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

- People who think headphones included with audio devices are worth a shit

I actually like the sound when I press them deep into my ears. My Shures don't have enough bass and mid-range for my liking. (And I'm using the Apple ones instead of the Shures right now b/c the adapter cord broke.)

xp - I don't think they are worth shit, but I think they should be at least serviceable!

Maybe your ears are just a more awesome shape than the average human and so they don't fit right

I have Sennheisers that go everywhere with me, a backup pair of Sennheisers that also go everywhere with me, a backup pair of Sonys that are behind emergency glass at home, a backup pair of rubbish Sennheisers that I bought accidentally, a bag of ear plugs, a drill with a bit that's perfect for bursting ear drums and easy access to a train line for a quick and instant death. If all of those fail I have a pair of Apple earbuds under the stairs.

Maybe your ears are just a more awesome shape than the average human and so they don't fit right

I like this standard, because according to it, my ears are incredibly fucking awesome.

This is not innocuous but I feel like this doubles as my letting off steam thread so

They laid off at least 10 people at work today. They have never laid off that many. Two of the layoffs were a young husband and wife whose 8 yo daughter died suddenly last year. I don't even know how that family absorbs/deals with that at all, or how the company even decided to lay them both off at the same time. They laid off 4 ppl from our Eaat .coast office, leaving one person. And a senior marketing manager who runs that department and I have no idea how that even gets absorb, she was far from "dead wood"

I just...maybe I should have out this on the I'm sad thread, but I'm fucking mad. And it's tilting at windmills because it doesnt do any good to be mad...but I spent all day thinking about all these people going home to their families and it just...

Weird, weird fucking day

god, that sucks, VG. i'm sorry.

Thanks. I'm still processing it...we are a pretty small company and I think theyve been "protecting" us from layoffs for longer than they should have. We have had some cutbacks over the years, but it was usually only one or two a year...this was huge. Its shitty to say I don't fear for my job right now, but that is not what I is driving my emotions right now...they set this company up so that we would be like a family, so that's how it has been. I think the 180 on that position with these cuts just feels hypocritical and I don't like being lied to

Agh ranting now, I'll stop

Oh VG that is horrible :( It leaves the rest of you feeling so uncertain which is just the worst!

I was gonna come here and kick a can about how pissy I am about my stupid jokes on ILX about myself being apparently taken seriously but all water under bridge.

the only thought i'm gonna express on that subject is that if you find you keep having to point out things are a joke there might be something in the telling that isn't quite working..

You can kick your can, Trayce...I think I've let off all the steam I have, lol. And for the record I never take you seriously :) <3

if you find you keep having to point out things are a joke there might be something in the telling that isn't quite working.

I dont really give a fuck either way at this point tbh.

What I dont appreciate is people making up blatant lies about me for the lolz on a thread thats about someone else, and turning into a joke at my expense. I dont find that kind of thing remotely funny especially from people I know in real life.

ia: there was this woman on the bus who, for almost the entirety of my hour-long ride, was standing up at the front, practically leaning over the steering wheel to talk to the driver. the bus had shown up 25 minutes late so i was already in a weird mood, and i just had this awful feeling that the woman might distract the driver and cause him to crash. so relieved that didn't happen.

i mean, she was just... hovering. i couldn't take it.

VegemiteGrrl, that really sucks-- sorry!

seconded

i came here to post "baby corn"

What, like "Muppet Babies" kind of angry?

'oh hai i am a recruiter wanting to give you some work! I don't have a specific job right now but are you available? No? When will you be available? Really? Wonderful. OH BY THE WAY AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT JUST COMPLETELY OUT OF THE BLUE DO YOU HAVE ANY VACANCIES AT YOUR COMPANY SO I CAN BE A SNEAKY BASTARD AND PUSH MY WAY IN THERE?????? No? k thx bye <click>'

Recruiters are scumbags.

yes, and you missed out the "do you have any colleagues/friends that may be interested?"

