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

^I lol'd

I know she's not Scottish but reading yr post onimo, all I could think of was Kelly from 'Misfits'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox0EckmB9tQ

Youtube/Channel 4 blocking what was free to air content in the UK makes me rationally angry.

oh boooooooo what a boonch of cooonts

sorry dude :(

it's ok I know who you mean, the fookin rocke' scien'ist

C4 lets me watch three complete series of Misfits on Youtube but not an 18 second clip wtf

http://www.youtube.com/show/misfits

I seriously love that show so much. especially her

Paying with a card for anything that cost less that $10 - carry one cash, people!

I used a debit card on a $6 purchase at lunch. But I was buying bird seed, which is an expense that my husband & I share - so I comes out of our joint account! I know $6 is a quibbly amount but damnit, half my money is in that account and it adds up since I do 90% of our grocery/etc shopping!

I used a card twice today for £5 purchases. Fuck one cash, it's time we got rid.

When we get some Oyster-like RFID shit, yeah - when it takes you an extra 30 seconds for the computer to talk to the bank via the internet, get the hell out of my way.

Omino, I imagine that you saw this person on the train http://i.imagehost.org/0444/vicki_pollard_lead_203x152.jpg

numerous xps

You stay outta MY way, Farrell. ;D

You have not been stuck in line behind an older person or a lady w long nails, poking through their purses or wallets for that last nickel, and then making the cashier bag their coffee and packaged food item individually? Because shut up, it doesn't take even half the time for me to swipe a credit card.

Haha yes fair enough - I had forgotten that most US credit cards require you to swipe and sign (and sometimes not even sign?), which is closer to the RFID stuff, but without any of that inconvenient security.

YOU MAY PASS, AMERICA

Swipe and key in a PIN. Although some places have RFID (or similar tech by another name) capability. I've seen it at some drug stores and McDonald's.

I think a lot of places where speed is a thing, like breakfast and lunch cafes near big office buildings, will swipe and not even sign if it's under $10 or something? Supa-fast.

yeah credit cards are way faster for me. it's easy access (i keep it in my back pocket with my subway card) and i can just swipe--but if I need cash, I have to rummage for my wallet and then get out the cash and then take the change and put it back in my wallet and then put the wallet back in my bag and then grab my things and THEN i can go

I've been meaning to go to an atm to get some cash for something like 3 weeks, but I'm actually getting used to making all these $5 credit card transactions

My ATM is this place called Walgreens.

Nothing like going through the line with a box of diapers and a Frappacino to end it with "yes that's right now you GIVE ME the money."

Starbucks does the swipe and no sign/no pin thing. The Walgreens/McDonald's things I'm thinking of have a little... flange at the top and you just touch your card to it and it debits your account without need of a pin or a signature.

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8413/30820hipaypass.jpg

Like so.

On further searching, it seems this process is known as "contactless payment."

aka RFID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_payment

Yep! Transport for London uses them for their public transport - they are the future and it is awesome.

I'm seeing some smart phone payment systems start popping up at sandwich shops and coffee shops. You install an app that links to a credit or debit card, then at the business, the app displays a QR code on your screen, which is scanned by a smart phone that is fixed to the counter. Not as convenient as a card, IMO b/c you have to find the app and open it, but it's a step in a cool direction.

The CTA was making noises about a system where passengers could use smart phones as a boarding pass the same way a we use a proximity card now. That sounds like good news.

Yep! Transport for London uses them for their public transport - they are the future and it is awesome.

we have this in l.a. as well -- the TAP card system.

http://la.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01_15/1_20_09_TAP.jpg

I used a, uh, contactless payment device on the Coke machine at the train station by my work. It processed my payment, and then when it was dispensing my Coke Zero, it churned out a load of coins from around the world. There were 2 or 3 Euros of different denominations, a few Mexican Pesos, some Colombian coins, and a few Canadian nickels and dimes (are they called that in Canada?) and some U.S. coins. Cool machine.

I'm seeing some smart phone payment systems start popping up at sandwich shops and coffee shops. You install an app that links to a credit or debit card, then at the business, the app displays a QR code on your screen, which is scanned by a smart phone that is fixed to the counter. Not as convenient as a card, IMO b/c you have to find the app and open it, but it's a step in a cool direction.

I have something like that sitting here on my desk, except it's reversed. It's a little slider that I plug into the headphone slot and I can take your credit card, swipe it and get a deposit into my paypal acct.

I've never used it, but I got it for free. Figured that maybe it would come in handy one day at a garage sale or lemonade stand.

once saw someone use his card to buy one (1) 25p orange at one of the self service tills in tescos.

We have contactless transit cards, too. I love them.

http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/page_header_images/680banner_ccatpiu.jpg

For no reason, here is our mayor riding the train:

http://www.chicagonow.com/cta-tattler/files/2012/04/Rahm-on-L-Mich-Mag-photo-624x468.jpg

Our last mayor rode the streetcar to work. <3 This one drives his damn minivan right downtown.

People reading newspapers on public transit make me IA.

Whaaaa? People reading is always* better than the alternative!

*not always

What's the alternative? Farting?

I presume it's because many with newspapers think that they then are permitted to completely violate the space of those sitting next to them with a spread out newspaper.

I"ve never seen Rahm on the train, even though we share an el stop. He probably leaves for work a good couple of hours before I do, though.

Yeah we have tap and go T cards here in Boston too.

If Rahm was on the train with me, I don't know if I'd be able to refrain from telling him some concerns and really great ideas I have about the city of Chicago. At length. So really I wouldn't blame him if he chose to drive to work these days.

I would stare at his hand the whole time.

the WHOLE time.

I seriously doubt he drives himself.

The CTA was making noises about a system where passengers could use smart phones as a boarding pass

British Airways has a mobile check-in/boarding pass app.

United has that too. I kind of hate it because my battery runs down standing in security having it ready to go. then again while boarding. It's a delicate dance in airports to maintain sufficient battery life.

the whole using your smartphone for boarding passes/paying for things/etc. thing is almost certainly going to be future source of irrational anger for me as I often forget to recharge my phone.

people who walk around the office on a hands free when they're on a call, yelling their conversation to show how big their wang is. my office is full of these total savages.

I definitely miss the days when people walking around talking loudly to nobody just meant that they were crazy

thise fucking M&M's characters !!!!

They're not too bad. The problem is when I'm watching internet videos and see them every. fucking. time. That or the guy falling out of a plane and having the car built around him by skydivers.

they have made me rue the day jungle warriors demanded a chocolate that would nto melt

Dude on Grooveshark who says he's already made it in his mind because he's gotten to go on tour.

And that little riff that plays during the Spotify ads. Ha, okay, I see now how you're going to force me to pay for this thing, good job.