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

personally I use it until it actually shows signs of perishing

the flu/cold that's going around. & had me not wanting to move yesterday. didn't leave the flat.

A hard drive on my computer starting to beep when i got up this morning. Which presumably means that its the 3rd one that gave up the ghost over the last few months and I don't know what's on it, just that it's not backed up.
thought it was the most recent one so started redownloading a few live sets and have now found out it's not. So, well I guess I do have some stuff in a couple of places now.

getting uptight about not being able to read smallish print spending minutes to see if something read 5 or 6 in the supermarket. Well i did manage to get the discount offer that should have expired yesterday. but fuck, worried about fuzziness of my eyesight.

I start to feel like maybe I'm just being one of them Type A City Folk who talk too fast and want everything yesterday and that my expectations are unreasonable.

I sometimes think about if I seem like City Folk when I have to call courts or govt. agencies in rural Illinois or Iowa. The court clerks are usually much friendlier and accommodating than the ones in Chicago, so I feel like a jerk if I don't engage in a slightly longer "how are you" type exchange. Or I wonder if they assume I'm going to have a Busy and Important Chicago Law Firm ,LLP snotty attitude or that I'm going to think they're bumpkins. I usually don't say I'm calling from Chicago.

re tubes, tbh I used to just keep it in the fridge until the tube was actively cracked or grease-faded, which I guess was 6 months at least? and never noticed any ill effects

but now I am afraid the tomato-phobic mr spacecadet will find the tube in the fridge and read the instructions and become further convinced that I am just storing up poison in tomato-tube form

As long as air can't get into the tube, that stuff'll have the shelf life of a Twinkie.

You actually want a little air, that way anaerobic bacteria can't grow!

Being in a public place and listening to anyone talking on a phone. I know the world has adapted to this abomination but I will forever be knocking cellphones out of hands and yelling "Shame, you noise polluter!"

Ppl who don't pause/hangup when ordering/paying for coffee or going through a checkout. Takes these idiots twice as long to do EVERYTHING ragh I hate them so much

I sat next to a woman on the train this morning who was doing her makeup, which annoys me but I can cope, except that I swear it took her ten minutes to put on foundation. She just kept getting a teeny little bit out of the tube, and then rubbing it on her face, getting a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face, and then a teeny bit more, and rubbing it on her face. I think it was more the repetitive nature of the motions than the actual make-upping that was making me batty but phew, I was on edge until she switched to eyeliner.

a dumb, obvious observation i'm sure, but i'm sometimes struck (or freshly re-struck) by the deeply sad weirdness of the fact that so many women basically can't face the world without first applying a colorful goo-based mask.

We don't really need your pity, just fyi.

my only lament is that makeup isn't more creative. i'd love a lot people a lot more if they wore tiger stripes or tartan swatches across the bridge of their stupid noses

It's less about not being able to face the world, and more about being pressured from birth to be a very specific, ever more narrowly defined kind of lovely, achievable only through makeup.

Lots of people are very creative with makeup (maybe not stripes on their noses) but they do some really cool stuff - http://eyegraffiti.blogspot.com/.

^ i have rarely/never seen makeup that interesting in person, except in magazines. I guess it could be kind of a cool hobby? I still wish special effects were A Thing, like people walking around with cat ears and bolts on the neck.

hello I am a man and I do not feel qualified to say anything about makeup

xp You should go to more goth clubs! Or fandom conventions. I'm not even kidding. My post-Hunger Games commentary mostly revolved around how I wished people really did dress/groom themselves like the people in the Capitol.

Also, crazy nail polish is really becoming popular (one of my favorite examples, probably unsurprisingly - http://copythatcopycat.blogspot.com/2011/11/31-day-nail-challenge-day-17-galaxy.html) so maybe it's a trend towards everybody looking like a Star Trek alien (I am pro this).

Probably though in a year people will decide that elaborate makeup/nail painting is really trashy and it will be all about clear mascara and OPI Matte Nail Envy.

But seriously, I am a total dolt with painting my nails, so I'm going to miss the fancy nails bandwagon (also maybe not conducive with my age and profession, alas) but I would really like to have galaxy nails for a week.

those nails are amazing, i'd rock them if i could. i used to paint the middle fingers on both of my hands with mirror-reflective paint, because it seemed cool and 'alt.' It wasn't, though.

It's less about not being able to face the world, and more about being pressured from birth to be a very specific, ever more narrowly defined kind of lovely, achievable only through makeup.

^ oh yeah, i know. the sad is a product of both the diastrophic pressure and the response to it. and my response is similar to the dorky, stonar-like "wow sprawl", "wow cars", and "wow clothes" flashes i occasionally get when, for whatever reason, i really look at and think about ostensibly "normal" things i ordinarily take for granted. sort of knew from beginning that this wasn't a subject i needed to shoot my mouth off about though...

shut your mouth you loud animals! being in another officedown the hall means I should not have to hear you all day

I've seen a lot of fancy nails that I think 'that's nice... as a picture on the internet, not on my nails' but those galaxy ones are 1000000 kinds of awesome and I want them!

oooh, I love those galaxy nails too. I wish I was talented; I can barely paint my nails. I glop it all on and then let washing my hands repeatedly wear away the polish on my skin :P When I was in high school I used to have the patience and would paint designs with toothpicks, like Union Jacks and stripes.

and I love makeup because it's fun. I don't feel any pressure to look any certain way, except the way I want to look because I like the look! In the last year I've given up on staying inside if I have a bare face, let the world know: I HAVE BLONDE EYELASHES. That's okay.

