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

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here's what you do. ask him if he'd like to meet up for coffee tomorrow morning. when he gets there, order some coffee and sit down with him. tell him that you've been thinking for a while now about how he'd be a great roommate, and then ask if he wouldn't like to maybe move out of his parents house and into an apartment with you. then, if he says yes, volunteer to help him move. then, on the big day, after you guys have loaded up the last of his boxes into the truck and he walks over to give his parents a big farewell hug, stop them and say, "hey, do you guys mind if i get a picture of this moment?" and then ask to borrow his iphone. then, once he enters the passcode and hands it over to you -- and this is key, don't forget this final step -- abscond with the iphone and retrieve the photograph from it

del griffith, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

poster of the day award goes to you, lorax

gr8080, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

lorax, i mean, this: http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1276&bih=647&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=chubby+bear+gay&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

NSFW NSFW NSFW

eating california rolls of a dude's taint (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

so maybe he's just a big gay selfish bear?

poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

i thought the gay bear guys were less selfish

poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

I thought fat people were, like, jolly and stuff

mh, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah Lorax it sort of sound like he's witholding the photos as a bargaining tool, like he wants more from you...or has a crush on you, who knows.

When Mr Veg and I got married in Reno there was a Nevada Bears convention AND a Junior Baseball Tournament group all staying in the same hotel on the same day.
I remember standing in an elevator with a massive bear & his twinky-looking boy and 2 young teenage boys in full baseball outfits.
Hi-fives to the booking staff, it was bizarroworld there all day long lol

VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://posterwire.com/wp-content/images/bad_news_bears_76.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

VegemiteGrrl, that story about the elevator is one of the funniest things i've imagined in a while.

eating california rolls of a dude's taint (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

I know right? Add to that Mr Veg is a pretty big dude himself, and his best friend is gay with a twink fetish and it was priceless lols the whole weekend

VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

Lorax maybe your friend is a little stupid

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

maybe a little... but he's just weird. not in a creepy colin kind of way though

poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

he doesn't listen to music in his car. ever.

poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

wait what. he sounds insane.

eating california rolls of a dude's taint (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

he doesn't listen to music in his car. ever.

the fuck? How is that even physically possible?

Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

since I saw lorax's name above several times I can only assume somehow his story was related to 9/11 truthery....

Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

anywho, so I went to Best Buy about a month and a half ago to get the Janelle Monae EP, and went to the in-store pickup line, and I guess the representative didn't give me back my license. I'm sure of this because I always have my wallet out and put them back immediately to prevent misplacing them, and she took my license and card separately.

So I noticed this a few days later, and I knew that's where I had to have left it, so I call them, and get a representative, explain what happened, they spend less than 2 minutes and insist they don't have it. I spent $25 just to have a plastic card reissued cuz I coudln't wait any longer.

So today in the mail, they sent my license back....apparently they had it all along, and just sat on it for 1.5 months. With it, they sent a letter that was just one sentence: "Here is your driver's license you left it in best buy". nothing else on the page.

have written corporate already for a reimbursement for the money since they falsely told me they didn't have it, and then sat on it for 1.5 months, but I'm not holding my breath.

Neanderthal, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

lol and you just wasted a few minutes typing that post, too

gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

they sell snacks in the checkout line

markers, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

and metallica t-shirts

gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/zMRrn.jpg

markers, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:03 (fifteen years ago)

*enrolls in art school*

markers, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:03 (fifteen years ago)

"HOWDY DOO MR. SECURITY GUY WITH BANK OF VIDEO SCREENS. I'LL BE SURE TO GIVE THE CASHIER MY ZIP CODE WHEN I'M ALL DONE LOOKING AT THESE $60 USB CORDS THANKS!"

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

Wait since when do they check your license for anything at BB?

mh, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

they sell alcohol in the checkout line

markers, Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:49 (fifteen years ago)

ehhh, he is real damn sensitive but I think he's too obese to be gay

― poplocking nazis from space (CaptainLorax), Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:38 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that according to the much misunderstood second law of homodiameters.

estela, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:41 (fifteen years ago)

ahahah estela!!! Nicely done

VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:42 (fifteen years ago)

Also I guess the counterpoint is can one be too thin to be straight?

VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:43 (fifteen years ago)

the much misunderstood second law of homodiameters.

There has to be a Perpetua Motion joke in here somewhere, I swear.

