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

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

people who fartarse in lifts

j/k

weather.com still uses the "TD Waterhouse Centre" as a landmark for weather conditions. the TD Waterhouse Centre is the old Amway Arena where the Orlando Magic play. It hasn't been called TD Waterhouse Centre in several years, and what's more, the Magic don't even play in it anymore.

when I emailed em they didn't give a shit. newbies to town are gonna wonder what the fuck landmark weather.com is talking about.

people who fartarse in lifts

for real... people who fart in lifts are disgusting savages who make me IA

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

― challopeñya (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:30 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sigh... it was only a matter of time before we ran out of things to be angry about

To plunge to new levels of innocuousness, I get angry when I see strangers working inefficiently. Specifically, a person sweeping the sidewalk with some tiny, old-fashioned broom, especially when the sidewalk doesn't really need sweeping. Grrr, if you gotta do something useless, get a real broom, sweep it quickly, and end it!

oh that riles me too!! my across-the-street neighbor is notorious for that...hosing down his driveway or using a leafblower and just blowing the leaves around in a circle over and over again..RAGH

you know what I HATE? people who have timed sprinkler systems and never adjust the timer EVER under any circumstances. So on a rainy day the sprinklers will be going along merrily...OR running at 2pm on a hot sunny day. MORANS.

that's just irresponsible, people do that over heret oo

Yeah, those are righteously angry-making, VG. I'm talking about something that really doesn't affect me or the world negatively at all. A person (and it's almost always an old person) sweeping something that doesn't need to be swept, and doing it inefficiently, just bugs me.

file under general things that annoy me: I really, really hate the person who walks past a conversation, catches a word or a phrase from the conversation and repeats it back in a smartass-y way

RAGH

Hahaha, how often does this happen to you?

at least 3 or 4 times a day, this one guy I work with...I love him, he's a sweetheart...but he does it ALL the time. You're talking and saying "it made me so mad" and he'll wander by as you're saying it and go "I'd hate to see that" or "ooh! it made you so mad!"

drives me bananas

I was picturing this happening in a more public setting, somewhere with roving bands of teenagers.

lol yeah I didn't explain myself very well

that would DEFINITELY drive me crazy