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

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.

(where i lived previously i'd get this at one certain roundabout. what they never realised is that i could see the car coming up fast behind them in the other lane of the dual carriageway, one that wasn't going to stop to let me cross)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_and_Gaston

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OBJECTION!

the pedestrian / vehicle thing is slightly different than just two people meeting. it's a road, cars have precedence. it's the law (the highway code anyway).

(yes, he was being polite, i realise that. doesn't mean it was right)

In Ohio, absent a lighted signal saying otherwise, cars MUST yield to pedestrians at crosswalks.

it's a road, cars have precedence. it's the law (the highway code anyway).

I took "i was stood at a crossing this morning" as meaning you were at a zebra crossing where you would have had right of way.

i was on a traffic island, not a zebra crossing.

I was at a stoplight and the car in front of me had a bumper sticker for Our Lady of Lourdes catholic school that was just the little oval with "0LL" on it and yes that's a zero not a capital O and the font made the L's way wider and it bugged the shit out of me.

The given name "Stavros".

oL0L

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.

I have my own office, so this isn't a problem (it would be if I was back in the cubes. I don't like the sealed ones because they're kind of isolating, and I'm afraid I'd look up at some point and see a wall of flames (didn't hear the alarm) or my boss fuming. Likewise for outdoors, afraid I wouldn't hear the car horn, etc.

I get too daydreamy & don't pay attention if I don't have ambient noise. I tend not to crank too loud anyway

I cannae stand earbuds, wont wear them. Hate things in my ears, I have the most massive IA freakout about things in ears. So I stick with phat cans on my head. I dont care if I look silly (I only wear em at work anyway, not while out walking - too dangerous. As evidenced by the lass who was hit by a train te other day cos she had headphones on and ignored a shut boomgate....)

and ignored a shut boomgate...

I wouldn't skip over this part quite so quickly.

"What could this protective barrier possibly be doing here, inexplicably next to this train track? Pshaw, it's probably nothing."

Maybe the headphones obscured her vision. Did you ever think of that, Laurel?

That's a good point, she might have been wearing them over her eyes.

Don't zing the deceased

Ha yeah obv she was an idiot for opening a shut gate (i mean wtf) but on top of that she did so cos one train had already gone past and was in the station, she stupidly thinks she's good to go. Ppl start shouting/screaming at her another trains coming from the other direction, she doesnt hear them, splart.

Its happened quite a lot here latetly, Either a lot of ppl are offing themselves via train, or there are a lot of Very Stupid Ppl around.

retail:

Being in a shop, not finding the thing you are looking for.

So you ask.

Good = "Um, no I don't think we stock that"

Bad=repeating the name of the item like it's a totally alien concept and/or imaginary.

Seriously, just say the first. Not reply, spacily, "Self... Raising... Flower?"

haha i was trying to buy a little battery-powered traveller's clock at waterloo station two weeks ago

the salespeople looked at me like i'd said "do you sell steam-powered ipods"

(obv my mobile is a perfectly good traveller's clock, but i was giving a workshop and suspected (correctly) that the room would have no wall-clock, so i would only know how much time i'd used and still had by looking at my mobile (ftb looks rude)) (i was projecting from a laptop and could use its clock, but it still entails a bit of old person's peering)

(i actually bought one from the waterloo boots just last year, same reason, but broke it DURING the workshop as i flailed my arms around making an important point about elegant writing)

That's kind of awesome (about breaking the clock).

i dont understand the dvr beef at all. how about stopping the recording and recording what you want??

- people who force open the lift doors in a building with 500 lifts and service seriously every 12 seconds

- trebly so when they have that "OH HAI I JUST HIJACKED YR LIFT" look on their faces

I have gotten to the point where I actually call people out if they do this and then go TO THE FIRST FLOOR. there are STAIRS next to the lifts.

Seriously, just say the first. Not reply, spacily, "Self... Raising... Flower?"

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and then they go to the shop manager and say "Benny, do we stock.. um... sorry sir what was it you said?"

Similar to the lift thing is people holding open the doors on tube trains: there is another train coming in 2 minutes, people!

Okay, don't call people out because they use the elevator instead of the stairs. You cannot determine just by looking at someone what his or her physical limitations are, and when you act as though you can, you're being a nosy, judgmental, presumptuous jerk.

Shops that say they're 'auditioning' for new staff, rather than 'hiring'.

I always repeat what it is the customer asks for just in case I have heard them incorrectly. nb I work at an airport so some of the accents I hear can be tricky to decipher especially if other customers are talking to me at the same time.

That's fine. I can tell the difference.

• gah the txt files and nfo files and sample videos and screencaps packaged with every torrent.. wtf i don't need all this crap.. even if i uncheck them, Transmission still downloads parts.. horrifying.

Okay, don't call people out because they use the elevator instead of the stairs. You cannot determine just by looking at someone what his or her physical limitations are, and when you act as though you can, you're being a nosy, judgmental, presumptuous jerk.

Yeh, I was gonna say, even though it is annoying to think that somebody held an elevator just to go up one floor when the stairs are available, you really never know if he or she has some impairment that prevents using the stairs. Unless that person stopped the door by doing some Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon moves to stop the door. Then you can feel pretty confident about schooling him or her.

I take the elevator one floor because stairs hurt sometimes.

Man, does it bug me when people drive the same make, model and color car as cop cars.

What does legitimately annoy me is that the dingball who works on the second floor pushes the elevator button and then takes the stairs. I assume he presses it hoping it will come in a second or two, and when it doesn't, he walks. But there is an indicator by the button that says where the car is!

xp haha yes

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