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

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.

im a terrible sloucher, unfortunately

I mean people who slouch while walking. Sitting, leaning against a wall or w/e, those are different.

emily where are you and how to you pronounce it?

UK, and vitamins is with the short i, so pretty much how it makes you angry, I think.

ahh. im a sitting sloucher. so much so that if im at a table i often end up half laying on it with my head flat against it. not at dinner, mind you. i cant even bring myself to put my elbows on the table in polite company.

im v v v angry with you right now emily

eating

cooking

looking at food

i do enjoy baking though but thats not really food

carnations

Local NPR affiliate's traffic updates: either do a detailed traffic report or dont do one at all, you goddamn vague hippies. "there's a 10 minute delay on Hwy x between folsom & sacramento" is fucking useless to me for a 20 mile section of hwy. I'd rathet not know at all!

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

fair cop - it was in my head because someone posted "Denial Son" on a football thread.

the joggers are the worst. why do people jog and then take shortcuts?

Argh, short-cutting joggers ARE the worst! They lumber down the middle of footpaths so there isn't quite room on either side and they never move over for anyone else, because apparently their chosen hobby is so agonisingly painful that adding an extra few inches to their route to avoid hitting someone else would just be terrible.

Well, that ain't my fault, so move out of my way and use the extra 0.3 seconds it adds to your journey time to think of a new hobby and/or exercise method you'll hate less, OK?

Though I am a habitual crossing-avoiding jaywalker so don't listen to me. (At least, the one near my flat where it's usually not busy and I know the order of the traffic lights upstream and can spot a good traffic-free moment in advance. Another one I use daily even though it's out of my way because the traffic is just too fast and too unpredictable. Even using the crossing is slightly nervewracking as I've seen too many things go through it on red.)

Can we go back to jaywalking for a minute? Do New Yorkers overall obey pedestrian signals? That's not what I remember it being like. It's certainly not like that in Chicago. A few years back, Mayor Daley wanted to start ticketing jaywalkers, but that attempt was roundly shot down. Some pedestrians' rights people said it would be a way of favoring motorists, who already have the lion's share of power on the streets.

Anyway, cautious jaywalker 4 lyfe here.

i think in any decent sized city jaywalking is necessary unless you like to take three times as long to get anywhere.

In London most streets are very narrow, ten steps max, which makes most of them jaywalkable.