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

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"

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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

and those super hard sourdough rolls where the crust is 1/4 inch thick
ouch

I like some crust, just not tons of it.

People who blast music from their phones in public places, like parks, trains and elevators.

Related: people who pull up to gas stations, turn off the car, then turn the car to "on" to blast music as they tank up. I love music more than most, but geez, give it a break. Not every second of life needs a soundtrack.

why turn the car off in the first place?

Save gas.

but, no

turning the ignition takes as much gas as leaving it idle for abt a minute, that's just stupid

do ppl not know that turning their car on uses gas?

you keep the car running while you fill it? i thought that was dangerous or something

btw the crust is the best part of the bread

Bizarre.

i've read it's not actually dangerous, but i don't keep it running anyway. i'm talking about people who turn it off for the 30 seconds it takes to get the nozzle in and then go back while the it's filling up.

IA: automatic doors that require you to slow down while they slowly open. I COULDA USED THAT THIRD OF A SECOND YOU JUST WASTED ME FFS.

uh zachylon I think Josh meant "on" as in the utility setting, not the engine running

I really hate how everyone calls Final Fantasy III Final Fantasy VI. I mean, it was 6 if you lived in Japan when it came out, but 99% of the articles I've read that mention in were written by English speakers.

Yeah, it's Saturday night and I'm complaining about that. What can i say? I am in nerd hell.

xpost Yeah, utility setting. On, but not running, so that people can ... blast the music as they tank up, like I posted. Which you can't do when the car is off.

Tonight at the xx show, this woman behind me would gasp and scream with a mix of extreme surprise and delight whenever the band played a song she liked. Which was every song, not least because the band only has a couple of short albums and played pretty much every song. There'd be a few notes and then, screech! Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!!!!!

oh i forgot about utility. yeah that's just stupid.

Probably been mentioned a dozen times before but the attempt to rebrand Holborn and Bloomsbury as 'midtown' makes me enormously irrationally angry. Seems to be posters everywhere at the moment referencing Woolf and Forster with LOVE MIDTOWN plastered all over them.

That is rational anger. Tatty orange Midtown banners not fooling anyone who actually lives here.

Midtown seems to be an Americanisation just from hearing about it. Thought there were too many cultural/intellectual connections to that area not to want to preserve it's past associations as Bloomsbury etc.

Is/was Bloomsbury at one point the next area over from Covent Garden, or was i just reading to much into that when I stumbled on that thought on my last trip to London. Like an area where things were blooming etc. as flowers and things tend to.

From what I remember of going through the area on buses Bloomsbury has still preserved a lot of the old buildings. Was just wondering if things in that general area were being rebranded in the wake of the rail terminal being placed at the bottom of Oxford st/Tottenham Court Rd, though maybe I'm miscalculating the vicinity. Think it's just a few streets away though isn't it? Bloomsbury being bordered at least in my head by the area below that Oxford street/Tottenham Court rd nexus at least on one side, might be putting the border at the wrong point though.

On further thought is MIdtown a designation that supposedly ties in with the West End, and other similar placenames possibly including the East End though that's probably too far away to be immediately referenced.
So you might have an uptown around Knightsbridge or something.

Also usage of artists like the Bloomsbury set-ters that have been mentioned as adorning the banners sounds majorly like people wanting the best of both worlds.

Is there any previous history of the usage of the 'Midtown' designation or has it all been invented in the wake of something like the introduction of that rail terminal. Not being in London I can't think of other significant events/constructions that could have things being redesignated other than the Olympics which this sounds too late to be tied in with.

Midtown is just chamber of commerce types trying stuff on. They've even got a fake local newspaper with zero information about who publishes it, in the place where a masthead should be.

The area being rejuvenated by Crossrail station at TCR is St Giles. Bloomsbury is northeast of there, eg. everything between TCR and Gray's Inn Road north of New Oxford Street/Theobald's Road.

I looked this up after posting that and found out taht there was mention made in 2010 on a couple of news related websites , but it seemed to laughingly dismiss it. & was refered to as having done so in articles from this year. Not sure when the orange coded stuff started happening e.g. the banners/rangers.
I don't think I would have known the name ST Giles before reading that, Bloomsbury is the title of streets etc that you see signed on the side of buildings from what I remember.
What's the junction that Fopp is just off? Is that Cambridge Circus? With Forbidden Planet a bit further down the same road? The 19 from Finsbury Park comes into town on that route and I think the Bloomsbury street sign is further down that same road. I should probably know the name of that road but it has been years since I lived in London. Just not sure if Bloomsbury whatever is a sign on that road or on one of the roads it crosses.

North-east is in the direction of Camden/Euston is it? So possibly including the area that ULU and whatever that hospital is are? God my memory for names is failing me. British Museum was already mentioned wasn't it, so would think so. I just would have pictured Bloomsbury as between St Giles and Holborn but maybe I'm just getting the picture distorted from the perspective of memory & would have it closer if i was physically experiencing it.