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

I usually answer "how you doing/how's it going?" with "kickin' it" to avoid the whole good/well situ

Mattress pads are necessary for the reasons Jenny stated. Mattresses are long-term and so are body oil and skin flakes. I use an allergy bag, and AT LEAST one mattress pad. The reason for the allergy bag is that I'm terrified of bed bugs.

JENNY: all joking aside the other night when I had the horrific acid reflux, I considered lifting my bed to about a 15% angle to hold down the refluxing. But I was worried I might break the arms.

I have no beef with mattress pads because they are washable and prevent dust mites and HUMAN STUFF from getting into actual mattress. If you don't use one, your mattress is gonna get nasty.

Daria otm esp when you know the person is saying it to emphasize the fact that you used "good" incorrectly and, yes, there are people that do that.

hi dere you hate me ;_;

― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 9:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Aw. You know that's not true! Just next time I see you if I say "I'm good" just know that I fully realize that it's not proper grammar. ;)

as long as you don't say 'as it were' and 'if you will' or 'slippery slope'

"I'm good" sounds weird to my ears but it may be someone else's regional inflection.

I actually think I say "OK, thanks" more than anything else probably to avoid having to choose either well or good. I don't really know why but "I'm well" just sounds stuffy.

There's a guy in the office who in the hallways says to me every time, "Hey, whatcha know?" to which I invariably answer, "fine, thanks."

Wish I could find a video of George Carlin's bit about answering "How are you?" with "Fine." "People aren't 'fine.' HAIR is 'fine!' 'How's your hair?' 'Fine!'"

"Hey, whatcha know?"

Wait.

What does that even mean?

I hate our electro-locke door that opens with a BANG everytime making me jump up and try to minimize ILE

Jesse where did you get that bed base? Magical storage = want

Love Carlin, but that one sounds sub-Seinfeldian. (...they should call it Roundteen...)

I dont use a mattress pad. Hi I am a disgusting savage ;_;

It's the Sultan Alsarp http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10098893. I highly recommend it, but it is HEAVY as fuck (mine is Queen size). If I were to do it over, I might do one of the multi-piece ones with drawers underneath. Or one of the ideas on
Ikea Hacker.

Re sheets that fit/don't fit! I think bed suspenders are because people used to buy two flat sheets instead of a flat + a fitted. Because fitted sheets on the bottom wear a lot more than top sheets, which only lay over you, so if both were flat, you could switch them out.

I think hotels might also use multiple flat sheets to simplify laundry and laundry storage/assignment -- just grab two ANYTHINGS for each room and you're good to go. That's what we did when I used to be a maid.

i duct taped my sheets incollege to the mattress

I also get disproportionately angry at our kinky garden hose. Bastard hates to be coiled up, and neatly? Well, forget it.

as long as you don't say 'as it were' and 'if you will' or 'slippery slope'

I can't help it if I grew up watching A Bit of Fry & Laurie and reading British computer games magazines :(

(I don't think I say any of these very often, though - the first occasionally, the second never, and the last only sarcastically)

(became i.a. during the course of typing this when I accidentally mashed some key combination which apparently meant "change screen resolution and aspect ratio to something wacky and unreadable")

"Did you get a haircut?"
"No, my head shrank" / "No, my hair grew backwards"

You would think someone's head shrinking would make their hair look longer! Isn't that why the hair of corpses is perceived to grow?

It's a really dumb question, most of the time.

beat it to death kim!!

surely it's just a pleasantry, however inane.

I hate having to tell clerks at kiosks/coffeeshops/wherever my name. Not for any privacy or respect reasons. It's just that they always misspell Tre as Tray or Trey or Ray or Tony or Tay or Terry or Trip. And even if they get it right, I'll still miss them calling it out when my order is ready since the AYE sound is probably the most common sound in the English language.

