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

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.

xpost

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

xpost

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

trayce i think those apps give some people a feeling of expressing their creativity

it is a bit like the photo equivalent of a reverb on the voice, makes the flaws/boringness less glaring

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

Interesting you should say that because what I have been relegated to is basically a primary school chair. The THIEF is a mate so I'm letting it slide THIS TIME.

surely that makes it worse.

it is a bit like the photo equivalent of a reverb on the voice, makes the flaws/boringness less glaring

Well when you put it that way sure, it makes sense. I was raarghhing at a certain overall photographic style too, I think. Not just the filters but these endless pics of chicks standing in long grass/chicks staring out of windows/cats on window sills/dudes standing moodily in rainy alleways/dudes looking sad.

/drops of water/cloud formations/lattes on a 45 degree angle

needs to be used for nudie pix imo

Now that I could get behind.

Or in front of, perhaps.

/cox on a 45 degree angle xp

Wait that makes it sound like I want to pose for them ARGH NO NO STOP ABORT.

i like photos of almost anything except for food right before you ate it

rate my hipstamatic poo

I, too, enjoy photos of food only after it's been eaten.