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

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.

been lurking in this thread for months; coming forward to add use of the phrase "it is what it is." at best, it's a tautology used because one has nothing of substance to add but still wants to comment. of course it is what it is--what else would it be?! and people seem to say it so profoundly, as if i'm to step back for a second, ponder the statement, and be amazed that yes, it really is what it is.

(also, my IA at this phrase just goes to show how much i watch shit reality TV because i've grown to hate the phrase after hearing it overused in shows like Jersey Shore and the Real Housewives of NJ, and that revelation irrationally angers me even more arghghghg.)

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

I guess, if you are into those sort of girls that look completely anonymous because she is dressed just like 60% of the other girls out there just like her.

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the phrase is meant to express some sort of consciousness of the situation or ability to place your own actions or those of others in context

when dealing with people who can't really seem to relate to anything outside of the limited context they live in, it's useless

it's also used when ppl go into the hypothetical "what if" death spiral rather than dealing with the situation as it is presented to them

listening to The London Suede heals infections

that is how my internal monologue worked for years

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- when the highway surface is scraped for construction. noisy & annoying & yuk

by construction i mean repaving/roadwork

- rearending another car by accident. no major damage, no injuries, just "ugh I am an idiot" playing in my head ad nauseum :/

There's probably a 1:5 ratio between me giving my business card to the person I rear-ended and me handing out my card for professional reasons.

In other words, I think I've handed out 18 cards in my life.

lol, that sucks :(

electronic business card are a real game-changer

ia: getting stuck sitting next to the batshit aspie for the whole 2 weeks of the work training course

Drivers in the right turn lane who make a left turn, cutting off everyone in the left turn lane.

Are you talking about a left-hand-drive or right-hand-drive country?

I am trying to visualize the situation from a left-hand-drive perspective and it is making my brain hurt so bad

oh it's because in England or whatevs the equivalent is making a right turn from the left lane I guess ok tension resolved AS YOU WERE EVERYBODY

Also, surely it must be less than ideal for a a right-handed person to shift gears on a manual transmission with his left hand. The left hand can't be trusted with such details! That's why in the States, those who drive stick shifts steer with their knees while shifting with their right hands.

xp- I really, really want to drive in England (or other right-hand-drive country), but I feel pretty sure that people would get hurt.

Also, surely it must be less than ideal for a a right-handed person to shift gears on a manual transmission with his left hand.

It's fine. btw I've never driven in a LHD country because I'm too shitscared of fucking up and killing people.

Shit, I guess I have the terms backwards. I was thinking "left-hand-drive" meant places like the U.S. where the driver sat on the left side of the car, but Wikipedia tells me that the "drive" refers to the side of the road on which the traffic travels.

I'm coming to Britain or one of the other blue places on this map and I'm gonna fuck y'all up

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg/800px-Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg.png

Wikipedia tells me that the "drive" refers to the side of the road on which the traffic travels.

Oh man that's going to complicate things.

We get signs on cars that have the steering wheel on the left side (usually imported from Europe/Nth America) but buggered if I can remember what it says. "CAUTION: <something> HAND DRIVE VEHICLE" or something.

Drivers in the right turn lane who make a left turn, cutting off everyone in the left turn lane.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this exact thing happened to me today and i nearly gave her the finger, which i don't ever do

it was mostly just confusing, there was no logical reason for her to do it other than to almost create a huge pile-up

I cant even imagine why anyone would try that unless they had some insane last minute "shit I'm going the wrong way" thing going on.

both lanes were going the same way! she just decides to slide into the other one in the middle of the turn.

We get signs on cars that have the steering wheel on the left side (usually imported from Europe/Nth America) but buggered if I can remember what it says. "CAUTION: <something> HAND DRIVE VEHICLE" or something.

Signs? Like when they're for sale or when they're on the road?

Annoying: this guy on this really crowded bus who keeps saying loudly into his phone, "if the bus is crowded, he shouldn't stop to pick up more people. Well I guess that's the typical intelligent CTA driver. "

Also assholes who don't move toward the back as others board up front.

Annoying guy would also be the same guy fuming into his cell phone when a crowded bus flies by his stop without picking him up, so no win situation there for King Entitled.

But yes, people who refuse to move to the back (or away from the doors on train cars) need to be forced to sit through a remedial public transportation etiquette course.

Also people who won't take off their giant backpacks on a crowded bus. It's easy! And more pleasant not to carry it! Why do they do this...?

104. People who walk around crowded urban areas and ride the subway with huge backpacks but have absolutely no concept of the room they are taking up, thus cluelessly banging into people and blocking pathways without even a second thought.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:07 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark

134. People who wear backpacks but have no sensory awareness.

― Bob Six, Saturday, October 2, 2010 9:46 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^
This is me sometimes. I have been shouted at a few times.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, October 2, 2010 9:47 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

In my defense I actually have a minor condition similar to dyspraxia which makes me less spatially aware than most people.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, October 2, 2010 9:48 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark

I think I mentioned it way back in this thread, but since it continues to happen, it bears mentioning again - if you are going to wear a giant backpack strapped to your back, be aware if the dimensions! I got nailed in the face this morning, hard enough to make my nose bleed, by some doofus that kept spinning around in the train aisle with no regard for the giant weapon on his back.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:01 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

People that insist on crowding on the first bus that comes by, even if there's another one visible behind it. I mean, in a city it's a gamble whether the next one is less crowded, but when I was at the Montreal airport there were several buses literally lined up and the guy ushering people on was packing it until it was literally standing room only. I kind of hovered back a little and ended up on the next bus, which left a scant ten minutes later, and was 3/4 full.

people gotta be at a place by a time, mh.

oh, i guess the backpack thing is a 'thing'

every now and then I become that dude with the backpack, usually because no one will move out of my way to let me onto the train so I can squeeze into the empty spot away from the doors so why should I show those dicks any courtesy in return? you get what you give, transport fucko

104. People who walk around crowded urban areas and ride the subway with huge backpacks but have absolutely no concept of the room they are taking up, thus cluelessly banging into people and blocking pathways without even a second thought.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:07 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 15:20 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yes, but also - arseholes who, when one is carrying a massive heavy backpack full of camping equipment and that, insist on breathing down your neck and walking round you especially on your blindside, then get all uppity if you accidentally touch them with your bag while in one of those crowded little corridors.