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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foe8jrYeqko

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

indeed! death to them. and greater death to the disgusting perfume sample strips that must be torn out yet still taint many adjoining pages with their foul stenchery. grarrrrr!!!!

omg yes. The first thing I do with my Vanity Fair is tear out all the perfume ads. HATE those fucking things.

sobriety despite significant spend and effort in attempting otherwise

oof. yeah darragh otm.

We always called that "vapor lock."

indeed! death to them. and greater death to the disgusting perfume sample strips that must be torn out yet still taint many adjoining pages with their foul stenchery. grarrrrr!!!!

Those things are impervious to death. Went through/threw out some 20-year-old issues of Rolling Stone recently, and they all stunk like a right-wing frat boy.

Sample ppl in grocrery shops make me a bit sad now, cos my housemate's dad, who is a skilled, middle aged AV expert, has had so much trouble getting work in recent years hes had to resort to being a sample hander-outer in Woolworths :( I just feel so bad for him.

Mind you it did mean we scored 2 boxes of free food the other week.

When people dress inappropriately for the weather. Yes, it is 58 and cloudy now, but it's going to be 70 and even if it weren't, you do not need a winter coat, scarf, and hat, you fucking dummy!

This is Florida winter in a nutshell. I walk around in shirtsleeves in 60 degree weather, but very few other people who've been here as long as I have (~ 25 years) do.

Chicago's mercurial transitional seasons are challenging to dress for, I admit, especially when you're looking at a 20-30 degree difference in temperature throughout the day. It reached 70 for about ten minutes, and then it rained and got pretty chilly. Still not winter coat weather, though.

people who insist on starting a convo with me when I'm clearly doing something that conversation would interrupt (ie, reading, or playing a video game)

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Giving them the raised index finger and "be with you in a minute" and then not stopping what you were doing is always fun. xp

- people who leave their shoppong carts in the middle of the aisle while browsing. pull it off to the side, jeez.

-coffee shop customers who leave newspapers & empty coffee cups on tables when they leave. how hard is it to put your shit away?

i steal newspapers that way sometimes tho

also get enough coffee cups w/ residuals left at the bottom, pour into empty cup, and now you've got a Mulligan coffee....

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Ha I did that a few weeks ago and the comic-reading dude in question was NOT impressed. He was always on that route reading comics and every day and it was hard for me not to be like 'zomg Love & Rockets' or whatever he was reading but his evil icicle glare made his feelings clear the first time so I resisted!

This was a bus, not a train, though. Important detail!
Whenever I read comics on the bus, invariably a child sits next to me when I have it open on a sex scene.

I also hate when people who have read the book ask you shit like "HAVE YOU GOT TO THE PART WHERE SO AND SO IS REVEALED TO BE BLAH BLAH"....

well if I haven't, I'm going to be mad pissed, no?

xpost HAHA

I just had a conversation with a friend about how even though we know better than to talk to strangers reading on the train, something about strangers reading comics on the train makes us want to interrupt that stranger to talk about the comic. So I am sorry.

Was this friend me?

Nope. Jealous?

You dirty two-timing.... who else were you riding the bus with??? This doesn't make sense. I need you to call me right now. Why are you not picking up your phone? I'm coming over as soon as I get a cab. ;__;

irrational anger about browsing a couple of recommended blogs about writers/writing/etc and discovering they write exactly like choire sicha.

STOP IT

i'm not saying it's bad that he writes that way, but it's bad when your blog is nearly indistinguishable!

goddammit people, don't write so much on blogs, just post pictures of fashion and cats, your writing is mostly terrible. i learned this because i read the awl quite a lot? and now i prefer to end sentences in the form of a question constantly even though i'm pretty sure i'm right?

People that act like it isn't possible for any kind of writing to be 'deep', ever, and mock any attempt at it

new moms that believe their babies' every biological excretion is something ppl want to read about on the internet.

and i have a very high tolerance for people writing about mundane events in their lives! the scatological life of your infant is a bridge too far, though.

new moms that believe their babies' every biological excretion is something ppl want to hear about constantly in every communication system under the sun

Fixed.

