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

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.

So how do you guys pronounce "bijouphillipspic"? "bijouPHILlipspic" of "bijouphilLIPSpic"?

biJOUphillipspic

Definitely Innocuous:

A girl who works at the bank in the grocery store by my work has really sibilant S's. Even when I am walking by or over at the cat food aisle, I hear her S's. She talks really softly, but those S's carry. They're more like the ts sound in "it's" or "tsi-tsi". I want to TStrangle her till she TStops.

people who are having private convos but are talking loud enough that you can tell they are intentionally trying to get a certain person to overhear them (often guys showing off for a girl).

it's like is that really going to impress anybody, you spinning yarns about how you kicked some dude's ass and you don't take shit from anyone?

when you e-mail someone reasonably early on friday and they don't get back to you on friday, even though they have plenty of time left in the day. and then by monday they've forgotten that you exist.

happened to me today. I wound up pestering them via every other vehicle (chats, etc) until I got what I wanted. annoying, maybe, but what I wanted took 5 seconds, and without it I couldn't get work done. this is why I send email w/ return receipt too.

i need to be more assertive about that.

generally I'm not, because if you do it too much, people get really pissy and don't wanna help you, but sometimes the negative impact of not finishing what I have to do outweighs annoying someone

plus I always thank em and am never 'rude' about it when I ask. that's the key!

When I get emails with return reciepts.

I hate it when an original (but old) video of a song has the greatest hits compilation instead of the original album listed in the little intro and outro cutline.

Like

David Bowie
"Ashes to Ashes"
Sound + Vision
RCA

when you e-mail someone reasonably early on friday and they don't get back to you on friday, even though they have plenty of time left in the day. and then by monday they've forgotten that you exist.

― dance cook (get bent), Friday, August 12, 2011 7:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

My job lately consists primarily of waiting for people to get back to me. I have an entire separate Outlook folder filled with messages that start with "I'm sorry I took so long to get back to you!"

people who tell you they're horror movie buffs, then you see their DVD collection is stocked with stuff like the Rob Zombie Halloween, Texas Chainsaw reboot, and the Final Destination series...

• when the freshness seal on a jar of peanut butter or whatever doesn't peel off in one piece.

On the e-mail front, I got an e-mail at 10am on Friday with a particularly unhelpful bug report ("one of the files gave us an error", no error text, no indication which file or when, etc) and when I asked for the text of the error message OR a screenshot OR a copy of the file there was silence for the rest of the day.

OK, but I'm on leave next week, and I was going to send out a batch of 100 new files, so if you don't tell me what's wrong with them then all your files next week are potentially going to be broken too, and I didn't want to spend my week off fixing things either.

• search boxes containing instructional text that doesn't automatically disappear when you click on the box. if you don't highlight and manually delete the text, you end up searching for crap like "enter your seaANNA NICOLE CUMSHOTSrch terms here" and getting zero results. stupid.

• people who don't take down their yard sale signs after the sale is over. it's even worse if the signs aren't dated. it's hard to tell if "Saturday 9:00-2:00" means this coming Saturday or four Saturdays ago unless the sign is obviously faded and weather-damaged. stupid.

Hahahaha. But yes, the search text thing is very annoying, particularly b/c selecting and deleting the text is harder when you only have one hand free.

Noisy cold taps, the squeaky grating noise they make.