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

"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.

I always have to spell my name out which is a bit IA-ish, given what it is. But it's probably my fault for mumbling. That and the existence of alternate spellings for both my forename and surname, but mine are the bog standard boring ones.

IA today at the little half-socks meant to be worn under flats or something so you look barefoot but you're not. JUST GO BAREFOOT, jesus christ why do they have to be VISIBLE? I've been multiple fairly stylish young publicity things at the office wearing visible footies.

Save it for when you're 87 and can wear your hose rolled down around your ankles with nursing shoes on and no one is surprised, okay?

xxxp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfN1E5pSWwA

My former boss shared a first name with the famous film director Werner Herzog and I'm not going to give his last name here, but it was also not at all common and people calling our office would mangle is his name in the most hilarious ways. My favorite ever was the woman asking for "Weiner Bristle".

My first name (Josh) seems not to translate well to a lot of languages, so I find that a lot of immigrants get it wrong, which shouldn't make me angry but it does. I often get John, Jorg, Jorge, Joseph, etc.

It's that little tiny sliver of AMURICAN in me I guess that for a split second goes "Wait wtf I have a perfectly normal, common american name, why should I have to spell it slowly for you?"

Josh!

I've had Russian ladies call me Zoya, but I love that.

Just interesting to hear your name for the first time.

Zoya is nice.

I had a person call me for work once and he was one of those people who repeats your name a lot during a conversation and he kept calling me Ereeeka (rhymes with eureka). I thought for sure he was fucking with me because really????

I tell them my name is Xavier. Fuck you for asking, barista.

lool

But getting mail addressed to Aqua Backrat has to be the best messing up of my name I've never experienced.

Maybe I'll just start giving my name as Optimus Prime or something

I think I've already talked about how one-fifth of all monosyllabic words in the English language sound like my first name, so I tune out the noise as a reflex when I hear it belted out by strangers.

Add that I don't need a drink sitting on my desk all morning with my scrawled misspelled name on the side of it like a pre-kindergarten juice cup.

You can also add that I don't go to Starbucks very often, but what's the fun in mentioning that?

A British guy called Philip was introducing himself to an American guy and the guy asked 'do you pronounce it Philippe?'
No... because that's not his name?

IA today at the little half-socks meant to be worn under flats or something so you look barefoot but you're not. JUST GO BAREFOOT, jesus christ why do they have to be VISIBLE? I've been multiple fairly stylish young publicity things at the office wearing visible footies.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:42 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some of my flats hurt my feet if i don't wear socks, so i have to wear these footie thingies, though i make no claims to stylishness

Yeah, I do believe in making clothes and things work FOR you and not against you, in theory. But do they SHOW? They're not supposed to! The whole reason for them being tiny little footies that barely come up your toes is supposed to be to keep them under the shoes.

haha. you can see the edges of them. the footie things don't match the dimensions of my shoes! but i hate wearing flats, so this doesn't happen very often