Random scrabble opponents who scream at me for cheating when I'm crushing them WITH MY BARE MIND. Fuck you, dude, TREACLE is not an obscure word. I'm sorry you're stupid, but it's not my problem.

Yeah if you want to play scrabs for reals, you have to broaden your idea of what a word is.

A list of acceptable two-letter "words" from the National Scrabble Association:

AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO
BY DE DO ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EX FA GO HA HE HI HM HO
ID IF IN IS IT JO KA LA LI LO MA ME MI MM MO MU MY NA NE NO
NU OD OE OF OH OM ON OP OR OS OW OX OY PA PE PI RE SH SI SO
TA TI TO UH UM UN UP US UT WE WO XI XU YA YE YO

God bless every one of them!!!

my friend has a performance coming up and sent a facebook event invitation to her 500+ friends list. i don't mind that, i know she just wants to get the word out, but for some reason i'm really IA at the super-specific rejection posts that are now flooding the event page. like, it's not enough to just click "no," you gotta write two paragraphs about how you agreed to dog-sit that weekend and you'd ask jim to find someone else only he's going through a REALLY hard time with the divorce and trying to sell his house and it wouldn't be fair to him if you canceled?

- people who walk with a really really straight back

DVD packaging for TV box sets. Band of Borthers tin: the discs are packaged in a GIANT fold out concertina, with Disc 1 being at the *bottom* of the concertina instead of the top. Or any of those stupid fucking foldout things. And double-fuck you if you overlap the discs, that's just insanity.

The best packaging is still Deep Space 9- flips like the pages of a book, each disc in it's own plastic tray...and at least your box set might get some longevity instead of being slightly torn or bent or whatever because the packaging is such a pain in the ass.

Lol brothers, not borthers

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."

So much agree with this, as this has become my life recently. AAAAAARRGH!

I hope your situation goes as smoothly as mine did. Had a message on the machine the other evening... "oh well, these things happen, thanks for trying to save me from myself!"

Yeah I had that reaction to an "OMG HALP URGENT" thing last friday. IT dude I deal with emailed me at 3pm friday saying "omg must has 2 ciscos TODAY". We're in melb, he's in syd, the last courier pickup was at 3.30pm. I basically said "look we just cant, we can send em on monday but we cant make today" and then he replied with "yeah ok its not that urgent really sorry I just lost my minion and I'm stressed". ha.

Thing is, the person I dealt with on this one project really is going to catch a load of petty-politics grief for her slack attitude toward proofing, but she just doesn't give a damn. She'll walk away from the organization if they say one word more to her than she wants to hear.

hmmm. my case is a ceo who can't delegate, has to look at every stage of every project and FIDDLE each time

Aaarghhh hate micromanagement so. Glad I dont get it where I work.

when you invite people to a repeating event on Facebook that clearly shows it begins on one date, ends on another, and has multiple isntances, and someone replies "SORRY I CAN'T, I'M WORKING THAT NIGHT".

i always respond very glibly "all 14 days???!!!"

For a minute I mis-read Janet Snakehole as "Stinkhole" - I got real mad the other day that the plactis bags they give you to shove you r produce in at the groc is so hard to open - spending forever trying to part the foreskin of the bag - crying...

Pro-tip for opening plastic bags, breathe on your fingertips first - it's a lifechanger.

- the guy putting his Kindle reader in his back pocket in the Kindle ad

--when fucking Family Feud game on facebook freezes and then when i refresh it counts it as me having played teh free episode. FIX YOUR SHIT.

Pro-tip for opening plastic bags, breathe on your fingertips first - it's a lifechanger.

This. Also works wonders for off-brand dog poop bags. Having said that, while I don't think I could name an on-brand dog poop bag, I like the idea that such things probably have on- and off-brands.

I will try this "breath of God"