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

My boss does that, too - the Doppler talking. And he doesn't raise the volume as he gets farther away.

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

Do mobile phone boarding passes work by scanning a QR code on the phone's screen or by RFID?

The one the CTA is contemplating would be RFID, which is what makes it cool.

this is a boring one but i have to find a new IM client for my work's website because meebo is shutting down (thanks google) and one of the requirements is that it can't be flash-based (because our site won't support it). but none of the sites for these products indicate whether they are flash-based; the only way to find out is to go through the whole registration process and get the embed code. i've registered for like four clients today, none of which we'll be able to use.

okay that blows

:(

also some of them are ad-supported and that's not always obvious either

HULK SMASH

I don't think Herman Miller should be allowed to design cubicles until he has worked in one for at least three years. Those little desks do not look very practical.

This is the companion to my theory that Helmut Jahn has always had a housekeeping which is why he designed a building with visible but unreachable filth collecting spaces that are impossible to keep clean.

It's too late on a Friday for me to start getting into what I would do to Herman Miller if I saw him.

Haha if I worked at those desks I would help you.

I sometimes wish that office buildings still had those memo tubes.

for food!

Has anyone seen one of those lately besides at a bank?

Even the drugstore just has this ratty little cage that goes up and down on a track, no vacuum.

And okay, quickly, what kind of sick fuck designs ROUND DRAWERS for use in busy offices?

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/12-1-3.jpg

Until they make ROUND PAPER or CURVED WRITING UTINSILS or SPHERICAL STAPLERS AND TAPE DISPENSERS, they aren't needed or wanted.

wtf

omg that is horrible! don't you want to throw it out the window 9 times a day?

rhetorical question

Thing that was dumb but I didn't get IA at, but rolled my eyes at:

A young woman riding alone at the front of a medium full bus answered and spoke on her phone at the volume and enunciation level one would use when speaking to a small group of people - loud and projected, but not yelling. After a moment she said, "Listen, I'm on a bus so I can't talk long because I don't want to be that girl." Then she babbled for a while about job that evening as an extra in some movie and how the director hand picked her for the "role" at a bar b/c she had a look, but y'know, "no biggie," blah blah blah.

After a few minutes of this show, she told the person on the other end that she had to go b/c she didn't want to be that girl who "ugh -- talks on her phone on the bus", but it was just such a big night for her (?? yet "no biggie"?) that she had to say something.

The part that that made her so special to me: She hung up and without looking around, announced more loudly than she had been talking: "I am SO. SORRY. everybody."

Sorry to step on your post, pp. Your drawers suck.

newsflash to that girl

omg that is horrible! don't you want to throw it out the window 9 times a day?

what window http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/images/mockery/emoticons/suicide.gif

Omg @ that girl!

xp That desk does truly suck, Jesus. Never have I been so grateful for my boring yet large desk. At my old office we had those tubes, we still used them to drop the mail down the chute to a large pickup bin, I got a kick out of it every time.

oh pp I am so sorry I am sending you a thousand hugs and a window

the other building of my work had Lamson tubes until last year, RIP :(

(I don't think they'd been used for a few years before that but there was also a clanking, wheezing conveyor belt of trays which went all round the building through the different floors, and that was still in use. not any more, both been ripped out, whole building getting rebuilt)

those tubes fascinate me. I would send all kinds of things through them

Lots of old office buildings still have mail drop shafts on each floor, and some even look like they get cleaned and maintained for esthetics, but I've never seen one still in use, unfortunately. Im really into chutes and tubes! I used to LOVE using my friend's 11th floor trash chute.

that sounds fun, I think I am a chutes/tubes person too

I'm more of a

http://www.hasbro.com/common/productimages/en_US/8ec0a8e06d4010148bf09efbf894f9d4/8BCA860219B9F36910C26A466044DE0C.jpg

type.

QUIT USING THE WORD "PORN" FOR THINGS THAT AREN'T PORNOGRAPHIC.

AN INSTAGRAM TAG DEVOTED TO PRETTY CLOUDS SHOULDN'T BE CALLED #CLOUDPORN UNLESS THE CLOUDS ARE FUCKING.

THERE IS NOTHING EROTIC OR SENSATIONAL OR EXPLOITIVE OR TITILATING ABOUT CLOUDS.

This is worse than putting "-gate" at the end of political scandals.

Stay tuned for more updates in the #porngate #pplainsgate scandal here on ILX

a man who's gotten burned in one too many google searches for cloudporn

"but they said you could find anything on the internet!" *sob*

"grumble grumble...fuckin' clouds"

I was looking for stuff like abandoned towns like Chernobyl earlier today and found a subreddit called ABANDONEDPORN. No, it's not about Playboys left in the woods, but deserted malls and such. But, I don't know how much browsing I can do at work from a website called ABANDONEDPORN.

Then a follower on Instagram posts some fluffy clouds and it's #CLOUDPORN all over the place. Look, fellas, I don't know what the definition of porn is, but I know it when I see it AND THAT'S NOT PORN. So quit skeeving me out.

0101100110011000010011010101001001100110011000110110011001001001100110110100100110011001011111011101101101101011011011011011000100100100100101101010101010101001 GEEK PORN

that's hott

Christ.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whipartist/sets/72157594438945604/

NO SUCH THING AS FLOWER PORN

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Series-I-White-Blue-Flower-Shapes.jpg

The epitome of the worst: http://www.foodporn.net/

http://statigr.am/tag/cloudporn

http://distilleryimage10.s3.amazonaws.com/5da7c982bcd711e1abb01231382049c1_7.jpg]

(This one's actually not so bad.)

#wheatporn

#yeastporn

#WilliamYeastPornMoon

On the bride website I visited prewedding the category for wedding photo posts was WeddingPorn. There was BouquetPorn, InvitationPorn, DressPorn, etc. Killed me but also slowly broke me and I use it sometimes now. ;_;

Searching for renovation tips on a house just like yours and finding stuff that is extremely commercial and flashy. I hate criticizing someone's work when obviously they know what they are doing. However, all I think is that some poor person now has a beautiful old house lit up like a tv studio!

In other news, I just unearthed this (from last year's Spin). It gets this way sometimes:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/richhunt35/tfaslawlitigation.jpg

people with smartphones or whichever phones make your texting appear like a chat convo not understanding that other people still have normal old 2G phones with old-fashioned texting and then blowing my phone up like

this

you know?

uuuuugh

i just

like, FUCK, i almost got done reading the first three words of your first text but you keep sending MORE texts and i just have to wait for my fucking phone to stop buzzing for five minutes before i try to piece it all together

and apparently iphones don't get charged per text. SOME OF US DO

that drives me bonkers

I should buy you a new phone.

... you get charged for receiving texts!? Yike. I pay $40 a month prepaid and I can call or txt completely unlimited.

I text for free and I don't even have a mobile account.

I'm one of those weird guys you see parked in front of McDonalds or Chik-Fil-A sometimes, but hey.