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

I told her to keep the cheese.

i like this as a vaguely sinister way to end arguments.

I think this is what applies in Ontario: Section 58 of the Competition Act makes it an offence to "supply" a product at a price that is higher than the rental or sale price "advertised" in the market to which the advertisement related.

So if two $3 items are 2 for $5, they have to sell us one at $2.50.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think there is a thing in Canada, or at least Ontario, where if something is $3 and goes on a 2 for $5 special, for instance, you legally must be allowed to buy one for $2.50. Is that a thing anywhere else? They can't force you to buy multiples to get the discount, but they always make the "2 for $5!!" bit a hundred times larger than "$2.50 each."

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic)

Late to the thread, but this is the case in Californis too (don't know if it's an actual law but seems to be). At Vons and Ralphs I do see the single item price in small print (1 for half the 2-fer price). When the sale is "buy 1 get one free," however, you can't buy one at half price.

You don't say

Yeah, but is the price $1.29 if you just buy one?

Nope. 1 for $1.

Walgreens is pretty upfront about the 1 for $1.29, 2 for $2 pricing on its tags. Hell, it seems like the tags themselves hang about four inches over the next shelf because of all the different pricing.

At Kroger (and the Walmarks) however, you'll see these big yellow tags that say 10/$10 and nothing else. Take one to the register and the price is .. one dollar. So I wonder if the law states that if you're going to use the Walgreens method, you have to explicitly state that there are two different prices,

local supermarket had a 'buy two get two free'. only problem being that these were 2 litre bottles of coke so to make the benefit from the deal you'd end up with 8 litres of coke. and it was a tesco local, most of the patrons being walk-up customers. they'd've shifted a lot more just selling them half price.

You think babies r us is hard for potty issues, try burning man

hey teenagers! if i can make it up two flights of stairs to class maybe you could give it a go too and leave the lifts for people who need them

Office planning a big renovation. I'm thrilled because I'm getting a window seat.

Owner of the company is going desk-to-desk and asking all of us what we want and need for our new workstations. One of the reasons I love working here - the CEO sits down for a half hour with me yesterday and wants to know if I prefer shelves or drawers.

So this is why you're hearing about this in the irrational thread and not crazy co-worker thread: As she goes around the office, she keeps asking everyone if they want desk trays. Desk Trays.
DESK TRAYS.

My IRL name is 'Tre'. It's hard enough to concentrate on things this week, but stopping every 85 seconds because I hear the CEO say my name aloud is driving me crazy.

Desktray Rides Again

What? Oh, dammit wmc...

Had the same problem in history class when the teacher would talk about TRADE.

haha oh man. Yeah, I imagine if my coworkers were all getting personal generators and my boss went around asking if people wanted a new "genny" I would probably lose it.

i think most of us have a word like that ("exactly" for me). i wonder if people who are named like, matt, just get used to it.

True story. My freshman year in high shool we were playing a game of pick-up basketball and this sophomore kid kept draining threes and in my youthful exuberance I called him "tre dog". Anyway, the relevant part of the story. He came up to me a week later and told me I thought it was a cool nickname and he wanted to get it on his license plate. I was like, "err, okay". He showed up a couple weeks later in his car with TRA DOG 8 on the plates. He was called "TRA-LA-LA DOG" for the rest of high school.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c40/TreCoolisFine/Frank/vma9828229.jpg

I don't use the apostrophe like he does, but I'm sure his office manager never shouts about desk furniture either.

hipster business owners are an innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry
i mean, just stop

The Very Emollient line of skin care products.

hipster business owners are an innocuous thing that makes me irrationally angry
i mean, just stop

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean local artisanal/curated shop types? Yeah they make me irrationally angry too. This is something I really can't justify.

Probably I just jelly.

finding a letter at the foot of the stairs a couple of days ago, when I live 4 flights up & most of my mail makes it up to the mailbox on my own front door.
Couldn't work out what it was doing down there beyond the street door often being a bit stiff to open despite being open.

Just still wondering if a medical form for an optical test being returned to me came through another delivery system. Though i rang the sender and was told it came through the post. But I didn't see it on the day before I found it and some mail did definitely get delivered to my door on the day.

Just a matter of luck I saw it but I have been concerned about other mail. Which i might not be if I heard it was a special mail service for medical stuff.

