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

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

I've had bus drivers who will pull that shitty trick. It's a nice move.

that trick is perfectly ok imo

wait you get on the same or a different exit? i was thinking the next exit. anyway i don't think it's so bad.

can't speak for pp, but the move I'm talking about is going up one exit ramp and driving down the other side, back into traffic, but 15 to 20 car lengths ahead. it wouldn't work on a cloverleaf.

p sure that is one of the seven habits of highly effective people, but I'm only on chapter 4 right now so I'll get back to you

going up one exit ramp and driving down the other side, back into traffic, but 15 to 20 car lengths ahead

Yeah, like that. Let's say I'm going north on the bypass below and it's bumper-to-bumper.

http://www.ayeconference.com/images/mayberry-aye_files/image001.gif

I get off at Key Street, stop at the intersection (stop sign in my case, not a light), and then get back on to the bypass.

The irrational guilt that I have is using the off-ramp as a shortcut and not because I really want to excuse myself from the freeway. It seems like a cheat, but I still do it because hey.

- huge line of cars waiting for left turn arrow, backed up way more than normal
- huge pickup a long way back bails out of the lineup, then flies past me as I come to the traffic light,ends up a few cars ahead of me as we wait for regular straight-through light to change.
- light finally turns green, so we start moving, and turn lane traffic starts moving.
- as I'm waiting for regular green light traffic to move i witness:
- THE HUGE PICKUP PULL *BACK INTO* TURN LANE TRAFFIC AS THEY'RE MOVING ON THE GREEN LIGHT

HE JUMPED THE MOTHERFUCKING LINE

I felt like Annie Wilkes "HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODIE CAR" oh I was so mad

i don't know if i get irrationally angry about it but i get irrationally annoyed by pieces (usually about restaurants and usually found in lists), where "we" is used and yet the piece is written by one person or is without a byline, and it's speaking on behalf of some anonymous "we" out there and i don't even know who they are. i don't know if that makes sense, but cf this bit on an l.a. website:

We're not die-hard fans of the establishment, as the one time we visited, we were welcomed with weak service (and barely recall what we ate). But the situation is unfortunate (and unappetizing) nonetheless.

By Lauren Lloyd

One assumes she went to said place with company, I guess?

It does sound irritatingly royal-we though.

i'm the same way about music writing, "we here at ________ love..."

I like it when Popjustice does it. Harks back to Smash Hits days.

well it makes a sort of sense for them

Publications whose contributors are asked to write in the 'we' voice or as the embodiment of the publication eg. 'the NME was at the band's first gig' generally also have the bottom-of-the-masthead disclaimer about how individual opinions do not reflect those of (insert publication or parent company here). To anyone who notices this contradiction, that seems like the very definition of having one's cake and eating it.

Being accused of cheating at Words With Friends for the high crime of knowing POMO and the names of Hebrew letters. I mean jeez, it's not like I played NOMBRIL or UMIAQ.

i was mad when someone played BHISTIE. definitely cheating.

Egg nog in September

I would be mad at BHISTIE too. But POMO and VAV, gimme a flippin' break.

does QIN count

-households who can't fit even 1 of their cars in their garage

i think words with friends doesn't let you play qin. i never assume those words like qin and vav are cheating because they are the kind of words i have played when trying to guess if something was a word.

There was a couple playing Scrabble in the pub at lunchtime and I was biting my tongue hard, at first because the girlfriend was taking a very long time (10+ minutes) over the second move of the game and kept spelling out total non-words like "troff" and "seft" while saying "this is a word, isn't it? it looks like it might be a word. well I've got very difficult words, I can't make anything with these words, you got easy words" while I was thinking of plenty of obvious anagrams of the letters she was reading out

and then I had to bite even harder, because either that move or the next one she finally put down "biz" and he exploded into "no, that's not a word! that is totally never a word! you cannot have that!" which seemed a little unreasonable given that a) I was p. sure it would be in any dictionary or Scrabble word list (just checked and it is a legit Scrabble word UK and US-side) and b) he'd been completely calm in the face of the previous 6 total non-words

I'm not-irrationally angry at myself for posting something to Facebook without realizing it was from an Onion-wannabe satire site.

was it the "stench" piece about mitt romney? Cuz I made that mistake.

I want "stench piece" to be a new thing in journalism, like "trend piece" or "think piece."

Nah, it was the Michelle Bachman "ban falafel in school lunches" thing. SMDH at myself.

Accidentally ripping my ear buds out when I'm walking along. The sudden 'whoosh' and then silence is like being rudely woken up from a nice dream.

This is kinda IA since it's a free product, but how do the morons who write MySQL Workbench sleep at night? I don't think I've ever seen a worse product put out by a major company, and yes that includes Windows 98. I'm basically having to disregard office protocol and install DBeaver to run the queries I want to instead of whichever arbitrary queries MySQL Workbench is going to decide to run this time. Thank fuck I was on a development server. This after I already had to roll back to an older version because the latest version won't run for more than 5 minutes without crashing.

It kinda makes me feel like an idiot at the same time because so many major companies manage to run on MySQL, which boggles the mind given my 6 months experience with it have been filled with horror. How the hell do they manage it?

Nah, it was the Michelle Bachman "ban falafel in school lunches" thing. SMDH at myself.

― Death Grits 2 (WmC), Monday, October 1, 2012 11:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is almost believable

> total non-words like "troff"

this is why i'm terrible at scrabble - all the things that spring immediately to mind are unix commands.

I keep picturing spacecadet looking like

http://i.imgur.com/ouaDX.jpg

when i pull up to parallel park on the street, even have my signal on and i'm obviously slowing down and getting in position, but the person behind me just pulls their car right up behind so i can't back into the space because they weren't paying attention to what i was doing.

I just sit there and whistle.

Now, the dumb ass who tries to parallel park without a signal, just damn stops in the middle of the street, he can go to the devil.

Relatedly, people who go the wrong way in the tiny, narrow one-way parking lot at Trader Joe's and then sit there waiting for someone to pull out of a parking space -- they're jumping the line on me AND preventing me from getting to OTHER spaces that open up.

x-post.
If I see someone behind me a come to a full stop behind the empty spot, with my signal going, until the car behind stops or at least slows down because I;m stopped, then I move ahead to back into the empty slot. It doesn't always work, but it seems to help. If I see multiple cars behind me, I usually just go past the empty spot until I find one I can go forward into.

Long National Weather Service alerts that are issued in ALL CAPS.

Why ARE they in all caps??

My boss writes her testimony abstracts in all caps b/c she thinks they're easier to read with far-sightedness. That's nonsense, and anyway, non-far-sighted people also have to read them. Thank Maude I learned about Shift+F3 to toggle capitalization.

All I know is that scripts read for TV and radio broadcasts are usually in All CAPS. Funny that it's supposed to make reading better when the whole country is switching out their street signs for lower case.

I read somewhere that the NWS alerts are in all caps because the encoding used to send them over the wire actually is really old and made for efficiency. So it's coming across that way and they're not retyping/reformatting it before displaying it for you. There's a newer standard now, but most weather reporting source haven't switched over. Still anger-causing, but it has a story...

I am angry about Tostitos Bite-Sized chips. I always desire their Crispy Rounds, which are the perfect size and awesome, but if a store stocks only one of the round varieties, it's the bite-sized abominations. So I hate the bite-sized ones for being there instead of the better one.

Another WWF irritation -- FAG is disallowed even though it has at least two non-homophobic meanings.