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

thanks for your solidarity, haha

Yeah my ex R wears odd- coloured Docs sometimes. One red one blue.

Is curry work microwave-verboten? I'm talking Indian or Thai or any other. It has a strong smell but I don't think it's objectively *offensive* like fish. But idk.

eh, some people get whiny but I'm cool with it

people who come to complete stops prior to going over the speed bumps in my condo complex. I know SOME forms of speed bumps/humps require this to prevent you fuckin up your suspension but geez ours are meant to drive over at slow speeds like 5 mph.

tired of waiting 10 mins to drive the .5 mile from the gate to my house cuz some dude stops EVERY TIME he arrives at one.

Windows Explorers' way of handling photos aggravates me. It doesn't use rotation info from EXIF data, so I have to go in and rotate a bunch of images or use another file viewer. Googling results in basically dealwithit.gif. Ugh.

Iphone time settings under settings-->general-->date and time. Not under clock.

is that a thing on the new firefox (11) the way it opens images centred on a black background? is ugly.

not really 'innocuous' but...people who cut you off or almost run you out of your lane in traffic, and don't even give you an obligatory "I'm sorry" gesture with their hand.

worse is when they do give you a gesture, but it's not the one you had in mind. I love being flipped off when someone cuts me off as if it's my fault.

- the way scrolling sticks for a couple of seconds every now and then on facebook

that we don't have salt in the office kitchen.

i should buy my own thing of salt and hoard it in my desk and refuse to share it.

My boss - Li66y - and I keep salt shakers at our desks. I think courtnoodle does too? I am sort of surprised more or most people don't.

mr veg has a peppergrinder at his desk, lol. not just a pepper shaker. a pepper GRINDER.

I have a bottle of sriracha, or I did until I used it all

mmmmmmmmm sriracha

I enjoy calling it cock sauce (giggle)

I keep salt at my desk.

I have a drawer full of oranges at work

In the drawer to my left: larabars, trail mix
In the drawer to my right: ricolas, emergen-c, and a single purple nitrile glove (no idea where that came from)
no salt :(
no sriracha :(

in the draw to my left: soy sauce
in the draw to my right: travel sized crest toothpaste

classy

i know right. no chopsticks or toothbrush though

Fingers for both, I say.

L1ggy?

Jesse's googleproofed nickname for his boss. As it the name is a special nickname he gave his boss, which he then googleproofed. Two-level security.

we've been given temporary eyes-only clearance - it's very hush-hush

It's only one level. 6 = b

But we do call her Liggy now. Which makes me think of tubal ligation. And she's a lawyer, so "ligation" makes me think of litigation.

Oh, I didn't see that you had written "Li66y." I was just going by Stevie's L1ggy, which is Liggy, googleproofed.

ipad keyboard makes me IA
it's *just* spread out enough to fool you into thinking you can touch-type but nooooo it's just cramped enough that you hit the N key everytime you try to hit the space key and raaaggh

what about if you split it?

split what?

there's a button in the lower right of the ipad on-screen keyboard that splits it into right and left sides that are further apart

the hell you say

i'm IA that over the weekend i bought two sticks of the same deodorant, and the deodorant ended up having such a disgusting cheap-perfume smell that it made me nauseous the whole time i wore it. i'm not a delicate flower but i do have some allergies to chemically produced fragrances. anyway, i'm mad that i wasted money and a trip to the drugstore, and i'm mad at arm & hammer, who usually make reputable products, for selling me garbage.

when i was at tj's yesterday, i bought a stick of their house-brand unscented, and it's MUCH better. i can breathe again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZ_HFJIGQw

^ hahaha

- Yelp keeps defaulting me to London. I have never lived in London!
- Trying to order takeout and NO phone contact details on the website, not even under 'contact' which is a customer feedback form.

^That last one reminds me...

What I want to see when I visit a restaurant's website: days and hours of operation

What the restaurant thinks I want to see:

the story behind the name of the restaurant
what the chef's grandmother used to cook on Sunday
what TV shows the chef has appeared on
coverage of latest charitable food program sponsored by restaurant
awards won by their desserts
pictures of Tuscany

- under no circumstances, their phone number

Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

Also relevant: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?

Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

Haha! "The Papyrus font," so true.

oh god I love that oatmeal cartoon

Yeah, what I want to see: the opening hours, the menu, the phone number and maybe a link to Google maps.

All they ever have:
- a massive Flash gallery of pictures of attractive young people (90%) interspersed with arty shots of a fork (10%) where you can't even see what's on the attractive young peoples' plates
- horrible tinny piano music which can't be turned off
- what looks like a sidebar of links which reads "Gallery - About - Menu - Contact", except the "menu" and "contact" links don't work, and the "about" page is some typo-riddled rubbish about the fragrance of the sea near the chef's grandmother's house when he was 6 and a picture of Tuscany
- but hey, why not look at our massive Flash gallery?

and you have to download a giant PDF of the stupid menu because why not

my favorite is sites that have some sort of menu that is obviously the "export to html" or (god forbid) "export to flash" from an out-of-date version of a desktop publishing or design tool creating a 5MB web page that is slow as hell

pdfs on web sites always annoy me

it also doesn't help that all of the browser integrated pfd viewers are terrible

Exclaiming "Ah, ya cunt" at a cold tap I've just myself turned on way too hard.

normally over the back of a spoon for preference of course, but in this particular case washing a salad.

I don't know when but at some point Robot Chicken-style comedy just really started annoying me. Basically when the joke is that something strange is taken out of context and placed into 'normal'/'everyday'. Like "what if Darth Vader suddenly remembered he had to do his laundry?" It's not funny, it's not clever, it's just lazy and easy and cheap. And more often than not, it involves an awkward pause joke, and at that point I just have to turn away.