1) (Colleagues) Yes, I like them so much, I'd like them to leave where I work...

2) (Friends) Yes, because all my friends have the same job and skill set as me that's why they are my friends...

People who make tea/coffee really loudly by clunking/chiming the spoon while stirring for longer than is necessary.
Makes me want to smash the whole place up >:(

People who stir their tea/coffee and then tap out a tune on the rim of the cup with the spoon. Also people who combine this with stirring their tea between every other mouthful - YOU ONLY NEED TO STIR THAT SHIT ONCE YOU FUCKER

I can just imagine Hitler stirring his coffee and then tapping out the first few bars of the H0rst We55el song.

To be honest, every think makes me irrationally justifiably angry these days.

Every think? Everything, sorry!

Having been donated a phone for a campaign I'm involved in , but the phone has a password that isn't known & 350 numbers in the phone memory to get rid of. If I go to delete all contacts it asks for the password.
I can wade through this slowly deleting manually, but it will take time and may cause RSI.

& then I'll have the possibility that a bitch who is making being in this campaign a pain will demand the phone be handed over to somebody else. I don't know how labour breaks down so I get to do most of the work and she thinks she can give me orders. Apparently to lighten my load instead of taking anything else on she wants me to hand over the newslist to her and show her how to do it. I guess the word fragging only applies to people of recognised higher rank? Not just the pushy?

& I should point out doing updates for the newslist is something I enjoy doing.

Search online for the phone model, there might be a factory reset code for it that just wipes the whole thing. Much easier, imo.

people with immense umbrellas, who walk slowly, and it is barely even raining, you make me IA. gfy.

People who can't learn postal abbreviations.

Alabama is AL, not AB. Alaska is AK, not AL. Arkansas is AR, not AK. And Arizona is AZ, not AR.

Just thought of this after the Associated Press just sent me 20 pressers with an ARIZONA dateline.

God help those who live in the "M" states.

When people ask for my address to send me stuff for work -- especially when they don't already know that I work on a Calif. magazine from Miss. -- I always try to take away their opportunity to fuck it up by spelling the state abbreviation instead of saying "Mississippi." I imagine there's more mail intended for Minnesota but misdelivered to MS than the other way around, though.

this ad is making me so fucking furious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiBfj7h5ksE

I imagine there's more mail intended for Minnesota but misdelivered to MS than the other way around, though.

Or em-eye-crooked letter-crooked letter- ouri.

add that xfinity ad to the list of things that make me angry, too.

Whiney do you seriously need to shit on absolutely everything?

loool

WHINEY I HOPE AN XFINITY FALLS ON YOUR PARENTS AND THEY DIE FUCK YOU

i think its the hipster in the tie that makes me angry. get the fuck off ferris's float.

people with immense umbrellas, who walk slowly, and it is barely even raining, you make me IA. gfy.

― rockapads, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:06 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

There should be a law about how tall you are allowed to be before you are allowed to carry an umbrella. They don't give a hoot about your eyes.

I wish Louisiana's postal abbreviation were not LA.

Thankfully I almost never refer to Louisiana without also referring to New Orleans, so I have "NOLA" at my disposal.

Seems like one of the states got to change theirs.

Nebraska went from NB to NE.

I worked on pamphlets and stuff about workers' rights for an organization in NOLA. I sometimes wrote about rights provided under "LA law." I thought that was funny.

Where I'm from, those letters mean "Lower Arkansas".

people who are proud of their ignorance

Search online for the phone model, there might be a factory reset code for it that just wipes the whole thing. Much easier, imo.

― sarcasdick (mh),

Couldn't find this thread earlier to say thanks. Didn't even need model since Samsung appears to have 2 Universal reset codes. Possibly a little dangerous, but hopefully too random a sequence to duplicate accidentally.
Only drag was it reset to Polish the language of original sale/manufacture & I had to work out what the reset to English language was. Didn't take too long though.