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

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

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

I saw a really bro-y meathead guy wearing one at an airport and lolled on the spot

Barky little dogs that don't know their place, for the millionth time. Last night I passed a lady walking a very small dog (chihuahua probs?) that clearly wanted to eat my face off, what with the snarling and practically choking itself to get to me as I walked by. I think the owner was on the phone and did nothing about it.

or this one

http://billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com/store/osc/images/IMG_4778.jpg

Never seen anyone wearing either of those hats. Hope to maintain this spotless record.

I will rep for animal hats. My little sister wears them and she's adorable.

my friend knitted me a hat with devil horns on the top and little strings that I can tie under my chin with whatever you call the pointy bits at the end of the devil's tail or a pitchfork? ;_; but tbh I rarely wear it out because it does make me feel a bit too old for stuff like that.

I got my girlfriend a woolly hat that looks liek a cheezburger. She doesn't wear it very much though :-(

ahhh, memories

http://i.imgur.com/mHWGB.jpg

frogbears

I can get with the hyper realism hats here to some degree, I'm just hating the cartoony ones.

I blame this for some reason on Pokemon, which along with energy drinks are the biggest "I am old and will never understand" generation gap markers for me.

I like the animal hats trend. Wouldn't suit my personality *at all*, mind.

I've seen guys on the CTA wearing cutesie animal hats or pixie-ish knit caps with really long tops, which bugs me way more than young women wearing them (I'm willing to consider that I might be the victim of outdated gender norms) but this I saw a really bro-y meathead guy wearing one at an airport and lolled on the spot seems like it might be kind of cute? Like he's a gentle giant with a heart of butter. (shutupjenny)

yeah I don't see what's really wrong with it. I mean this is a culture where grown men buy Cookie Monster T-shirts and wear them at parties. the animal stuff is cute. also, kind of sexy. but, not really.

I prefer full on furry attire. Don't half ass it.

http://in10words.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/furry2.jpg

L-R frogbs, Jeff

When that finally loaded on my phone I was drinking water and it is the closest I have ever come to an actual spit take.

hahaha omg

I can't possibly the be only person who wants to know the background on that Frogs hat, can I??

I mean on the picture of him and some other guy with the hats and the matching shirts.

http://www.anatomorphex.com/images/news/08cTropicThunder.jpg

hahhaha

Wow, I totally forgot about that movie.