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

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the word "unpack" when talking about arguments rather than luggage

there is no rational reason for me to fly into a rage whenever I see that, but hey

what about the linux file type

I'm fine with that, too

just don't ask me to "unpack" my argument; I will explain, I will expand, I will reframe, I WILL NEVER UNPACK

don tback down either

anonymous sneaky ppl who take only one-half of single serving food items from the kitchen. don't want your sloppy seconds half breakfast burrito! >:\ (except maybe sorta i _do_?)

okay PLEASE do not refer to food as "sloppy seconds"

hahaha omg

when u love food too much

"Is that half of Nikki Six's breakfast burrito? I'll pass."

"We'll just tell your mother we ate it all."

tongue kissing hot chicks!

that makes you angry?

When you finally get home from work and have a free night w/ no commitments and are free to rlax all night and the first thing you notice when you get home is that the internet is down

I have fucking had it: customer whose knee jerk reaction is to blame us for a problem when it's their own fault. We spend all afternoon pulling data only to find the fuckup is on their end. Once a week or more we get some urgent capslocked cc-all-of- management email that says "why is x doing y, we are getting complaints"

BECAUSE YOU ARE MORONS

yea the inability for management to give benefit of the doubt is rationally angering imo

customer whose knee jerk reaction is to blame us for a problem when it's their own fault

^^^ this made up half of the calls I dealt with as an IT helpdesk jockey.

I remember once dealing with a lady who was extremely irascible even upon hearing my voice for the first time. It wasn't even her account, it was her husband's, but I think he was out on disability.

she's being shrill and screaming about a threat to cancel insurance if no payment is received, apparently she didn't get any bills and instead of y'know calling and going 'what's the deal', she just assumed she didn't have to pay. On looking further, the reason she hadn't been getting the bills is cuz they moved and never notified us, which of course she then denied ("oh WE CALLED YOU BACK IN JULY OF XX YEAR")...and of course the call history showed they'd NEVER called us before, which she then denied ("Oh you all just erased the records"...which, mind you, isn't even possible, due to the way the call logging program is set up).

She complained about me to the company, even called me 'boy' once, and when my call was reviewed of course nothing came of it. But then after I got promoted, she called back and this time was causing a ruckus about some service that wasn't 'paid right' for her husband. we didn't handle claims so we referred her to the advocate service -- she claimed she'd already called them, and that they 'couldn't help' and that in the past she'd called our advocate group to get resolution (which was true...but the client we worked with quit paying for it and went with another provider...so they were now unavailable). She kept insisting that we transfer her to the old advocate group despite our insistence that they weren't under contract anymore, so we couldn't do that.

THEN, finally...she got another 'you will be cancelled if you continue to be delinquent' letters and was blowing her stack at one of my employees, and the reason she got the letter was because she juxtaposed the numbers in the 'cents' field of the check she wrote, so she was short by a little. Rather than say "oops my mistake, I'll fix it on the next check" which woulda been fine, as we told her, she blew up and said she wrote the check right, and we screwed up...so we had to pull the check, and lo and behold...she did screw it up.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Rotten apples like this ruin it for the whole barrel.

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hate these cheap ass tiny mice so much

Are they so cheap they have no cords? Would be great if you plugged it in and then couldn't move it because it was all one piece of plastic.

Also, DVD box sets of 4 movies that describe themselves as QUADRILOGIES. That is not a fucking word! Use TETRALOGY!

Also, DVD box sets of 4 movies that describe themselves as QUADRILOGIES. That is not a fucking word! Use TETRALOGY!

OMG YES

yes I hate frenching!

they have cords, the cord retracts and coils (poorly) around that lozenge thing

well, I call them tongues

People confusing "virgin birth" with "Immaculate Conception." I'm not even a theist, let alone Catholic, but this bugs the ever-loving shit out of me.

OMG YES.

shit you'd be surprised at how many Catholics don't even know that

Er, well til a google just now I didnt either. But I know pretty much zero about catholicism.

well it doesn't help that so many adults teach it wrong.

I actually learned it when I was 15 because I missed it as a question on one of the YOu Don't Know Jack games

I knew, but didn't know how recent both the immaculate conception (1854) and the original sin problem it solved (5th century, st. augustine) were. ( http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Beliefs/differences.htm )

those kwazy Catholics

Neanderthal, I have found it is generally Catholics who don't know the difference.

i should ask my dad (a former catholic) if he knows

it is 9 am on a Saturday.

"C'mon Jake" lady is back. Only this time she has been calling for her dog at full volume for 15 MOTHERFUCKING MINUTES. She is so loud I wouldn't be surprised if my roomie can hear her.

STFU!!!!

yes I hate frenching!

Do you like kissing without tongue?

it's weird, one of my exes wasn't into tongue, though she liked kissing 'in general'

People who won't RSVP to invites where response is crucial.

Like if I get ten maybes and one "yes", I run the risk of being the only person to show up...so that doesn't help!

OK, thought of one over the weekend:

In documentaries, when a member of the public is saying something in an accent other than total clear and proper english as spoken by the Queen or Cheryl Cole, the use of subtitles.

Slight african lilt? A bit irish? Let's stick what they are saying up on the screen for the hard of thinking...

It doesn't happen so much for Geordie accents, but it's anoying when what that person is saying is perfectly understandable.

One exception I did notice, the particular show was talking to a deaf woman, and only used the subtitles briefly during a difficult-to-understand bit, the rest was fine and left alone.

In documentaries, when a member of the public is saying something in an accent other than total clear and proper english as spoken by the Queen or Cheryl Cole, the use of subtitles.

OTMFM! This isn't just a British thing though, I suspect it to happen in a lot of countries (it's exactly the same in Holland).

Oh yeah. I fucking hate that. Happens in the US though I've noticed that it happens more on mainstream news/documentary shows on commercial TV and less on documentary films or public broadcasting programs.

Oh yeah. I fucking hate that. Happens in the US though I've noticed that it happens more on mainstream news/documentary shows on commercial TV and less on documentary films or public broadcasting programs.

I hate when an English speaker who is speaking speaking English to a non-native English speaker uses the accent or syntax of the language of the listener, e.g. "Hhhow long joo are leeving een Amereeca?" it seem patronizing and useless.

But then whenever I've talked about this annoyance, someone had insisted that it really is helpful for the listener. Last time it was some bilingual friends, so what the fuck, maybe it is helpful and I'm annoyed over nothing.

^thish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90

I can understand Spanish much better when spoken slowly by Americans with terrible accents then I can by a native Spanish speaker. But holy shit, I would never speak faux-accented English to a non-native English speaker.

xp The thing with Schteve is, though, he doesn't come near to what is a Dutch accent in English, and therefore, even here in Holland, was the rightful subject of ridicule.

for sure

Sunny teases me because I watch "The Young Ones" with the subtitles turned on.

Jenny, remember when wewhen we were waitresses together and that one cook would use some weird accent to talk to the Ivoirian guy (Mohammed?)? When I said something about it he said something like "It only really works for Mexicans."

The VH1 Behind The Music episode on Oasis had subtitles. And it needed them. I never knew "Do you know what I mean?" could be compacted into half a syllable.

I only like kissing shoulders