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

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.

Conclusion: The solution to low water pressure might be an attentive landlord.

OTOH, at my last place I lived with a pencil-sized trickle of hot water in my kitchen for 5 years before it occurred to me to check the water supply valves under the sink, which I found were turned way down. So many years of needless frustration.

Losing a WWF game by one point, then seeing a play that would have won it.

god stop saying 'nom nom nom' what the fuck is wrong with people

^^^

this doesn't upset me, but I kind of want to be upset by this:
http://data.imagup.com/11/1159377641.jpg

god stop saying 'nom nom nom' what the fuck is wrong with people

yesssssss

god stop saying 'nom nom nom' what the fuck is wrong with people

Wasn't this pretty common on ILX a few years ago?

and look how long i've been able to restrain my fury

Thank you for articulating this, I'd forgotten how much I hate it

Now we're all mad

Fucking Windows being a nag: Clean up your desktop! Change your password in 13 days! Fuck off!

Also, shareware/freeware that wants to trick you into installing some C-grade search toolbar and make it your default when you try to download or install it

^ hate those sneaks.

I literally just bought a new computer instead of trying 5 new ways to remove FUN-BAR or HAPPY-DOODLE or whatever the fuck those things were called. I looked up removal strategies online and even programmers were like, "I re-wrote this whole section of code and I still haven't completely removed the traces" and I was like I GIVE UP I GIVE UP

TAKE ME TO THE APPLE STORE

Someone just commented on a baby's picture (not mine and not an ilxor's) on facebook and I can see it and it's a newborn with HAIR ALL OVER HER FACE, like sideburns! LANUGO! She looks like an albino marmoset with a meth habit and like 4 people have already called her "perfect" and "beautiful."

hahahahahahahah

albino marmoset with a meth habit

dying

What else are they going to say? I guess congratulations would suffice because you can't really say "Well done! Don't worry, she'll likely get a lot cuter" if when it's true as is often the case with newborns.

"Holy shit your baby is HAIRY!"

"You must be so proud! (I mean, you must, for her sake, right?)"

"Congratulations! (She was born alive!)"

"What a little angel! (One of Lucifer's maybe.)"

"Yup! That's a newborn all right! (Gonna go look at your 2009 San Padre album now.)"

People who speak too quietly / don't know how to temper the volume of their voice in certain situations. Speaking too loud is another kettle of fish, of course, but every so often you come across someone who, no matter where they are or what the situation won't raise their voice above a murmur. So you're at a party or a gig or you're being given a training session in a busy office and you're craning to hear a word. To make things worse, by comparison your own voice ends up sounding like shouting.

There's a woman who works for an organization I'm involved with who is a murmurer. I went to a workshop she facilitated and she talked so fucking quietly that nobody could hear her (people were leaned forward with their heads cocked at her like dogs, occasionally whispering, "What did she say?" to their neighbors). At the same time, because the organization is made up of a bunch of gentle and supportive and non-confrontational hippies, nobody would ask her to speak louder, because I guess that would be trampling her natural inclination to speak like a tiny, chagrinned child. I couldn't stand it anymore and asked her to speak louder. She did for about 30 seconds, then back to her murmur. I ended up asking her to speak up three or four times and felt like a huge bully but damn, lady, don't lead a workshop if you can't bring yourself to speak above a hear whisper!

She does the same thing in meetings and it drives me nuts. I half suspect she just likes the feeling of people hanging on her every word. I resent that kind of blatant manipulation.

that sounds infuriating. i probably would have screamed SPEAK UP WOMAN at her.

I wanted to shake the shit out of her by the end of that workshop.