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

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.

;_;

I have an old ipod shuffle, the one with no buttons? the stupid headphones died after a while so now I can only turn it on / off or put it to random. it looks cool and works perfectly fine, actually it is great for running, plus the fact that it only fits 4 GB means I have to be very selective in what I choose to add to the playlist (good music all the time), but I still feel this constant urge to get the newest and most expensive version out there. this is horrible and I can't help it.

IA at myself for being late solely because I started overthinking what I had chosen to wear to work this morning and caught myself in a feedback loop of trying on sweater after sweater, even when I KNEW I was going to be late. idiotic

Done that. Most days, if I'm being honest.

I'm IA because that fucking guy in Procol Harum pronounces the qu in "Conquistador" like the qu in "quiz," not as "conKEEStador." You fucking shithead!

haaaaa

also the way longitude is pronounced in "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W"

I'm IA because either LibreOffice is a total piece of shit or I am just too stupid to use it.

Seriously, people complaining about the ribbon on MS Office don't know they're born.

And the way Jon Anderson pronounces Michigan in Yes' "America" cover! Damnit!

Cobble Hill asshole with neatly combed hair and fussy little yuppie vandyke, riding Razr scooter in the bike lane the wrong way on a one-way street. I hope he got hit by a moving truck.

ugh them and people who walk in bike lanes

The woman jogging in the Bergen St bike lane was less douchey, and at least she was going the right way.

people who walk right at you on the sidewalk while staring down at their precious iphones, then doing a little dodge like a millimeter from you

so funny, orbit, i live on bergen between hoyt and bond!

Dude, you have to lose the scooter, those things are nagl for a grown man.

When people misspell something and follow it with (sp?). You're on the god damn Internet. Jus look up how to spell the fucking word!

I love you.

who me? i would NEVER ride one of those things (xxp)

No not you. I was thinking about this dork I follow on Twitter who just did that.

gotcha

dipshit standing in the middle of the aisle at the co-op with his basket on the floor, i say excuse me, he moves an inch, no help: i have to say "i can't get past you could you please move?"
and he gives *me* ~a look~
OH HELL NO
i nearly threw an elbow as I passed

in film montages with a song, whenever they stick a clip in a space that is described completely on-the-nose by the lyric. like cutting to the female character's face when the lyric mentions "her beautiful face." it's ALWAYS her beautiful face.

also the way longitude is pronounced in "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W"

― pplains, Friday, 12 October 2012 17:17 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Waht? How else is it pronounced?

The way it's pronounced in the Dykehouse version, which is jarring

(lonjitude/lonzhitude. this pronunciation makes my mouth feel gluey. it's a posh RP thing in the UK; is it the standard American pronunciation?)

dykehouse! whatever happened to that guy?

IA with my ISP because they upgraded the connection speed without telling me, but managed to balls it up so I had be on a support line for 20 minutes while a technician stalled for time until it was 'magically' fixed although then they tried to give me some BS explanation that my PC 'wasn't syncing correctly with the router'.
0range suck as an ISP and when their merger with T-Mobile is completed they'll be even worse.

*** ILLEGAL ACTIVITY DETECTED ***
*** CONNECTION DROPPED ***
*** POLICE NOTIFIED ***

Sandwiches that cut my mouth. Hard to eat sandwiches in general.

i don't like it when you get, say, an egg mayo sandwich and they put it into the hardest crustiest bun in the universe so that no matter what half the filling dribbles out the side.

I am against crusty bread for both of those reasons.

Crusty rolls always leave giant leper dandruff flakes everywhere, but especially on black sweaters. You thought croissants were bad.

I shouldn't feel like I am going to rip out all my dental work when I eat a sandwich.

With you. Or have cuts in the roof of my mouth for two days.

i hate it when i catch my arm or something on the cord of my in-ear headphones as i'm walking along and rip them out by accident.

related: when you go to a restaurant and the only vegetarian option is basically a lettuce sandwich. xps

The degree to which other people seem to fetishize the CRUSTS of bread has always seemed a sign of mental instability to me. That's the part that if your mom loves you, she cuts it OFF your sandwich! Wtf ppl.

I've never understood the whole "Ugh! CRUSTS!" way people go about editing their sandwiches and leaving behind tasty pizza leftovers. We're not exactly talking about banana peels here, people.

Wait, you don't eat banana peels?

Is that a British thing too?

Nah, Pennsylvanian.

I was thinking about the Pittsburgh Stop again last night in traffic. How I'd be on this thread every day if I lived there.

ugh Jeff I feel you -- for this reason me and dutch crunch rolls rarely if ever get along well. that stuff is like 40 grit sandpaper on my mouth