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

My wife dragged me to that movie, but that scene is surprisingly hilarious.

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that.

Justin Timberlake reciting Kriss Kross lyrics in some film trailer - or the sudden rememberance thereof, when having a good day.

I've worked out what makes me really really irrationally angry:

JUGGLERS

I was trying to explain my outright hatred for people who juggle to my girlfriend the other day and all I could say is "I don't know - I know it's just a bit of fun, but whenever someone gets out juggling sacks I just want to throttle them". Unfortunately I live in a boho town full of white dreadlocked doozers, so I have to restrain myself a lot.

What I especially don't like is when one friend, who's alright otherwise, starts juggling IN MY LIVING ROOM. If jugglers were any good they'd never drop their juggling balls EVER and just keep juggling until their arms fall off, but sadly this guy ISN'T that good and ends up dropping the fucking things everywhere, knocking stuff over etc. And then he goes to retrieve them and continues to juggle, even when I've told him to stop. I have tried chucking the things out the window and I'm met with all these spoil-sporty looks.

hey thanks venom!

Ron Howard's voice. I find it utterly unbearable to the point that I've never seen an entire episode of Arrested Development. I know it's a great show, and would never argue otherwise, but whenever Ron's voiceover comes on, it might as well be, I dunno, an Eagles song. I just want to turn it off as quickly and angrily as possible.

just sounds like any male American voice to me, if a bit nasal.

I don't like the way he says "it's Arrested Development" though.

This one's for you guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLN4OKoPzs

when did that first happen

Judging from the architecture, I'd say late 50s/early 60s.

I must have stopped watching before Richie turned nasty - I don't remember any of that.

Happy Days is now tainted forever.

That one tissue which is inevitably in every batch of laundry and gets white fluff stuck all over your best black clothes, even though you think you check every pocket before washing, or even though you're only washing items which don't have any pockets.

re: Happy Days

Judging by the hairstyles, early 1980s.
Judging by the baseball jersey, 1970s.
Judging by the intergenerational hostility, late 1960s.

which war was he back from?

Season 11, Episode 233 - October 25, 1983 - "Welcome Home" (Part 1) - Richie and Ralph return, and Richie is diagnosed with PTSD after growing a mustache while stationed in Greenland.

Holy shit!!

I used to watch Happy Days every day after school, for years, but I never saw anything like that.

I got a little verklempt for a second.

I must have stopped watching before Richie turned nasty - I don't remember any of that.

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this is nothing. you should have seen when Opie lost it.

didn't realize mustache-growing could lead to PTSD

or the episode where the Fonz dropped acid, then woke up with his dick in Chachi's mouth

HEYYYY!

Talking objects in commercials make me irrationally angry. Talking plates and mugs in dish washers, talking dust in cleaning commercials, talking telly's, talking cars, talking toilets, talking bathroom walls, talking vacuum cleaners... argh. They all get this "funny" quirky voice, they giggle, the cry, talk stupid. Ffffuuuuuuuuuuu

That reminds me of this, which I took a photo of out of feminist RAEG:

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(actual bottle of dish liqiud I bought. All I could think is "oh Burly, you're so MANLY!")

The fireman turned into a... wrestler with a dog on his back?

LOL I never noticed that before, wtf.

Just got a text from g/f: "When I eat eggshell it makes me upset and cross!"

definitely not innocuous or irrational

it's really horrible, I must admit

lots of things to do with the automated check outs in supermarkets, including (but not restricted to)

(i) the tone of the voice

(ii) the fact that they tell me there is an unexpected item in the bagging area when my carrier bag has nothing in it but air

(iii) the fact that Tescos keeps half of them out of use at any one time. WHY????

(iv) the fact that they say "please take your card" when I have already removed it

(v) the fact that they say "Please take your items" at all. O rly I was thinking of walking out of the store and leaving them there even though I've paid for them

(vi) having to wait while someone authorizes alcohol

i just feel like i'm under scrutiny while using those things. there's a giddiness that comes from successfully vacating the supermarket after having trifled with one.

My only problem with automated checkouts - which I prefer, much to the happiness of the supermarkets, I'm sure - is when one day you're using a good system, say M&S, which works more or less perfectly, then you pop into Tesco and leave half an hour later, without your items and having destoryed the entire shop in an apoplectic rage.

when Did Ritchie first discover he had a taint?

the only think that makes me IA about self-checkout systems is the seemingly high incidence of ppl who just don't know how to use them but try to anyway -- like, the human cashier is right over there, lady!

"please move your... BANANAS... to the bagging area"

self checkout would be better if you could select your own prices

human cashier, single.

and yet there are two people buzzing around the auto-tills fixing all the problems.

i'm really not sure if those things are any benefit. they aren't faster, i doubt they are cheaper when you factor everything in.

Ring up bananas as like, celery or something. Half price. Hows the system gonna know?

i once put a 21" HDTV through as "Carrots". That's a lot of carrots, but hey - why loot?

I tried to figure out how many of my own bags I could lie about having used to get Green Club Card points on my receipt. Since I don't have a Club Card there was no benefit in getting them so I wasn't actually cheating anyone. But, for the record the maximum number is somewhere between 27 and 237.

(vi) having to wait while someone authorizes alcohol

(vii) having to wait while someone removes the security tag from a DVD that costs less than half of the food items in your bag

(viii) having to wait while that someone seeks authorisation from their manager as they're under 18 and can't sell alcohol.

in Massachusetts, they're not even allowed to touch the bottles. They've got to call over a manager to move it from one side of the conveyor to the other

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I pulled into some woman's line at the grocery store last weekend with beer in my cart. She was halfway through with the customer in front of me when the guy on the next register said he could take me next. I asked, "Can you sell me beer?" because he looked a little young.

And the woman gave me this "Oh, so I don't look younger than 21 anymore?" look as I pushed my cart into the next line.

Not a peeve or anything, except for Kroger putting me into these awkward situations.

after that look I would have been so tempted to say something like "because I know Methuselah's mom over here can"