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

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waiting to have breakfast outside a restaurant, watched 2 dudes chowing down and one of them was making me seriously IA. like, textbook 'omg I want to jump up and run over and make him stop.'

He was eating his breakfast with just his fork. He'd cut the omelette with his fork...which is fine, people do that. But if the morsel was unwiedly or too big or unbalanced he'd reach up with his free hand and push it on the fork with his fingers. If there was big drippy cheese strands, he'd use his fingers to wind it around the fork. AGH!! A knife was resting on the edge of his plate! it was right there!

Mr Veg said he was put there to test my patience.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, June 9, 2012 11:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NEVER come to Arkansas. Pretty sure most people here are not exactly sure what a dinner knife is for.

For prying open electronic devices and clearing weeds out of brick walkways iirc.

It's for stirring your tea, duh.

It's so much easier to cut food with a knife than it is to hack at it with a fork and tear at it with your fingers. I don't understand the aversion to knife usage.

anything less than this riles me up tbh

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it is pretty common though, I mean breakfast guy wasn't the first to do it, but he was just way more overt with the hand-using thing. Mr Veg doesn't use a knife much, but he keeps his free hand planted while he eats.

I'm having vague memories of an etiquette thread where someone said there was some kind of cultural throwback where Amercians would keep the knife on the table but only use a fork as en eff you to the Britishers. But that seems like a weird thing to be passed down for hundreds of years, lol.

grr

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grr was at broken image, that is correct form. this, otoh: gtfo.

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I try to piss off as many Britishes as I can whenever I eat at the Starlite Diner off MacArthur.

xpost that form is only acceptable if you are playing some kind of food-soccer across the table, where the object is to flip your food onto another person's plate. WTF

It's hard to tell which ones they are until their monocles start dropping at the sight of my unused dinner knife.

I only use a knife when absolutely necessary. Eating with two utensils is just unwieldy.

Nothing wrong w/ cutting an omelet w/ your fork IMO. A steak, probably not. Pushing food onto your fork w/ your fingers is non-negotiably unacceptable, though. Not saying I haven't done it, and that I won't again, but it was and will be wrong and gross.

I know VG wasn't upset by the cutting of the omelet w/ the fork, but I want to go ahead and pick a fight w/ anyone who would find that a reason to be IA. Would my straw man also use a knife to cut off a segment of mashed potatoes?

I'm all or nothing with food finger assistance. If you can use your fingers to eat French fries, then you can use them to nudge some Mac and cheese up on your fork.

why bother with the fork then?

Jeff, I've eaten w/ you many times and I have never noticed you using your fingers very much.

Everyone, Jeff is not as uncivilized as he's portraying himself.

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Carl will vouch for my uncivilization.

Currently annoying the shit out of me: Web pages that refresh automatically in a way that interrupts reading them, ESPECIALLY when there is no compelling reason for them to refresh, such as the CBS affiliate's story about Bloomberg forbidding donations of food to homeless shelters b/c nutritional data can't be ascertained. The page seemed to fully reload, going white for a second, then coming back.

Also, this website that is live-blogging the WWDC. Rather than scrolling the posts, the page completely refreshes and you wind up back at the very top of the page where you can only see the header. WTF a;lsdkjf

ALSO making me mad: Bloomberg forbidding donations of food to homeless shelters b/c nutritional data can't be ascertained

Website annoyances:

When you have a menu bar that goes across a page that gives you subcategories under them when you put your cursor over the right place. Except, the subcategory bar is so skinny that if you try to move your cursor to one, the drop-down either vanishes or turns into another set.

Also, when faced with that, you should be able to click on the category's name and just go to its special page. This does happen about 50% of the time.

University sports pages are the worst. You'll go to a page and be greeted with an ad for SOUTHWEST PALOOKA TECH GOLF CHALLENGE -- CLICK HERE TO PERMANENTLY BYPASS THIS PAGE. Let's just bypass it altogether, shall we?

And when you do get to the school's sports page, it's usually got a slideshow of four pictures rotating. You can't just click on the link. You have to wait for your story to come back around (or press the arrows) and then click on the picture before it takes off again. These are EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES putting this crap together.

