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

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

i do that shit all the time.

ok except maybe substituing "fuUuUuUck!" with an almost inaudible sigh

Arse bingo

something that makes me irrationally angry: the voice of one of my coworkers

it's really high and pinched and nasal and every time he speaks it basically cuts right through my skull, which is unfortunate because he's really a nice kid

people listening to music on their mobiles like its a transistor radio annoys me

Opposite of irrational ^^

yeah that's awful

surely youve got headphones!

Bathrooms are tricky!! Ours has two urinals, but someone pissed all over the floor near one of them, so I use the other one...I finish up and as I'm walking to the sink, my boss walks in! What do you do in that situation? Do you say, "hey that's not my piss on the floor"? Do you make a joke about it? Or do you just look guilty knowing that your boss is probably going to peg you as "most likely culprit to have peed all over the floor"? There's no rulebook !

something that makes me irrationally angry: the voice of one of my coworkers

A co-worker of mine has a deeply frightening, guttural, and really fuckin' loud post-laugh inhalation. "Ha ha ha...EEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNN."

"hey that's not my piss on the floor" ftw.

"See that piss? That's not mine."

people listening to music on their mobiles like its a transistor radio annoys me

― Michael B, Thursday, April 7, 2011 9:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Similarly, people who talk on their cellphones by holding the phone up to their ear to listen, then pulling it away and holding it in front of their mouth to talk, back to the ear, back to the mouth, back to the ear . . . it has both a speaker and a microphone, they work at the same time, WTF is wrong with you?

xp But can you really say that? There is a chance he wouldn't have noticed it anyway. Besides, saying stuff like that makes you look guilty and defensive, something I don't really need help doing

No, you cannot really say that, not unless you have a relationship with your boss outside of work.

Like, when I was in a band with my boss and my boss's boss and we'd all seen each other trashed multiple times, I would have had no qualms about not only bringing it up, but accusing them of doing it earlier. With my current boss, who lives in another state? No way in hell.

Just contact the office manager and ask how to get facilities in to clean it up.

people who talk on their cellphones by holding the phone up to their ear to listen, then pulling it away and holding it in front of their mouth to talk, back to the ear, back to the mouth, back to the ear . . . it has both a speaker and a microphone, they work at the same time, WTF is wrong with you?

This drives me fuckin' nuts. Especially since the people that do it are the same people who have conversations fully 50 percent louder than anyone else on the street. I want to slap the phone out of their hand, and/or beat them in the face with a paving stone.

Scrolling down on a website with the wheel and the cursor hitting a YouTube video and stopping. Have to manually move the cursor and start scrolling again.

bob on. also that thing when i click a youtube link, pause to let it load so it won't stutter, start watching and decide hey this'll be better in fullscreen so click that button in the corner, whereupon it'll stop and have to load the ENTIRE STREAM AGAIN!

drives me potty, it's a new thing i think too. there's already a button to see it in higher quality so why add the same thing to the fullscreen button. for something so ubiquitous youtube is fucking shittily designed

it really, really is

How about: "Careful you don't tread in that piss the way I did?", thus implying you're a victim, not a perp?

or "Who does this?" thus implying you're not a perp and also take a dim view.

Then again, suppose it was the manager who did, ...

ia: receipts. i'm shredding receipts and mail tonight and getting irrationally angry about how much of my personal information is out there in the ether. i need to start paying in cash only and stop using store loyalty cards. but then there's my pharmacy receipts, which have prescription information along with my account number, name, etc.

Ugh I have BOXES of crap I'm relucant to turf because its all old bills/reciepts, and I havent a shredder. The bills are years old, other addresses but I'm paranoid regardless.

- people who swing their arms when they walk

Burn your bills and receipts in a BBQ grill.

I was pretty sure that swinging your arms when you walk was normal, but now I can't remember.

It's weird and slightly dangerous when you're a 45yo man on a packed street.

I mean, they're supposed to naturally swing a little bit, right? But if the swinging is aggressive, unless you're Duke Ellington, knock it the fuck off.

Yeah, I'm talking a full 180° motion with arms fully extended, like what kids do but without the benefit of being small or mentally underdeveloped.

Ha - I mixed up 180° with 360° and was wondering who the hell swings their arms in a full circle while walking.

Townshend.

Inspector gadget

Imagine if Inspector Gadget kitted himself out just to annoy people.

Go go gadget swinging arms

go go gadget standing in the middle of an escalator so people can't get past

go go gadget applying for annual leave

Go go gadget cheery morning talker

go go gadget mini suitcase with wheels and a long handle

Go go gadget slow left lane driver

Go go gadget map-holding tourist

I keep thinking of that fight Lisa and Bart has where bart goes "I'm just gonna start doing this" *waves arms round in circles advancing on Lisa* "and if any part of you happens to get in the way its not MY fault... NYEEAWOOORRR NYYEEWWWW"

Go go gadget open-mouth eater

go go gadget email sign-off with first initial only

Huh. Why does that annoy you?

- J

it doesn't annoy me

...why mention it then? o_0

go go gadget rounding on someone for quoting someone else

Go go gadget personalised license plate

Go go gadget truck balls