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

(Also I would say G and LG would be even more confusing if labelled as 1 and 2 - at least with 'lower ground' you are given an indication that the building is of a funny layout.)

at least with 'lower ground' you are given an indication that the building is of a funny layout.

Do you need to know that, though? imo floors should be labelled relatively to one another, not the world around the building; and if you want to leave you will follow exit signs.

basement is the second floor, sub-basement is the first floor, ground floor is ground floor, second floor is third floor lol

Re my saying "British:

1. I didn't really know if AU or NZ or anywhere numbered floors the way they do in Britain, so I just said British

2. AU, NZ, and even Canada still smell of Britain to me, so when my thumbs get tired, I don't bother listing all the English-speaking places that feel sorta British, and for that I'm sorry.

Really Je55e, it's cool, it's a raw nerve of mine (and this being the ia thread I thought it fitting to overreact)

I feel badly for getting IA about this, and I know it makes me a bad person, but being involved in or overhearing a conversation with an elderly person that goes:

ELDERLY PERSON: [Asks a question]
OTHER PERSON: [Starts to respond]
ELDERLY PERSON: [Before other person has gotten three words out] "HUH?"

repeat ad nauseam

oh god yes, my mother-in-law does almost exactly that, you sigh quietly to yourself and she's all 'PARDON??'

and yeah, one can never finish a sentence

working in a library, i would say i get IA about old people who aren't comfortable with computers but refuse to admit that they aren't comfortable with computers and instead try to muddle their way through and get confused and accidentally don't save any of their work after three hours of research. i guess they don't necessarily have to be old but they tend to be.

my grandfather is genuinely hard of hearing now, but really in the past he just wouldn't pay attention to what you were saying since he's kind of wrapped up in his own world

--when both my roommates are home, UPS guy comes with a package for me, neither answers the door, so now I get to wait til tomorrow

ELDERLY PERSON: [Asks a question]
OTHER PERSON: [Starts to respond]
ELDERLY PERSON: [Before other person has gotten three words out] "HUH?"

Not limited to old people! I thought I had posted about this stupid phenomenon here w/r/t dummies of all ages on the telephone who do that. Similarly, say someone is giving me an address over the phone:

Them: 1500 [pause.....]
Me thinking I should repeat: Fifteen hu--
Them interrupting: North Lincoln [paaaaaaaaaaaaause.....]
Me: Oka--
Them interrupting: Avenue

Also those people who insist on repeating EVERYTHING you say AS YOU'RE SAYING IT e.g.

Me: I am...
Them: You, yes...
Me: I am holding...
Them: Oh yes, holding, yes I see
Me: ...a banana...
Them: Oh a banana, yes, okay
Me: ...in my...
Them: Oh yes, a banana, yes, you are holding it, yes...
Me: ...in my...
Them: In your hand, yes, in your hand yes

Yep!

ground floor is like the prep of a building, and 1st floor is 1st grade

i think that makes the basement kindergarten

are you saying early learning centres are full of shit or

parking area iirc

My MOTH is totally computer paranoid but does the weirdest things. Her phone wasn't working & it turned out she'd wiped all the settings. After a lot of back and forth it turned out that she couldn't type numbers in a text message so she went into settings and changed EVERY setting she could find to see if that would help. From a lady who gets a panic attack writing an email. That's like going into nuclear meltdown & hitting every button on the console! Hilarious and kind of cute but also wtf

Re interrupters: I am reading a deposition transcript in which every time the attorney asks the witness to look at an exhibit, she says "uh-huh" or "Okay" so that it reads like

Q. Please take a look at
A. Uh-huh
Q. -- the email marked Exhibit 4

She does over and over and it's pretty annoying.

oh old people and computers. My dad complained because his PC was virtually at a standstill. I opened a browser and he had installed so many mystery toolbars that the actual browser window only took up about 40% of the screen. Then when I tried fixing it he stood over me and constantly threw random ideas at me with such intensity that I actually couldn't fix his computer.

xp oh god

knock knock
whos there
interrupting cow
interrupti---MOO!

