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

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.

street sign is presumably on Bloomsbury Way which goes right off New Oxford Street just before the 9 turns left onto the end of Shaftesbury AVe . Which I really should have know, even if only because it was supposed to be the pun that directed the way Eros pointed in Piccadily Circus. Heard that he was supposed to be pointing so that should he be firing arrows from the bow he's holding the shafts would bury in Shaftesbury Ave.
I think for some reason he'd been turned around though.

Think Eros was supposed to be a tribute to the philanthropic work with kids that Lord Shaftesbury was doing hence that pun actually being significant.

I live in Bloomsbury. Anything south of Theobald's Road down to Fleet Street is Holborn. Most Inns of Court are in Holborn, as is LSE. Aldwych and the Strand are not Holborn, and are not Covent Garden either. North of Shaftesbury Avenue, south of New Oxford Street and east of Charing Cross Road to Holborn station is St Giles, former slum now covered in Renzo Piano buildings.

It's ok they've come up with a lovely new catch all term to prevent all the confusion. How nice of them.

choice incomprehensible posts from britisher threads

- tubes/bottles of liquid that you have shake furiously to get the liquid out, even when they're squeezable.
just come out plz. tired of yr games.

-spacious hotel rooms with teeny tiny bathrooms

Even if it was "Midtowne", it'd still sound American. At least moreso, than "Bloomsbury".

Sitting on the toilet and not realizing the lid you sit on is already up and you get your bottom wet. It doesn't happen often but when it does, I curse the world.

having a mixed fruit salad and the last piece you eat does not taste as good as the others.

doesn't make me necessarily IA but uh, inconsistent fruit.

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.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Friday, October 19, 2012 2:25 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this riles me up to no end. everytime.

it's traumatic alright

oh that is the worst.

maybe this is rationally angry:

when you preorder something from an online store with an order, and agree to wait until the preordered item is released for your whole order to ship, only to be notified at that time that one of the other, already released items, is out of stock

I understand that setting aside the other stuff requires extra effort, but seriously?

ugh that's evil mh. I got that a few weeks ago ordering clothes - wanted a blazer, added on jewelery to get free shipping.. got charged for jewelery and shipping as the blazer went out of stock between me placing my order & them shipping my stuff. DIE.

with my luck it's always a record that goes out of print

Bus going by me as i negotiate the path past overgrown trees up to the bus stop with my arm out to hail it. Bus driver is looking down for some reason. So I wound up having to walk home on the day that I need to turn around and go back out to another course. Buses only being every half hour and all. Bugger.

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

Vivian Stanshall's Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead not being in the EAC database already when I went to rip the disc to computer. & probably about to reject my submitted version.
What do you categorise the record under though?

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

How do drivers say to themselves "Oh Boy! No other cars are around, so I don't have to bother with the .5 second action of turning on my signal anymore!"

Seems like that would take more work than just automatically flipping the turn signal lever.

ppl have so many dumb reason for not using their turn signals, NONE OF WHICH ARE VALID

I use my turn signals at all times, when parallel parking, when turning in parking lots, all the time

Me too!

i just leave my hazards on all the time so i don't have to remember to use the turn signal

It's not always the driver's fault! I was making a turn yesterday, had my right turn signal on and everything, waited for the cyclist crossing the street to finish crossing, started to make the turn – only to realize just in time that the cyclist had decided to do a little loop back out onto the crosswalk just for fun.

I know I've already mentioned approaching a stoplight on a four-lane street. Getting behind the car in the inside line because lol at slowpoke on the right.
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But guess who's laughing when the light turns green and the car in front of me goes, Oh yeah, I'm turning left, here's my blinker.

Seems like that would take more work than just automatically flipping the turn signal lever.

It makes me extra IA when I see police cars not using turn signals.

But I do kinda think it's funny when they use the whole damn blue lights for a second when they turn or go through a stop. Oh, yes, that must have been much easier to do.

Not using turn signals, they don't even stop at red lights! xp haha

What part of Keep Me Signed In do you not understand??!?!?!???!!?????????????????????

if it's ilx you're probably following some links that jerks using ilxor.com and www.ilxor.com separately made that lead to the one you don't have that checked on

No, this time it's iCloud but also a work app that I use constantly that logs me out all the time.

ugh

I spent time over the weekend stressing about this stupid computer issue I was having. I have a pretty sweet desktop mac that I got used and tweaked that I use for home software stuff and some games and the fucker kept crashing. Swapped out components one at a time over the weekend and it's still glitching. Just so irritating, I'd use it for a couple hours, leave for a bit and come back and it'd have crashed.

Thing has been rock-solid, zero crashes until the last week. :(

Hey cars, you can use your signals for pedestrians' benefit as well. I may have hung back on the corner had I known you were turning, but it's not my fault.

This affects me every day. I do a little pantomime movement of stepping across the road and then jerking back when the car that I knew would turn signalless turns signallessly. I don't know what to do. Many of the cars on my route that would try to hit me in this way then turn into a car park that I have to cross. I have a notebook on me always and want to leave notes, but I feel the effort might age me.

It makes me extra IA when I see police cars not using turn signals.

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, October 22, 2012 1:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is maybe pet peeve #1 for me, it's SO RARE for cops to signal ever fireworks should go off when they do

i also hate the "putting my lights on for two seconds cause i'm tired of waiting at this light" thing

i've probably put these in this thread alrady

The shoe string on my right shoe becomes uneven every three days, by a dramatic amount. Never my left shoe, just the right. Makes me rage.

Ugh, I was biking to work this morning, and there was a car behind me at one point so I was hugging the curb ("kerb") and he just kept hanging back, hanging back, wouldn't pass me, making me edgy, so finally I reached out with my left arm and waved him around me, at which point he turned on a right-turn signal for whatever he intended to do. I AM NOT PSYCHIC YOU ASSHOLE PLEASE DIE.

i hate the seams in the corners of socks that rub in the wrong place in your shoe and make you want to killkillkill

phil, i know so well how you feel.

i try really really hard to never exhibit frustration or anger to a vehicle that is showing me consideration and using extra care. even if the driver is mfing dipshit.