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

(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

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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.

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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

im not sure what you were expecting out of that exchange that wasnt allowed

IA for today: I would like to stab with knives coworkers who only deal with the way things 'should' be, and refuse to absorb and work with the way things ARE, and insist on holding onto some imaginary unicorn version of the world that does not exist that prevents you from even remotely beginning to tackle the reality they are presented with.
In particular, my boss.
THAT REPORT HAS NEVER REPORTED THE THINGS YOU THINK IT SHOULD REPORT! Every time I tell him it doesn't work that way he acts surprised and says "Really? But I thought it did!" And then sends another of my coworkers on the same wild goose chase he sent me on 6 months ago, to get the same result and waste ALL of our time, instead of problem-solving what is actually THERE in front of him.
Stab. With. Knives.

ugh.

You should just break the report so that it doesn't work at all

that's a good idea

sunny: what?

I get that all the time. "Well it should work - you need to go back and check that", "Why's it doing that? It shouldn't do that."

With the consequence nothing gets fixed because they end up looking in places unconnected with the problem rather than the source of it purely because the source of it shouldn't be the problem. Pass the knives.

A sort of adjunct of this is pathologically cautious risk assessment where they just start asking me to include unchanging objects or irrelevant objects. "It's not a risk - that's just a thing" "Include it anyway". Or using what I increasingly see as the "nuclear bomb scenario" to undermine any risk mitigation. "What if everything goes wrong?" "What specifically do you mean?" "You need to have something in here in case everything goes wrong" "Then we're fucked. I go to the pub/do a dance/whatever."

With the result that nothing changes ever. do the fucking risk assessment of having daily perpetual errors and problems with shit software and hardware.

Otoh this isn't irrational - they are utter imbeciles.

You just described my work environment perfectly. *cries*

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

"Oh, I'm sorry if the shrapnel in my leg makes it uncomfortable for me to stand. Thanks for nothing, LADY." That'll shut her up.

When someone asks for podcast recommendations and all a person can recommend is NPR ones.

A guy on my bus just turned around called to a person across the aisle and two rows back to turn down his music bc it is sort of audibly leaking from his ear buds. Is that weird? It was only about as loud as paper rustling or the sound of typing on a computer. He's not obviously a weirdo or anything.

Not IA but this seemed like the place to ask.

SWEATING. I AM SO TIRED OF SWEATING. WHERE IS WINTER??

It's over here, come and get it whenevs.

When people walk their dogs along busy streets without a leash.

This for all the logical, obvious reasons that should be clear to any thinking person, but also bc personally a former neighbor with a fantastic Aus Shep named Duke who the neighbor swore did not need to walk on a leash and, yup, Duke got hit by a car, right in front of our house, and I heard the impact from my apt and it sucked.

As the frequent walker of a tiny dog that looks like a rodent or a snack to very large dogs and is sometimes an asshole to other tiny dogs, I hate those people. "Oh but my dog is nice, it's fine". Fuck you.

Maybe I'm getting really old here but I have found myself getting IA at girls older than say 10 years old wearing winter hats that look like stuffed animals. This seems to be a really big thing amongst a certain segment of the undergrad population that surrounds me.

Similarly there is a girl here at work who added this Animal Ears extension to her headset and she looks completely ridiculous. And sticks out like a sore thumb (since y'know nobody else has em). The novelty got old fast...

xp Hahaha YES. To both of those things, but I'm laughing only at the second. I saw an honest to god old lady wearing an animal hat a couple of days ago and that was absurd enough to be great. But if you're older than 16 or younger that 70, no.

Although standing on the platform and catching site of one in a speeding train makes it look like there are raccoons riding public transpo and that is a nice benefit.

i will say that these hats are pretty damn awesome:

http://billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com/store/osc/images/IMG_4777.jpg