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

So many website I don't even bother to try and remember my password, I just click on the "forgotten password" link every time I want to log in.

the fact that some guy earns a living drawing these http://www.zowzz.com/celebs_gallery

gonna expand this to 'caricature artists' in general unless someone has a good reason I shouldn't

People who don't understand how Corner Bakeries work.

People who don't understand how comedy works.

How are people messing up Corner Bakery? Are they people like the terrified ones who aren't ready for the urgency and responsibilities of ordering at Panda Express?

People who over-understand how comedy works

Hi morbs!

People who hate comedy.

How are people messing up Corner Bakery? Are they people like the terrified ones who aren't ready for the urgency and responsibilities of ordering at Panda Express?

Going right to the cashier instead of getting in the group line, standing in the cashier area and clutching their number like terrified children instead of getting a table or proceeding to the take out waiting area.

I get v IA at people who disrupt the natural order of ordering things at delis/cafes etc

My biggest IA today is people who order coffee and immediately go and stand right where the drinks are handed out, as though there aren't 5 other people hanging back patiently waiting for the drinks they ordered BEFORE YOU who now have to EXCUSE ME past your ignorant ass to get our coffee. ASS.

I get kind of twitchy when I go to one of my regular haunts and someone doesn't know the usual way of interacting or does it "wrong." I also get anxious when I go somewhere and I'm not sure of the correct mode of interaction. Coffee shops that are more low-key (read: pre-Starbucks invasion) can be kind of cryptic. I asked for a refill and you got it and someone was busy at the cash register, or you brought me my order and I haven't paid, or... I don't know, do I go up and pay now? Do I pay before I leave?

Getting IA at my German homework, which is to write (in German) abt whether I have a ~healthy lifestyle~.

As the one fat person in the class, I feel kinda got at. (Probably doesn't help that on the day it was set I'd been to my GP's surgery for a blood test and the nurse wouldn't jab me until she'd weighed me and asked 6000 questions about my diet plans. Hi just take my blood and tell me I'm a fattey on the way out, it'll save us both time, right?)

Guess I need to convince myself that the teacher is only marking my German and has somehow become a robot devoid of any capability to think "well it doesn't look like it" if I claim not to sit motionless all week constantly shovelling doughnuts into my face

xpost I definitely don't like ordering conventions that are not at least somewhat intuitive. If you have to ask someone how to do it then your system, such as it is, might be kind of uppity.

our local market is this way. You have to write out your sandwich order at one table, then walk all the way around the deli counter and down the other side to drop it off. And don't you DARE try to order a sandwich by taking a number, or they will get mad at you. And don't drop off your sandwich order anywhere else, or they will get mad at you. It's kinda stupid, honestly.

Making a fat person write about whether they have a healthy lifestyle sounds pretty German to me.

people who, in 2012, still take four minutes to withdraw cash from an atm

whoops, don't let me break your stride

Heh. (xxp to pp)

All the delis I go to have not much space by the counter (so once two or three people are waiting there is nowhere for a new person to wait without getting in the way) except for one, which has so much space in front of the counter that customers just sort of mill around instead of queuing and staff either ignore you when you're trying to order or ask you what you want when you're still looking and everyone gets served in the wrong order.

I dunno if it's a difficult balance to achieve or if it's just that British people aren't very good at delis (probably this, tbh)

Just write about how you take a lot of brisk outdoor walks, can hoist ten full beer steins in one hand, and also examine your poop on a shit shelf toilet. A+++ guaranteed.

... on your sandwich order

lol

If I examined my poop on my sandwich order then I probably wouldn't have to queue for as long, it's true

(thank u thread, you all have an A+++ in my under-exercised, fat-choked heart)

(I forgot about those toilets ;_; )

the fact that some guy earns a living drawing these http://www.zowzz.com/celebs_gallery

gonna expand this to 'caricature artists' in general unless someone has a good reason I shouldn't

― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have a friend who does caricatures, he's a struggling comic book artist and it helps pay the bills

do you know the same dude I know, n/a? seems like that is a go-to for struggling comic artists

along same lines as people sending massive stuff to the printer, people sending huge image files, even when they're sending a mail that goes to a thousand people. it feels like a form of pollution.

bonus points when the big file is something like a word doc with one photo taking up mad megabytes cos someone doesn't know how to compress it

This happens all the time in my office - can hold up the printer for a good 30 mins or so, often not realising and just sending the same file repeatedly, and the 'print queue' is very hard to find on the printer so you don't always know whose printing it is to go and politely suggest they are the reason the printer is 'broken'.

I'm the only person in my office who knows how big a megabyte is, so frequently someone will print a gargantuan PDF and then come whining for me to call the IT contractor b/c the printer is "broken" b/c it didn't start printing immediately.

They literally never, ever learn, even though PDFs are a huge part of what we work with every day.

They refuse to accept the that data is something that takes time to pass through a "series of tubes".

