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

Lorax maybe your friend is a little stupid

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

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

wait what. he sounds insane.

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

the fuck? How is that even physically possible?

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

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.

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

they sell snacks in the checkout line

and metallica t-shirts

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

*enrolls in art school*

"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!"

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

they sell alcohol in the checkout line

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.

ahahah estela!!! Nicely done

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

the much misunderstood second law of homodiameters.

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

goddamn, ladies

yeah trayce whos backstabbing now HUH

lol it was just a convenient joek ;_;

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.

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

who on earth is even touching the doorknob?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

^^^ 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!!

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

Ugh, yes. I hate those.

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.

xp

I am slightly ia w people who use towels to protect their hands from the door handle PARTLY because in my mind it's associated with people I've seen drop the towel on the floor as soon as they get the door open, in a place where there's no waste-basket. Obv it's a specific thing but the fussiness PLUS the selfishness -- ugh it makes me crazy.

speaking of hygiene, when someone leaves one of those toilet seat covers on the toilet after they have done their business pissed me off. usually i get the one with left over shit speckled all over it. never fails. fuck off savages.

I don't use those toilet cover things unless I'm in a skeevy portaloo or something. I don't really get it.

Neither do I.

I dont' use hand sanitizer unless I've got a cold or something.

I sometimes use it in the hallways at work because the dispensers are fun and also because there are a lot of sick people roaming around here but I never buy it or anything. Too drying imo.

I thought you were still talking about the toilet seat covers for a second

lol

the smell of hand sanitizer makes me feel kind of queasy...and yeah, I end up with Miss Havisham hands if I use it too much

do you people lick doorknobs?