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

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.

We have a friend whose girlfriend does this. So frustrating. We also feel it's a manipulative move; we know damn well she can speak louder because we've seen her be a jerk to our friend & raise her voice. >:|

my brother does it, with some added mumbling. He's almost impossible to talk to on the phone

I don't think I've heard a word my (wonderful) step-mother has said in 15 years.

Of course, it was no surprise when I met her older sister that she was BLAH BLAH BLAH.

One of my friends murmurs - and she's a really nice, intelligent, well spoken girl but honestly, if I'm craning my neck over the table trying to make out what you're saying, throw me a bone.

Apparently I have a really quiet voice but I just can't tell! It's plenty loud enough in my head!

what?

Similarly when you're saying "What?" or "Excuse me?" after every second exchange and they don't take that as the big fat clue it is. Really? You're satisfied to converse with a 50% comprehension rate??

Isn't low-talking classic passive-aggressive behavior?

Did I just imagine the fairly long series of posts in this thread about "nom nom nom"?? I distinctly recall people talking about other baby talk the hate, including "yummy" and "tummy.". What happened to those posts???

That was a diff thread

The Facebook status thread. Logically.

Low-talking just ends up with someone wearing a puffy shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On73aHpgdSQ

Facebook pictures of people's kids on the first day of school.

are the kids crying, at least?

my wife jokingly wanted to put a photo on facebook of me wearing my backpack as I left for grad school orientation this morning as a mockery of this

That's acceptable.

aw I kind of enjoy it. (sorry I am a cornball)

You're a clip show!

;_;

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

― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

My laptop came with this kids' software, which I started out of curiosity and it was a bad experience. It filled me with a visceral loathing like an animal pack's instinctual repulsion at a sick member. It reminded me of when my other computer got a virus that made my desktop look very close to right, but not.

http://i.imgur.com/PS7rj.jpg

And I couldn't immediately figure out how to close it, which was upsetting.

I regularly have bad dreams where I'm a waiter and the touch screen computer goes weird in that just-off way and I'm in the weeds so I have to just keep trying to make it work. Ugh. Fucking awful.

when i see an apartment or office building or even a home with balconies outside, why do i never see someone chilling on the balcony. when i used to have a balcony i hung out there all the time. i wish to fuck i had one now. who are all these creeps with balconies who never seem to fucking enjoy them? fuck!

was drinking outside a bar last weekend that faced a load of apartments with kickass balconies and thought the same thing. There wasn't a single person out there and it was a beautiful day

Maybe they were all sitting outside at the bar.

yeah but they could have been drinking cheap beer on their balcony

I don't like sitting outside.

i like drinking outside

I do, too, if the conditions are right.

I get mad at non-balcony users and then I remember that I am a porch-haver who doesn't use my porch hardly ever. I am an asshole.

what, are you gonna pay all that money for a roof and walls and then sit out in the outside like a schmuck?

but my across the street neighbors are creepy and noisy and annoying and I know if I sat out there they'd just watch me the whole time

Ha, we have a back deck that I sit on for maybe a total of 1 hour every summer.

i think i would be a full blown alcoholic if i had a balcony/deck/porch

I am sitting outside right now, laptopping in backyard, drinking iced coffee.

that's some living

My next apartment will be a on as high a floor as possible, with a porch.

I used to have a porch (possibly-Chicago-style wood fire escape the size of a deck) and I sat there almost never, probably bc the view was of the alley. But I loved it as a place to use dust-making power tools and paint with nasty fumes.

I just looked out back at our deck and couldn't convince myself to sit there this evening. Wifi strength isn't good enough.

but wait, you can't have a porch above ground level surely

yeah a porch up high = balcony

Je55e, you remember our last place in gboro had that porch on the front. I seem to recall spending a lot of time on it. What changed????

That porch faced a nice yard and street w/out much car traffic and was a nice place to drink and feel like you were in the world without having to heavily interact with it. Our deck overlooks an ugly alley and power lines and the drunk neighbors mostly cement back "yard" and the occasional drunken cornhole game.

The only difference between or deck and our living room with the windows open is that the deck is fully outside and the wifi isn't as good.

I seem to recall spending a lot of time on it. What changed????

We get way less fucked up way less often these days.

but wait, you can't have a porch above ground level surely

This is the thing I'm referring to

http://i.imgur.com/GBjlf.jpg

which we call porches here.

But that's Mr. Porch to you.

The slats in our balcony lurch unnervingly when trodden on, so it mainly gets used as a giant window-box. A giant window-box you can walk through to wave goodbye to visitors and fill the neighbourhood with smoke by using one of those disposable barbecues in the middle of.

I like having it, though; some of the flats here don't have them and my flat is clearly BETTER.

AGAIN: People (especially in customer service jobs) who tell me I'm wrong when I am definitely right. Yesterday and today:

- I asked a guy at the guitar store if they had hi-fi ear plugs. He didn't understand, so I explained how they reduce volume with less distortion or muffled sound and they're used by musicians. He told me: "I don't think there is anything like that...." Another guy overheard and brought me a few brands from behind the counter. The first guy said, "Oh, yeh man, sorry, I thought you meant some kind of special earplugs." ???

- Guy at Home Depot who I asked for help finding wood hardener, which strengthens moderately-rotted wood so it's usable. Blank stare, so I described it further and he said, "Well, I guess you could use wood putty or glue, but if wood's rotten, it's just rotten and you gotta replace it." No "let me ask someone" or "let me show you where the wood putty is and maybe there's something there" - just "[I've never heard of such a thing so] it doesn't exist [and it's an impossible product]."

After wandering around I found it by the paint - two brands of it, several varieties of each.

I passed the guy in another aisle and I shook the bottle of Petrifier at him and said "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, asshole."

People who rsvp 'no' to my meetup events. Who gives a shit! I've got 800 members i'm pretty sure most of them won't be coming! And then they leave comments, 'I will try to be there. I will know for sure later this week'. Whatever! Tell someone who cares!