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

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?

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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.

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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

- 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.

ah, that leads me to another IA -- businesses that have restriped their parking lots in the last few years with narrower slots, to try to jam in one more parking space per row. FUCK YOUUUUUUUU, Walmart and Sam's

Especially you, Sam's, since you have acres of parking and it's never full.

ugh there's a huge parking lot for Office Depot/strip mall that did this, all the normal spaces are compact-size, all the compact spaces are mini-size, you can barely get out of your car even in a normal size parking space where everyone's parked sensibly.
it's moronic.

oh and Trader Joes can eat a dick, their parking lots routinely suck all over the city. It's like they choose the location based on where the shittiest parking would be, with only one entrance/exit outlet and a stream of cars waiting waiting waiting.
I hardly go to TJ's at all just bc of their horrendo parking situation.

There are Trader Joe's with parking?? I...this is making me question everything I thought I knew.

The only one in Sacramento that's worth a damn is in a huge strip mall with a Lowe's etc, so there's gobs of parking...but all the other ones around here have like maybe 30 spaces as an afterthought. LAME

One TJ's parking lot in Chicago is hell. HELL. The other newer one isn't too bad, it's a whole garage. Not nearly as rage inducing.

The downtown TJ's causes so many traffic problems it's ridic, because idiots are always idling all the way out in the street waiting for spots to free up. and there's an awesome independent grocery store just blocks away that is just as good. or just go to the goddamn grocery store, you maroons.

young guy behind the counter said "That'll *rock you* $3.75."

At my first waiter job in Chicago the computer system allowed tips on credit card transactions to be keyed all at once at the end of the night. Waiters and bartenders and management referred to the activity as "rocking [one's] tips." (every other system I'd used required the tip be keyed in before a new check could be opened for that table)

At first I found this totally obnoxious, but it didn't seem to be an affectation, and finally filed it under "possibly be some kind of nautical terminology."

At my next waiter job at regular (land-based) restaurant the staff - including a bunch of grey-haired veteran waiters who were not hip to the youth slang - also "rock tips" like, "I'll be out of your way as soon as I rock my tips."

I'm still not sure what or why or what. Is this a thing people say?

I've heard it at other restaurants when I've been eating out, too.

This kid was like, college age. I figured he was just dropping annoying dude-speak on me.

I've googled rock + tips in various ways and w/ various other key words and also rock + cost, etc. and I can't any evidence that it's something that people say outside of my restaurant experiences and your Peet's experience.

Making me ia right now: the fact that many Simpsons clips, including one I wanted to post on this board, aren't on YouTube.

Bart: The beauty of it is, each parking space is a mere one foot narrower -- indistinguishable to the naked eye! But therein lies the game.

Milhouse: I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away.

xpost: maybe we both have a rare hearing disorder

Food I cook not turning out right.