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

not innocuous but STUPID:

I am writing a fluff piece for a mag which entails getting recipes from local restaurants.

STUUUUUPID marketing chick from a wh0l3f00ds just sent me, i shit you not, a runon list of ingredients for soup. no measurements, no method.
They have fucked me around for two weeks to get this thing, and THAT is what you send? Every email from me has been, hey can I get the **recipe**?

what
the
fick

*fuck

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Reply to that marketing person and copy her boss and explain to her what a recipe is.

It is snowing pretty persistently outside, and the streets and sidewalks are in that awesome in-between state when not everybody has gone out to salt/shovel/plow yet so things in the downtown area are messy. On the two block walk back to the office from lunch:

1. A Fed Ex truck made a right turn while I had the crosswalk light, cutting me off and throwing dirty snow on me.
2. A woman proceeded into the intersection when she could not clear it, and the light turned, and we pedestrians crossed, and she sat in the middle of the intersection HONKING AND GESTICULATING FURIOUSLY at the pedestrians. I flipped her the bird because I'm a giant child.
3. A cab kept inching forward onto the crosswalk, despite having a red light, which didn't cause any harm but did make me really nervous, especially because the state of the streets mean you've got to do the slushy shufflewalk to avoid taking a fall.

And in conclusion PHONEBOOKS ARE THE WORST. We have bags of them on our front steps and now they are wet and disgusting because I didn't carry them in last night because I said to myself, "I'm not going to carry these heavy phone books into the house just to carry them back out to the trash again." Related: our neighbors nevereverevereverever pick up their phone books/junk mail circulars, but just kick them over to our side of the stairs.

This could probably be cross-indexed to the annoying coworker thread, but. This guy I work with is constantly starting and continuing conversations with "so, anyway...". Which is fine sometimes, but this guy uses it all the time. The irrational anger part came in today when he walked over to my desk this morning and goes, "So anyway, this proposal I was looking at...". I HAVE NOT HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HIM IN OVER A WEEK.

enough with the 'd-will'-type nicknames already

Understood, m-proof.

J-ff

Acceptable.

only acceptable if you are a dragonrider j'ff

Dr Pepper notably lacks the period

Which led my roommates and I to refer to it as "derr pepper". Especially when we'd ask each other if anyone wanted anything in the fridge

"oh, I'd take a derr pepper"

whoops wrong thread

derr

d'rr

only acceptable if you are a dragonrider

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I had plans for tonight that I've been excited about for a week, and I WOKE UP excited about, and now my partner in that plan has BAILED ON ME. People!

Unnnggggh!! I *hate* that soooo much.

Not sure if this was already said but I get unreasonably angry when people say they're getting a tax return when they mean refund. Happens a lot this time of year. I need therapy.

i caught myself saying that the other day -- i corrected myself immediately.

I just think of it as one of those ambiguous language issues that make no sense that will end up being recognized as multiple things in the future. Like waiting for the check (cheque?) at the end of a meal.

Or americans calling the main course the "entree", which completely confused me.

whaaaaaaaaat

Haha I should have known that'd push your crankybutton =)

Yeah, I have no idea how that one mutated

xp not cranky, just whaaaaaaaaat. Like when Brits say e.g. 'I'm having the mousse for pudding'. whaaaaaaaaat.

mmmm mousse pudding

btw I'm sure we do something equally unintuitive, just can't think of it atm

oh, we refer to any part of a car that's not the front seat as 'the back', which absolutely drives me crankypants.

We do? You mean like the front passenger seat? I dont call it "the back".

Nah, the back seat and the boot. It's all 'the back' to loads of people. They say 'put it in the back' and you put it in the back seat and they're all 'NO NO THE OTHER BACK'

or as we'd say, in the trunk

do australians have a phrase like "junk in the trunk?" I recommend "loot in the boot"

Yeah I say boot.

Actually sometimes I say "tunk"

In Xalapa, VC, Mexico, I was told it was a local thing to call yellow citrus fruit limas and green citrus fruit límons. Even the people who lived there knew it was fucked up.

Either that, or my leg was getting pulled waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy out there.

"yeah honestly, we do call those men in blue uniforms "cunts". I swear to you!"

hahah

"I haven't had a cunt all night, drinkstable"

Weird passive-aggressive busybodies.

I take an hour or two to reply to a friend's general email about plans for the following week & she leaves a voicemail "Just want to make sure
everything's okay?" YES I AM WORKING FFS.

Or I say my Tuesdays are full-up for a while (therapy sessions but I'm not telling her that) "Oh I was just worried when you said that, you're usually free Tuesdays, I hope it's nothing serious (**pryprypry***)"

And when I say she's a friend she's a coworker I see a movie with once a month...we're friendly but not *friends*...but ugh the busybody shit drives me crackers!

FUCKING PHONEBOOKS

at my old house i stacked all the phonebooks up on the front porch as i received them with a note sitting on top that said "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I NEED A NEW PHONEBOOK?!", by 6 months it was 10 deep, and yet they kept leaving new ones.

I take an hour or two to reply to a friend's general email about plans for the following week & she leaves a voicemail "Just want to make sure everything's okay?" YES I AM WORKING FFS.

Confession: I do this to Jesse all the time.

Yeah I say boot.

Actually sometimes I say "tunk"

― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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Jenny, you do what to me? I thought I did that to you?

Now I a hearing in my head that song that goes "Do what you do when you do what you did to me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63qp-ec5UE

?

C-noods and I both call you if you don't respond to our emails in a timely fashion because we're worried you're dead in a ditch somewhere.

I feel a strange kinship with you now, Je55e

Ha I guess that's true.

This is the do what you do when do do song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czrfh3ibOmM

ah rite

Those rough-cut books that you can't turn the pages on are bloody stupid and make books difficult and I hate them