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

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

The margin of error for banana horror is so thin for me, I just avoid them to be safe.

i have been keeping the overripe ones and freezing them for smoothies - having to handle them in that state is just, uuuugggh. the smell, the feel. bleh. but: delicious once obliterated in a blender.

I prefer slightly green bananas.

for eating, I definitely prefer slightly green too. I hate the taste of fully ripe bananas, it kinda grosses me out.

Bought a mango on Saturday, thought it was possibly over-ripe went to eat it yesterday and found out it was very under. So have stuck it in the fridge hoping it will get riper, but it has a great chunk cut out of it.
I really need to find out how to recognise a ripe mango. Cos it would be good to have left that until it was ripe. Do they ripen in brown paper bags like bananas do? Or would actually sticking it in a brown paper bag with a banana do the trick?

Getting fed up with buying under-ripe fruit from the market stall and not knowing how to correct that. As I understand it, sticking bananas in a brown paper bag captures some gas given off by the skin and that will help ripen them. So subsequently would conceivably work on other things.

basically bananas that are anything other than #FFFF00

― ledge

I like some #FF8000 spots on my bananas.

I've heard that using an apple as the ripener helps, but can't remember trying it. I don't think the mango will improve in the fridge, and with a cut you can't leave it on the counter for long. Maybe melt some wax over the cut end to seal it, then leave it on the counter (maybe too much effort for a mango).

Maybe try to sniff the stem end in the store to determine ripeness? With some fruit you can tell this way.

Call me maybe.