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

slate article: ppl who do not know how to leave a parking spot without getting hit are not parking incorrectly, they're just bad drivers

bonus IA: people who give their pets ironic/ironic pop culture ref names. if you're committed to taking care of a sentient being for however many years, at least have enough respect to name it "buttons" and not "baberaham lincoln"

how about 'stephen meowlkmus'

btw where do you live?

meowriel pink
joanna mewsom

Or the classic, "Chairman Meow"

d.c. purrman

cat literally on the tv on the radio

DC area xp

haha well okay that's a pretty bad area to drive. i would still much rather drive there than in nyc, but the beltway/66/95/270 is like an exercise in 'what the fuck are you thinking'

DC itself is absolute hell to drive through 50% because no one knows how to drive 50% because the city was definitely not built for a decent road system/grid.

i'm in college park/pg county tho so it's not too bad, just too many people.

the thing that most infuriated me about dc roads was that you'd be driving on a street -- even a theoretically major route subtitled us rt 1/29/50 -- and then, without turning or seeing a sign, you are magically on a one-way street that circles the arboretum, forever

We had a big thread somewhere a few years back about reversing into spaces, with Advanced Driver grimly fiendish strongly in favour of it iirc. Then we had a poll, inspired by earlier posts on this thread about it - reversing lost by a 2 to 1 majority.

I am irrationally annoyed by people who either refuse to parallel park or parallel park wrongly. Indeed, rather than expand on this, I am going to stop now as I am getting irrationally annoyed just thinking about it.

I am delighted to see a diagram on this thread because every day on my walk home (sry for being a pedestrian) I end up spending the entire journey mentally composing IA posts with diagrams showing the transgressions of other walkers and/or whichever town planner arranged the pavements, side streets and cycle lanes

several of these have probably actually made it to this thread, so far all without diagrams, but still only a tiny percentage of them

Here is my first diagram! Bring on the irrationally angry MS Paint diagrams!

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/381/96144521.gif

(don't worry, it didn't take me all 47 minutes. and if it did, it was much more fun than working, A+ would recommend)

awww <3

"busy road or whatever" <3 <3

Have I already moaned about people who use the term "myself" or "yourself" wrongly. One of the most extreme examples being seen in a hotel guestbook which read "Myself and my wife had a very pleasant stay".

very impressive diagram :)

people that overtake slowly are disgusting savages imo.

maybe 'people who don't use the default pedestrian overtaking technique of speeding up until you're a reasonable distance ahead of the overtakee' is cause for irrational anger.

xp. i had thought it was more suitable for disgusting savages than irrational anger too! i'm not that bothered by it, but regardless if you're doing it then you are worse than hitler.

Whenever there are pedestrian vs pedestrian battles over space, if i am slightly annoyed in anyway I a fast-step shuffle in order to gain advantage. Feet never really leave the ground so, particularly in crowded areas, I will always have the advantage.

I will also pedestrian-tailgate

slate article: ppl who do not know how to leave a parking spot without getting hit are not parking incorrectly, they're just bad drivers

there is not enough OTM in the world for this statement

xxp now that's something else IA-making, when I'm going behind someone who's going slightly slower than I'd like but I don't think I can speed up enough to get past them quickly

not angry at them so much as myself for being bothered when they are obviously not going that slow or it'd be easy to get past, plus then you have to worry about whether you've got creepily close behind them, and then you have to worry about whether you should be worrying about that, and so on

its good if they think you are a creep then they will move out of the way

my IA w/r/t pavement etiquette is almost always about people coming towards me who don't make the slightest effort to move to the side when there's obviously limited space. i can't remember the last time i was overtaken, i think 2002?

oh a definite candidate for IA: DUST. just...everything about it. the constant battle against it.

my IA w/r/t pavement etiquette is almost always about people coming towards me who don't make the slightest effort to move to the side when there's obviously limited space.

this annoys me too, possibly rationally, but what is irrational is that I feel mildly annoyed if they don't move even if there is space

e.g. if they are coming right down the middle of a pavement wide enough for 3, and I'm walking to one side, then there's already room for both of us, but I feel like if I don't get to walk down the middle then they shouldn't either, dammit

I am not very good at not being annoyed

I don't walk in a direct straight ahead line i sort of walk in this kind of way

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just slightly. and i never get that thing any more

the formatting doesn't really show it, but there was a car which came across my path, looking for a space

don't worry everyone I didn't let it in

I've had a real dust problem at my new apartment. It's horrible. I've been mopping frequently - for the last week, I've been mopping twice a day! - wiping down surfaces, and brushing the cats and wiping them down with damp rags, but it's still really, really bad. WHY?

Also, I got rid of the clay cat litter and replaced it with honest-to-god dust-free litter (http://www.smartcatbox.com/).

I'm thinking the next step is getting a HEPA filter, but I just want to know why this is happening??

