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

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.

more difficult not to lose my shit at cars who purposefully hinder bikers, like the limo waiting at a redlight that moved as close as possible to the bumper of the car in front of it, just to block me from getting out of the turn lane and into the bike lane (which is to the left of the turning lane)

also fucking limos, give me a break

blue plaques that commemorate someone culturally significant having lived somewhere when they didn't live there very long.

oh I just remembered:

I don't understand and am always kind of disheartened by car memorials. Like, if you love the person so much surely there's a better place to memorialize them than on your giant Escalade? idgi

^^ anything that says "in memory of" too. I mean, isn't that usually what you put on things that you're dedicating, like an endowment or donated park bench or something? I keep thinking things like, "Wow, you bought a F-150 to better remember some guy"

totally!

I'm IA about chips that are stale from the moment the bag is opened. (Only happens with Fritos, in my experience.)

yeah fritos steez seems to be 'always stale, never fresh'

hence why I am always kinda bummed whenever I eat fritos

a cliche in the world of IA, but: today my flatmate left the gas oven on unlit and, as we both have colds and blocked noses and didn't notice for ages, probably almost killed us. and that's fine, it happens innit. BUT. you've put the toilet roll on the holder in an underhand fashion? OMFG WHAT ARE YOU THINKING.

Our upstairs neighbors were having a screaming row, just complete knock down, drag out, and that didn't make me that IA even though I'm stuck working all day because it just sounded so fraught and upsetting. But now they seem to have made up and are listening to music and, as far as I can tell, aerobicizing and I would like to throttle them both.

possibly jazzercising?

aerobicizing

hahahaha

MAYBE

Like, can't you two get into another fight? At least when one of you is lying in bed, sobbing and the other one is glumly staring at the TV and trying to act like nothing was your fault, you aren't constantly stomping around your apartment.

I don't want to do any more work. I've been sitting here all day making lecture outlines and power point slides and I want to drink beer and sit in another part of the house.

our tiny house and it's zero storage space

like, not even for 'junk' but for things like FOOD WE EAT. ugh. Stupid tiny old house.

my neighbors have sex too loud. today i saw them at the gym ellipticalling next to each other and i wanted to say i thought you guys already got enough exercise. looking at them makes me angry.

also the XM radio was playing music from 2000-2009 and it played thong song and i saw the guy dancing a little and singing thong song in the gym. i hate him so much!

i saw a dude that looked like my douchey backward cap-wearing upstairs neighbor and i think i instinctively grimaced at him slightly

seeeing ads in the Guardian magazine for the introduction of Kettle tortilla chips when i know they won't appear over here for years. THere's still only very basic flavours of Kettle chip crisps available that I've seen.

& the internimable wait for the local branch of Lush I thought somebody had promised earlier this year was coming soon. They have new ranges especially introduced for Halloween, so was hoping they'd appear while they were still on.

unreadable captions for people's names and titles/positions in documentaries, mainly due to being the same or similar color to the background

People who laugh at incredibly loud volumes in bars. Shut the fuck up.

they've been drinking, Jeff. they laugh with unbridled joy.

(I may be a loud laugher :( )

Look if you don't want me to come to Chicago just say so

Unbridled joy makes me IR. plz bridle it.

I don't mind noisy bars too much. But I want consistent levels of noise. Not one banshee that rises above.

Ad supplements in the newspaper that are about an inch wider than the paper itself, so when you re-fold everything and put it in the recycle pile the ad pages stick out a little bit.

shrieking people in bars are the fucking worst

Clouds. We are one.

\ (-_-) /

i hate this education connection commercial where shannen doherty is like "i'm shannen doherty: i've produced, i've directed, and now..."

like shut up literally no one in the entire universe has ever seen a single thing you've produced or directed, that is not the reason you're being paid to do this

R-L smilies ):

Ad supplements in the newspaper that are about an inch wider than the paper itself, so when you re-fold everything and put it in the recycle pile the ad pages stick out a little bit.

Oh this! I make a probably obnoxious habit of pulling the ad inserts out o the paper at work, crumpling them up grumpily and tossing them in the bin.

... which makes me sound like a bit of a wanker I suppose.

I don't give a fuck about "what's on the Google front page right now!"

Oh look, it's a picture of Bob Ross. Yeah, that dude was cool and all, but even if it was a salute to The Replacements, I don't need a dozen combined emails, Facebook posts and Tweets all screaming out for me to go look at "what's on the Google front page right now!"

Because (A) it's not a big deal and (B) it's GOOGLE. Chances are pretty, pretty good that I'll be dropping by that site some time in the next eight hours anyway.

ha i came here to post exactly that

^^ haha, says "clouds".

thank you for my new display name :3

I love laughing w/ unbridled joy ;_;
shrieking though is fucking horrible

blue plaques that commemorate someone culturally significant having lived somewhere when they didn't live there very long.

There's one for the Who at the Leeds University Refectory. They only lived there for a couple of hours.

but they really *lived* those hours

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcq1g2w5oo1qf7nhfo1_500.jpg

listen, asshole, goats don't have "down." baby birds have down. goats have wool. jesus christ, you are TRYING to sell cashmere sweaters and you are telling me comes from a goddamn goat bird, DO A LITTLE RESEARCH AND HAVE SOME SELF RESPECT YOU IDIOT FUCKERS