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

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."

--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....

When I get asked that, I always say, "Am I!" They usually back away slowly.

"I have used all these chairs, at least three times, so far this evening" *lean sideways, fart*.

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.

i'm not irish either, but my people (eastern european) are no strangers to cabbage, or corned beef for that matter. when i cook cabbage, i use caraway seeds to neutralize the sulfur. it works!

But the sulfur is the most fun part! (I'm serious- I love vegetables that smell like an open sewer.)

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

whenever i go into a store and i just need *one thing*, there's always somebody blocking the item, and they're always oblivious to my presence. i hate having to ask them to move; they shouldn't be staring into the void in the first place.

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

answer is to trill "excuuuuuuse meeeeeeee!" in a regal falsetto, like you are all characters in an opera together, and then when they shift uncomfortably away sing "thaaaaaank youuuuuu!" in the same fashion.

St. Patrick's Day is all about hilariously stereotypical or offensive misconceptions in the US. That's why we eat cb&c, potatoes, dress like leprechauns, and drink shots called "Irish car bombs."

it's one time of year i'm happy to be 3,000 miles away from the northeast

yesterday on my flight the guy sitting in the seat next to me kept resting his elbow on my tv/radio controls so every couple of minutes i'd have to nudge it off. you'd think he'd get the hint after awhile?

(should say resting it so that it screwed with what i was watching/listening to)

I've only once really participated in st pats celebrations - the day I was let go from an IT job all the guys I worked with had planned to go to this big irish pub street festival, so I went with. It was actually pretty good fun, not too tacky or green-beer tainted. The only real crap was the horrible U2 cover band, lol.

That's a good name for a U2 cover band though.

ooh, good time for me to recycle my old joke about the mediocre u2 cover band called "the forgettable fire"

36. Friendly, engaging conversation first thing in the morning. SHUT UP SHUT SHUT UP YOU RIDICULOUS FREAK OF NATURE.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 06:04 (5 months ago) Bookmark

*yawns and stretches* far too much of this, i mean come on, i can barely co-ordinate my arms and legs at 9am

some people just aren't that bothered by the cold, it's no big deal and I don't think they're doing it because of some macho attitude

When old people are like that it's called hypothermia and its blamed on poor circulation among other things. General lack of recognition of cold correctly identified as a problem in itself.
When it goes the other way & you become like H.P.Lovecraft you need to worry too.

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

all ethnicities have their own soulfood don't they? makes everything like egalitarian and all.
Wonder what the english one is? Fish & Chips fried in lard? Yorkshire puddings with added lard?

Beef dripping on toast.

Saveloy dips

Jellied Eel.

lunch tongue

things in batter, things in pastry imo

I just had to tell six different people (one twice) that I really actually do not feel like a piece of cake.

Oh god I wonder if I'll cop that today, and be forced late bday cake. Actually no, knowing my work they'll completely overlook me and I wont get one at all.