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

washington dc and it's stubby little office buildings. there are taller buildings in peoria, goddamn it. this is not an acceptable locus of power.

I always buy Dollar General brand bcz $ but I loooove half-sheet ones and always make sure to get ones with it. OTM abt perfect size

Constant xpost warnings while using Zing Touch. That combined with AT&T's data connection make me want to destroy the fucking world.

I'm with Jeff - I fucking hate those half-paper towels, and I seem to grab them by mistake every other trip to Target.

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.

It's weird, I feel okay tearing off a half-towel from a roll perforated like that, but then I feel cheap when I manually tear off a half from a full-sized paper towel.

One I just discovered: the neologism "digerati"

GAH

I'm going to pretend it's didgerati and pertains to didgeridoos

that's the only way I can enjoy such a terrible piece of information

maybe it's just bc I'm tired but I'm hitting the IA jackpot today

- people who are unable to parse simple questions, who in turn answer your questions with minutiae COMPLETELY unrelated to the question giving me a headache and making me want to cause them bodily harm
- people in parkinglots who walk/ride down the middle when traffic should move in TWO directions. fine if there's no one around but at 8am in an office parking lot you can go fuck yourself.

This answer a user on the Adobe Acrobat forum just made me IA:

OP has a PDF w/ OCR text in it, and he asked how to undo OCR.

The first answer:

Don't perform OCR on the documents.

http://wannahaveabetterlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/angry-baby-888.png?w=256

Never ask babies about OCR scanning. They always say the same thing.

That fucking guy. He has other answers that aren't as stupid, but they're obnoxiously short and literal.

Short, literal answers piss me off.

"Do you know where John's keys are?"

"Yes."

ragebaby.pdf

I'm going to pretend it's didgerati and pertains to didgeridoos

that's the only way I can enjoy such a terrible piece of information

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:21 (2 hours ago) Permalink

yes, it's a reference to the greatest didgeridoo player ever, the "pavarotti of didgeridoos"

do not call me and keep the pyhone ringing on and on becuase you know im there - if I no pick up I no want to talk

Uploaded a video to youtube recently and it asked if I wanted the shakiness corrected with their new tool. I thought, "Hell yes, awesome!" little did I know it would crop the video to about 40% of the size.

I wanna punch the fuckin face out of the Shock Top beer logo. This is parked outside my local booze-refilling station:

http://www.gonomad.com/destinations/0907/art-car-images/shock-top.jpg

smug fucking fuck

http://ctwineandfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Shock-Top.jpg

there's something about the wheat mohawk that gets me almost trypophobic. Revulsion. Hate.

People I know taking the piss when I am really not in the mood = probably rather rationally angry tbh.

Ugh, monday crabby pass agg moods dont mind me. Feel shitty.

do you hate this beer guy or not? that's all I wanna know.

lol i hadnt even looked at the image haha wtf.

That beer not only has a crap logo, but it's TERRIBLE.

The beer, I mean. It's terrible beer.

there's something about the wheat mohawk that gets me almost trypophobic. Revulsion. Hate.

carl agatha recently posted elsewhere re her similar trypophobic nightmares. "Hate" = OTM.

Xp oh hey

Xp

Hey.

I'm still so unreasonably mad about this:

2. The two vertical strings on window blinds that pull the whole blind up and down. except they dont. i understand their use as they thread vertically 1/3 in from each side of the blind itself but why not merge those strings in the mechanics at the top? all that adjusting to get the blind perfectly level or are some people really like 'Hmm i think ill just raise the left side of the blind today.' INSANITY!

― I just got back from a dream attack (sunny successor), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 8:40 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I shan't go back and look to see if I posted this response the first time you made that post, but uneven blinds make me IA. Well maybe not A for angry but definitely A for annoyed.

People with umbrellas up when it isn't even raining.

People that don't understand how to handle a four-way stop when a stoplight stops working.

do not call me and keep the pyhone ringing on and on becuase you know im there - if I no pick up I no want to talk

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:41 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ALSO do not send me and a colleague an email asking if we have a few minutes for a quick conference call, and when we both reply "no," then you call me.

People that don't understand how to handle a four-way stop when a stoplight stops working.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was rampant during the derecho power outages last month.

still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises and the thread is just taunting me, saying "you know you want to click on it"

also the posts from it on the LOL thread that I almost read but caught in time to skip

fuck all of you for being able to get to the movies ;_;

Illuminated light switches, peepholes into brightly lit hallways, the stupid orange light on the hair dryer plug, LEDs on smoke alarms, curtains that leak, and any other super bright light that is suddenly noticeable when you turn off the lights in a motel room.

people

ia at the driver who honked at me when

a) i had the walk signal
b) i was crossing at a marked intersection
c) he didn't have his turn signal on, so i had no idea he wanted to turn
d) i had the right of way anyway

always good to stroll a lil bit slower for those

e) issue bird

yeah I stroll on with a shiteating grin at idjits like that.

Or, the ones who dont stop behind stopped trams when I'm getting off - they get the Death Glare.

My lack of knowledge of physics sometimes.
Like if you have a crane that has to lift a 150 ton weight on an unstable surface is it going to mean that weight either goes down the column holding the crane upright or has a built in weight distribution? so that weight of crane + 150 tons isn't going straight down on surface that 150 tons has sunk into because of weight?
talking about a road built on bog that a part of a machine has sunk into
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0731/shell-lorry-blocking-co-mayo-crossroads.html
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102209

the weight will obv go down through the crane onto whatever the crane is sitting on but mobile cranes have outriggers to spread the weight over as large an area as possible

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/105/317109647_239dc8138f_z.jpg

^ one of my most-viewed flickr pics

Think I was thinking of outriggers when i said 'has a built in weight distribution'. Still not sure how well that would cope with being on bog.
But it does look like the rest of the convoy got through, but this lorry jacknifed.
They'd just taken a route I really wouldn't have thought wise with several lorries carrying similar weights. They took a road with a few sharp bends and several hills when there was an alternative route that was flatter and less twisty.
Shame it didn't jacknife earlier though. Really don't want it arriving in one piece. Not that I'd want anybody driving it to get hurt but they have obviously sided with evil if they are driving it.
The Tunnel Boring machine the tool Shell are going to use to try to complete the Corrib Project.

christ, cranes give me the fear, I have developed this irrational fear of walking near/under any cranes doing lifiting work cos I cant get past the idea they are going to drop their load/tip over :(

Illuminated light switches, peepholes into brightly lit hallways, the stupid orange light on the hair dryer plug, LEDs on smoke alarms, curtains that leak, and any other super bright light that is suddenly noticeable when you turn off the lights in a motel room.

― joygoat, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 5:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I cover all the dumb little lights that glow in our bedroom. Drives me crazy.

I used to put a book over the face of my clock. Another book over the VCR.

Now I'm married to a woman who leaves the backyard light on all night so I just cover my face with a pillow and hope for the best.

Motion activated lights that turn off automatically, but then sense the sudden darkness as motion, causing them to turn back on.

The one at home was annoying but fixable, but the one on my parent's porch in MI was so bad we had to return it. It was also terrifying b/c leaves and wilderness creatures would activate it.

Prompted by the Facebook status message thread: when people insist some type of junk food isn't food. Like, "Twinkies are NOT FOOD!" or "McDonald's hamburgers are not food!" It is food. Sometimes it's the cheapest and most easily available food for people living in certain areas or of limited financial means. But it's definitely food, just not food you like, you smug twit.

I remember years ago reading an article about breakfast foods for children and seeing a physician say, of Pop-Tarts, that they were edible but, strictly speaking, were not food. Wish I could find it.