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

they do this all the time on this one stretch of road by me. it's a blind corner too. idiots. the joggers are the worst. why do people jog and then take shortcuts?

same blind corner is also responsible for people standing in the middle of the road to see if the bus is coming. it won't come any sooner just because you can see it...

in other annoyances, there's a little cafe i walk past on the way to work with chalkboards outside. and rather than the boards saying 'Buy Our Coffee' or whatever they have pithy sayings on them. and these really rankle. makes me glad whan it rains.

"What is the speed of dark?"
"Change is inevitable, except from changing machines"

God I'll co-sign that, koogs. I mean I'm all for repurposing old time honored cliches to be humorous, but there needs to be some level of standard for it, and if you do it daily, it's overkill.

re: jaywalkers, jaywalking is so common here in Florida, that my mother (who was BORN in New York, and lived there the first 20 years of her life, mind you, before she moved to FL), just kept stepping out into the road when the sign said 'don't walk' when we visited New York.

After about the second time where she was nearly flattened by a speeding car, I had to scream at her to wait for the Walk sign. I mean for God's sake in Queens it seems like every street has one of those 'memorial for someone who was killed by a car here' signs.

hmm, jaywalker 4 lyfe but I do at least check for cars first.

jaywalker 4 certain death

I get super paranoid about jaywalking when I'm in LA, I guess I don't understand when it is OK and when it isn't, like if I'm walking along my mother-in-law's street and I need to cross over, there is no crossing unless I walk right down the street to the intersection with the next main road, like 500 yards away, what if I just want to walk from her house to the park across the street? Is that OK? My wife just laughs at me but it's her fault because she told me her ex got a ticket for jaywalking once.

It's all very strange to me because there is no such law in the UK.

in FL sometimes it's usually not that big of a deal if you do it on a road that has very low traffic, but I get sick of people who jump out in the middle of the road, not even at a crosswalk, then look angrily at you if you don't stop. not even thinking that stopping could cause the dude driving behind you to drive into your front seat.

like this old woman and her husband did this on the street heading back home last night. walked in the middle of a two way road, actually put up a hand to stop the traffic. and the cars actually stopped in the middle of the road.

if it were me they'd still be scraping those fossils off the street

that would be cool, running someone over and not getting in trouble for it

Unfortunately the problem with Florida jaywalkers is that they never really get hit. It's the people that try to stop for them as they meander their ignorant ass across the road that always get in the car accidents.

yep

then they go out of state and die when they try it elsewhere

srsly though hit and runs are a huge problem here though. One of the most harrowing things I ever saw was a dude lying facedown in a pool of his own blood in the middle of a state road 4 years ago. Had been hit by a car, and the driver took off. voice was quivering as I called 911, thankfully it had already been called in cuz I could barely figure out what the crossstreet was.

Shit is much more disturbing IRL than in any movie. And he wound up dying the next day :(

my gf caused an accident walking across a road without looking once. I still get (irrationally?) furious with her just thinking about it.

nah that's p rational.

how is it rational when its over and she didn't do it intentionally anyways??

I get irrationally angry when people write "Son' instead of "-san"

god ive got a whole list of these even though im generally not easily irked.

here we go:

monkeys

people walking in a weird way

poignancy

whimsy

all movies that fall under the genre 'Overcoming adversity through dance'

tv and movie sex scenes

interstates

soccer

I love that you started with "monkeys"

platform sneakers

pp sometimes comes walking at me like a monkeys all bow legged and crazy arms successfully combining 1 and 2 on my list

people who say vitt-ah-mins when they know its not pronounced that way. also 'fill-um'

protestants who pick and choose which of gods rules they are going to adhere to.

amsterdam

Wait, how do you pronounce vitamins? Is the American way vye-ta-mins or some equally terrible thing?

touching me under the chin or on the neck will earn you a swift right to the eye

yeah thats the correct way e.

we really need a thread of things that make you irrationally happy

I'll allow it to be correct for Americans, but it's definitely not correct over here. (Thank god.)

sunny, there is one!

surely Amsterdam is neither inoccuous nor homogenous enough to be a single reason for irrational anger. Is it IA at the role it plays in certain people's cultural discourse? Or is it in fact homogenous enough to be IA at?

It has a fine art gallery.

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

street gobbing

For some reason I would have expected you to back platform sneakers? Immensely relieved to be wrong abt that.

I also hate monkeys so KIU.

woah. sweet on the happy thread. emily where are you and how to you pronounce it?

gams i just hate weed dude

You guys talking about monkeys or apes, or are you IA about people who make the distinction?

Laurel! Im strictly an adidas originals girl. And, yeah, fuck monkeys.

I have no idea why, maybe it's your love of shiny teen-girl things or the dresssssessss thread or something? Clearly my mistake!

Last week I stopped a co-worker in the elevator to thank her for walking tidily with her feet straight and in a straight line at a consistent speed, because I walk behind SO MANY hopeless cases every day. She seemed to think it was a weird thing to be complimented on, but otoh she's known me for a while, so....

for me monkeys, apes, orangatauns, gorillas, gibbons etc etc The only monkey I endorse is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJDI67VQFo

Laurel, Beeps had her first ballet recital on Wednesday and while its all fun and games now I'm terrified shes going to end up walking like a duck with her toes pointed outward the way all the ballet girls in my high school did.

At least she'll have good posture, though? I cannot abide slouchers.

People posting "truth bomb /\/\" in every thread I bookmark and me just checking each thread and seeing that. CHEERZ.