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

Holy crap that is a long post!

holy lol

maybe the arbitration will be in a tree

Wow, that is just, uh, I don't know. How does he manage to find his way to work every morning?

How large is this pink arrow anyway? What if I drive past it right onto this other yellow street?

Imagine his confusion when that mail truck isn't parked there anymore.

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"So, what honey? Are we just going to eat in the driveway and sleep in the yard?"

"Well - but - I mean, that arrow is just in the middle of the street. I mean, is the judge just going to hold the arbitration in the middle of the street?"

what's it like working with people in the bdsm community? i mean, most people aren't so open about badly wanting to be kicked in the balls

Je55e, you sure are IA.

Maps. How the fuck do they work?

Does he know about numbers on buildings? Ask him.

Punch him in the map hole.

I have tried for years to find some way of summing up his *thing*, but I haven't got it yet. A friend and I only ever use the word "feckless" when talking about him.

His problem with the map was that it didn't tell him specifically WHICH building in the office park to go to. I tried to joke with him and say, "I'd bet it's the building with the big "1 2 6" on it," but he was still so pissy - not at me, but at the world we live in where the Google Maps pin doesn't indicate which seat in which hearing in which building he is supposed to go to.

And I just spent the last hour finding a Word document he lost on his computer. It was attached to an email and it saved to Temporary Internet Files. It made me IA, but actually not at him, but at fucking Microsoft.

I altered the registry on my computer so attachments save somewhere sensible, and I guess I'll do it for him, too.

Also, while searching for the document, I found an image file in the Recycle Bin called "[his name]bathroom." I had to look :(
Fortunately, it was just a pic of his chest (he's been working out a lot).

I realized one thing that makes me IA sometimes is the tendency of people on the internet to have to express likes or dislikes in absolute terms. It swings both ways, but I feel like its far too common in the negative direction. Like, whatever happened to "I don't like Seinfeld because..." or "I don't know, Thor wasn't my thing"? Everything now has to be like, "Community is the worst thing ever" or "Breaking Bad is a terrible, awful show". Sure this has a lot to do with our 140 character tweet limit and quick soundbite culture, but if you can't express why you don't like something in something a little more eloquent than "worst thing ever" I'm not likely to take you seriously (NB - this works the other way as well, I'll probably dismiss you if you tell me "In Rainbows is the greatest thing ever" just as quickly). Maybe you think it makes you seem cool and contrarian to dismiss everything as "terrible" and "horrible", but sometimes it just makes you look unwilling to engage.

tl; dr

Ha ha

Would have been funnier/more relevant if you went with "tl;dr, terrible post" imho.

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i *know* we've covered this before, but: sprinklers that water the sidewalk instead of the lawn. concrete doesn't need watering! neither do the people walking past, if they've showered that day.

Ooh, now I have new one. When people on the internet tell me my opinions is "rong".

Fuck, my grammar there was certainly "rong".

There used to be a narrow gap between my house and the one next door, and when the guy would arrange his sprinkler to water his lawn, sometimes it was in such a way that the side of my house would get a direct hit.

I got angry about it first, but then thought, well, do I get angry when it rains? It wasn't one of those machine-gun sprinklers, but the lazy U-shaped deals that rocked back and forth. Still, any time I heard the spray hitting my window, my pissed-off gland would flare up.

I agree, jvc. We went through a long analysis of this question on the Chicago thread, once. IIRC, Jaymc held the position that "In my opinion" is obviously part of every such statement, and it was pointless to actually say it.

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office buildings make me IA. they are the worst. they never have handicap buttons on their doors, and because they're office buildings they have big heavy glass doors all the time with increasingly ridiculous handles (the first rule of business is APPEAR RESPECTABLE IN THE CHEAPEST AND TACKIEST WAY POSSIBLE). ok non-handicap access is only IA because i'm not handicapped, i'm just always carrying large heavy loads and it's impossible to open their embarrassing doors without putting everything down and inadvertently making a big to-do about it.

also office buildings suck because they're filled with the worst people, or at least the least-deserving people to have such inflated egos.

Revolving doors annoy me. Mainly cos the ones at work are v easily pushed and some total cnuts always fire through at full pace to show their vast strength meaning anyone behind them has to wait or be killed by a door and die in an office foyer.

That is a problem*, but what you said reminded me that one of my pet hates is assholes who use the handicapped-accessible doors** instead of he revolving door, especially when they could just as quickly use the revolving door. Yes, you fucking douches, why not let out [large volume] of climate controlled air - and let in snow or leaves - so that you can have your own special private entrance?

*I started reading about revolving doors after I read your post and I learned this: Revolving doors typically have a "speed control" (governor) to prevent people from spinning the doors too fast.

**i.e., regular doors that can be opened manually, but which usually can be opened mechanically by pressing a button. The jerks who use the button and then stand waiting for the door to slowly grind open send me into IA redline.

If you try to push the revolving door at work too fast it gets caught and stops moving.

This might be good as an anti-cnut device, but its top speed is trudging speed, so if you're in even a mild hurry it's easy to push just a little too hard and then slow yourself and everyone else down.

When I find a door which has a handicap button I never know if I'm meant to open it manually or if I'm damaging the mechanism by forcing it.

nah just push it if you don't need to use the button

people using the button when they don't need to drives me a tiny bit nuts

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'ey, Bugs Bunny has a postcode!

What's up, Google Docs?

shoelaces are fuckers.

like little corsets for your feet, innit?

like little bastards for your feet that constantly need attending to and wrap themselves up in your pedals. it's okay, i have my laceless shoes back again.

I had a revolving door IA yesterday: dude who slowly pushed through the revolving door and then squeezed out when the opening of his compartment was barely aligned with the doorway, creating a situation where I had to stop and align the door before I could go through, thus interrupting the smooth flow of traffic through the doorway and making me have to touch the dirty door with my hands.

I usually just use my cnut.

^^^ talent

I am one of those knuts who pushes the door too hard. :-/ I know I'm being knuty when I do it, but PEOPLE ARE SO SLOW. UNNECESSARILY.

I am kind of curious to see the contortions you must put yourself through to be in that position.

(xpost)

I push hard. Ppl slow.

and has Salt and Pepa on his ipod.

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Also IA: Whatever that roof style is called. When sunny and I were home shopping, I refused to even look at a house that had that Metallica logo styled roof.

They were also usually $300K more than we were willing to pay, so there was that too.

That looks exactly like my nephew's house in B'ham, right down to the little red yard sign.

It wasn't an issue in this round of homebuying, but I feel like when I do have enough to spring on a $500,000+ house, it's going to be a bitch to find one that was made in the last 30 years that doesn't have this style roof. I hate this as much as some people hate comic sans.

Recently constructed, faux-traditional (though in fact it's no particular style), cookie-cutter suburban...barns. I don't know what to call them. They're not McMansions, but they're meant to evoke the feeling of a mansion on a middle-class budget. They have two-story great rooms that you can't heat, and master suites with sitting areas that you never use, and people who buy them on TV shows always want MORE ROOMS, MORE SINKS, MMMMMMMORE!

You can tell I don't like them, either.

They're more like...barns for storing your furniture in. And your kids, if it comes to that.

Plus wall-to-wall carpet = nagl.