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

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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

FANTASY FOOTBALL CAN GO FUCK ITSELF
FANTASY FOOTBALL CAN GO FUCK ITSELF
FANTASY FOOTBALL CAN GO FUCK ITSELF

for. real.

also when two people start a conversation and seriously spend half an hour talking about the same thing in 20 different ways. You've COVERED it already. Move on. Say goodbye. Let go.

I'm really in a shitty mood today, boy howdy

I got talked into playing fantasy football - and by "playing" I mean "letting the computer choose a team for me three weeks ago". I only spent time coming up with a team name and a photo and haven't done a thing to my team yet - meaning I apparently still have some people on my team who are out with injuries or whatever.

That said, I beat everyone in my league yesterday which means that my friend who spends a ton of time making trades and planning and such is probably on some other message board somewhere getting all IA about me.

mr veg and a ton of coworkers that I am friends with all play. they all know I love football and are always like why don't you play you should play and I'm like, because I hate your conversations. I literally tell them that. Everything you talk about when you talk about fantasy football and I'm in earshot makes me wish that I didn't even like football so I could hate your conversation more.

but I also can appreciate that it can make football more fun. so, despite my IA-ness about it, I do somewhat respect people's right to play it and have fun with it.

but can I just say that my coworkers league is run like the most nightmarish minutiae-arguing mothers club of persnicketty gentlemen, you couldn't pay me enough to join that league in particular

I honestly don't know why anyone would pay attention to sports without having some money or stake in it.

My IA - which usually works to my advantage anyway - are people so in love with professional teams, that they'll do stuff like draft Felix Jones in the second round because he's from Arkansas. "Gotta support the Hogs, amirite?" No, you don't.

hahaha, that's one reason I quit playing fantasy baseball -- I kept drafting Braves

I played fantasy football about four years ago and just wasn't into it at all, but every year I'm asked to join a couple different leagues and I have to explain how I hate it and nobody seems to understand, like for so many people it's just become part of the game to have a fantasy team. And then even though they know I hate it, every conversation throughout the season will, within minutes, end up like "Well I was pissed because I had Carson Palmer on my bench" and then I just have to tune out or try really hard to change the subject.

ugh yes, much IA for fantasy sports. totally surprised when they became popular, thought it'd remain a nerd thing.

don't care about yr gripes, ppl who sign up to play and literally don't participate at any point all year are the scum of the earth and the worst thing about non-$ leagues

thought it'd remain a nerd thing.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cBQ6IDM5Qzw/0.jpg
"Who you callin' 'nerd'?"

I will say that hearing two or more people talk about fantasy football is pretty horrible.

Same thing goes for other people talking about music, television, books, etc.

otm other people are the worst

"hell is other people talking about fantasy sports" john q. voltaire sartre rand

yeah truth be told I pretty much hate other ppls conversations about anything, lol

VG that is an admirable screed in your op on the topic. Kudos.

:D

Jordy Nelson's lack of production to date has me irrationally angry. Have to give the guy time to prove this is a mirage and not a trend but damn. Might have to pick up another wideout to ride pine for now but maybe slot into jordys place later.

That said I'm pretty happy with aj green and cj spiller. Aj, cj? Might have to change my team name to AJ/CJ - backfield in black!

*flying tackle*

Except aj is a wr so nm!!!~~

When you're listening to a new album and your music player inexplicably decides to shuffle the tracks without you realising.

Or when you download a new album and don't realise that the tags don't have the track number in so they're just playing in alphabetical order, until the not-really-last track ends really abruptly halfway through a segue.

OK, this is mainly a problem with illegally downloaded stuff, but also self-released stuff seems to do this a lot.

when you shuffle a playlist on spotify and then you later on decide you want to listen to an entire album and it ends up shuffling the entire band's catalog and you're thinking, wow these guys are really varied and then you're like RAGH godammit

that is kindof annoying

I got the Fugs box set Electromagnetic Steamboat through as an alphabetically organised set when I first heard it. it's 4cds long and covers a couple of years of their existence including about 4 lps so it really wasn't very representative.
Have the cds now though.

When storm drains extend into the road and basically act like speed bumps when I drive over them.

landlord knocking unexpected money off my security deposit return for dumb reasons makes me IA

my neighbor's bf who i guess is now my neighbor has the most annoying voice and whenever i hear him talking it is about fantasy football and i feel angry but i think it's rational

so is a landlord taking money from you rational!

i get irrationally angry about people who use gas stations as a shortcut instead of waiting in line to turn right at a red light

I envy those people.

in that i have an internal regulator that stops me from doing that. but there are a couple "no right turn on red" lights near my house where it's really tempting.

the nervously awkward teenage girl at the wig/makeup counter at the costume place who told looooooooooong stories about cosplay costumes to the girl behind the counter while I only needed ONE tiny makeup pot from behind the counter I mean come on I love teenagers normally but your awkward loud sothisonetimeatbandcamp way about you is making me CRAZY

but I do feel bad for being mad at her bc ordinarily she'd be kinda rad

griping about "the refs", in any sport

i get irrationally angry about people who use gas stations as a shortcut instead of waiting in line to turn right at a red light

I do this quite a bit, but only at one or two stoplights in town that are ridiculously long, and only when I'm on a motorcycle because it's easier and much more fun to cut through lots on a motorcycle than it is in a car.

griping about "the refs", in any sport

Unless they're scabs.

you know that gas station cut-through is illegal right?

Granny Danger wouldn't give a shit.

two guys on the elevator:
'can you *believe* i haven't gotten the (new) iphone yet?'
'no way, man -- why?'

eh motorcycles cutting through traffic is a dick move plus can be really dangerous to all involved

the light is long for everyone sitting there! i also hate when people use an exit lane, especially one on the right, as a passing lane.