Maybe this is not the place but can you revive whatever thread contained the original discussion about that litter box and report on your experiences with it? ty

The weather was fine. I advanced down the street, keeping as close as I could to the sidewalk. The widest sidewalk is not wide enough for me, once I set myself in motion, and I hate to inconvenience strangers. A policeman stopped me and said, The street for vehicles, the sidewalk for pedestrians. Like a bit of Old Testament. So I got back on the sidewalk, almost apologetically, and persevered there, in spite of an indescribable jostle, for a good twenty steps, til I had to fling myself to the ground to avoid crushing a child. He was wearing a little harness, I remember, with little bells, he must have taken himself for a pony, or a Clydesdale, why not. I would have crushed him gladly, I loathe children, and it would have been doing him a service, but I was afraid of reprisals. Everyone is a parent, that is what keeps you from hoping. One should reserve, on busy streets, special tracks for these nasty little creatures, their prams, hoops, sweets, skates, grandpas, grandmas, nannies, balloons and balls, all their foul little hapiness in a word. I fell then, and brought down with me an old lady covered with spangles and lace, who must have weighed about sixteen stone. Her screams soon drew a crowd. I had high hopes she had broken her femur, old ladies break their femur easily, but not enough, not enough. I took advantage of the confusion to make off, muttering unintelligible oaths, as if I were the victim, and I was, but I couldn't have proved it. They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance. I personally would lynch them with the utmost pleasure, I don't say I'd lend a hand, no, I am not a violent man, but I'd encourage the others and stand them drinks when it was done.

That's irrationally angry.

Move in day for colleges and universities that are located in the middle of a busy city area. I understand, necessary evil, blah blah blah, but fuck you for making me an hour and a half late for work because every street around Columbia is a clusterfuck and a half today.

Maybe this is not the place but can you revive whatever thread contained the original discussion about that litter box and report on your experiences with it? ty

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:51 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

I don't remember where elmo argonaut first mentioned that litter box to me. No idea at all.... But it is working out well. I've had it for about 2 weeks and the cats are using it.

Things:
- It produces 0 dust
- Emptying a piss reservoir is a little gross at first, but ultimately way less gross than clumps of piss. Think about it.
- Even less gross when you realize that piss and poo go in the toilet, so you don't have to deal with bags of both. This is maybe my favorite part.
- It came with 4 lbs. of the litter (safflower seeds), and after two weeks, it's still not time to replenish. I'm thinking 4 lbs. will last maybe 6 weeks.
- If germs on the seeds are a concern, the website says you can spritz the seeds with Clorox Anywhere, which is a solution of chlorine bleach in water that is super-diluted to the point of not being toxic. The seeds are water proof, so this solution (and pee) won't soak in and damage them.

Cons:

- The cats were skeptical at the very beginning, but they're cool now.
- The reservoir is out of sight, and therefore potentially out of mind. When I first got it, I forgot to empty it one day. It wasn't totally full, but it was fuller than I'd like. The thought of a cat piss overflow is too terrible to consider. But it's easy, and now I'm solidly in the habit of emptying it every morning and every night.

I really do want someone to come over to sniff around and make sure the cats haven't created a piss corner somewhere, but I've searched high and low and haven't found one. Also, despite total anosmia, I can detect the presence of ammonia b/c it creates a physical sensation in my nose like mint, which I haven't detected, so I'm hopeful.

http://www.smartcatbox.com/ProductImages/SCBlitscp7001.jpg

I've had a real dust problem at my new apartment. It's horrible. I've been mopping frequently - for the last week, I've been mopping twice a day! - wiping down surfaces, and brushing the cats and wiping them down with damp rags, but it's still really, really bad. WHY?

Brushing the cats, wiping down the cats with damp rags, wiping the blood off of the walls after the cats show you exactly what they think of people who wipe them down with damp rags.... :-)

Haha, I was SURE that your post was by Latham Green, but I was wrong.

They LOVE the Furminator! They beg for it when they see it.

Also, one cat is too fat to lick her butt, so every morning I scrub her catgina, and she licks and gnaws at her front paws in ecstacy (like when a you scratch a dog's ear and its back leg goes crazy).

can't remember the last time i was overtaken, i think 2002?

at weekends i stroll with mates or whatever but on work commute i power along at a wild pace. that said a guy fucking left me for dead a few weeks back, it was like i was walking through glue in comparison. a chastening experience.

Also, one cat is too fat to lick her butt, so every morning I scrub her catgina

this just made me IA

Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry... in my catgina?

She's an awesome (and weird) cat and I'm not sure what's up with her physiology, but that's how we live, and we're happy.

xp LOL

I scrub her catgina, and she licks and gnaws at her front paws in ecstacy

endless sorrow

now I have Mark McGrath in my head singing "Every morning//I scrub her catgina/And she gnaws her paws in ecstasy"

IT IS NEVER OK TO BLARE R O C K in the USE BY JOHN COUGAR MELLANCAMP AT WORK!

USA

jesse I am super glad the cat box is working well for your family of fuzzies!