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

Oh man, that's not innocuous at all :o(

Do you remember the fuss about the solar eclipse across Cornwall in 1999? First eclipse in the UK for 150 years or whatever? Well it so happens that there was another one in (I think) 2001, visible at dawn from a few of the remotest Scottish islands - islands where I happened to be that very week, flying out the day before. I could easily have extended my stay had I known, but couldn't afford to change my flight. You'd think the media might have mentioned it beforehand, but no, I only found out when I was there. I'll probably never see one.

- i love cold weather but a few years ago my eyes began watering continuously in any temperatures below like 40°f

- mail(wo)man has taken to dumping all the mail for my four-unit building in one pile on the floor in a little vestibule that has no lights

That's kind of unlegal, isn't it?

yeah that's kinda crap

i know, ppl on the street think i'm crying

get more hugs that way though, not a bad thing :)

nah, new yorkers are good about not engaging public emotion

;_;

mookie my eyes do that too. sometimes my eyes used to water just talking to people and they probably thought i was crying. i think it had something to do with breathing idk. doesn't really happen anymore.

pls heal me

breathe

or don't

harbl, pls advise

My eyes water when it's cold outside. I just thought it was a thing that happens.

My eyes used to water every time I talked to his old boss that I hated. It was so weird and made me feel really vulnerable.

guacamole sometimes tastes like grapes and i hate it

Missing the lunar eclipse today because I didn't hear about it until too late.

It was visible here last night from 11.30 - 1.30 am... I just caught a friend mention it on FB as I was retiring to bed, only to realise the moon had moved up in the sky so I couldnt lie in bed and see it out the window :( Which was a shame cos it was a clear starry night. I couldnt stay up til 1 tho, I had work.

I hope the neighbours enjoyed my 5 minute sojurn into my backyard in my undies and bra, that said.

dri

ping

taps

Would be even more painful if I was looking for it at the wrong time and therefore gave up too early. Facebook posting had a poster saying visible from Galway 12.15pm to 4.30pm. So I didn't look back out.

But further question does the moon stick to the same apparent path across the sky from day to day? So if I see it in a position apparently relevant to one landmark one day at a certain time, I'd see it pretty close to the same spot 24 hours later?

Could be I just didn't see the moon because of cloud and the red was from something else though I'd assume it had something to do with the location of the sun and that would mean that would necessitate the moon being somewhere close to it referent to position in sky to allow an eclipse anyway?

Lunar eclipse means the earth's between the moon & sun, so they should be on opposite sides I think

Facebook posting had a poster saying visible from Galway

Brain parsed that as "visible from Gallifrey" and I was all "hmmmmm".

yeah l'm like a timelord y'kno?
But one that hasnt gt his lunar eclipses diferentiated from his solar ones.
Wish l'd known cos l could've made the effort to look out later.
What l saw was a sunset, caught a matching sunrise this morning.

This has been going on for years, but this method of washed-out, reflective eyes, NFL Classics, bright and white tight close-up photography:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2012/1101121210_600.jpg

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/files/2009/09/Martin-Schoeller-Brad-Pitt-2.jpg

http://www.photodonuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Martin-Schoeller1.png

it's all because of Avedon isn't it

At least he had shadows here and there, and not forehead liverspots in full technicolor.

yeah not saying avedon isn't way better

are these all by that Platon guy or are there other people doing the style?

When gigs advertise they start at 7pm and you turn up at 7:30 and they won't let you in because it hasn't started yet and can you come back in half an hour with a load of fucking attitude like you're some kind of dick for turning up after the advertised door time

mookie the outside eyes watering thing hasn't been cured it was the talking eyes watering thing

oh. well poop

icy slippery sidewalks forcing everybody to walk in the street, which somehow is not icy and slippery

that stupid LolWork tv show on Bravo. the promos make me angry

Bikes on sidewalks
Movie theater crowds

On a four-lane road, drove past a bicyclist coming at me from the other way in my outer lane.

He looked cold.

saw a guy on bicycle this morning even though it was -15C. I actually admire people like these.

sometimes seeing people with two (or three!) of the same dog annoys me.
which is really pretty irrational.

it just feels like they've closed the door on all the other dogs

^ this is def my favorite & in the spirit of what I think this thread should be

Definitely! I'm kind of in awe of that one. :)

yeah, props to rrobyn

i feel like i have one (or ten) of these every day, but they pass so quickly i forget. probably a good thing!
i just happened to look out the window and this, this was happening.

When you refresh your inbox after opening some massive piece of spam to make sure it registers as 'read' and THE FUCKING THING HAS STAYED 'UNREAD'.

90 second commercial breaks on hulu that take 5+ minutes because apparently hulu commercial breaks run on 56k modems (not innocuous, not irrational)

Streets that're named after a person's full name. Parker Street would've been honour enough - Matthew Parker Street just makes me hate him, whoever he was.

Martin Luther King Jr. Street

that guy

i like that. if i lived in france i would want to live on rue théophile gautier or something like that

france is obv better at valuing old dead guys though. or maybe they just don't have our rich appreciation of minor industrialists.

We've got a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.

Drive, MLK, DRIVE!

And downtown you'll find President Clinton Avenue.

zachlyon you can fix that problem by adding 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4 to your DNS servers. i can't seem to make it stay there though.

Streets that're named after a person's full name.

iirc, in either Rotterdam or Amsterdam there's a few square blocks with streets named after American musicians, e.g., Thelonious Monk Straat, Bud Powell Straat, Charles Mingus Straat, etc.

Woah, that's actually really cool. I declare that an exception.