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

i am actually really upset right now.

i'm in a graduate program. i've got a wonderful, wonderful mentor. i will be leaving/graduating in a few weeks. the rest of the advisees in my program have decided we should give the mentor a group gift. i'm FINE with that, and didn't participate in the email chain where they discussed a lot of options, and eventually settled on an option i didn't like. but i didn't complain, because i hadn't participated in discussion. this morning, an email went out asking for everybody to pony up the money to pay for the gift. it was AT LEAST TWICE what i was expecting/able to pay (i am already getting a gift for this mentor, individually). i responded to the group that the price was a little steep for me. i got blasted by two of the organizers that i was inappreciative of the mentor's work, and i should "sacrifice" more for the mentor, because it is the least i could do.

now i'm bullied into spending a whole bunch of money i don't have on a gift i don't want to give so that i don't seem unappreciative of a person to whom i have already put a lot of thought into thanking with a private gift, thus incurring the wrath of my graduate cohorts.

Windows-TAB is the new Alt-TAB

and P3rl::Cr|t|c reminds me of the two days i did of VisualBasic where the editor was set up to pop-up modal syntax error boxes WHILST YOU WERE TYPING.

damn remy, that sucks bigtime

Remy, what can these people do to make your life worse besides be MAD at you in a general sort of way? You're about to finish the program -- can they actually hurt you with their snideness or w/e if you just say, thank you very much but this is what I was prepared to contribute???

Yr mentor knows you are not "unappreciative", fuck that noise. Self-appointed organizers of shit be getting butthurt over nothin.

i sent a 'my silence on this issue never implied consent' kind of email back, and haven't heard a word – but i got bitched at by a very wealthy cohort (don't ask) that she's spending her 'own' money on it, and she's broke (she lives with her parents) and that it will take her a whole hour of tutoring for her to make back the money for the gift. the amount requested ($75) isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but because i've already purchased a gift, it's a little more than i can spend on an extravagant gift.

People should be sensitive when even *asking* other people for money, never mind putting them down for a certain, sort of high, amount.

that's fucking ridiculous, remy, and i would say fuck 'em and give the mentor your gift.

i mean, i have never given a gift to a mentor/advisor, but mostly because they all know how broke everyone is!

Webpages with little flash doodads that only occasionally make (invariably irritating) noises. You're working, listening through your headphones, and every now and then you hear a shuffling or a beeping or a clicking or a buzzing, but you can't work out which of the various tabs you have open contains the bit of crap that's making the noise, because it's not frequent enough to track down.

stray strands of hair inside tshirts, tickle and drive me nuts

worse when they wrap around your toe inside your sock

- not being credited for outstanding work

people who hold the lift door open for you WAYYYY ahead of where you are, when you really dont want them to (bcz it would mean breaking into a run) or even worse, arent gettin in the lift, and then stand there glaring at you. JUST GO ALREADY.

cf also car drivers who wave you past when they have right of way.

ended my bracket in the wrong spot there but you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5MJyEHKGo

similar theme, it drives me fucking mental when people just stroll through a door you've held open with no thanks whatsoever. like not even acknowledging it's open, as if they just strolled through this permanently open space, not a doorway. may have mentioned this upthread.

also...people walking backwards in public areas, like on the phone or chatting to someone. generally have no fucking idea where they're going, why their gesticulation requires a step backwards, and that they've just walked into someone's face.

General spatial awareness of people on 'phones is massively reduced.

i think they actually know what they're doing, just some total cunts can't speak on the phone without wandering around to illustrate the depth of their thought.

There was a cold winter's night a few years ago where I was waiting for some Mexican takeout and some asshole was walking circles around the lobby foyer and kept opening the automatic door to the smoking patio, letting arctic blasts of chilly air freeze everyone's nuts off again for a few moments. At one point, he even said into his precious cell, "What the hell? This door to the outside keeps opening," completely oblivious to the radar gun pointed at his head from seven feet up.

