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

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?

people that keep whining about Timeline on FB. Like people actually preferred the clumsy old setup that made it difficult to locate posts that were a few weeks old without hella scrolling?

Irrational Anger: Gym Version

1. When people put stuff in lockers but don't lock the lockers, such that I end up opening five lockers that look unoccupied only to feel like I've violated someone's personal space by peeking in at their underpants. This is totally unforgivable at my gym, which is fancy and has those programmable digital locks on the lockers and don't require that you bring your own.

2. Crybaby lap swimmers who complain about not being able to swim laps during the one evening hour in the entire week that is occupied by a water aerobics class.

3. When the pool water is too cold.

4. When the pool water is too warm is even grosser. I feel like dying, and I think I'm inhaling baquacil fumes, and I can't go for very long.

Email IA: ppl who use those fucking Outlook stationery templates, ie spiral-bound detail or ruled notepaper or clouds rainbows etc

it just makes me hate the sender SO much more

Oh OH, AND since most of my senders are on PCs and I use a mac, my email program turns all of those graphic sig files, background colors, ANYTHING, into ATTACHMENTS. So every email has MULTIPLE ATTACHMENTS: one for every design element.

all scientists are cheap whores

Pretty much any extended whining on Facebook about Facebook. It's like being stuck in a boring meeting that isn't going anywhere, but with the world.

4. When the pool water is too warm is even grosser. I feel like dying, and I think I'm inhaling baquacil fumes, and I can't go for very long.

That's true, and I always warm up once I get moving. Okay I amend #3 to my gym not having steps for pool entry, just a ladder, because I'm always afraid I will slip and fall getting in and out.

you should jump in imo

cannonball entries ftw

Oh OH, AND since most of my senders are on PCs and I use a mac, my email program turns all of those graphic sig files, background colors, ANYTHING, into ATTACHMENTS. So every email has MULTIPLE ATTACHMENTS: one for every design element.

Yes, this. Usually they're named something that makes it obvious that they're junk, but if somebody emails me a bunch of images w/ arbitrary names, I worry that I'll accidentally omit a legit file if I ignore AT1.jpg or whatever.

Hate this so much

I hated going into the pool at Plato's Retreat - so many stds

you should jump in imo

But I cannot jump back out ;_;

true, but at least you would cut your problem in half

also, fun

Also making me irrationally angry: my bookmarks aren't sticking. I have bookmarked this thread approx 1,000 times and it won't stay bookmarked.

hi buffandmaxsmom? No problem bookmarking. My beloved IA thread? Bookmark teflon.

blogs on which the next page/previous page navigation is counter-intuitive

that bookmark teflon happened to me when i changed my name too!

del, i was on a site (looked like tumblr but that wasn't in the url) where the on the first page, the Next Page button was on the left, with an arrow pointing right. on subsequent pages, both were on the left. PLUS, the buttons didn't show arrows until you hovered over them. it was not just awkward, it was fucking confusing.

Website complaints:

• The very site I work for (which is soon going to be updated) currently has Next 10 | Last links at the bottom of one of our article directory pages. And every time, I think that "Last" means the last page I looked at and instead, I get transported to 1994.

• College athletic websites are the worst. Inevitably, they'll have some weird four-part slideshow scrolling in the center where you have to click on the picture and not the headline. And if you hesitate, the slide will change on you. You can go to a thumbnail at the bottom and click to get the correct slide to come back up so you can try again, but why not just link the thumbnail instead?

(This site is a little bit like what I'm talking about here.)

• And even worse than that last one is the icon trend I'm seeing more of. Quick, go to this school's website and click on the men's cross-country page. C'mon, we don't have all day…

It's like that Far Side cartoon with the martian choosing its restroom based on two indecipherable graphics on the doors.

hah argh

these site designers need to demonstrate some respect for my time-wasting time!

cartoons where the drawing doesn't add anything to the text. where the caption or the dialogue bubbles could literally be presented without the image and you wouldn't lose anything in terms of humor/interpretation/etc. i noticed this recently with some of the NYer cartoons and now it's really bugging me, but i've seen it in the shitty far side-ripoff single-panel cartoons in the paper too.

also i know you guys have talked before about men being "polite" and letting women go first in situations where everyone's in a hurry, which doesn't usually bug me, but i noticed this morning that some guy let a woman get on an elevator ahead of him, which seems to be the opposite of chivalrous, because she ended up at the very back of a crowded elevator, which isn't the ideal place to be.

like this:

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2012/02/06/cartoons/120206_cartoon_027_a16122_p465.gif

the drawing adds literally NOTHING to the caption!

also i know you guys have talked before about men being "polite" and letting women go first in situations where everyone's in a hurry, which doesn't usually bug me, but i noticed this morning that some guy let a woman get on an elevator ahead of him, which seems to be the opposite of chivalrous, because she ended up at the very back of a crowded elevator, which isn't the ideal place to be.

Dude missed out on three solid minutes of ass-staring because of that.

maybe that was how he was being chivalrous? because she got to stare at asses

Please stare at my ass, lady. I insist.

"A small windowless room we will share together for the next 90 seconds? After you, Madam, and I shall stand between you and your exit."

We've griped about this before, but it's most exasperating when the guy makes a production of his chivalry, especially when he just will not take no for an answer.

Also especially if he is getting in others' way while doing it, e.g., the guy at my bus stop who does a little traffic direction to make sure all the ladies get on first. Ahead of him, but also ahead of any other men. And he looks so smug and officious, with his slightly bowed head and extended hand and stupid face. Fuck you, dude.

maybe he really, really likes watching them get on the bus

http://07.img.v4.skyrock.net/070/flo7121/pics/2929213513_1_5.jpg

I'm about 80% certain Je55e is talking about the guy I work with that does that type of shit all the time, complete with the bowed head and extended hand.

It's like that Far Side cartoon with the martian choosing its restroom based on two indecipherable graphics on the doors.

This is an eternal pet peeve of mine. Last night I was at a sushi place I'd never been before, and there was that awkward hesitation while I squinted to discern if the Post-It-size image on the door was a samurai or a geisha.

The visual clues help, but still, BOTH OF THESE NAMES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MALES.

http://i676.photobucket.com/albums/vv130/k604bc/July%202010/13SFTJuly232010KrauseBerryFarmfood.jpg

"Chuck" is associated w/ women?

There's a Richie Rich comic with that plot device: a cousin with long hair (it was the late 60s) named "Marion" who turns out to be a boy.

We've griped about this before, but it's most exasperating when the guy makes a production of his chivalry, especially when he just will not take no for an answer. . . . Also especially if he is getting in others' way while doing it

This guy (generic) makes boarding a train from a crowded platform a nightmare, especially when he makes the production of letting a woman on before him, while meanwhile, behind him, are ten other women or a person with a disability or an elder trying frantically to get past this bozo and grab a seat while they still can.

Also LOL at people still using jokes that were tired when found in fifty year old Richie Rich comics.

yeh, those door signs are starting to make me irrationally angry, not b/c they're potentially confusing so much as b/c it is such a pointless, labored "joke"

(some things hit too close to home i guess)

Not to mention that the mayor was named MARION BARRY.

lol