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

My daily IA: FUCKING HANGERS.

They're just--everywhere, all the time, multiplying, getting all tangled up, and they're always the crappy dry cleaning ones and never, like, a GOOD hanger, and aaaaaagh I just get the RAGE!

And my goddamn dry cleaner switched from pants hangers that had a solid tube on the bottom edge to these MOTHERFUCKING SHIT little pieces of crap paper that are half-assedly folded into a "V" shape and stuck via crap little fucking notches onto the bottom of a goddman regular wire shithanger FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

^^^^^ - just stocked up on not-good but not-drycleaner hangers due to this rage

Hahaha shithangers.

When we last moved, I tossed all our shithangers and replaced them w/ wooden ones from Bed Butt and Beyond. They were pretty cheap but I feel like Bill Gates whenever I interact with my closet.

I keep a small stash of drycleaner shithangers to take things to the cleaners but it is a one for one exchange so it says under control.

Yeah the thing is I keep taking the shithangers back to the drycleaner but there still seems to be EXPONENTIAL MOTHERFUCKING EXPANSION of the shithanger population 'round these parts. It defies standard mathematics and demands some quantum explanation ffs.

Drycleaner gets my drycleaning shoved into plastic bags. Bad form? (as well as missed opportunity to lose the shithangers)?

My dry cleaner separates them and stuffs them into labeled, cinched bags, so I just bring them in in a big wad.

Lady presumably at end of a line standing three feet behind everyone else so I can't tell if she's actually in line.

Arrrgh that happened to me last night - I went up to the "leave prescriptions here" counter at the back of the pharmacy and there are 2 ppl just kind of... standing there, not right up at the counter. staring off into space. Getting in the way. I walked right past them and up to the counter and one lady gave me a funny look, and when the pharm came over and said "next?" she kind of eyed me and snapped "ME".

Bitch, if you were waiting, make it obvious, jhesus.

Like they were just standing in the aisle, nowhere near the actual counter!?

Oh man, people who can't queue properly piss me the fuck off. That's my main source of IA I reckon.

Jesse, do you have a chimney? Has it been windy? Might explain some of the dust.

ok this is definitel irrationally angry cuz it's my problem really - as someone who works from home, housemates unexpectedly being at home during the day = AARGH. have to close my door while i work, hate the sounds of them having a DAY OFF while i have to work, don't feel like i can wander around and eg stand idly in front of the fridge hacking at lumps of cheese as a form of procrastination

I can see how that's annoying, although you're right, technically you have no right to be angry about it. I live with my girlfriend, who has a keen sense of knowing the exact moment when I've figured out the structure of the sentence I wish to write. She ceases these opportunities to come in and ask me if I want a cup of tea. How dare she! ARRRGH!!

"people", basically

today it was especially annoying as i actually heard both of them leave at the times they normally leave for work - then i went for a run, then 5 minutes after i get back (still completely sodden and see-through and dying) i hear ONE OF THEM COME BACK, WHAT IS HAPPENING, WHY IS THIS, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK!

people who exist, near me

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:20 (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i whole-heartedly agree

old people who use their age to elevate their sense of entitlement. anyone who has an elevated sense of entitlement makes me angry, but old people who tsk and scold people just for maybe hurrying past them in a supermarket or something really really annoy me.

oh wait are you being sarcastic?! i kind of mean it

depends what kind of old person. fierce grumpy old ladies who tsk and scold people you're already annoyed by but too polite to scold yourself = the best people

not sarcastic in the slightest!

lex very otm today.

when someone (journalist/commentator/presenter/whoever) says "there's only one word to describe [x]" followed by a really crap word, i silently rage.

even if it's a perfectly decent word i get pretty pissed off. only one word? really? how fucking lazy are you?

people who add you on facebook and with whom you have 32 friends in common, but they refuse to have a picture of themselves anywhere on their page. So you accept, just to see if you can dig up anything about who they are, and end up with a complete random in your friends' list.

there's only one word to really describe that situation: "quit"

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/174820_164487056933042_7274812_n.jpg <-- me

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/174820_164487056933042_7274812_n.jpg <-- me, i mean

Jesse, do you have a chimney? Has it been windy? Might explain some of the dust.

― Mark C, Friday, August 26, 2011 4:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

No chimney, and windows have been closed most of the summer.

