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

I feel bad because I realized my IA posts sounded shitty to fat people, when I was thinking about two issues that didn't get clearly expressed:

1) When I said that my neighbors' body parts shouldn't pass the dividing line of the seats if it went upward or outward, I was thinking of men who move their legs/knees outward until they have crossed into your space, and men who don't care where their broader shoulders are going to go so I end up hunched in the middle unable to move my arms.

2) The memory of living in a poor neighborhood with no good grocery stores is mostly sad. A lot of the people who made me IA on trains were unable to wear anything but old stained sweatpants and could barely climb the stairs of the subway. That is both sad for them personally and sad for our whole society, that we don't have hardly anything to offer people to make it easier to not be unhealthy/incapable of normal things.

I got IA this morning when I revived the Andrew Breitbart thread to post that he'd died, and then for more than an hour (basically until I said "AHEM") people ignored it and posted their reactions on other threads.

I was on the muni to the office, where we would be interviewing people for a job, and there was this one woman putting her small handbag on the seat next to her and holding it there, while people were standing. I was actually kind of hoping she'd turn out to be the candidate so I could DENY her the job based on bad public transit etiquette.

people who see multiple signs indicating that they need to merge into the lane next to theirs, and instead of doing so immediately, continuing to drive in their lane even as it evaporated and then cutting you off last minute, as if they were oblivious to all of the signs/merge arrows in the street.

tbf the correct way to handle lane merging is by "zippering" where traffic speed slows down slightly and enough space opens in both lanes for them to merge without incident.

However, no one understands this and there's a stigma against actually letting someone into your lane in front of you so we're stuck with very-early mergers that slow things down and last-second mergers that make things come to a sudden stop

yeah I'm fine with that. Not fine with the guy tonight who was driving in front of me on a road where we were the only two vehicles, and he had plenty of room to merge in front of me, didn't, then curiously jumped into the left turn lane while I stayed in the straight lane. He then for whatever reason didn't make a left, but proceeded to keep going straight despite being in the left turn lane, and as a result, almost drove straight into my driver's side door.

- when Levar Burton ends his tweets with #bydhttmwfi even when that doesn't make sense, ie "We've gotta get de-iced before we take off for LA...#bydhttmwfi"

Of course I want to take your word for that. Why wouldn't I?

I hated it when he said it on Reading Rainbow too

oh man, I had no idea what that stood for until you mentioned Reading Rainbow and it was instant recognition

There are a handful of people who work on this floor, who I don't really know and haven't worked directly with, who irritate me. I don't know why because I haven't really interacted with them and most seem to be well-liked, but I walk by them talking to their coworkers and think to myself, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Am I biased against their appearances? Did I overhear or see something I disliked that I've forgotten?

Reporting live! Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later) with two women on either side of me and all of them know each other! So they are talking to each other! Loudly! Across me, who is clearly trying to read and eat in peace! They did not accept my offer to trade places with me or get my hint.

So but I appreciate healthy fast lunch options and I like quinoa just fine but paying $8 for half a cup of quinoa and chili is straight bullshit. Especially since I'm still hungry and need to get some nabs or something so I don't start hallucinating my coworker as a giant talking hot dog.

Also why is this place playing Das Racist?

This is carl agatha reporting live. Back to you.

Das Racist is there to remind you that you could have been eating at the Pizza Hut / Taco Bell instead of eating $8 quinoa and chili.

Did you go to protein bar? I had lunch there too. Mine was delicious.

Just heard a co-workers cellphone ring. He picked it up and said, "Hey, Roger. Are you feeling better?"

Makes me IA all the way. When you call someone, you shouldn't have to immediately answer a question without even saying "hello" first.

Did you go to protein bar? I had lunch there too. Mine was delicious.

Yesssss. I went to give it another shot since you like it. It tasted good; it's just expensive and inadequate.

Also hearing the woman brag about all the things she omitted from her quinoa bowl was annoying. Congratulations, you are eating vegan air for lunch. Now shut up and let me read.

Also it's loud in there. And too enthusiastic.

Surprise, Jeff! You are married to Grampa Simpson!

Solidarity my dear. Mr Veg routinely complains about being married to Andy Rooney

I went on a loud bile-filled rant last night about American TV season schedules, and WTF with all these stupid hiatus is and if a show is on the air, it's ON THE AIR, and if it's off, then it's off, and none of this 3 weeeks on 2 weeks of rant rant crazy rant

hiatus is = hiatuses

hiaitii

hope for hiatii

Sitting at a table reading and eating in a stupid, healthy and chipper fast food place (more on that later)

Did we already get the "more" part?

Yes, when I complain heartily about the high prices, small portions, eating disordered clientele, hyper-cheerful staff, and noise level. LOL.

Hey people who stand at the tops or bottoms of subway stairs, why don't you move out of the way and let the bidirectional foot traffic flow unimpeded by your inexplicable need to block the ability of people to either exit or enter the damn subway station.

god, once I started posting in this thread it's like I can't stop...

