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

Ugh sorry for TMI there.

Ok, I don't even know if this is a thing that has ever happened more than once, but I'm standing right here at the bus stop and I'm PISSED OFF to see concrete that has been patched with asphalt.

It looks like cancer.

Also, stop signs in the same neighborhood that are mounted on different styles of metal pole.

when people talk about artists or whatever and they say "the man"

like "the man can do no wrong!" or "the man is a genius", "the man just DOES NOT release bad music"

fucking HATE this.

Also saying "Dylan" instead of Bob Dylan

wow. that's awful. LG: examples of a typical "the man" please. I'm imagining like, Clapton or something?

Van.

Also saying "Dylan" instead of Bob Dylan

They might be asking Dylan Moran if he'd like a cup of tea. That'd get very confusing.

any sort of auteur or legend figure. definitely gives the vibe that the person thinks part of the success is due to them being a man, even if that's not their intention.

I call him Moran (xp)

"Yer man" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "the man"

Oh yeah! I guess that term couldn't apply to women, huh? "She is the woman!"

"Yer man" is one of the things I am really too English to say but have started saying thanks to mr spacecadet. It is fun to say, though.

I found myself announcing "ah feck" to an otherwise empty flat the other week, and the very next day another board I read erupted into an equivalent of this very thread over English people saying "feck" (not prompted by me, unless they have a spycam in my living room)

People who have just seen the movie "I'm Still Here" and comment online as if it's not widely known (and admitted!) that it was a put-on.

lately in the office people have gotten into the habit of saying 'does that make sense?' after every bit of explanation

thanks, but i'll let you know if something doesn't make sense

Oh god

I do this all the time. It's some sort of weird thing I have where I'm trying to make sure I've made myself clear but it's really annoying and I'm trying to break myself of the habit.

thanks, but i'll let you know if something doesn't make sense

yeah, you might, but most people who aren't your superiors won't readily tell you that they don't understand something

I think it's a nicer way of saying DO YOU FOLLOW, YOU THICKIE? And as such, I can live with it. Lots of people are too embarrassed to admit when they don't follow (including me, sometimes).

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I do that too. It's mostly me asking myself if what I said made sense. Like, "What the fuck did I just say? That's not even a sentence!"

I don't think I really do this at work btw. I tend to do it if I'm discussing opinion on stuff or theories I have or whatever and want to be sure that I'm making articulating my point properly.

I definitely don't do it because I think the people I'm speaking to aren't following me. If anything its because I doubt my own ability to explain things thoroughly sometimes.

haha yes, sort of like that

yeah I do it too, especially if I'm seeing that glazed over look in someone's eyes or they aren't giving me any of the usual tics that would tell me they understand. I like some eye contact, occasional nodding or some kind of verbal cue to say, 'yes, I know what you mean'...but then again people listen and take in info differently and sometimes I'm nervous that I sound like a condescending asshole, like 'This is information might be too much for a lower being such as yourself"

I do the "does this make sense?" thing all the time at work. You kind of have to say it (or something else that means the same thing) if you're explaining something somewhat technical to somebody and don't really know the level of their expertise.

yeah i completely understand the utility of it, but it seems like a lot of the time the phrase is just thrown in there after each step out of habit

and makes me irrationally angry

that makes sense, I guess

lol

do you understand, mr. ohida? do you understand?

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.....no

American remakes of TV shows from other countries. just STOP it!

stoked for the debut of 'packed to the roddicks'

but I have a terrible crush on Elijah Wood, i sort of have to see Wilfred...sorry!!!

The US Wilfred actually has the potential to be better than the original one.

Because, you know, it was Wilfred.

I didn't mind the Aus one, only saw a few episodes though...maybe Frodo will add something :D

OK, I had no idea anyone intended remaking Wilfred... this has blown my mind

I never saw the Aus version :/

missed nothing

Russell Brand's fucking face makes me IA.

with or without moustache?

Argh! I hate him so much. Is this a common thing? Do reasonable people hate Russell Brand?

I also deeply hate Robin Williams.

I dont get Russell Brand at all...he's so twitchy and coked-out seeming and sweaty looking and he just talks and talks and talks... definite IA

and dont get me started on wtf Arthur with no booze well then its not fucking arthur then innit aaaaghhhhhh

Yeah I hate the guy and I'm not really sure why. The remake of Arthur looks so horrible. I dunno, maybe it's just the way he does everything in such an "ain't I cute?" sort of way, the fact that he's married to one of the most obnoxious women pop singers ever, the fact that he plays up his accent, I dunno. The thread on him here had like 1000 comments so I'm assuming it's not just you.

Yeh, I'm not quite sure why I hate him. He was pretty funny in the one movie I saw him in (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), but he just pisses me off.

Yeah I'm the same...thought he was great in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and then it was like he became this spreading bacteria and he was everywhere I looked.

I think part of it is how he tries to look like a rock star.

and he just seems very leering, or lecherous...or I dunno, just creepy. Like if he sat next to me at a bar I'd find a way to move away as soon as possible.

you don't like him because he speaks in a highly affected, almost hysterical, british accent usually reserved as a comedic tool for those playing little old women in their lounge or at the local caff but, at the same time, he is rock n rollish attractive and the obvious juxtaposition is trying to rewire the neural pathways associated with your personal and cultural like-dislike spectrum but it hurts your brain so instead the response your conscious mind receives is 'i dont like this person and i dont know why'.

he does have an Are You Being Served air about him

It's not the accent that does it for me.

whole general (waves hands) thing

The posters for Arthur make me IA.