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

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."

"If only they were"...

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.")

― cee-lo v. city of new london (get bent), Friday, May 27, 2011 9:26 AM (3 hours ago)

I dislike this line of reasoning so intensely. Just because I can recognise stupid things it doesn't mean I think I'm not stupid. It just means: ∃x Sx = there exists at least one thing where the statement 'x is stupid' is true. This formulation does not exclude me from the realm of stupid things.

I have never in my life heard the words "table football" be used to describe that sort of table! Things I learned today.

I had never heard it called that either. And I learned "Foosball is also known as "fußball" (German for football)"

People who say "well with THAT attitide..." In reply to a complaint you make about something, as if it's your attitude/pessimism that caused the problem.

Srsly, fuckoff!

I went to high school with a girl - blond, super hot, funny - who instead of saying "Get away from me" would say "Get out of me!" When the person would say "I'm not in you," she would come back "And with that attitude, you never will be." It's still funny to me now.

Are you fucking me?

With that attitude, I might be. No, wait...

Customer service lines that make you enter your phone number/account number/social security number/passcode/DoB/etc and say it's "in order to better serve you" and then connect you to a person who asks you for your phone number/account number/soc/code/etc.

"For confirmation, can you give me your address?"
"You mean the one that's published in the phone book? Sure it's 123 Fuckyou Street."

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Is this the Cocksucker residence? Isn't this 4215 Pussy Way?

Customer service lines that make you enter your phone number/account number/social security number/passcode/DoB/etc and say it's "in order to better serve you" and then connect you to a person who asks you for your phone number/account number/soc/code/etc.

cosign with the fire of a thousand suns

30-40 people work in this office. on friday afternoon they deliver 15 bottles of becks and they always go within the hour. so is it ok for someone to have a second before people have had a first?

(he left the top of the bottle on the counter too, not using the bin that he was stood next to.)

three! he's just taken a third. after covering up the two empties in his bin with a sheet of paper.

Oooh I don't know who that guy is but he's making me angry.

Now I'm IA that I don't work in an office with Friday afternoon beer delivery.

beer at work is one of the worst ideas ever

he's doing you a favor

Let him get drunk and then ask him to do something complicated before 6.

in the last 5 years i have had exactly 1 work beer (which i took and drank at a party the day after!). so i reckon they owe me at least 249.

Ha, why 15?

that's just how many come in a box. 15 x 275ml (i just checked)

people offering me "free samples" at food stores. FRECK THAT! Nothing is free. I never accept them. Its awkward but I say "NO I DONT EAT SAMPLES" - give me the whole meal you dark virus, I do not wish for a tease. Plus, what kind of gross death did you belch onto that before tidying it up and prepping like a littel panda for me!