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

I sympathize. WTF @ "use your passenger signals":

1. "Passenger signal"???????
2. How obnoxious to hassle people to do something that they would do anyway. It's not even like "Please move to the rear of the bus," which people forget to do, pulling the cord is something that everyone except a confused tourist or mentally disabled person will always do b/c they want to stop.
3. "Passenger signal" sounds like public transit work jargon, so I'm now thinking that she is using it the way police use stilted, formal language like "ascertain" instead of "find out" (can't think of better examples right now) as a show of authority.

I've seen bus drivers blow by stops even when passengers used their passenger signals, and then continue to the next stop because they insisted that the passenger did not pull the cord.

Per number 2, she starts hollering STEP UP STEP IN STEP UP before the door is open, so again, hassling people to do something that they are going to do anyway, ie GET ON THE DAMN BUS. Today she hassled people about stepping up and in as, meanwhile, a couple of shithead tourists blocked the front of the bus with their bodies and their luggage without any comment. I also get irritated at the repetitiveness of it. She always says the same thing. It's like a tic. I hate her.

Now, I AM NOT MAKING THIS PART UP: "Yes, exactly, race - like I told you, I was in the race for a promotion and they didn't promote me."

This is the best thing I read in ages.

Update on the caller from before: I'm relieved to report that it was HER, NOT ME. Just talked to my boss (who was the lawyer who did the phone consultation) who said there were problems determining what kind of discrimination was happening. First, the woman told her that she had no idea because she didn't have EE0C charge form with her - the form on which she would have had to have checked race, color, sex, religion, age, etc. - but she could look at the form and call back.

Then she said that it was "criminal discrimination." My boss asked if she meant that she was discriminated against based on her criminal record. No, what she meant was that since she had filed a charge that the discrimination must be criminal.

Also, she was NOT fired. She conflated "fired" with "not given the job she wanted."

She might be a little crazy, but it seems more like she is just really damn dumb. But somehow she got a job as a para-professional in a hospital, so I don't know what's going on.

So she still works there, just didnt get a promotion? Hahahha! Thats even more priceless.

ia: an e-mail from a recruiter telling me about a job in "los angeles county," with no further info about the location. l.a. county is 4,752.32 square miles.*

*i may have c/p'ed this from wikipedia

Job site accessible by car and other means.

The fact that a lot of makes of DVRs are not capable of allowing for last-minute scheduling changes. No FOX, I did not want to watch 53 minutes of that stupid dinosaur show instead of House tonight. Assholes. #firstworldproblems

I have so many DVR IA's...fucking Surewest DVR box is a piece of garbage. You can tell it what show to record, you can tell it how often to record, but you can't tell it what TIME to record and you can't prioritze recordings so it basically records whatever the fuck it wants. and it might record 2 of the same show on the same day and not record the other show that's on at 3 am that you want.

#firstworldproblems

Huh, the DVR i had programmed by date and time. In fact the EPG in it was useless so thats the only way it would work.

I forgot I set it, and it filled up the HDD with 6pm every night... mostly old simpsons eps and some other weekewnd crap. It was impossible to work out how to delete anything (shitty GUI), I ended up turfing it. Waste of $700 :(

DOnt watch nearly enough tv now to justify getting another one.

How do those things even work, given that all commercial TV seems to run endlessly late? It's not the old days when you'd set your VCR to start 5 minutes early and run 20 mins after the show allegedly finished, just to be sure.

That was actually how I did it with my PVR, I'd start it manually when a show started when I could (defeats purpose, I know, but).

Now, I just say fuckit I'll watch iView.

I watch a lot of telly so DVR is my friend. I just would like one that worked worth a damn.

Now, I just say fuckit I'll watch iView

Definitely, esp. using iView downloader so I can have the shows as MP4s and watch them whenever

headphones that won't stay in your ears

^^ Has been driving my nuts lately. I think the earbuds I have are too big and they keep falling out. It sucks. :(

all earbuds make me IA: they end up either hurting if i push them in far enough to stay, or falling the hell out after .2 seconds. i do not have excessively large ear canals, or oddly shaped ones, so i don't know how the rest of you plebes end up sportin' em so purty.

I went through 3 or 4 sets of cheap, drugstore earbuds this year. There is much to hate about them, but I especially hate how they accumulate my earwax and then put it on display for the world to see if I say, leave my ipod on my desk or something.

plebes have prehensile tragi obv

the ones that are built like little rubber winebottle stoppers work ok, except i suspect they also damage yr hearing

you can get earbuds moulded to the shape of your ears. expensive though.

but you can also diy:
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Custom-Fit-Earbuds/199/

or, if you are really cheap you can (mis)use silly putty:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-accessories/179078-make-your-own-custom-molded-earbuds-15-a.html

(makes me think of hopi ear candles but lets not go there, again)

(fwiw i use £16 sennheisers which come with 3 different sizes of rubbery flanges. stay in well but i do noticed lots of noise where the cable rubs against my jacket)

I forgot I set it, and it filled up the HDD with 6pm every night... mostly old simpsons eps and some other weekewnd crap. It was impossible to work out how to delete anything (shitty GUI), I ended up turfing it. Waste of $700 :(

Christ!

