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

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

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(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.

i get charged after i hit a limit

is google chrome acting up in general at the moment or is it something I triggered? It used to come back on with the last pages I was on automatically. Has it just been reset to only do that if you synchronise all of google and remain signed in or is something else going on?
really annoying.

also people putting their extremities or knees in your back through public transport seats. thought spacing was such on the local buses that you'd gave to have extremely long legs or deliberately be sitting oddly to be anywhere near the back of the chair in front of you. Still yesterday kept getting jabbed by person behind me.

There's a setting <- not especially helpful I'm aware

I was in a waiting room at lunch and flipped through a Reader's Digest because the cover story was something like "113 OUTRAGEOUS Things That Will Really Piss You Off!" Unfortunately I didn't have to wait long, so the only things I read were a list of dumb lawsuits (ho hum), and a list of OUTRAGEOUS studies that received federal research grants, including money for a study on on-line dating and a study about women's textile craft in medieval Iceland. Studying WOMEN? From ICELAND? OUTRAGEOUS! Also the list was provided to RD by some Republican senator, because nothing says Big Government and Out of Control Spending like paying for people to study a huge, wide-spread, far-reaching phenomenon that changed the way people create romantic relationships. Or like, some women shit.

It was like "Innocuous Things That Make Xenophobic, Naive Senior Citizens Irrationally Angry."

I was going to steal the magazine because it was clearly shaping up to be nonstop hilarity and I wanted to share it with you angry people, but stealing is wrong so I didn't do it.

OH WAIT I think this is it? http://www.rd.com/outrageous/

Or maybe OUTRAGE is a regular feature of Reader's Digest these days? I don't know, but listen, people, I think if we're not careful we're all going to end up like the people who read this section of RD.

THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS has been scaring the hell out of old people in large-text since the 80s.

Meanwhile, they offer $400 for a "joke". WHO'S MORE WASTEFUL, READERS DIGEST?

I'll be damned. I guess I am way behind on my Reader's Digest features.

brb ginning up a stupid joke for "Humor in Uniform" so I can collect my sweet $400 payoff (and donate it to research on Icelandic textile studies).

Ever since seeing "Hot Coffee" i get IA about anyone berating "frivolous lawsuits".

Oh shit, I didn't know they made a movie about that! Presumably it's sympathetic to the plaintiff?

One of my earliest on-line arguments with somebody was in defense of Ms. Liebeck and this lawsuit.

The thing about truly frivolous lawsuits is that they get dismissed or tossed on summary judgment before they go anywhere.

I mean, whatever, people not understanding how the legal system works nonshocker. I spent part of my lunch break trying to convince someone that not all workers' comp claimants are lazy jerks who fake low back injuries seeking an easy payday at their poor employer's expense so I'm not going to get worked up about tort reformers.

I went off on a dude about that hot coffee thing just the other day!

Weird tangent after he defended the practice of some mega stores checking the items in your cart with what's on your receipt before leaving.

Something that makes me angry, but fully rational, imho.

I always found it funny when stores do that - in Ontario at least you can't be charged with theft unless a LPO saw you select & conceal the item AND maintains continuity so you don't ditch it. So just shaming tactics? Cool, fuck you too.

xp Yeah, definitely.

I have mixed feelings about medical malpractice suits/insurance premiums/shook doctors, because I do think a lot of med mal cases aren't about negligence or bad calls. They are just about the shortcomings of medicine and random bad things happening to people sometimes. But human beings have a fundamental need to find causation (and avoid it in the future), especially when something dreadful happens, and if you can sue a doctor/nurse/hospital and get a judgment in your favor, you now can say, "THAT is why (tragic incident occurred)," which is very comforting. But at the same time, some doctors deserve to be sued. I am reluctant to limit the recovery in situations when there has truly been a wrong because sometimes people win lawsuits when nobody was actually at fault.

Besides I think we all know its insurance companies that are making the situation untenable anyway.

I read this article about reader's digest going all right wing a couple years ago. I remember it mostly for this awesome bit:

“They are brands that may not be considered cool by the often elitist and self-absorbed standards of New York media,” she said. She had taken a car from Manhattan that morning, and wore a pink wool shirt-dress, patent leather Manolo Blahnik heels, and diamond hoop earrings.