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

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

Not to mention that Marion Berry is a MAN.

ia: the omnipresent redhead bebe model (cintia dicker is her name). something about her face is really off-putting to me. i think they're phasing her out -- there's a second model in the ad now.

i hate being negative about women's looks; i just think cintia dicker looks like a mouthbreathing idiot.

I'm having kind of a hard time coping with the idea that her name is "Cintia Dicker."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTsdiIlN_8s/R0EhsMXFfwI/AAAAAAAACnM/SqAzhyZ3K78/s320/marionberry2.jpg

sounds like a euphemism for fem masturbation..

MARRIED
BURIED
YEAH YEAH YEAH

(that was re marion barry/berry)

Okay, um, Chuck Barris-- would you want to Marry, Fuck, or Bury??

when you're eating a chocolate chip cookie, one of the crispy ones, and one of the chocolate chips falls out of its precarious little hole and onto the floor.

slow-moving/methodical ppl who narrate everything they're doing to disguise their slowness, making it seem even slower

"okay...so let me get thaat for you..,,and okay I'll just go over here and grabthis other thibg......" zzzz

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTsdiIlN_8s/R0EhsMXFfwI/AAAAAAAACnM/SqAzhyZ3K78/s320/marionberry2.jpg

Well, blow me down.

when you're eating a chocolate chip cookie, one of the crispy ones, and one of the chocolate chips falls out of its precarious little hole and onto the floor.

They are too small to spank, so I find myself losing my temper and saying "I WISH YOU HAD BEEN BORN BUTTERSCOTCH!!". I know, I'm going to hell...

jaymc, I wasn't really expecting anyone to know who the retired Representative from Arkansas' First District was.

you dont stare at an ass you oogle

oogle plus

Oogle must be the word for when you glance down at someone's id badge while in line at Subway and go back to the office to find their Facebook.

^^^

When I get out of the train at the wrong end of the platform, and have to walk all the way back down to get to the exit.

Piccadilly Line trains that terminate at Northfields, on a Sunday afternoon, when it's freezing.

I hate that first one, especially when I try to figure out the right car to board so I will alight at my exit and guess wrong. Womp womp.

I get IA when spotify does not have all songs ever recorded

Having a tasty morsel or bite of food fall to the floor instead of my mouth, ugh!!!! Especially when I am starving or looking forward to a tasty morsel or bite of food.