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

not even for sacred cow reasons, but because she doesn't have any clue of how to sing/express the song

TS: Casey Abrams vs. Miley Cirus

lol well I'm the one person in America who liked Casey's performance even though I wanted him to do "Come As You Are" instead, so

When a guy at work sees you leaving the building for lunch, and asks you to pick something up for him. I dont know why, but it bugs me

Because him asking you to run his freaking errands is totally rude, maybe?

When a guy at work sees you leaving the building for lunch, and asks you to pick something up for him. I dont know why, but it bugs me

When someone says, "Hey, can you pick me up something while you're out?" I say, "Can I!" and keep going.

san francisco-oakland beiberidge

wow lol wrong thread

Picking up lunch for people is such a bitch bcz you have to either go through the nonesens of ordering both your foods at the same time, paying together, and then sorting it out, or placing two separate orders and keeping your changes separate and foods too and just ugh.

(ok to be fair, I've seen some ridiculously overpriced records in charity shops in my time, but I used to work in an Oxfam shop and had to deal with so many people who think the "charity" is supposed to be for them)

It makes me sad when charity shops have way overpriced things, and you know nobody's going to buy them and when they haven't been sold within 3 weeks they're going to go in the bin, but you also know that making an offer of a third of the price tag is only going to make you look bad, so you don't

(I don't know if the big charity shops like Oxfam throw out unsold donations, maybe not when they have so many other branches and online operations to shunt them between, but the smaller charity shop near me definitely does within a fairly short time)

I think it depends shop to shop but the one I was in dated the prices on the stickers and would mark them down if no-one bought them. They didn't throw anything out though unless it wasn't fit to be sold in the first place. Anything unsold after marking down a couple of times would either go to a "bargain" branch or be recycled.

when someone texts you "wanna do dinner?", then you text them to ask where, and they give you a destination, and then you go "when", and they don't text back for like a half hour, so you have no idea if you should be showering/getting ready and wind up sitting around just waiting for their text cuz you dont' wanna start anything up you can't finish.

it's like, did you only have enough free time to send the two texts?

couldn't you CALL them...?

well yea, I left that step out. add:

and after ten minutes, you call them, and it goes straight to voicemail.

I have told some Oxfam shops when they have overpriced stuff (on one occasion the wrong album was in the sleeve), but *never* if it was something I wanted.

One time, it was something I'd have bought at a reasonable price, but hey.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp in my uni days I ordered food from a KFC and the bloke brought it out with blood running down his thumb. I told him his thumb was bleeding and he said "I know". Anger was irrational because I ate the chicken.

conversely, I hate when you're in the shower, someone calls you, you see it ringing right when you get out, but don't answer in time, so you pick up the phone and dial back and they don't answer, try again 5 mins later, they don't answer, and leave no voicemail.

from now on, I bring my phone in the shower

along with my laptop

Blood thumb blood chicken is hilarious!

offtopic but the restaurant I worked at once got sued before I got hired because a pregnant lady found a bandaid in her dinner, and she thought it was bloody. turned out it got in there because the idiot line cook was using a bandaid to tape an instructional sign on the wall...instead of, you know, TAPE.

KFC should strive to shock and disgust in new ways every time. I mentioned once the time they could not take my order because (quote) "we got a lot of shit going on back here." If that had involved someone bleeding, it would have been even better.
(This might mean the world would get more Popeye's franchises.)

(Also it is hilarious!)

(Also I think angry people are funny – never stop, you guys.)

there's a Popeyes right across the street from the closest KFC here. I like to think that after each shop closes for the night, the employees visit each others' stores and sabotage each other

OMG you are right ––– Popeyes is not a possessive.

lol -- I didn't even think about that to be honest

They named their restaurant after more than one Popeye = fucking A

the link between Popeye and Popeyes happened retroactively

sometimes this makes me irrationally angry

Did you know that sweet peas were not called such until after Popeye ––– they got named after the baby?

Same with olive oil, which had a totally different name before pOpeye. Pizzas used to be called "Blutos," though; sort of the opposite thing happened there.

In fact, yams used to be called popeyes. Popeye also invented the Smurfs.

the vehicle known as the JEEP was named after the popeye character Eugene the Jeep

I don't believe you.

'tis true: http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/more/372/

You'll be telling me The Goons were named after the Popeye character next.

(or, I will)...

- web services the names of which are "purpose" + "animal", e.g. TaskRabbit

wiki says it could be that or it could be how ppl said "GP" for "govt purpose" or "general purpose"

your average late teen-early-20's guy in the 40's was huuuuge into popeye though. bevis and butthead of its day

The Dominos pizza in canberra (mah hometown) just got taken to court because 3 or 4 seperate people found roaches in thier pizzas and pastas, and the health borad kept doing inspections, finding roaches and filth and saying "FIX THIS NOW" and they never did.

I mean fuck a Dominos anyway, but UGGRRGHH.

oh cmon that's totally a free topping

IA: people who meet life's challenges with 'REALLY???'

― a modest broposal (suzy), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 5:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UGH. Also people who say 'epic fail' out loud.

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my anger towards these people is pretty rational, imo

Copeland claimed he named the stores after the fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the movie The French Connection[8][9] and not the comic character Popeye the Sailor. Copeland would claim facetiously that he was "too poor" to afford an apostrophe.[8] The chain later acquired rights to use Popeye the Sailor for marketing

Well blow me down.

I am done with people saying "winning!" in the Charlie Sheen way. Done = omg running at u with knives

I ranted on FB recently that I am well and truly over every single shitty pic I see online being run thru a Hipstamatic filter (ie heaviy vignetted or blurred/desaturated, all that crap). I expected some agreements, what I was taken aback by was the amount defensive vehemence I got from people who took my comments personally. Geez.

i don't understand why you think people who do things you disdain wouldn't take it personally? i was a bit offended by it myself.

haha my irrational anger towards those apps ebbs and flows and i'm def guilty of using them myself.

but the look of the ones from Hipstamatic© in particular really grate on me for some reason, as does the way it automatically makes an album for people called "prints from my Hipstamatic" IF IT COMES FROM YOUR PHONE AND LIVES ON THE INTERNET, IT IS NOT A "PRINT"

Because saying you find an endlessly overused, seen everywhere cliche of a thing isnt something to take personally? It'd be no different than saying "I'm sick of comic sans" or "I'm sick of autotune". It was in no way aimed at anyone I know personally - I wrote it after seeing 3 tumblr blogs in a row full of fuzzy, boring, vignetted images. I mean they all looked the same and if you took the filter off the pics on their own would have been bland as crap. Its not my fault if people want to think I'm dissing them.

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That said, one friennd (4ngelica) gave a good reason WHY she uses it - her iphone's pics look crummy without it - and shes the only person I know personally who does use it a lot. And she didnt get offended (the people who did, weirdly, were good photographers who dont use the effect really, which is why I thought it odd)

This one's for you, Trayce.

http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2011/04/24/509dee92ed1d422587c65f2ddca560f6_7.jpg

Haha :D