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

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!

xp You probably wouldn't take the elevators unnecessarily after your first shuddering/slipping/getting stuck experience.

people who misspell the word "weird" as "wierd"

Baked Lays are only ever 1/4 full.

(bags of Baked Lays, that shoudl read)

xpost, I just stayed at the Atlanta Marriott and felt like I was in an alien's thoracic cavity the whole time.

Bonaventure looks the hotel that killed John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire.

IA: Having to use the word "in" twice in a row even if it is correct.

Also, at least in the context of this thread, the city and state of Correctionville, IA, is hilarious to me.

The next time I get, I mean need, to tell someone they're wrong, I'm going to start by offering them a one-way ticket to Correctionville.

Welcome to Correctionville, Population: me

ia: "saving the carcass for stock" means you actually have to make the stock, which is a pain in the butt

It's pretty easy!

easy, yes, but you still have to stand there skimming the scum

Also, at least in the context of this thread, the city and state of Correctionville, IA, is hilarious to me.

― pplains

I get IA over Young America, Minnesota, and in googling it to make sure I got it right, I discover it has merged with neighboring Norwood to form Norwood Young America! What's odd is that it was founded in 1856, I assumed with a name like Young America it would be a recent creation. It's known for being a coupon processing center, which is how I first heard about it.

I assumed with a name like Young America it would be a recent creation

tbf, America actually was relatively young in 1856

True, and Minnesota was even younger.

I discover it has merged with neighboring Norwood to form Norwood Young America!

Here's an incredibly local IA: There was this town called Helena, Arkansas, on the banks of the Mississippi. Lots of blues history, home of Patrick Cleburne - a Confederate general who wanted to counter the Emancipation Proclamation by also freeing the slaves, Conway Twitty, King Biscuit, etc.

Out west of town, a new community grew: West Helena. In fact, over a matter of time, West Helena gained more population than Helena.

Both cities are in the Delta, one of the poorest areas of the nation not on an Indian reservation. The two municipalities recently (last 10 years or so) decided to merge into one government. But what to call the consolidation? Helena had the name first and the history, but West Helena had more people.

The new city's name? HELENA-WEST HELENA. Makes me A-IA

That.... makes absolutely no sense

reminds me there is a suburb to the southeast of me, called Pakenham. to its north? not outer or nth Pakenham, no... Pakenham Upper. I mean srsly now.

the entendre had never occurred to me before

LOL! well now u kno.
people who misspell the word "weird" as "wierd"

― mh, Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:51 (12 hours ago)

;_; I do this sometimes. By accident really! I know how it is spelt, my brain just auto-parses "i before e" all the time.

Probably all my problem, but it bugs me when people write "etc." as &c or and cetera. Especially "&c."

TV adverts with Jane Horrocks doing the voiceover. I'm sure she's a lovely person irl but can't she find gainful employment elsewhere?

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.

iirc, Running Scared had a chase sequence staged here, before the building even opened to the public.

My high school prom had some kind of afterparty here; I looked up, got vertigo, and left.

Probably all my problem, but it bugs me when people write "etc." as &c or and cetera. Especially "&c."

i am the king of irrational angerment through the application of this and c.

hate you open a door to go in/out of somewhere, and the person on the other side automatically assumes you're opening it for them and steps out/in. esp when there are double doors, and you could just use the other damn door.

having managed to get confused by a door saying PUSH in vertical lettering from the other side of the door. Can't quite work out how I transposed that to read forwards instead of backwards letters and I'm standing there in front of the desk of somebody I'm hoping to work with.
Must look really odd, did work it out but it took me way too long, 30 seconds plus. Hope it isn't the sign of an aneurysm coming on or something. or extended hypochondria.