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

facebook sookin. on it, or about it.

*sooking

Just catching the inside hem of your trousers with a toe/toenail, and very slightly ripping the hem, so that each subsequent time you put on the trousers, the same thing happens, making the situation worse.

It's also one of those things that you only remember when it happens and instantly forget until the next time it happens.

i have a rip around the knee in my jeans that is like that.

my penis keeps catching it

It is because we're meant to believe his penis is long, do you see?

no

His knee is very high up.

The tip of his penis has a sharp and jagged keratin growth.

It got caught in his zipper and fitted perfectly.

YKK

i have trypophilia and seeing that rip in my knee makes me excited, tis all.

I dont belive you - dont dis the cause

lol ken

It bugs me when a person talks about a thing that the listener doesn't know about and the listener acts like he knows. Real life example:

A tells B: "My new Vibram Five Fingers came in today's Fed Ex delivery!"

B replies "Oh wow, that's terrific!"

A says, "Do you know what those are?"

B: "No! What are they?!"

Second example (specifics slightly modified):

B: "What are you doing this weekend?"

A: "I'm going to watch Salo on repeat for 48 hours."

B: "Oh fun!"

A: "Do you know Salo?"

B: "No, what channel is it on?"

The second is v v annoying, but I kind of feel like the first example is harmless enough, provided A is expressing excitement.

lets not forget those shoes are awful

I take those examples of the Person B getting excited because Person A is excited.

While overhearing that exchange I wasn't sure where to direct my annoyance, at the shoes or B's disinterest. You're right, it was pretty harmless, but her reaction made it obvious she wasn't listening or didn't really care. She could at least have said absently, "Oh, what's that?"

Its worse than sitting with bare buttocks on three pounds of red ground beef!

i think A is more annoying to assume people know what the fuck they're talking about.

or would be interested about vibram five fingers (they are TOES)

i mean, if A was going to ask "Do you know what those are?" in your second question, why did A said the first thing as if you'd think B would know what you're talking about, and then be annoyed that B don't really care to find out about it?

I'd say that the reason that A asked "do you know what that is" is b/c B clearly seemed to have checked out and was essentially saying "that's nice dear."

exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1o8hvhG_o

She could at least have said absently, "Oh, what's that?"

idk if you are shy, sometimes it's hard to say something like "i am not interested in this topic/i am busy, let's wrap-up," so you do it by not asking questions that could branch off into a whole new 20-min conversation. i am biased though because i have a friend who, if i admit i haven't heard of a movie/tv show to her, will describe the whole thing to me in excruciating detail and then give me a detailed critique to top it off. tho i have been able head this off lately by saying "oh i want to see that, don't spoil me for anything!"

as a shy person i also hate when someone tells a joke and i don't get it, but i don't want to say i don't get it because A) embarrassing, or B) i don't care that much, and then one of my friends says TO ME "oh i didn't get that, what did they mean?" now that i think about it, it's that same friend from above who always does that.

I am not particularly shy but your second paragraph aptly describes my reaction to/feelings about a lot of ILX in jokes.

I have a coworker who is incapable of admitting she does not know something, going so far as to make assertions about a thing that she knows nothing about, usually in the form of waiting until I am about 1/4 through what I was going to say and then repeated the beginning of my sentence and extrapolating the end herself. It is just as bizarre, awkward, and annoying as it sounds. Note: I sincerely like this person and she is one of my more normal coworkers.

sometimes I think that I am too irritabloe and that it only makes my life worse - but people seem to be amused by it
I even think such evil thoughts as "old lady walking too slow in front of me - get the fuck out of my way!! roundhouse to the head!!"
but in reality i am very polite

I kinda agree w/ reddening in that I have this one friend who seems to talk exclusively about shit I know nothing about. generally I think as friends you should try to engage topics that are interesting to everyone, it's just this guy has vast knowledge of classical music and opera and finds he doesn't have a lot of people to talk to it about, so I understand.

Still, I feel sheepish because he talks at length about things I've never heard of prior to even confirming that I know what it is about so I practically feel forced to just nod and go "oh yea I know that" or else I have to then sit and listen for another five minutes to him explaining what it is.

(He's a good guy, just...hard to hold your own in a cnovo!)

I have another coworker who is the opposite of this in that she assumes nobody has any idea what she is ever talking about, specifically re: music, which on the one hand I get because our workplace is full of squares but on the other hand, I fucking know who Reverend Horton Heat is, sheesh.

ugh yea.

'i'm a big fan of the movie 'Seven Samurai' not sure if you've ever heard about that, but what it is is a movie about 7 samurai that....'

STFU

so in conclusion, people shouldn't talk...ever.

I've had people launch into talking about something I know nothing about, assuming I do - TV and football the usual examples. But the thing is, I have to at least smile and nod politely initially because the other option is to cut them off right away with "look I dont know what you're talking about, sorry". Which seems rude.

But Ive had to do that with workmates lately cos after 3 years of "I dont really watch TV" they still think I care that the Doggies manager is swapping out his star forward next weekend or that there was a cheat scandal on Masterchef.

lol I'm obviously a lot less polite than you Trayce, not that I really consider it rude to say nah never seen it!

I think I'm just over-cautious, haha!

From today's day of wonderful work

* Salesmen who, instead of telling you that product A will do function B, give you a 20-min narrative, stretching back to the company's founding by some Japanese ceramicist in the 1880s, blah bah blah, culminating in just why they felt the need to have function B be doable

* People giving powerpoint presentations who leave the 'This computer needs to be updated' and 'This computer may be at risk from viruses' balloons up on screen through the whole thing

* People who call apes "monkeys", which is, frankly, as dumb as calling ducks ostriches

- David Walliams' face.
- David Walliams' surname.

there was a cheat scandal on Masterchef.

what, really? tell me more!

you buy a can of deodorant and the sprayer stops working halfway through, rendering it utterly useless.

David Walliams' face.

* People who call apes "monkeys"

defend this to my dying breath. it's like calling yetis "bigfoots".

don't get me started on prosimians.

You've seen these billboards too, then?

Yes, along with the frequent adverts in the papers.

ledge: Aus masterchef. Something about using a smartphone to FB people for recipes, like I give a hot damn, I've never watched the show.

i know i was half-kidding :)

boring scandal tho, was hoping someone had smuggled some pre-made haute cuisine up their ass or something.

Haha figured you were, still. The whole masterchef phenom leaves me cold, and I'm a lover of cooking shows.

*waits for sic to inform me I cant bitch about a show I havent seen, bla bla*

have never seen the aus one, sounds like they're playing up the apprentice angle, which could be horrid. love the uk one, virtually no reality show backstabbing bullshit, just people who can cook, cooking. 'the professionals' version is even better, watching people who are already good at something being pushed to excel themselves is awesome.

when you click on a link to contact a website and microsoft fucking outlook decides to open rather than just taking you to a page with contact info