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

* 250 lbs weight capacity

way too low amirite

accidentally clicking on a thread you never had any intention of reading, and seeing the little circle instead of a dot for the next few days

-- friends you've known for 15+ yrs who listen to the same handful of bands over and over and over. I never need to hear Pink Floyd or Queen or NIN ever again, please God.

- getting an email from the removalist you last used, saying "hey! like us on Facebook to recieve a special offer on your next move!". As I'm about to move house this seems aweseome. If only they'd tell me what the awesome deal is before I click....
- ....$50 off an order of their boxes on moving day?! Their boxes *I wont even use cos I have my own already*!? AAARGHHH STUPID BAIT AND SWITCH.

that's not really a bait and switch, though

like, if they'd said "$100 off your next move!" and you liked them and they said "ooh we sold out, have $50 off some boxes lol", that would be a bait and switch

Yeah, I know, I was exaggerating for effect, was still annoying though.

I feel tricked into the "like", but I should know better, tbh.

You can 'unlike' just as easily, right?

Oh of course, of course.

Can yer? Cool, didn't know that.

-- friends you've known for 15+ yrs who listen to the same handful of bands over and over and over. I never need to hear Pink Floyd or Queen or NIN ever again, please God.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:50 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Me listening to the same bands over and over again makes me IA but I keep doing it.

the concept that there is some inherent value in listening to newer, inferior music makes me IA

music needs 15 years before the necessary critical distance is reached. Just getting into natalie imbruglia now, some good stuff imo

re: boat shoes: I have a pair that I got years ago ('for college'?) and wore rarely until this summer, when they finally reached the 'broken-in' stage and became extremely comfortable to throw on w/ no socks whenever. (however I am now worried that they may have acquired a footsome stink which is noticeable to everyone but me; will look into this)

I'm okay with boat shoes in general but the way this dude was wearing them was really awkward and ugly

yeah that does sound horrible. and... really lazy/thoughtless?—take better care of yr shit, pplz!

another TTMMIA (thing that makes me irrationally angry) I've noticed lately: when people in public restrooms use the manual paper towel dispenser and fucking SLAM the handle as hard and in as quick succession as they can like it's a fucking shotgun.

like using their balled-up wet fist and everything? ya fuck those assholes

Reprints of books that were originally made into movies, but then those movies were remade, and the book cover is a picture from the remade movie. Example I saw today: 'True Grit'

I hate that!

I used to like it in the 70s and 80s when they would include a bunch of glossy stills inside. I liked the movie covers too. I had copies like that of Carrie, The Shining, and Firestarter. I was way to young to see the movies, so those books were useful substitutes.

Worse is when they rename the book to match the film (e.g. Push becoming Precious).

snoball: can't you buy it & cover the judge on the book?

I'm okay w/ something like Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz w/ stills from the Fassbinder miniseries but yeah it's like publishers (probably rightly) think that people won't read a book unless it's based on a movie.

Um actually it's like publishers want to SELL BOOKS, and a movie coming out is always AFTER the book sales have peaked because that's how long it takes to make a movie, and then the way to reposition the book in the market and spur sales is to RELATE IT TO THE MOVIE. This isn't some kind of dastardly sell-out on the part of publishers, geez. If you wanted the old version, you should have bought it when it came out, and helped bolster the sales numbers then.

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/m/mAAgUvGGgggvWXKmgUd9Hiw/140.jpgVshttp://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/m/mxA254YC94XE4gSvQhroEKg/140.jpg

the concept that there is some inherent value in listening to newer, inferior music makes me IA

me too! happy medium etc

"One Day" makes me irrationally angry. Get a new book FFS!

though I am jealous of people who can listen to the same music/watch the same movies a shitload of times over the years and not tire of them

It's not just 'here's a book tied in with the movie version', it's 'here's a book tied in with an inferior remake of the original much better movie version'.

The "True Grit" one you mean?

No worries, within 5 years, John Wayne will be back on front.

