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

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.

But I have way too many CDs to fit on my iPhone and streaming them
costs precious data and all of this is more of a hassle to me than just grabbing a CD and bringing it with me. Also it's cool to lend/share stuff with people which I still do.

buying used music media is rad, fuck a cloud

okay dudes. just trying to chill the irrational anger up in here

buying used music media is rad, fuck a cloud

This. I mean, I found a copy of Engineers' Three Fact Fader used for $1 the other day. Which was great. Sure, I could've bought it on iTunes for $9.99, but why? Thats kinda what bums me out about iTunes dominating the ability to purchase music, the prices will always remain stagnant. I can't even begin to count how many albums I've bought simply because they were cheap used copies.

Oh, I wasn't saying you shouldn't buy CDs/physical media. Whatever makes you happy. But if you were worried about losing hypothetical mp3s, you probably aren't backing up your data, and you should back up your data.

plus buying used music allows me to be pleased with myself for supporting independent sellers. take that, corporate america. yeah.

the local guy in my town is an asshole. like larry david without the charisma.

- People who think there's a superior choice between physical media and streamed or digitally stored copies of the same

- we backup all our digital media but I still buy a lot of cds. And part of it is I still like having the physical *thing*, I like having shelves of cds on display, it's kinda comforting to me. same with books. but if for some horrible reason our backup fails and all our mp3s disappear, I still have the music in its original format. heck I kept my stupid old discman just in case all the ipods in the house die and I need to listen to a cd, lol. there's probably not a lot of logic in that, but I guess the bottom line is haters can blow it out their ear (tee hee)

and I love used record stores

well not 'record' but music

- people who post responses to IA fake bullet points as fake bullet points

- you mean like this? *dances*

dancing on a thin line there, vg

- sorry I can't hear you, too busy dancing

OMG CDs or books 'on display' is def in my top five IAs. You read it? Recycle that shit. Why is it on the shelf still?? Burned that cd? Sell it. Fuck a bookcase.

Jeff? Is that you?

Exceptions: home office, studio or library.

Carl, might as well be. We have the same thoughts.

;_;

I like having stuff to pull out and read again but I kind of get what you mean

i used to think sunny's talk was pure blasphemy, but I've gotten into getting rid of stuff.

I've got a closet full of records, some of them I'm quite certain I'll never play again. Why am I hanging on to them then?

I used to date someone who ordered records even though she had no player. She just like to be in the same room with them. Now that's crazy.