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

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.

My dad would always begin with "let me tell you something." before he launched into a tirade

oh yeahs "listen" sucks.

Should be replaced with "Dig this"

Listen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvi-iwkXix4

Er, NSFW due to title I guess? Sorry!

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

― corey, Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who says that? That's absurd.

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

people on another forum I'm on

― corey, Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You know what's funny is that people who say this are convinced that every other "senior citizen" thinks like them. NO people over the age of 50 that I know think this way! It's RUDE! Like there weren't any shitty movies in the 50s/60s/70s!

I'm more annoyed because it's trying to create a false dichotomy — you won't see adults talking about it either because art film is a fucking specialist pursuit.

This other forum is a classical music forum, so a lot of the denizens are older/somewhat pompous.

Anyone who says "listen" to me just makes me think of the irritating sprite from Zelda who followd you around shouting "hey! LISTEN!" all the damn time.

- people who spend all day "doing" their fucking garden

(it's the activity that makes me ia, not the people)

Makes it sound like they are out there humping pumpkins.

My dad would always begin with "let me tell you something." before he launched into a tirade

My dad's line is, "I'm not getting at you, but..." followed by extended period of getting at me

..knowing now who your dad is, thats making me giggle, sorry ;P

ha, yes :)

haha me too

Anyone who says "listen" to me just makes me think of the irritating sprite from Zelda who followd you around shouting "hey! LISTEN!" all the damn time.

― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 19 September 2011 00:16 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Or, you could interrupt and go "Listen, Listen to the Beatbox brrmmmmzzzz BEAT DIS!!"

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.

(now ex) gf told me off for an approximation of this once. they were her colleagues rather than mine, she was right and the lesson was learned. still, it was 10pm and wtf at it being perfectly normal for them to still be in the office at the time.