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

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?

just toilet seats

speak for yourself

what do you mean 'you people'

Australians.

the freelancer's irrational resentment of bank holidays for me atm

The American's irrational resentment for people in countries who get this as a four day weekend. Wait a minute - I take that back. Totally rational imo. ;)

I know a few people who have Friday/Monday off!

We used to get this Friday off, but they changed it to a "floating holiday". It's like a PTO day, but you get one per year and it must be used during that year.

So yeah, it's a PTO day to be used on a holiday (or "holiday") of your choice.

Every American company we do business with is closed today, AND my printers in Asia are closed Fri-Mon, too! EVEN THE CHINESE ARE BETTER AT EASTER THAN US.

i completely forgot it was a 4-day weekend. i have 3000 words to write for monday. it's been a glorious day today and i wasn't able to leave the house :(

when i complain about this, people just point out how i get to do the whole sitting-in-the-sun thing most days :(

my mum emailed me yesterday ' we are going to the beach for 4 days, have a great easter hope u get lots of easter eggs' YOU JERKS

4 day weekends, hot cross buns, chocolate easter eggs...RAGH NO FAIR

hot cross buns suck, dude

only the crappy ones do

i was just gonna post a picture of a swanky butt in a plaid thong, but then i remembered this was a work-safe thread.

And preferably people that know how to party (my friend doesn't party)

Then he got all philosophical and said things like "when you grow up, you are going to learn that you can have fun without partying"

Is "party" a euphemism for cocaine in these sentences?

If not, what does it mean?

the evolution of that word, as i remember it anyhow, is kind of weird. like, there was a time when using "party" as a verb was almost exclusively the provenance of semi-creepy hesherdom, but then there came a turning point circa 2001-ish and vice magazine/electroclash/paris hilton wave culture at which point it became almost de rigueur.

and now it just means getting fucked up in general. and no one will raise eyebrows or think you're being particularly ironic if you say it

so yeah, coke.

To me it sounds like a code word. When I was in New Orleans last winter a guy asked me if I partied, and it was very clear that he was talking about coke.

What does "hesherdom" mean? I Googled it but couldn't figure it out.

turn your "safe search is on" to "moderate"

It was "off"!

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),

I don't think that's the point. People eat with their hands, not their elbows. People shake with their hands, not their elbows..

Wow. Is there anything we can't learn from ILE?

We get Friday, Monday AND TUESDAY off thanks to some wars. FIVE DAYS.

ASSHOLES, ALL OF YOU ;_;

FIVE DAYS

SHUT IT

FIVE

we have 2 consecutive 4 day weekends due to easter and royal wedding / mayday.

(that said, i went into work for 1/2 a day today to alleviate the bank holiday boredom.)