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

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"

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*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.

But yeah I hate having to re re re RE RE iterate I DONT EAT CAKE :|

Yeah it's like when you're at some wedding and a distant aunt insists on dragging you up to dance despite you saying at least 14 times that you do not want to dance.

Actually it's not much like that tbh.

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You guys need to read this cookbooks – awesome stories of different U.S. immigrants and the narratives of their trad foods, w/recipes. A cookbook w/really fascinating narratives!

wow that sounds cool, will def read

also post on food badgering...people on my floor at work are fucking obsessed with potlucks and bringing in breakfast and one girl who is sort of my friend cooks almost every single day, and so its this daily "Hey there's chili/casserole/whatever" repeated 100 times all morning and its like, thank you yes but I actually do eat breakfast and cant stomach rich food in the morning and Jesus Christ this isnt personal, I'm not hungry!!!

It's not a horrible situation, the food is great, it's just gone a bit OCD and has gotten almost terrifyingly needy in their need to be acknowledged

Who eats casserole for breakfast!?

You need to know this girl to understand. She is obsessed with meat (and is a former model who looks amazing despite just having turned 50)

She'll get colon cancer!

Why don't people check their documents before they take them off the printer?? I reckon I've wasted a ream of paper this week.

Two days in a row I have missed a tram because some thick cunt was dawdling in front of me.

so fucking ia atm

continually not remembering to get something you need and only remembering that you need it when you need to use it. Just buy the goddam toothpaste: go out and do it now, put it on a list, set a bloody alarm, whatever, just get it!

Magical energy bracelets in the checkout lane at Walgreens!

Seriously, there were two different brands of bracelets with claims that if you wear them, they will boost your energy level and enhance your health. I hate this stuff in general, and at least they're on the other side of the store from the pharmacy, but really.

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They sell these things at my gym - so ridiculous. I mean, this description, come on:

POWER BALANCE bracelets contain two Mylar Hologram's which are embedded with frequencies that react with your body's electro-magnetic field. When the static POWER BALANCE Hologram comes in contact with your body's energy field, it begins to resonate in accordance with each individual's biological energy system, creating a harmonic loop that optimizes your energy field, maintains maximum energy flow while it clears the pathways so the electro-chemical exchange functions like the well-tuned generator it was designed to be, resulting in immediate improved balance, increased core strength, greater flexibility, increased range of motion and overall well-being.

MAGICAL MYLAR, PEOPLE.