The John Wayne version was the inferior version, btw.

though I am jealous of people who can listen to the same music/watch the same movies a shitload of times over the years and not tire of them

And I'm envious of those who can easily start liking new music! Certain communities on ILX can attest to my musicangst which is that I usually can't enjoy music until it's become familiar and worn-in. There are rare exceptions of bands that I liked immediately, but more often I will get into "new" music only after it becomes part of the landscape, or I've owned an album for a while. E.g., I bought The Strokes first album circa 2003 and then in 2005 I was like, Oh my god! I LOVE this! and put it on repeat for months.

I can only love music that I already know well or that upon first listening, feels like I already know it well, then I will listen ONLY to that music (e.g., The Antlers, whose 2 albums make up well over 50% of the music I've listened to in the past year).

It reminds me of a friend who, when he says "I don't like ____," means that he has never tried it, so therefore it is impossible for him to like it.

It reminds me of a friend who, when he says "I don't like ____," means that he has never tried it, so therefore it is impossible for him to like it.

― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 16:48 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark

This - I have a good friend who does this and it's the thing that makes me more irrationally angry than anything else! People who say they don't like things and haven't even bothered to check it out. I can parse "it's not my cup of tea" or "it doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd enjoy" - but flat out "I don't like it" instils severe rage.

When I was in high school, I was a bit like you, Jesse (though I'd still get annoyed by friends who would overplay certain songs/albums). But now I know literally within seconds whether I like a piece of music or not. Part of me thinks it's cause I've listened to tons of music, have played music, and am better able to process it. But part of me thinks I've just gotten ADD w/r/t music due to the incredible ease of obtaining more of it. If something doesn't make an immediate good impression...NEXT!

^^ this. also i seem to get bored of an album more quickly. once upon a time, i'd play an album over and over for months and months and now even albums i really love don't get much rotation beyond a week before being consigned to the "go back to" pile.

I get stressed out and irritable about music that is new to me. It really feels like "Argh! I don't like this [because I don't know it] and I want to listen to something I do like!"

With music I love, I will rewind and listen to certain lyrics or passages over and over and over.... This has caused my friends to get annoyed when I do this in a car.

Do you like trying new things in general? ie new restaurants (or even just new dishes at a favorite restaurant), new vacation spots, etc? my friends who have the limited catalog of loved music seem to be wary of new experiences of any kind. i'm not really making a value judgment on that, but it makes for IA when you're not that way and you want to do stuff together, y'know?

It's mixed! I am very adventurous about restaurants, types of food, dishes at a favorite restaurant, vacation spots/new places in general, experiences, sexperiences, books, movies, innovative ways of doing familiar tasks. But OTOH, I get pretty stressed out by changing jobs and changing apartments.

Maybe it's significant that I don't like listening to music unless I'm actually listening to it. I hate working with music playing. In theory, cleaning the house or putting together Ikea furniture would be perfect activities for having music playing, but I can't stand it.

Interesting. I go crazy if it's too quiet while I'm working, at home or at the office. Think I'd be creeped out by someone who DIDN'T get stressed out about a job or home change!

we can listen to headphone at work, and the people who never ever do weird me out. i assume their inner monologue deteriorates to insanity after a few hours, let alone years of silent desk work. or, even worse, they have no inner monologue.

one headphone, we all share it

lol

I can sometimes stand to put on Banco de Gaia while doing monotonous, totally mindless tasks. Every once in a while I will play a couple of rock/pop songs that I particularly want to hear. But I could never tolerate headphones. I actually like ambient noise quite a lot.

Most of the time I wear headphones with nothing playing. Basically I use them as ear plugs because of all the grating voices that surround me.

I sometimes listen to music when working (mostly C++ programming) but I'm definitely less productive when I listen to music. I don't understand how some people can listen to anything more than ambient background type music while doing tasks that require actual thinking.

we can listen to headphone at work, and the people who never ever do weird me out. i assume their inner monologue deteriorates to insanity after a few hours, let alone years of silent desk work. or, even worse, they have no inner monologue.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:37 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

lots of people can't listen to music and concentrate well on anything else at the same time

people like me listen to music and enter a whole different sort of internalized mood and it can be hard to transfer between music mood and social mood at a whim, so there's also that

Yeah prob depends on the work one is doing too. My housemate's a programmer - every one where he works (at EA mobile) has headphones jammed in and is in the zone - its apparently dead silent in there all day long.

People who think the Coens True Grit was a remake of the John Wayne movie make me irrationally angry.