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

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

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

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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.

cars that fly through massive lake-puddles on the road...esp when I am walking on the sidewalk & have to climb up an embankment so i dont get drowned

also my ears are blocked
mr veg is cooking in the kitchen & I have to turn up the tv like a deaf old lady to hear anyone talking :(

Was it the episode of Boondocks where MLK was just in a coma and wakes up in modern times that he was shocked and sad that most streets named for him are in bad parts of cities?

haha i love that episode

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.

North Carolina, where my family lives, and where I used to live, is full of streets named after people's full names. Not famous people, either (e.g. Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis ;_;), but ones like Sharon Amity Road, Jake Alexander Blvd., Glenn Dancy Road, I didn't notice it until family visiting from Michigan commented on it. I haven't seen as many outside of NC.

meanies

If what happened where your family lives is the same thing that happened where Jeff's family lives, all those street names used to be rural route numbers (or just unnamed roads) and in an attempt to standardize addresses in the area for emergency response purposes, there was an initiative to give the streets names. Usually they ended up naming the streets after the people who lived on them, which is why Jeff's family have streets named after them in that same Firstname Lastname Street format.

Yeah, we've got those in the woods where I grew up. We've also got horrible names that are just first names, ones would only think up if they were trying to name a county's worth of roads all at once: Reba Lane, Marty Lane, Sue Lane, Debra Lane, Kristi Ridge, Rhonda Road.

And of course Achy Breaky Lane (our 911 service came in during the early 90s),

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.

Pfft, none of those guys played a Strat, GTFO Dutch-land.

There was a Hot Dog Lane and a Hamburger Lane near Jeff's neck of the woods, but the last time we were there the signs were gone. Either they were stolen (I imagine they are stolen constantly) or somebody decided to change them to something less silly.

My favorite road name is in norther Delaware: Mermaid Stoney Batter Road

Not being able to tell black and navy apart, like in the store or in my drawer. So many minutes spent in unnecessary deep personal doubt.

I and many others have had juvenile lols at this road in suburban Detroit:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k39/SericeousBurden/blog/big-beaver-road.jpg

I must be homesick...

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Ha, nice.

The first+last named streets I'm thinking of are significant streets in real cities and towns. To the extent that anything in NC is real or significant.

This talk reminded me of one thing that really, really bugs me: In Chicago some streets get named after someone in addition to their real names, and they are marked with special brown street signs that say "Honorary Mrs. O'Leary and Her Cow Ave." or whatever next to the sign with the real name. That part is fine, but what has fucked me over is that in some places there are ONLY the Honorary names signs, and no indication of the real name.

I've never understood those honorary street names, but I've never lived in a place that had 'em.

Chicago gets points for referring to the Dan Ryan, the Kennnedy and the Eisenhower. Here, traffic reports are all nothing but "630 backed up to I-30 while 430 is heavy and slow getting on to 40. Accident at 440 and I-30."

All of the north/south streets across town are numbered. Annoyingly, a western suburb restarts the numbering at 1st, but at least they're somewhat consistent.

This is untrue for two streets, though: They gave the two streets with shopping malls on them names to correspond to the malls. I assumed those signs only existed for the area the mall was in, but no -- 35th Street no longer exists, only Valley West Drive, where you can find Valley West Mall.

I still refer to the 35th street exit off the freeway.

cars that fly through massive lake-puddles on the road...esp when I am walking on the sidewalk & have to climb up an embankment so i dont get drowned

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, December 2, 2012 6:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this. Also, said lake-puddlers apparently don't realize that the height of the wave created on the outside of the wheel is the same on the inside, thereby fucking up their engine and electrical components (at the very least, in the long term).

And here I've been using those puddles as a way to wash my engine compartment

Was it the episode of Boondocks where MLK was just in a coma and wakes up in modern times that he was shocked and sad that most streets named for him are in bad parts of cities?

― mayor mcpotle (mh), Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Chris Rock had a bit about this, too. "Where are you?" "I'm on Martin Luther King." "RUN! RUN!"

Harrisonburg, VA:

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