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

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.)

oh maaan, I wish some pointless shits would get married here too

the word "lecithin" is really pissing me off atm

Just look through the NYT society section, you'll find plenty of 'em xp

your "here" is not my "here"

People who don't scan far enough down the road and don't break on the highway during congestion

Cuz two doofuses got in an accident behind me for just that reason!

getting out of work early only to be caught in a traffic jam for 30 minutes because some dude ploughed into a concrete divider. BALLS.

Not innocuous, and my anger is not irrational, here's one for the home-based freelancers and one-person shops: when you've been waiting on a call all morning and the phone rings just as you sit down for a crap.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/cordless-telephone-ge-intact2.jpg

Yeah, I have one of those goldurned newfanged devices. I just don't like phone calls when I'm on the can.