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

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

haha, you live in the South.

― pplains, Friday, July 6, 2012 3:08 PM (4 minutes ago)

oh wait.

― pplains, Friday, July 6, 2012 3:08 PM (4 minutes ago)

hahaha

VGrrl, I have a half baked theory about these waver-througher people and involves the same people who refuse to sit in a restaurant with their back to the door. The south seems more full than other regions of people who are terrified of having somebody behind them.

Couples in the gym who hold hands between sets

Grown men in the gym who bring their own box fans to blow on them while on the treadmill/elliptical/stairmill (the gym is air conditioned)

People that have loud cell phone conversations in the gym

You could write a book on the stupidity that pisses me off at the gym

Grown men in the gym who bring their own box fans to blow on them while on the treadmill/elliptical/stairmill (the gym is air conditioned)

ha ha wtf - like full-sized box fans?

that they just carry around with them?

and like have to find outlets for?

in a gym?

on the other hand, you wouldn't want to get sweaty while working out at a gym

I swear to god. there are two guys who bring their own fans to the gym and hook them up next to the cardiovascular equipment they are going to use. This is the only gym ive worked out at where ive ever seen it.

on the other hand, you wouldn't want to get sweaty while working out at a gym

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 6, 2012 4:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahahahaha, no shit, right?

Maybe they just want to look awesome while working out, like when metal singers put fans down on the stage by the monitors to blow their hair back as they sing.

good point, but both these guys are bald

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

this is almost on the same level as people holding the door open for you when you're 50 ft from the door. if you don't start speedwalking then you're the asshole. thin line between being polite and being a dick but expecting to be thanked for it.

also when drivers stop way earlier than they have to at a crosswalk because they see you fifteen feet away from crossing it, even though both of you could've kept going at the same speed and not even come close to each other. i'm not going to thank you for that you inefficient fuck.

also when drivers stop way earlier than they have to at a crosswalk because they see you fifteen feet away from crossing it, even though both of you could've kept going at the same speed and not even come close to each other. i'm not going to thank you for that you inefficient fuck.

^^^Can't stand this!!!

btw at all 3 intersections today I just sat there smiling at the malfeasor until their arms got tired from trying to wave me through

That's the only way they're going to learn.

These attempts to be polite that are actually kind of passive aggressively awful reminds me an elevator (elevators! my bane) situation I was in the other day.

Two dudes (I could tell they were a couple of lawyers getting off on my floor because I have the cures of workers' comp attorney-dar) were standing in the front of a crowded elevator, right in front of the doors, and one of them had one of those annoying wheeled litigation cases. Every time the elevator stopped, which was on almost every floor because it was morning rush hour, people would have to climb over the stupid wheeled case and try to squeeze past these assholes while they stood there oblivious, chatting about their upcoming trials. By the time we got to our floor, we were the last three people on the elevator. It stopped, the doors open, and Mr. Litigation Case wheeled himself towards the back of the elevator and grandly gestured for me to exit before him.

any kind of "you first" letting the other person pass is always a waste of time. The person being given the "you first" isn't really getting through the door/intersection/whatever any faster and the person letting the other one pass is definitely losing some time.

When I think of all the man-years this mock politeness has cost humanity

and whoever's waiting behind the "you first" guy for their turn gets screwed over

I will sheepishly admit to stopping early at crosswalks a couple of times in Mr Veg's office parking lot...but only there because the people were dawdle-walking on cell phones and I knew that when they saw me they would speed up.

But I swear I don't do it in regular surface street traffic. I do hate dawdle-walkers though.

Ooo, the waver-throughers. It would be quicker if they just kept driving than me trying to figure out why is this person stopped and what are they doing.

I especially love when they do it and there's traffic coming from the opposite direction. Who made you king of the road?

I get IA at people who cross in the middle of the road (without looking half the time) when there is a crosswalk just feet away.

Last two times I drove around the U district in Seattle (earlier today being one of them) I had some asshole just cross the street in front of me without looking in the middle of the street. Legal or not the laws of physics governing vehicles moving at 30mph cannot be ignored and fuck you for making me almost kill you.

that really gets my goat too

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.)

― Neil Jung (WmC), Friday, July 6, 2012 1:07 PM (10 hours ago)

yes yes yes this, for god's sake, this. intersections are not a thoughtfulness contest. if you have the right of way, avail yourself! make haste! do not stand there making some odd gesture that you hope i will eventually interpret as "no, really, you first, i insist." while people accumulate behind the both of us. just go! i assure you i will manage.