Details changed, but:

Q. And then if you go to the next
page, Bates numbered 120, have you --
A. Yep.
Q. -- seen this document
before?
A. I'm sorry.
Q. Do you recall seeing this?
A. Sure.

haha oh god

And it's funny b/c at the beginning of every single deposition, the witness is instructed not to say uh-huh, yep, mm-hmm. This lady doesn't respect The Law.

yep.
uh-huh.
definitely.
huh?

Sorry, "MOTH" is that an abbreviation for mother-in-law or something?

Q. Ma'am would it be OK if --
A. Yeh.
Q. -- I punched your tits off? You already said yeh, so here we go.

xpost yes. or a very large scary moth.

lol jesse dying over here

You should start a thread on "funny shit I've seen in depositions."

yes please

the "uh huh" thing pisses me off so much more in person than on the phone, i guess because over the phone it is for memory retention purposes, whereas in person it seems like someone is pretending as hard as they can to pay attention to whatever you are saying.

Q. Ma'am would it be OK if --
A. Yeh.
Q. -- I punched your tits off? You already said yeh, so here we go.

this is great

Thought you might like that. My sense of humor is always a hit with Brits.

http://www.clevercaption.com/uploadedImages/emississippi/_angry-baby.jpg

On a similar note (x-post, nothing against angry babies), people who, when you ask them to repeat something a second time, say it in the exact same way as they did the first two times. I get that when you answer the same question many times every day, you end up running the words together, but when I've asked what you said more than once, ffs put some kind of minimal break between each word, and/or enunciate better, I'm obviously not getting what you're saying.

add to that those people who say it quietly the first time, exactly as quietly the second time, then SCREAM it the third time like it's your fault they've been whispering

^^^^ yes, this, though I've admittedly done it now and then.

What I hate is when you start to talk quiet because you're obviously trying to keep something on the d/l, and then the other person REPEATS IT LOUDLY as a question?

i.e.

me: (quiet) let's try to keep it quiet, the boss is kind of cranky today
other person: THE BOSS IS KIND OF CRANKY TODAY? WHY?

also

'don't look but famous person behind you'
'FAMOUS PERSON WHERE WHERE IS FAMOUS PERSON OMG FAMOUS PERSON'

i sometimes am talking to people on the phone at work and i feel like they take a while to register what i say, and then by the time they say something i've moved on to saying something else so they are constantly interrupting me or making me feel like i'm rudely talking over them, but i think these are just idiots using bluetooth headsets! it's so annoying!!!

Talking on the telephone finds ways to make me IA almost every day. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it.

Hey look. It's the door, the first door over and the second door over.

― pplains, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:53 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this feels like an SAT question and it makes me nervous

People who post self-aggrandizing crap on Facebook like:

--"I gotta be the one guy to come right out and say it -- <insert name> sucks"
--"I know I'll catch a heap of shit for this, but I don't like <insert name>"

Oh you brave person for taking an internet stand against a piece of media other people like, for being the ONE SOLITARY VOICE OF REASON (when usually they're one of many who have already criticized whatever it is).

also tired of people whining about FB Timeline simply cuz IT'S NOT THE OLD PROFILE SETTING and WE DIDN'T ASK FOR CHANGE, FACEBOOK.

Sunny and I also disagree on how many vowels there are and whether Scotland is an actual country.

^^^ topical (not the vowels)

Fucking new TVs that don't have an obvious "off" button. Or any obvious buttons.

Every night, I have to turn the light on and get down on a knee to see the little http://www.microsoft.com/global/windowsphone/en-us/PublishingImages/howto/wp7/inline/hardware-icon-power-button.png imprint on the side of the TV. And I have to remember that < and > are volume buttons and +and - are channel buttons (or is it the other way around?)

I could use the remote control, but God only knows which couch cushion the rugrat hid that under.

Trying to similtatiously field calls at work on both a cell phone, your desk phone and yet have conference call going via live meeting on your pc. Yeah I don't like that.

Having to use a pen that writes in a color other than black makes me IA

I flooded our office with blue pens b/c:

1. It's easier to tell original signatures from copies that way
2. We print PDFs reports from our other office w/ hand-written notes on them, and the blue ink makes clear which are our notes.

Mostly #1 b/c no one wants to argue w/ a crabby clerk who refuses to believe you aren't trying to scam the Illinois court system by passing off a photocopy as an original.