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

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."

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfpo9E7O61qapk9no1_500.gif
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!

I just wonder who feels like a tiny plastic glass of warm white wine or a negligible morsel of something or other on a wooden stick while in the supermarket. So it doesn't make me IA. What does make me IA are people who put sheafs of business cards through the front door of the flats here. It's bad enough having to clear up the reams of fucking advertising litter spread over the hallway each evening, but having to fiddle around picking up these tiny fucking business cards makes me rage. I will find you and throw confetti all over your fucking living room.

and who stuck all those subscription forms in the cracks of magazines - bashtards! I hates it!

last week this grub was walking around handing out apple slices at trader joes. for all i know this hippy was a hobo off the street who just wiped his ass with his bare hands.

or with the apple slices!

People who absolutely do not understand deadlines and the sense of urgency that kinda sorta comes with them. "No, you can't change the publication that you approved (without really looking at) three days ago, because it went on the press this morning. Gosh, there's going to be a shitstorm of controversy because these changes can't happen? Oh, gosh, oh jeez. So sorry."

my daughter doesn't get deadlines either but I guess she's only three. But when she's four, she better learn.

free samples are great, what's wrong with you people

please, I beg you to stop eating them! think of the children!!!

I'm contributing to the elimination of free samples by accepting the free samples and then not buying the product.

You're welcome.

thank you - you will be richly rewarded for your heroic bravery in the next world

I'm down with samples, but I hate the crowds of seagull-people who go to Costco seemingly just to eat samples, like that's their cheapskate lunch...it grosses me out a little

Obviously the samples are a dessert after you eat one of their $2 hot dogs

ugh that cafeteria is the worst...Chez Diarrhea

Seagull-people! Hahaha

I know people who go to sam's club to eat samples as their breakfast

In bulk

Shopping websites that only show 4 - 10 items per page when there's about 100 to view, and don't have a 'view all' button. Worst is when you have to pick from a drop-down menu and it's still "see 12 per page" "see 16 per page" NO I WANT TO VIEW ALL, NOT CLICK "NEXT" 10 TIMES!

I mean I get IA at even having to click a 'view all' button at all so this enrages me. Just parade every single one of your goods before my eyes all at once, please.

Agreed kinder. Also, when you use Amazon's :highest rated" feature and due to a "computers can't think" failure it shows you things with one rating that is 5 stars - I guess they need "highest rated that people are actually using and rating in large numbers, not just the guy who is selling from his shetty site astroturfing himself"

Ha, you two remind me of this "Click to Zoom" image here.

Agggh!