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

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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

think you should really out the offenders, although I think they're trying to be cutesy

imprecision & inaccuracy are never endearing but i get LIVID when they are applied to descriptions of textiles

describe a woven pattern as a 'print' and watch how red my face gets, PRINTS ARE PRINTED aaaaaagh

completely understandable

no idea why you'd have to describe cashmere as downy-soft or having the warmth of down because... it's cashmere! maybe they're trying to market to people who have no idea wtf it is

On a similar note, there's phone company ad on TV now with a catchy song that rhymes numbers with cities (one. two - Kalamazoo, three, four - Jersey Shore, etc) and shows images related to the city/area. For six they use West Phoenix, but as the image they show a desert scene with Joshua trees. As far as I know, those only grow in the California desert, and more importantly, there already is a desert tree associated with Phoenix, the Saguaro cactus. It's even the state flower. So little more effort needed to get it right!

Cashmere is made from goat undercoat.

undergoat

well, yes, but it's still wool. you could describe it as "downy" but it's not down

I'd never describe it as 'down' or they'd kick me out of the fashion police.

if one had a a bunch of feather stuffing for a sex doll, one might say that it was "down to fuck"

Robert Cashmere Jr.

undergoat

OK, who wants to form a stoner/doom band? I shall be concentrating more on the "stoner" part of the equation and less on the "band" part

The doom part will be when we do a cover of this, slowed down to take 24 months:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ

good plan

People who immediately reply on FB to take Airborne when you say you're sick.

Shit has not been proven to have any cold remedy value, hence the lawsuit in 08.

Might as well swallow dog shit in pill form with a glass of orange juice.

― emma goldbond (San Te), Wednesday, January 26, 2011 4:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holy shit please stfu about Airborne forever. Only thing worse than the people who incessantly recommend taking this stuff are the people who insist on mentioning that "it was invented by a teacher".

I have friends/colleagues in NJ, and seeing them on Twitter complaining about how long it's going to be until their power is on makes me irrationally angry. (Especially the ones I know are right-wing dbags for some reason.) Yeah, it's a hardship, I get it, I've been without power for 3-4 days at a time, but they way they're like "GOD why is the electricity NOT ON YET COME ON ALREADY" just turns it into First World Problems territory for me. STFU, go to a friend's house and get over yourself.

Airborne/vitamin c/emergen-c all rage inducing. Unintended side effect.

Named Airborne in honor of multiple objects thrown across room by test group.

i grew up drinking emergen-c all the time — it was called kool-aid back then

what the hell is airborne

/tuomas, no doubt

If you know what Emergen-C is, it's that, essentially. Different brand, and they actually were successfully prosecuted by the FDA for extravagant claims.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/airborne-admits-false-advertising/

Not the FDA, since it's not a drug.

duh, everyone knows it's the fdrug and drug administration

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Airborne93poster.jpg/220px-Airborne93poster.jpg

I guess this is probably a super-common thing by now on Instagram and self-photos and stuff but;

I have a friend who is a lovely, gorgeous interesting girl. Most of her instagram feed, if it's during hockey season, consists entirely of hockey players because she is a hella crazy groupie which I kind of love about her. The rest of the time though, it's made up of photos of herself from the eyebrows to the cleavage. ALWAYS. And they're supposedly subject-related like 'wow the sky is weird today' or 'I dunno if this is the right color red for my hair' or 'I have a weird bruise on my chin' but that mostly manage to include most of her cleavage as the focus. It's just, myspace-o-rama all the time!

Not so much IA as oddly hilarious and non-sequitur-ish. "Hey wow look a rainbow" = OH HAI HERE'S MY BOOBS. Today she was like 'Hmm I feeling lazy on Halloween' and it's her lying on her bed, from the neck to mid thigh in a tight 'trick or treat' tshirt and boy short underpants.

I feel like I'm the wrong audience but hey, I'm just biding my time til she starts putting up handsome hockey players again, lol.

plz to message me her instagram account name, but not during hockey season

lol

halloween and people going crazy about it asking you for days what you're gonna be dressed up as and boring the shit out of everyone telling you about their costume. especially since tbh not being american means i don't give a fuck about halloween

It's as bad here in Britain now. Used to be kids would dress up for one night and get some sweets. Now everyone's carving pumpkins and throwing parties and decorating houses and putting on scary cds.

halloween is literally the only good holiday and everyone across the world should be happy that we are sharing it with you

I'd wager that more pedestrians get hit by cars than any other holiday in the year.

i'd wager that one year later, more of the drivers of those cars get mysterious emails that read only "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST HALLOWEEN" than any other holiday in the year

so, another point in favor of halloween

the one holiday when more people walk than drive and the cars still ruin it for everyone

I'd wager that more pedestrians get hit by cars than any other holiday in the year.

yeah but its also the pedestrianiest day of the year!

Sick of UK people on FB sneeringly posting Halloween-related This Isn't America statements. You are free not to bother participating, and if you're going to rail against America, pick something serious.

man that really sucks, uk, sorry that people in your area are interested in celebrating stuff