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

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

the street that runs parallel to the railroad tracks with no intersecting through streets for you to get to the other road that runs parallel to the tracks, on the other side.

being constipated when you wanna order pizza

the street that runs parallel to the railroad tracks with no intersecting through streets for you to get to the other road that runs parallel to the tracks, on the other side.

http://files.sharenator.com/scanners4_Mario_Motivational_Posters-s400x295-104066-535.gif

ooh get bent you just reminded me:

intersection with gas station on the corner, but there's a concrete divider in the middle of the main cross street from about a block back. If you try to head east up the street intending to turn left into the gas station you can't! And I always forget. And you have to go down a wonky street and turn a stupid u-turn and ugh it's so annoying.

create one street grid

This talk of calling people if they don't respond to emails quickly enough reminded me of a friend who basically ended a friendship with another friend over them not returning a call until lunchtime because they were at work. That was just... I dunno what that was.

OV Wright - Bottom Line RARE NORTHERN SOUL!
Johnny Taylor - Who's Makin Love RARE NORTHERN SOUL!
The Temprees - Love Maze RARE NORTHERN SOUL!
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly RARE NORTHERN SOUL!!
The Whatnuts - Message From a Black Man RARE NORTHERN SOUL!!
Nina Simone -Wild Is The Wind RARE NORTHERN SOUL!!!!
UGH!!!

Will anyone looking for northern soul actually buy Nina Simone and then be upset that it's Nina Simone and not third rate motown?

That's the thing though isn't it, anyone looking to buy rare Northern Soul records is going to know what they're looking for. It's just complete idiocy.

It's really gotten out of hand, how did it become ok to do that?

People with FUCKING umbrellas.

People FUCKING with umbrellas.

FUCKING can go anywhere here imo.

This talk of calling people if they don't respond to emails quickly enough reminded me of a friend who basically ended a friendship with another friend over them not returning a call until lunchtime because they were at work. That was just... I dunno what that was.

― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:03 AM Bookmark

Man, fuck that. If a friend or family member even gets antsy that I'm slow to reply when I'm at work, I get cranky and yell at them I'M AT WORK. it's just as bad as when someone calls you, and when you don't answer, instead of leaving a voicemail, calls again, because HOW DARE YOU NTO ANSWER THE PHONE

TBF to me and the other person who does this to Jesse, he has (metaphorically) ended up in ditches after rough nights in the past.

well it's one thing if it's an emergency, which is usually what I assume when someone does this, and then I subsequently answer. but when I get mad is when I finally answer the second time and it's someone going "DUDE DID YOU SEE MY EMAIL? TWO FOR ONE TICKETS TO THE AARDVARK MUSEUM, WE GOTTA JUMP ON THIS".

and with me, it's usually the latter more than the former. with my brother, it's typically an emergency if he does that.

there's an aardvark museum?

TWO FOR ONE, ASK FOR BIG DAN!

http://s1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee438/bigdan17/THE%20AARDVARK%20MUSEUM/

Wait, I'm still trying to understand whats wrong with umbrellas.

in my way, poke me in the eye, smack me in the face, annoy the shit out of me etc etc

(but they are excellent for secondhand lols on a windy day)

Massively increases the width of your head. With spikes. Usually induces total oblivion of this fact.

Well I think the problem is more with oblivious idiots in general, umbrellas when handled properly are okay.