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

Stevolende, if you are talking about the same box set you mentioned on the other thread, the UK Amazon still has it in stock.

I hate when ol dladies bend over and they have white panties on that are showing through their whit4e skirt and they DONT say "enjoyin the view? hehehhe"

You know what'll get you in too deep too fast? GIS for "bent over old woman underpants yard sign."

General Mills?

Stevolende, if you are talking about the same box set you mentioned on the other thread, the UK Amazon still has it in stock.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think that's the limited one. There are 2 versions.

people capitalising the first letter of a three-word phrase in that twee way, like - "I also enjoy A Good Book." Or "of course we can't have that, as those are Very Important Rules."

was thinking just this morning how people choose the narrowest space to stop and stand in. i think it's a natural thing, pausing at thresholds. it's a transition. i call it The Janus Principle. still bugs me though, how people at work will have impromptu meetings in the corridor rather than moving 5ft in either direction.

worst is the local supermarket employees who, when stocking shelves, will park the trolley so that it blocks half the aisle and then stand in the other half of the aisle whilst putting the stuff out.

oh god I do that LOL capitals thing all the time. I am sorry. So Very Sorry.

i don't mind it for emphasis, it's a really specific use of it that drives me mad, like if someone is trying appear like they are mocking Something Very Serious because they are having A Bit Of Fun.

It's probably safe to say that I do it in a way that would make you IA. But it's okay! This is a pretty picky thread and Emphatic Ironic Capitalization is not the first or only of my sins. I promise if we ever communicate directly I will keep a lid on it.

that's why i hate reading 16th century puritanical tracts. like we get it, you're self aware

the snack enlightenment ad. Racial stereotype or what?
Wearing at me, possibly cos of the ad being annoying anyway.
Just reminded of an old girlfriend getting p-ed at the Dolmio ad for stereotyping of Italians. Cloying anyway.

spectators at golf tournaments who feel the need to shout 'get in the hole' after every shot

(and i see golf like once a year)

I thought people were supposed to be all hushed and reverent at golf tournaments. I've watched about ten minutes total of golf on TV in my entire life, though, so.

you're to be hushed and reverent while someone is preparing/actually swinging, but after the shot you can be (drunk and) annoying

People who water their lawn are bad enough, but people who don't set up their sprinkler right and end up watering the sidewalk really make me angry

Me, too! Triple IA if they do this in mid-afternoon.

double yahtzee if they are too lazy to change their timer settings during winter and the shit is going when it's RAINING.

sour blueberries mixed in with sweet ones are making me IA today

People who water their lawn when there are big signs saying NO OUTSIDE WATER USE: Town Water Department on the street.

forms i have to print out

i am a freelancer, i don't have access to office equipment, i don't own a printer, half the shitty internet cafés round here won't open pdfs anyway, why can't people use the pdfs you can edit and email back AAARGHH

on the subway this morning, i got up to offer my seat to a blind man with a cane, and some other non-impaired schlub intercepted and grabbed the seat. so i lost my seat and the blind guy had to stand anyway. i wish i'd said something.

if i start eating a banana and realize it isn't quite ripe enough. every bite becomes an affront and a humiliation. i feel like that dude in notes from the underground, the one who was always getting humiliated and affronted.

next time, freeze & blend for banana ice cream! /healthy snacks thread

I get IA if the banana is too ripe. I like them a little on the greens side.

Underripe bananas make my teeth feel fuzzy. Overripe bananas smell fermented. Perfectly ripe bananas still suffer from being bananas.

YOU'RE bananas.

http://neuroticcity.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/hollaback-girl-video-pics-gwen-stefani-49050_500_332.jpg

Overripe bananas are fluffy, and pungent, and sorta mealy and they gross me out. Slightly green have a nice tang, firm...but yeah I hate if their too green and they leave that icky fur all over your mouth

it's a very frustrating non-sciencey science.

the coloration of a banana's peel is also often a pernicious lie. just this morning i peeled a banana that appeared perfect on the outside but which was, in fact, not ripe enough by a long shot. bananas are unreliable narrators.

yes!! they lie and lie

suggest bananas

Loudmouth knowitalls who ride in on their stupid white horse to answer a question you've posed to a group of people, failing at solving said problem, and then trapping you in the world's most annoying conversation where they provide alternate heroic solutions to your problem, none of which a) work or b) apply

Shut up and accept that you cannot help me in this instance PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK

failing = fail

ugh my tenses are all over the shop, bad grammar me oy

Sulia, twitlonger and other ways of posting long tweets that force me to click a link to leave my app in order to read the end of a sentence.

140 characters or get a blog.

IA, too effin hot edition:

Yes, it is raining. It's also going to be in the mid-80s and humid as a hobo's armpit so YOU DO NOT NEED TO WEAR KNEE-HIGH RUBBER RAIN BOOTS. You huge fucking dummies.

