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

It was on my mind b/c the office dog just did it while I was meeting with my boss.

I'm wearing Spanx under my tight dress which means I couldn't get at it very easily ;_; I suffer for fashion. I went into the bathroom after a long enough nail drying period & fixed it slightly.

Ask a very close friend or a very hated enemy to pull the wedgie out for you.

I'm wearing Spanx under my tight dress which means I couldn't get at it very easily ;_; I suffer for fashion.

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just a way of saying "…. well then."

Some of you might do this and I hope you take no offense, but I really, really have no idea why anyone bothers to post fucking album covers on their Instagram feeds. Maybe I'll start posting William Eggleston photos or something.

ah, fair enough. What can I say.. Spanx smooth you out & make you feel more secure ;) Keeps the beer belly from jiggling about so..

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pp kryptonite

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at least it's not instagrammed

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ffm your smile in that pic oddly reminds me of an ex! weeeeird

you don't remember our years together, dude?

must not considering I thought it was months

dearest housemate, why would you set up residence for the evening in the kitchen? why would anyone choose the kitchen as a place to chill by themselves? i just want to go and mooch around for some food and i'm exhausted and really can't talk right now.

wow lex, you go into the kitchen?
(joeks bruv)

Every open house we went to, the real estate agent would say the same thing, "The kitchen is fast becoming the most social area of the home!" Even my best friend tried that one on me as we sat on bar stools surrounding his Corian island. "Look where we are right now!"

To which I wanted to reply, "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE THE HOST AND LED ME HERE." But I didn't say that because I wanted to be nice and besides, he was making ribs.

Computer screen having a menu that I can't get rid of blocking a section of everything I try to look at on the computer. Keep getting rid of it for a while then having it coming back and not being able to lose it, think I might need to get a replacement.
won't respond to the buttons on the front, won't permanently disappear.
Not sure if I can turn the screen off when its showing, hasn't turned off before.
very much does my head in.

wow lex, you go into the kitchen?
(joeks bruv)

reluctantly and i don't want anyone observing me while i scavenge pitifully for food

i'm kinda with lex on that one, few things are more subtly uncomfortable than having someone watch you go through the fridge.

kinda glad it's not just me, i feel slightly mental by disliking it so much

maybe housemate is hanging out in the kitchen because they are lonely/in the mood to socialize?

but i don't understand why she's set up camp in the kitchen. go and read and surf the internet in your room like a normal person! or the LIVING ROOM. not the kitchen!

xp i actually think that's what it is. i am fucking exhausted though, it's not that i don't want to talk to her it's that i don't want to talk to anyone. i want to grab some food and then go to sleep

actually you're not alone, I end up picking the thing I'm *not* wanting to eat if someone is watching me go through the fridge, bcs I get performance anxiety

my flat doesn't have a living room, meaning that the kitchen is ostensibly the social zone. the result is that i see my flatmates for about ten minutes a week (esp with my lex-esque diet).

Hanging out in the kitchen alone might be a little odd, but pplain's realty agents are otherwise right - it's where every social gathering winds up.

It's where the beer is.

speaking of this, people who might have "helpful suggestions" in the kitchen while i cook

people who just want to stand around and cage bites are cool

it's really too hot in there for me.

the opposite end of IA is my friend who's still learning to cook, but knows the basics, will cook dinner for me and stand there and talk, back to the stove, while whatever is sauteeing, sauteeing, sauteeing....hmm sorta might be sauteed enough now could do with a stir...um yeah starting to burn now 'HEY HOW ABOUT I STIR WHILE YOU PREP'

* albums released on vinyl but not CD
* people who talk endlessly about GI and omega-3 fatty acids
* getting really bad asthma for the first time in 20 years
* the success of the Avengers meaning everybody won't shut up about hack Joss Wheedon's alleged genius

This is kinda innocuous because usually getting your food quick is better than a painfully long wait, but, we ordered Chinese and were told it would take "at least an hour" for the food to be delivered. Fine, fairly standard, so my wife left for her run. It showed up in 11 minutes. Arrrgh.

lol, yeah that can really go either way, can't it. ALREADY? HOORAY or GODDAMMIT YOU SAID AN HOUR

"Uh yeah, your pizza's been up there for the last 20 minutes."

* albums released on vinyl but not CD

Um. Why would you ever even want to buy something on CD now? Just buy it off itunes and then burn it, jeez. If you want an artefact then buy vinyl, a CD is and always has been a shit artefact.

I completely disagree with that, but, thats for another thread.

Why would you ever even want to buy something on CD now?

Without getting into a whole old-school, new-school thing, I like having physical things (booklet, disc) that I can play in my car, and on the various stereos throughout the house, without having to turn on the computer and load up and charge up an iPod and buy a dock, etc etc. And half the time burned CDs don't seem to play on normal stereos.

Not innocuous; ELECTRIC HOBS are the most frustrating things ever invented >:(

doth i protest too much

I had to bring myself over here after reading this song title on the most hilarious Alanis post-Jagged Little Pill album title thread: people who use archaic verb forms and then conjugate them wrongly

I mean I'm not really thinking you should consult a pre-1600 grammar book every time you think you'll go for a cheap Olde Englysshe gag but if it's one you're writing down for posterity you could spend like 0.7 seconds thinking "have I read/heard this ending paired with this pronoun in some actual old text? if not, is there an ending I have seen used with this pronoun? and if not, should I shut the fuck up and not try to be clever/lolzy?"

or, "th" and "st" are not just icing sugar to sprinkle randomly at the end of words to go "look, I am smart and also ironic and/or a magickal pixie LARP faery", please

PS if I seem even more irrationally angry than usual it's because I have one of those c*w*rkers who got in trouble once for taking too much sick leave and consequently every time she has any time off she spends the next 3 weeks making theatrical nose & throat noises all day and talking about how terrible she feels and how early she went to bed last night and how she hopes she hasn't given us any germs because what she has is the most terrible plague ever and clearly still contagious but The Man won't let her keep her germs away from us and my NERVES are a little FRAYED

and it was either this or draw an MS Paint diagram of how a jogger offended me this morning

i'd like to see that!

dearest housemate, why would you set up residence for the evening in the kitchen? why would anyone choose the kitchen as a place to chill by themselves? i just want to go and mooch around for some food and i'm exhausted and really can't talk right now.

Feel like 'innocuous things your roommates do' could be it's own thread!

Without getting into a whole old-school, new-school thing, I like having physical things (booklet, disc) that I can play in my car, and on the various stereos throughout the house, without having to turn on the computer and load up and charge up an iPod and buy a dock, etc etc. And half the time burned CDs don't seem to play on normal stereos.

Totally OTM; it's so bizarre to me paying for something intangible. It's fine for *now* until your hard drive crashes or your laptop gets stolen or whatever; you buy a CD and you don't have to worry about migration or compatability or etc. Also, used CD bins are so fun.

Back up your data.

And buy blanks and burn a copy. And print the booklet. And put them in jewel cases and then print tray cards for those jewel cases so you can look at them on a shelf and quickly grab the one you want.

they have this thing now called 'The Cloud'. Look into it.

Well when it starts suddenly working with all car CD players and stereos and I can go to the cloud and flip through people's used files and grab stuff that catches my eye that I'd probably never otherwise actively seek out, then I'll consider it heavily.

I mean in terms of losing your stuff. cant lose it in the cloud so easily.

also if you use your ipod/phone with your car stereo then its all there

Well sure, but most of them are a yearly fee and also losing stuff is just one of several reasons; even if you fix that there are still others.