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

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.

3. Blue is pretty

Those are damn good points. I feel even more comfortable about the irrationality of my anger now.

lololol point geddit

I prfer writing in blue too. Hmmm... poll?

People who watch Man Vs Food

i hate blue ink and it makes me IA but i work in the lowest possible court and do my own filing so if i accidentally filed a photocopy no one would give a shit

When people send me documents as word attachments instead of DMS links.

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

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Love Mamet's early work.

(applause) Nicely done!

Why Microsoft created a Windows Explorer and an Internet Explorer is beyond me, except it makes life hellish when I'm trying to assist someone getting on our FTP site.

Fucking standing ovations. Remember when these were actually a sort of rare event, before every Tom, Dick and Harry earned one for just breathing?

^this. And if you don't stand with everyone else, you sometimes get dirty looks.

(also xxp thanks!)

that has happened at every free orchestral concert i've been to — probably because the people seeing it don't usually go to concerts and think it's what they're supposed to do

And if you don't stand with everyone else, you sometimes get dirty looks.

Oh yes, this. I was at some minor local orchestra thing with my wife and the audience was standing after every single piece. The first two times I stayed in my seat, along with a fairly loud "oh come on" during the second one. The lady sitting next to me glared at me through the rest of the evening, then told me at the end that I was disrespectful for not "properly applauding the performers who've worked so hard".

I hate hate hate it when you make a benign comment in a social context and somebody responds really weirdly or unconventionally or dismissively and you're left with the lingering doubt and shame of having made a faux pas even though all evidence points to the fact that you did nothing wrong.

As in saying over lunch to coworkers "I really love blueberries," and being met with "Yeah, whatever."

he was probably violently allergic to blueberries

Or was Violet Beauregard.

The lady sitting next to me glared at me through the rest of the evening, then told me at the end that I was disrespectful for not "properly applauding the performers who've worked so hard".

That's insane. Not standing up ≠ booing, ffs.

Yeah, that was the funny thing because I was enthusiastically clapping, but no way in hell was I going to stand up.

Should've stood up the next time with a golf clap and not sat down until a full 60 seconds had passed after everyone else had sat back down.

Speaking as a performer, jon is v otm. Ovations are supposed to be reserved for an amazing performance, yet it has gotten to the point where peer pressure is responsible for people standing after EVERY show, even if it was just passable.

It's so pathetic now that our local theatre critic quipped that a Standing O at an Orlando show was no longer an accurate measure of audience enthusiasm. I can usually tell the diff:

-Audience claps politely, one or two people stand (probably related to people in the show), rest of audience follows=peer pressure induced

Entire audience stands collectively immediately upon conclusion=real enthusiasm.

I rarely stand, even at friends' shows cuz I don't like blowing smoke. Feels too much like telling the Elephant Man he's sexy

I hate hate hate it when you make a benign comment in a social context and somebody responds really weirdly or unconventionally or dismissively and you're left with the lingering doubt and shame of having made a faux pas even though all evidence points to the fact that you did nothing wrong.

A former co-worker did something like this. E.g., I said something about Modest Mouse and she asked me if they had a song she might know. I said, you might know "Float On," which goes "I ran my car into a cop car the other day --" and she said, "Oh, never mind, I wouldn't like them. I hate cops."

Wow! That's an all-time dismissal. Of all the things I've heard hurled at Modest Mouse fans..

yeah, they're that band that plays out of tune while the singer barks like a seal; they're great

Quiet, you.

yeah, they're that band that plays out of tune while the singer barks like a seal; they're great

I quite like Modest Mouse but that's not wrong.

Because only people that like cops would want to hear a song with a line about backing into a cop car.

I've also heard Isaac Brock compared to Bobcat Goldthwaite, which actually is not that far away from being true. Ah well. I love them! Can't help myself.

I think of them as the Bobcat Goldthwaite band, with that singer who started cutting himself on stage when some friends went to see them!

Man! I've seen them 6-7 times and never got that kind of a show. Too bad!

I got kicked out of a MM show once bc the bouncer thought we were nodding off when really we were just too drunk to stand up straight.

Also when Jeff and I started dating we both had the same MM shirt in different colors.

I should say, so drunk that we kept completely falling down when otherwise standing still. Not being able to stand up straight is nbd.

Funniest description of MM singing I've heard is that he sounds like he is gargling vomit.

Hilarious!

everything is making me irrationally angry

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6763004761_0a60eb1279_b.jpg

poor kitty

that kitty makes me want lemon meringue pie

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

― pplains, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the rugrat uses a keyboard to operate the tv iirc.

people responding with just "ok."

today i heard "me and bobby mcgee" three times in the 15 minutes i was in the coffee shop near my school before i finally asked them to change the music. e.g. me: "could you please change the music? i've heard this song three times already since i've been in here." him: "ok."

fwiw they did change it — to radiohead