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

She's actually saying "eff doubleyou eye doubleyou" or pronouncing "fwiw" as a word like Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein?

I don't care what you do re: elevators so long as you don't take it for only one floor when you appear to be physically able to take the stairs that happen to be right next to the elevator.

I thought this was America!

Maybe eff-dub-eye-dub (xp)

Don't we already have enough dubstep subgenres already?

the second "already" was for double the emphasis and/or ruining my joke

Just walked out of a luggage shop because the luggage proprietor kept chasing us around the luggage displays shoving luggage in our faces

i was crossing the street today at a marked intersection and some douchebag who was speeding actually honked at me like i was in his way. it was like "please stop doing this legal thing so i can continue to do my illegal thing."

you were walking and that was california

otm

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appalling

She's actually saying "eff doubleyou eye doubleyou" or pronouncing "fwiw" as a word like Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein?

The former!

tell her to stop

Well, I think the point is that it's absurd.

people who pluralize random words because they think they're fucking lolcats ("Oh NOES! Please to be sharpenings my pencil for this exam!")

Calling San Francisco "San Fran" or "Frisco"...it makes me super cringey

San Francisco takes too long to say, change your name city.

>:(

Speaking of San Francisco, about 15 years ago I started hearing people refer to my city, Little Rock, as THE ROCK.

Makes me think of either Alcatraz or that wrestler guy. Please. We don't need to replace two syllables with one just for saving breath and we certainly don't need to macho up the capital city of the 27th largest state in the union.

Some people in Toronto call it "T dot." This is an abbrevation of an abbrevation (T.O.) :(

ugh

We have a new building at work called "Beaver Creek" that I am going to refer to as "the beav"

ha i was just wondering why chicago is nicknamed "chi town" with the "chi" mispronounced as "shy," then i realized if it were pronounced correctly it would essentially code as "shit town"

There is a park here in Sac called Goethe Park. Locals call it "Gatey" Park. wtf

We in the office saw an AP story the other day that abbreviated "Texas" to "Tex." and everyone here got irrationally angry.

"This has to be a mistake!" said my managing editor.

"ksass"

My dad refused to switch to 2 letter state abbreviations.

wwu abbrev tex 2, jooi?

My dad refused to switch to 2 letter state abbreviations.

They're really hard on non-Americans, like when Brits from London refer to their suburb as e.g. 'NW12' and you're like

What or who is "jooi?" Me?

Texas 2 letter abbrv = TX. I don't expect the rest of the world to know or comply.

just out of interest ffs keep up!

One of my favorite things is that there's a lake in North Idaho named lake Pend Oreille and a town on it named Ponderay. Like someone said "fuck this French shit, let's spell it phonetically"

Lol

I thought maybe you were calling me Jewy.

The ones that get me are all the Ms: MA, MD, MN, MI etc etc.

i only make jewy references around my non-jewy straight white dude friends but they are funny when i do

I really wish Louisiana weren't "LA"!

There's an office near me that calls itself EMC2, but my IA is fleeting and unravels quickly into sheer curiosity. Although I do go past it near as every day so there is also a frequent response of "Why? Why?".

Your Iowa is fleeting?

The two-lettter abbreviations are all post office terms. The Associated Press still uses Ark., Calif., Nev., Ohio, Fla., etc.

The rule is that the two non-contiguous states (Alaska and Hawaii) and the five-lettered-or-less states (Texas, Maine, Idaho, Iowa, Ohio) get spelled out.

Though I have seen some really old-fashioned uses of Cleveland, O.

there are issues regarding Alaska (AK) and Arkansas (AR)

and Alabama (AL) for that matter

and Arizona gets AR a lot even though it's AZ.

But mookie's right: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Little+Rock,+Alaska%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Weird.

They are PO terms but most Americans use them. I think?

On Car Talk they always say Cambridge, MA, pronounced "mah."

Oops- Multi xp without warning

I would say Boston, Mass., but yeah. Pretty much the only time anyone uses one of these is filling out their billing information on Zappos.

Or their mailing address, anywhere? I dunno, I order a lot of stuff on the web but I end up writing my address a lot.

Well, and developing web apps with a lot of address stuff

I use two letter abbreviations or full name. Rarely/never in between.

i am irrationally angered by sites that spell out each state's name in the dropdown, because then i have to hit N multiple times (or type NEW Y, or worst of all use the mouse) rather than just typing NY

my fingers have only so many keystrokes in them