Hey Trayce, can I have some money? I don't need much...like, US$500?

Earbuds: I've mentioned it before, but I suspect my right ear has a bigger opening than my left ear. I can't keep anything in there.

It's a long story (and probably could've been avoided), but when I recorded my part in the upcoming LULULU comp, I was wearing both earbuds and headphones. That my right earbud stayed in the entire time (thanks to the right headphone) felt pretty good!

I bought cheapie Koss headphones yest out of dire necessity, and they're big and not soft and they huuuurt my ears. In future will only ever buy the kind with little squishy changeable flanges even though I can't chew while wearing them (it's deafening).

I bought a pair of the "cheaper" ($75) Shures and they were very comfy and stayed in without hurting, but then I got an iPhone and found the remote clicker too handy to do without. The Skull Candy ones I bought are unsatisfactory bc 1. If I push them in snuggly, the create suction that seriously muffles sound, 2. If I leave them looser, they fall out when I run. I've tried the various sizes of plugs.

Earbuds are just one of those things that will always suck a little, I think.

Scrabble/WWF opponents who only make one move per day.

Yes, the Skull Candy ones! Those were the ones I liked.

I actually like the Skull Candy buds too, at least as far as reasonably priced ones I'll carry around with me with the risk of losing them. I have a real hard time spending $75+ on ones I'll carry around with me every day.

haha i like the idea of getting earbud ones that WOULD fall out except you use big headphones (w/o a lead) to hold them in place

Pr with a lead, then you could listen to everything slightly out of phase with itself.

But no! I DON'T like the Skull Candy ones! They suction my ear out.

But really, anything is better than the shitty white ones that come with iPod and iPhone.

default iPod/iPhone earbuds might as well be miniature cacti

Earbuds are just one of those things that will always suck a little, I think.

― Je55e, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yep. wear headphones.

Bad fit over hair-dos/earrings, don't fit well into pocket or purse. Life is hard but I'll struggle on.

my headphones fold up and fit nicely in the small side pocket of my work bag. they are these and i love them:
http://headphonedeals.com/joomla/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Sennheiser_PX100_4945d39e0f0d8.jpg
also the only commuting headphones i've ever had that have lasted longer than a year.

i've had about six pairs of those and they've never lasted longer than six months due to my tendency to be a bit yankee with them which sooner or later causes the wire to come apart at the jack.

very comfortable and sound great for the price tho.

Yeh, I don't want anything on my ears. My ears get really hot. Like Laurel said, life is hard.

I have that same model, n/a (Sennheiser PX-100, for those interested). They do work well, though I only use them while sitting at my desk, so any running issues I don't know about. Also have minimal hair, so hairdo's not a problem either. Can't believe I stuck with those iPod earbuds for so long.

When I press the iPod earbuds into my ears, I really like the sound, and I wish they would stay in.

I've got a pair of Logitech UE earbuds with the clicker thing on the cord. They were in the $30 range (I think there are different price points) and are comfortable and work well. They have changeable silicone ear bits. Got them at the Apple store.

I had Apple brand ear buds (not the stock ones, an upgrade) but the silicone ear bit would fall off all the time. They were also pricey but worked for a long time, even after I washed and dried them. :|

$39.99 at Logitech's website.

changeable silicone ear bits

I lose these all the time. :[

Shockingly, these have stayed put. I haven't lost one yet and it's been some months.

Sennheiser PX100 ftw!!! Love them. I have a bit of trouble with the cord geyting caught on doorhandles in the kitchen leading wire exposed at jack etc but the sound is so delish for the price, I can't quit them

The three Nicks (and Ms Snakehole) - they look like people around you would hear your music about as loud as you do! I can't commute in headphones/earbuds that I know are bugging others - perhaps that's an IA in itself.

It's prob called "consideration for others" tbh and yeah, they don't contain the music very well. There is a closed-back version but they don't, I'm told, don't deliver the same quality of bass due to the lack of airflow. That might well be bollocks though.

I was given these as a present when I left my last job:
http://www.greedmontpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/marshall-headphones.jpg

I like the sound but they hurt my head and I can't imagine they're worth the money.

i was stood at a crossing this morning waiting for 4 cars to pass. three did but the fourth stopped and flashed his lights and waved me across. why? i was quite happy to wait the 5 seconds it'd take for him to pass. nothing was blocking him, he had right of way.

he was being nice

not really. he basically forced me to cross the road in front of a moving car.