Like, actually refuse to believe the concept. I've tried to explain the little I know about transfer rates to the attorney who is younger than me, but he thinks it's all bullshit that the IT guy has tricked me into believing so that he can cover his ass for not maintaining our systems. a;ldfskjads;fklj

A few weeks ago we switched our email from a rickety, unreliable in-house server to Microsoft-hosted system and it is GREAT. It's way faster, it doesn't seem like it's going to break down once a week, and otherwise it's the same look and feel.

Younger attorney keeps whining (he whines through his nose a lot) about how he hates it and how the IT guy "pulled a fast one" on the firm. ????????? What the fuck kind of "fast one" did he supposedly pull?

sorry. i'm done.

IT guy was supposed to be fixing the server or spending every waking hour propping it up instead of finding a real solution, obviously

• email signatures (we've been over this before.)
• images in email signatures (wait? there's an attachment with this? Ohhhhhh....)
• cars that don't put their blinkers since I'm just a pedestrian.

A non-trivial part of my job is spent talking about image resolution and formats with people who have no idea what any of these things are (other than maybe knowing the word "JPEG") and I always end up feeling like the conversation resolves to them telling me about Brawndo having the electrolytes that plants crave.

I'm the only person in my office who knows how big a megabyte is

lol I knew this was you before I got to the end of the sentence.

- when I insist on posting on ILX from a moving taxi even though I know it's going to make me motion sick

What are you doing out in a cab at this hour? You have work in the morning.

I was on my way home from the opera! I'm so tired now.

Crazy late night out at the opera! Had to cheat and take my makeup off with those face cleansing Wet-Ones things! Didn't get to sleep until MIDNIGHT! Who says I don't know how to party?

In a cab at midnight, painting your face, watching a parade of fancy men and harlots... Tsk.

Everyone isn't bad, Jesse! Everything isn't a sin!

I bet you were wearing the devil's red! And cramming things up your butt.

My experience of being an IT technician is being the guy on the left a lot of the time.
http://livingthedreamblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/11.jpg

One thing that really irritates me but I can't figure out quite why:

My office's custodian is a nice, friendly, jovial guy, but when he comes in to collect trash and recycling, he is way too meticulous. Just now I noticed he had had been behind me for quite a while, barely making any noise. He had my shredder opened up and he was picking every last tiny scrap of paper out of its teeth. He even blew on it and brushed it off before he put it back together. I hate that! It's a waste of time for something that does no one any good whatsoever.

On Monday he was looking for me and when he tracked me down, he told me that my chair's arm was loose. I said that was fine and normal b/c they're adjustable and they just feel loose all the time, but he kept asking if I didn't want him to work on it. He has tons of other work to do without farting around with stuff like my chair.

I think you have a secret admirer...

Was it this thread where we bitch about needless chivalry just getting in the bloody way? Cos I just had that. Woman in lift gets off at same floor as me, just as she walks out some guy is there waiting and has to stop and greet her and insist on taking her bag off her etc. Meanwhile I'm trying to get out of the fucking lift but they are blocking the doors.

Taking her BAG? Talk about overkill.

Jesse, sounds like the super at my apt building--I've been asking him to change a light bulb for 6 weeks in the darkened hallway, but he'll call me at 10pm if he sees my bike outside the building so I don't leave it there overnight. I haven't quite put my finger on the real meat of this problem but it comes out as under-attentiveness in some things and over- in others.

Haha taking her bag! Did he also offer to deposit her cash for you and get her jewelry cleaned?

Laurel, do you think he's that way w/ everyone or could he be a secret admirer? (damn you VG)

My custodian guy also insists on showing off his handiwork. Every time he changes a light bulb, he comes and gets me or one of the lawyers so we can go see how much brighter it is.

And one time he interrupted my boss while he was on a conference call to tell him that he had asked another tenant in our building to move his car b/c it was too close to my boss' car. ;a;dslkjfsa;dkj

I hope they were in a romantic relationship and she had a torn rotator cuff that makes carrying a bag excruciating. That is the only thing that would justify that situation.

I had an IA trifecta this morning:

Sat next to a phantom wang leg spreader on the train.
Not only did he have his knees fanned out, he was SNORTING the entire ride. Big, meaty, disgusting snorts where I could hear the sound of the phlegm walloping the back of his throat every time he let one rip.
He got of at my stop and proceeded to stand on the left on the escalator down to the main building entrance. (That part actually made me feel vindicated more than IA because I always stand on escalators (there are stairs right there and if I want to walk the stairs, I will take the stairs) so he wasn't holding me up, but he was enraging a whole escalator's worth of commuters, and I liked the idea of all those people's ire washing over that man and smothering any chance he had of happiness today.)

The point of walking on an escalator isn't (just) an easy lift, it's the added speed. This is why it's really stupid when stand up comedians go har har, what's the DEAL with moving sidewalks? Are we really THAT lazy?!

(poor transition in second sentence, whatever)