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

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.

Jenny OTM.

I wonder if anyone still believes the myth about KFC changing their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken because their chicken was so genetically modified and processed that the FDA kept them from calling it "chicken."

Companies that officially change their names to abbreviations rankle me. BP, KFC, FedEx...

Where does the evolution of Standard Oil - Esso - Exxon fit into the rankling abbreviation spectrum?

Today I am i.a. at flying ants and joggers. But the ants can't help it so I'll try to focus the rage on joggers instead.

The top I'm wearing is making the area between my shoulderblades itch like mad, it's like I'm wearing a shirt made entirely of bedbugs raaaaaaaaaaaaagh can't stop scratching halp

Is there a tag in it? Cut the tag out!

no tag!

Curses!

;_;

CD cases in general: built to break.

The weakness of my shower stream.

The lack of rotary dial phones in contemporary society.

Stifling, humid heat (then again, these days, heat is far from innocuous, so scratch that).

Windows that can't be opened (e.g., in hotel rooms).

As someone who grew up in an area that didn't get touch-tone service until the late 80s, rotary phones should be put in a museum and locked away.

Oh, we had push-button phones, but you had to use the setting that mimicked the clicking sound of a rotary phone. So if you called someone at 855-9210, you'd still have to sit through --------, -----, -----, ---------, --, -, ---------- after you pushed the buttons before your call went through.

Boy, I remember those days.

Also remember trying to change a flight so I could stay home long enough to attend my grandmother's funeral, sitting at her dining table trying to get past the airline's touch tone menu on her god damn rotary phone.

Still better than the voice prompts sometimes:

At the tone, please say the reason why you're calling, such as "I'd like to change my plan" or "I'd like to pay my bill". *beep*
- "I want to cancel my service."
… … … … I'm sorry! I didn't catch that. Would you mind repeating that after the beep? *beep*
- "I would like to speak to an operator."
… … … … I'm sorry! I didn't catch that. Would you mind repeating that after the beep? *beep*

I hate the voice prompts so much. Especially bc most of the time when I'm calling a place with a menu like that, I'm sitting at my cubicle feeling like a complete dingus trying to quietly yet effectively enunciate, "I would like to refill a prescription" or whatever.

I love that you used the word dingus! It is the perfect word for a situation like that.

Why do you miss rotary dials, collardio?

Voice prompts will get better with time. Siri will teach the other robots our language.

Why do you miss rotary dials, collardio?

I miss them as objects with a certain dramatic charisma, most evident in movies, but also in everyday life. The spring-loaded release accentuates suspense, a pregnant pause between the formation of an intent to communicate and the communication itself.

I miss them because I find them pretty.

Mostly though, I miss the soft "wrrrrr" sound they make as they spin. I think it's a beautiful sound, as close to the aural caress of a gurgling brook as an appliance can provide.

I don't need them to be everywhere. Lord knows calling the Verizon help line is hellish enough as it is. I just would like them to be more prevalent than they are (which is practically not at all).

Apropos of very little I happened to be in a building in a park in Bethesda, Maryland that had a rotary-dial pay phone. Pay phones themselves are rare enough these days that seeing this one charmed beyond all measure.

I bought three rotary dials from a resale shop, which I keep in a hutch at home. They are pretty, though I don't miss them as functional objects.

Not to mention, charm itself is rare enough in Bethesda! xp

Yup, Je55e, that's why I have no problem considering it as an irrational gripe.

I really hate the word "dongle". I went to the store to buy a new wifi card for my desktop last week and all they have know are USB dongles. I was explaining this to someone and nearly gagged when i had to say that word out loud.

I hate the voice prompts so much. Especially bc most of the time when I'm calling a place with a menu like that, I'm sitting at my cubicle feeling like a complete dingus trying to quietly yet effectively enunciate, "I would like to refill a prescription" or whatever.

Back when I had an office, I negotiated most of a house purchase over the phone. Since they compressed us down into cubicles, I'm embarrassed to call the gas company to pay my bill.

ive moved on from blind strings to tv ads where wet fruit collides mid air with more wet fruit of the same kind.

Worse, when things are thrown THROUGH sheets of liquid that are also being flung.

hahaha like strawberries flying through a chocolate waterfall

How can those be bad things? They're images of refreshment.

I love those!!

But I do share hatred for non-opening windows and ESPECIALLY weak shower streams. Like It would actually be a deal breaker for me in searching fr an apt

I get IA when I come into work and there is a systemwide crisis and no one told me and I have to talk to a customer about it

Weak shower streams are the fucking worst. At my last apartment I complained about the weak hot water and the very next morning (first thing in the morning at 7:30 or 8:00 a.m.!) there was a guy at my door with a machine on a cart which he attached to the shower pipe. It sounded like he was running a lawnmower in my tub as the machine sucked the scale and whatever out of the pipes, and when he left I glorious jets of hot water.