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

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.

People who comment on artists' facebook posts with "come and play in [my town]!!!" (and they do this by the hundred). #1, it's not up to the artist where they play, it's up to local promoters to invite them, so it's the promoter you should be hassling. and #2, ever heard of travelling to a f*cking gig, loser?

I'd have a more formulated response to that if I knew whether you were talking about US or UK.

everywhere

I always lol when its people begging huge bands to come play at their tiny local town. "Coldplay please come play Shitsville, Texas!!!".

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hugh-laurie-let-them-talk/about-the-concert/1172/

Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk
About the Concert

An American favorite for his award-winning role in the hit TV series House, the versatile British actor Hugh Laurie showcases his musical side in an atmospheric personal odyssey filmed on location in New Orleans. Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk – A Celebration of New Orleans Blues airs on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances Friday, September 30 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

Defying simple categorization, Laurie finds his greatest satisfaction and inspiration from the mixture of blues and jazz that grew out of New Orleans at the beginning of the last century. He was inspired as a teenager by hearing blues great Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina.” Let Them Talk is Laurie’s very personal journey into the heart and soul of that music: “Here I am in the French Quarter playing with all these amazing musicians. This may be about as good as it gets. In fact, this may be what heaven is like.”

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I don't know, tbh, seeing Hugh Laurie's musical career being advertised all over the place is kinda IA making.

Hugh Laurie, please come play Shitsville, Texas.

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

Our work elevators are so bad, people don't even comment about getting stuck in them if it's under ten minutes.

Hugh Laurie, please come play Shitsville, Texas.

LOL

Also that waiting room scene is def surreal.

It's already like a scene from a Terry Gilliam movie as it is...

Nothing irrational about it, but grown adults having actual tantrums just like three-year-olds makes me very angry. (But my anger doesn't turn into a tantrum.)

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― Mark G, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:31 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

no.

while i'm at it:

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― Mark G, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:31 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

Sorry, I can't quite get past this one just yet.

http://www.splotchy.com/images/blog/captivatedpeople.jpg

*nice* french twist

Nice French Twist is in an elevator with someone and Newt Gingrich and something is $99? That's what I'm getting.

the non-gingrich one looks like he's peeing on the elevator buttons

He's standing too close: people at the back of the elevator won't be able to see the screen. Like those ignorant wankers in CD shops I probably moaned about 5000 posts ago.

http://www.captivate.com/imagedata/channeltext_WhatWeDo_Main.png_105602125618.png

http://www.yenra.tv/wiki/images/thumb/300px-Captivate-network.jpg

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/uploads/1/elevator_tv1.jpg

http://bodaciousboomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/RCA-dog1.jpg

That is my day. Looking at that tv in that elevator.

I don't know if I like those elevators where you choose your floor at a computer and then you board whichever car the computer tells you to, which takes you to that floor. No buttons inside. It seems like it's probably very efficient, but something about no buttons troubles me. What if I change my mind and want to go to a different floor mid-journey? What if I want the door to close faster? I won't have any buttons to jab to make me feel better.

That's what I meant about the automated robotic overlords, Jesse! Ours have that feature, too.

Adults over 30 wearing any article of clothing with this fucking guy on it:

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/blogs/files/2009/08/stewie.jpg

Wd like to point out, though, that "close door" buttons are almost universally disconnected anyway, so all your jabbing has probably never made the door close faster.

i think he implied that with his last line

I actually talked to an Otis rep about that very issue once, the thing is the close doors buttons are often set on a time-delay that is actually of a longer duration than the default setting for the doors closing.

I want that. And the cars that drive themselves. And decide where I want to go.

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