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

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?

http://edgecastcdn.net/800034/www.perpetualkid.com/productimages/lg2/PLAT-1000-SET.jpg

Apple sauce. Kid food staple.

my friend in SF told me she was graduating college and I was all 'yay congrats!! What are you doing next??' Etc and she was all err i'm going back next year, so I felt dumb. But really wtf is that.

Apple sauce should not appear on the same plate as a pea. Or a tomato based pasta sauce.

If your own kid is graduating from kindergarten, I suppose can see going because it's your kid and little kids in caps and gowns (they actually wear caps and gowns! For kindergarten graduation!!!) are probably pretty amusing BUT I have coworkers who take days off work to go to their grandchildren/niece/nephew's mid-stream graduation ceremonies and I get that I have a distant relationship with my extended family but are you really going to take a day off work for that? You have like eight grandchildren, and they are all going to freaking graduate from kindergarten.

I mean, that's going to eat up all of your paid time off going to all of those stupid, meaningless graduation ceremonies.

IA at people who say they are quitting smoking while they bum a cigarette from you. YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYONE!

People who walk alongside their shopping cart instead of pushing it from behind. Thanks for taking up the whole aisle, peehole!

Oh man, that apple sauce reminds me of seeing sputum pots at people's bedsides when I was a hospital cleaner

You guys ruin the joy of apple sauce.

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

Totally agree w/this.

We should be friends.

the title of this thread, theres already a name for this phenomenon 'pet peeve', theres prob already multiple threads, but no ilx needed a trademark unwieldy cutesy title to get really get roiling

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

look how it just drips w/unfounded self regard and faux self deprecation, ew gross

(a list thread)

B-)

this thread's been here for *how* long & you're just swinging by to say that now

i guess it doesnt bother me that much

This thread only exists for people to be curmudgeonly, so go on carl.

Apple sauce should not appear on the same plate as a pea. Or a tomato based pasta sauce.

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I basically only ate apple sauce and ravioli for dinner every night between the ages of 8 and 11.

BUT I have coworkers who take days off work to go to their grandchildren/niece/nephew's mid-stream graduation ceremonies

When Beeps graduated pre-K a few weeks ago, my father was shocked that he wasn't invited. I had to tell him, "it was at 8:30 in the morning in a crowded lunchroom and even Beeps realized the futility of it all."

I did invite him btw

Senility is a bitch.

why do they have to make the subways freezing? and in fact, all buildings are freezing once it gets remotely summery in NY. my commute is an hour, so for the first 20 minutes I'm fine, and then for 40 minutes I'm FREEZING. i have to carry around a full on jacket with me in the summers.

(and then I sit at my desk in a freezing office)

I feel you about the freezing office but I will take a freezing train car over one that's too hot any day. Especially during rush hour when I am closer to strangers' warm, fragrant arm pits that anybody should be.

yesterday it was a beautiful 70 degrees outside and the heat was on in the train car, it was awful

yeah, i appreciate the air conditioning, but it's like there's no setting between OFF to FULL BLAST AIR. Can't we find some middle ground?

My office gets crazy in other ways. We had a string of 80º+ spring days before it dropped suddenly back down into the low 60s. Came to work that day and the office heater was cranking everything back up closer to 70º.

I get why ice cold subway cars or buses might bother some people, but let it comfort you to know that some of us get great joy out of it. Frrrreeezing El cars are one of my most favorite things, especially when I get a window seat on a hot day and I can lean on the vent.

I wonder if there is actually no thermostat on subway cars, only on and off for A/C and heat.

I loooooove freezing subway cars, offices and stores.

this is why everyone should work from home

actually 75% of the posts on this thread could be summarized as "this is why everyone should work from home"

or "this is why no one should ever leave their home"

That is a good idea.

Then we can all post on ILX more.

Best to stay off the internet, that's pretty annoying too.

Mind you there's plenty to annoy me in my home. Why do hot taps slow to a trickle after you turn them on? Then you open them up fuller, and they slow again, etc etc.

the heat expands the rubber washer

a likely story

I get why ice cold subway cars or buses might bother some people, but let it comfort you to know that some of us get great joy out of it.

this is of no comfort to me at all!! but i'm semi-used to it in that i complain about it every year at about this time, and each time i do, i sound astonished that it's still like that.

The A/C situation in my office sucks for me b/c my office/cube area has no vents, but my boss' office has two of them, but she is always cold and she hates A/C. I have a fan on at my desk year-round.

Actually, I have a fan on at home year-round, too. Ceiling fan is only off when I'm away and I also sleep w/ a fan blowing on my torso.