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

I spend like $35 on a bag that probably lasts the little dude like two months, I think.

thats ridiculous, is it made out of gold?

that's like 50 cents a day! I lose that much pocket change

http://www.wellnesspetfood.com/product-details.aspx?pet=cat&pid=23

smartcatbox.com you guys

best cat-related investment ever

i mean there is still a little odor but for real, nowhere near as odoriferous as any litter i've tried

That looks pretty ok.

Just whatever you do, don't buy those automatic electronic litter boxes with the scooping rake that is motion-activated.

Wow, that actually does look good....

I had an electric litter box b/c my deal with myself was that I could have a cat if I sprang for one, but it SUCKED. Sometimes it was OK, but mostly the rake would stab urine clumps and cat turds and take them for a ride. And after a while it would get hung up, and go rrrrRRRRRrrrrrRRRRR until I woke up and cleaned it or turned it off. UGH.

I would mention more, but it doesn't make me IA, it's a completely rational anger that people keep buying them and they flat-out do not work. You just end up with a litterbox that has crap and urine-soaked chunks equally distributed around the whole

Now I feel obliged to give Littermaid a bad review on Amazon.

how does that smart litter box work for shit?

There is a link to this video on the website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXmMSuL5C4. There is a filter on the floor that lets the seeds through and filters the shit.

haha, her name is "kitty maus"

scoop the poops with standard litter scoop
remove the urine collection tray
empty both into toilet
flush

Real answer to the kitty litter in bed: Get rid of your cats. Problem solved!

Needy animals make me IA.

Oh. Even better!

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I got nervous when Daley was making noises about a plastic grocery bag ban in the city. Even if I don't get one of these soon, it's a must in case of such a ban.

i mean you do have to give the whole apparatus a thorough cleaning a few times a year but other than that it's pretty maintenance-free

also while i highly recommend this thing it is maybe not best for super chubby cats, because if the slats on the bottom break then the seed litter gets through and it's just no good at all

A - does the piss odor stay confined to the reservoir?

damn - my bigger cat is 22 lbs.... They need a model for big beautiful kitties.

jesse, i'd still say it's worth a shot! my cat was a good deal chunkier before the doggy entered the picture, but i think the main problem was that one batch of the seed litter i had was sized too small, it would get stuck between the slats & cause them to break. but you can re-order individual components (as i had to do) and they seemed to have corrected the litter size.

the pee odor stays confined to the tray, yea, tho i keep my cat box in a closet in the guest bedroom so i don't hang around it too much

Did you have to ease your cat into using the box?

dude posting chopped-up hands in the trypophobia thread

Tbh, I don't think that was so much "innocuous". So glad I missed it though.

she took to it really quickly -- just placed her in the box and she figured it out. obv it helps if you have it in the same location as yr previous litter box

Yeh, who is that person? There is an art to good trypophobia posts, and besides the chopped up hands and skin grafts, there is the excessive number and frequency of his posts. He is a master of TinEye, it seems.

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Thing that just recently made me irrationally angry: somebody pronouncing "sandwiches" as "sammidges."

People who ask me for my name/address when I email a company for assistance when I already entered it onto the form

Has anybody mentioned retail cashiers asking for your phone number when you check out? Because that makes me rage.

I used to give them an old disconnected secondary line number

I just say, "No thank you!" in my most cheerful and friendly voice.

i give them 1-800-BIG-BUTTS

What makes me more IA is when a retail clerk has to ask like fifteen questions: "Phone number? Are you a rewards member? Do you want to sign up? Why not? Would you like to receive our emails? Coupons? Your purchase enables you to get a free 8 week subscription to blah blah, can I sign you up?"

I understand its your job and all, but ffs, just ring up my purchase and get me the hell out of here.

omg we just get 'do you have a loyalty card', that's it. if they asked for my phone number i would be seriously o_O

i hate the 'for this purchase today you get 3 free months of Craptastic magazine', to which you say no, and they go B-B-BUT IT'S FREE AND WELL I NEED IT TO HELP MY #S FOR THE DAY and then you shoplift whatever you were going to buy and wind up spending Christmas Eve in jail crying and screaming "WHYYYYYY!!!"

^ 2009 for me in a nutshell.

what i hate is when they have the free magazines and they try to sell you on one based on a value judgment they make by looking at you. i.e.

"You get one free magazine on trial for three months...hey, we got PLAYBOY, ya dig? figure you'd be into that!"

Never got the Playboy one, but I have got the, "WHAT?!?!?! You aren't into sports!??!" when I turned down the Sports Illustrated offer. When I explained that I'm mostly into soccer, which they rarely cover and plus I get my sports news online in a more timely manner, I got the stinkeye.

tbh I was more annoyed when someone suggested Maxim to me...

What, you don't like horribly written "articles" sandwiched between oiled up former teen actresses sucking their thumbs while "playfully" tugging at their underwear bands? What are you, gay?

at least it wasn't as bad as Stuff magazine

like OMG, SOMEWHAT SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN SANDWICHED IN BETWEEN POORLY EDUCATED NEO-CONSERVATIVE LEANING ARTICLES!

OMG I literally haven't thought about Stuff in probably 12 years. My old college roommate subscribed to that.

Where do you get offered magazines?

most FYEs, and Best Buy used to do it too but they've since stopped I believe...

Not around here anyway, I was offered the magazine thing at Best Buy just two days ago.

Ooh, got one..

Foosball table

IT'S FOOTBALL! STOP CALLING IT THAT!!!

Builders starting work on your home at 7:40am when you have half the day off and aren't due in work until 13:00pm.
Thank you landlord for the nice surprise!

I was watching films and drinking wine until 2 this morning thinking it's OK, I'll have a massive lie in.

when person (a) makes a legitimate observation that something is stupid and person (b) says, passive aggressively, "well, not everyone's as smart as you." (only correct answer: "that's true.")

^^^You've clearly been eavesdropping on all conversations held with my sister since 1980.

The other correct answer to the PA response is 'at least you admit it.'

i was eavesdropping on a conversation at work. the manager was the one who used the PA line. i thought to myself "oh no, you did *not* just play that card."