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

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.

hah guess we made
the same joke

I just hate the Facebook auto-tagging with Hipstamatic where its always "Taken from my Hipstamatic" instead of just posting yer photo without the fanfare.
A friend of mine takes and posts LOTS of photos with it and it got real old, real quick.

Instamatic i like to play with sometimes bc the filters make my face not look all red and like said upthread, make boring things look kinda cool sometimes.

When people say "I would have loved to have done" something I stab them.

Also photos of /cute chicks reading books/ and then you look and they're reading fucking HARRY POTTER arrrrgh

many xp

When people say "I would have loved to have done" something I stab them.

And in this everchanging world in which we live in.

p sure that's "if this ever-changing world in which we're living"

I prefer my version.

me too tbh

coz it makes macca look like a really bad writer of lyrics, oh wait

hahah exactly.

to boldly go, etc

ha yeah i noticed that

i mean bless 'im for working around it but jesus aitch

graphic design that uses cyrillic letters to 'spell' english words when the subject is
russian/east european/communist.

Stinking people on public transport, there really is no need.
Water and soap is not that expensive!

Yeah, do not stink people on public transport. Wash them if you have to.

Tempting.

Should install a smellometer.
Too smelly, can't enter the vehicle and upset clean people.

i'm sorry col poo but EVERY oxfam bookshop i've ever been in has been full of overpriced stock, half of which could be bought cheaper brand new, in better condition. on average, they charge at least twice as much as any other charity shop. not long ago i read a good article in the book collector magazine complaining abt oxfam's tactics generally - they are absolutely loathed in the secondhand book trade for their greed and ignorance.

lol i'm getting wound up just posting abt this - i mean, it's not even about 'bargain hunting' - i'm buying for myself, not to re-sell (tho obv if i saw a first edition of Ulysses for a quid i wld prob buy) - and i have, on v v rare occasions, even found bks that were underpriced in Oxfam. it's just when i see a wordsworth paperback priced at 3 quid (new: £1.50) or whatever that i get annoyed.

graphic design that uses cyrillic letters to 'spell' english words when the subject is russian/east european/communist.
-- cb, Thursday, 5 May 2011 09:11 (1 hour ago)

106. Fake 'Russian' text that is just English with backwards 'R's.
-- ledge, Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:43 (7 months ago)

108. "Greek" text written by loading up Microsoft Symbol font and typing English words, so it no longer either resembles the English or is a meaningful transliteration (thankfully this has pretty much died but it was a thing in the early/mid-90s when doing irredeemably naff things w/word processors and paint packages was new and cyberpunk or something)
-- patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:50 (7 months ago)

(I'm only reposting this because I found myself rewriting my previous complaint and deja vu washed over me - you are otm)

I found a pair of purple docs - proper english made ones, in my size (ie stupidly small) - in the Sacred Heart Mish opshop for $20 some time back. What are the odds? I bought them like wo.

Now I think about it I dont even know where they are though, huh.

I've heard wonderful things about op shops. My best charity shop find happened two months ago and well outflanks the black Margiela jacket I got for £6 in the same shop - I found a beautiful, almost unworn tweed winter coat by Preen for £12 and did not breathe again until I grabbed it up and paid.

this dude at karaoke bar last night was videotaping performers with a professional camera without explaining who he was, what the video was for, or even securing permission first. Like I kinda wanna make sure that I'm not gonna wind up on Stormfront.org!

not really an innocuous thing but I did get pretty irrationally angry about it, fortunately he didn't tape me cuz I woulda had a Sean Penn moment.

i'm sorry col poo but EVERY oxfam bookshop i've ever been in has been full of overpriced stock, half of which could be bought cheaper brand new, in better condition

ive got some academic paperbacks from there in new condition for a fifth of the amazon price

Yeah, and, funnily enough, the last book I was tempted by was a £1 copy of Ulysses.

But then I thought about d/l a epub version instead...

this is in a fairly upmarket area and i suspect a lot of the stock (of good books rather than litfic trash) comes from relatives disposing of dead ppls' books en masse

those cheap paperback classics probably qualify for this thread, always too small and cramped to read easily

id include the everyman hb versh of 'the idiot' i got last week for being printed in too small a font and w/ no paragraph spacing, as if dostoevsky needed unfavourable typesetting to convey the travails of the prince

fair enuff, nak, i'm not really browsing the specialist academic stuff (when i used to work in a 2nd hand bkshop my experience was that textbooks were generally v v hard to shift, especially subjects like business/accountancy, computing, medicine etc where the info tended to date p quickly, so im not surprised that even oxfam are punting them out cheapo)

I wish our Oxfam bookshop wd punt out its computing books cheapo, they are often £15 for something that would be on Amazon for £24 new and is now several versions out of date

(for some software/programming languages this doesn't matter much at all and for some it makes the book basically unusable, and unfortunately if you know enough about it to guess which then you probably don't need a book anyway)

but then the branch I'm thinking of is right opposite Oxford University's science area, so I guess most of it will shift regardless of price, and if anything doesn't it can be assumed to be unusably out of date and junked

Most (London) Oxfam Bookshops I've been in do beat London secondhand prices for at least the stuff I look at (poetry, classic lit). Like I'm more maddened by the prices in Skoob than I am the Portobello Oxfam Bookshop. If they spot something that looks collectible, they'll overprice it, but a lot of decent things slip by.

the sort of things i was describing are academic press humanities stuff....i've found some surprising things in a branch of oxfam

also tho i doubt i spend as much time in secondhand bookshops as ilb hierarch woof, i'd concur with his observations

don't think it's quite correct/'fair' to compare oxfam bookshops to places like (yeah, the hideously overpriced) skoobs - non-charity shops have to buy their stock, and in theory are staffed by ppl who know something abt bks, so can, to some extent, justify higher prices than the likes of PDSA, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research etc. etc. - oxfam's real competitors, who make them look like robbers in comparison.

Skoob can bite me - they pay very little for secondhand books.

Fair enough on the real competitors - I guess stock just feels a lot more limited in most other charity shops, so I'm less likely to find something interesting in the first place than I am in an Oxfam shop (in an area with ailing academics). I'm aware of the book-trade anger about Oxfam (this would be about that Bookseller article?), but from a buying end, I'm ok with it - a range of good stock, at prices that are still ok.

the article i was talking abt was actually in book collector magazine, but yeah essentially the same complaints - unfair advantage, aggressive targetting of towns/areas where secondhand bookshops already exist etc. the bc article also claimed that oxfam favour certain book dealers who buy stuff from them (first editions and the like) well before the dregs reach the oxfam shops.

I don't remember mentioning this in here:

News sites that recognise you as a foreign visitor and show you an "international" version by default. It happens all over the place but I'm talking specifically about the BBC. When I go to a UK news site I want UK news, NOT what the BBC calls its "international" version but is in actual fact just a load of shit about America. If I want American news I'll fucking well go to CNN (which btw hassles me about ITS "international" version).

This only counts as irrational because I don't use news sites like the BBC anymore specifically because of this crap.

Oh and also the BBC's sociopathic obsession with America.

You probably know this already but on the BBC news site for the UK you can click on UK or England/Scotland/Wales and get the news for that location. Maybe that's not available outside the UK, in which case I apologise for what may seem as patronising...

No, we can see that too, I frequently look at specific-area news on the BBC site (for local lulz)