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

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 :(

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Is that FF 6?

i LOVE self-service automated checkouts, only this afternoon i went to a supermarket slightly out of my way because i knew they had them. if you just pack your bags carefully you can pretty much avoid the "unexpected item" bullshit. and you don't have to talk to or look at anyone who is judging the contents of your basket!!!! they make me so happy

FF5

I feel like waiting about a year before going for FF6 since I only had FF4 for five minutes now there's another one out. It's ridiculous.

Oh...what is that button? I'm using FF 5 and I don't have it.

(You know you've spent too much time on gay hook-up sites when "FF" reads as "fist-f'ing" before "Firefox" or "Fast Forward.")

you must have your menu bar on - if you right-click in the menu area and switch it off you get more browser on screen at the expense of having that irritating little overlap.

There's also "Follow Friday" when everyone on twitter annoys the fuck out of me by flooding my feed with endless lists of twitter names. Can't say "fist-f'ing" is even on my top 5 "FF" meanings.

i look at FF5 and just think "for fuck's sake"

Firefox
Final Fantasy
Fast Forward
Follow Friday
Follow Follow (annoying Rangers FC song & worse Rangers forum)
FFS
Fist Fucking

7th

Oh yeh!! I forgot that Follow Friday tweets sometimes are sometimes humorous if you think of FF as Fist Fucking.

Hmm. I really like the extra browser space, but I can't figure out how to get to Tools without the menu bar. I use Tools kind of frequently.

That was a plea for help.

not innocuous, just wanna use this thread to get somewhat angry.

so, I have most all of my accounts set up for auto pay, because I make way more than my bills each month, and I'd rather not think about it, cos it's too easy to forget. My credit card accounts, though, I don't have billpay for most cuz most of the cards it's too hard to set up. So this one card, I missed a miniscule payment in July as I thought I'd already made it.

I found out when I went online, no biggie, I was not even 30 days late with it, and I made both the delinquent payment and the current one. Today, I find a letter in the mail (put on my stupid roommate's pile, so I almost missed it) indicating my ENTIRE credit card balance has been sent to a collections agency, and that I need to furnish a payment for the entire $500+ balance within 30 days.

I contact the CC company, they tell me to disregard the letter, that I'm current. The letter was mailed before I caught up the account, but it was mailed only 5 days prior. So they threaten to turn payments over to collections now when they're only 3 weeks late?

aha...so apparently, they had an old address for me, and when I was late, tried to contact me unsuccessfully, so I guess they thought I was a deadbeat. so they notified the collections agency, who had yet to take over the debt, just sent the letter...but they screwed up and instead of just reporting the delinquent balance, said I owed the whole thing.

I don't know how they had an old address given that they've been sending me things in the mail the last two years, but...whatever.

Keep an eye on your credit score.
(Warning: checking your credit score too often apparently dings your credit score.)

I thought that was a myth? if not, www.freecreditreport.com lied!

in any case what I usually do is jump between these services and their free one week trials to get more than one freebie a year...so that's what I'll do in any case.

not a myth. a real for real thing

that's weird cos their site insists that checking your own credit report has no impact on it, it's a selling point they use to keep refreshing your report.

experian also claims this

Yeah, but one of those is a credit agency and probably can check your score WITH THEM without dinging it.

freecreditreport.com is a bunch of shills who are trying to take advantage of the fact the government really does mandate a free report yearly, but they just try to sell you subscription services and auto-enroll you in bullshit

also, their band sucks

Oh I'm aware of their bully practices, I wrote their VP an angry letter just two months ago.

Can anybody shed more light on how the checking hurts score? Interested in learning more.

Why the hell would you write their VP an angry letter? That is their exact business model, and the only way they make money is through misdirection.

Maybe checking doesn't do anything, unless it's a check to determine if you can get a new card. New card applications ding it.

Yea, hard inquiries do if you have a certain amount of them (like 4-6) in a short period of time.

I wrote them an angry letter because in the midst of trying to cut back monthly expenses, I attempted to cancel two services I had with them, which you can only do over the phone...took 30 minutes because they kept trying to talk me out of it in various ways. I said "no" at least fifteen times and I was using my lunch break to do it.

I realize they don't care, but I like getting the last word.

The one to use is http://www.annualcreditreport.com/
See the FTC sitehere.

I mostly only wound up on the FreeCreditReports due to some third party offer (ie, free movie tickets) if you signed up for a trial. That's how they get ya--offer ya free stuff and hope you forget to cancel in time!

Man, I feel mildly weirded out by Charmin commercials at home. I do not need them in a movie theater.

The ones about the bear with toilet paper stuck to its butt? I hate those.

My dad usually screams "I DON'T WANNA SEE A BEAR W0IPING HIS GODDAMN ASS" when it comes on

Your dad OTM

sorry that should be "wiping", he's not from Lower Uncton...

Credit score trackers do a "soft pull" which doesn't affect your score.

when you're out with a couple and everyone is deciding where to go and the couple have to both decide together since they're no longer individual people and then they can't decide and their weird communication problem and possibly years of disagreements drift over the group like a mist. this happened last night and i wanted to say "can you two go outside and come back in when you've made a joint agreement/had a row etc"

lol towards the end me and my first wife wd basically have fist fights in company

at least if it's an outright fight everyone else can talk about whatever or do best to ignore. but when the discussion of what to do next is infected with this, and everyone is like suddenly in this mass relationship, so annoying.

passive tension is so poisonous, tru

it's weirdly rare to find a couple where there's no problem if eg one of them goes home and the other stays out if they want, though those ones do tend to be pretty solid

looks like I'll have to talk to my roommate about how loud he insists on watching his movies. like I know you have a flat screen and surround sound, but the living room is right outside mine, and I get kinda annoyed when your shitty second-tier action flick sound effects are imprinting themselves on top of Common's "Be".

I listen to shit mondo loud and even this is way too loud for me! to think I got asked to turn down my music/kung fu movies multiple times for crimes less egregious than this.

(ok that's it, headed in there now to tell him off!)

Talking objects in commercials make me irrationally angry

Also shops like butchers or chicken&chips outlets who have as a mascot a cheery-looking version of the animal they kill and serve on a plate. Worst near me is a butcher whose mascot is a big wearing the stripy apron and holding a big knife.

a PIG i mean

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