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

aa you mispelled 'a complete moron'

Xxpost I thought you could use them as cell phones as well as walkie talkies.. maybe the cheaper versions are just straight WTs. Dunno. Tradeys seem to use them still, I don't see them a lot anymore.

- people who book a recurring meeting invitation that says "let's try to get together weekly" and never change it, so nine months later you're still seeing "let's try to get together weekly"

Hahah that sounds like our monthly all-staff meeting, one of which we had a couple weeks back for the first time in at least 6 months >_<

people telling me I should do porn

― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:15 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Lorax do you find that you're told this often? In what context?

also when web sites use such a pointlessly big-arse title for their home page that your bookmark is labelled The best deals in electrical, homeware, cooking, furniture, home entertainment, photography, manchester, outdoor units, bean bags, gardening essentials and auto accessories! | TopDeals.com and you can never find the bloody thing

^ argh, I HATE that!

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/files/2010/01/lorax1.jpg

Which is why I edit mine, esp the ones tha are on my toolbar bookmarks cos I need to quickly eyeball buttons that say "IP Calc tool" and "3g coverage map" not "welcome to Optus.com.au where we say YES and here is a large giraffe have a nice day Pty Ltd"

here is a large giraffe have a nice day

words to live by

also when web sites use such a pointlessly big-arse title for their home page

Or when every page has the same title, so that months later I'm wondering why I bookmarked Welcome To Sally's Store! because I've forgotten they sell finger limes or smoked vanilla jellybeans or some damn thing.

that large giraffe is creepy, it has a smiley for a head

I hate it when I'm working on something and think it is DONE! and then I think of one last little check to make, which ends up taking longer than I thought, and then I get an email chasing the task up. Feeling of efficiency = totally deflated as I realise they'll think I was probably just scratching myself and eating crisps until they nagged me.

Eh.

trayce that sounds like a push-to-talk phone which have notoriously low speaker volumes so most people have to put them on speaker.

I feel like I need to address each of these anger inducers because y'all seem to be very angry a lot.

I was found one of those walkie-talkie phones on the ground, picked it up and carried it with me. It started buzzing, like "Howard, where are you? Howard, OVER." I tried to talk into it to tell them I found it and it started going "Hey YOU! WHO'S GOT THIS PHONE!"

I'm surprised it didn't ask me what's the frequency, sunny.

10-4 GOOD BUDDY IT'S TIME TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN

haha xp

people telling me I should do porn

― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:15 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Lorax do you find that you're told this often? In what context?

trying to help me find a job

they can't be serious!

oh god, I wish. they are seriously annoying

Sink faucets that stick out over the sink just enough to barely clear the back side of the sink, so to wet/rinse your hands you have to make your hand flat and move it left/right under the water.

YESSSSS where bad design becomes seriously unhygenic.

Haha that is actually one of the perks of being an architect because I actually have the power to specify sinks that don't fucking do that. Its horrific and I am constantly vigilant when reviewing plumbing shop drawings.

yes I hate this also!!

One of the downfalls of being an architect is when the builder fucks you over and changes the budget or has contractors make changes without your input, right? :)

Well, yes, please don't get me started on the "downfalls of being an architect" or we could be here for days.

There should be a series of "So you want to be a _____?" career books that only tells you the downsides for each trade.

^^^^

Would have been invaluable to me in high school.

My friend who was an actual architect is currently working for a wall subcontractor and making a lot more money. He gets to bitch about his ex-coworkers who apparently now send him drawings where they didn't correctly set up load-bearing walls. I just shake my head and laugh.

A new standard in innocuousness & irrationality: the way the text caret in Word gets taller when you move it over italic text.

one thing that really annoys me...innocuously. when people are writing an article and quoting somebody in a way that forms a sentence, and they leave out the definite article.

eg (and i'm making this up) "wayne rooney has branded the decision to award an 89th minute penalty a 'total disgrace'" instead of 'a total disgrace'.

perhaps i'm wrong here but to me, this stilts the way you read it in your head, the natural pause should be just before the definite article so you can emphasise his quote and get the conviction of it: "a total disgrace".

