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

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.

black eye from tripping on sidewalk post-drinking

Or they are prescription and it's easier to wear them underground for ten minutes than it is to swap them out for regular specs and then swap back to sunglasses again when I get off the train. Hi.

The people I'm talking about are most definitely not wearing prescription sunglasses though, pretty easy to spot the difference imho. Especially when you are talking about the big, gaudy wraparound knock-off Coach ones or whatever.

Overly-familiar telephone sales people annoy me, whether they are telemarketers or sales reps with established relationships. When you ask me "How are YOOOU?!" and I say "I'm fine," I don't really care to hear your assessment of just how fine it sounds like I'm doing this afternoon it must be the gorgeous weather, right? how could anybody not be fine with this gorgeous weather i hope you hadagoodweekendwehadgorgeousweatherthisweekendtoo!

lol Je55e

you should start saying "great, my [random relative] died", maybe they'll stop asking you

Yes, especially if I said "now that [random relative] finally died."

shiftless white neckbearded nerds wearing "fear of a black planet" t-shirts (actually the only ppl i've ever seen wearing this shirt)

can actually tell that they put it on in the morning and said "TODAY I'M GONNA FEEL COOL TODAY"

oh god the vinegar subthread is giving me traumatic memories of the time when I was 7 and headlice were going round the school and my mother had read somewhere that vinegar was as effective as lice shampoo and less harmful to the scalp or something

man did that smell bad, and also not work

(also it is reminding me that I should really go back and get put on different, stronger antibiotics for a v minor recurring infection which is way less annoying than the side-effects of the last set of antibiotics which didn't shift it, but eh)

-- habitual fast-walkers

The print wore off the front of my Tour Of A Black Planet t-shirt before I could grow a beard

tbh I still can't rly grow a beard :(

Not trying to be a jerk but my prescription sunglasses actually are big, black Jackie O glasses that might look like Coach knockoffs or at least Coach-style (they are Ray Bans I think. Some brand name or other). I say this less to defend other disgusting savages and more to justify my choices to the aether in case ppl are quietly judging me. I also wear them inside if I'm only going inside for a hot second. That's laziness more than anything else.

I get it. My mention earlier just came from the time I watched a girl get off at Harrison and walk right into a bench and, laughing, tell her friend that she can't see anything with her sunglasses on but she looks "so good" in them.

So, to be fair, I should be IA at that one stupid girl instead.

So did she look good? On the edge of my seat, here.

-- habitual fast-walkers

That would be me, but it's the only exercise I get, I am usually late, I'm trying to beat the light and know what? YOU WALK TOO DAMN SLOW.

jvc, that girl totally sucks and you are right to be irrationally angry at her.

IA: books with authors listed as something like "Bob Jackoff, M.D." and glossy photos on the front; M.D.s acting or getting treated like they are real scientists in general

But with a name like Jackoff, they need all the egoboo they can get.

People who end sentences with 'Yeah??' meaning '...as is totally obvious, but you perhaps do not get it all the same'. (also file in co-workers thread)

I sometimes keep my sunglasses on in the subway because they give me the super power of invisibility.

Here's something that happened lately. I find it almost impossible to ignore dumb-arsed things people have been writing on FB - particularly about the riots and ensuing bullshit. I know I should just walk on by - getting into arguments about politics on FB is NAGL, but this one person annoys the shit out of me anyway so I felt compelled to challenge her on a few things before baleting her off my friend's list.

That's not what makes me angry. People are entitled to their opinions, even if they are backwards as hell "Looters are lazy good for nothing chav scum - nothing like good, honest, hardworking me with my frequent and less-than-casual bigotry" etc. etc. What makes me IA is when you challenge people on their opinions, they rebuff you and once they're cornered they say something along the lines of "I don't care anyway, I'm bored of this now" and just reiterate what they said before in an even crasser manner. It's as though the subject never meant anything to them (even though they started the topic) and by making it look like you're boring them, or they're bored of the subject, they've managed to cop out of the argument while making you look like a terrible over-impassioned drag.

As I say, it's irrational because I know I shouldn't get involved in the first place.

- when Windows can't work out how long something is going to take to copy/move/delete.

xpost My brother did this and it was the only time I bothered to get involved rather than just unfriending. "It's just my opinion and I don't have to explain it". GRrrr.