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

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

It's weird, cuz I like Mary Louise Parker and they are a little the same

San Te you sure do have a lot of mail-related problems :(

nah, roommate related. actually that's the only thing that bugs me about him, I kinda treaded lightly about it early on as I don't have an official lease and didn't wanna give him a reason to kick me out.

90% of my own problems I could probably solve if I wasn't such a milquetoast tho.

Well but there's all the UPS FEDEX stuff you've relayed, which I put under the heading of "mail"

ohhhhhh lol yea

that's mostly cuz I order so much fucking shit from Amazon lol

Lol!

placed about 130 orders last year

already at about 40 this year

Dayum son

amazon prime is a drug, every time you think about buying something in a store, you buy it online instead with no hesitation

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.

"visioning" has been around for a while and it's not strictly corporate -- visioning events are part of urban planning public outreach too. they bring in someone who can explain the political/scientific/financial realities of certain situations and knows how to get the community to articulate what it wants as a group (instead of just having the community members yelling into the wind for two hours). i don't know if they borrowed it from the corporate world or vice versa, but it's not new.

it sucks, regardless

envisioning is a word, visioning is not

i don't love it either, but people in the field know what it is when someone says it, so it's not totally unsuccessful as a word.

xpost yeah, but you don't have "envisioning meetings," you have "visioning meetings." to create a collective vision, not to sit there like an anorak and envision something.

meeting itself was pretty lol, lots of hippies suggesting indoor dog parks, libraries as alternatives for commercially zoned lot...and most popular objection to McDonalds development on that lot was "obesity" ...all that despite a local "activist architect" getting up at the beginning of the meeting and saying that have to submit seriousl alternatives to the city planners and put forward tangible concerns about development such as drop in housing values, traffic noise etc

Honestly looking back I think the "visioning" was the least of our problems, lolol

I think that you mean "planning" meetings. A vision is just a shared idea, and if you have to have a meeting to come up with this "vision," then you're just planning.

People think "planning" sounds boring, I guess?