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

That buxom has lost its early meaning and is now essentially a euphemism for busty

When orthopedists spell it "orthopaedic."

That's just orthodox British spelling, though, no?

Okay, when US orthopedists spell it "orthopaedic."

orthodaox spelling

People who say they're old, or getting old, when really they're not. Similarly, people who talk about how 'things used to be better in the '30s/'60s/'80s/whatever' need to die of consumption.

I am guilty of the first (but I'm creeping up on 40 so maybe it's okay?) but you are 100% OTM on the second.

Will ague do, dl? How about grippe?

catarrh

catarrh or nothing

dropsy 4 life

polo shirts. I haaaaate having to wear them

They set up the demo desk for new office furniture right across from me today. I'm annoyed by the crowd coming by but even more annoyed by the furniture itself.

http://www.usedofficefurnitureinc.com/cubicles/HM%20Resolve2.jpg

When I start using round paper and curved pens, maybe those spinning drawers will make a lick of sense.

how in the holy shit does that thing work?

That's something from the Internet. I'm about to post a before/after.

It doesn't work very well, I'll tell you that.

What's on your desk at work?

I hate when you have some hash and it turns into a demon in your stomach which mates with your spleen to make a devil baby from your ass.

Feeling you.

I've missed you, LG.

Like the deserts miss the rain?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/RobertFuddBewusstsein17Jh.png

pplains: I can empathize, that really sux.

I always hated new office furniture. Once they got us these low lying, dinky computer desks and by the following week the office looked shittier because someone brought in 2x4s to prop the desks up and bring them up to an almost decent height. Took three on both sides. Very precarious. It worked but the aesthetics were garbage. They were all soon gathered up and returned and we found out later they were meant for kids, ugh, typical UT library incident. They were replaced with new desks that only needed one 2x4 on three sides.

people who spout "facts" that are completely devoid of context or relevance to anything.

footy thread ref imo

Sudden extreme drop in cold water pressure while showering. My building's water is 130°F! Araarrrgggghgshdhdjdkdjjd

golf talk in the office

iaiaaiaiaiaaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaaiaia

ugh

neighbors who complain about my dog barking as they're moving in next door and making a bunch of noise w/ furnitures and wall hangings and such.... this happened two weeks ago and I was actually livid.

We also have a set of neighbours whose first acts on moving in were to send a bunch of complaints to the landlord about all sorts of things that were none of their business (e.g. things which aren't bikes in the bike shed which they have never put bikes in), without even coming round to say "hi we're new in number xx, we were wondering if you possibly not do that thing any more", and I think angry thoughts every time I see them

admittedly this thread shows that I think angry thoughts every time I see any other humans but

If you're going deaf and you choose not to get a hearing aid then, but you cope, fine, your choice.

If you've been like this for years and you demand everyone around you repeats themselves 4 times with increasing volume and rage, maintain that everyone else in the world is a mumbler and that there's nothing wrong with your hearing, GET A FUCKING HEARING AID

Hah, at lunch my friend admitted he had his hearing checked last year and determined that no, his wife is in fact a mumbler. I could have told him that one!

my father in law refuses to get a hearing aid. so my husband and his brother basically kidnapped him 2 weeks ago and took him to get a hearing test because they couldn't stand it any more. but they couldn't do the test because his ears were so full of wax. doctor went to syring his right ear and found a whole piece of wadded-up paper in his ear canal, underneath years of wax. :/

he can hear a hell of a lot better now than he could. He still has a perforated eardrum in his left ear though, so hearing aid still needed.

ack jesus I'm going to go vomit now

sorry

"we can't test your hearing because your ears are full of wax"
"WHAT"

exactly

poor bloke though

Yeah, my husband wasn't at all surprised, I guess he's had a habit of shoving random things in his ears for a long time O_o

wat

Like receipts and treasure maps?

Well, not shoving...but absentmindedly scratching his ear with a toothpick or rolled up piece of paper, or stuff like that.

Actually my Mum had some kind of weird ear eczema and she used to do it too, like sewing needles and shit, TERRIFYING. I used to yell at her all the time to stop it and she thought it was funny that it freaked me out.

old people suck.

http://www.eastsidedavecountry.com/wp-content/uploads/ear-horn.jpg

The Thai grocery store by where I used to live sold ear wax cleaners. Little plastic sticks with stoppers to keep them from going in too far. Kind of weird.

Mr Veg was going to buy his dad an ear trumpet for Christmas one year, but the ones he saw on ebay were too expensive for a joke gift so he shelved the idea.

I was reading an article about earwax consistency and genetics and generally people of se asian descent are more likely to have waxy than oily earwax, whereas it's the other way around for northern europeans? idk, there was some explanation about how different genetics leads to different implements having less success

I have really narrow ear canals apparently, so I usually have to get mine syringed at least twice a year, because they don't naturally clean the way they're supposed to :/

anyway I'll cleanse us of the earwax discussion bc I've been remiss in logging recent IAs, of which I have a few

- bought a coffee at Peet's, where a young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."
It kind of drove me a bit nuts. I get kind of IA about slang that doesnt' match the surroundings. Like, maybe if it was a Jamba Juice, or a PacSun store, but dude. They're playing classical music over the PA. It's not a hipster paradise itt. But I also think this IA proves that I am old, old OLD. :(

- local food Co-op has the smallest parking lot known to man. It is alwasy full. It's impossible to get a parking space. On Saturday there were 3-unusable spaces because of crooked-parking assholes making those empty spaces unusable to anyone not driving a smartcar or a mini. fffffuuu.
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young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."

I would have just burst out laughing, in all honesty.

I thought I'd misheard him

and I actually had to bite my tongue from saying "Fuck off" lol