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

See what happens? I start blessing you and some priest waltzes in with Jordan River blessings.

I feel very blessed these days. Can't wait to get home and drink another can of it.

Is Brian Blessed?

http://www.doc4design.com/wp-content/uploads/id-blessing_golf_course.jpg

they've replaced most of the trash cans in downtown chicago with these solar compacting recycle/trash cans, which is cool, but the trash can part has to be opened with a handle. i'm not squeamish about germs but i draw the line at touching a handle that is attached to a trash can and that people with trash in their hands have been touching all day long.

this is what i'm talking about:
http://induloop.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/big-belly-2.jpg

ha they're being taken out ahead of the NATO summit because police can't see what's inside them: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-06/news/chi-solar-trash-cans-yanked-for-nato-meeting-20120406_1_bigbelly-trash-cans-solar-trash

That one is exceptionally clean. Give it a few weeks and it will be sticky and filthy and probably out of order. Crappy execution of a sort of cool idea.

I was really disappointed when I first put garbage in one of those that it didn't LOUDLY and IMMEDIATELY compact my garbage. I wanted a little powernoise show.

haha hey my trash can is out of order

For reasons of energy efficiency they're being shot into the sun.

That's … the little man on the trash receptacle, is he showing off that he's got an analog bin that doesn't need hand-to-handle contact?

I hate those gross ass trash cans. Whose dumbo idea was it to put a freaking handle on a public trash can??? Jesse OTM about how filthy that thing will be, except in a couple of days not a few weeks.

pp - LOL yes! wtf. "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE MISSING WHILE YOU TOUCH THIS DISGUSTING TRASH HANDLE THAT SOMEBODY PROBABLY HORKED A LOOGIE ON!"

I hate those trash cans because you can't just toss stuff in them. I have no issues touching the handles though.

Just toss *at* them like everyone else apparently does.

Jeff OTM; we have those all around Philly (and we've apparently lost tons of money bcz of it) and it is SO ANNOYING to have to throw something away with two hands. It closes too quickly to try to yank open and toss yr shit in.

If theyre fancypants and digital anyway you'd think they'd invent some kinda motion detection so you can just wave at the opening and the lid opens by itself, no touching at all.

foot pedal, y'know, like every kitchen bin since time began.

Things that used to make me irrationally angry but now I'm all -o_o- eh about.

• People talking on cellphones in public.
• All lowercase characters used in texting.
• Foglights on cars that stay on all the time. Daytime headlights.
• When a car makes a chirp after its owner had locked it with a key fob.
• Required registration on ILX.

Things that still make me irrationally angry.

• People speaking on bluetooth earwigs.
• All uppercase characters used in texting.
• Those ultra -white hot florescent headlights.
• Car alarms.
• Security questions on websites with vague answers. ("What's your favorite team?")

referring to a wireless headset/earwig as "a bluetooth"

I mean, I get where that is coming from but, no.

Oh god they're called EARWIGS?

I don't know what the hell they're called. I'm just tired of having random conversations like

FELLOW PEDESTRIAN: I don't know, this traffic is crazy.
ME: It's always crazy. Someone's bound to get hit here one day.
FP: Now some guy is talking to me.
ME: [Looks around] Who's talking to you?
FP: I don't know him at all. Welp, the light's turned green.

nah they're called a headset or earpiece or whatever

earwig is a great one though

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/117/1175803/19-effed-up-moments-in-family-films-20110613051457022.jpg

"So I told that bitch that the letterhead was going to get sent back or else… Yeah, I know… Man, this buffet line is taking forever."

- LUDDITES & TECHNOPHOBES

(cross-posted from the co-worker bitching thread)

Seriously. Luddites GTFO and take your pencils with you.

Just because you drive a Porsche/Ferrarri/Corvette/whatever -- does NOT give you the right to drive or PARK like a total asshole!

It still bugs me reading interviews where the interviewee apparently asks himself a question.

I know it keeps the text flowing rather than breaking off for a bold insert of the interviewer asking the question. Still, it just makes the subject seem like they're going deaf..

