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

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.

I think I found my ultimate, #1 IA on the weekend.

I carpooled with 2 friends to Monterey for a work-related function/getaway. I have only been to that area a couple of times, I sort of knew the general way to get there, and had plugged the hotel address into my map on my phone in case we got lost. We also had directions given to us.

But the girl who was driving, and the other passenger, announced "Oh we're not going that way" and said we were going a different way. So we get halfway down this other freeway and after asking a few questions it appears that NEITHER the driver or the passenger have any idea which exit they're getting off on for this 'faster' route, not even a nearby town, NOTHING.

Now I'm not a person who fears getting lost. I dont' mind that at all. But when we have to be at a certain place at a certain time and when it's not just you toodling around on your own, when you have passengers, surely it behooves you to have researched your driving route, and to perhaps ask one of the passengers to assist in navigating.

I honestly do not understand jumping in the car and saying 'do do do, if I just drive south I'm sure we'll get there in the end.'

And it's not rocket science, it's hardly a difficult place to get to.

Mr Veg and I have a great partnership - he drives, I navigate. But as the driver, he's already looked to see where we're going. and he's given me the map. So if I happen to misread the map or get unsure of myself, he'll be familiar enough to say, 'are you sure? I thought it was (x)' and vice versa, so we correct each other as we go, but mostly he drives and I navigate, and it works like a dream.

I kind of resent navigating someone who can't be bothered to even find out where they're going, you know?

RAGH!!!

agh this drives me nuts and my b-i-l does it! We got stuck driving around the far end of our own town for an hour or so because he didn't have a map and had just written down the google maps instructions. which made no sense at one point so we got lost. but he kept going back and trying to make them make sense. also he spent a long time defying the GPS instructions down a particular route because he knew best and went about 15 mins out of his way every time. if you looked at the start & finish point on a map there would be no way you could have come up with his route!

I don't know how people mess up this badly in 2012, unless it's just slavish adherence to the "I'm not going to pull over" school of thought. I mean, if I am driving and am not quite sure what's up, I pull over and get something cool to drink and fiddle with Google Maps on my modern smartphone and it tells me where to go! The only time that's impractical is when I do something stupid like driving into a major urban center at rush hour, in which case you've already fucked up.

She did it again when we were leaving to drive home. She wanted to go look at some town she'd visited when she was a kid. So she starts toodling down along some surface street and I noticed that we were going in the opposite direction to where I thought the town was. I said, um, are you sure it's not the other direction?

She's visited this area more than I have and I still ended up basically explaining to her that Monterey was south and Santa Cruz was north, and to go north we had to UP highway 1, not DOWN.

and I'm terrible with compass directions generally, but when there's a coastline involved, I figured it would it kinda make things pretty simple.

I guess it's that Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance thing that he talks about, people who don't fix leaky taps vs people who do, or don't consult a map vs people who do.

But I am seriously going to consider making this criteria for friendships going forward. Because there could be homicide in my future.

i am annoyed that both this
The Return Of My Bloody Valentine
and this
Loveless Remaster Actually Sound Better?
exist and both keep getting bumped every 20 minutes with pretty much the same information.

Irrational Anger, snooty performing arts edition:

- If a symphony plays something that you recognize from a parody song, it is not appropriate to sing along with the orchestra for a few bars.
- I ain't mad at you if you fall asleep or even snore, but if your symphony companion is snoring, you need to go ahead and elbow that guy and make him stop instead of letting him saw logs loud enough for the entire third balcony to hear.

Irrational Anger, how do I end up friends with these people edition:

- It's fine to be The Friend Who Is Always Late, and it's fine to be The Friend Who Won't Use a Mobile Device, but it is not okay to always be late and refuse to use a cell phone so you can text me and let me know your ETA.

Posting this link here for remy since this is where the discussion happened:

http://jangsara.blogspot.com/

RANDOM MICROSOFT UPDATES

also phone app updates - I'm getting 5-10 a week :/

can i just add... people sorting personal shit out on the phone at work. drives me bananas. nobody wants to hear about your wedding/holiday/plumbing and do some f'ing work anyway.

"reverse telecommuting"

App updates are great! New features! I get 5 a day.

I'm paranoid about privacy changes being sneaked in under bug fixes.

I've had Google Maps update a dozen times and I don't know what's different.

I hate sorting personal shit out on the phone at work, but I work in a cube and there is zero place to have a private phone conversation on this entire floor unless you duck into a vacant conference room or someone else's office.

