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

I know two people who have been mugged while reading and walking, so I don't do that anymore. CONSTANT VIGILANCE.

I do enough of it for the both of us.

I had actually never seen someone use an iPad on public transportation until the other day, when I saw a dude on a crowded bus getting really into some game that looked like it was designed for preschoolers.

That's the sound a cow makes! YESSS!!

That surprises me, j. People on my bus (#8 Halsted) read on them quite a bit. One guy reads comics/graphic novels on them. I saw one guy playing a very active accelerometer controlled game. Fortunately the bus was pretty empty b/c 'bows were being thrown.

xp - lol

getting really into some game that looked like it was designed for preschoolers.

So, Angry Birds or something then?

monsters ate my condo

Maybe! I've never actually seen Angry Birds apart from the ubiquitous logo.

Or that one where you cut fruit up or something.

Fruit Ninja.

Thats the one. I dont play many ipod games can u tell.

Man I get really unduly upset about crushing my fingers. In full on fuck the world mode right now.
Fuck the world now, everyone~! Ok!

I'm going to buy un fucking tamal and eat that bullshit because fuck the world and everyone in it.

Oh man fingers being jammed in a door is the WORST :( Its like badly stubbing a toe, I wanna knife a hobo when that happens to me.

i'm helping my sister with her math homework, and her teacher assigned a problem that is JUST different enough from the example given in the textbook that i don't understand how to do it. i thought, fine, i'll look up the answer in the back of the book and see if i can figure out how they got there. oh, wait, it's an even-numbered problem, the answer's not in the back. maybe i can find a similar problem that's odd-numbered and work that one out? nope, EVERY TIME they switched the problem around so that it no longer matched the example, they made it an even-numbered, answerless problem. MOTHERFUCKERS.

Doesn't the current iPad 2 camera notoriously suck bad? Kind of weird to see it used for anything other than a quick snapshot or an application.

― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, February 27, 2012 4:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's pretty bad. Only useful for video stuff imo.

I feel weird reading mine on the bus. It's just big enough so that if it's crowded (which it always is) it feels unwieldy. The idea of using it like an iphone is so weird.

I always thinking of the sidetalking meme whenever I hear "using an iPad like an iPhone"

(Nokia had a phone that looked kind of like a gameboy but the microphone/speaker placement meant you were basically holding the narrow end to your head when using it in phone mode so it looked hilarious. People came up with a number of pictures of them holding video game consoles, other phones, and the like to their heads)

Lots of ppl use their ipads to read the papers on my train. At least that means they're not spreading gigantic newspapers and flailing elbows all over the place!

pet hate of mine: people who think train seat real estate is ALL ABOUT THEM, usually men who sit completely, offensively spreadeagled on a seat so they take up half the seat next to them, and WILL NOT BUDGE when you attempt to perch on what remains of the aisle seat. Sometimes tempted to drop hot coffee onto their groins.

spread-leg sitters need to be shot into the sun. Have been subjected to same at football stadiums a bunch of times this last season and it is fucking MADDENING.

If I was bolder, I'd loudly say "put it away, it isnt that big" but I would probably end up getting assaulted or some crap.

I think something along those lines to myself every time I see this. The worst is when they tsk at your or roll their eyes when you sit next to them thereby causing them to close their damn legs. SO ANGRY MAKING.

The wide stance seems to be at its worse when they have a ladyfriend along.

Hah yeah. In related train IA-ness for me this morning, I had to put up with some twat who was listening to whitney houston VERY LOUDLY on his ipod. I mean it was so loud EVERYONE was looking around in annoyance trying to work out where it was coming from. I had a hangover, and felt like shit, and the last thing Ineeded to hear is that hideous woman's cloying, godawful bellowing all over the train. Hate ipod noise polltion and HATE WHITNEY HOUSTON, double raeg >:|

rip whitney ;_;

(joeks, luv u Trayce)

<3 u, too Trayce (and I also hate Whitney Houston's music and have been keeping that thought inside of me like a festering secret while the world mourned, except for the all caps email I sent Jesse the day after she died).

hee hee, well if there's a place to unleash IA whitney hatred, this would be the place

I hate Teena Marie.

