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

^^^^

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.

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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.

This asshole bus driver is doing it now. Rev! jerk Rev! jerk. For miles.

Old drivers who drove manual transmission cars for years and now are senile and drive their automatics with both feet.

I was behind some guy who had his foot slightly on the brake, even when he was accelerating uphill, for a couple miles. Not only were his brake lights constantly on, he also was doing about ten under the speed limit.

Drivers who stop one or more car lengths behind the car (or stop light) in front of them, and then spend the next two minutes slowly creeping forward. REALLY sucks if you're in a standard shift behind them.

that trend of people using that in italics when talking about a specific event. that world cup final or whatever...fuck off.

walking down a narrowish hallway today and two people decided to have a joyful hugging reunion right in the dead center of it. as i approached i hoped they would disentangle and step back to allow a current of traffic to flow between them, but instead they each stepped back just enough so that traffic could neither flow between them nor squeeze between them and the walls.

of course they moved when i asked, but seriously fuck happy people in hallways.

- old men who drape a beige jumper over a gingham shirt

fuck them all

this fucking grocery store cake container that you have to unhook the whole bottom piece to remove the cover and it takes me an hour to undo and RAARR I just want a piece of cake you dick

http://img.en.china.cn/0/0,0,445,16087,500,333,1611cb14.jpg

a "cake dick", this morning

that's the one!
agggghhhhh you fucker
its like cake prison for morons with clumsy hands like me ;_;

http://www.boingboing.net/JailCake01.jpg

;_;

I looked at that cake and was like "fred, who is fred"

GET OUT OF JAIL FRED

Poor Fred, still in jail

fuck fred

Hate those plastic lids. Also hate whatever those coffee lids with the perforated flaps that you open and then tuck into a little slot and … what the hell.

I'm sure some tool & die designer thinks he's quite the bee's knees for coming up with this, revolutionizing coffee on the go for all time, but it's silly.

http://aramsinnreich.typepad.com/aram_squalls/images/2008/09/22/2878402431_7230094e31.jpg

Need to put that in "Poorly Designed Objects" when I get the chance.

Those kind are actually BETTER than the ones that you tear open in a little trapezoid-shaped trap door and have to try to stick down, only the whole lid flexes when you put pressure on it, so by pushing too hard you end up over-flowing your cup of coffee and getting near-boiling liquid all over your hand/lap.

YES!! Those are a lot worse. Hate that.

I have a long nose and have to look straight up into the air if I want to finish a drink out of something like that. Not good when I'm driving.

get one thermos

When you have to ask someone 20 times to send you the photo they took on their phone.

I call bullshit on "I don't want to e-mail the picture off my iphone because it will go to my work email address". Even if you can't add more email addys to your iphone (I dunno, can you e-mail pics to different addys?), choosing not to e-mail a pic to yourself because it will end up in your work e-mail account is lame.

Am I right or wrong?

You're incomprehensible.

well someone must have an iphone and understand that half of the problem

I can send photos from four addresses on my iPhone. Probably more if I wanted.

My work email, however, ain't one of them.

If theyre smart theyd have their personal email setup as well as work email, so you can pick which to use.

so ur friend is being kind of lame. but maybe rightfully paranoid abt what they send thru work email. workplaces can be nosy, dude.

get them to put it on flickr or photobucket instead?

a part of my friend being lame is that he doesn't seem to want to e-mail the photo at all. he says he has to plug his iphone into his home computer and take the photos off that way. this just seems like a really lame way to do it when you could technically e-mail a photo just minutes after taking it.

but nooooo. I have to wait over a week and keep asking him nicely for the photo