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

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"

thanks, elgee!

on second thought...

xxxxp I've been accused of making up the word 'tome'. To make it worse, the person who accused me was a teacher.

o_O

I hate when people claim you 'invented' shit and then laugh at you like you're obv 'so stupid'.

like I kept talking about 'black comedies' (not Black comedies) a few years ago with my g/f at the time and she started looking around the room and going "NEANDERTHAL, call them DARK comedies, not BLACK comedies"...and I'm like....err, ok, but 'black comedy' is an established genre name and 'dark comedy' isn't.

neanderthals had bigger bran cases

brain cases

bran cases

intestinal euphemisms

cue poop joke in 5...4... 3...

chaka khan

god, i turn into such a little schoolmarm when people litter. i don't call them on it in flagrante delicto, because i like not getting stabbed, but something inside me wants to shake them and say "can't you just hold onto your trash a *bit* longer? have you never heard of stormwater runoff?? think of the poor choking seagulls!"

but at least i don't rap while i do it...

http://youtu.be/SJNFT8G_VP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJNFT8G_VP0&feature=player_embedded

- the new Youtu.be addresses.

There are chunks of food in my drain right now. I am steeling myself to go in there and get them, but it must be done post coffee, else someone may get hurt.

To be clear, they are there because Z did dinner dishes last night, but does not have my habit of also washing the sink. I should just be happy that someone else washed up, right? See, irrational.

My flatmates are *great* at washing up, *terrible* at leaving the sink with half a fetid vegetable patch in there.

To be clear, they are there because Z did dinner dishes last night, but does not have my habit of also washing the sink. I should just be happy that someone else washed up, right? See, irrational.

Cleaning the sink is part of washing up. So is wiping the counters/stove. And if in the course of washing up you get crumbs all over the floor, so is sweeping the floor. If you're irrational, I'm right there with you!

http://strangersihaveloathed.tumblr.com/

I always leave food in the sink strainer. I enjoy collecting it there, watching it change and grow as a person. Sometimes a happy and of grapes will end up in there having the time of their lives. I must say I am surprised the wife hasn't complained. She must share the joy!

okay, i have a new one: I hate buying a new album and getting excited to talk about it, logging on to ILM on the first day of release and searching for the thread on it, only to realize it was discussed and more/less dismissed a few weeks ago due to a leak or promo copies distributed to critics. whatever, my morning jacket.

Pfft nobody on ILX actually *likes* anything.

truf bob-omb

The best is when I'm kind of discouraged by a lack of conversation on an album I like: one or two posts, and then the thread goes dead.

Then a year or two later everyone comments "oh, I really liked that, listened to it all the time!"

So people often music, but if it's not a critic's darling or widely hated, no posts.