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

The existence of pencils.

gasp

horrifed gasp

The existence of pencils.

Very much in character.

co-worker was wandering around the office the other day looking for a pencil sharpener

broke my heart

whittle your pencils sharp with a pocketknife or gtfo imo

I have a dumb little pencil sharpener at my desk because there are no pencil sharpeners in this joint and sometimes I need to be able to write on something very lightly and then erase it again later. Sure mechanical pencils would be good but I'd have to request them and justify why I don't just use any of the seven million regular pencils floating around unused.

I want a pencil sharpener like this:

http://www.latestbuy.com/img/product-Images/cbum-350a.jpg

I don't like mechanical pencils much, unless you can get a nice soft lead for them

those thin fine pointy lines are kinda yuk generally

I have a lot of hangups about pencils tho

http://kedarphotography.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/largest-pencil.jpg

mirado black warrior #2 pencils for me 4 life

It's strange that companies still make pencils part of their free promotional giveaways. They should start giving making custom branded Tide or Shout pens.

Oh! That's a good idea! I'd probably sign up for a newspaper subscription or low introductory rate credit card if the swag was a Tide/Shout pen.

IA: When attorneys just restate facts in the argument section of their briefs instead of making some fucking arguments. This is basic, 1L legal writing shit, plus why would you want to irritate the person who reads your briefs and thus has something to say about the outcome of the thing your briefing?

I hope it doesn't make you IA that I giggled at the word 'briefs'

No, but I'm IA that I effed up your/you're.

bouncy sinking Titanic inflatable that went up in the centre of Galway today. Think its supposed to be a playslide but its got to be the most tacky bouncy castle thing I've seen & I think that does include that vaginal mouth thing that was circulated from i think Austria last year or thenabouts.

http://topnews.in/law/files/Titanic-bouncy-castle.jpg

Maybe if I can stay alive another 80 years, I can see the WTC version.

Whoa.

Excelsiored.

Forgot to mention that the occasion that the inflatable went up to celebrate is the arrival of a boat-race in Galway, so it seems even less tasteful.

esoteric IA: fantasy baseball GM exercising power regular users are unable to exercise and not expecting anyone to notice, and then you can't say anything bc he's your cousin-in-law and last time you called him out on it he denied it and you didn't have proof and you don't want to him to dislike you bc thanksgiving would be weird

well i guess this is irrational/rational depending on yr opinion of fantasy sports (this is a $ league though, wouldn't care otherwise)

A high school classmate - great student, doing well for himself...and after all this time he can't spell Lionel "Ritchie's" name right!

coworkers using the keurig machine then leaving the spent coffee pods in the machine instead of throwing them away, so i have to throw away their old pods when i want to make coffee

keurig machines

used teabags in the sink is worse imo. do they think they are soluble?

Those coffee machines are very trendy here at work and I hate them because they blow the power out every third time anybody uses them.

I don't mind the Keurig --- they have one downstairs in reception and it's a damn sight better than the gasoline they store in the carafes at work. Like if you are in need of a cup of coffee that doesn't make you dry retch, it's palatable.

Opening an question with "Now, I don't want to accuse you of anything..." What are you, a fucking moron?

I don't want to accuse you of anything, but did you store gasoline in the coffee carafe at work?

i hate when anyone starts sentences like "now i'm not trying to be...." "now i don't want to..." or any variation thereof because it just means that that's exactly what they're gonna do. i'm sure this has come up in this thread before.

Some passive aggressive bs. Just be a man/woman and ask me the question.

I don't mind the Keurig --- they have one downstairs in reception and it's a damn sight better than the gasoline they store in the carafes at work. Like if you are in need of a cup of coffee that doesn't make you dry retch, it's palatable.

I'll admit the coffee itself isn't bad; the IA comes from how the company has successfully established their product as a status symbol that's basically like "You don't even have to leave your house to pay $2 for a cup of coffee anymore!" I think some people get this weird thrill from overpaying for things.

yeah the 'easiness' of making coffee kinda bums me out. drip doesn't take THAT long. 15 minutes or so? and it only takes 10 minutes to make espresso in the morning. idk what everyone's doing that 10-15 minutes is too long.

there are lots of levels on which the keurig machines suck (cost and waste are the big ones) but drip coffee in the office just ends up sitting around and getting stale and scorching and smelling gross, and everyone has to agree on a type, and there's always a contingent who wants like hazelnut vanilla coffee which smells gross too

my office got these refillable reusable pods so that we could buy our own ground coffee and cut down on waste but they kinda suck - really unreliable in the amount/strength of coffee they produce and it's easy to put them in the wrong way and break or bend the needle in the machine

I considered buying a K-cup coffee maker b/c I live alone and ground coffee goes to waste and digging out the coffee maker from the back of cupboard is a hassle, but I remembered that I have a cabinet full of fun, low-tech small batch coffee makers, so it would be super stupid to buy one.

Our new neighbor letting garbage pile up in her back yard (adjoining our back yard) for 3-4 weeks before getting it to the curb for pickup.

Umbrellas, umbrellas, umbrellas. Been raining here a lot over the last week so its been a pain to walk around town cos you're constantly trying to avoid bumping into the spines of somebody's umbrella or thinking that somebody holding an umbrella in a narrow space is waiting for the next gap in people coming towards you to continue their walking in the same direction as you only to find that they're actually just standing there. Or trying to look up the road to see if buses are coming in either direction only to be completely blocked by somebody's umbrella which is actually atking up space inside a bus shelter.

Also trying to get somebody at an info table for a public event to explain something in the programme and them just start looking in the other direction. Looked (from the programe) like somebody had put on a history of US punk thing at the furthest reach of the town and I was trying to find out what it was, tried to show her where it was mentioned in the programme to utter indifference. & I thought that was what service she was there to provide, information on what was going on in the programme. ho hum, hope it wasn't spectacular.

Our Lt Governors usually have a lot of time on their hands. The last one got a lottery started and the current one spearheaded the releases of TRANSPARENCY.ARKANSAS.GOV.

Out of curiosity, I've been looking up folks I know who work for the state and what they make, and holy shit. Seriously, holy shit.

The woman who used to work at the desk facing mine, doing pretty much the same thing as me, got a $10K raise when she started answering phones at the state capitol.

People taking you literally when you make troll missed connections on Craigslist. Like I placed one on w2w that was clearly a joke. I am a guy.

Grow up, moron. It's Craigslist. I got e-mail thinking my fake ad was funny.

link it here so we can tell you it's not funny

Funny I thought when the Sinking Titanic slide disappeared from the park yesterday that somebody had realised it was in bad taste.
No, it moved to the middle of one of the Ocean Race Villages where it was doing a roaring trade today.

Why are you trolling singles ads on Craigslist? xp

lol grow up, moron

People who reach a four-way stop intersection before me, but then try to wave me through the intersection ahead of them. Just do what the goddamn traffic laws tell you to do, please. (This happened to me three times in a four-block span today.)

haha, you live in the South.

oh wait.

People who don't pull all the way up to the "Stop Here on Red" sign and then sit forever while traffic accumulates behind them, wondering why the light is not turning green.

Carl, because sometimes there are racists or chauvinists and some people suffer gay harassment on there, so it's a way of letting creeps know that they can't send people creepy e-mail.

Me and my friends so it, it's to see what e-mail we can get and one person I know met a future spouse that way.

I mean, if you actually read it half those ads are fake.

WmC I am SO with you on that -- quit disrupting the natural order of things and go. I'm not going to pay your stupid favor forward, you don't go to heaven for holding up traffic to wave ppl through, just GO