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

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.

co sign

I've never seen the original Arthur, but the clips I have seen also make me IA.

also Hop

Also: Dudley Moore, Billy Crystal, and Meg Ryan's faces all bug the hit out of me. And Dustin Hoffman's too. Also, the movie Alfie.

*shit, not hit, obviously.

wotsitallabowwwt, Alfeeeeeeeeee

that fucking I Said What About Breakfast At Tiffanys song

aghhhhh shut up

(on in my dentist office right now, killing me)

you mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw

I join you in the Brand loathing. And also whoever upthread loathes Sandra Bullock, I'm with them on that, too.

I don't like him because in interviews he tries way too hard to be intellectual about the art of comedy.

xxpost yes Dan. That one. JERK

Oh god I thought I was the only one who hated Russell Brand! I told a male friend of mine I found him violently unattractive and my friend was all 0_o "how can you say that hes so hot". WTF.

He was great when he hosted BBBM in the '00s. Rubbish outside that microcosm though

Your male friend is straight, right?

As far as I know yeah, but he visualcrushes on ppl like Stipe and Brand for some reason.

STIPE

Oh god.

I wonder who straight guys think is hot. Someone should look into this.

there needs to be a poll

o_O