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

She's very religious.

So's mine.

yeah, in general i think my work has a good approach to these things -- these happy hours won't be during work hours and will be completely optional -- and it's actually the result of staff complaining about a lack of this type of thing and wanting more interaction with work colleagues (we have plenty of happy hours organized by ourselves, but evidently people don't want to have to walk the 5 blocks to a bar). i prefer our self-organized ones, because at least i can order whiskey! but it'll probably be fun, i should chill. (sorry to hear about these religious bosses who are anti-booze!)

- I know there are smokers 'round these parts and I'm sorry but I'm on week three of this amazing illness that started in my ears and has settled comfortable in my chest and twice today I've walked past people smoking on the sidewalk and gotten facefulls of smoke, and then two other times I rode in the elevator with someone who was either a heavy smoker or had recently smoked and dear lord, I thought I was going to die from coughing. Everybody just quit smoking, goddammit!

- people who step into an elevator and look around idiotically and say, "Is this going up?" and then people say, "No, it's going down" and they go, "Oh!" all surprised like how could an elevator ever be going in a direction where they are also not planning to go, and then get out, usually flailing their stupid arms between the closing doors. Bonus points if they flailed their way past a closing elevator door to come in and ask the elevator's direction. Extra IA on this because not only are there lighted arrows the doors indication the direction, the "ding" is different for up and down, AND when the elevator doors open a voice announces the direction the elevator is fixing to travel.

That last bit describes elevators in my building. Triple IA because those elevators are always fucked up in some way, and the ratio to down elevators descending one floor to the food court to up elevators ascending to the entire rest of the building are, probably due to some Satanic algorithmic programmed by Helmut Jahn during a mean drunk, about 4 to 1 so it takes forever for an elevator to arrive, meaning they are always crazy packed (with people who reek like cigarettes).

I'm thisfuckingclose to drawing a huge chalk arc on the sidewalk in front of our building to show the smokers what 15 fucking feet looks like. No, standing directly in front of the door breathing smoke into the faces of everyone entering and exiting doesn't quite cut it.

Sometimes I am IA about how it's impossible to open a window in summer without someone smoking right underneath it and all their smoke coming into my living room, but then before the indoor smoking ban it was impossible to open a window in summer without someone mowing a lawn and endless hours of mower noise and nose-itching cut grass fumes wafting in, and then there's always the wasps, so

I think what we're all learning here is that IA is a state of mind.

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sometimes i wish i were still a smoker so i could get back at the upstairs neighbors who stomp around 24/7 and blow smoke in their general direction, but alas i am restricted to staring balefully at the ceiling after every stomp.

Use a broom, do morse code back at them!

My office never does birthday or holiday celebrations due to one of the eight of us being a jehovahs witness, which honestly is great as it minimizes forced socializing. But we have somewhat frequent exhibit openings and my boss is always super eager to get a university alcohol permit for them.

I'm normally begrudgingly tolerant of smokers having been one myself for quite some time, but the upper respiratory issues are making my patience for inhaling somebody else's particulate matter pretty thin.

ffm, i wish i could, but it only makes them stomp harder in response. (I've tried to knock on their door abt it but they don't open the door for me)

sometimes i wish i were still a smoker so i could get back at the upstairs neighbors who stomp around 24/7 and blow smoke in their general direction, but alas i am restricted to staring balefully at the ceiling after every stomp.

1. pee in dish.
2. put pee-dish in freezer.
3. freeze.
4. remove frozen pee from dish.
5. slide it under neighbors' door like a frisbee while they're at work.

haha. i've had thoughts about buzzing their door at 3 am but am way too paranoid and guilt-ridden to pull any revenge schemes off with satisfaction.

- the only task I have to complete today is the same task I complete every Wednesday.
A) customer sends files b) I shepherd the files through the system and make sure nothing goes pearshaped.

today we had a breakdown in step A because customer failed to complete self-explanatory step A)i): check that the files are sent.
it took me telling them I don't have it for them to even look. RAGH RAGH RAGH RAGH.

pplains is a revenge genius!!

woah pp! Nicely done!
That sucks rayuela :( Vengeful and boorish is the worst! (Unless people I like are being vengeful, in which case it's okay.)

I've been saying "x is my jam" for like 6 years tbh

smuckers is my jam

def is my jam

When people think that not practicing or otherwise not making an effort to rehearse is OK because at the show we can just jazz it out, man.

No. No, people don't really say that. They can't, can they? Really??