"Ay? What? When did I join the group? Is that what you asked? Hmm, speak up mate, we'll get on a lot better if you do!"

Hate it when interviewees don't do this during conferences, etc.

Just because you drive a Porsche/Ferrarri/Corvette/whatever -- does NOT give you the right to drive or PARK like a total asshole!

You have to be pretty tone deaf to park across two spaces because you've got a shiny new sports car and you don't want to get dings on your door. I don't think a single person passes a double-parked sports car and doesn't think "I'd really like to key the shit out of that thing"

When a car makes a chirp after its owner had locked it with a key fob.

idgi. how can this make a person upset

It no longer does. But when cars first started getting equipped with these things on a broad basis, it kinda sounded like they were showing off they had a car alarm.

Another auto related item: headlights that turn themselves off. How many times did I say to someone "Excuse me, you left your headlights on," and they throw back their hair and say, "Oh, they'll turn off by themselves."

Made me paranoid that one day I was going to see someone without the automatic lights-off feature, not say anything, and then they would die because they were stranded downtown without a car battery.

but surely you see the functional purpose of both of them. when you hit the button on the fob you don't know if your car got the signal unless you hear something. how many times have you had to hit a garage door button more than once.

I am so glad my garage door doesn't beep at me.

You hear the doors locking, doy

But yes, you seem to keep missing the part where I say this used to bother me. I make my car chirp all the time now.

You hear the doors locking, doy

sometimes. some parking lots are noisy

not trying to give you a hard time, p. just curious

Just because you drive a Porsche/Ferrarri/Corvette/whatever -- does NOT give you the right to drive or PARK like a total asshole!
You have to be pretty tone deaf to park across two spaces because you've got a shiny new sports car and you don't want to get dings on your door. I don't think a single person passes a double-parked sports car and doesn't think "I'd really like to key the shit out of that thing"

― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:15 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's not even the worst. Going 20-30+mph over the speed limit just because you have issues with penis size is just dangerous for pedestrians and other drivers.

Hate it when interviewees don't do this during conferences, etc.

― pplains, Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:10 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate this, too! Somebody inaudibly mumbles a question and the speaker is like, "Good question on a very important topic you should all understand, but the answer is no, unfortunately. Next question?"

Just that in the mid-90s, if you saw this guy in the parking lot of Denny's

http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x3592705/A_wealthy_man_locking_his_car_LV0004011f.jpg

you'd just want to punch him.

there was a pretty distinctive chirp that was indicative of a brand of aftermarket security system that kind of tipped it off - everyone having a remote to lock their door, not a problem. only people with obnoxious security system chirping at shit, annoying.

Car alarms used to be much more sensitive. I don't live in the urban jungle like some of you, but still, it seems like I don't hear car alarms wailing so much as I used to.

I used to go through the mall parking lot with my teenage buddies, slapping fenders on our way to the door and triggering an alarm every third time or so.

I dont mind the chirp at all. the other noises annoy me a little though. like my stupid nazi car doesnt chirp it goes 'bonk'. and our other car beeps the horn and its MF LOUD

i used to work in an underground car lot. when a loud car would drive in it set off ALL the car alarms and of course their owners couldnt hear them because they were above ground somewhere. that's some echoing deafening shit.

Yeah, and the assumption that an Officer O'Leary walking his beat is going to drop his doughnuts and go running after a car alarm sounding a block away.

First time I started that nazi car, I swear I heard the Macintosh startup sound.

are you guys impugning all modern german things as nazi

well i'm pretty sensitive to people complaining about cars. I drive a Crown Vic and the thing's been keyed many times, the doors have been kicked in, people have put beer bottles under the tires, etc. pretty much the most cowardly shit, I'm not really a "man code" guy but beating the shit out of someone's car because you don't like it is a pretty clear violation

people are abusing your car because it's a cop car

I mean, they are totally dicks, but this is why, not because people are dicks to cars in general

yeah I know that's the reason, just saying I've dealt with a lot of "I hate your car!" and "You shouldn't be allowed to drive that" so I guess I just find complaining about other people's cars obnoxious in general

can we complain about h2 vehicles and cadillac escalades

can we complain about U2