt more like deathbolt

Is there something incorrect about leaving the key in the lock (on the inside) after locking it for the night? That's what I always thought the Done Thing was.

someone with really spindly fingers could let themselves in

i only half lock my door at night, turning the bolt over. dunno why. my flatmates leave it the same way. obv tower hamlets isn't an area affected by crime.

right guys?

depends whether someone else needs to unlock from the outside through the night because if so you're in big trouble

xxp

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.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, February 28, 2011 9:56 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this plus do what i do and sing a little jingle that goes "~keys, wallet, phone~" whenever you leave your home and whenever you return that reminds u to either take them with u or put back them in the designated key dish

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

i do! and they are NEVER THERE. well: they are there a lot of the time, when i'm not in a hurry. when i'm in a hurry? NEVER THERE.

i don't understand what kind of doors anyone else has

historically i am not v good with operating doors though

pvmic

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

― cherry blossom, Sunday, 27 February 2011 13:44 (Yesterday) Bookmark

This is all I ever do some days :-\

I've lived in houses with deadbolts that needed to be opened by key from the inside. My solution was to leave the key in them. My boyfriend thought it was a security risk until I explained that the key in the lock is just the same as a knob on a "normal" deadbolt.

Innocuous thing that enrages me: People who block escalators. When in a shitty mood, I have been known to "educate" those assholes who do not follow the simple, logical, sane rule of STAND TO THE RIGHT, WALK ON THE LEFT. FUCKD;SINAGlaiin;kasdjf

My first day moving into an apartment, I saw we had one of those key-in-the-deadbolt things. Knowing me, my roommate, our friends and all sorts of imagined scenarios and shenanigans, I immediately called my landlord and got that thing changed. Still seems like a horrible fire hazard.

At least the knobs on the normal deadbolt don't come off at anybody's whim.

The kids around here (SE London) are just dirt. Did nobody ever teach them manners? EVERY SINGLE BUS smells of the worst smelling rancid fried chicken. Don't eat on the bus damnit. It's enough to turn me vegetarian.

i got pretty grossed out by a girl on a stokey bus eating some weird fruit out of a jar. it was fucking grim.

people that are leaving a parking lot to get onto a regular road and need to get into the left lane, and instead of just immediately pulling into the right lane and getting over when it is convenient, they keep you waiting for 5 minutes while the right lane is empty because the left lane has cars pulling through it.

JESUS FUCK JUST GO INTO THE RIGHT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN'T CHANGE LANES AFTER.

MY MOUSE CURSOR KEEPS RANDOMLY SKIPPING UP TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN WITHOUT WARNING WHY IS IT DOING THIS NO THERE IS NOT A HAIR OR DUST ON THE LASER I LOOKED RAAARRRGHH

people at sporting events who frequently exit and re-enter the aisle. IS IT THAT HARD TO JUST SIT AND WATCH THE GAME.

(cranky cuz I had an aisle seat tonight!)

^This! I was at a football (soccer - the distinction is probably important) match last year and the couple in front of me got up TWICE to get hotdogs (at least they only blocked my view and I didn't have to stand up for them). The match kicked off at 3pm, finished by 4:45 pm and they had to eat two hotdogs each in that time?! Like they're on an hourly hotdog prescription or something. Same thing at the rugby on Sunday afternoon - girl next to me got up twice to get chips. Eat lunch around lunch time, go to match mid afternoon and watch the match, leave and eat dinner around dinner time.

people that are leaving a parking lot to get onto a regular road and need to get into the left lane, and instead of just immediately pulling into the right lane and getting over when it is convenient, they keep you waiting for 5 minutes while the right lane is empty because the left lane has cars pulling through it.

JESUS FUCK JUST GO INTO THE RIGHT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN'T CHANGE LANES AFTER.

Only time I can excuse this is if the right lane very quickly turns into a right turn only lane.

Yea in that instance it's understandable.

Also don't care what people do when nobody is behind them cuz then it's their own time they're wasting.

I dunno, CraigG, when I go to a sporting event, part of the reason I'm there is for the food and drinks. Of course the civilized answer is to do like they do at baseball games and pass the hot dogs (and money) down the aisle.

if you're going to get annoyed by that, don't buy aisle seats

I didn't know it was an aisle seat when I bought it.

Also half the time these people got up, it wasn't to get food. They'd get up during the middle of a heightened moment of the game, leave for the rest of the quarter, and come back during another heightened moment.

Or people arrived an hour late and ignored the usher's call to 'wait for stoppage in action' and just walked in front of us.

People got up and obstructed our view with two minutes left in the game on a key possession. Fortunately being in the aisle I could lean around them or stand on the step to see.

I mean I generally only get up during ends of quarters, halftime, or if my bowels/bladder act up, at least during a stoppage in play or timeout.

Not saying everyone should be mandated to do this, but at least remembering there are other people at the game and not leaving during crucial moments would be nice. American sports aren't like soccer, there are plenty of stoppages.

people that are leaving a parking lot to get onto a regular road and need to get into the left lane, and instead of just immediately pulling into the right lane and getting over when it is convenient, they keep you waiting for 5 minutes while the right lane is empty because the left lane has cars pulling through it.

JESUS FUCK JUST GO INTO THE RIGHT IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN'T CHANGE LANES AFTER.

I sometimes do this when I need to make a left that occurs a short distance down the road. Otherwise I have to stop in the right lane to wait to move over, which would be worse. If it seems I'm not going to get a break for a while I'll just go into the right lane and do a U-turn up ahead to get back to that left.

ia: the phrase "family-friendly." and not because i hate kids or families.

cuz i don't.

otm, 'family-friendly' usually means 'no nudity or swearing or centre-left ideology or gaying'

It also means, in a restaurant setting, really dismal food and cartoon characters...

oh god it does too (it's been a while)

If your shit stinks you should not be allowed to use a public toilet. The asphyxiation risk is so severe I'm having to go out hunting along the street.

People who use too many words and/or acronyms in place of simple English. Just saw this headline:

What was MIA from the big iPad announcements today?

MISSING, the word is MISSING