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

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Reprints of books that were originally made into movies, but then those movies were remade, and the book cover is a picture from the remade movie.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.

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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.

yeah and

If you wanted the old version, you should have bought it when it came out, and helped bolster the sales numbers then.

was anyone here old enough to be buying grown-up books in 1968?

People who cherry pick scientific studies to prove their point, without actually reading them, looking at the research methodology, confounding variables, potential biases, etc.

Getting stuck behind a school bus on a rural road where the bus has to stop at almost every driveway to pick up some farm kid.

Ha ha we had to do that! It beat the other bus route which went through a slum.

People who ask you to do something in an email, and then sign off with "Top stuff". I HAVEN'T DONE IT YET.

Top Stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-9KLHalrA

It's an English thing

a bad one

It's like saying "Can you get me the agenda by 2pm? Great job!"

Oh wow. That is awful.

- instant messaging, especially on FB. hate it. especially when you're trying to write an update and an IM pops up and you end up sending the update to the IM. Actually the thing that annoys me more than instant messaging are the people who do it. Especially the kind of people who are like:

Them: Hi! :-)
Me: Hello
Them: How's it going? :-)
Me: Just fine thanks. Busy
Them: Oh cool. What you doing? :-)

etc.. Very annoying

There are few things i hate more than instant messaging

You know you can turn instant messaging off on FB, right? The first time someone IM'd me while I was engrossed in facebook, I remember thinking "You have just made this fun thing I was doing not fun anymore."

i forget to switch it off.

I find instant messaging on facebook to be useful at times. However, I get in a RAGE about the fact that facebook has now conflated chat and messages. Basically, you now get a chat log in your message folder, AND if anyone tries to send you a message it will pop up as an IM. Plus, I know they have purposefully made the system shitter in order to promote facebook email, so it makes me REALLY FUCKING ANGRY.

^^^ this