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

Glaring WTF moments in translated subtitles. (usually during National Geographic/Discovery/History type things where it's not possible to turn the subtitles off)

someone says "menial job" -> dutch: "a man's job"
someone says "dachshund" -> dutch: "chihuahua"
someone says "three weeks" -> dutch: "four weeks"

(I suppose a woman's job would be a womenial job then)

in the last 5 minutes (air crash investigation and something about an oil tanker)

"43 passengers" -> dutch: "42 passengers"
"30 years at sea" -> dutch: "20 years at sea"

People are really being paid for this? Translating must be really really really cheap.

They DID say 43 and it was translated as 42, but on the other hand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_1771 (first line of the article: 43, summary box: 42)

people who bounce when they walk.

people who hassle me for the way i walk

People who go to concerts and stand motionless as if miserable.

Also cosign esoj!

People that don't clap when in a room, facing a band. I don't care if you are motionless during the whole song, but christ, I even clap if I don't like the music. It's just common courtesy. You know we're LIVING in a SOCIETY!

Depends on how bad the band are. If they're just a bit shitty, then yeah, come on, you can clap them for coming out to play, but if they're fucking awful then why bother pretending?

Yeah. I mean personally I will probably clap no matter what. I'm just saying, worse than people just standing there motionless -- standing and watching the performance the whole time -- is when a song is done, some people are clapping, and they just don't show any response. It's too difficult to put down your beer or uncross your arms to clap.

Eh, fuck all audiences. sometimes.

- the amount of different light bulb fittings there are, I have at least five different types at home.

If we can sort mobile phone chargers we can fix this shit.

I just made a FB post grumbling about how sick I am today. WHY WOULD YOU "like" THAT. WHY?

you have no idea how much i am struggling not to go like that now

I was expecting such a response ;P

people who hassle me for the way i walk

yeah i don't actually go up to people who bounce when they walk and tell them to stop. That'd be crazy. i'm just idly staring out of the window or w/e and then past they go BOING, BOING, BOING. And before I know it my brain is doing the sort of uncontrollable somersaults normally associated with gross injustice, while my heart goes into fight or flight mode. I know it's off. Justifiable anger it ain't.

the way i walk is just the way i walk

http://youtu.be/yuxss1kBQWw?t=2m10s

Thought that would be a link to something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaIW7KJXKfQ

Has anyone else noticed that while walking, some people lift their heels differently from others? I have noticed this since grade school and I have only ever talked to one person about; that was in 9th grade and he thought I was crazy. I tried googling it once but I couldn't come up w/ specific enough terms.

Anyway, the thing I'm talking about is that while walking, some people lift the heel of their trailing foot in one motion and others do it in a two-part motion. (Sometimes those people bounce, but not usually, in my observation.) The two-part motion goes: lift heel about 1/2 of full height, infinitesimal pause, lift heel to full height.

It seems like maybe the first part is the heel lifting and the second part is the weight shifting to the front of the foot?

Please somebody tell me you know what I'm talking about!

Yes, definitely. Have noticed the weight shift! I'm extra-noticing of walks.

i am interested in the different kinds of mechanisms behind walking but i can't work out quite what the distinctions are, which is a shame for me because i completely destroy every pair of shoes i get within a few months. it seems that how i walk is by jamming my heels into the ground as violently as possible.

Holy shit, thank you Laurel. You broke a 22 year stretch of isolation on this matter. There *are* others like me out there. I feel like we should frolic about this. In a glen, perhaps.

How have you not noticed that I rail about people's walks in every IA thread or pedestrian thread or escalator thread or ANYTHING?!? I'm nothing if not predictable.

I promised myself a long time ago that no matter how short and stocky I was, or became, I would keep up the habit of walking like a fit/thin person. Which in my mind is to say, in a loose way, with the leg swinging from the hip and traveling straight through an arc, feet pointing straight ahead. Yes, my thighs rub. Yes, it would be easier to walk less gracefully. I just can't bear it, I see other people looking oafish and uncoordinated while walking and I never want to look that way.

Or waddling. I live in fear of being a waddling walker.

My walking IA is when women in high heels have terrible alignment or wobble and I can just picture their hips and knees torquing into dreadful shapes, or worse, imaging their little ankles snapping in half when they inevitably take a tumble.

Laurel, I think we have talked about that before.

Also?

I promised myself a long time ago that no matter how short and stocky I was, or became, I would keep up the habit of walking like a fit/thin person.

