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

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I read this as ilx hipster diabetes.

hipster diabeetus

People who like Jandek. They're lying, or engaged in a form of self-hypnosis.

corner bakery >>>>>>>>>>> panera

OTM and high five re: pumpkin whoopee pies.

New cooking site IA: recipes that tell you to buy a jar of pre-made sauce, e.g. this here jerk pork recipe.

Like, I had kinda guessed that I could buy some pork, and a randomly-selected jar of Jamaican jerk sauce, and a microwave pack of rice, but I was hoping to find a real recipe, y'know? Or at least a recommendation of a good brand of pre-made sauce.

(people familiar with my home city may be correct in guessing that I went to St Giles' fair, bought food from the Jamaican takeaway stand, and thought "that was quite nice, but there must be a way I can eat it without paying £6.50 for four small chunks in a polystyrene tub")

i thought that was a bbc thing, not mentioning brand names. but then they specify "2 x 250g packets Rizzazz pure basmati rice"...

TBF that BBCgoodfood site takes its recipes from a variety of sources (BBC publications), some of which are a couple of books I have called 'speedy suppers for two' or something, that are designed to be made in 30 mins etc. The books can have some great stuff, although it's not without the type of recipes you describe or jazzed up sandwiches etc.

Yeah, I have a couple of the books too and have made some pleasant stuff from them. There are a couple of recipes in the ones I've got which use pre-made sauces, but at least those added some side dishes and garnish; this one seemed a whole new level of pre-made sauce plus pre-cooked rice plus basically no other ingredients.

(and it's not just the Beeb that does this, I was looking for recipes for something else last week and kept hitting the same thing from other websites too)

BBC Good Food is probably part of BBC Worldwide, which is profit making and advertises. You want bbc.co.uk/food. Just be sure and filter our results from Ready Steady Puke.

I do hate pre-made sauce recipes too, good call. What's the fucking point? And as per above, I can't stand all the Ready Steady Cook recipes on the BBC site. Why would I ever cook something somebody made cos they spun a wheel or some shit and ended up with a chorizo, some curry sauce, and a tub of ben and jerrys, thus giving birth to "Anthony Worrall Thompson's Indo-Spanish Sundae"

Yeah I remember I had heard all about Betty Crocker, and I guess somehow thought she was going to be this badass homestyle cook, and when I first picked up her recipe books I was so bummed. "Take 1 packet frozen spinach, 1 jar of mayonnaise, and a can of mushroom soup..."

Yeah the Taste.com.au website which is what I was ranting about the comments on up above, also has some "chuck jar sauce on some mince" type recipes, one of which amusingly had an incredibly scathing comment something like "gee, I'm glad you wrote me up a recipe for something I COULD HAVE READ OFF THE JAR YOU RECOMMEND", lol.

FB IA: people who post links to videos or other sites with no preamble or explanation as to why they did so. Woman has posted this video of what seems to be a cow... with a vague comment saying "I cant read this its in german but I think the mother had 19 calves" ...uhh.. AND!?

Just overheard a school counselor tell a student, earnestly, "That will solve the problem, methinks." Save it for Internet posturing like the rest of us, dude!

That there is a station on the northern line between Kennington and Stockwell. How dare there be.

and it's not even oval-shaped.

When you mute an online video and the "mute" symbol appears in the middle of the screen and doesn't go away. Hey! With the sound off I need to pay even more attention to what's happening!

Innocuous things that have made you irrationally angry for 15 years: websites resizing my browser window. Don't people realise that it makes other people not look at their websites?

When you mute an online video and the "mute" symbol appears in the middle of the screen and doesn't go away. Hey! With the sound off I need to pay even more attention to what's happening!

― Mark C, Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

my tv does this, big MUTE symbol in the corner that can cover up subtitles etc. it sucks.

can you not just turn the volume all the way down?

You could, but then what's the point of a mute button?

also on some TVs, turning the volume all the way down pops up the MUTE symbol anyway

Zackly. And listening to a mash-up of Bach with just the faintest hint of the Flemish commentary on the Vuelta a Espana isn't as great as you might think.

Innocuous things that have made you irrationally angry for 15 years: websites resizing my browser window. Don't people realise that it makes other people not look at their websites?

― the art of posting sideways (onimo), Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:25 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

there are so many things that second line works with though. like, when a website has a feature in the form of a slideshow. probably with multiple ads thrown in. unless it's on something i'm 100% interested in, i will ditch it rather than click through fifty different pages.

