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

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

ooh! maybe I'll make flags

that's kind of a good idea. SHAMING. I like it.

I totally used to get IA about Bare Escensuals! They had posters in the subway for ages and I couldn't escape it!

Double-packaged bread -- the loaf in a crinkly cellophane wrapper inside a plastic bag. NO.

The way Billy Joel says "dintya" for "didn't you" in "Big Shot". I've heard it on the radio a couple times recently and it drives me up a wall.

DINTcha

it's the worst!

YES!!! I HATE IT SO MUCH

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5zaquLZcg1qhgpr1o1_500.gif

Likely one of the biggest stans for Billy Joel here (he and my son share the same middle name), but you're right. It was Never A Good Look on his part when he went all fuckin' mooley in his singing.

He probably shouldn't have sang that one song in French either.

right
just like "dan-cing across the wat-ah, mon" part of cortez the killer from rust never sleeps
reeeeeally bad, but forgivable to fans

that one over-the-top delivery of the line "Ya had to be a BEEEEEEG shot DIIIINTCHAAA" *shudder*

WmC otm about double-packaged bread.

"I don't like it...I don't need another step between me and toast." - Mitch Hedberg

Joel's "heart attack a-tack a-tack" thing makes me want to set myself on fire

the amount of all-caps thread titles on ilm really bothers me.

Do we need a "Things about Billy Joel that make you irrationally angry" spinoff thread?

No. We have now listed the only annoying things about Billy Joel.

i could fill up a "things about that one billy joel song that make you IA" thread

I suppose you could fill up an irrational thread...

"The beginning of 'Goodnight Saigon' reminds me of Vic Morrow. Joel even looks like Morrow a little bit. I AM IRRATIONAL.", etc.

I hate the way he actually SAYS goodbye in 'Say Goodbye To Hollywood'

pplains you appear to be outnumbered.