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

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.

People who shorten names like Gary, Larry etc to "Gar" or "Lar"...with an American accent so it sounds more like "Gair" or "Lair"

dunno why, but it drives me bananas

gary should be shortened to gagz as any fule kno

gaz obv

GAZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MATE

lol "gagz"

dying here

Why do school teachers take a gigantic knot of teenagers onto public transport DURING PEAK HOUR. WHY DO THEY DO THIS. Can they not wait even til 9.30? I hate my tram suddenly filling with 25 shrieking, babbling private school ditzheads who like omg like wont shut up, like you know, she goes like omg like you know?

gonna call the next gary i meet gagz and see what transpires xpost

report back. I will still be crying laughing over here

also: you could try GAZBAGS and see what happens

Messageboard posts that are unintelligible due to lack of punctuation. I guess this is a byproduct of smartphones and wanting to get by with as few keystrokes as possible...? I dunno.

People who shorten names like Gary, Larry etc to "Gar" or "Lar"...with an American accent so it sounds more like "Gair" or "Lair"

THIS

but we are approving 'gagz' as a nickname, via electricsound

YES

Renewing my ia at people who refer to Apple products like they're people. Lost count of the number of times I've seen the phrase 'I have ordered ipad 2' today. WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. PEOPLE.

That is referring to it as a noun, not a person.

If you called your ipad Fred you could say 'I have ordered Fred', otherwise it's a quantifiable object and requires and indefinite (or definite) article.

Likewise, people who name their computers although I assume that's half of ILX right there.

Not the half I'm standing in, wtf?

I have "named" my laptop so I can remember which one it is on the network, but if I ever call it anything except "my laptop" in conversation (except to tell someone else who is connected to the network which hostname to copy some files to/from) please shoot me

I like how IA becomes "Irate Australians" during my usual ILX downtime :)

People who shorten names like Gary, Larry etc to "Gar" or "Lar"...with an American accent so it sounds more like "Gair" or "Lair"

who doesn't name their computers? I mean you pretty much have to if you have multiple computers and a network

my computers at home: Widmore, Roastbeef and Ludwig

I don't actually call them by their names though, I just call them "The desktop", "the shitty desktop" and "the laptop"

That's barely acceptable, but as long as you don't say "your car keys are over there by Ludwig," in conversation, you're excused for the time being.

My dear mother names everything. Having not been a member of her household for more than 20 years, I'm not up to date with the names. So when she tells me that Otto broke down in front of Cothern's, I have to make her back up so I can learn that Otto is the name of the Subaru.

I have named my car, but I only use its name in my head. The computers are identified by owner & function.

Otto the Auto, I presume?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nSUASp1wxQI/SZF4cO3mqyI/AAAAAAAAAYg/8V-KWyaGmP4/s400/otto.jpg

Renewing my ia at people who refer to Apple products like they're people. Lost count of the number of times I've seen the phrase 'I have ordered ipad 2' today. WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. PEOPLE.

Do you travel in a circle of Hulks?

(although the Hulk wouldn't say "I", he'd say "me")

He'd say "Hulk Smash iPad2"

(wouldn't he, old ILX?)

When someone says "My [spreadsheet, document, whatever] didn't save." You mean, you didn't save it. Don't blame the machine. If I see someone drowning and I do nothing to help them, I won't say, "Eh, he didn't save."

The whole American backwards-date thing is driving me up the wall atm.

I don't defend our system of writing dates, but when I run into the DDMMYYY format in the U.S. used by an American organization, it's really annoying and confusing. A court reporting company I recently hired did this. Fortunately it was clear which date they meant b/c it was like 28/01/2011, but if it had been 03/04/2011 THEN WHAT. Why in Christ's name would they use that format??

--just had a package delivered to my door. Look outside, don't see it, there's a door tag which indicates that it was delivered "de bajo de alfombra".

y'know, I'm not one of those "we speak English in Amurrca" assholes, i'm in fact one of their most vocal critics, but uh I shouldn't have to use Babelfish to look up the location of my package. Turns out it means "under the carpet", which is where I first looked, but I missed it cuz it was a flat package so it didn't look like anything was underneath.

I'm guessing the dude assumed I speak Spanish from my last name....but MY LAST NAME IS ITALIAN...WHICH I ALSO DON'T SPEAK

More corporate-speak #5987: today I attended a neighborhood meeting about a proposed McDonald's development called a "Community Visioning Event". Several people also used the word at the meeting. Visioning. FUCCCCK. It's not just annoying: it's a fucking language hate-crime.

I feel the same about people medalling at sports events. You don't medal, you win a medal. It's not a fucking verb. It probably is a verb now, but it really shouldn't be.

Jusy found out my roommate again has let the mail sit since Wednesday. He's on leave from work at the moment.

I didn't realize he hadn't gotten it since I wasn't expecting anything. It's like if he doesn't leave the house, he just let's the mail collect in the box.

About to have a heated discussion where I demand he give me the mail key or a copy, or knock forty dollars off my rent so I can get a P.O. Box.

Are you not allowed to get the mail?

Oh lol I am illiterate. Maybe he left you a note about not picking up the mail en español.

Hahaha.

Btw someone needs to get irrationally angry at me for putting an unnecessary apostrophe on "let's".

people who do that make me rationally angry

Me too. I feel like Jim Baker now

oh I meant grammar cops make me rationally angry, kapeesh?

OH I FUCKING HATE SANDRA BULLOCK. WHO KNOWS WHY? NOT ME! I JUST HATE HER SO SO BAD UGH SKINNY SHITTY INBRED

i still find her attractive

HATE HER FACE AAAAAGH OH GOD