I wear makeup less often - my eyes are too puffy in the morning for me to really want to do anything about makeup for at least an hour or two after I get up. But my face is very pink/flushed all the time, I actually prefer how I look in makeup; I just wish I could be arsed to care that anyone else has to look at me without it haha

this is not the right thread, but since we're talking about it, how do folks get their eyeliner to not smudge? without fail, every day, some smudging! i look at the cool stuff on the eyegraffiti page but then my very next thought is, if i wore that it would all be smudged to pieces...

I will answer that on the appropriate ILS thread!

Here, btw: I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I feel this is a rational anger but for a lack of a better place to put it: ppl with umbrellas, please refrain from swinging them to and fro as you go up the stairs. People's faces are right behind you!

i don't really care about ppl putting makeup on on the subway, but when they do the eyeliner i'm always afraid they'll stab themselves in the eyeball

umbrellas are just weapons in the hands of the oblivious

I am on this one email list for a store and to unsubscribe you have to mail them a letter to their physical address.

haha wut

I hate makeup. I hate women using public transport as a place to do their toiletries. Keep it in the bathroom, damn. I hate the idea women feel obliged to wear makeup. I wont wear it unless I'm going out somewhere fancy or to a club. Makeup can be done subtly and well, but seeing people wearing a thick trowel layer of brownish slap all over their face with bright cheeks and eyelids... all I can think of is:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wXFzZwZ6zAg/Rp2B6hhsDzI/AAAAAAAAA9I/xvqUvib4Pvk/s400/gun+5.jpg

BTW, you can preserve tomato paste in the fridge for quite some time in a very simple way: pour a thin layer of olive oil over the top of the paste. It keeps it sealed.

but when they do the eyeliner i'm always afraid they'll stab themselves in the eyeball

Many many years ago I saw an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael that had a woman who WENT BLIND after poking her eye with a mascara wand.

*cries*

It bothers me to know that people regularly apply makeup while actively, actually driving.

A girl I worked with in college told me one morning that she was running super late for work, so she brushed her teeth while driving. She rinsed with Coke.

Yeah Ive seen ppl putting make up on behind the wheel of a car in moving, multi lane traffic before. :(

My housemate fessed up to doing her nails in traffic when I noticed nail polish on her steering wheel
O_o

This is one of many reasons you can't get my brother to shut up about self-driving cars.

he can't wait to be able to do his nails in safety?

i used to do my makeup and paint my nails on the train when i lived in AUS. Now I live in USA i do it at 70 miles an hour on the interstate. fuck a bathroom.

OH. I'm glad you brought this up again. Guess what? I was on the train with the make-up lady this time! I timed her foundation application and it was not ten minutes but it was a little over five, which is still a really long time to dab makeup on your face. I wasn't in the seat next to her so I could surreptitiously check out her technique and she puts on LIQUID EYELINER! On the train! Using a little hand mirror! I can't even begin to put on liquid eyeliner in a perfectly still bathroom with a big mirror and bright lights. I'm torn between still being irritated by how long it takes her to put on foundation/the impropriety of personal grooming in public (I'm sorry, sunny! I'm kind of stuffy about these things) and being completely impressed by her skill.

The person I was sitting next to was wearing earphones and also playing Words with Friends WITH THE SOUND ON. I don't even think she realized it.

A girl I worked with in college told me one morning that she was running super late for work, so she brushed her teeth while driving. She rinsed with Coke.

damn baby, she's ballin super hard

I don't like people who put makeup on on public transport but mainly because they always seem to appear on the aisle seat next to me two stops before mine, get tens of things out of several makeup bags at once, and act like I am being wildly unreasonably when I make them stop and gather everything back up so I can get out

If I'm the only one around in an empty carriage I might, but I don't like doing it when I'm in a full carriage of people -- mainly because when other ppl do it I spend more time assessing them based on their techniques and the cosmetics they used and I do not want that kind of scrutiny lol

oh yeah i always took the slow train that stopped at every single station so i was one of very few on the train. also my makeup routine then was moisturizer, concealer, maybe pencil eyeliner. done in under 5 min.

yeah I can do the whole thing in 5 min, none of this 30 minute tantric makeup odyssey

A girl I worked with in college told me one morning that she was running super late for work, so she brushed her teeth while driving. She rinsed with Coke.

i love this girl's game.

pp bought me a mini coke fridge that has a car adapter plug. i may be adopting a new dental routine real soon.

a mini coke fridge that has a car adapter plug

I NEED THIS.