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

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

You should tell them to go carve a turnip lantern.

lool

I told them that the point was, I had seen a 3-year-old flying ninja and they hadn't.

those thin plastic strips around icecream and spice lids that are "theoretically" perforated for removal but never are and you have to cut it with a knife/scissors to get it off.

ragh

People who get really pissed off because they have decided things are happening too early. Such as holiday cups at Starbucks. Why is that?? Were you not prepared????

Because it's really irritating to put up with Christmas shit for a longer period every year?

i don't care about the cups (nor do i drink coffee) but fuck having to listen to xmas music when it's not december

does starbucks have xmas flavors yet? cause i'll celebrate that

yep, they're up and running

Didja know those flavors are available all year long?

not all of them. eggnog only comes in at Christmas

The thing that makes me IA about this topic is the concept of flavoured coffee at all. ITS COFFEE. You drink it because you like the taste of COFFEE. If you feel the need to load it with HFCS and fuckin strawberry or pumpkin or wtf ever flavour, go get a damn milkshake.

i don't wanna make a fuss just give me a menu and i'll pick something xp

i don't drink coffee cause i like the taste of coffee what are you talking about

i fucking HATE coffee ice cream

love putting ice cream in coffee tho, anything to distract me from the coffee

Why put BACON on meatloaf/a sandwich/anything? It's bacon, eat bacon

Isn't a chocolate milkshake just a misappropriation of chocolate? Chocolate is its own thing!!

I love coffee for its coffeeness too, but that's not why I go to Starbucks.

starbucks is the worst place to have coffee-as-coffee coffee drinks

yeah i don't think most people who shop there are convincing themselves otherwise

i can't get a java chip frappuccino anywhere else, so where else am i gonna get a java chip frappuccino

dont be cheeky mh.

I mean, sure, flavoured milk drinks. thats a thing. I'm down with that. Just dont be calling it coffee!

but the coffee gives it the coffee flavor and wakes me up and makes me poo, which is literally everything that coffee does, so why not

flavored coffee is ok as a special treat. A peppermint mocha on a cold day around christmas time is p good imo.

starbucks actual coffee is ordinary which is why: flavors

homemade latte still my fave

i won't go into starbucks cuz the last time i was there they were playing some horrible barbara streisand thing and i swore them off for good

No joke?

ya

not so much for my own sake as the employees can't even lower the volume or change the music. i've worked in that environment and would rather not give money to places that treat their ppl thus

plus intelligentsia is the same distance from school and is 1000x better

That could've been your first explanation, really!

There's a coffee shop near my place that has great espresso but will sometimes play really loud Motown, like really loud, and it's so nice at 7:30 am to hear really loud Motown while you get a coffee, like a cold shower. I get irrationally angry when I go in there and it is instead [indie music]

motown would be fine with me.

i am usually able to ignore whatever music is being played in a business unless it's at nightclub volume (which it very often is). i never leave the apt without a pair of earplugs.

clouds otm -- the volume level in starbucks is ott. I don't know how anyone could sit in there for any extended period of time, even if they liked the music that was played.

Peet's do a better job with the ambience imo, for a large coffee house chain - snooty classical music, but quiet. it's v pleasant in there always. They make p nice coffee too.

Always being asked to confirm appointments/reservations. Doctors/dentists/restaurant reservations. I made the goddammed appointment, I'm going to be there. I don't need your constant reminders.

Being asked: What are you doing?

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 9 AM - routine maintenance, not an emergency. Every time I go to this doctor I wait at least a half hour before being admitted to the room where he's actually going to see me; then I sit in that room for another 15 minutes or so before the doctor actually makes an appearance. Tomorrow is also my first day back in the office after a week of working at home because of the hurricane, and trains from Mytown to NYC are only running once an hour. If I am not actually in conversation with my doctor by 9:30 tomorrow morning, I am walking out the door and finding a new doctor.

right on. bring it!

That really is annoying. One reason I like my PCP is that he is really good about being on time. My shrink, though - I count on him seeing me 45 minutes after my appointment time at the earliest. Which actually works out fine b/c I see him after work and it gives me some leeway and I am fine with reading and relaxing in the waiting room. (Not a defense at all, his dysfunction just happens to fit me well).

not so much for my own sake as the employees can't even lower the volume or change the music. i've worked in that environment and would rather not give money to places that treat their ppl thus

Fair enough, though the benefits for part-timers (20 hrs +) include health insurance, matched 401(k), paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, which would mean more to me than the Muzak that I tune out anyway.

eh, the same song playing every day for months on end is basically a form of psychological torture imo.

When I was a representative for the photo portrait studios in Wal-Mart stores, I could almost set my watch to "Feels So Good" coming on within 20 minutes of 2:30 pm.

sometimes i'll watch an infomercial why not and get really IA because the "content" part keeps getting interrupted by the how-to-order "commercial" part. just show the 10 sec video clip marathon thing i don't need the guys from air supply telling me how much all this would cost me in stores.

those horrible mass-produced folk arty looking Christmas decorations, like wooden angels with wire wings and hammered tin christmas stars that are supposed to look like they were brought in from the back shed but are just fucking UGLY

like these fking things

http://www.atwestend.com/CFN1031.jpg?resizeid=-2&resizeh=600&resizew=500

http://www.atwestend.com/Catalogue/christmas/wooden-sleeping-santa-door-hanging.html