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

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.

i think every internet browser ever would qualify for this thread - firefox is so slow and heavy i was actually tempted to return to IE at times. i use camino now, which is basically perfect except cuz it's not one of the better known ones, lots of applications or whatever just don't work.

w/r/t flatmates, i'm leaving the country on monday, when the recycling has to be put out. i'm making a small bet with myself w/r/t whether anyone bothers to do this, and in the miraculous event that they do, will they bother to bring the box back inside or cover it (and the bin) up in case it rains and they get wet and disgusting and manky

"You like music right? Then come see shitty band X with me. What, you don't like shitty band x? I
thought you liked music."

Inspired by two friends offering me their extra tickets for the Dave Matthews Caravan.

lol

dude i saw last night tossing a full garbage bag from a 3rd story window onto the sidewalk: wtf is fucking wrong with you, you fuck??

idk if that is 'innocuous' but it did make me irrationally angry

i think every internet browser ever would qualify for this thread - firefox is so slow and heavy i was actually tempted to return to IE at times. i use camino now, which is basically perfect except cuz it's not one of the better known ones, lots of applications or whatever just don't work.

i switched to chrome cuz i was tired of firefox crashing so often. chrome is an improvement but it has its own strange quirks that i'm still getting used to.

I went to Chrome bc FF was crashy and way slow, but FF 5 is great. Too many websites I use for work don't get along with Chrome.

"do not rub your greasy chicken on my Grandma's legs!"

Still putting off moving to ff5 cos some of my add-ons don't work with it yet

oh i loved chrome when i used it but it doesn't work on this old version of mac osx, which...is a whole other source of irrational anger

i've been using Opera for years now, and it's almost perfect except that my bank and certain Google features don't work on it. lots of T_T in my house when i finally got that coveted Google Wave invite and found it didn't work on Opera.

you stop that Opera using right now

you'll have to pry these mouse gestures out of my cold dead hands!!

PS i know firefox has mouse gesture add-ons, but every time i upgraded they'd stop working, so what's the point.

Safari - The Browser for People Who Don't Know About Other ones and Have a Mac

Little kids riding bicycles on pavements who ring the bike bell for you to get out of their way!

I was walking across the Main Street Bridge last week, in the divided pedestrian walk, when a cyclist about made me jump into the river by stealthily pulling up behind me and saying "EXCUSE ME, CAN I GO AROUND YOU?"

If another goddammed cyclist whines about how they have the same rules of the road as cars and yet, continues to ride where people walk, I'm going to start throwing shit at them from my SUV.

Found a link to show where this happened and LOOK AT THESE ASSHOLES. THAT'S NOT A BIKE LANE!

at the risk of offending everyone - bikes are stupid in general and should be smashed

The most perfect human-powered vehicle ever conceived makes Mr. Green irrationally angry.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wEO9WyE1R3I/TVBw0uLhHXI/AAAAAAAAAFs/hn25ecsyBQU/s1600/old-bike-big-wheel-classic1.jpg

i love my bike, and anyone who rides on the sidewalk is a savage.

yesterday night i saw a guy riding his bike the wrong way down the road whilst singing and strumming a guitar. one wrong move and he would've crashed into traffic, but he looked so happy i couldn't be angry with him.

Was there someone with a camera around? Someone mumbling something about YouTube?

i just remembered that this weekend is the oregon country fair, so he was probably on his way home and stoned out of his miiiind.

Fucking microsoft - I know including the word microsoft automatically disqualifies this from 'innocuous' status but anyway - fucking microsoft outlook, if a meeting is CANCELLED then maybe you should REMOVE it from my calendar and maybe not fucking REMIND me that this meeting that was CANCELLED is due to start in ten minutes, BECAUSE IT FUCKING ISN'T.