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

football teams in the UK being referred to as 'franchises'. rrrrrrrrrrage.

essentially, this horrible yuppie not only acted like a totally entitled, self-absorbed NIMBY, but got a free meal out of it. i wanted to throttle her. eugh.

― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, April 25, 2011 7:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

as opposed to getting a free meal the punk way by stealing it from whole foods amirite

remy, where was this place so I can be sure to never eat there

(could they've been sat nearer the speakers than you?)

people who succumb to hyperbolic, irrational rage. friend of mine is talking about how some piece of shit who slit his dog's throat should "get the electric chair". yea, that makes sense.

That seems like a pretty understandable and reasonable (yet still irrational and hyperbolic) reaction to some piece of shit slitting a dog's throat, especially if it is yours. :(

It's not theirs, it was the dude's own dog.

This same girl said Michael Vick should have gotten the chair.

Jail, sure, but chair? I don't even believe in capital punishment when humans are killed.

She's being serious, too.

well now she's backed off at least. another person quipped that the dude should be treated the same way sex offenders are.

I understood that it was her dog whose throat someone else slit.

If she's being serious, that's just ridiculous.

on re-reading my original post, I can see how that was unclear! my bad.

Whenever people react disproportionately strongly about animal cruelty, I just assume it's more about them than the animals. You know, like for instance that they see themselves as A Friend to Dogs or whatever. A champion of the downtrodden and a voice for the voiceless blah blah blah.

It actually makes me really ia, the dripping sentimentality of it. I don't hate animals! And my heart pitter-pats watching dogs be rescued and everything and I'm pro- lots of animal welfare issues. But could something NOT be about YOU for a second?

there's a lot of that, too. anytime something happens to an animal, this same friend of mine posts in all caps on FB, long screeds about the things that should be done to them.

some of these same people act irascibly if you dare to suggest they're overreacting.

Otoh I'm a foaming-at-the-mouth stan of women's issues and get all earnest and angry immed so ymmv.

tbf people are a lot less enlightened on those and they affect you more directly, so that makes sense...

People who use their social media to inarticulately hammer at a single issue 24/7 are usually disgusting savages imo.

Okay now I'm worried you've been reading my updates.

LOLLLLLLL the operative word here is *inarticulately* eg. 'wont sumbody thikn of teh PUPPIEZ'

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There's a park near our house with a lake and geese and occasionally, one goose gets run over by a car. After one particular bad week where three were hit and after some members of my neighborhood google newsgroup were dismissive of more cop patrols and 24/7 cameras, one poster exclaimed "You wouldn't be so cavalier about this if it was YOUR KID laying dead in the street!"

another public transpo ia:

when i have an aisle seat in a two-seater row, i don't move all the way into my seat. i leave some room on the inner side and let my outer leg straddle the edge of the seat. i keep my arms folded in a little, even at the shoulders. i think this is the polite way to share a row with a seatmate. so i get ia when *i'm* in the inner seat and the seatmate leaves me no choice but to end up squished and pressed up against the window, with hardly any room to, like, hold an open book.

this is mainly a problem on l.a.'s metro buses, where the seats are tiny and uncomfortable.

people who succumb to hyperbolic, irrational rage. friend of mine is talking about how some piece of shit who slit his dog's throat should "get the electric chair". yea, that makes sense.

― suge knight rider (Neanderthal), Saturday, April 30, 2011 11:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

perhaps your 'friend' is so angry about this its leading her to feeling extreme repercussions for this piece of fucked up shit are justified but you know i certain id be a whole lot less fearful in life and have a lot more faith in the human race if people like this ceased to exist. How do you raise a creature that is completely reliant on you and, assuming it has the nature of most pet dogs, repays you with a level of unconditional love that humans aren't even capable of then one day just decide to slit its throat? i cant even get my head around it. if someone is capable of that level of cruelty what else are they capable of?
Generally I consider people who think humans are the pinnacle of all species are first rate dumbasses but people who think this hey im going to slit my dogs throat shit is okay or that its not reasonable to be angry about it are royally fucked in the head.

Generally I consider people who think humans are the pinnacle of all species are first rate dumbasses

YES i hate this line of thinking. humans are not "better" or "more important" than animals. insects can fuck right off though.

Totally change of gear, sorry but: plus size clothing for women. Browsing through racks and online I'm convinced that it's part of some elaborate prank. Capri harem pants? And have we not exhausted every HI IM FAT pattern yet? Can I just get a plain tshirt? Jesus fuck.

for the record, I think the dude who slit the dog's throat should be jailed and is a piece of shit...my family took in a dog that had been abused prior (sadly he passed away in 08) and the image itself gives me shudders...just, death penalty?

she later admitted she was being a little hyperbolic though.

