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

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?

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

Me too. I don't know why I hate, but I do.

me too; i thought i was the only one.

this asshole in his shorts, jerusalem cruisers and general overall look.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2011/03/10/inappropriate-dresser__1299790803_4145.jpg

I realized today is the point of no return for getting a thank you card for a wedding gift to my sister. Who even cares, right? I guess I have been caring about it for a whole year. I feel like such a boring old biddy giving a fuck about this.

thank you cards are classy but i never expect them.

It is really the height of all folly to do so!

OTOH my sister knows I don't believe in God, only thank you cards are my god. I mean, she knows my feelings on them.

the height of all folly!

SOme bestest buds of mine have now, after over a year, said "we should prob send out wedding thank you cards shouldnt we?". Some people are just slack hehe!

I am bad with thank you cards :/

i always send thank you cards after job interviews. nobody has ever thanked me for the thank you cards, but maybe expecting *that* is a bridge too far.

new idea for etsy-ites: "you're welcome" cards.

Can I just...I am so over stories about pre-internet eras where, apropos of nothing except "an event took place", the writer feels the need to say "now remember, there was no internet back then"

surely by now most people with a decent sense of time passing understand that say, the 70's was a twitterless decade. Or that the 1930s had no blogosphere.

Drives me round the fucking twist.

I wish there were "Leave Me the Fuck Alone" cards

there was an internet in the fucking FIFTIES, but the great unwashed was clueless about it until 40 years later.

I sure miss the fifties, when there was no such thing as DNA evidence.....

When we cracked the human genome, and boy bands ruled the earth.

sure was fun being the Zodiac killer

Is it irrational to be angry at someone who fucking farts in a lift?

use the stairs imo

IA regulars get a pass ITT for occasionally being pissed off by whatever, irrational or no...i say go for it :D

Right, fuck 'em then.

First message on ARPANET on 29 October 1969, not the fifties!

Sorry, I get IA when people arbitrarily throw far-past dates on things when there's really over a decade of difference