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

idgi, bar is the most over-inflated exam of all time. Pass/fail where failure is extremely unlikely for a first-time, native-english speaker from an accredited law school. And you can retake! And if you have a job lined up, most jobs won't even fire you for failing!

Yeah, we can say that now but in the heat of the moment when it feels like everything - your future, your self worth, your financial well being - is riding on this one test, it doesn't feel quite so casual. I use the term "bar exam psychosis" jokingly, but but it really is a specific type of break from reality (reality being that the bar is the most over-inflated exam of all time).

I've got no beef with people reading while working out, other than thinking about it makes me motion sick. It's mostly the people who have to bring so many things with them, like toddlers on a long car ride. But I guess I'm pretty lucky in that appropriate music and the delightful company of my own brain is generally enough to get me through however much cardio is happening that day.

in orbit otm. I used to sit on the exercise bike playing some mindless drop-the-blocks puzzle game and I wasn't doing particularly great at either but it was better than the nothing I do if I convince myself I totes have to put all my effort into working out (currently kinda stuck in the doing nothing stage because I hate all forms of exercise ever invented)

I've already mentioned cars with lights that turn themselves off, putting me in a position of either getting an answer of "Oh you silly, they turn THEMSELVES off!" if I say anything or a family of four being murdered one night because their battery died and I could've done something about it.

But my latest ITTMYIA appeared yesterday. WHY WOULD SOMEONE'S REVERSE LIGHTS COME ON WHEN THEY LOCK THE DOOR? I sat behind a car waiting for them to back out of a space yesterday before realizing that the lady who had just walked past me had turned them on just by going eep-eep with her keychain fob.

Reverse lights are only for reversing. Did I really just have to type that?

I pointed out maybe 4 cars with lights on to people before I realized it was some newfangled dealie. A newfangled dealie that makes no sense whatsoever. Somewhere, someone decided that a car's lights turning themselves off after five minutes was preferable to a car's lights turning off when the car is turned off. I hate that person.

"Not only will your lights stay on for five minutes after you close the car door, but you get to be a dick to anyone who points this out to you!"

Haven't seen any empty cars with lights on over here yet, but I hate it when I have to walk past the entrance of a car park and there's someone sitting at the wheel of a car with the engine and lights on, car diagonally hanging out of a space and into the exit route, looking totally like they're going to move any second and may not bother looking up first, except they're just... sitting.

It's not so bad in daylight but in the dark it's hard to see if the driver's just getting ready to move off or sitting there to eat a McDonald's while blocking the way out with the engine going.

This morning a bike came towards me so I moved over but skidded slightly even further away from the cyclist on some sodden leaf mulch, and the cyclist rang his bell at me. Which annoyed me, because I had already quite obviously seen him and moved out of his way, and also what am I meant to do, think "gee, I was having such a good time sliding around, but since that guy rang his bell I had better spontaneously regain control of all my limbs"?

(there was no chance of me falling back into his path, and even if I had I don't think having a bell rung at me before uncontrollably getting smacked by a bike would have helped)

the OCCUPANT of the OFFICE down the HALL only CLOSES the DOOR by BANGING IT SHUT and he opens and closes his door roughly FOUR HUNDRED TIMES on any given day for no obvious reason i am not even sure what he is doing in there since he never has a chance to sit down between all the banging and think for a goddamn second like the rest of us ARE TRYING TO DO

reading in the gym is morally wrong

still better than READING + WALKING

I have a co-worker who is really basically a good guy but has this annoying way of going on way too much about certain kinds of things -- hotels, air travel, restaurants -- in excruciating banal detail and with this kind of air of pampered self-regard combined with new york jewish neuroticism. I really basically like the guy but those conversations drive me up the wall.

air travel blows, restaurants and hotels forever

Most of the time at the gym I listen to podcasts, or else music when I need to motivate myself.

I mean, before I joined a gym I thought it would be cool to read magazines on the treadmill, but it's a major hassle if you don't want to half-ass it.

exactly if you're going to bother to set foot in the gym at all step all the way in

<3 air travel.
Can't wait to get to O'Hare today and fly back Saturday.

Air travel is less than 3.

I do a treadmill thing where I run hard for a minute and then walk for two while reading a message board

I know we could do a whole separate thread about the kinds of innocuous facebook status updates that make us irrationally angry, but in particular, updates that refer to specific moments in specific tv shows, as though everyone else is also watching them. "Man, I did not expect the green orc to show up with christmas presents!" shut the fuck up

tbf it was pretty surprising. he was always such a sourpuss!!