Was in an online discussion once re that New York guy who threw his girlfriend's cat out the window, and someone else said he was worse than Hitler. Conversation was kind of impossible past that point.

Hitler would have saved the cat!!!

nothing is worse than people on the internet prescribing what the appropriate levels of anger are for every possible scenario...

i hate birthers and think they should all die horrible fiery deaths

Wrong thread, mate -- that's perfectly rational.

i was out of town for a few days last week, plus was busy at night the few days after that, roommate was supposed to take trash out. he let it pile up to the ceiling, and as I open the door, I notice the trash is infested with fruit flies. he solves this by just pushing the trash down further, not apparently caring about the fruit flies.

I threw it out today, now have to figure out how to wash down the trash can so they don't come back. FFS I'm not clean at all, but this is the guy I'm subletting from!

the #justsayin hashtag is REALLY pissing me off atm

Was in an online discussion once re that New York guy who threw his girlfriend's cat out the window, and someone else said he was worse than Hitler. Conversation was kind of impossible past that point.

Which is why they call that Godwinning a thread - compare something to Hitler and the argument's over from stupid.

"USA! USA! USA!"

Look, your wedding bells are over.

People who don't take the stupid multicoloured stickers off their new digital camera.

OTM

or their computer or tv. wtf is your problem take those fucking stickers off god.

god...flatmate stuff. probably not even innocuous.

flatmate 1: is neat, tries to keep place clean, but loses patience with...

flatmate 2: who is messy, doesn't clean enough, and only responds to telling offs by throwing a huge sulk and doing one massive cleanup then reverting to form.

i was away for the last week and flatmate 1 didn't bother replacing a lightbulb in the kitchen as apparently it's not her turn and she wanted flatmate 2 to do it. hence cooking in the dark on saturday.

is it so hard to just be the bigger person, buy the fucking lightbulb, and then if you are annoyed give out to flatmate 2 afterwards. this line of action strikes me as insane.

i took the Windows Vista sticker off my laptop and stuck it on my camera...

I have a sticker of Ralph Wiggum picking his nose on my laptop.

not innocuous and my anger is rational but I need to vent and don't want to find another thread.

So I'm not doing bad financially, but I've been hit by the economy too, and have bigger debt than I used to. I decided to take a larger 401(k) loan so that I can eventually pay down other forms of debt. Since I had the maximum outstanding, I had to pay an existing one off. Have done this before without incident -- got the money orders (over $1000 worth) from Amscot, printed the USPS Express Mail form online, double-triple checked the address, made sure I made out the money orders right, even took extreme care affixing the label to the envelope, and had the thing at the dropoff box 20 minutes prior to deadline.

I notice something's wrong when I periodically check the tracking number and only get the "Electronic Shipping Info Received" tracking number, and sure enough, it wasn't delivered. Post office couldn't tell me anything other than "this is the latest status we have", so I assume my mailroom screwed up and didn't give my package to the courier despite me meeting the deadline. They inform me they did everything right, there's nothing further they can do, and oh, I should have used UPS and not USPS if it was that important.

So now, I'm stuck with crossing my fingers that this is just being sent a day late, because if the package did get lost, I can't reissue the money orders for 30-45 days, and that means I can't payoff the loan until close to July, leaving me with barely enough funds to cover my bills until then.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Oh dude, that sucks! I've said it before, you are definitely cursed by shipping/postage gods.

Whenever people react disproportionately strongly about animal cruelty, I just assume it's more about them than the animals. You know, like for instance that they see themselves as A Friend to Dogs or whatever. A champion of the downtrodden and a voice for the voiceless blah blah blah.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

pretty much anything external that anyone cares about is based in some part on self-perception. this doesn't invalidate it though.

like if someone works really hard to help the homeless, i could say "they're only doing that so they can feel good about themselves" and i might be right but it doesn't change the fact that they're helping homeless people.

Surely this must be upthread somewhere, but man do I hate the way pedestrians make a show of hustling across the street in advance of your car, only to slow down as soon as they step off the curb. Guys, all you're doing is hustling directly into the path of my oncoming car! Just wait an extra five second and you can take your time crossing.

like if someone works really hard to help the homeless, i could say "they're only doing that so they can feel good about themselves" and i might be right but it doesn't change the fact that they're helping homeless people.

Umm if someone worked really hard at ANYTHING, I wouldn't be saying that about them. Reserved for people for whom disproportionate vitriol substitutes for anything more productive.

See, for me I feel like killing those cruel to animals (not that I'd do it), because that abuse of absolute innocence makes me feel physically sick.

And I do do lots of stuff to help animals, so yah boo sux

What I hate is the people (all over my FB) who will constantly bang on about animal cruelty and post link after link to dogs in pounds/needing rescue/etc but they dont actually do anything themselves at all. They just post endless links, berate other people's choices, and seem to think online petitions get anything done. But eh. Each to their own.