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

I know! Personally I want a house made out of repurposed shipping containers, but barns are also nice. Chilly, though, I hear.

I love this one:

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/images/features/intro-to-container-homes3.jpg

Mmm...looks buggy. No.

Yeah, I thought I saw a picture somewhere with the doors into the kitchen shut so you could treat that porch as a separate outdoor area.

Love that one.

Definitely looks like there are doors at the kitchen threshold. They kind of lost the barn in there somewhere though.

Thats a shipping container house, so no barn unfortunately.

Yeah, I could tell from the two square hallway/elements on the right that it was Laurel-bait!

Also the slight air of corrugation.

oh yeah. gotcha.

I love all those windows, especially the big ones that go up and out, but im getting to a point in my life where i have to weigh up how much cleaning will be involved against the WANT.

High-pressure hose attachment with a non-streaking wash spray in it could work from ground level? I'm sure there are ways (although I hear you).

What I hate about the houses like the Metallica roof one isn't necessarily the roof but the fact that for most subdivision-type houses built in the last 20 years the big ugly garage door is the primary focus of the front view. Also my tiny 1940 house could probably fit inside the great room in some of these places.

the big ugly garage door is the primary focus of the front view.

YES, this is very IA making. Thats what I love about our neighborhood, alley driven with the garage nicely tucked away in the back where they belong.

Yeah, you could build my house inside of that house too.

There was a bit on the suburb thread about how back alleys use up backyard space and mean that the middle of the block is less safe/savory, and that the European model of putting garages right on the street is better but they have to be integrated into the home design. For instance, garages stick out horribly in contemporary American homes b/c of the insistence on having the lawn set in and the house pushed back -- if there's no lawn, the garage doesn't have to protrude. Interested in that.

The thing I like about garages on alleys is that it reduces footprint needed for the lot. You can fit the garage within the same lot width as the house proper. Most times when you tack the garage on the side of the house, you increase overall lot width even if its just to bring a driveway around the side to a back or side entry garage. Alley garages also reduce the amount of paving on your lot as well. Driveways are a whole other issue, because I'm infuriated that I've run into quite a few municipalities that have codes REQUIRING concrete drives, thus negating any chance at exploring pervious options.

Right but the access street at the back reduces the space available to you within the lot, unless I'm thinking about it all wrong?

Oh it does, yeah, you're left with less space for a backyard, very true. But that sacrifice allows for denser concentration of housing, fitting more houses on a block. Its a push/pull thing. Personally I'd rather have a more semi-private yard space with a house on one side and garage on the other, giving up more yard space. Plus, less to mow!

Mowing is the worst. Right behind ditch digging.

"denser concentration of housing" sounds horrific unless you're watching either one of the hilarious sitcoms 'Bless This House' and 'Friends'

Man, if you use the phrase "denser concentration of housing" in the suburban thread, there are at least two ilxors that would, metaphorically of course, ejaculate with joy.

suburby successor

And three others who would literally ejaculate with joy.

lol

And three others who would literally ejaculate with joy.

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, September 23, 2011 2:11 PM Bookmark

Is that where the dish detergent comes from?

I don't know maybe there was no lotion handy.

I lived in a house similar to those multi gable-roof houses upthread when I lived with my parents — fuckin thing was full of SCORPIONS

was it in their nature to sting frogs?

they were tiny, about the size of a small centipede — but a scorpion is a scorpion

Stories on news websites that are video-only.

OTM

stories that are slideshows

People asking the price of something in a shop or wherever, then rolling their eyes at the answer. The person you asked is an employee...they don't set the prices.

Yeah, i was queuing behind a woman who was berating the harassed looking till guy about the price of a banana yesterday.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/quiz/37137_1216789459543_500_281.jpg

The person you asked is an employee...they don't set the prices.

Its shocking when you realize how many people don't undertand this. When I spent a couple months working for a large-chain big-box store last summer, I was frequently berated for charging too much. My favorite were older ladies that would look directly in your eyes and say, "HOW DARE YOU!?!".

In other IA-making news, umbrella makers/designers that refuse to actually believe that people will be using their umbrellas in anything other than perfectly still air with no wind.

similarly, customers who don't know that you have to scan an item in to price it, or that (for example on pub tills) you have a key for each product, so they end up saying dumb shit like "You owe me 59p change, didn't you go to school?".

Also - "There's a 50p charge on transactions under £10 not including tobacco products". Whu? Why?!

The helpful staff at the caf on my way to work. And by helpful I mean NO DON'T TAKE THAT, No I do not WANT a spoon! Or that plastic bag! Go AWAY! Argh now you've jostled my elbow and I DROPPED MY CROISSANT JUST GODDAMN IT.

"Helpful people are a nuisance." -- R Fripp

stories that are slideshows

― Jeff, Monday, September 26, 2011 7:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I really hate slide shows that open a new page for every image. There are probably good reasons why they exist, but I still hate waiting for an image to load and then at the end, being 20 pages away from the page where I found the slideshow.

Oh yeah, and you want to get back to that original page, but you have to click the back button 20 times?

There are probably good reasons why they exist

Cause every new page counts as a new "hit"; I would classify this as a "bad reason"

splitting an article/gallery up to increase page views can burn in hell.

although when ILX's "View Previous Page" doesn't work and I have to load all or input random message id #'s to move backwards in reasonable 100-post chunks.. i can get a li'l irrationally angry...

You can just press and hold the Back button and find the previous page, but it's still annoying. You're probably right re page views. That trick has to burn out sooner or later, right? Advertisers want high counts of unique users' page views, not artificially inflated ones, right?

re ILX's view previous page - I was thinking that maybe we need a new Irrationally Angry thread b/c this one currently has 8052 answers. 8053 after this one. Is it time?

I don't understand why we need new threads to continue existing ones. It's not like all 8000 posts are showing up at once.

Because of the "view previous page" failure problem. Sometimes I want to go back in a thread's history, and if I can't view previous pages, I would have to load the whole thread, which in this case would crash my browser. Or if I open it on my laptop, it would crash the whole computer.