I've experimented with giving them a different name, but (A) Suddenly being asked your name and fumbling for an answer is one of the oldest tricks in the book for cops and border patrol. It's the most difficult question to lie about, if you're unprepared.

and (B), no one's going to believe that my name is Javier anyway.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:46 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

PP lived next to a women for...5 years? I was there for the last two of those years. Tre is a Tre because his suffix is III. He tells neighbors his 'real' name with the reasoning that if his mail is accidentally delivered to another house they'll know whose it is. Towards the end of our time at that house I got pretty friendly with the woman and her newish fiance. I slipped up a bunch of times and referred him as Tre in his absence. One day the woman approached me. 'Your husband's name is Tre?? Ive been calling him _____ for 5 years!!!' 'I know. He's kind of weird'

lol

I didn't realize that Tre wasn't his real name. I've always thought it was p cool.

Tre cool, boom boom.

i've expanded on a couple of my posts on this thread -

http://strangersihaveloathed.tumblr.com/

This may be a repeat and I know it's kind of mean, but today it ticked me off again: women who wear nice delicate shoes and then turn their feet out when they walk. If you're going to make like a duck, wear duck feet. I mean, why bother?

Although I made a poor shoe choice of my own today: my new pumps I bought to go with my new suit look lovely but they just don't...fit my stride, somehow. The left heel comes off when I step, and it hurts something in my arch to try to keep it on. I haven't worked out the base problem, so I guess that's another ia.

i never wear nice delicate shoes. have you seen a city street lately? it's all broken glass and dog poo!

(ps: rhetorical question)

women who wear nice delicate shoes and then turn their feet out when they walk. If you're going to make like a duck, wear duck feet. I mean, why bother?

As someone who has the inverse of this (ie my feet turn inwards, and I was born that way) and has been accused mockingly of "walking like a duck" dozens of times and made to feel like a retard, that... kind of hurts.

(I cant wear heels, and I've grown tired of defending wearing docs/boots/solid shoes as if I'm some kind of stubborn hipster/dyke/lacking in elegance person instead of someone who is in pain 80% of the time I am on my feet)

i have both high arches and wide feet, so most shoes are uncomfortable for me. i sometimes wish i could be a delicate flower english major anorak-crush type, but i'm stuck with dyke chic so i embrace it.

I'm a fairy elephant in heels so I steer away from them, unless they're chunky. But I mainly stick to flats because grimacing when you walk isn't the best look.
Though honesty I think 50% of "duck" walkers can't help it, and the other 50 don't know they look that way. I think the bigger IA is stupid shoes that trick people into thinking they are for human feet when they are clearly made for fairycreatures

I think it's very thoughtful when people say "bless you" when I sneeze, but I am a serial sneezer in the best of times and it is allergy season, so I go on like ten sneeze benders three or four times a day and all of my coworkers jump in to bless me for each sneeze and then I have to say "thank you" to each blessing and I feel like I am accepting an academy award instead of just trying not to get snot all over everything.

I would say "please hold your applause until all the sneezes have been introduced"

when my coworker sneezes I dont bless him bbut mainly because secretly I curse him

and also - please be kinder to duck foot people - they have a disease and they are doing all they can

my colleagues just laugh at me now when i sneeze. apparently it's hilarious.

better than saying "bless you" though.

poor fella
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My editor unnecessarily amended some short pieces I did by ADDING IN SENTENCES that I never wrote. It would be okay if these sentences made any sense in the context of the rest of the writing. Would also help if there weren't typos in them as well. WTF? IA!

apparently some people get mad when their work is edited - I have proofread somewhat - it is an excellent way to annoy someone.
"My editor unnecessarily amended some jazzy little short pieces I did by mofukin ADDING IN SENTENCES that I never wrote. I hate dat! It would be okay if thesee sentences madhe any sense in the context of the rest of the writing. Would also help if there weren't typoliolioss in them as well. WTF? IMHO !!IA! CDE!!"

Success!

ARGH!!!

I mean, I understand the need to edit, but why add sentences that don't make sense? And FFS, spell them correctically yeh?

He's putting errors into your work so he can cite your error rate at your next performance review.

it seems like if someone adds that much in editing they are more like a co-writer than editor - she is stealing yoru ideas!

People who walk around with the stems of their sunglasses over their ears but the glasses hanging down the back of their head, becaus they don't have anyplace to put them or w/e. Just carry them!

ugh I hate this. or clipped on the back of your tshirt neck.

Luckily only douchebags do this, so it helps to ID them at twenty paces if you were in any doubt?