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

They look stupid as fuck, but I find them tempting b/c I really, really like the functionality of slip-on shoes.

Coffee shops with no goddamn parking.

Not innocuous but has now happened THREE TIMES recently: cafes/restaurants that are planning unusual opening hours for Christmas etc BUT DON'T PUT THEM ON THEIR WEBSITE. I checked a few places' opening hours online before heading out, knowing the hours could be screwy at the moment, and still they are closed with no mention on the website!

People who bring room temperature white wine to a dinner/wine tasting, and open it (or expect it to be opened) without any chilling. Or hosts who serve the wine thusly. (disgusting savages!)

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

yah that infuriates me.

relatedly, that my dab's lowest volume setting before "mute" is not actually that low.

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

People leaving the bath taps set to "shower" so when you turn the water on, you get soaked and so does the floor.

People moving things from where you (I) left them.

Insanely innocuous but annoying as hell:

1. Product instructions that congratulate you 'Congratulations on your purchase of the Eureka Lightspeed 300!' WTF? would Thank you for your purchase be a little more appropriate?

2. The two vertical strings on window blinds that pull the whole blind up and down. except they dont. i understand their use as they thread vertically 1/3 in from each side of the blind itself but why not merge those strings in the mechanics at the top? all that adjusting to get the blind perfectly level or are some people really like 'Hmm i think ill just raise the left side of the blind today.' INSANITY!

schools with really dysfunctional, non-informative, non-integrative websites, especially when the registration interface doesn't work with chrome.

oh sweet lord. PP and I just changed health insurance this month and I just now open the letter with my card. it says:
Dear Member,
CONGRATULATIONS!
You now enjoy a {insert company name}

What does that even mean

health insurance. grrr. i need to find a new plan, one that will accept me without costing me $415 a month + deductible.

The Boomkat BOOOOOOOOOP

The two vertical strings on window blinds that pull the whole blind up and down. except they dont. i understand their use as they thread vertically 1/3 in from each side of the blind itself but why not merge those strings in the mechanics at the top? all that adjusting to get the blind perfectly level or are some people really like 'Hmm i think ill just raise the left side of the blind today.' INSANITY!

this is now driving me crazy.

as it should!

ahem:

"Just say Yes or No"

- the use of the word banter

When men go out of their way to let women go first (going through a door, getting on the bus) in a way that holds up everyone else in line. Especially since the delay is the result of the woman either not noticing the "chivalrous" act or not being interested in it.

Recent example, the bus doors opened and the dummy closest to the curb (who should have been first to board) saw a woman a few feet away and motioned for her to go ahead of him. She said no thanks - BECAUSE SHE WAS BEHIND 4 OTHER PEOPLE - but he insisted, so she had to walk fast to get to the front.

In the meantime I passed the dummy and was in my seat by the time the woman had swiped her fare card.

This guy wasn't a showboat about his chivalry, but there are some guys who are. Also disgusting savages are the guys who usher ALL the women onto the bus before any man may pass. There is one tool at my home bus stop who does that. >:[

All pedestrians besides me, in the world.

So IA yesterday.

i've been noticing the "people who stand on the left side of the escalator" thing more and more, since that complaint has become a fixture of the ia thread. it never used to bother me; now i hate it!

this is pretty innocuous, but people who say they're "weary" of something when they mean "wary."

if you wary of womething, you often weary of it too, no? but not other way around.

it's pretty hard to tell the difference if people are saying these words out loud

Hey, Laurel. When's your birthday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJwb_wEaW2M

Looove that video, but I was mostly IA with people in oncoming lanes!!! WALKING ON THEIR LEFT into oncoming pedestrian traffic.

I've seen that video before, but my husband taught me a trick (we're Canadian so please understand this is about the rudest we can ever be) which is that I snap my fingers as I am coming up behind people - as I pass I keep snapping so that I just look affected, not rude, but it definitely gets people moving. Heh.

http://gallery.techarena.in/data/519/Windows-Update.png

OTM

Ugh yes. AT LEAST on Windows 7 you can postpone for more than 15 minutes, which is the only choice on XP.

The other thing you can do (on XP as well I think) is just drag that window right down off the corner of the screen past the time, don't click on anything and it'll be off your screen but won't bother you again.

The system has detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you.