Who to blame? The asshole, first of all. The restaurant for not having that door turned off anyway (maybe a fire thing, I dunno.) Or me, for just standing there stewing instead of tapping him on the shoulder and making an exaggerated gesture toward the fucking door.

― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:33 PM Bookmark

I still think about that guy maybe once a week or so.

His comment is what makes this sound rage-worthy.

okay let me preface this by saying I love dogs, I am firmly in the dog-loving camp and have nothing against them

However: why the fuck does everyone have a french bulldog right now? why? like when people say they have them now it's like saying you have a pot-bellied pig? like you saw it on some "hot list" and had to have one. even if you came by it legitimately. it just makes me ia that theyre everywhere at the moment

people who bring infants to Thor at a 10:20 p.m. showing when the kid is obviously bothered/upset by the violent images they're seeing on screen, as evidenced by their yelling "MOMMMMY" and "DADDDDY" throughout it, which is oh so fun to listen to when I've paid $14 for my ticket.

gah I hate that...or even just seeing little kids at an R Rated movie

To be fair, french bulldogs are incredibly cute
http://dogsranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/french-bulldog.jpg

If I saw those guys everywhere I went, I'd be really happy!

yeah like, it's not so much the dog itself, I guess I just dont understand/tolerate pet "trends" as much as I should

xxpost I saw kids at fucking Brooklyn's Finest, a movie that even revolted me with its graphic violence

yeah there were kids at "Paul"...which is not violent but loads of swearing & adult stuff...I swear some people just think all movies fall into "oh its like ET" or "oh its like Transformers" or "oh its like Star Wars" just based on the fucking poster or something. Do not get it.

What is the cinema doing letting them in, I'm wondering.

some of them around here have a 'no children after X:XX time' policy. this one apparently did not.

some of the ticket sellers Ive experienced are barely functioning on a basic human level so *shrug*

actually, what used to make me more mad, was before the smoking ban in FL, where families would come, sit in the smoking section, then blow smoke in their kids faces for over an hour. it's like the kids have no choice but to sit w/ you, couldn't you just wait until you get home?

xpost yea that's why I've been able to sneak into movies easily before

when a DJ plays "Once in a Lifetime" and then mixes into another track before the crunchy buzzsaw organ freakout at the end.

Fuck. You.

Online shops that don't give any guide to how much international postage will be, and make you go through 17 steps (registering, waiting for registration email to show up, confiorming registration, logging in, giving postage address, giving billing address, giving credit card info, etc etc etc) before finally revealing that the postage on your $15 purchase will be $110, so you don't buy it, but you've just wasted 45 minutes

not innocuous

utterly grasping and deceitful in fact

Free shipping or GTFO imo

(well unless its like a 15kg computer part or something obv)

actually, what used to make me more mad, was before the smoking ban in FL, where families would come, sit in the smoking section, then blow smoke in their kids faces for over an hour. it's like the kids have no choice but to sit w/ you, couldn't you just wait until you get home?

― starland vocal banned (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 May 2011 03:03 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Swap cinema for "car on long journey" and you have a description of my childhood.

I thought Neanderthal was referring to restaurants. There was smoking in movie theaters after say 1975?

yes sorry i did mean restaurants

OIC I read the following posts and relocated.

Still...

I simply can't imagine someone being upset by seeing French bulldogs everywhere! They are better than humans, who are unfortunately the more ubiquitous species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_6WDMwjPU

My sister does argue that they are "abominations who should not be" because they have to be delivered by C-Section. I would maybe find that a valid reason for being unnerved by French bulldogs (who are cuter and better than my sister), but this same sister was a C-section delivery herself.

http://www.di-arezzo.co.uk/multimedia/images/wise/couv/am998635.jpg

LOLLLLLLLLL

The whole C-section this is pretty :( but still U otm. I met the cutest French Bulldog the other day. His name was Elvis and he gave me a lot of kisses and snorts. He was the greatest.

The song "Man in the Mirror" makes me IA btw. I HATE IT.

It is just the kind of torture such a person deserves, to listen to that song, probably while being therapeutically 'rebirthed' by being cut out of a sleeping bag rather than forced through some giant opening.