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

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.

Are we still talking about masturbation?

--that eBay is still sticking to its ill-advised decision of a few years ago to not let you leave negative feedback for buyers.

Like I understand the whole "revenge rating" thing was going on, but was this really the best way to solve the problem? as it is right now, I'm tired of having deadbeat buyers skate by...even if you report them as having not paid, they can usually skirt punishment by making some excuse, but ain't nobody gonna sell to someone with a legit negative rating.

right now it just makes it easy for people who want to bid on the same item in several different auctions and just pay for the one they get the cheapest.

--when people are supposed to be at a meeting, don't show, and the people in charge indicate they didn't get any conflict from them, but instead of calling or pinging them, just sit and go "well we'll wait to see if they show". like ever think that maybe they either forgot, or there was confusion or something, and that calling them might get them to show up?

granted the person shirking their responsibility is at fault, but when the meeting can't operate without said person, and other people made sacrifices to be there...it's NAGL to not even try to find out where they are.

I hate when people brag about how little sleep they've gotten. I love sleep, so it just comes across as a vain attempt to seem tough. Unfortunately, people tend to tell me this while they are driving me somewhere, which doesn't help.

i hate when people talk about it in exasperated fashion and then you find out they were at home and just stayed up until 4 cuz they felt like it. soooooooo...?

92.4% of adrenaline is wasted on shit that barely rates a raised eyebrow

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.

For eight straight years "Enter search text here" was the #1 search on my work's website, meaning people were clicking the search button without typing anything in the box.

now that there is a "shut down the pc every night" rule I have to wait about 15 minutes for crappy windows and mcafee to stop they shit so I can start workin

I hate when people brag about how little sleep they've gotten

i find myself telling people how little sleep i've had but it's never bragging, it's more...pre-emptive. like, forgive me if i a) seem a little manic b) fall asleep

talking of which, my own body clock makes me so angry. i stay up til 4am writing, i don't have to wake up early the next day - hey, body, you can get your seven hours or whatever in! OH NO YOU'RE GOING TO WAKE ME UP AT HALF PAST SIX FOR NO REASON. happens every time.

i can't power nap either, i so envy those people who can sleep at will. how the hell do you do it? even in situations like the above, when i'm so tired i can barely function, if i lie down and try to nap before it's actual bedtime, i just feel so awake and stupid in bed.

I hate when people brag about how little sleep they've gotten

It seems like people do this a lot until they reach like 19 or 20. I used to say this not as a brag but to kind of make fun of myself for my own warped priorities. When you're an adult you look stupid saying "man I only slept 4 hours last night"

So proud of myself for being able to force sleep these days. Like, "oh, I was out late and will be out late again tonight. I need two more hours of sleep. *passes out*"

I even did this in a hotel! Great moment.

how? is there a secret? i would seriously love to know this :(

watching something on TV that you're only half-interested in usually does the trick

I can give you this, and the secret to complete inner peace, for $5 plus postage and handling for my pamphlet.

Also, did you know that if you have "pee anxiety" at a urinal, you can do math problems in your head and you'll start whizzing immediately. I wanted to share this but don't know where to post it.

how? is there a secret? i would seriously love to know this :(

― lex pretend

My "secret" is that it's an incredible relief to lie down and not have nagging pains in my feet, my back, tension in my neck, not have to maintain my posture anymore, stuff like that. My sleeping position gives me the only pure physical relaxation in my entire day. And relaxation puts me to sleep almost immediately.

Was actually thinking over this weekend that if I could have one superpower it would probably be the ability to sleep or stay awake at will. I have real trouble sleeping when I know I *have to* (e.g. if I need to get up early next morning) yet find it impossible to not feel that dozing-off feeling in a meeting where I cannot keep my eyes open with all the strength I can muster.

if you feel drowsey YOU ARE SECONDS AWAY FROM SLEEP! schlaffen sie!

IMO unless you are having sex there really isn't a good reason to be awake at 4am. Put down the bottle! Or maybe do your drugs earlier in the day for Christ's sake.