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

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

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

I and countless other Chicagoans know how to pronounce Goethe from taking buses with stops along Goethe Street and hearing the CTA voice say "Gerrrteh."

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

One of the advantages I have of living in one of the first four alphabetical states.

I send out maybe six pieces of mail a year. I use the PO abbreviations so not to fuck with my mailman's head.

I use the AP abbreviations at work in newswriting.

And anywhere else, the full name.

This may belong in the editors thread, but one of my pet peeves is when someone ends a sentence with a link and it looks like this.

As opposed to having it end like this.

yessss

+1

^^^

Are you guys talking about period placement?

no

Are you talking about making a whole bunch of words a link rather than just a couple?

I thought it was about the full stop tbh

Yeah, the period shouldn't be included in the hyperlink.

If the link is the whole sentence/paragraph I throw in the full stop, but otherwise I'm exactly as anal as you pp.

although I'm lazy on ilx, because I have to be anal everywhere else, all the time

The writers I work with just slather over the whole end of the sentence, period and all, thinking I guess that they don't have the time to daintily put the cursor between the final letter and period, hitting alt + shift + L to get what they want.

in some sentence structures the location of the link is debatable, i.e., on which words, but yeah a.a. otm

When paying by card and the cashier instead of handing the card back to you, just places it on the counter for you to pick up.

Or throws it on the floor.

website embedded audio players with no volume control.

― Nogood (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 5:44 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dammit. Two websites in a row this morning. At least I could TURN IT OFF on one of them, the other, where the HELL is the control!

A "Seni0r L@w C1erk" and law student at a another firm always sends emails to me at my address from my former employer. The emails forwards to me, but still, I'd just as soon not have them pass through the other firm's server. I've asked her numerous times to use my new, correct email address. Today her response was

I will try remember to use the [Je55e@newfirm*com] address. We have gmail so there's not "address book" function...

M********

wtf

IT AUTOSAVES THE ADDRESS
omg can I kill this personfor u?

She is in law school????

God I hate everything today.

(note to non-Jesse ILX: I know this person and she is a special kind of stupid.)

a special kind of stupid

I love this. I once worked with a woman who was, also, a special – unique - kind of stupid. Not 'special' as in 'especially' but 'special' as in pervasively, inexplicably, unpredictably stupid, like she was too distracted or important to think/notice certain things.

I hate that kind of person more than any other. More than HITLER.

http://limages.vr-zone.net/body/8941/hitler.jpg.jpeg

"Yes, well, Gmail is fine, at least she can save it to her contacts folder now."

She is in law school????

I think so? I thought you told me she was in law school. Would she be a "law clerk" if she was not even in law school? What is law school?

p.s. gmail has an address book

like, this might blow minds, but:
https://www.google.com/contacts

I know!! That firm uses Gmail's business service (so the have their own domain name) but I checked and it looks like on their end, it looks like regular old Gmail, including the obscure function of "Contacts."

yeah, the only diff between normal gmail and the biz version is that the biz version is sometimes a little behind in getting new features and you can't sign into quite as many things

New features like contacts?

I think so? I thought you told me she was in law school. Would she be a "law clerk" if she was not even in law school? What is law school?

I know she wanted to go and as cynical as I am about legal education in the US I had always assumed she would be unable to manage it.

Calling herself a law clerk when she is not in law school is exactly her kind of stupid.

New features like contacts?

hahaha no

SURELY her employer controls the titles in his office? I mean, he has a good name in his field. But then again he thinks that little dip has some brilliant ideas.

Aaaarggh fuck new Firefox updates, now its Google home page has no thing at the top letting you choose 'Images', 'Videos', etc etc

ALSO businesspeople (well, they're probably all men) who read Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' to get an edge on their rivals

i think they've moved on to robert green's 48 laws of power

When having woken up late, in a hurry, life is a drag, still hurry, tying your shoelaces and a shoelace snaps. 1000 times worse than a knot. IA.

Had to google if the right English phrase was "snap" or "break" (turns out both are used?), stumbled onto Charles Bukowski being OTM:

The Shoelace

a woman, a
tire that’s flat, a
disease, a
desire: fears in front of you,
fears that hold so still
you can study them
like pieces on a
chessboard…
it’s not the large things that
send a man to the
madhouse. death he’s ready for, or
murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood…
no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies
that send a man to the
madhouse…
not the death of his love
but a shoelace that snaps
with no time left …
The dread of life
is that swarm of trivialities
that can kill quicker than cancer
and which are always there -
licence plates or taxes
or expired driver’s license,
or hiring or firing,
doing it or having it done to you, or
roaches or flies or a
broken hook on a
screen, or out of gas
or too much gas,
the sink’s stopped-up, the landlord’s drunk,
the president doesn’t care and the governor’s
crazy.
lightswitch broken, mattress like a
porcupine;
$105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at
sears roebuck;
and the phone bill’s up and the, market’s
down
and the toilet chain is
broken,
and the light has burned out -
the hall light, the front light, the back light,
the inner light; it’s
darker than hell
and twice as
expensive.
then there’s always crabs and ingrown toenails
and people who insist they’re
your friends;
there’s always that and worse;
leaky faucet, christ and christmas;
blue salami, 9 day rains,
50 cent avocados
and purple
liverwurst.

or making it
as a waitress at norm’s on the split shift,
or as an emptier of
bedpans,
or as a carwash or a busboy
or a stealer of old lady’s purses
leaving them screaming on the sidewalks
with broken arms at the age of 80.

suddenly
2 red lights in your rear view mirror
and blood in your
underwear;
toothache, and $979 for a bridge
$300 for a gold
tooth,
and china and russia and america, and
long hair and short hair and no
hair, and beards and no
faces, and plenty of zigzag but no
pot, except maybe one to piss in
and the other one around your
gut.

with each broken shoelace
out of one hundred broken shoelaces,
one man, one woman, one
thing
enters a
madhouse.

so be careful
when you
bend over.

• People walking in bike lanes (not really innocuous)