Concubine Tree (Trayce), Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:57 (fifteen years ago)

goddamn, ladies

i've got blingees on my fisters (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:17 (fifteen years ago)

yeah trayce whos backstabbing now HUH

gr8080, Thursday, 21 April 2011 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

lol it was just a convenient joek ;_;

Concubine Tree (Trayce), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:32 (fifteen years ago)

work bathrooms:

if you use the one straight after someone else the cistern hasn't had time to fill up enough and you can't flush it. you have to wait a couple of minutes. and, of course, if you try it too soon then you have to wait longer.

there's no handle on the door and the lock has a knob on it that's stainless steel and only very slightly tapered and impossible to pull the door open with if your hands are even slightly wet.

koogs, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:42 (fifteen years ago)

People who grab the doorknob with wet hands or leave the knob wet are the worst, imo.

Especially when you know that only half the people washed their hands so it's a mixture of wet hands grabbing the door and unwashed hands, leaving a prime breeding ground for door handle cooties

mh, Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

who on earth is even touching the doorknob?

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

Everyone who needs to leave the bathroom after they're done in there?? Which is approximately, oh, EVERYONE?

Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

Except those people who use their elbows or use tissues to open doors with knobs.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

Went to pub for lunch, got served after about 4 parties who arrived after me, made grumpy remarks within earshot of staff and now feel like some kind of disgusting savage who can't control my childish impulses

(not really staff's fault - arrived at bar just as one barman left, and the two who arrived in his place obviously didn't know who was there when, though some of the people arrived after the new bar staff and still got served before me)

so, earlier I was i.a. at bar staff, and now i am a. at myself, possibly i. or possibly r., but fruitlessly in any case

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

To be fair, the bathrooms I'm complaining about are those that have run out of paper products or have hand dryers. I guess I could grab some toilet paper, but as a male, it doesn't always occur to me.

mh, Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

I am made irrationally angry by people who open doors with elbows etc because NEWS FLASH they are no cleaner than other users but 100 per cent more diva about their unsullied preciousness.

a modest broposal (suzy), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

At least elbows are roughly on a par with hands as far as cleanliness, I guess. Unlike some of the other things wiped/sprayed across public surfaces by people who don't want to touch anything because they might be dirty. Hello, you are the problem for everyone else - you know that and just don't care, right?

(But we've done that one on another thread, of course.)

On a side note, I'm always surprised by people who leave without washing their hands at work even when coworkers are in the sink area. Surely even people who sneak out w/o washing when nobody's around feel like they ought to wash if people they know can see them?

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:30 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/toepener-open-bathroom-door-with-your-feet/

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 April 2011 20:39 (fifteen years ago)

who on earth is even touching the doorknob?

― calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:18 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Everyone who needs to leave the bathroom after they're done in there?? Which is approximately, oh, EVERYONE?

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Except those people who use their elbows or use tissues to open doors with knobs.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^ this is what i mean. my method is turn handle with towel, hold door open with foot while tossing towel in trash, slide out door. Of course this is all useless if you've touched the faucet handle. I should note we recently had a significant outbreak of staph in my building hence the don't touch anything attitude. Ive considered turning on and off the faucet, opening the door like a carefree person then using hand sanitizer when i get back to my desk but what with bacteria in rapid evolution i don't feel great about that route.

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Friday, 22 April 2011 08:46 (fifteen years ago)

Sounds exhausting.

The innocuous object of my irrational anger this morning is substitute radio/podcast hosts. tuning in only to discover they're being presented by some second rate substitute is rage inducing.

DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Friday, 22 April 2011 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

i only have two of these:

being touched under the chin will earn you a right hook to your left ear and those commercials acted by people that are then traced to look like drawings.

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Friday, 22 April 2011 10:16 (fifteen years ago)

People who insist that the movie A.I. should have ended with the kid frozen and staring at the ferris wheel (most recent iteration here). It's like, you don't even understand the movie, don't talk to me lest I punch you. Also people who think the robots at the end were space aliens.

I get irrationally angry pretty easily.

Paul McCartney and Whigs (Phil D.), Friday, 22 April 2011 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

^^^ this is what i mean. my method is turn handle with towel, hold door open with foot while tossing towel in trash, slide out door. Of course this is all useless if you've touched the faucet handle. I should note we recently had a significant outbreak of staph in my building hence the don't touch anything attitude. Ive considered turning on and off the faucet, opening the door like a carefree person then using hand sanitizer when i get back to my desk but what with bacteria in rapid evolution i don't feel great about that route.

Yeah see this seems excessive to me. I just touch everything and don't really care but would probably feel differently if there were an outbreak of staph here. Yikes!!

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 22 April 2011 13:57 (fifteen years ago)

those commercials acted by people that are then traced to look like drawings.

Ugh, yes. I hate those.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 22 April 2011 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

its pretty simple. its like throwing away a paper towel after you open the door and holding a door with your foot for two seconds.

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:46 (fifteen years ago)

xp

calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:46 (fifteen years ago)


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