Zackly. And listening to a mash-up of Bach with just the faintest hint of the Flemish commentary on the Vuelta a Espana isn't as great as you might think.

― Mark C, Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

IA: the word "exactly," because all i hear is "zach" and i jerk my head around to whoever's talking

I pressed my Mute button, the TV started playing "Warm Leatherete"

haha zach I get the same thing at work cos there is a tristan and someone calls him "tris" and his Indian accent means I hear "trayce" and look up and go "wuh?" all the damn time.

someone shouting NO to their bratty kid in the street sounds v much as if they're shouting my name, it is a bugbear

Websites that feature videos of things, like interviews, that would be perfectly well demonstrated in text. If there's text as well, no worries, but if the only option is a video, then I get a bit hulk about it.

yeah a lot of the BBC's sports coverage is annoyingly like that.

Sharing Facebook photos outside of Facebook is now nigh-on impossible unless you go in and retrieve the JPG URL via source code. Rubbish!

showing results for "thing you didn't type" did you mean "thing you did type"?

ffs Google let me fuck up my own searches

yeah this is really annoying.

- getting trouser cuff or shoelaces caught in my bike spokes.

Yeah. Showing 'did you mean thing you didn't type but is a more popular search term/the correct spelling of what you typed' is absolutely fine and often useful, but refusing to show you the results for your own search terms is INFURIATING.

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What's really stupid about it is I excluded the popular search term with a minus sign because I knew what I wanted and knew the results would be flooded with the popular search term and I knew I'd have to narrow it down to the unpopular search term that looks like a typo - and Google gave me the exact fucking opposite of what I wanted.

I know I've complained about this on another thread: someone choosing a bathroom stall right next to the one you're in, even though there's plenty of other open ones. what made it worse just now is the guy used the handicap stall. there are no handicap men in our building, and we don't have visitors today.

Google searches do make me hulk smash. I've had tons of search results where one of the search terms doesn't seem to be in any of the results, and when I re-do the search putting " " around each SINGLE WORD term, there are way less results.

fewer, I meant fewer, please don't get IA

A friend you used to sing with who has moved away contacts you and asks if you and your wife want to collaborate on some music where she would play violin and you would sing for a church service while she's in town. You agree, decide on a piece together, and agree to look for a date. You arrange everything on your end and even convince someone else to travel in from out of town to play oboe a companion duet that comes from the same work. You are double-checking everything and notice that the original person was left off of a long email chain by one of the people you had been coordinating with (btw, this person is the director of the pro church choir you and your friend both sang in and is friends to you both). You pass on the info, apologizing for the lapse in communication, and the original person who came up with this whole idea and put everything in motion says "oh, I didn't hear anything from anyone so I didn't bring my violin".

Exactly how irrational is the resulting anger?

If I were that person I would have confirmed before traveling without my instrument.

I get IA at search results for obscure things where the only reason a site got listed is because of an internal page of theirs that says "sorry there are no results for '_____'". got my hopes up for nothing!

If I were that person I would have confirmed before traveling without my instrument.

THANK YOU

I was pretty sure I wasn't completely crazypants for thinking that, even with the communication fuckup on my part, it's weird that the person who had this idea didn't drop a line saying "hey btw is this still happening? I have to pack"

Not irrational. I get pretty angry at this sort of stuff when it's totally avoidable by someone giving a shit enough to write a one-line email or text - they thought about it enough to actually make the decision to leave the violin behind, so there was some kind of consideration of the situation going on. Kind of passive-aggressive to assume it's not going ahead, actually.

ESPECIALLY when it was YOUR IDEA

thank fuck I live in a city filled with starving freelance musicians

sorry for hijacking the thread with this, I was thinking some portion of this was irrational since my own slackness helped this happen, but GRRRRRRRR

Sharing Facebook photos outside of Facebook is now nigh-on impossible unless you go in and retrieve the JPG URL via source code. Rubbish!

― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Friday, September 9, 2011 5:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

Open the pic in a new tab or page and it doesn't show up in the viewer, but as a normal web page with the URL right where it should be!

xp There should be a term for when you contribute a small, arguably negligible, amount to a snafu and then have a raging internal battle about how angry you're allowed to be at the resulting fracas.

I think it's called "hating yourself"

I sing to my cats, to the tune of the Bangles' song, "When I think about you, I hate myself."

I get IA when people mix up ephemeral 80s girl-fronted pop bands