One of us one of us

Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.

Haha that is an awesome thing to be angry about. Seriously.

That's even better than when I heard an older Italian Catholic man say you shouldn't call Episcopalian ministers "Father" because they're "more secular."

This girl I know makes me irrationally angry. I just really can't stand the sight of her or hear about her. We have mutual friends that want us both to connect so badly but we are complete opposites, I feel. They always invite her along to things I invite them too and they always look bewildered the few times actual invitations were issued and there wasn't one for her. Seems to me the feeling is mutual, she is just better at hiding it, BUT it has crossed my mind that maybe she is completely innocuous and it's all me.

Android just updated on my phone and it's changed the method of unlocking it and answering calls. Pissing me off no end.

When, instead of saying "OK", people say "ooh-kay" with a high-low inflection.

snoball - I hear that loud and clear. makes people sound like fucking cartoons, imo.

*tera - I totally had a case like that once. I'd be all like "why the hell is geoff here?" and "what do you mean we should call geoff?" The thing was, he wasn't doing anything that necessarily should have made me angry. He was innocuous, but I was irrationally angry just over a feeling I had about him. I didn't like him. He was the anti-me.

He turned out to be a complete douche-bag who really did some damage to a few of my friends. It took them a couple years longer than I did to figure it out and I had for the most part burned my bridges with them over the geoff issue.

Ultimately, geoff's entrance into our lives was a net negative to all involved. I lost my friends. They lost me. They got ripped off and pushed around and cheated. In hindsight though, I kinda wish that I had just stuck around and been a little more chill about it and invited him into my life like everyone else and then been there for them when the shit hit the fan.

So that's probably not exactly the same as your deal. But the basic point is geoff was an innocuous thing that made me irrationally angry and I was right.

Android just updated on my phone and it's changed the method of unlocking it and answering calls. Pissing me off no end.

― A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:04 (3 hours ago)

both of these are an enormous pain (under the rubric of 'innocuous things', at least), every answer comes only after a couple of seconds of awkward fumbling, NOT TO MENTION the half-asleep trauma caused by struggling to turn the alarm off.

People who quote Princess Bride incessantly.

incontheivable

beachville, yep, that's it an anti-me!

I still feel given enough rope...eventually... but yeah I fear losing my friends before they lose her so I just shut-up. Sorry you lost yours. You ended up being right, that sux.

We both ended up pregnant at the same time and she found out she was having a girl and so my friends started emailing and calling me telling me wouldn't it be great if I were having a boy so they could fall in love and marry later. Um, that was a horrifying thought to have this girl as an in-law later in life. I told them I was having a girl and they swore up and down I was so wrong. When it was official they just said well, they could be lesbian lovers later. I was like for the love of God! I do NOT like this girl!

People who whistle tunelessly.

^^^^ leeee otfm

Fucking web sites that make passwords a huge pain in the ass by:

- requiring they be changed every couple of months
- prohibiting use of previously-used passwords
- prohibiting the use of a character twice in a row
- prohibiting the use of special characters

My school's web site does 3 of these and Blue Cross/Blue Shield does another 3, which means I forget my password and either have to reset it every time I log in or I send myself an email with the password so I can look it up later (thereby compromising security).

tbf they don't send you an email with the password, they send you an email with the one-time key to reset your password. At least they do if they're not morons.

Also, requiring the password be a small range of number of characters. E.g., password must be between 6 and 9 characters long.

xp - I never said they send me a password.

I just want to log into a website and stay logged in forever. Security be damned.

In fact, neither my school nor BCBS do resets by email. Both do it by verifying info on their website.

xp - yes

Using the word "puritanical" to describe a Catholic.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 3 March 2012 03:28 (2 days ago) Permalink

Though not exactly on point, this reminded me of the first day of a college class on literature and spirituality in which the professor asked us to brainstorm examples of how religion seemed to be playing an increasing role in popular film. One kid raises his hand and says "I know this might not be the most obvious example, but Stigmata. I mean when you really think about it."

i started using keyboard patterns for work to save me having to think of passwords. so now mine are things like uIomNb654 and i can write them down cryptically. everything else is stored encrypted in a keystore on a usb stick (and emailed, encrypted, to webmail account)

- articles that include top 10/20/50 that insist on displaying the list as a goddamn slideshow.

just list the damn things.

I have two (2) sets of headphones - crappy apple buds I keep at home, and a pair of Sennheiser over-ears that I take with me to work and bring home on the weekends.

I left my sennheisers at home this morning so now I have zero (0) headphones at work.

I am now listening to music with my PHONE HEADSET plugged into my computer. It would be more pleasing to have the music transmitted through a tin can on a string.

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I left my earbuds on my coffee table and I know that my cat loves them for chewing and wrestling with. Hmm.