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

where do you stand on the "jeans-under-dresses" thing?

no

just, no

What if they're like those pajama jeans as seen on tv? Those are like leggings, right? :)

what enbb said re: jeans under dresses

Can I add a sidenote complaint about girls wearing tiny short shorts in cold weather? I mean, I know it's not an ew gross and eyeroll they sure are purty etc perv perv whatever...but THAT much bare leg in the freezing cold is just not right and it annoys the shit out of me. I want to throw them in my car and drive them home and make them get changed. Or take them to a shelter that provides pants for inappropriately dressed girls.

pants lol.

I want to throw them in my car and drive them home

You too, huh?

I would donate to that charity if not for the fact that inappropriately dressed girls prob spend 3 or 4x as much on their wardrobes as I do and I'll be damned if I'm giving them anything of mine on top of it.

x-post british lol.

hahah laurel otm

THOSE JEGGINS DON'T BUY THEMSELVES, U KNOW.

Around here I see lots of girls wearing those micro shorts in the winter, but usually with tights underneath.

all the ones I see are bare legged. >:(

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.

which is also a security risk. the whole point of these is if you have a door with a window in it, or a window near the door, someone can't just punch through the window and open the bolt. deadbolts are stupid, but putting windows in/near doors is more stupid and causes me to be IA.

Haha - after reading that people who wear shorts in winter are Iowans, I thought when others said "makes me IA" they meant "makes me Iowan," until I read your post, rockapads. Things make more sense now.

being 6' 2" and using 3 foot long headphones while working out, having one violently rip out always really makes me really angry

ia: the way jack in the box commercials say "melting cheese" instead of "melted cheese." were they sued for false advertising because their cheese wasn't fully melted? or was there some focus group that thought "melting" was sexier?

and i know "melting cheese" is also cheesegeekspeak for "a kind of cheese that melts well, e.g., emmentaler"

I think there's some other food ad that calls their product "chocolatey" and it makes me want to hurl/hurl things at the television every time.

FUCKING COMPUTERS and all their works go in this thread. youtube videos suddenly won't play for NO REASON. i watche done two hours ago! i have done NOTHING since that could possibly stop them working. what is this nonsense?

it's probably a server issue

i mean do i really have to fucking update adobe flash again? I JUST WANT TO WATCH A TWO-MINUTE VIDEO, i don't want to have to go through the rigmarole of uninstalling and reinstalling and restarting and AAARGHHHH

what is a server issue?

waiters spitting in food

server issue = something is happening on the Youtube site that is affecting their ability to deliver video content

80% of the time, if you get the endlessly spinning circle of dots when you try to play a video, it's Youtube's fault; wait 5/10 minutes and try again

i just get a black rectangle where the video screen is - no play button or anything. clicking furiously on this black rectangle and yelling at it has no effect >:(

waiters spitting in food

this is a good analogy, computers are basically waiters constantly spitting in my life

:)

Shorts don't bother me as much as the hideous feet jammed into hideous sandals/flipflops/thongs that usually appear below them

add beige socks and it's all over for the human race imo

lex if yr getting a blank screen and it's suggesting to upgrade Flash, then do so, it takes like 5 minutes and if you havent done it in 6-12 months it'll definitely be the problem. Stupid I agree, but eh.

James Morrison otm

10.2 Flash for Macs is literally a billion times less intensive on the CPU (if you're using Windows pls ignore, also I pity you)

xp: Thanks! So there aren't any threads devoted exclusively to the WI protests, but the U.S. Politics Post-Election one will do. And yeah, I tried searching, thanks. Pleasant Plains, haven't we been talking on here for like 11 years?

I swear I am going to plough my car right into my dumbfuck neighbors house one day. Their truck is parked the driveway and mr dumb fuck has been installing a speaker system. For the past hour, my windows rattle intermittently from the STUPIDLY LOUD dumbfuck fucking subwoofers.
The man never leaves the house, he has 900 children... when the fuck is he going to ever roll through the hood with this shit, he never fucking GOES anywhere anyway, all he does is back the truck in and out of the fucking driveway.
Fuck, goddammit...these people. Everything they do, eveyrtime I see or hear them they are annoying the shit out of me.

I've been here for eight, Pete. And c'mon, breaking your balls on the irrationally angry thread is nothing. ;-)

- People who get offended by being called "mate" or "dude". Irrational, because I completely understand why they don't like it, but FFS, it's just what people call each other, get over yourself.

- as a follow up, I get annoyed when people call dialectal accental variations "bad English".

- People who get offended by being called "mate" or "dude"

i am one of these people

"mate" is unacceptable except as an ironic gesture ("m8" not "mate"). both, from strangers or acquaintances, contain an over-familiarity that i dislike.

I don't feel friendly overtures from 'mate' when I hear a stranger saying it to me, I hear someone trying to gain favour or some kind of compliance.

PR emails!!!!

PR emails that start "mate" - NO SON

complete strangers addressing me as "mate" - GET AIR

suzy i'm surprised that you get it - people call girls "mate" now? disgusting savages, &c &c

Yeah, 'mate' has gone unisex but women also get 'love' used in the same patronising way - I really don't mind it uttered in a spirit of commiseration but when it's someone who wants something, or wants you to do something and can't be forthright - or THE WORST, when it is someone stepping outside the corporate box in a hamfisted attempt at geniality, FUCK OFF.

People who dump crap in your lap at the last minute and don't even apologize for the inconvenience.

Even sidestepping for a moment the fact that most "last-minute" items in business are things that were requested sooner but 'forgotten' by the requestor...

Even tho it doesn't change the suckitude, it's nice to know that the person at least recognizes the position they put you in and apologize.

Just trying to work out if it is possible that I've been sold a 1:1 USB hub. Seems to be slowing all data traffic down massively. But one of those would be ancient wouldn't it? Best part of 10years, if not plus.
Burning dvds went up from 9 minutes to an hour plus when I had the burner going through it. & I think playing music files was breaking down badly.
So getting burnt on ebay deals, biggie. Probably not irrational though.

I'm pretty sure ebay only exists to burn people on deals these days.

Should add that this USB hub was what I had to trek out to the sorting office for though.