Part of the problem may be that I moved from a really, really dark apartment to one with loads of light, so now I'm seeing a lot of the dust I didn't before, but that is definitely not the whole reason. I'm hoping that it's all post-moving dust that keeps getting coughed up from furniture, and I'll gain the upper hand soon.

IA re lines: People who don't get the extremely sensible concept of A SINGLE LINE leading to multiple registers (or clerks, or whatever). Especially when there is already A SINGLE LINE formed, and those people try to create a new one.

^ death is too good for these people

I actually just gave some one a scarcastic lol! here but they probably were unaware of the sarcasm - which is as I inteneded it

Posted: August 26, 2011 8:24:55 AM
people who add you on facebook and with whom you have 32 friends in common, but they refuse to have a picture of themselves anywhere on their page. So you accept, just to see if you can dig up anything about who they are, and end up with a complete random in your friends' list.

I resemble this remark, actually. (But I do have some really good reasons to not have any publicly viewable pictures of myself up on my page.)

CGLDI actually wrote me a nice note saying who she was. Very rare for those recluses out there.

Otherwise, "guy with Osama Bin Laden as his avatar and 50 mutual friends", no.

Can't think how to say to a friend, "hey I like the bands you've been in, but you need a new vocalist, not Greg". Good to see him and talk about other bands, BUT

Hang on to your fb friends. These are dangerous
Times to be alone.

When some news event that's largely inconsequential but gains scandal-grade traction regardless, and people tongue-in-cheek add 'gate' to the end of it (e.g. antennagate), and then some bell-end with nothing better to do gets all upset because appending 'gate' is stupid and undermines how important Watergate was. That last bit is the thing that makes me ia.

The first bit is what makes me IA. That never needs to happen, ever.

Irrational Angergate

People going on about all their home remedies for will likely be kicked by antibiotics in a few days (via facebook, names edited out):

(my friend)
So, just got done at the walk in clinic. Turns out I have a mild bronchial infection. Great. Call me stubborn but I really don't want to take antibiotics.

(response 1) i do inhailers instead!

(friend) Like....antibiotic inhalers?

(response 1) no....just the pro air ones for asthma! whenever i get bronchitis I use them maybe once or twice! otherwise i up my honey, yogurt and vitamins. it seems to work....netipot too even if it is in your chest! i thought the way i spelled inhaler looked off

(response 2) get some Llysene at Walgreens. And Cod Liver or Iron supps.

And then when their immune system handles the infection, the home remedies get credit. If they get worse, the doctor was wrong and it was not just a "mild" infection. Bleh.

One fad that spread through my family was drinking vinegar as an antibiotic. They read something by a quack former-M.D.-turned-holistic-healing-author where he revealed that antibiotics were no more effective than vinegar. His reasoning was that bacteria quickly die in acid, so so if you drink vinegar, you are making your body inhospitable to bacteria.

lolllll my mother had a book on the cookbook shelf that someone gave her and she was too polite to throw away, something about drinking apple cider vinegar mixed with honey, every day, and all the various forms of "proof" that it worked, and stories about people that it had healed. Very serious. Very late '60s.

Do you remember Jogging in a Jug? The grocery store I worked at in 1992 sold it. It was apple cider vinegar, honey, and cayenne, and it was supposed to have effects similar to jogging: lower cholesterol, weight loss, profuse sweating, foul-smelling balls, bleeding nipples.

Making your body inhospitable to bacteria by making your body acidic even if it were possible, which it isn't, wouldn't work because YOU WOULD DIE and then also… you need bacteria to live so why make your body inhospitable to it?

I don't know why I am even bothering except I personally know people who believe this kind of crap, still, and there is not enough smdh in the world.

srsly though, cod liver oil and iron supplements, those will take care of your bronchitis right quick

--overuse of sunglasses

- eyes so dry this morning from allergies and antihistamines that my contacts wouldn't work so I can't wear sunglasses today

overuse of sunglasses

I don't know it this gets me IA, but it is hilarious to see how many people riding the train continue to wear their sunglasses when the train goes underground and leave them on for the duration of the ride. You look stupid.

The more charitable assumption is they're hungover, or maybe just don't want to meet anyone's eye. I think that's a reasonable desire for being packed like sardines into a tin can with other human beings at 8.11 in the AM.