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

and IRL LOL
I almost hyperventilated. I'd forgotten about that bit!

LBM has always freaked me out a little bit because he looks almost exactly like my grandmother.

Also ppl who effectively eat the mic, making everything sound like BWOOWOOBBWOWBB

I actually find that hilarious every time, regardless of context. It always reminds me of the closing moments of Richard Pryor's Craps (After Hours].

people who talk about 'bathroom etiquette' ie that someone should wait to blow farts/diarrhea until you're out of the room, or should 'courtesy flush'. IT'S A FUCKIGN BATHROOM, IT'S MADE FOR BODILY FUNCTIONS...and there are no rules.

of course I mean public restrooms. Unless you bring other people in while you #2 in your own house, but if so, I don't wanna know you

Starbucks barristo/cashier who is too nice

Oh wow, I loved LBM and watching that just now, I realized: He's the male version of Edith Massey, right down to the absurd laughter. <3

Not crazy about when we ask a client for information about his or her case and s/he provides information that we could have in the top result of a Google search of the same query. When I ask for the address of the legal department of a mega-corporation that you worked with for 5 years, maybe you could do better than providing the address of a local franchise or sales agent of that company!

do i just not know proper laundry origami or do folded clothes NEVER fit in drawers efficiently? Every drawer ever is either 1 inch too short or 6 inches too narrow.. This is bullshit, man.

I guess the only thing that can really piss me off is when people VERY SLOWLY put their money away and leave their groceries just there . After a few minutes they will start taking their groceries away. This is at the supermarket checkout. Then you are trying to kind of trying to push them softly away because you want to bag your groceries. I hate that. But not enough to froth at the mouth.

Or when people come into our shop and ask the way. You explain it to them but they say you're wrong. And do this again after you gently tell them the correct way a second time. I HAVE FUCKING LIVED HER 35 FUCKING YEARS YOU FREAK. I THINK I SHOULD FUCKING KNOW. lol. I don't shout. I just tell them:"I guess you're right."

The US thing of describing someone as an X-American (ie Irish-American, African-American, Italian-American) when the person from the other country was 5 or 10 generations back. Means that there's no straightforward meaningful way of describing someone who was, say, born in Africa or Ireland, and is now a US citizen.

1st generation African-American

When I was in grade school I was confused about how people from other countries talked about their ethnic heritage. My dad's parents immigrated from Germany and they were just plain old German. Not German of ____ ancestory. This did not sit well with me.

OTOH, my mom came to the U.S. from Mexico where her ancestors lived for many generations. Even so, my mom and her family say "We're Spanish, with 1/16th French," like the US-ians doeven though AFAIK, none of them have ever been to Spain. But to US-ians, we're all just Mexicans (including me, even though I'm only 1/2 Mexican).

Maybe it's a New World thing.

That's probably got something to do with German nationalism on that one hand and then your mother wanting to differentiate her family from the Indios on the other hand.

On one hand we like to pretend we have diverse ethnic identities. On the other hand, people love to hate on identities that are more authentically or loudly expressed.

Africa's not a country so that shouldn't be too hard to figure out..

people who go careening around corners in a building without looking, almost crash into you, then say "excuse me" huffily like it was you that almost smacked into them.

Yes! And myself, for automatically saying "Oh, sorry!" every time, even though it wasn't my fault.

Even to the point of apologising automatically to doors, trees, walls, etc, that I walk into, thus making me a fuckwit twice over

<3

The moment when you somehow push the insole up inside your shoe and know that from that moment on, it will never remain un-scrunched in its correct place again.

- when you click on a link on your phone to see a photo or article and the site you're going to insists on loading every single piece of surrounding garbage on the page over your slow as shit mobile internet before showing you the thing you're there to see/read

- when you get to a tunnel just before the last bit loads

smokers who hold their cigarette way away from them cos of course their ash should fall on someone else. absolute cunts.

but once they are looking in the opposite direction to where their outstretched cancer stick hand is then it's totally okay, they can't see it in your face.

The moment when you somehow push the insole up inside your shoe and know that from that moment on, it will never remain un-scrunched in its correct place again.

oh god

nightmare fuel

when you click on a link on your phone to see a photo or article and the site you're going to insists on loading every single piece of surrounding garbage on the page over your slow as shit mobile internet before showing you the thing you're there to see/read

oh god this kills me, and when you see "waiting for shitty.ad.server.com" in the status bar - and you view source and all the content you read is there! right there! show it to me you cunts!

Using Word on a mac is pretty annoying, or maybe I'm just not so great at using Word.

It's not great.

when you click on a link on your phone to see a photo or article and the site you're going to insists on loading every single piece of surrounding garbage on the page over your slow as shit mobile internet before showing you the thing you're there to see/read

no kidding - especially as some of this stuff causes my phone to freak out and constantly lose its place on the page. I would hope the next generation of "smart phones" can block this out but somehow I feel "more ads" is going to win the technology battle over "less ads"

The US thing of describing someone as an X-American (ie Irish-American, African-American, Italian-American) when the person from the other country was 5 or 10 generations back. Means that there's no straightforward meaningful way of describing someone who was, say, born in Africa or Ireland, and is now a US citizen.

Which term would you use? Like I think most people are okay with the terms "black people" since calling them "African-American" doesn't really make sense in 2011, but you can't say "brown people" or "yellow people" without sounding racist, so we're kind of in a weird lingual bind.

A good rule of thumb is to use whatever identity label the group of people in question would prefer you to use.

People I know use 'brown' in a sympathetic way eg. 'driving while brown'.

- when you click on a link on your phone to see a photo or article and the site you're going to insists on loading every single piece of surrounding garbage on the page over your slow as shit mobile internet before showing you the thing you're there to see/read

- when you get to a tunnel just before the last bit loads

― the other onimo that runs the laboured dn (onimo), Friday, August 12, 2011 11:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

smokers who hold their cigarette way away from them cos of course their ash should fall on someone else. absolute cunts.

― LocalGarda, Friday, August 12, 2011 11:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but once they are looking in the opposite direction to where their outstretched cancer stick hand is then it's totally okay, they can't see it in your face.

― LocalGarda, Friday, August 12, 2011 11:30 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ALL OF THIS

yeah i don't get that - one of the pleasures of smoking is being subconsciously alert at all times to the fire at the end of your hand as well as to prevailing wind patterns

like, if you're not, what really is the point? you are failing at the entire project

I don't actually understand how that works. Like, holding your arm straight out? What?

you mean the complaint or tracer's point? people standing talking in a circle with hand held behind them fully straightened so they tap their ash, wave it around etc, and it doesn't get in their own face or their friends...

Huh, i've never seen that done

So they're extending their arm out behind their back? That sounds insane. And how tight is the circle? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? Doesn't it feel awkward to be so closely in a huddle with your friends? How do you even get your arm back in to take a drag if the circle is so tight? I don't trust these people.

i've seen it done tons of times! it happened me this week which made me post it here.

the reason i reckon is so smoke doesn't go in their eyes or in their friends eyes.

generally they'd hold it at waist level behind back but this bloke on weds was a menace, waving it around until it got so close to my eye i had to tell him to stop.

As a smoker, i'd like to think i'm pretty conscious where my smoke is going but who knows really. I can honestly say i've never pulled that move tho.

i think it happens most when these savages make hand gestures while talking

If i'm smoking i wouldn't be huddled right up to my friends anyway

People who make their winning bid on an ebay auction less than an hour prior to auction closing, then 24 hours later, are non-responsive to invoice for payment.

people calling documentaries "docs"

STREAMIN DOCS

I AM IRRATIONALLY ANGRY