I'm done for now.

IA about paying $2.30 for a coffee and not being able to get a single "discounted refill" on it.

Jeff has excellent manners when we eat in public. He can be a disgusting savage at home, but this is America and you can eat like a disgusting savage in your home (as long as you don't make skeevy mouth noises within my hearing). USA USA USA

Eating in front of je55e does not count as eating in public.

So annoyed with work today. Last year they asked me to research and buy a new plotter for our office. Fine, whatever. Did that and apparently I did a good job, because they wanted me to do the same for a new color printer. Done, fine. But now it apparently falls to me by default to figure out what kind of toner to order, where to order it from, who to call, deal with troubleshooting it, blah blah. I hate to be that guy, but this is SO not my job and is keeping me from doing real work for actual clients.

So in short, printers are making me IA today.

Delegate.

pp OTM re all those website annoyances.

Jeff, we've eaten in public together, but what I'm hearing you say is that my presence cancels the publicness.

I've mentioned this particular website before, but quick – Quick, you're on deadline! – which one of these icons would take you to Women's Basketball?

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Fourth from the right? Looks like someone in a ponytail taking a fade away jumper.

Note: it took me at least a minute to reach that conclusion and my first instinct was to pick the one are the far right.

It is fourth from right though I would have also gone with the far right or the third from the right, which looks like someone about to make a Jordanesque dunk.

Fair enough, you can move the cursor over the icon and it will tell you, but COME ON.

Fucking. Stupid.

That's the one I guessed, too, but by process of elimination.

xps

2 and 3 from the left and the last one on the right all look like "running" to me.

Delegate.

I've tried! Everyone I delegate it to just whines because they are too busy, meanwhile I'm getting pressure from above because the problem isn't fixed yet. I understand why its annoying, but, I don't know, make the people who typically deal with this kind of stuff do it!

IA: kindergarten graduation

Why? Is the drop out rate so high that you need to motivate five year olds to finish kindergarten with a ceremony? GTFO.

ha are high school graduation ceremonies supposed to be incentive to not drop out? "i was going to quit school and join a gang but i really really wanted that tassled hat"

We just went through a pre-k graduation.

So there's that and the kindergarten one and I guess the one around fifth grade which will hold us off until the real one at the end of the senior year.

And oh yes, multiply that by two, thx.

I dislike all graduations.

I did not attend kindergarten.

Eighth grade graduation is a thing around here, too, and I am similarly scornful of that. You get a graduation ceremony when you do something notable beyond spend a year in kindergarten/continue to attend school as legally mandated.

You sure are being curmudgeonly today.

In this thread.

I stand in curmudgeonly solidarity with carl.

It seems so dumb to me that I now have to ask 'what year level' or some shit when someone says they're going to graduation ceremonies. Graduation to me was always high school and/or University. THE. END. All this graduating kindergarten and graduating 8th grade and it's like...WHAT HAVE YOU GRADUATED FROM. THERE'S STILL X MORE YEARS LEFT OF YOUR SCHOOLING unless you're graduating kindergarten to go shear sheep on your dad's farm.

ragh.

I mean, I understand how nice it is that everyone gets a prize for doing the thing they're expected to do but COME. ON.

(this is why I love this thread, as you all know. I swear I'm not quite as big of a psycho-spazmo-mcgillicuddy in real life.

Graduation celebrations should go beyond formal education.

Graduating from weed to hard drugs? Have a scroll and a hat. You can roll the scroll tighter and use it to snort shit off the flat part of the hat.

My Jr High class (8th grade) had a graduation in 1971, so it's not a new thing. Nothing previous to that, though.

I never heard of anything other than high school or college graduation until I was grown up and heard about my coddled younger cousins having things like this and it always seemed like bullshit to me. Then again my two high school friends whose parents were from India didn't get any celebration or gifts at all when they graduated high school - you were expected to do that, it wasn't worthy of celebrating. But both of them got cars as graduation gifts from college.

wtf is that gloop next to the peas? Apple mush?

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