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

- 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

i loved the bukem one btw, the manager is unreal

but yeah terrible thread title

People who don't write copy for Variety calling a biographical movie a "bio-pic."

What would you rather they call it?

bio-talkie

Argh, that reminds me of one that gets me every time: people who pronounce 'biopic' as bi-opic (with a short 'o' as in 'optic') instead of bio-pic (as in biographical picture).

Basically everyone pronounces it that way i find. I've stopped correcting them

I think it's mostly Americans I've seen on TV who pronounce it the infuriating way. Most UK people I know still pronounce it correctly.

And I do literally fly into a rage when I hear it. It's so horrible.

Oh fuck, I've just made myself IA: I don't *literally fly* into a rage.

I have never heard anyone say "bi-opic"

y'all need to associate with smarter ppl

I think it's mostly Americans I've seen on TV who pronounce it the infuriating way. Most UK people I know still pronounce it correctly.

Does bi-opic rhyme with myopic? I have never actually heard this but for years I thought it was pronounced this way, having either never heard anyone say it out loud or never connected the out loud version to the written word

have been IA at occasional cig-waving menaces in the past myself, so I can vouch for their existence

Does bi-opic rhyme with myopic?

Yup

those people are actually talking about movies you need to watch with both eyes

you can kind of defend bi-opic by analogy with biography. still sounds horrendous to mine ears though.

I work with a dude who has a master's in history and he says "bi-opic." Drives me nuts.

I used to work with a dude who pronounced "compilation" with a long "i" in the middle.

I prefer it if people say "bayou pic".

bio-graphy. hmmm.

What would you rather they call it?

― Number None, Friday, August 12, 2011 2:15 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I guess "biographical movie." I know that's kind of unwieldy, but when I hear someone say "bio-pic" (either the correct or infuriating "myopic" pronunciation), I assume they also use the word "boffo" in everyday conversation.

I didn't, but I'm darned well going to do so from now on.

"boffo" is like fart onomatopoeia.