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

not eating isn't a viable option, Tracer

Yes, please enlighten me Tracer, your previous post didn't make sense.

I don't care about dishes left in the sink, I don't even care if some are left on the counter, what I DO care about is "washed" dishes that are still greasy and in fact have giant lip-stick marks on the rim.

Part of the problem, though, is the newish eco-friendly dish soaps that don't cut grease unless you pour on half a cup. Look, I'm sorry about the earth and everything, but No.

who do you know who snogs the rims of plates?

Did I say plate? It was on a mug.

So very true. Laundry detergent also. Eco friendly is great but the product has to WORK.

fuck a trader joe's cleaning products, btw

You people are savages, my plates and clothes clean up perfectly well with modern products

incidentally - if anyone's an expert at this -the conditioner drawer on our washing machine appears to be blocked as it keeps filling with water. How do I fix this?

Conditioner?

But the answer is probably filling all the receptacles with white vinegar and running the machine while empty.

Also

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<3 u 4eva

Jesse, tell ILX about the pudding.

― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:02 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

When I moved last year I found a box of pistachio pudding mix that expired in 1997, and I did not immediately throw it out. When I told Jenny and friend this, they were appalled and adamant about my throwing it away. Their strong reaction led me to my increasingly obstinate dismissal of expiration dates, and ultimate refusal to acknowledge that pudding could ever actually expire. I made the pudding and it was, in fact, legitimately expired.

Now on the other hand that box of wild rice in my cabinet at home.....

xp- Maybe "conditioner" means rinse agent? Or maybe dog latin meant "headwasher" instead of dishwasher.

I think he meant "fabric softener"

also what did that pudding smell/taste like

I believe that is referring to Fabric Softener.

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was it expired in terms of taste or texture?

Oh, I read "washing machine" as dishwasher. I would like to think I could have figured out "conditioner" had I read the rest of the question correctly.

Tip! White vinegar makes a great fabric softener/conditioner. You can put it in a Downy Ball (is that a strictly USA thing?) and it is cheap and works great and doesn't clog anything.

The pudding tastes musty.

xp - OH! I read it was dishwasher, too!

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

*turns the post upside down*

Oh, 42. Good, I'm still within the age limit.

i get really mad at my parents for keeping v. v. expired medicine in the cabinet. 'in

I once found a bottle of sixty year old laudanum in the back of a client's medicine cabinet.

I have a friend who recently ate some yoghurt that expired in May 2010. She was so determined to prove it was still OK that she kept offering it to everybody, and then spent the next day haranguing Yoplait over the phone for putting too-early expiry dates on their food. But she has a lot of other problems, too, so this is fairly normal behaviour for her.

i am aware that expiry dates err way on the side of caution but i still can't let myself go over them beyond maaaaybe a day if i'm feeling particularly risky

fuck a trader joe's cleaning products, btw

i don't know if this counts as a "cleaning product" but i'm a fan of tj's "tea tree tingle" body wash.

except they'er not all terribly cautious, or even accurate... deli items and meats particularly, are /often/ marked to the very last date, or even falsified. (xp)

so those chicken breasts i got for half price might be a little elderly?

yeah, there are all sorts of butcher's tricks to make meat look fresh: CO2, saline, ash, etc., (/former meatcutter)

Isn't that the difference between 'best before', 'display before' and 'use by', though?

20/20 did a hidden cam investigation of North Carolina grocery chain Food Lion in which they caught some people repackaging and selling expired meat after washing it with bleach water, or dousing it with BBQ sauce and labeling it as a convenience item. I worked at a Food Lion a couple years later and there were always those shoppers who were angry about something unrelated to meat who would go, "Oh yeh? Well you sell spoiled meat!"

I can't remember if it was in the same investigation that a systematic wage theft was exposed. Managers made employees clock out at their scheduled leaving time, but they weren't allowed to leave until side work was done.

Still, they had the best benefits of any employer I had in my 20s.

drunx talking loudly outside for past hour and a half (it is now 3:40am on a weeknight)

not actually doing anything which wd justify calling the cops or anything, just talking loudly

would have quite liked some sleep tonight

i am aware that the stock ILX response to such annoyances is "boo hoo, save up for yr country mansion 5 miles from any other living human", hence being on "irrational" thread

CRANKY NOW

Living near a bar can suck. One night last month I stuck my head out the window around 3am to ask two students in the street below to take their conversation somewhere else. They were only talking about Gramsci, but it was directly below my bedroom, so loud enough to wake me up.

Sometimes when I get cranky about living in the middle of nowhere, I think about things like that. The loudest sound outside my window at night is a bird that has its nights and days mixed up.

Not sticking my head out of the window as these guys sound like they could kick my ass - I am a woman of distinctly un-ass-kicking physique. Which in itself might be a bit irrational since I'm on the 2nd floor (3rd story in USian) but still.

My road is a dead end and not very near a bar so they probably live here, or at least there's no other reason to come down here.

I feel your crankiness, spacecadet. not irrational at all

after living in between two party households for 4 months, including regular 4am doof and midnight band practices, i have zero tolerance for any sort of sleep-disturbing noise.

(the noise was possibly the least annoying thing about those two households)

The most punchable phrase in the English language must be "they gave up their rights when they..."
I might be un-friending someone on Facebook.

lists where en, em and other dashes are interchanged willy-nilly

People who write on a pad of paper perpendicular to their body - or any angle greater than 0. I swear there's someone at work who actually goes over 90 degrees, so they're actually writing upwards and backwards.

They gave up their friendship-rights when they typed that, eh? xxpost

images in webpages that are hyperlinks to themselves. WHY???

having to use internet explorer at work. not having the amazing search function in the address bar feels like might as well be a stone aged man drawing on a cave wall.

still absolutely baffles me that I still come across individuals who earn a living out of the internet yet who have yet to escape IE's clutches.

lol bbc

that one function would save me so much time, it basically eradicates the need to ever bookmark anything.

xxp
i was so keen to avoid the term "internet professionals" that I wrote a very very bad sentence instead.

think when i started we were locked into a version that didn't have tabbed browsing!

ugh that sounds horrible, you poor thing. similar to my new job having one long screen instead of two smaller ones as i have grown accustomed.