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

historically i am not v good with operating doors though

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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

Funny that they saved 4 characters with "MIA" and over-spent them on "announcements" -- surely there's a shorter way to say that?

People on Facebook. Who use periods. Like this.

People on Facebook.

I know 'facebook status updates that make you IA' could be its own thread but anyway:
PPl who (only) post Facebook updates about their work and all the normal things they have to do that have for some reason strike them as uber-geeky or technical and start passively showing off about it, i.e. "Need to get this gantt chart finished!!!" or ANYTHING relating to basic HTML or SQL or Excel commands "Paste+transpose, where have you been all my life?!"

N**** F**** Oh no it's Monday!!!!
N**** F**** can't believe it's only Tuesday!!!
N**** F**** is so glad it's Wednesday!!!!
N**** F**** is so glad it's Thursday!!!!
N**** F**** Thank god it's Friday!!!!
N**** F**** Oh no it's Monday!!!
N**** F**** can't believe it's only Tuesday!!!!!

etc etc

THAT is one of the 2389748942 key reasons I don't do farcebook anymore.

I must have decent friends cos I dont get that kind of shit.

what do you expect when you friend Nigel Fucko

xps always reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UTQGqeX-go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guv5LUT1AFw

My annoyance doesn't quite get to the level of "irrationally angry," but I really don't like when people say "I'm just saying" or "I'm not saying, I'm just saying." Actually, I am getting kind of angry just thinking about it.

Extend that to when politicians (especially PMs) say 'can I just say this'. Um HELLO you do rule the whole country.

Today, my cubemates all determined the following:

1. Gwyneth Paltrow's version of "Fuck You" is superior to Cee-Lo's.
2. They don't like pickles on burgers.
3. One expressed praise for Full House.
4. Glee is the best show on TV

I would never buy a beer for any of these herbs, or even let them ride in my car.

pickles on burgers are brilliant. they probably eat their burgers with shredded, rancid iceberg lettuce; limp, out-of-season tomatoes; and like a gallon of mayo.

overheard in my office tonight, whispered in a hushed, reverent tone: "i sooo want to go to pf chang's."

the man that gives away the free newspaper at the underground station that has no conception of if a person looks like they want to take a newspaper from him. those newspaper people are all very annoying but i particularly dislike this one, everything about him. he doesn't even stand on one place he's like a goalkeeper moving left and right across the whole of the entrance to intercept each person entering the station. And if i'm going to be reading on the tube then I haven't got my headphones on which means i also have to hear his voice and his voice is really annoying in a way i can't quite define.

Also, the use of the word "admits" in articles, for something that isn't an admission. "after collecting the trophy, sanchez admitted he was a worthy winner"

i've been told that a journalist should use "said" every time someone has "said" something, despite any urges the author might have to break up the repetition with "laughed," "admitted," etc. "said" strips the sentence of any editorializing/misperception and gets to the point.

i like "said" i've always admitted i'd prefer this

I understand 'said' for news coverage - and agree - but for big interviews or features (which is what I do - I'm not reviewing or news reporting) I do like to convey the nuance of a subject's responses so do not limit the words I have at my disposal to put the subject's disposition and reactions across (which still includes plain old 'said' when necessary).

Don't actually have a problem with most of those words - its really just 'admits' and 'concedes'. Got to the point now where even in contexts where the terms are actually appropriate to use I feel a flash of annoyance

despite his usual non-confrontational persona, cherry blossom admits that he sometimes feels irrationally angry

i really dislike "offered" as a synonym for "said" as well

Postman disappearing when I went out on Monday. Post van was there, i looked around to check if postman anywhere near. had been expecting one item for seemingly too long so wanted to make sure it wasn't with him.
Couldn't see him, went into town came back couple hours later & yes first item is in hallway but I have a green form instead of 2nd package. system with undelivery now is that they've centralised the phone system, so you're ringing somebody on the other side of the country instead of local sorting office. Subsequently they're not redelivering undelivered mail as easily & you have to trek out to sorting office which is now way out of town, seems like about a mile from closest bus stop.
trying to avoid missing delivery on items has tended to mean me sitting around at home waiting, or not taking showers at times I think postman might appear.

Further problem not hearing the doorbell. or alternatively thinking that I have heard the doorbell several times thanks to chimes in music being played, therefore checking door repeatedly but not at the time doorbell actually went off. This thanks to amount of times of crying wolf.
Must be a simple way around both problems here.

& hoping that downstairs door being shut in future doesn't actually exacerbate this further. I live alone up 4 flights of stairs, there is a street door to a place where bins are and people keep dumping things there. It has been suggested that that door be locked and a letterbox be situated at that level. So I'm really looking forward to not hearing postman even more so when they try to deliver oversize packages.

Journalists using ever-more fancy words to avoid "said" always reminds me of the randomly generated newspaper front pages from SimCity 2000, which would churn out articles featuring frequent use of "the mayor averred..." and "a citizen opined..."

(in news articles, I mean - absolutely makes sense in interviews, though even then there are some words which you only ever see in local newspaper articles or which just scream "8 year old writes story for school, has been told by teacher not to use 'said'")