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

when people are late on a recurring basis and the excuse is "you know how far away I live"

Well yeah, I do totally see yr point, but I reserve the right to think that the coworker who lives 1.5 miles away and drives in and is always 40 minutes late is a bigger jerk than the one who buses in from 20 miles away and is always 40 minutes late.

Though I'm totally slack about transport now I live somewhere where the buses are every 5-10 minutes. I used to live somewhere where the buses were hourly and was damn sure to be at the stop on time, often turning up (early) for the one an hour before I needed just in case. Now I routinely traipse out of the house 15 minutes after I meant to.

on the tourist IA thing, I have real IA streak against people who go to something like the Jefferson Memorial and get their photo taken in front of his statue. I don't know why, but it drives me CRAZY. Like, isn't a photo of it enough to show that you were there? Why does your grinning yap have to be in front of it?

and instead of taking a bajillion photos and leaving, why not see it with your eyes, and you know, remember it that way?

Because cousin Edna will never believe you were actually there if you don't have proof, ANYONE can have a picture of JUST the Jefferson Memorial.

and instead of taking a bajillion photos and leaving, why not see it with your eyes, and you know, remember it that way?

Oh don't even get me started on this. I could rant for hours about much I hate people that watch concerts through their cameras or cell phones.

on the tourist IA thing, I have real IA streak against people who go to something like the Jefferson Memorial and get their photo taken in front of his statue. I don't know why, but it drives me CRAZY. Like, isn't a photo of it enough to show that you were there? Why does your grinning yap have to be in front of it?

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, April 4, 2011 1:57 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My father and I fought tooth-and-nail over this when he took us to DC when I was 11. Lots of shots of me looking angry in front of American History.

I mean, c'mon. I don't want to see my own reflection in the Vietnam Wall.

I think it's still lame, but I can see taking a photo of someone in front of an attraction more than just the attraction. You can go "oh lookit how young Jimmy looks there" or whatever, at least.

I understand it, but it still makes my eye twitch when I see it

In these days of Google images and flickr and whatever I can kind of understand thinking "ehh what's the point in just taking a photo of the thing itself" - whether that suggests to you that you don't need a photo at all or whether it suggests you should ask your loved ones to wave their arms around and pull a face in front of said thing is I guess personal preference

I'm not a photo person at all, I haven't even owned a camera for most of my adult life and don't think about it. But you know, it can be a downer in its own way to look back on like 10 years of life and think of all the activities and other people that there will never be evidence of. Of course I have the memories, but maybe somedah I'll meet people or have family members who might like to see proof of these things/have something to remember me by later/whatever. For me, the value of photos is more for the people who come after us or won't have been there, so they can know something of you.

^^^

I personally have a shit memory, so past a certain point I remember the picture moreso than the actual event. Like I don't remember visiting Santa's Village as a kid so much as I remember looking at the picture of me visiting Santa's Village for years and years afterward, and associating it vaguely with memories of cold and my friend that was with me and striped poles etc.

At the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago a couple asked me to take their picture. Only, it was indoors, and not in front of anything vaguely aquatic. Not even water.

I am totally not a photo person either and I was delighted recently when clearing out a drawer to find a packet of photos of my university years, including a couple with me in - I thought I had no photos, appeared in no photos, and I don't have a degree, so I was (without realising it) kind of bummed that these years disappeared with no evidence whatsoever

what some photos of a bunch of drunks wearing black tie in a dark bar is going to tell my grandchildren about me, I dunno, but there it is

(though they are pretty faded already - as a kid I thought 70s photos had that weird washed-out blue/sandy look because of some special thing about 70s film, but now my own past from just 12 years ago is beginning to go that colour)

when someone mistakenly puts your name on a group email and for the next week all these random replies from people you don't know keep popping up in your inbox

corollary: when people respond to a mailing list with "please remove me from this mailing list"

I personally have a shit memory, so past a certain point I remember the picture moreso than the actual event. Like I don't remember visiting Santa's Village as a kid so much as I remember looking at the picture of me visiting Santa's Village for years and years afterward, and associating it vaguely with memories of cold and my friend that was with me and striped poles etc.

Wow, this is so OTM for me. I don't really have any concrete memories of being at Santa's Village, but I can distinctly recall each of the photographs of me taken at Santa's Village, photos I haven't seen in 15+ years.

San Te's Village

I clearly remember the fire engine ride, so I win!

I don't think I went to Santa's Village...and I don't have any photos of it...but maybe I went and I don't remember! ;_;

For me, the value of photos is more for the people who come after us or won't have been there, so they can know something of you.

Though, having been helping my wife sort through a whole bunch of her very recently deceased grandmother's photos, many of them are just mystifying. "Who are these people?" "Why is there a photo of a hideous caravan?" "Are these important rocks?"

"Look at that guy. Well, at least we know that's the Lincoln Memorial in the background."

lol James

--people (ie, waiters, or chat support help) who don't even give any sort of greeting, just stand there in silence and expect you to order/ask your question.

what the fuck?

Encountered my worst IA this weekend: disinterested clerk who only breaks her conversation with another clerk to tell me the price of the item I'm buying. And that gripping conversation centered around craving watermelon. I dont want you to kiss my ass, I don't want you to curtsy, I just want your full attention and some goddamn eye contact.

this dude at the local Circle K has full on convos while he's doing people's transactions, and he isn't even pretending to give a shit. he's all like "nah dawg, NOW, i don't give a shit, you know, he fucked me and he gotta live with it. man, them bitches is crazy. (aside) debit or credit? (back to phone) yea man her titties were like wow. (aside) thanks have a good night".

he's a nice dude tho. and a narcoleptic (he has some apparatus around his neck)

one time the toilet water overflowed and filled teh store and this idiot dude was still wading though it to get something and he was like, to the customer "MAN, DON'T EVEN FUCKIN WALK IN THAT, MAN. THAT'S FUCKIN DOO DOO WATER, MAN"

Haha I think I like that guy lol

yea he's nice even if not your typical professional guy. he liked to talk Wu-Tang Clan w/ me when I came in w/ my wu-tang shirt.

San Te's clerk is the best local store guy ever, apparently.

You know you're a local when you have a rapport with people like that.

jelly beans where the purple color tastes like paint and is bitter and gross and you need a glass of water to rinse your mouth out

peh! yuk!

- when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

people referring to annual leave as annual leave.

instead of waiting for one of us to ask you what you're talking about, why not just jump to the explanation now

things that make you IA: being cryptic on the IA thread.

sry, didn't think i was being crytic. it just irks me when people talk about booking time off work or going on vacation as being "on annual leave", which is the official term for it and perfectly reasonable to use.

I'll call it AL to my boss, but only whenm I'm saying "can I have AL on these days". I dont kick back with a beer saying "yeapp... I'm on ANNUAL LEAVE" to my mates at the pub.

yeah, within the office - use the jargon. with normal people, talk like a human. makes sense.

Louie Spence.

^ not irrational at all, imo

kick back with a beer saying "yeapp... I'm on ANNUAL LEAVE"

can totally see you doing this

yeah me too, wtf trayce

Aww hey

Dammit Nick just agreed with you guys wtf.

i heard the voice and everything xpost

hhaaa

;_;

when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

no revelations are ever made in the men's room. it's a tense place

Just last week I walked into a men's restroom with an inexplicable line. I rolled my damn eyes, said "fuUuUuUck!", spun around and walk out.

it would make my whole week if I could see someone do that

when someone walks into a shop/lift/toilet and exclaims "FULL HOUSE!!" like it's a fucking revelation

at first I thought this was a John Stamos joke