ME TOO. I recently went through a terrible phase where I seemed to be constantly whapping people with my hands when I walked and believe me, I got that under control right quick. But yeah, I am very intentional about how I walk. That's also because I live in fear of falling in some spectacular and damaging way so I'm very mindful of where my feet are going.

wide-armed walkers.

I'm glad the three of us are united in this irrational hated! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and like I belong.

I have a new IA:

This person I know how uses "'n stuff" as a verbal tic similar to "like." It's so awkward and terrible. Just try it! Try to say a sentence and instead of saying "like" or "um," say "'n stuff."

XXXPHas anyone else noticed that while walking, some people lift their heels differently from others? I have noticed this since grade school and I have only ever talked to one person about; that was in 9th grade and he thought I was crazy. I tried googling it once but I couldn't come up w/ specific enough terms.

Anyway, the thing I'm talking about is that while walking, some people lift the heel of their trailing foot in one motion and others do it in a two-part motion. (Sometimes those people bounce, but not usually, in my observation.) The two-part motion goes: lift heel about 1/2 of full height, infinitesimal pause, lift heel to full height.

It seems like maybe the first part is the heel lifting and the second part is the weight shifting to the front of the foot?

Please somebody tell me you know what I'm talking about!

― Je55e, Monday, June 18, 2012 12:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom. All from her walk. Of course she does claim that to walk correctly in heels one must walk toe-heel toe-heel.

I had the worst tic of saying "stuff like that" or "things like that" when I was a teenager.

Completely agree that if you're saying ---- uh, stuff like that --- you had better be trying to fix it.

girls in too-high heels who walk like praying mantises have been a peeve/amusement of mine for a long time

I don't always notice walkers but I have a weird thing about how people run. I don't even run myself, I just somehow always notice bad/weird form in ppl who run

How about when someone laughs at something someone said, then says "You're like," and repeats the thing that made them laugh? Total IA.

Even worse, though not as common, is when someone says something that makes someone else laugh, which in turn makes THEM laugh and say "I'm like," and repeat what they just said.

Veg im the same!! and then i think to myself 'well at least theyre actually out there trying, lazy ass loser!' (but im still secretly grossed out)

xp YES! That upsets me! Stop repeating what you just said to each other! Think of some new material!

I've been in social situations where this starts happening and I usually have to excuse myself until it passes.

omg yes, they get caught in a loop of recapping what just happened until I'm like, um YOU WERE ALL THERE! I haaaate that.

oops I just said 'I'm like' -- sorry!

Jesse I remember being in this weird chinese convenience store years ago. I was in a room that came off the main store looking at videos to rent when I heard a tell-tale click clack from the main store. I raced out looked down the aisles and finally saw exactly the person I already knew was there - my Mom.

Sunny, your post starts off spooky. I was hoping that you saw your mom emerging from a candle-lit, smoky room, her feet having been transformed into the hooves of a goat.

I have no real problems walking in high heels. I don't do it very often, but it's not that hard except for watching out for grates in the sidewalk and other obstacles.

xp It was used in acceptable context imo. :)

I hardly wear high heels and when I do I'm paranoid the whole time that I'm walking awkwardly

xp :)

i never walk in high heels because her advice completely confused me as a child. I couldn't work out how you could move forward with this strategy. Seemed like moonwalking or something.

i used to wear heels all the time in high school. now they're like little torture instruments in the sense that i can't walk down a set of stairs without feeling hobbled. i do keep heels in the office though, and change into them when i get here.

This person I know how uses "'n stuff" as a verbal tic similar to "like." It's so awkward and terrible. Just try it! Try to say a sentence and instead of saying "like" or "um," say "'n stuff."

I like to drop an "and whatnot" into the mix every now and then, but not as a nervous placeholder, and only when it's completely nonsensical. "How many fried eggs would you like, and whatnot?"

Would you like a, yknow, or whatnot?

I say "and thing" sometimes

I have a friend who says 'and doodadoodoadoo you know' -- like a yadda yadda thing, most of the time I'm okay with it but every now and then I'm like, wait, what are you not telling me?

My gran-in-law is totally awesome and adorable, and for years has said 'wotsname' if she can't precisely remember a word, or for 'and stuff'-type usage. 'that bread's all wotsname' etc

Wee hundred words a second woman on the train today constantly using "i was like that..." and "she was like that" in place of "I said" and "she said". Also her accent and dropping of letters everywhere made it sound like 'ah wiz li' 'a' "aye right" an' she wiz li' 'a' "shu' up!"'.

I'm irrationally angry at Scottish people basically, despite being one.