What about the case of when the speaker doesn't use the definite article? Suppose Rooney had said "This decision to award an 89th minute penalty is the total disgrace of the season?"

People who barely know you making blanket statements about your personality "Oh you don't have any problem with confidence"
And you can tell that from the few inane conversations we've had in the elevator? Or was it all those times walking past my cubicle? I mean, on the one hand it's kind of nice that they get that impression of me and yay my nefarious plan is working but my initial reaction is always "Oh really. Based on what exactly?"

^this. My supervisor at my new job does this on a daily basis.

me: Can you give me some pointers about how to approach these calls?
her: Nervous about making calls, huh?
me: Not really, it's just that being new here, I want to make sure I do things correctly.
her: You're nervous about making calls because you're afraid of rejection.

I know right? If anything it just crystallizes
a) I really, really don't like you
b) you really, really don't know anything about anything
c) they probably consider 'reading people' to be their #1 skill in life

Haha! My supervisor actually actually said that yesterday, bragging about how good she is at "reading people." The temptation was strong to engage in some variant of "Yeah? Can you read THIS?"

"if people were billboards you would be awesome at it"

LOL

ia: when people stand around gabbing instead of doing work and at the end of the night i'm stuck doing part of their workload b/c the concept of "time management" is foreign to them

ia: that i'm naive enough to believe that being the person who always finishes people's work makes me stand out as a great employee when in reality i'm just a doormat

Sink faucets that stick out over the sink just enough to barely clear the back side of the sink, so to wet/rinse your hands you have to make your hand flat and move it left/right under the water.

OMG four years of rage with this in our flat before we renovated. I took great relish in ripping those fuckers out and putting in a nice tall loopy properly proportioned tap. Which then had to be removed because we didn't realise the cupboard being built behind it wouldn't open with that tap in front of it but hey ho.

yay design flaws, lol

my friend's apartment had a toilet separate to the bathroom: the door opened inwards and if the lid on the toilet was down, you couldn't get in. The clearance for the door was *that* tight between the door and the toilet. Seat had to be up all the time. And then you had to stand back next to the cistern to close the door. Craziness.

People who walk like elephants. Whose every step is as though the floor were an inch higher than they were expecting. THUD THUD THUD.

Also, people who drag their heels.

people who stand in your face on the tube when it's not full...

also people who stand in the doorway/corridor when it's not full

People who walk like elephants. Whose every step is as though the floor were an inch higher than they were expecting. THUD THUD THUD.

Also, people who drag their heels.

― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 10:49 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I sit in a sort of gangway that leads out of our office. All day it's BOOM BOOM BOOM. Weirdly, it's the tiniest people who are the worst at this. How can an 8-stone 5'3" girl make the ground quake so much I feel the tension in my spine?

Sink faucets that stick out over the sink just enough to barely clear the back side of the sink, so to wet/rinse your hands you have to make your hand flat and move it left/right under the water.

I have this in my kitchen. Tiny sink (you can just about fit a couple of plates and washing a chopping board is a NIGHTMARE), massive tap that not only splashes everywhere but is highly sensitive to adjustments in temperature resulting in wet all over the kitchen floor and scalded hands each time I wash up.

ha, i used to live in a guest house that had a kitchen sink like this. i made it worse by putting on a brita filter that attached to the tap. at least the faucet was able to pivot to the side a little.

Urgh yeah Ive also had badly designed sinks that when you turn on the tap the water flies out all over you and makes you look like you wet yrself :(

ia rage in last 2 houses ive been in: weird white ceramic sink basins, wtf. They stain. They scratch. And they allow dropped crockery to BREAK. >:|

Drivers who pump the gas pedal like they're operating an old fashioned sewing machine or playing a pump organ. It makes the ride really jerky and makes passengers (me) nauseated.