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

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???'

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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

pics look crummy without it

well this is why i do it, and i did get narky because i did feel like i was being dissed even though i know it wasn't personal. anyway it's irrelevant and i'm p sick of feeling like everything i do is shit and a target of ridicule

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Jim I've never seen you post a hipstermatic pic fwiw. *shrug*. Ive never seen you post pics!

Geez I'd hardly write something like that intentionally trying to offend my actual friends reading it, im not that much of an arse. Mostly.

yeah look i know that, bad timing & all i guess

Soz, fwiw then.

God its not like my stupid attempts at lolphotos are much good either haw.

i hated those things until i started using instagram, now i'm a walking digital hipster

higital dipster

most of my vignette pics are of my cats anyway, not sure why it would be that terrible if anyone thought they sucked (the pix not the cats obv)

higital dipstick xp

- when you walk away from your desk for 30 sec and someone takes your chair

(i am kneeling atm)

Someone took your chair!? Where you work, a primary school?

kneeling angrily tersely moodily