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

yeah, they did this at my old place as we were moving out! so we had like 12 bags of garbage after cleaning everything, you used to get 2 free bags (you could sticker the rest), but they decreased that to one bag without telling us. That's even fine, it's just that when you make the change, and we have 2 unstickered and 10 stickered, PLEASE TAKE THE STICKERED BAGS AND GIVE US THE FREE ONE TOO!! Don't just go, "fuck it, I'm leaving them all!" Don't they know how much that sucks for us (the customer)??

a robot rings your house a number of times to check if you are a t home before a human finally rings you, so that, as with me yesterday, you get 5 silent, paranoia-inducing calls before some nitwit tries selling you shit you don't want.

This is the worst! I mean, I guess not the worst ever until you cross a few fatal diseases off the list, but it's pretty fucking bad. We got a real spate of these a few years back, glad I don't get them in my current place.

I just get lots of Srs People asking if I'm some guy called Duncan. They never say who they are and always hang up without saying anything when I say he hasn't lived here for 2 years, so I guess they are debt collectors, and I always worry that they don't believe me - otherwise why would they keep ringing - and I'll find my door kicked in one day.

Then I remember that I may have his phone number but my flat's a new build, so they're probably kicking down the door of some other person who isn't Duncan instead and then saying "we phoned you repeatedly, Duncan, and your woman's voice is most unconvincing."

I hate the photo copy toner scammers and I enjoy eating up as much of their time as possible before letting them know that I know it's a scam and telling them I'm reporting the call to the State's Attorney. They get really shitty with you when you say that.

The scam, in case you aren't familiar: they call and say they are from "the company that provides your toner" (sometimes they know which machine you have, so they say "from Konica" or whatever) and they want to confirm your order or tell you your order has been delayed. I fell for it once on my first few weeks at a new job. The guy said that "John" placed the order, which was a really lucky random name bc my boss is named John. I OK'd the order and received a UPS pkg of 10 toner cartridges and a bill for $500.

As it turns out, my boss questioned the charges and found that toner is paid for in our machine lease. Some people just pay it. Fucking bastards.

They've decided to knock down the car and petrol garage next to my house and build (yet another) old folks home. Building work starts imminently, but until then, they've decided to park a security guard in the car park right outside our bathroom window. He can probably see in. He sits in his car talking loudly on a mobile phone until the early hours of the morning and every 40 minutes his dog starts barking for no reason. Then I can hear him slamming the car door and moving stuff around. It only started recently, but I'm not happy about it, especially since the landlady has just raised our rent. I find dogs barking quite a tense noise at the best of times and I don't like it while I sleep. Is it right to complain, or is this just life?

xp that doesn't sound innocuous at all! I had no idea that was going on. That's pretty clever though

That sounds worthy of a complaint, maybe to the security company. Or maybe you could make a noise complaint to the police. That would be pretty funny. xp

A security guy should get a more professional acting dog, a dog that yowls every 40 minutes does not have a stable temperament. My dog barks at night sometimes but it is very comforting and reassuring.

i've had a couple of calls lately from people who knew my name and address and said that they had money for me because i'd "been in an accident"

i told them no thanks but it occurred to me that my response may have subtly confirmed that the information they had for me was all correct i.e. name, phone number, address

so the last time it happened i said "no, you're wrong, that's not my address" and the guy immediately just hung up on me!

I just get lots of Srs People asking if I'm some guy called Duncan. They never say who they are and always hang up without saying anything when I say he hasn't lived here for 2 years, so I guess they are debt collectors, and I always worry that they don't believe me - otherwise why would they keep ringing - and I'll find my door kicked in one day.

Then I remember that I may have his phone number but my flat's a new build, so they're probably kicking down the door of some other person who isn't Duncan instead and then saying "we phoned you repeatedly, Duncan, and your woman's voice is most unconvincing."

yeah i've had lots of these. the format "ARE YOU XXXXXX?" "no." "IS THIS THE ADDRESS XXXXXXX?" "no." "WHAT IS THIS ADDRESS?" "ummmm" is pretty common.

After I got my new phone number ten years ago, I went to get my oil changed and the guy asked for my phone number to enter into the records. He typed it in and then looked at me curiously. "Are you servicing your Corolla today, Mr. Fong?"

LOOOOOOL. I signed up for a new gym last week and didn't fill in the email/phone number bit even though it was 'required field' on the application; when they asked me why it was blank, I said I don't ever gave out those details and just *looked* at them wordlessly until they moved on.

Cold callers playing 20 Questions with people's personal details before divulging their own is the absolute rudest in phone behaviour - especially from a withheld/unknown number. If one tries to establish my identity using this method, it's all I can do not to shout at them.

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "REPLY" AND "REPLY ALL"

I WILL HUNT THEM DOWN.

How do I shot modern communication?

i have a great deal of ENTIRELY RATIONAL anger in me right now

viz

Twitter C/D
Transport in London is shit

i want to kick some heads in

anyone who works at twitter or TFL will do

anyone

everyone

KILL

MURDER

I HAAAAAATE YOU

God forbid anyone try to change anything!

