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

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.

i never jaywalk unless i'm *sure* both directions are clear. even if it means walking way the hell out of my way to find a crosswalk (encino, i'm looking at you and your long-ass streets).

ia: businesses being closed on sundays. i know you're a mom & pop and you need a day off, but does your day off have to correspond with everyone else's? (me: "it's a lovely afternoon; i think i'll stroll over to the new hot dog place people are talking about... oh shit, they're closed!" and there goes some money they could have made.)

oh yeah LA is another story for sure. (xp)

For Mother's Day, we were going to eat at our locally-owned traincar diner, but pulled up instead to an empty parking lot and locked doors. We were concerned because this place has gone through some ownership changes, and it wouldn't be the first time for us that the place had closed down for a few months.

I called the diner the next day, and the owner told me that because they're open 24 hours a day on the weekend, they close shop for two hours every Sunday from 2-4 pm to do maintenance and cleaning. Even on Mother's Day.

I believe that means they're open 22 hours if I did my math right

sunday afternoon is probably the busiest restaurant/diner time here because of post church gatherings so its a pretty retarded time to close for 'cleaning and maintenance'. red lobster has a line snaking out into the parking lot every sunday early pm.

ziploc closures make me IA because I am challenged & can never close them properly, or at least not without some effort & swearing :(

The goddamn screen that constantly rotates a half turn when I'm trying to drain the sink while I'm doing the dishes and does not allow me to empty the water, then I have to angle it so the water drains but then food goes down with the water so I spend the next four years of my life cleaning the drain. Then it miraculously stays in place and fills up the sink when i'm simply trying to rinse a plate or two. #rapturemenow

Then it miraculously stays in place and fills up the sink when i'm simply trying to rinse a plate or two.

this whole sentence should be sticken from the record cuz it's the same complaint as the previous sentence #doublecomplaint

man i appreciate ziploc tech after dealing with a box of sugar where you have to press in the flap (#GaruG) and bust one of your two thumbs FIGHTING CARBOARD which could've been better used initiating a thumb war.

I think it's great but I'm just very uncoordinated ... I even love the resealable bags of flour, except when it takes me 10 min to close the stupid thing

10 mins of your life vs. 12 bazillion flour bugs who will eat you out of house and home and hearth

^^^ no kidding. I'd nevet dealt with flour bugs before, but ugh...those fuckers get in everything!

it's biblical when they get going

after I clean my drain i sit by the pantry with a loaded shotgun, just in case

to shoot the flour bugs?

yes

it's a living

Cursor focus not being in the first cell of a web form.

(I'm looking at you, ilx login page!)

People sticking a post-it note with something written on it onto the top of the post-it note pad.