I had to make two very personal phone calls yesterday so I went to another floor and hid in this weird corner between a filing cabinet and an empty waiting area just out of sight from the main receptionist to make one, and then for the other, I sat at a table that is right out in the open waiting area of our floor, right out in public but with nobody close enough to hear what I was saying (which was hopefully masked by the noise coming from public common areas of the building).

For context, this is what the inside of my building looks like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Inside_James_R_Thompson_Center.jpg/220px-Inside_James_R_Thompson_Center.jpg

All of the floors are wide open plans with no interior walls to separate the individual floors from the rest of the interior of the building, so this is the view from each floor:

http://www2.illinois.gov/cms/About/JRTC/PublishingImages/lobby.jpg

And that deeper hole is the center of a bustling food court/interior mall dealie, so it's always loud.

And yes, people have killed themselves inside the building, most recently last... November or December, I think.

pretty sure i would have constant vertigo if i worked there

The elevators are CLEAR!!! It took me about six months to get used to it, and since it's a semi-public building, I see some poor terrified jerk cramming herself into the front corner by the buttons, where the walls are opaque, to avoid having to watch all of that building falling away from them as they ride to their floor.

It doesn't help that the elevators are also... not great so you're riding in them, watching the ground floor recede under you, and the elevator will jerk, and then stop, and then rise another two inches, and then sit, and then the door will open. It's no wonder I have some anxiety issues, really.

So most of the building is just empty? That looks like a terrible use of space.

There's lots of office space on each floor. The building take up an entire city block.

Jesus that looks like the set of Brazil, wtf

Apt comparison.

All the support on Facebook for gay marriage gets me when the people posting it make sure to mention how straight they are. Anything that starts "I'm not gay but..." makes me upset, I can't help but feel you're saying "I believe all of us are created equal and deserve equal rights, but please don't mistake me for a gay, I don't want anyone to think I'm gay"

I understand what you mean, but I do appreciate straight allies.

App updates are great! New features! I get 5 a day.

― Jeff, Friday, May 11, 2012 9:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

OTM. If it's an app I use a lot I will always read the details re what's being updated.

why is u-torrent announcing another update almost immediately after hounding me into updating to the last solid stage or whatever it's called.
& is that last update actually keeping track of what i've downloaded? seemed to be on the same figure when i woke up this morning as when I wet to bed last night.
& I'm relying on it to keep me under a certain capacity, which if I go over I'm going to wind up getting put on a higher cost rate.

& google chrome have introduced something which seems to ensure that I get taken to the top of any thread I want to read after it initially opens at the point I stopped reading at the last time. Very annoying, I then have to find my way back to where i left off when i was there in the first place.

many xposts - wow carl agatha that second view looks like the Death Star

I hate sorting personal shit out on the phone at work, but I work in a cube and there is zero place to have a private phone conversation on this entire floor unless you duck into a vacant conference room or someone else's office.

Something I think is kind of ridiculous is how it is apparently standard etiquette when your mobile rings to leave your office or pub conversation, which is fine, that seems polite - but apparently you should only go about two metres and then have your bellowing private conversation right behind someone else, instead of walking another 5 metres to go outside on a nice sunny day, into the totally empty work kitchen, etc

and another pub-related one which I admit is totally irrational is that I hate people standing at the bar to drink, and obviously this is perfectly reasonable and historically sound as evidenced by the existence of barstools, but it drives me mad when I can't reach the bar to buy a drink because there are like 20 guys who already have pints just standing there braying at each other

urgh, carl, I don't think I could cope with working in your building, at all

- when a piece of gum rapidly loses cohesion in your mouth and suddenly you're left with a tongue full of minty sand.

what building is that carl agatha? is it famous? celebrated erector set panopticon suicide chute designed by...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Thompson_Center

i was just in it this morning because there's a dmv office in the basement.

in the food court.

a dmv office in the food court?

ha it's actually off of the food court. i think it's a pretty cool building but i have never had to take the elevators.

It's got some issues.

reminds me a little of the bonaventure hotel in l.a.:

http://laist.com/attachments/lindsayrebecca/bonaventure-hotel.jpg

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bonaventure-flickr-arizona_native.jpg

Reminds me of the Marriott in Atlanta, which is like Alien to the James R. Thompson center's Brazil:

http://i.imgur.com/QJ6dP.jpg

carl, I'd never get any work done in your building, I'd be leaning over the balconies and taking the elevators all day.

i could never get any work done in any of these buildings!