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

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.

flickr not letting you use ALL CAPS in photo titles or description or notes

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

― corey, Sunday, 18 September 2011 05:39 (2 days ago) Bookmark

Cf: Middle-aged nit at a local music festival in the crowd watching Selecter. (To me): "You're too young to know about these guys". So I point at my Lee Perry "Return Of The Super Ape" t-shirt and he goes "I don't even know what that is". He then proceeded not to let anybody in the crowd move past him to get nearer the stage, just blocking the way with his elbows going "No, I'm not letting anyone else through" until one guy ended up shouting "OI YOU OLD CUNT!" at him. This was followed by his wife (who had just turned up) giving him a look as if to say "What have you done now, you berk?".

He also had a really really squared-off haircut at the back of his neck, which made me even more IA.

the ad campaigns/marketing for operation smile (nonprofit that fixes kids' cleft palates). i love that the outcome of the program makes children so happy and probably has a positive effect on their lives, but the implication is that these kids were "deformed" beforehand. like you're supposed to be horrified by this shocking birth defect.

Today I was briefly IA about people in 2011 still using those damn walkie-talkie cell phones.

having amazon prime but ordering something on saturday such that i get it today

in some way, it still is a 2-day shipment but i have been unfailingly checking my mailbox every day despite

taxi drivers pressing the "Clear" button (i.e. send a signal to HQ that they are ready for new passengers, if "clear" isn't a universal term) when they are still several minutes away from your destination

I mean I could try to pretend this is rational because maybe it keeps their next customer waiting, but really I don't even know if it does or not, it just seems... disrespectful, I guess? HELLO I AM STILL HERE. So, irrational.

also, when you get a new CD (lol people still do that, etc etc) and you try to get the liner notes out of the tray but they get caught on the little plastic tabs and it takes you 30 seconds to get it out, and then the inside is completely blank with not even a picture

Yesterday: my coworkers standing within earshot of me and enthusiastically recalling Charlie Sheen's Emmy awards appearance and eagerly anticipating his roast and the return of Two and a Half Men.

Today: enthusiastically recapping Charlie Sheen's roast and the premiere of Two and a Half Men.

tomorrow: foundering under a mountain of cocaine

Like I'm seriously astounded that Two and a Half Men continues to exist. That is the worst show ever.

xp Me? If that's what it takes to drown out their Sheenchatter, I'm all for it.

WELL according to said coworkers, it might not survive bc of the lack of Sheen in the new season.

The tiny TV in our elevators was broadcasting the "secret" of Sheen's demise in Paris at the hands of a streetcar (hur hur). So delighted not to live in a world anymore where I will ever hear about that show or those people again!

Wait, what?

You have TVs in your elevators?

there's no escape

Laurel's post makes me believe that she watched a shocking expose about the death of Charlie Sheen via Parisian streetcar accident on a tiny television in her elevator.

I have TV's in my elevators. CAPTIVATE TV.

They're great, saves me from small talk. I don't care about the fucking weather.

Yeah, at the office. TVs in our automated robotic overlords I mean elevators.

I thought it was socially accepted that elevators were off-limits to small talk in the first place.

I wish! But my co-workers will try and do it anyway sometimes. I"M WATCHING CAPTIVATE TV LEAVE ME ALONE.

Man I'm just thankful our 40 year-old elevators still get me up to my floor without too much shaking and jerking.

I still go to the oncologist once every six months and the TV in the waiting room is only getting louder.

I was there a few weeks ago and "Days of Our Lives" was on. Apparently, one of the characters has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but is trying to hide it from everybody. One scene had her husband going "I want you to get checked out," and she's all being flirty, putting her arms around him, saying, "I'm fine. Don't you worry about me!"

And meanwhile, there are all these cancer patients propped up in their chairs watching all this. Pretty surreal.