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

how about that i found him under my couch cushions? but i suppose that would be less effective.

she also started reading all those "chicken soup for the soul" type books around the same time. probably shouldn't feel bad that i just didn't mesh with that kind of coping strategy.

look o the bright side - what if she had turned out to be some serial killer or something

I had a big breakup with an ultra-negative friend about six years ago and I still have residual anger at her when I run across her on FB or Flickr or what have you.

I think there's a diff between being a Daria and looking at everything as a "my life is worse than your life" contest particularly when that person won't actually take easy, well-supported steps to solve problems. I mean, some ppl can't deal w/ 90s sarcastabitch culture but I think you're right, Kim, when you say that was more a matter of different world views and not you being a bad person.

The ultra-neg friend problem usually blows up when the person who is not relentlessly negative needs support and the ultra-neg is clueless and selfish after years of hanging on her friends like a remora. This is what happened with me and why I'm still bitter (also when I tried to save the friendship by distancing myself so I could deal with my own shit, I got a raft of complaints about what a jerk I was for not making time to hear about why the friend's life is both unbearable and unfixable). Okay. Going to happy thread now. Grrr.

i have a friend, well an ex-gf whos the opposite to the 24-hr-negative friend, the ultra positive friend, the person whose read too much self help and is trying to project ms little sunshine all the time in case even a glimmer of doubt/shyness/unhappiness slips through. im a bit more sympathetic to this than the opposite (kinda) but its equally hard to deal with/

all rain makes a dessert!

Hey, it's 2011.

Could we maybe create vending machines that fucking work right?

When people use toilet paper to blow their nose, because they're in the bathroom and it's handy, but then throw it in the garbage can. It's flushable for fucksakes - use logic and do not leave your pestilence rag there!

maybe they are on a saving water kick

when people don't clean up after their pets. i mean seriously, outside my office the sidewalk is covered in dog shit.

xpost - well they are free to pee on it too, before flushing. That's what captain planet would do. Tho I suppose that eating your own boogers is the most Eco-friendly approach. So maybe that is what he would do.

When people use toilet paper to blow their nose, because they're in the bathroom and it's handy, but then throw it in the garbage can. It's flushable for fucksakes - use logic and do not leave your pestilence rag there!

There = garbage can, right?

lately I have been trowing tissues on the floor becuase I am holding a baby so i can't throw them in the garbgecan

You go to the bathroom with baby in hand?

no - I am using tissue to wipe her spit up

Drivers who don't signal when they can see a pedestrian waiting to cross the road beyond the point where they're going to turn off / pull into a parking space, bcz it's only a pedestrian.

Hey! You've made my walk home take 30 seconds longer! (That's why getting angry enough to type something about it on the internet later is irrational.)

Yes, this.

Also, my office sits on a one-way street. When I approach the cross-street "upstream", I have to watch out for drivers with their necks cranked to the left as they turn right on to the one-way, rolling through a red light.

That's a rational peeve though. We all need to work better at this.

The ultra-neg friend problem usually blows up when the person who is not relentlessly negative needs support and the ultra-neg is clueless and selfish after years of hanging on her friends like a remora.

When your ultra-neg friend wants to cry
But you want her to die
That's remora

people who do not know how to use circles. not five-lane british circles or whatever. just simple one-lane circles. probably the simplest thing on the road next to a stop sign.

omg it's terrible here...we have one by our house, and one by where I work and the amount of people braking halfway around to let another car in ...I swear. Or ppl who stop dead at the entrance to a clear one. One the one hand, I get that they are kind of a rarity in the US, but on the otherhand IT IS NOT AS DIFFICULT AS YOU ARE MAKING IT

I am so proud of my city for building a huge circle with four outs on it. They're not common here, but it seems that everyone has gotten the hang of it.

This little touch of genius can go straight to hell though. Even I'd be turning dead left instead of going around that exaggerated manhole cover, especially at two in the morning.

LOL I'd love to see those people get their heads around Melb hook-turns.

There's two being built on Jacaranda Blvd, close to Venice, Florida. People seem to be adjusting to those OK.

That thing when you say to yourself "I'll just get this quick thing out of the way, then i'll do x", then when you've got the quick thing out of the way you remember that you were going to do something but have completely forgotten what it was, and are just left with a lingering sense of something urgent left uncompleted. Filing this under 'innocuous' because the thing forgotton is usually not urgent at all, it's more like "I'll just read this quick ilx thread, then i'll... read this other ilx thread".

--when people get to the front of the line and don't have their method of payment ready and slow down the line
--people who enter through "Exit only" while you're exiting, forcing you to squeeze by, then giving you a look like YOU screwed up. actually that ain't innocuous, that's criminal!
--people who repeatedly try to jump ahead by asking questions in training about things we haven't gotten to yet.

--people who repeatedly try to jump ahead by asking questions in training about things we haven't gotten to yet.

OTM - disgusting savages.

oh and that reminds me

--people who use exit lanes as passing lanes OMFG

a lingering sense of something urgent left uncompleted

Aah, this is my morning. We had network problems, so I had to find something I could do offline, and then the network came back before I had finished the make-work, which I stopped at a memory-disrupting point only to have forgotten what I actually meant to do today, and now I am doing neither and feeling a bit at sea

distractions

to the dude who stopped in the drive thru sunpass toll lane, almost causing a wreck, and then immediately made an illegal left turn out of a straightaway only lane...there is a special place in Hell for you.

O_O yipes

the euphemism 'passed away' is driving me nuts lately. just say 'died'

I worked at this weekly newspaper once and house style was to say "died" in the obits instead of "passed away," unless the family paid for the obituary. Secretly the crtl+f find "passed away" replace "died" was always one of those quiet weekly highlights for me. But it has given me a distaste for the euphemism ever since.

i prefer 'emptied his bowels and left this mortal coil'

I'm pretty sure movie theater texters have been addressed in this thread (among several others), but kudos to the Alamo Drafthouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVz-fO7kxcQ&feature=player_embedded

amen. the fucking glow of cell phones is distracting, it pulls my eyes from the screen. saw some dude at X-Men who texted for 3/4ths of it, WHY FUCKING COME?

The annoying thing is the attitude the girl in that video takes like its her god-given right to text in a movie theater or something.

or the irony that she says she'll go someplace where people 'are polite' in the midst of a character-assassinating diatribe

and yes, I agree. I hate now that every time I go to a movie, the first thought in my head is whether some fucker is gonna ruin it for me....

Countdown to "MAGNITED STATES OF AMERICA" being an internet meme...

lol yea that made me laugh

awsum work, drafthouse

companies you are already with for one thing, eg phone/internet, taking advantage of having your contact details and cold calling you to sell you others or the complete package etc. SO WRONG.

Oh, and how about paying a credit card bill over the counter at a bank, and having the bank teller say "I see you haven't paid off your complete balance, would you like me to investigate how you can save money on alternate financial packages?"

To which the only polite answer is "FUCK OFF READING MY PRIVATE STATEMENTS ACTUALLY!!!!"

I am annoyed at my sick co worker coming over to my desk and sniffling and everything over my shoulder to read something I am looking at on the intranet - GET AWAY INEFERI!

Seeing a belt under a vest

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"Disney's Fast Play". More like slow play you fuckers. In fact, all DVDs that don't let you access the main menu without forcing you to watch some promo first can just go self smash themselves!