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

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)

Especially when 2/3 of the path is marked explicitly for peds and 1/3 for bikes, and the idiot peds ALL walk in the tiny bike lane because they are idiots

The young woman behind me on this bus has been on the phone with various friends for all of this 30 min ride so far and she is so. LOUD. and then she laughs LOUDER still to the point of actually hurts my ears.
She is apparently a scientist who works in a lab.

But she says shit like

- omigaahd she just like needs to lve herself more ya know?

- I've never driven in LA but I think it'll really help me grow cuz it'll take me out of my comfort zone? (every sentence ends w a question mark?)

-there's this book I was going to buy for you? but there're no more book stores! :(

I turned to look at her once when she cackled so she might realize, oh, I'm being a little loud, but no.

Then she BRAYED with laughter and I turned and said, "Excuse me but --" and she she gave me a look up, down and away, so I dropped the friendly time and enunciated at her "you. are. very. loud." and waited till she looked back in my eyes. She made an indignant face but he toned it down a lot. Still as loud as a stage actor tho.

awesome!

- ia that there are events and sales and whatever surrounding the super bowl

- ia-er that these events and sales and whatever have to use the euphemism "the big game"

OTOH, I also find the sound whispering annoying. All the S's are so audible - all that sibilance. I don't like unnecessary whispering. It reminds me of my mom saying people should speak up and not act like nuns/monks. It draws as much attention as being a loudmouth.

This week I was on a bus next to a person (couldn't really see if they were a guy or girl) who received a phone call. At first I thought they were being funny by going "Pssst psst psst" into the phone, but they were whispering and I could only hear "ssss" and couple P's and B's.

IMO, there is a very decent, unobtrusive volume for public phone speaking. Others might make out a word or two, or hear you chuckle, but you're not being very conspicuous in any way.

I've got this public transit etiquette shit sorted.

I hate loud in person conversational speaking just as much.

People are horrible. Kill us all.

The worst is at a restaurant and you just can hear the entire conversation of the table next to you. AND THEY ARE JUST FOOLISH. Use you quiet in public voice.

I really enjoy others' conversations. Overhearing people is a great pleasure for me.

why

If it's such a great pleasure, why did you tell that woman on the bus to be quiet?

I hate whispering. I've got a coworker who'll scoot his chair up and whisper.

I've gone p/a on him now.

- "*schwip schwip they're serving soup today schwipp schwipp**"
- "SOUP? WHY I LOVE SOUP!"

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.

Wonderful, wonderful! My toilet chain keeps rusting and breaking (apparently because I keep fixing it with florist's wire, which you'd think would be water-safe because it GOES ON FLOWERS but NO) and the light in our hallway has been out for weeks.

If it's such a great pleasure, why did you tell that woman on the bus to be quiet?

Because she was being anti-social with her loud mouth and horrible laugh! If she had just been saying stupid things at a decent volume, I would have probably found her ding-dongitude amusing. I mean "I wanted to buy you a book but there are no more bookstores" is awesome and ridiculous. I would appreciate absurdity if it weren't overshadowed by the inconsiderate volume.

As far as "why" I like hearing conversations, it's b/c people come up w/ interesting stuff sometimes. And sometimes even ordinary talk is interesting IRL the way "mundane" dialog is interesting in movies.

Jenny, don't you feel kind of the same way? You tell me (and ILX) about some pretty interesting overheard stuff!

Sometimes, yes.

do you feel the same?
or am i only dreaming?

or is this burning
an subdermal flame?