THIS is my current Windows 7 peeve. Every time I try to navigate to my NAS drive I get this. It pops up a user/password prompt with that message, but the really source of my IA is that it doesn't matter what password you type. In fact you don't even have to type a password. I just type my username and hit enter. So WTF is the point of it?

slightly offtopic but it still makes me IA - is anyone else having problems with Youtube videos in that the little circle of dots remains on screen even though the video is playing, and sometimes the play button doesn't change to a pause button once it's playing so you can't pause it? This seemed to happen when Youtube got its makeover a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I get that too. Sometimes I'll let it buffer the whole thing and it still shows when playing it. Perfectly fine for the IA thread.

And while we're at it, I get IA at sites that won't continue to stream a video after you pause, thereby preventing you from buffering it enough to avoid freezes. I think some television network sites do this.

You know what's odd - in the lobby at Dr. K's building the doorman is also an elevator attendant. He calls the elevators and manages their use by holding them for stragglers. It's very old fashioned, and bc the building is so fancy

And while we're at it, I get IA at sites that won't continue to stream a video after you pause, thereby preventing you from buffering it enough to avoid freezes. I think some television network sites do this.

Yes, this.

You post that like people know who dr k is. The official dr of ilx.

Just ChILX.

it's been a while since I've been IA, so I have a random assortment

- I work in sales so this happens almost daily: male salespeople standing around in a group pretending to 'talk' but who are actually having a competition to see who can laugh loudest and thus attract more salespeople to said 'conversation'. I really hate these fucking blowhards.

- my right thumb is injured, and I fucking HATE not being able to use my right hand properly. TMI here but ugggggghhh wiping your bum with your opposite hand is awkward as hell. And going to pick things up and then remembering oh yeah can't grab with this hand and everyhting takes SO long to do. boo.

- a repeat of an old favorite IA: overly chatty coffeeshop people. you're not selling me a car, you don't work on commission. please can I just have my coffee?

- designers using Russian script / backwards Russian script mixed with Roman, irrespective of what the letters mean. Unless your film is really called "The Ddyakest Hotsr", stop it.

- people leaving fridge doors open. This isn't irrational, per se, as it is a waste of energy and makes the food go bad quicker, but i get annoyed when people do it in TV shows and films too. At the end of Candyman where he appears over Virginia Madsen's shoulder, most of the cinema would have been shouting 'look behind you', i'd have been shouting 'shut the bloody fridge door, you're letting all the cold air out'.

I feel yr pain...

106. Fake 'Russian' text that is just English with backwards 'R's.

― ledge, Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:43 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

... and yeah i noticed the 'darkest hour' one last week, muttered under my breath about it :)

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WTF, how the fuck did I post this? That was supposed to go in the Chicago thread, but it failed to post there.

You know what's odd - in the lobby at Dr. K's building the doorman is also an elevator attendant. He calls the elevators and manages their use by holding them for stragglers. It's very old fashioned, and bc the building is so fancy

And it must have been stuck in the Zing input box.

At the end of Candyman where he appears over Virginia Madsen's shoulder, most of the cinema would have been shouting 'look behind you', i'd have been shouting 'shut the bloody fridge door, you're letting all the cold air out'.

lol

I thought it made me IA to get home from work and find that the fridge door had been open ALL. DAY. LONG. but at my last apartment the fridge did this a lot, so I had a chance to examine the feeling, and it's more like a sense of hopeless frustration at the huge irretrievable energy loss and warm food and drinks.

"press any key to continue"

just fucking continue - asking me to press a key to do so serves no purpose

Beetroot. In general. It's a fucking weed. It tastes like sugary mud. It's heinously ugly to look at whether pickled or fresh out the ground. And worst of all, my other half has a tendency to leave half-closed jars of the stuff teetering on the edge of the fridge shelf so that when I reach in for milk in the morning as I'm dashing to go to work, said jar spills indelible potassium-hued liquid all over the fridge, the floor and me.

Fuck beetroot. I wish it would fuck off.

Beetroot is my no.1 on my food list!

People who get up from their own table at a café/pub/restaurant to take a phone call (this bit is fine, take it outside, good idea) and then have it right next to someone else's table, e.g. right behind my head while I'm sitting at the only other full table in the pub trying to have a conversation