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

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.

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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

Sometimes facebook automatically logs me back into instant messaging without me noticing

Oh yeah, I was having a back-and-forth with a friend of mine, with each of us sending a message every 5 minutes or so, and Facebook helpfully tried to load it up into instant message.

I haven't intentionally IM'd with anyone outside of customer support robots since maybe 1999?

i called costco's optical department after two weeks to find out the status of my eyeglasses order. they said the lab had a holdup with locating the frames i wanted. i said i'd be fine with the frames that were in the display case, but apparently those are gone now.

kinda pissed that (a) dudes don't have better control over their inventory (b) they never got in touch with me about it.

ebay has the frames i want on "buy it now" for a little cheaper than what i paid. if costco doesn't come through, i'll get a refund and buy those.

This is so innocuous, but the phrase "__ and ___ and ___, oh my!" makes me very punchy

This is so innocuous, but the phrase "__ and ___ and ___, oh my!" makes me very punchy

I've never heard this. Is it like "Carebears and roof shingles and Alaskan cruise line, oh my!" ?

Yeah I have seen ppl insert random words into that phrase before, for sure.

yeah I was trying to find examples but it's hard to know what to google. Here's one that kind of proves my point, search "and cupcakes, oh my!"

I've never heard this.

it comes from "lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" from the wizard of oz.

lions and tigers and boobs - wait, what?

I think (USA) people say it any time they are presented with three nouns that fit the rhythm of the phrase.

Bagels and cream cheese and lox, on my!
Chevys and Hondas and Fords, oh my!
Apples, bananas, and pears, oh my!

For example.

People who can't mention something good without admonishing others to enjoy it. For example, this tweet:

If you aren't outside tonight, explain yourself. Perfect deck weather.

It's 11 o'clock and I'm trying to get rowdy kids to bed. This is the same person (a supervisor) who sometimes says as she's walking out the door, "It's five o'clock! Go home!" while I still have 20 more minutes of deadline work to hit.

People who praise an older/arty/foreign film by saying "you won't see kids tweeting/facebooking about this!"

Who says that? That's absurd.

people on another forum I'm on

kinda makes me want to tweet about Casablanca or something just to prove these people wrong

and it's always sort of arch self-consciously witty stuff like Merchant-Ivory films or something

Don't we have someone on this forum who says stuff like that?

not really

To go along with my last post:

"Don't forget, people! sunday's to relax. this has been a public service announement brought to you by ______ ______."

THANKS. HEY, LEAVES. GO RAKE YOUR OWN DAMN SELVES.

(I'm on ILX, not raking leaves, but still.)

People who start a sentence with the word "look." Don't fucking tell me "Look..." before you explain the universe to me. I know it's usually just a bit of placeholder vocalization like "umm," but it's condescendingly close to "I don't have enough of your attention -- give me more." This goes triple for the Prez.

Listen, I know what you're saying about that.

ha, yeah, that too. "Listen" may be even more infuriating.