I also get a little IA at women who wear wigs when it's in the 90s because I don't know if I'm angry at the women or angry at the world for not letting women with thinning hair ditch the wig and let the wind cool their scalp.

And finally, the ding dong on the train this morning who was sporting this haircut on the way to his day job:

http://fashionindie.lookbooks.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-2210-350x504.png

It's also going to be in the mid-80s and humid as a hobo's armpit so YOU DO NOT NEED TO WEAR KNEE-HIGH RUBBER RAIN BOOTS.

God, so many of those yesterday. They're going to be wetter on the inside of the boots than the outside if my body's response to humidity is anything to go by.

SERIOUSLY. Seriously. The best thing to wear when it's this hot and raining this hard, IMO, is flip flops or crocs or something. Of course then you're giving in and soaking your feet in filthy street water.

Hey, I just thought of a benefit to the "mop sink" in our women's bathroom where people are supposed to wash their dishes*. You can wash your street-water-soaked feet in them before you change into dry shoes at work.

*The claim is that food clogs up the sinks in our bathroom, but terrible plumbing installed by sub-par, sweetheart contractors that has not been replaced or repaired for 30 years is what clogs up our bathroom sinks and I refuse to crouch in a dark, dirty closet washing dishes in a mop sink.

I got IA recently when it was like 100 degrees and I saw multiple hippieish college kids wearing giant knit winter hats around. They had shorts / sandals / t-shirts on so it isn't like they were immune to heat.

Talked about this before, but my first year at Pitchfork (I think it was Intonation, even), it was in the high 90s and there was this kid wearing a fur-lined Russian ear flap hat. I hope the medical tent refused service when he inevitably arrived for treatment for heat stroke. "Sorry, but you're an idiot. Best of luck."

Seeing this come up when I was googling for something else made me go "wtf, no", click on it, and become IA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2charist

You've got to be kidding me.

If you play this backwards while packing up the host, Ronny James Dio appears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64

This Bongo thing had a thread to itself
HAHAHA! OH MY GOD BONO NOOOO SOMEONE MAKE HIM STOP OH THE HUMANITY

I like that my (current) state 2-letter abbreviation is the same as that used for issues in this thread. Some days it should be the state motto as well.

People who, when they get somewhere in the vicinity of you, but nowhere near the possibility of actually colliding or otherwise brushing up against you, whether they are in a store pushing a cart or in their car driving down neighborhood streets filled with pedestrians and bicyclists, act like it is the most incredible inconvenience to have to make some kind of minor correction in their movements based on the astonishing fact that someone else occupies their world.

The people I am thinking of who are pushing shopping carts tend to jerk dramatically and act like they are about to fall off a cliff. For some reason I had extraordinary numbers of such "run-ins" while shopping in natural foods stores in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The people I am thinking of who are driving cars tend to honk or yell out of their vehicles. Because they feel safe then, being in a car, that they won't have to actually deal with you face to face. I suppose I have met these car-driving-cowards everywhere, but the ones fresh in my mind operate here in corn land.

Talked about this before, but my first year at Pitchfork (I think it was Intonation, even), it was in the high 90s and there was this kid wearing a fur-lined Russian ear flap hat. I hope the medical tent refused service when he inevitably arrived for treatment for heat stroke. "Sorry, but you're an idiot. Best of luck."

we saw the hold steady at taste of randolph last month, and there was a dude there wearing a trapper hat emblazoned with reindeer.

a long time ago at the touch and go anniversary show while whichever of albini's bands was doing their reunion set first was tuning up there was a kid sitting on the asphalt, facing away from the stage, reading a book of kafka's short stories. i like to believe that was a time traveling albini from the past who came specifically to blow off his own set, but i think a time traveling albini would have enough style to know that in chicago you read nelson algren while blowing off a band.

This Bongo thing had a thread to itself
HAHAHA! OH MY GOD BONO NOOOO SOMEONE MAKE HIM STOP OH THE HUMANITY

Oh yeah. I love that thread. Any thread that mocks Bono, really.

lol at the Kafka kid.

I am not very good at dressing season-appropriately in summer (because nobody needs even a slight risk of seeing any more of my flesh than they already can) but please shoot me if I start on the trapper hats in record June heatwaves.

I used to go down to the local open mic night and take a paperback to amuse me during the inevitable 6000 versions of "Come Together". I think I thought that somehow some fellow iconoclast (ha) would spot me and think I was intellectual, but strangely enough the only comment you get reading Borges at the back of the pub in a small town is WHY DO YOU READ WEIRD BOOKS? I LIKE STEPHEN KING.

IS THAT THE BIBLE? IT LOOKS BIG ENOUGH.

WHATCHOO READIN' FOR?

(Bill Hicks bit)