Also, the day I read in yesterday's local paper that a local kickboxing club has people going around falsely claiming to be looking for sponsorship on sheets with the club heading, one comes to my door. I retreated naturally and said I couldn't help.

someone in my neighborhood keeps letting their dog shit on our naturestrip, right next to where we park our car - pretty much the same spot every couple of weeks. THIS WILL NOT STAND

when did people start doing those extended oscar acceptance speeches on facebook, after say, a festival, or like, at the end of a holiday or at the end of the summer?

i mean i'm a guy who spews out loads of rubbish online but i mean these 5/6 line long list of tagged thank yous, it's like the most overt and weird public persona... and i've noticed it on the rise hugely in recent weeks/months.

Went to the gym on the way home from work and as I'm changing, I have to move so that a woman who just got out of the shower can access the locker beneath mine. I noticed that she seemed to have a complex array of products that she was setting out, but whatever, who cares. 45 or so minutes later, I come back to the locker room to grab my stuff and go home and the woman is still there, still wrapped in a towel, finishing up a full face of make up. 45 minutes in a room with a bunch of other people in various states of undress, and she's still not finished doing what she needs to do. And it's like 7:30 pm on a Tuesday. Is she going through all that hassle just to go home from the gym? I'm sure not everybody leads my exciting Tuesday night life of going to the gym, going home, showering, and eating cheese toast while watching Star Trek before going to bed at a reasonable hour, but even if she's going out, what's she going to do with all of her stuff? And why's she doing it at the gym? And what the hell is taking her so long?

I have heard that strip of land called many things, but a "naturestrip" is a new one. Are you ever around to see the offender do this? What I've found to work really well is have a garbage bag or doggies back at the ready and when they pull that shit (HA!) the next time, pick it up and chase after them saying, "hey hey! you dropped this back there!". They'll turn bright red and won't even walk down your block anymore.

I mean, I'm no hippie. I wouldn't even go so far as to call myself "low maintenance." But that just seemed outrageous, especially in semi-public. Who wants to spend that much time mostly naked around strangers? xp to myself

pick it up and chase after them saying, "hey hey! you dropped this back there!". They'll turn bright red and won't even walk down your block anymore.

omg! I love it.

they must do it late at night or really early in the morning -- it's usually fresh when I'm leaving for work at 7:30am

bleh

chasing after them with the baggie is a good idea. Part of me wants to set up a webcam so I can catch them in the act

Yeah sometimes those (not always though), but more like bike shops and really specific shops with "customizing" options
xps to hurting 2

Am loving "naturestrip"

I've also done the chasing them down thing with litterers, provided it isn't something too disgusting to touch. Most often, and I really have only done this three or four times, its when someone drops a coffee cup on the ground in a parking lot.

naturestrip sounds like a personal grooming choice.

naturestrip = devilstrip?

you all need to get out more

NATURESTRIP IS A THING, I'M NOT MAKING IT UP

naturestrip sounds like a personal grooming choice.

That's putting VG's initial post in a whole different context...

Mom's dog Willie the Poodle shits in the neighbours' front yard all the time (generally while visiting the neighbours' Bichon Frise) and she doesn't always remove it. Neighbours finally got their revenge by placing one of Willie's shits on the roof of her Cadillac.

lol at what comes up in google for naturestrip:

http://images.whereilive.com.au/images/uploads/2009/02/16/820758a9a33b3cbe803a6023be4bca5f_resized.JPG

okay lady, glad you're having fun.

She just had her naturestrip attended to.

it's in her nature to strip

the store name Bare Escentuals makes me so IA. you are not allowed to fit TWO portmanteus within the same word. it's like they couldn't decide between Bare Escentials and Bare Esensuals so they just said FUCK IT and went with both. i hate it. if you're going to do that, might as well go all the way and call it Bear Escentuals and then make all your candles or perfume or whatever in the shape of a bear.

Bear e-Scentuals for their online business

Bear e-ScentuALS for the online candle service for bears named Al

or for bears with Lou Gehrig's Disease

that's sad though

Bear-e-Scentchewalls

online-only sensual berry-scented 100% chewable candles for bears

Barris & Jewels

We sell gemstones and Gong Show VHS tapes.

Also Bare Escentuals products don't even smell, they're powders so why jam SCENT in there in the first place

cos they are bare of scent, you all

VegGrrl: http://vimeo.com/8727971