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

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.

When you get the cancellation notification there is an option to Remove From Calendar. If you don't click that, it will still remind you.

maybe they should make that the DEFAULT

whilst we're doing software... new netbeans has word expansion macros for 'in', 'for', 'ie' etc and insists on expanding them whilst you're adding what are obviously comments

so "Placeholder for" suddenly becomes "Placeholder for(int i = 1; i < 10; i++) {
}"

Filling the kettle but forgetting to turn it on, thinking 10 minutes later 'dang isn't that water boiling YET?'

We've bought some new software which at first glance has a much more modern interface than the old one but you soon begin to notice lots of little niggles, such as:

1. scrollbars don't use the built-in Windows scrolling system.
You might expect that if you scroll down, the current contents would slide up the screen while new content appears underneath.
But on here, no matter which way you scroll, the window is redrawn from the top, pushing the previous content down. This takes a split second but long enough to see. So when you scroll down it looks like you're going up instead.

2. those little tooltip explanations which pop up when you hover over something are also not the Windows built-in ones. They appear as a whole new window and get their own taskbar tab, so when you move your mouse your taskbar jiggles disconcertingly as Windows resizes all the other tabs to fit.

3 and the one which has pissed me off most recently. Various windows have a "Help" button. Fine, good. But if you press F1 it brings up a different help page to the one you get from pressing the goddamn help button. WHY etc

That all sounds legitimately awful. I validate your anger.

Filling the kettle but forgetting to turn it on, thinking 10 minutes later 'dang isn't that water boiling YET?'

If I had a dollar for every time I've done this, I could commission someone to invent a motion sensor kettle turner-oner.

Or having the coffeemaker gasping for air while a carafe of water sits underneath it.

That scrolling quirk sounds irritating.

Similar to the kettle thing: It really bothers me when, on my work phone, I dial a number and then......nothing. Dead silence. Sometimes it takes me 60 seconds or more to realize that the line that I selected is no longer even lit up.

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Just had the most head-exploding irrationally-angering thing happen: I called the sheriff's office to check on the status of service of two summonses. After being on hold for over 30 minutes (this is normal) a gruff woman answered. I told her I was checking on summonses - she asked "How many?" and I told her two, and gave her the file number for the first one, about which she said there was no contact. I asked "Will service be attempted again?" She said "No. You have to contact the clerk to ask what you do next."

Then?

She fucking hung up on me. a;eslfija;welf;lkawfgrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Now I'm on hold again. 12 minutes and counting....

The constant use of 'hola!' as an opener in conversation, email, and IM - only in an office context, and only between Caucasians

they're actually wishing you hot oral lesbian action. video is in the mail.

Do office workers in Alberta start their emails off with "Bonjour!"

Since this only happens at work I'm developing an unhealthy Pavlovian reaction to Spanish

Just have a healthy reaction to spanglish spoken by non-native spanish speakers!

Irritation 4 about our new software: it keeps overwriting your clipboard with random text.

Now, admittedly I've thrown together some bulk-spreadsheet-copying Excel macros which have trashed the user's clipboard too (Excel gets very slow if you try to do it any other way), but I felt guilty about it, y'know? Feel like commercial software written in real development tools probably shouldn't do this.

"exactamundo"

oh man - i have to use three different browsers at work for different applications to work properly. It's a freaking nightmare.