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

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.

seattle has to be the world capitol of this. ironically, no one stops for pedestrians in crosswalks.

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?

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, July 7, 2012 1:58 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

know the feeling, have been standing on the side of the road looking at both lanes of traffic watching for a crossable gap and had a driver slow down to wave me across when there was a crossable gap directly behind them if they hadn't done so and breaking up the gap so it wasn't crossable. Also not noticing/caring that there was a vehicle coming in the other direction when they waved me across, that itself had to suddenly slow down when if it'd just been left to me to pick my moment there was a far more natural break.
Or getting to the middle of the road and pausing, timed so that once this car has passed there is a sizable gap only to find that that car has decided that it needs to make a spectacle of slowing down to accommodate you, which it isn't doing. & you've now lost the sizable gap before the next car.

yeah last time the waving across happened the driver had completely ignored what was coming from the other direction. So it wasn't much of a favour being done. & i'd mistakenly assumed the car had seen what was on its far side, which I hadn't and wound up stuck in the middle of the road with a wave of traffic trying to slow down.
Generous drives or sociopaths?

EDF's new billing system. i'm now sent two sheets of paper which effectively tell me to send them a reading and then they'll send me 3 more sheets of paper with an actual demand for money. x2 as i'm with them for gas and electricity and, of course, both bills arrive on the same day...

their new catchphrase, according to the envelope, appears to be "Thank yous". what does that even mean?

Waver-thru'ers:

I don't know too many other places that have these off-ramps from the interstate that lead directly onto municipal streets, forcing the city drivers to yield to the cars barreling down the ramp at 60 mph. The design may be flawed, but I understand why the city drivers are told to yield, to avoid any head-on collisions.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4102/screenshot20120707at112c.png

But every now and again, you'll get some courteous yahoo stopping at the bottom of the ramp, attempting to wave on city drivers into harm's way. Sitting at the yield sign, you almost feel like an asshole for not going ahead and breaking the law as you watch the cars pile up behind the Samaritan, honking their horns and flashing their brights. But, if you were to drive through the intersection and got hit, guess who would be at fault.

Just follow the signs. And don't follow the signs that aren't there.

that's fucking bizarre (not just the behavior, but also the traffic planning it's attempting to circumvent). just put a stop sign at the bottom of the ramp!

You think that's bizarre? How about this intersection where drivers have to yield to cars coming at them head-on?

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The cars coming at the camera have the right-of-way and are crossing over the lane to get to the entrance ramp to the freeway. Only intersection that makes me nervous around here.

where's iatee been? I miss him.

i hear it said that he is working and living a man's life

It was Man who built those interstates.

When you ask someone repeatedly not to do something. And they do it, again and again, because they have realised that it is an easy way to annoy and rile you. And it's so hilarious when people are riled!

Wait, that's not irrational at all, is it? That is actually just irritating. And the people who do it are wankers.

you can't really expect people to heed your polite requests when you aren't, you know, polite

Also, the ~politeness stick~ with which men love to admonish women, and to deny their requests.

The first umpteen times you reasonably ask "don't do this" will be utterly invalidated by the umpteenth and one time when you say "DON'T FUCKING DO THIS" which means that you clearly deserve for people to do it to you, as much as possible.

Oh wait, that's not that irrational, either, is it?

hit me with your politeness stick.

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.

― joygoat, Saturday, July 7, 2012 12:58 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a big problem with these people in downtown Cleveland crossing back and forth in front of the federal office building, without crosswalks or the right of way. A couple weeks ago the police stood there in the morning and at lunchtime handing out jaywalking tickets that were well over $100, and people had the bad taste to be indignant about it.

All the assholes who tailgate me along the extended highway offramp only to realise "oh hey this ain't another lane it's an offramp" & quickly merge back onto the freeway.
Dickwagons.