There's a great Twitter feed: @uokhun where every cliché used by that woman we all went to high school with - the one who was a total burnout/knife-wielding cow but now everything is reformed about her except for the claw bangs - is distilled down to essence of THERE FOR YOU GURRRRRL.

I have no idea what a "knife-wielding cow" is but it made me lol

I understand that bit, but not the rest. Especially not 'claw bangs' - bangs is a fringe, I know that much...

Google search for 'claw bangs' brings up 'mall bangs' and this picture:

http://www.sobeautymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mall-bang-2.jpg

Awesome.

glad the mortar shell only grazed the girl on the right

Oh I remember that hair so well. The girl on the left looks AWESOME tbh.

Both those girls forgot to barrette back one side and attach a feathers-and-beads roach clip to the barrette.

having to absolutely badger the nhs to get a blood test, is this just pure cost cutting? i realise i am not a doc but where they're just going "yeah probs ibs" i think it's surely no harm for a patient to make the call and get a test done. i mean, shouldn't the culture around that kind of condition be "yes let's check for this" rather than "ah it's probably fine." fairly sure i'm fine but given my granddad died of a bowel condition and i have an undiagnosed chronic illness already then i don't think it's any prob getting checked properly.

thankfully i get bupa through work soon enough.

when ppl send you an email, and you reply right away requesting additional info and then: nothing

YOU WERE RIGHT THERE SENDING YOUR EMAIL 30 SECONDS AGO WTF

finding my bag hanging open cos the zip has worked its way round from being partially zipped. Found the whole front section hanging almost vertical on a couple of occasions. Thankfully don't think I've actually lost anything yet.

&the computer still not recognising the monitor despite uninstalling and allowing it to reinstall by recognising attached hardware.
I just wonder if it's lacking some recognition software, got the monitor 2nd hand from a computer shop so wonder if it was refurbished in some way.

you'd expect it to have some level of recognition though wouldn't you?
Have to go by the shop and see if they have any idea of how to get it to recognise beyond default.

when ppl send you an email, and you reply right away requesting additional info and then: nothing

My manager's desk is about 20 feet from mine. I have grown accustomed to the cycle of a louder-than-usual push of a button, him walking through the office and then *bloop*, an email icon showing up in Thunderbird.

lol

when ppl send you an email, and you reply right away requesting additional info and then: nothing

YOU WERE RIGHT THERE SENDING YOUR EMAIL 30 SECONDS AGO WTF

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm totally guilty of being That Asshole Sender. But it's because I know there'll be a request for more info, and I don't want to deal with it, so I send the e-mail right at 5pm then leave.

jerk

:)

- enjoying a delicious apple while reading or something that is distracting you from the apple itself and you sink your teeth into a big soft bruise and bleeeeehhhh yuk.

the way gmail puts the reply dialog box at the *bottom* of an email string (ie at the beginning of the string rather than the end, so I can't actually see the original message I'm replying to unless it's the only one in the string). THIS IS SO DUMB I CAN'T EVEN

Yes.

Today's IA: fucking smoke detector. I burned some toast and no amount of fanning it would make it stop, so I climbed the step stool and removed the battery, but it was hard-wired, so I detached the whole thing. It turns out that disconnecting it from all power makes it panic and its capacitor allows it to emit an uninterrupted ~30 second shriek.

Not sure if this is innocuous exactly but am pretty angry about it: there's a leak somewhere in the upstairs flat and our bathroom ceiling has fallen in. Upstairs neighbours have been actively trying to stop anything being done about it. Their landlady sent a plumber round and they pretended to be out. Luckily he had a key. He told us they'd been asked not to use the water but still have been (we know this because periodically water cascades into our bathroom). Unfortunately he wasn't a very good plumber because he couldn't find anything and claimed it was just "built up condensation". Of course half an hour after he left it started pouring down again. So we can't get anything done about our ceiling until they find someone who isn't an idiot to look at it.

Ugh, that sucks. Hope they do find that non-idiot.

Invade their unit from below. Jerks.

When people who teach first year composition courses post excerpts from student papers on facebook for laughs, I become angry. Since it's anonymous and not public, I suppose my anger is irrational. I'm not convinced that this thing is innocuous, though.

- "easy peel" clementines/satsumas/small oranges that aren't easy to peel

- mealy apples

Fruit IA OTM x2

- bananas that are soggier than they look.

- bananas that are slightly too green and leave that horrible powdery film in your mouth

basically bananas that are anything other than #FFFF00

xp uchk yes

- random sour blueberries mixed in with ripe ones piss me off something fierce