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

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.

there is a morality of driving, and ppl who disregard it are savages

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.

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:)

and I DO hate football so there's nothin innocuous about fantasy

i stopped playing fantasy football because i didn't want to be all like 'i need ochocinko to get two tds' against the team i grew up with

also i didn't care enough to keep up with the rbs being broken and replaced after four seasons

also i think the nfl is barbaric and as evil an enterprise as exists in america (i'll give the maras and the rooneys a pass, however predictably)

also my hometown team's qb is a rapey asshole and one of its defensive backs almost killed a dude on sunday

i don't even watch the games unless i am trapped with family

i still want them to 'win with honor' tho : /

Sometimes I feel very fortunate to have grown up without a favorite NFL (or NBA, for that matter) team.

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

Technically it's a grocery store lot. And more often I make a right on red, make a left into the lot of an abandoned hair salon, turn around, make a right, and get back to the intersection long before the light changed. I only do this when I'm at the front of the line and don't pass anyone to do it.

motorcycles cutting through traffic is a dick move

Which is why I don't cut through traffic, as I'm not a dick.

They're just jealous bc a) stuck in traffic and/or b) don't have a motorcycle

Hey everybody on the internet, shut up about Agent Coulson

today there was a fucking THURSDAY raven's game (is this gonna be all the time now?) that made traffic back up on my way home and a guy did that thing where people ride in the lane that is exit only until after it turns solid so he could merge in and pass like 2 miles of cars. i felt so helplessly irrationally angry.

it was like double anger quadrupled, 8 times angry

I pull this shitty trick sometimes where I ride down the exit lane past rush hour traffic, exit the freeway, go through the stop and get back on again. Even with the stop, I'm still well ahead of where I'd usually be.

Shitty Tricks for Winning at Life