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

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

more apple ia. I do not want to see the phrase 'my shiny new <apple product>' EVER AGAIN

i get irrationally angry when I type in www.ilxor.com and hit Enter.

check out my shiny new ampallang

check out my shiny new bowel movement

you can't polish those

can so too

well you could bronze it, THEN polish it.

exactly

shit thread

Are we sliding down some part of a shitty rope!?!?

dont poo-poo this thread

irrationally hang-ry

that is a shitty thing to say

this is RATIONAL anger, but:

the anne hathaway wannabe in the t-mobile ad campaign. the twee music in that t-mobile ad campaign. that ad campaign in general.

WINK SMUG CUTESY HATEFUL GAH DIE

She IS an AH double!! I knew that but hadn't articulated it until now. Thank u.

never amazes me how Floridians overreact to storms. we had a vicious one for all of 20-30 minutes today, and it knocked out a lot of power, and there's a buncha people packing it in for the evening, and local theatre rehearsals are being cancelled.

1. the storm is over...driving is fine right now, other than a few tree branch remnants
2. if the theatre has power, I'm fairly sure the people that don't would rather come in where there's power then spend the night in the dark at home
3. THE STORM IS OVER.
4. the power is likely to be restored in not that long.

Idk i'm probably being unsympathetic cuz I've lived here 30 years and this isn't even remotely in the top 100 of the worst storms I've been in in Florida. There was one wind/rain storm far worse in an April 18 years ago that made this look weak as hell as it lasted hours upon hours.

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"

See also every AMAZING SCIENCE/INVENTION news story evere, which inevitably start with the teeth-grinding words "It sounds like science-fiction, but..."

This goes along with my scrolling through a website and getting stuck inside the morass of a YouTube clip: pushing a page down on my iPhone on an article that is a minefield of links, so anytime I put my finger on the screen, I get transported to a magical world about Eric Cantor or somebody.

which inevitably start with the teeth-grinding words "It sounds like science-fiction, but..."

hacky local news shows are the best for this. the singsonging anchor's voice travels about two octaves. "It sounds like sci-ENCE FIC-tion buuuuuut"

people who say "oh that's just my OCD nature" to describe such obsessive behavior as wiping up a spill.

^^^^^^^ THIS

also people who just assume that you'll hold open the lift door for them and then fartarse around for five minutes