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

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.

next time I go to the UK, I'm going to spend a day calling everyone "lovemate" just to see how long it takes for me to get punched

I'm having trouble hearing "lovemate" being said in an American accent.

strangers using word mate is usually pretext for them to indulge in aggressive or at the very least intrustive behaviour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbLhHtaVIO4

co-worker who will not STOP talking about his eating experiences...dude is ridiculously obsessed with Man vs Food-type eateries and I swear EVERY conversation he has had in the past week has been about goddamn hot dogs.

i might have already posted this but

"guitaring"

strangers using word mate is usually pretext for them to indulge in aggressive or at the very least intrustive behaviour

― cherry blossom, Friday, March 11, 2011 2:48 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

v.true. it's also useful for low status people to gain some cred.

used as the first word in the sentence, time to move away.

more prevalent here (mcr) now is 'eeyahh' as preface to public statements. as in "eeyahh there's a fookin bogey on that". and other such delights.

my new cubemates have the worst taste in movies, television, music, everything, and all I hear em do is yammer about it. must be nice to have nothing to do all day.

lol 'eeyahh' has been going in Manc for as long as I can remember. Mates of mine who worked in bars would start calling drinks things like 'eeyaah vodka coke'

I started watching The Spice Trail, a 3 part bbc series on the origin of various spices like pepper and vanilla, but even though those parts are interesting, I had to turn it off because I've been unable to not notice how this whole series is nothing but Kate Humble inserting herself in traditional festivals, having a terrible go at manually handling the various seeds and barks, being on screen all the bloody time, being filmed as though those centuries old ceremonies are somehow for or about her, etc. - it's the Kate Humble show.

I had no problems with her before this series, mind. But this is too much.

I'll look up where them spices come from on wikipedia, thankyouverymuch.

ha, yes, I gave up on that after half an episode. The new Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe thing is exactly the same. Get off my fucking screen and just tell me stuff!

I dunno, when its Brian Cox I'm not gonna be complaining! <3

Another 'in speech', annoyed by: 'as yet'.

XXpost: I've seen Cox's Wonders Of The Solar System series and never noticed it was like that - am now wondering if I may be sexist or something :-(
(Are Michael Mosley's series like that as well? History of Medicine, etc - because I didn't notice him too much either)

1) No need to stand that close behind me in the supermarket queue. I understand the illusion of progress you get by inching closer to my neck may alleviate the clearly considerably difficulty you have queueing but it is making me IRRATIONALLY ANGRY that I can slightly feel your huffing and puffing on my neck yet the thing is too INNOCUOUS to turn round and say anything about.

2) Damn crumbly bread too crumbly to butter properly I will swear vigorously at you.

clearly considerably difficulty youy havey queueingy

sorry this post is so close after yours

Jeez just WAIT will you. Or I'll take a surprise step back and then where'll you be?

just so long as you aren't standing 10ft away from the person in front of you and making the queue twice as long as it need be.

getting crosser and crosser at amazon mixing useless (to me) kindle results in with the book results. needs to be an option, one it remembers.

argh that's annoying. 'LOOK WE HAVE A NEW PLATFORM!!!!! SEE?!?!?!!' Just bugger off.

or worse still the whole 'WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A KINDLE, R U MENTAL' thing.

You're mental, Kindle is great, you can also read the books on your computer or iPad, Kindle forever!

(this message brought to you by Amazon, world's largest bookseller and creator of the Amazon Kindle)

You can also mark the page you were on so you don't lose your place! Try doing that with a book!

(yesterday I heard ANOTHER person say that about ebooks, made me ia I can tell you)

hahaha

those thieving bastards selling "bookmarks" as third-party accessories will be out of business any day

Wow, I never thought of that. What greedy fatcats.

Speaking of which, those thousand dollar bill or million dollar bill bookmarks that mall bookstores used to carry annoyed me.

Those goddamn "to the cloud" Windows commercials

people who begin sentences with "I think we can all agree that...". half the time, it's something that isn't black and white and that we don't all agree on.

sometimes it's appropriate, except in my circles, it tends to be used more inappropriately than not.

same for "I speak for everyone here when I say..."....unless you're either a CEO or you've done extensive polling of the people you're speaking for, shut the fuck up.

I started laughing the other day when I was on a wikipedia article and the phrase "it is said" was tagged [weasel words]

If I wanted that shit, I'd watch Fox News.

also, people who say 'both extreme left and extreme right-wingers are morons, the real answer is somewhere in the middle'.

or people who go "I'm not Republican or Democrat, I'm independent", and yet their viewpoints clearly mirror one of the two parties almost exactly.

It is moronic if for every issue, you're doing your best to restate the party line rather than stopping to consider how you yourself feel on the issue, but half the people that claim to be moderate aren't...and there is nothing wrong with someone that happens to be well-defined as a liberal or conservative. (I for one am essentially a socialist).

Like I don't share all the same opinions I did six years ago and don't vote the Dem party line on every issue, yet get tired of pointing out to these smug assholes I know that they're no better than anybody else simply cuz they can't make up their mind where they stand on issues.

more prevalent here (mcr) now is 'eeyahh' as preface to public statements. as in "eeyahh there's a fookin bogey on that". and other such delights.

― utterfilth (whatever), Friday, 11 March 2011 22:55 (2 days ago) Bookmark

haha - i'm from teesside

'ERE MATE'
'HOU!'
'HOY!'
'EEYAH'

and the like are all very common and used without notice i suppose

1) No need to stand that close behind me in the supermarket queue...

― Ron Rom (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:52 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Actually, I'd add the inverse:

OK, people standing in the queue for the bus: There's a nice shelter that person 1 is standing in, he's alright he's right up to the front. But, person two is six feet behind him, and person three is 6ft behind person two, and is just inside the shelter. So, everyone else files in behind person three, and it's raining so they stand fairly close to person three. But if someone wants to stand inside the shelter in the nice available space, boy does person two and three get defensive about this queue jumper!!!

I dont think I understand this. Doesnt everyone just crowd into the bus shelter while yr waiting? Whats the queue for?