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

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.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31MCGAj729L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

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.

I swear, we're making a society of educated stupids.

Live recording CDs that put the next song intro banter at the end of the previous track.

That's something that mp3 can't really do! Remember when some live CDs would have intro banter that played if you listened straight through, but if you skipped to the song you wouldn't hear it? CD format has some neat tricks.

As a former DJ, I don't mind that. Start the track with the song and fade it out before the banter starts.

Yeah, the version of "Document and Eyewitness" has the manager rattling on before "12XU (fragment)" while the timer counts down from 00:45 (or whatever).

That's unrippable. But for some reason the record companies didn't cotton on to it...

It is completely rippable. I'm not sure if automated software will do it now, but even a decade ago I was able to set my ripping program to pick up those negative track time intros.

people who refer to blog posts as "blogs"

"i'm just writing a couple of blogs for you now"

yeah!

Using the word "blog" when what you mean is "blog post". Fuck you.

― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:47 AM (4 months ago)

Those people should be called "Blog Posters" not bloggers. Bloggist could also be accepted.

Live recording CDs that put the next song intro banter at the end of the previous track.

― ledge, Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

On the newly released Who show from Hull, 1970, the intro banter is at the beginning of the same track as the song. Fine, right? Nope, not when the banter preceding "A Quick One" is a full FOUR GODDAMN MINUTES.

ILXor Jenny's coworker refers to online comments sections as "blogs."

re those fucking POWER BALANCE bracelets

Misleading advertising claims about the alleged benefits of Power Balance wristbands and pendants have been withdrawn by the manufacturer after Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervention.

As a result consumers will be offered a refund if they feel they have been misled and Power Balance has agreed not to supply any more products that are misleadingly labelled.

Power Balance Australia Pty Ltd claimed the wristbands improve balance, strength and flexibility and worked positively with the body's natural energy field. It also marketed its products with the slogan "Performance Technology". The ACCC raised concerns that these claims were likely to mislead consumers into believing that Power Balance products have benefits that they do not have.

"Suppliers of these types of products must ensure that they are not claiming supposed benefits when there is no supportive scientific evidence," ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said today.

"Consumers should be wary of other similar products on the market that make unsubstantiated claims, when they may be no more beneficial than a rubber band," Mr Samuel said.

Power Balance has admitted that there is no credible scientific basis for the claims and therefore no reasonable grounds for making representations about the benefits of the product. Power Balance has acknowledged that its conduct may have contravened the misleading and deceptive conduct section of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

and I STILL see people wearing them

The Placebo Syndrome

ILXor Jenny's coworker refers to online comments sections as "blogs."

lol

fwiw, they probably do help you sustain an erection and give you the advertised "endurance," assuming you use it as a cock ring.

magnets, how do they not work.

Blogs generally do not help me sustain an erection.

People who ride their bikes across crosswalks when the "Don't Walk" sign is up. I already think it's dangerous enough to do that when you DO have the WALK sign, rather than walking it across, because we have a lot of asshole drivers here, and it's harder to dive to safety when you're on top of the bike...I've seen people hit before.

but for fuck's sake, riding across when you have the DON'T WALK sign is just idiotic. you're just asking to get your face smashed in, and because you're riding across and not walking, reaction time is gonna be even briefer for the people in the cars.

A bicycle shouldn't be in the crosswalk anyway.

I dreamed I ran someone over by mistake last night, coulda been reality just an hour ago

bicyclists around my office making me IA lately -- one guy waits for the green left turn arrow (waits for it halfway out into the middle of a busy intersection) then once he's across he darts into the sidewalk on the other side of the street, and rides down the sidewalk a block past the intersection to the next street.

one one side, pretty sneaky way to not have to wait for the lights.
on the other side, how about you fucking wait for the goddamn traffic lights in the direction you should be going, and not Magyver your way through traffic.

Magyver your way through traffic

my new verb of choice <3

Nearly hit by a cyclist yesterday. like: there is a pedestrian standing on the kerb at a crossing. the crossing goes green for pedestrians. what might the pedestrian do next?

for bonus points, you can easily see 1. the pedestrian, 2. their green crossing light, and 3. a red light on your own road. the pedestrian cannot see you easily, as you are behind them. what ways can you think of not to hit the pedestrian?

final advanced level question: there is a bus stopping at a bus stop and the doors open. if you cycle at 20mph up the pavement right alongside the bus, might anyone step out onto the pavement from a position where they can't see you, such as inside a bus?

hey, I dunno!

realising you've forgotten to hang your washing out at five minutes to bedtime.

;_;

(hang out in the spare room that is. i'm not sad mr sun has gone away. anyway it's just displacement anger, the real issue is me still sitting here f5ing at 20 minutes past bedtime.)

The "if you don't have an iPhone" commercial...like, see this is why people hate you. It makes me embarrassed to even have one.
Also the iBooks demonstration they click past at least 3 possible screens where they could have downloaded the stupid Stieg Larsson book RRAAGGH

hey do they explain how crap ibooks is? 'choose from a wide selection of dozens of titles'

lol...the free Proj Gutenberg stuff has a better selection

About the bike stuff- I don't ride on the sidewalk, but I do do a pretty cool macguyver thing at one particular intersection by school that involves riding through with traffic after I've lost my green left turn light, stopping in front of the two lanes of cars opposite who have also lost their green turn light, and then going on my left turn once everyone has their red. I'm pretty good at it and it's safe, anyway. There is no dodging involved, at least not any dodging or defensive riding I wouldn't have to do anyway riding straight with traffic.

mmmhhhmmmm (narrows eyes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnOvMFnRvs

wrong thread! that was for the rebecca black thread. but enjoy css anyway.

- people who wipe their arse like they're buffing scratches off a car

how do you know they do this

the noises!

I know this is such a mundane IA, it's probably been covered 900 times but being trapped in an elevator with someone who tells you their life story when you ask "How are you".

got a full story of someone's ear infection, doctor's appointment, weekend of sickness... honestly, likeigiveafuck.gif

how do you know they do this

dude you can hear it over the partition, scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape-scrape