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

- 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.

WWF?

World War Foo

Words With Friends (aka Scrabble, more or less)

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

Federal Army General.

people who are impossible to contact!

ie person in quesiton has 2 email addresses
- one they specifically say DO NOT REPLY TO THIS so fine
-second email pretty sure never gets read, 3 days of emails with nothing

two phone numbers:
- calls me from a work phone that when I call back I get another woman who says x is not available;
- home phone she gave me connects to someone else in the same office as the work phone! no home phone! no cell phone!

w
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Hope your day gets better, Dr. Bonner.

I think she's trolling me tbh

twitter-like comments presented on other things are the worst

like in between innings on the mlb baseball app it shows tweets from random fans OMG #SFGIANTS

or in a crawl on cnn while wolf blitzer is stuttering about debates

or alongside espn.com coverage of football games

good lord i barely care what the 'experts' have to say about such things; why on earth do i want to be presented with the thoughts of random assholes?

otfm x 1000

Have I mentioned how much I hate hashtags that will never be used in another post or by anyone else ever again? #hatethosethingssomuchthosehashtagswhy?

I hate them so much I will post this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4G95vB5mE

I've v occasionally employed the ironic hashtag on FB post, but its more of a deliberate affectation cos my twitter hate is well known ok maybe thats no excuse.

posted this in the wrong thread

today i saw someone use a gas station to turn except they failed because the light was green and they ended up behind everyone. i win!

― horribl ecreature (harbl), Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

line of 4 cars stopped at a light-rail level crossing. gates down, lights flashing.
two cyclists approach, glance up and down the track and proceed to weave around the level crossing gate and continue on their merry way.
gates did not come up for at least a minute.

this is an ongoing IA I have also had with pedestrians etc at level crossings: more than one person got creamed by trains in my hometown because they ALWAYS crossed at the level crossing even when the gates were down.

I don't give a shit if you can't see anything coming. Fucking WAIT. Because if something happens and you don't get across, you're the dead asshole who crossed when the gates were down. That were provided FOR YOUR BLOODY SAFETY.

guh. I know I'm a crank. I'm okay with that. harrumph

Sooooo many people have been getting hit by trains in Melb at level crossings lately. I mean it seems like one or 2 a week. I suspect many are suicides and theyre just reporting those ones more than they used to but yeah there is this stupid "ignore the gates" bullshit, grrr.

it's crazy. like they have to rig level crossings with automatic gates that close across the footpaths and people will STILL climb over them or go around them.

;_;