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

I got a little verklempt for a second.

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

― ^^^ this (onimo), Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:16 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

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"

@ the same kroger a woman attendant of the auto-checkout (which i ALWAYS use btw) who is somewhere in her 70s always asks me 'are you over 18? *deadpan pause...pause...pause* HAHAHAHAA'

EVERY TIME

Its a very effective repetitive burn though. i have to give her that.

self-service does indeed cause irrational anger if you're using it legitimately, but if you take advantage of it to come up with scams to get stuff for cheap or hey just steal why not then it is a great thing.

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

At my local stupid shitty grocery store, one cashier is under 18 (or under 21 or whatever the law is in IL) and she has to have the customer scan and bag their liquor.

I hate Michigan's law that says that the cashier has to card not only the person paying for the alcohol, but all other people in that person's party. Really. Fucking. Stupid.

Guy I used to know once tried to buy beer at the grocery store with his pregnant 20-year-old wife standing next to him, and they wouldn't sell it.

I buy beer all the time with my four-year-old. Of course, she waits until we're back out at the car before she hands me her money.

So I went to a local brewery to purchase some limited release beer, which let's be real, is a fucking ridiculous thing to do, made even more ridiculous by the fact that the aspie beer weirdos were out in full force so the line for this beer was crazy long. This brewery is good at doing this kind of limited local release sale so the line moved quickly. Yet the guy behind me, who was by himself, would not shut up with the heavy sighing and the "Oh my GOD" and the "Good LORD" and the "COME ON!" comments. Like... shut the fuck up. This isn't a Soviet ration line for food staples. It's a god damn line for fancy beer that you are buying voluntarily. NO SYMPATHY.

Would that I'd been with you.

If it's where I'm thinking, it was in cans, and I know how to slash cans of beer open with a credit card. And how to slice open aspies' scrotes with the same.

This beer was in bottles but you're thinking of the right place. I wish you were there, too. You make boring things fun.

i'm not sure how you've been doing it, but slashing aspie scrote is not boring

slashing aspie scrote
slashing aspie scrote
slashing aspie scrote
slashing aspie scrote

For some reason I struck up a mini convo with this guy and he was a condescending twit in that special know-it-all beer geek way.

You're freaking me out a little with your scrote slashing. I think you need some sleep.

no sleep till all scrotes needful of slashing are vanquished

i ran a "scam" on a live cashier recently -- she asked if the kale i was buying was conventional or organic and I LIED AND SAID IT WAS CONVENTIONAL. i guess i saved a few cents.

no sleep till all scrotes needful of slashing are vanquished

^ new board description

- this little overlap

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I fixed that by using 'Pin as App Tab', like this:

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I shouldn't have to fix it! Totally innocuous of course, but you'd think it would annoy the people who made it enough to fix it.

pinning didn't work :(

:(

Is that FF 6?