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

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

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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.

The word "buddy."

People who use the word "buddy."

People who say anything remotely uncomplimentary about northern soul.

Someone previously complained about umbrellas bc they're pointy. They're a necessary sorta dangerous object.

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.

The other thing is, I usually answer emails within a few minutes.

Xps

Medium-base light bulbs for ceiling fan light fixtures. Why the hell do these bulbs last 1/10th the time of other bulbs?

^^^ infuriating

slightly uncomfortable socks

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- Having to track my time at work.

- Being a lazy fuck and not tracking it as I go so now I have to go back two weeks and try to remember what I did and piece it all together and feel like a lying liar making shit up b/c who knows what I did two weeks ago.

i would be surprised if it hasn't already shown up here but: people on the train who sit on the aisle seat when there's an empty window seat. if you're afraid a stranger will sit next to you maybe you should never leave your house ever.

xp hahaha, my old job used to make me break things down to 15 minute increments. But I would be doing 3-4 things at once, so I used to make it all up at the end of a day (on a good day) or the pay period (on a bad two weeks.) Stupid.

Yeh, a lot of my entries are based on my going "Hmm, draft a subpoena, a letter, and order a check from the bookkeeper - that sounds like about .30 hour." Because so often a task is interrupted by stuff like a phone call, running out of toner, and killing a fly.

That's it exactly! Also a lot of what I used to do was similar but for different clients, so I'd do the typing/data entry for all at once, then print, sort file, etc.. It'd take me 1.5 hours and then I'd just assign a random half hour to each. And post on ILX with the time I'd saved. ;)

Confession! Sometimes I sit on the aisle but only when the train is way empty and showing no signs of being full. Sitting next to people on trains is part of urban life so whatever but if I can give myself the gift of not having to hunch myself into a ball or press my leg against a stranger, I will.

i'll allow it!

Sitting next to strangers is fine, but for some reason a lot of people seem to think that their "reward" for being stuck with the aisle seat means they can toss spread their knees as far apart as possible and toss elbows around like they're in a roller derby, forcing the earlier passenger to scrunch up against the window like a frightened child.

The thing about sitting on the aisle seat : It can be justified (when you are going to be getting out in a couple stops, for example) and it can be done without being a douche, but you have to be conscious of your surroundings and be ready to offer others inside seat.

I hate wide open legs jerks.