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

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

JUST GO BAREFOOT, jesus christ

But if you do that in a my workplace you will make me the king of all IA. We had an intern at my old job that used to walk around barefoot in the office and it grossed me out something fierce.

Uh. Barefoot meaning without shoes or stockings. Not actual barefoot, what kind of savage do you take me for?

SORRY, without SOCKS or stockings.

Of course not you, but it made me immediately flash back to that particular savage I worked with and I had to put it out there.

I have high maintenance feet and I love those footies in theory bc they make shoes so much more comfortable and less disgusting* in the summer when my feet are sweaty but in practice nobody makes them big enough for my feet so I don't wear them bc they just slip off my heel into my shoes. But yeah, they are visible.

*also due to stupid feet and specific shoe needs, I tend to wear one pair of shoes until they fall apart then replace them so imagine wearing the same mary janes all summer w/ no socks (and the same orthotics for a year!). Gross.

Totally innocuous thing and my anger at it is definitely irrational, but the "Seen & Heard" thing on merriam-webster.com gives me the rage every time:

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up infuriate? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).

and now assholes have started complying with the request which makes me madder, esp when in the comments for the "infuriate" page, a woman tagged a guy in her comment b/c he didn't believe her when she told him "infuriate" was a real word.

L*cy Moran
Totes a real word babez
Reply · 2 · Like · September 6, 2011 at 3:56am

J*nny B*rty
touché - infuriation didnt come up on my wakcberry
Reply · Like · September 6, 2011 at 6:49am

I don't remember hearing infuriation before, though it would be an expected participle from infuriate wouldn't it? Or is that just me not having woken up yet.

cold + not woken up. To infuriate is to raise to a state of fury. Which is what that participle would equate to.
Unless there was a term for anger one could fob off?

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up "to fob off"? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).

I think you've misunderstood what the comment was. The reason I thought there wasn't a term infuriation was because the term in at leas the English language wasn't that. What was used in common parlance was fury/furious/anger and infuriate was only a verb describing the process by which somebody (probably accidentally) or something brought somebody to a state of fury/anger.
Subsequently if one said oneself to be in a state of infuriation one would be in a state where one had been brought to a state of anger by a person/object/event. & subsequently one would be able to fob it off on that person/object/event.
To fob off is to place the blame elsewhere.
capisce?

I don't understand ppl who ride those giant windshield motorbikes with the radio going. Can they even hear the radio over the noise of the bike? I mean, mabye idling but surely not zooming down the freeway.

And sub-section of that: ppl who choose motorcycles/cars that almost exactly resemble law enforcement vehicles. I don't know why it makes me ia but it does

They're cheap at police auctions.

see my true-crime-nerd brain tells me that these are the people that commit arson and go crazy and shoot people because of the whole 'disgraced armed forces/failed law enforcement/etc' thing who like want to enjoy the trappings of highway patrol and policedom

but I have a v overactive imagination and wish no ill will against these ppl who I'm sure are fine upstanding citizens

- my teacher retirement pension (with $136.00 in it bc I'm a v. v. part time adjunct) sends me a beneficiary designation form and invites me to complete the form online.
- I go make an account and designate the beneficiaries of my pension riches.
- right about where I should be able to e-sign the form, the site tells me it will print out a copy of the form I just completed and mail it to me so I can sign it and mail it back.
- had I known, I would have just filled out the blank form they sent me and saved them however the hell much a stamp cost these days!
- brb emailing the mayor with an idea to save our broken sad pension system some money.

lol facepalm

Jesus.

Sort of similar: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois wants me to get my prescriptions through a mail order pharmacy, probably b/c it saves them money. They say that one benefit of the mail order pharmacy is Convenient Online Ordering!

Convenient Online Ordering! = Go to pharmacy's website, complete annoying enrollment process, select your medicines, hit Submit..... then print 3 page PDF that you have to mail to Dallas along with your original hard copy prescriptions.

local government website has a page telling you how to arrange disposal of bulky items. it says you can phone or email. if you email you get an automated reply telling you to phone...

i love football so much, I love talking about it but FANTASY FOOTBALL CAN GO FUCK ITSELF SERIOUSLY SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR TRADES AND TRANSACTIONS AND KEEPERS AND WHO YOU BENCHED AND GOD DAMMIT GO AWAY AAAAAAGGGGGH