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

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.

only the good die young.

- Billy Joel, age 63.

;)

Whoa I always thought he was saying, "you had to be a big shot, did ya" not "you had to be a big shot, dintcha," even though the latter makes more sense.

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

― cwkiii, Monday, September 17, 2012 4:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, I would have lots to contribute. I'm a shitty Long Islander.

Have you ever taken on diesel back in Montauk?

So my wife and I missed the most recent season of Dexter and we decided to watch it on DVD over the last couple of weeks. Each of the four discs in the set forces you to sit through this little preview thing for Showtime, one of those montages with clips from their original shows and big films, that you can't skip or fast forward through. Anyway, the like 10 second clip they show for Dexter just happens to be a scene that, if you've been watching the show in the past, you know has the potential to be a huge plot point for the entire series. When it first popped up, I looked at my wife and said, "I sure hope that isn't a spoiler for like the end of this whole season". Ugh, sure enough it was the exact last ten seconds of the final episode of the season. Like, why the fuck would you put a scene like that in the teasers at the beginning of the disc that you can't skip over?!?

That's awful, but then that season of Dexter was total LOL/smdh.

HAs Dexter improved at all? Did seem to be going down a bit.

Last series seemed to be written by someone who hates the show and wanted to destroy it (c.f. Lost)
Imagine the absolute worst shit you could pull and you might be in the right ballpark.

Yeah, it was a terrible season. I pondered giving up several times, mostly during that compeltely WTF episode that had Dexter driving out to Nebraska. Also the whole Debra story line, particularly in the second half of the season, is smdh awful. I'm somewhat tempted to see how they resolve the season finale, but beyond that I think I'm pretty much over the show. Still, annoyed with Showtime spoiling really the only actual suspenseful scene of the entire season.

That is some bullshit.

I'm even apprehensive about those little 8-second loops they show on the DVD menu.

It's not a big deal, it's just annoying and I've def ranted about this before but this whole getting my name completely bafflingly wrong on my morning coffee has become almost hilarious

today: "SHERON"

last week: "SHERYLLE"

are these even names that ppl know? Karen, Carol, sure, it's kinda similar to Sharon, I get it's a loud place. but come on. They're just messing with me now, surely.

"SHERYLLE" is hilarious.

My favorite was CHOLE.

I know right?

My coworker has seen it so much he asks me 'who are you today' when I walk in with a coffee.

Best ever was CHER

"Chole" is lol

It only makes me IA when I spell out my name & they still spell it wrong.

I worked with a girl who totally should have gotten a job at Starbucks based on her intriguing spellings of names.