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

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?

What sort of queuing system would that be? What are you, some sort of anarchist?

That'd be the French queueing system from the sounds of it.

Ah, I have recently experienced said system. Turned up for bus due in ten minutes. Waited. More people turned up, stood in front of us. More people turned up, stood in front of them. Bus arrived, everyone tried to get on without letting people off first.

SAVAGES.

...dont the people getting off use the rear doors?>

this was a free ski resort bus, so all doors available for exit/entry. upper middle class clientele also perhaps unused to norms of public transport behaviour.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Bus_Queue.jpg

^ Gah, take a look at this queue! The lady on the left is at the front, and is sensibly counting her change in advance so as not to delay the driver unnecessarily. You might think that she could move a little further to the left to allow her fellow queue-dwellers a little shelter from the harsh UK sun, but you'll notice that she has taken a position right in line with the bus-stop sign, so her positioning is faultless and overall her technique is exemplary. The gentlemen next to her is her husband and is perfectly entitled to stand alongside in close proximity. The third guy is where it all goes wrong. He should really have queued on the other side towards the oncoming traffic. His error has led to a queue being formed upstream of the bus stop and you will notice the anxiety this is causing the other queuefolk. From his casual attire and failure to button his shirt I suspect he's an Australian. He will shortly be picked up by the authorities and beaten to a bloody pulp for his infraction. What will happen if the bus driver overshoots the stop by a few yards with the queue in this sort of disarray? Quite simply it would be chaos! The old lady will lose her place and could well get trampled in the insuing melee. Someone who arrived at the stop later than she will be the first to embark. Wrong wrong wrong!

gotta make her mind up, which seat can she take?

lol @ british orderly queue for the bus, it really is a country of queueing

At only certain bus stops in Chicago people form a line. My friend Courtney says that the one she take to work is a strangely single file and orderly. We have pondered what makes that one so exceptional.

you will notice the anxiety this is causing the other queuefolk

hahaha so true - man in the centre with hand on his head is about ready to faint with the tension.

my ia for today: crud being allowed to collect on shared mice/mouse-mats & me being seemingly the only person on Earth bothered enough by it to clean said crud off.

i dunno if this belongs to this thread but somebody in the kitchen decided to defrost raw meat directly on top of my leftover dinner. and it made me pretty angry.

by directly on top i don't mean the rack above, but just sitting on top of my dish, in a plastic bag with blood dripping all over. i mean, wtf.

that is either remarkably clueless or active-aggressive behavior

i've never seen any londoners queue like that at bus stops (you can see that's not a london one)

i've definitely seen ppl queue for bus stops once or twice, but i think it was in west london

they're probably tourists

Actors that certain directors seem to be in love with and keep foisting on the public, despite lack of charisma/skill/etc. Shia LeBouef, Gemma Arterton, etc

pooping buckets has me IA at the moment

when frozen slices of bread won't come apart even with a butter knife and it's early in the morning and you just want some toast and you slam the knife down on the counter and throw the chunk of bread down saying 'FUCK IT ALL' and then realize that you are having a tantrum over frozen goddamn bread

sorry abt yr poop San Te

lol well guess which post will likely be on the out of context thread

ARGH couple in supermarket having noisy sucky-face session, blocking the shelf/item I needed for nearly five minutes.

gross

throw cans of food at them til they stop

you should jam your way into the middle of them and see if they notice

Screw that, throw a cup of ice on them.

I COULD HEAR SPIT AND PHLEGM.

ram a spatula up one or both of their asses

The best I could do was to get close to the shelf I wanted and stage-cough at them. BTW, for the next time this happens, does anyone know 'get a room' in Mandarin?

I'm pretty sure I'm alone in this IA, probably sacrilege to some but it makes me kind of crazy that corned beef and cabbage is a 'thing' on St Patricks Day in the States.

a) this was like, um there's nothing left in the cupboard and corned beef was on sale so we're having corned beef for dinner. luckily mum didn't often cook it with cabbage so that's okay but still, when I first moved here and St Patricks Day rolled around I was all WTF over the whole corned beef and cabbage being celebration food.
b) the smell the smelll the smell
c) ppl getting super excited about it and all WOO YAY when they have a corned beef and cabbage lunch at work. I mean, I get that corned beef is pretty yum when cooked right...but cmon. It's fucking corned beef.

I just. don't. get. it.

Americans are awesome at taking the dregs from other countries and celebrating it as if it is a delicacy.....

if I think about it too long and get too IA about it, it feels almost patronising.

I know it isn't intended that way. but there's a small part of me that wants to yell PEOPLE LIVE OFF THAT SHIT FOR A WEEK YKNOW

because if you're going to do corned beef right, it's corned beef for dinner, cold corned beef for lunch/dinner, corned beef sandwiches, and meat paste if you get tired of that

corned beef and cabbage is great when prepared well

--people who come up to you at a restaurant, ask "are you using this chair", and begin taking the chair before they even get your answer....

people in the drive thru who have space in front of them but don't move far enough up so that you're just an inch away from the box

Ohhh I *LOVE* saying "yes someone is sitting there" really snappily to anyone who pulls that chair thing and goes to make off with it. They look all startled and confused and put it back.

sometimes I tell them someone died in that chair

I am in no way Irish (my mom is Mexican, dad German) and I don't care about St. Patrick's Day, but I LOVE corned beef and cabbage (and potatoes). It was one of my favorite meals growing up. We always added vinegar to the boiled cabbage - don't know if that's the Irish way.

My mouth is watering like crazy right now.

Americans are awesome at taking the dregs from other countries and celebrating it as if it is a delicacy

this counts in their favor not against them imo

I read that corned beef & cabbage came to be a thing associated w/Irish ppl in the U.S. thanks to Jiggs's cb&c love in "Bringing Up Father."