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

- 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

- Cashiers who start scanning groceries and then scan my store discount card.

- Baggers who use up the whole cart – the child seat, specifically – when I'm standing there with a rascally two-year-old.

- And I have no idea why they never bag the cat food.

- the difficulties I have making and receiving phone calls on my cell phone in my own apartment.

watching football, team scores a touchdown, commercial break. scoring team kicks off, kickoff is knelt in the endzone, commercial break.

pplains I hear you on the catfood. it makes me IA when they don't bag my milk, even when I give them extra shopping bags. So dumb.

For some reason the checkout people at our local supermarket arbitrarily don't bag toilet paper, cat litter and juice

I love it when they bag frozen food and kleenex boxes in the same bag.

Instagram photos can fuck off.

Instagram photos can fuck off.
OTM

What's wrong with them???

photography equivalent of pre-ripped jeans

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.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:25 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like this! I don't think I could look cool and canadian about it, though.

free health care gives us a spring in our step that the snapping complements nicely!

guys it broke my heart the first time I went to Chicago and I got 'uh-huuh' as a response to thank you. FYI.

I guess it was more of a 'mmm-hmmm.' And not meant rudely. But still!

"Have a good one!" is starting to get on my nerves. Is "Have a nice day" really so difficult to say? I am nearly always thisclose to saying "HAVE A GOOD *WHAT*?"

xp: I have to fight myself to avoid replying "uh-huh" instead of "you're welcome".

Or "yep".

I picked it up too! I was in America for all of THREE DAYS, five years ago :( But I try to spin it in my head like it's an 'of course!' 'of course I helped you- you're awesome!' #positivity

Well, that's what it means, but it doesn't sound as friendly.

I try and make myself.. lift the inflection of my voice at the end so it's a little sing-songy? I could stab a person in a friendly way if I put my mind to it!

"Have a good one!" is starting to get on my nerves. Is "Have a nice day" really so difficult to say? I am nearly always thisclose to saying "HAVE A GOOD *WHAT*?"

i cannot confirm but i think it just means 'have a good day'. earthlings are strange, aren't they?

But what if they're talking about something different? What if they mean "Have a good poo"?

As long as they have your best interests at shart.

I say "Have a good one" b/c it sounds friendlier than "Have a good day." I say "Take care" quite a bit, too.

For some reason I keep saying "Be well"? I like it. There are lots of ways to be well: mentally, spiritually, physically...it feels like it encompasses more than other er...salutations. It feels like almost a benediction.

There's a security guard outside my kids' daycare who hands out the high-fives.

We used to say "Have a good 'un!" to each other, but after his wife died last year, I amended it to "Take care of yourself, Phil!"

It was the least I could do.

Oh I feel bad, Laurel: my friend's neighbor used to say "Be well" all the time and I would always giggle after she left. It just seemed kinda "hippy"? idk.

I'm sure it seems less-so coming from you? (pathetic attempt at saving face)

something I do that probably makes others IA - when I'm buying something, the cashier usually says something like "have a good day" to which I respond "thanks, you too". Lately they've been saying things like, "stop by again" or at a restaurant "enjoy your meal" to which I also respond "thanks, you too", even though it makes no sense in that context

oh I do that too!

Laurel, I like "Be well," but I just can't bring myself to use it! It's the spiritual connotation that keeps me from saying it. And TBH when someone says it to me or signs off an email with it, it feels a little too personal.

xp - yes, Veg, the hippiness of it would sound weird coming from me!

And the two people I first heard/read say it regularly were both somewhat condescending psychotherapist friends, which is maybe why it makes me itchy now.

frogbs, when I was waiting tables I would often say "Enjoy" or if I knew the diners were going to a play, "Good night. Enjoy Wicked," and half the time they would say "You too," which was funny. Sometimes they would catch themselves and make a joke about it.

I broke myself of "Can I get" and now say "May I have."

Saying "uh-huh" or "yup" instead of "you're welcome" is next.

I'll probably hang on to "Have a good one," though.

It's okay! I don't say "be well" to everyone because, yeah, it's kind of personal. But to people I already like, I do.

the problem is there just aren't very many good responses. "Good night! Enjoy Wicked!" "Yes! I will!"

Thank you! Good night!

the one that always bothered me on a subconscious level was "drive safe" when it's not raining or snowing and its coming from someone who isn't your Mom. because the implication is "please don't get into a horrible wreck" which is understandable but also kinda suggests "wait, am I an unsafe driver? Could I die on my journey?" I mean, all they're trying to do is be nice!

I find it strange when, instead of "Get well soon" people say "Feel better" - it doesn't sound right and I've only noticed people saying this in the last two years or so.

Yes. "Thank you, here is $20" is also appropriate.

xp - YES! It doesn't piss me off, but it's weird. I remember when I was 18 I was leaving work and a co-worker said "Good night, be safe," and I asked her what she was talking about b/c I was driving 2 miles through the country in perfect weather. She said that it's just nice to wish people a safe trip.

Cars are horrible missiles from hell piloted by people who you wouldn't want flipping your burger! I'll take all the blessings I can get if I'm getting in a car.