I would kill those ppl

^^

Improvising is not an excuse for not learning the material.

It is also not just making shit up, always grinds my gears when ppl assume that about jazz and related.

hang on which one of you is saying improvisation isn't making shit up, i need to know who to be IA at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy-Y3HJNU_s

I should clarify what I said: improvisation isnt just making *any old random shit* up. Obviously there's a level of "winging it" involved though.

I got nothing against improv. I'm saying if you are lazy and never want to practice and when you do practice you only learn part of the material....then justify your sloth and inflate your ego by saying it's like "jazz" or "noise" or "avant-garde" rather than just you not wanting to put in an effort.

i think HDTV makes me IA, but i don't really understand anything about tv specs so i'm not sure if that's it

or it might be LCD tvs? the sports bar where i do trivia has tons of TVs and one big one in the middle, and i just look at it and wonder why anyone would pay so much money for that picture. everything about it is weird and looks like it was shot on a really hi-def camcorder. sort of nauseating. film trailers suddenly look like pizza hut commercials. everyone looks sweaty and the movement/panning is awkward and shaky. the background/foreground juxtaposition makes it look like a moving viewfinder.

please tell me this is not the future of television and people don't actually like it

everyone looks sweaty

I have definitely noticed this a lot, especially on news and sports. People look greasy.

what you guys are irrationally angry about is motion interpolation which is on by default on many tvs these days. It makes pretty much everything look like it was shot on video.

yeah they have a tv with that motion interpolation in the lobby of my office, it makes a of the older standard movies look HORRIBLE

thankfully our home tv is slightly older and doesn't have this. I don't think I want it, honestly.

Would interpolation be a factor in video shot a TV studio? Announcers and reporters look the greasiest to me.

Interpolation is likely the cause, but another factor may be that announcers and reporters - male and female - have been caking and greasing themselves up for 60 years. The first reflex once HDTV came along was to apply more cake and grease to hide any wanton liver spots. And of course, this made them look even worse.

So the irony that's coming to live local television with HD is the counter-instinct that less works better now than ever before.

Our TV has settings dumbed down for dummies that change this. They are labeled sports, movies, some other shit I can't remember. Sports is the one that makes everything look like how soap operas look.

Yeah I hate that motion interpolation thing to, so annoying. Glad our TV is just old enough not to have it.

Poetry. It is rare now that I read a poem that doesn't make my eyes roll. I use to be really into it as a kid and into my thirties but for a few years now, it makes me irrationally angry.

My best friend's husband wrote her poems when he was trying to impress her and she'd send them to me to read to see what I thought. Blehk, I decided then the most deplorable poetry is the kind men write to women in an attempt to impress and undress. I am still convinced, for the most part, that men write one poem and just keep recycling it with each new female. They've been married ten years and we still laugh about the "poetry".

THAT'S what it's called!!!! I always wondered why HDTV'S make everything look like it was shot on video. So awful, but still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.

Soap Opera Effect
The "video" look is a byproduct of the perceived increase in framerate due to the interpolation and is commonly referred to as the "Soap Opera Effect" after the way those shows looked, having been shot on cheaper 30 fps video instead of regular broadcast equipment or film.[16] Some complain that the effect ruins the theatrical look of cinematic movies.[10] Others appreciate motion interpolation as it reduces motion blur produced by camera pans and shaky cameras and thus yields better clarity of such images. For this reason, almost all manufacturers have built in an option to turn the feature off. The soap opera effect can also be known as "Judder adjustment" or "Judder Removal"[17] This "video look" is created deliberately by the VidFIRE technique to restore archive television programs that only survive as film telerecordings.[18]

still not as awful as idiots who don't care what aspect ratio setting their set is on and watch things stretched and then bitch about black bars on the side when you try to fix it.

Arg. Yes. Also, if the TV has a setting to turn off the soap opera effect, people should turn it off if they don't like it! This is like in the olden days when the default resolution setting for computer monitors was like 600 x 800 and people (without visual impairments) would use their computer like that without changing it.

well the only time i see it is at a bar. i'm worried that everyone else likes it. and then it'll slowly become standard.

Paper towel dispensers that are packed so full that no matter how hard you try to just pull one out, another thirty come falling behind it.

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy to turn off the motion interpolation.

zachlyon next time you're in a bar with the motion interpolation turned on (and I agree - I usually see the terrible stretched out images on HD TVs in bars, too) demand the remote and fix it for them.

My dad does the stretched out image on his TV so he can use the entire screen. Which definitely makes me irrationally angry.