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

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.

I mean my sister (who I love!) rather than Veg Grrrl, who was just decrying their ubiquity rather than arguing they are monsters who should not exist.

YOU TELL YOUR SISTER THAT SHE A MONSTER WHO SHOULD NOT EXIST

(not really)

haha OTM

I'm pretty creeped out by their bulgy eyes that will probably end up popping out some day and which they were bred for because people like things that look so young they HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN BORN YET.

The mandatory C-section thing has just sealed the deal.

I didn't know about the C-section thing. BOO.

Makes me ia: people driving a market for animals like dog breeds that don't make any sense in the world. If an average, representative adult of the species can't survive into adulthood and live normally without major medical intervention, you aren't doing it any favors by sustaining demand. Go rescue something.

NB: I haven't actually thought through the implications of this little rant, so there are probably half a dozen legitimate exceptions but anyway

If an average, representative adult of the species can't survive into adulthood and live normally without major medical intervention

I do understand what you're saying and why it would anger you. My next dog will be a rescue.

HOWEVER

I think sometimes this is misrepresented. You probably think pugs are like this, right?

I had three growing up and own one now and none of them ever needed any major medical intervention at all.

Not that some (or many) don't but I think that sometimes people see certain breeds and think that all of them must be incredibly sick or whatever.

I know it is crazy to selectively, deliberately breed a dog that can't naturally give birth because breeders made its hips too small (though they can survive into adulthood just fine). I think for all the crazy irresponsible breeders out there, there are also ones trying to fix such problems.

What makes me (I think rationally) angry is the minority of vets who refuse to work on bulldogs because of this issue. What if your adult bulldog gets sick & needs some non-breeding-related veterinary care? Why should it then be turned away? OTOH I heard about this phenomenon from my mom-in-law so it probably isn't even real? I'll say that hypothetically, this upsets me.

My current dog is a mutt from a rescue shelter and she is the most mentally ill little fucker I have ever befriended & she also gets sick all the time, poor lil puppy.

They can survive into adulthood but not if they get pregnant and don't have an owner who wants to pay a big vet bill! I mean that's just madness, for that quality to be typical of the breed.

I only found out about the c-section thing on F bulldogs a couple months ago btw. It's pretty fucked up. I wouldn't buy one but I'd rescue on if I could find one that needed a home.

That's the thing with purebreds, people don't want to spay or neuter them because they feel their pet is more valuable or different.

Spay and neuter your pets!
- BB

It's true of English bulldogs too iirc.

I'll be getting a small black (female) poodle when it is DOG TIME. Not interested in other breeds. There are rescues, but if a young one isn't available I'm probably going to check out the breeder where my neighbours got their dog.

And that breed that's known for the chance that their brains will outgrow their skulls, eventually causing them unbearable agony and killing them? Cavalier King Charles spaniels??? Now I'm worried about Rudy. :(

See I think that's more alarming than artificial insemination but I would never say, "everyone stop, stop right now the making and the buying of the Cavalier King Charles spaniels."

Rudy came from a reputable and recommended breeder -- I did my homework. She does health testing on all of her puppies for all kinds of problems, and is selective about who she sells her puppies to. I have had a lot of experience with rescue dogs and their many psychological problems; I have to say that Rudy is the happiest, most well-adjusted, healthiest little monkey I have ever had the pleasure of taking care of.

There must have been a time when all these in-danger/health issues breeds didn't have the problems that they're now known for, right? Time to start crossing in some other breeds to bring the hardiness back, possibly?

xp Hurrah!