Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list 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

Things make you so mad 3 or 4 times a day?

yep! (you must be new to this thread)

The opposite of this happens to me:

CO-WORKER: "…and then when she woke up, she was covered in ant bites." [I walk by] "Haha, there goes Plains. I BET HE'S WONDERING WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
ME: [Keeps moving.]

followed by "...stuck-up bastard..." right after you got out of earshot, if I recall my office environments correctly.

Websites that use gray text instead of black text. Why the fuck do you want your text to be less readable?!

badly designed teapots.

Game show contestants who constantly refer to the host by first name. 'Well, Alexander, I've done some travelling in my time. Ho, yes Alexander. Well, Alexander, I'm going to go with Lima. Yes, Alexander.'

Add to that when that same type of person has completed a fucking associate diploma/GCSE/swimming certificate and feels the need to shoehorn it into the response to a question.

When you put your shit down at a seat at a table, and leave temporarily to take a leak or something, and some asshole takes your seat.

1, Biting the inside if your cheek.
2, biting the part of your cheek that's swollen from earlier biting.

3, leaving a cupboard door open, bending down to lower cupboard then banging head on upper cupboard you left open.

4, people parking in front of your home, i have no car, they have every right, but i still feel annoyed. (why?)

5, queueing!

1, Biting the inside if your cheek.
2, biting the part of your cheek that's swollen from earlier biting.

Not innocuous. My mouth is packed with baked-on welts from doing this shit every single day of my entire life.

#4 though, yes, absolutely 100%

(mind i am not going all hardman krew on this thread)

another "rationally angry" one:

the office park where i work is supposedly certified leed* silver, but the majority of the campus is designed for cars, not pedestrians. wherever i walk, i have to compete with drivers. there are a few sidewalks, but they're basically just carpeting between the spaces where the parking lots end and the buildings begin. i don't drive, so when i enter the office park from the street level, this is how i get to work:

-i get off the bus and walk a few blocks north
-i walk up the same hill that the cars use to get in/out
-i walk through a long, flat parking lot
-i climb up a steep flight of stairs to another level of parking lot
-i walk through more car traffic to get to my building, which is way in back, at the very end of a dead-end street

*leed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design

(i mean, it's nice that they put in permeable pavements, native flora, and bioswales. they just forgot about the people.)

btw: if i don't feel like walking up the three flights of stairs to get to my office, that's why. elevator, please.

When you put your shit down at a seat at a table, and leave temporarily to take a leak or something, and some asshole takes your seat.

― San Te, Saturday, April 2, 2011 4:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

And when you politely say something to them about it, they say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know whose stuff that was." Right, because it's about WHO claimed the seat, not that it was claimed.

(This has happened to me on multiple occasions. Never fails to baffle.)

I have the ia to end all ias:

EGGS THAT DON'T CRACK PROPERLY

lock thread

ha, had that this morning

wow i always blame myself for that. *thats a load off*

You should take those eggs back to the store.

And likely, get in line ahead of me.

When you order a coffee and the cream comes in a cute little jug with the smallest imaginable notch as a spout, so pouring the cream at a reasonable velocity sends it all down the front of the jug and out behind it all over the table.

fucking hate that ^^^