*GASP*

"muchly"

Oh and people who use "Sir" as a very very low level comic indicator in their general written fucking discourse. FUCK.

i rarely get very angry (pills managed to suppress it lololol). but when in the supermarket people take FUCKING FOREVER to put their groceries away and KEEP STALLING when i am already putting mine away, I GET EXCEPTIONALLY ANGRY. i really want to shout att them. but instead i don't. you probably don't even notice i am angry PISSES ME OFF.

"I feel weird reading mine on the bus"

me too, i feel like a snob. :-((

embrace it

people who use "Sir" as a very very low level comic indicator

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/550/feel-like-a-sir-template.jpg

Embrace my anger or my ipad? lol

the wide stance thing on the subway drives me nuts! i've gotten tired of stewing for a whole hour commute, so I've started just nudging people's legs...usually it works with minimum fuss. i've noticed that in general (not accounting for intentional assholes) men only sit that wide when there is space to open up.

alllll day there has been this intermittent buzzing noise, like the noise a bus makes backing up. all day! i feel like i'm being driven nuts, very slowly.

I used to be able to wait until May 1 before I turned on the A/C, but this year, I might have to give in on March 1. I don't think I shivered once this winter.

Spread-leg sitters suck and I don't remember a single one who closed them when I sat down next to him. I've tried weak nudging, but it has never had any effect, ever. I always want to press my legs against the other person's so he gets the hint, but I don't want to fucking touch other people's legs on the bus or train.

People should just be aware of the space they're occupying!

OTOH, people who get shitty when others get too close to them on full buses or trains are also no treat. E.g., the woman on my *packed* bus this morning. I was standing in the aisle and she was seated facing me. I (and other standing passengers) kept having to move aside to let others squeeze toward the door, and this woman loudly sighed and scowled at me every time. Should have drooled on her.

wide-stance her

--people not moving into the subway car also drives me nuts. last week or something, i had to let 3 subway trains go past during rush hour because i (and a ton of others) couldn't get in, and as each one rolled away, i could see that in the middle, there was totally room

--people who lean on the metal posts even though there are other people who are holding onto it. super annoying.

--people who make the "i'm getting off the train" motions and head for the doors before the train has even stopped, esp when it's a central location that EVERYONE gets off at...everyone is getting off at the next stop, stop trying to push your way to the front when the doors aren't even open!!

apparently i have a lot of subway rage

People from the other company on my building's floor who stand in the hallway outside our office door making "private" calls on their cellphones, then giving me the stink eye like I'm fucking eavesdropping.

Oh I full on stare at people who do that. People who have loud, obviously personal phone convos in public? Yeah I'm listening and I'm gonna make it obvious.

man there was a guy on the train going on very loudly into his phone about some "shiksa". he was kinda loopy, i could tell, and i felt deeply embarrassed.

--people not moving into the subway car also drives me nuts.

Arghh, on the Muni there's a row of people waiting against the wall and a row of people waiting a step closer to the platform, so there's room between the two rows for people to move around. You'd think the people who step forward when they see which train is arriving are doing so because they want to get on the train, right? No, they're just waiting right at the edge of the platform so when you politely wait behind them for them to get on and then they don't you are STUCK and everyone else has gotten on and gotten a seat.

rayuela is *fully* otm

i would add ppl sporting massive backpacks who act like they are extensions of themselves. put that shit on the floor -- i don't care if your backpack encroaches on my shins, but i don't want it in my face

We have new, open subway trains where people can walk the entire length to spread out the bunching a bit, but it still gets jammed at rush hour. The other day I had the misfortune of riding it at 5:05, and there was a university student squished in amongst all us tired office workers, sitting cross legged on the ground, playing a computer game. It made me very IS. maybe A.

*IA :P