I really thought you were commenting on the sluttiness of those who work for Twitter and TFL!

anyone who works at twitter or TFL will do anyone [and] everyone [!]

God forbid anyone try to change anything!

making it better rather than making it CEASE WORKING ENTIRELY would seem ideal really

Whenever I read an interview and somebody says they find great sex to be a really awesome thing. No way, really?

lol

Maybe it's the amazement for some people that "great sex" actually exists?

I have the same with people saying they like "good food" though, so who am I to talk?

Interests:

Music: Nothing in particular, just whatever's good!

Translation guide posted elsewhere for middle america:

"I like all kinds of music!" just means "I like Dave Matthews Band"

Interests:

Music: Nothing in particular, just whatever drowns out the screaming inside my skull.

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "REPLY" AND "REPLY ALL"

I WILL HUNT THEM DOWN.

There is a practice area-specific lawyers' list serv that I'm on and I swear 80% of those people are just incapable of figuring this out. Sometimes it's replying to the list serv instead of one person (when the original sender says things like "reply privately") but like two days ago somebody sent a fresh, new, confidential email meant for one lawyer to the whole list serv. I was like oh, thanks for this insider info about this case and also your opinions on why this lawyer is am asshole.

Haha. Can you tell me which email that is? I need to read those more often.

My favorite so far is the one where the lawyer was like "Shhhh! Please don't tell, but Lawyer X, a prominent figure the listserv, is going up against Lawyer Y, the head of the local chapter, in a case! Shhhh!" And Lawyer X is like, "Dude, I can read this, and it's not even correct."

like

Maybe it's the amazement for some people that "great sex" actually exists?

I have the same with people saying they like "good food" though, so who am I to talk?

i think it's a question of priorities. yes, everyone likes good food and great sex, but some people rank those things more highly on their lists of interests.

that applies to stuff people "hate" too. most people "hate" rude drivers, but i hate rude drivers with a blinding, spitting, frothing passion.

How innocuous is library theft? It makes me irrationally angry, anyway.
Perhaps rationally angry? I work in a library, so...

Oh yeah...happened at PCL at UT all the time. It is pretty lame.

I signed up for a new gym last week and didn't fill in the email/phone number bit even though it was 'required field' on the application;

Required field forms on internet sites that REQUIRE a mobile phone number. I don't have a mobile phone and so does that mean I'm not allowed to buy stuff from you, arseholes? Sometiems you can get away with typing in 10 zeroes, but sometimes they've got some 'smart' software that rejects non-real numbers, at which point I just give up.

In fairness when youre buying something that needs shipment you gotta give them SOME kind of contact info, because if the order goes wrong, how are they going to let you know if you fake our yr email and/or phone #?

(Ive even heard of people ordering on line and faking out EVERYTHING - including the delivery address. Then of course, they wonder where the hell their order has gone ...)

I don't mind asking for contact info, just don't make something REQUIRED if there's a decent chance the person doesn't have it

Get a Google Voice number if you're in the US, type that in, case solved.

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/c/0/0/143/7/AAAADEGxgloAAAAAAUN91Q.jpg

This fucking bumper sticker.

I love my Google Voice Number so much, especially when my doctor's automated system calls my automated messaging system to confirm appointments.

WTF does that sticker even mean? "dont be grumpy"?

maybe meant to be sexist? shake your "tail" more, talk less?

Ew, didnt even think of that, thats worse.

when the water level in a toilet is too high and so you sit down and your penis touches the water

People who are entering a parking lot via a two way road and wait for someone to exit before they enter rather than just entering while the other exits.

It's a TWO-WAY ROAD, you will both fit! And waiting is not safer because you then increase the possibility that someone behind you that gets impatient might pass you and t-bone the person exiting...a vehicle which the person exiting couldn't see because of YOU!

Ugh...

Okay, this shouldn't make me angry, or I have no right to be angry...but I get annoyed when my neighbours w-fi is slow...

the problem with two way parking lot entrances is that lots of people don't realise they are two-way and just drive right in the middle of the two lanes, making me irrationally angry

the problem is people are morons and shitty drivers and don't know where the corners of their car are or whether they have room or not so they drive around with an extra 4-foot halo of anxiety and ARGGHH HULK SMASH GRRRRKRKRRR

luxury cars have RADAR for a bumper 8 feet from the driver's and they still have to 6-point out of the parking spaces at Target AUGHHGH *SPASM* *CONVULSIONS*

Haha.

I love those radars. My friend's Mini has it and besides being really useful, it is also humorously dramatic the way it goes from beep.... beep.... beep... to beep. beep. beep! BEEP! BEEP!BEEP!BEEP! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! It makes simple parallel parking seem like an adventure.

Okay, this shouldn't make me angry, or I have no right to be angry...but I get annoyed when my neighbours w-fi is slow...

― jel --, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:22 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lool

"when the water level in a toilet is too high and so you sit down and your penis touches the water"

for some of us thats EVERY toilet

a small price to pay for having a huge penis I suppose

i have to admit something

haha, nm no i don't

that and the urologist bills are higher