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

IS THAT THE BIBLE? IT LOOKS BIG ENOUGH.

WHATCHOO READIN' FOR?

(Bill Hicks bit)

People who walk like they are pretending to be velociraptors in a drama class, and are really hard to overtake when you are in a hurry.

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.

Was it in this thread that we talked about annoying kids (it's always kids) who sit on floors in inappropriate places like on subway platforms and buses? I hate those kids, and the Kafka kid is one of them.

There was a kid in some of my college English classes who would randomly sit on the floor next to his chair. One time he sat under the table for a while during class. I hope he was having mental health problems b/c otherwise he was a dick.

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.

One of the publications in my company's arsenal is called Innovate Arkansas, frequently abbreviated to "You've Been Posting To ILX For Too Long."

Also, Vic (and mh), if you say the first two words of this community college, it kinda sounds like a certain messageboard.

http://www.theguillotine.com/youth/0708/camps/iowalakes/iowalakeslogo.gif

Was it in this thread that we talked about annoying kids (it's always kids) who sit on floors in inappropriate places like on subway platforms and buses? I hate those kids, and the Kafka kid is one of them.

Maybe on the Chicago thread? I was thinking about when, years ago, Jeff and I went to see Godspeed You Black Emperor in an ~~art space~~ in NC somewhere and the kids gathered seated cross-legged in front of the stage like it was god damn story time. That was around the time it started occurring to me that I was Getting Too Old for This Shit.

I was thinking about that just this weekend, I mean. I don't remember why. Probably because some disgusting savage was sitting somewhere he had no business sitting as a full grown adult.

Kids who sit in stupid places are like this 17 or 18 year old girl I (and you, carl) used to work with who ate with her fingers (even stuff like, salad, cake, and risotto) and walked in the rain w/out an umbrella and drew all over her hands in ink. Despite all her stupid, affected shit, she was funny and smart and I liked working with her, but those little shits who sit places don't have personality going for them.

It was gross when she showed up for work in soaked clothes and dripping hair. For her job slicing and serving cake and pastries FFS.

LOL I'll never escape the memory of her shoveling salad into her mouth with her ranch dressing-covered fingers.

gross, gross, gross

SERIOUSLY. Seriously.

Eww!!

J, I am pretty sure that I used this thread to bitch about a kid who was sitting on the floor during rush hour on the subway. But I am on my phone so I can't check it easily.

yeah but in canada even the subway floors are clean

It's true. He was actually on the very newest one (they launched 2 super fancy new ones about six months ago) so there wasn't even that much built in grime. However, I almost fell on him, so he would've been clean but dead.

one of my best friends is a finger-eater for eeeevvvvverything and it grosses me out so bad

damn smoke some kush everybody.
Is there a way to hide threads?

Not clicking on them works! ;) flippancy due to the kush in my left hand ;)

would you say the existence of this thread is making you irrationally angry

xp

well played

what a pro

wait does me not owning an umbrella make me innocuously disgusting

I own two umbrellas and forget to use them... oh every time it rains

I always wonder who these weird people are who have the foresight to check the weather and actually bring an umbrella with them because it's gonna rain later in the day

It's just one of those things I will never be able to do, so sometimes I walk outside in the rain and get wet

I check the weather every morning and bring an umbrella as needed. But I spend 10-15 minutes outside in the elements during my commute so getting rained on could potentially make my day extremely uncomfortable.

Like, walking to a car in the rain, no biggie. Standing fully exposed to the elements while waiting god knows how long for a bus then train, potentially a biggie.

Oh this woman Jesse's talking about would come in to a food service job at a casual fine dining restaurant literally soaked, like dripping hair wetter than towel dried, wet t-shirt contest-esquely wet shirt bc she didn't believe in umbrellas as like a ~thing~. So none of this "Am I a disgusting savage for not using an umbrella?" stuff bc it's not equivalent.

Unless you are going to serve food to people looking like you walked though a car wash on the way to work, in which case, yes, you are a disgusting savage.

Yeh, she strolled from home to work in the rain. I would rather believe that she was doing it b/c she was cultivating a mellow demeanor rather than b/c she was ~against~ umbrellas b/c she was funny and somehow a cool to work with despite everything and carl remember you liked her too b/c she was funny and cool and SHE WAS FUNNY AND COOL TO WORK WITH, JESSE! ARE YOU LISTENING?

people referring to their partner or whatever with the definite article, like "the boyfriend says". when a man does it feels sort of archaic and irish and sexist, like "the wife" in a "her indoors" way, yet i feel like a girl doing it feels just oddly modern. i read this food blog recently and every post had 3/4 "i love star anise, but the boyfriend, HATES it" or "when the boyfriend has been out with his pals for some beers."

it's as if "the boyfriend" is a giant stone edifice, ever watching.

i keep a nice, compact umbrella in the bag i carry with me every day, so i always have it with me.

Me too. Except when I forget it or have lost it.

I get angry when I check the weather report, bring an umbrella, and the promised/threatened rain fails to materialize, so I'm stuck traveling to and from work with a useless umbrella. Especially since when I do this, I never see anyone else with an umbrella, so I feel like the one asshole who didn't get the memo.

No, it's totally cool. I think carrying around an unused umbrella adds a little something. Old-timey class or something.

I just keep mine in my bag. I don't carry around Mary Poppins umbrella.

Bag contains: notebook, glasses, umbrella, gloves, pencils, book. Every day. How would you do without this stuff?

those paper towels that tear as a half sheet!! Why was this ever a good idea! And somehow I keep mistakingly buying them!

I love those! Best household product idea in years, imo.

Really!?!?

Oh man, my wife does this one far too often... answering the phone to tell someone you can't talk. Why not just let it go to voicemail then?

If you only need a small paper towel, no waste. If you need a normal sized one, get two.

Really!?!?

Yeah, definitely! We use dish towels for wiping up around the kitchen, so the paper towels really are mainly just used as napkins, and a half-towel is plenty.

Yeah, I really hated those at first, but now I've grown to really appreciate them. You'd be surprised at how often a half towel will do and I've noticeably cut back on the paper towels we go through.

I hate the half towels. Never sufficient.

I get so angry that I use three times as many just to spite the roll.

Half spills?

Love the half-napkins. Hating them would be like hating the half-flush button they have in other countries.

They're better than other energy-saving ideas like the motion-detecting paper towel dispenser we have in the office restroom. You want three napkins? Okay, fine, then I wave my hand in front of the sensor three times. Only thing it does do is make me look like a fool for two beats when I wave my hand in front of the sensor and nothing comes out because the batteries are dead.

Which then makes me think "I have to walk out of here with wet hands because the batteries are dead in the electronic napkin dispenser." And I really hate that thought.

- Paper towels that don't rip at the perforations. My office has a whole case of them and I glare at them every time I walk through the kitchen. But luckily we just hired a new cleaning lady who was so appalled by them that she asked if it was OK if she bought paper towels for us ("Bounty - you need Bounty paper towels - These are no good - I buy you Bounty") and we paid her back.

:D bounty - accept no substitute

new cleaning lady otm

We mostly use paper towels to clean up piles of cat puke so the halfsies aren't particularly useful.

I have never seen these half-towels in the UK yet but I often tear off a 3"-wide strip from the next paper towel to mop up e.g. a small dribble of sauce from the table, so I like the idea.

Though the antibacterial kitchen/bathroom wipes I get do have perforations to tear in half if you only want a half-sheet, and I have never done so, because I always want a whole sheet, and because if you try to fit the half-sheet back in the packet it won't shut properly and they all dry out.

Most interesting post on ILX ever!