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

Thing that makes me IA: That stupid religion.

People saying "haitch" instead of "aitch" when pronouncing the letter H.

^Unless they're from the Caribbean.

or ireland

when I'm tired and my mouth gets lazy and I repeatedly chew the same spot inside my mouth 4 times in half an hour

fuck

you

aaaaggggg

TV documentary / real-life, where they run captions when someone speaks that has any kind of 'regional' accent.

9 times out of 10, they are perfectly understandable without.

I have ruined the viewing experience of many 60 Minutes segment bitching about that.

xpost Do they do that in the UK/US? Here it's mainly done if it's from the West Flanders (in Belgium). And most of the time I can understand. hah. e have such a crappy dialect. Blergh.

oh god I hate that. they do it a lot on US shows

When a regional accent on TV is hard for me to understand, I turn the volume way up, which actually helps, and therefore proves to me that yelling to make yourself understood is effective.

You turn the volume way up regardless.

My volume preference is in line with the norm. It's yours that is odd.

We'll let the American people decide that.

voting jeff, if not blanket muting

I don't like the TV movie-theater-level thunderous; just at a volume where quiet dialog will be audible without having to turn it up.

Strobe lights on school buses.

?

disco school?

They're on top of the bus. There was a fairly long conversation about them somewhere on ILX. In my school in MI, they were only used when it visibility was bad.

yeah, yesterday there was a strobe light on the front of a bicycle while I was driving to turn right.

I'm all for visi, but hey ow!

ATM at work offers these options:
- cash only
- cash and receipt
- cash and balance

I chose "cash only" and it said "Do you wish to see your balance?"

I click "No you fucks I just said CASH ONLY!"

It says "Do you want a receipt for your transaction?"

IA up to eleven.

Then I took my hard-fought cash to the canteen to get a breakfast roll and they had no rolls left. Maybe if I didn't have to click all those extra buttons I'd have got the last roll :(

That ATM sounds annoying. I get irrationally angry to the point of irrational amusement when I use the word "just" in a shop - "just the paper", "just a lighter", "just this" - and EVERY TIME I'm asked if I want anything else. It is so consistent that I question myself - am I mistaken to believe "just" means "only" in this context? Nobody hears it anyway.

Your rational anger should be directed at the upseller behind the counter. Instead, you deploy 'just' to make them stop.

"egg sandwich please, nothing else, thanks"
"tea? coffee?"
"no thanks"
"sure?"
"no THANK you"

Ah go on. Just a drop in your hand. Go on go on go on go on go on.

i think upper crust servers get the sack immediately if they don't offer a drink.

Joggers who jog round the narrow and slightly treacherous footpath alongside/into the industrial estate at 8:57am on a weekday.

Hello, I can see you do not have to go to work today and probably have no particular reason to be in this part of town, and that's very nice for you, but I am late for work and now I have to stand still in some icy mud for 10 seconds so you can take up the entire footpath to huff past in a tracksuit before going home to sit on the sofa all day or something

look at me with my exciting life where I get angry over standing still for 10 seconds :(

(the "just" thing is probably partly the fault of people like me who go "just this, thanks" and then see a shiny thing behind the counter and go "ooh - and one of them - and...". I don't often buy up-sold stuff though.)

When you see a shared lawn and whoever's mown it has only mowed their part. The smaller the lawn, the greater the rage.

I'll have a Cappucino

"Grande?"

No, Tall one plz.

"OK, Small then"

And a skinny hot chocolate

"Grande?"

No, tall also.

"Small Skinny HotChoc"

And 2 normal hot chocks. Tall. All Tall, ok?

(this is every time in Costa)

there's a difference between grande and tall?

Grande is the middle size.

that makes me irrationally angry

In Starbucks tall = small.

Some stand-up comic I saw on TV thanked Starbucks for giving him a tall cock.

I get IA when people post links in forums/twitter/email that I've already seen before. The longer ago I saw it, the more IA I get. This is stupid. They don't know. And it's not like they are posting them just with me in mind anyway.

Rational anger, Mark: that you chose to buy something from Starbucks. Everywhere else does 'regular' coffee, meaning 'small'.

90% of a cashier's interaction is totally automatic. I can't tell you how many times in my retail career somebody would purchase something, say they didn't need a bag, and the next thing out of my mouth, because it was the next thing out of my mouth in 200 transactions each day, was "Did you need a bag?" Cashier probably doesn't even hear you say "just." You're just another faceless blur buying a newspaper.

Capitalism is so dehumanising.

That makes me angry too.

Quite rational.

Starbucks? Who said I bought from Starbucks?

No-one, you said Costa but Costa don't sell tall drinks, they sell primo, medio and massimo.

You asking for a tall maybe confused them as that is Starbucks lingo.

are these names part of the branding they pay themselves so much to use?

Nero is the only chain coffee I will drink, and they don't have gimmicky franchise names for their sizings. I wonder if these seemingly disparate pieces of information are somehow connected.

Costa, I take it back: I am a confused coffee drinker, clearly.

I hate those bus strobe lights too. Whoever thought flashing a strobe light at passing motorists would make things safer on the road… well, he's probably taking pictures for the NY Post now.

School buses anyway look a pinball game these days, like crazy cockroach transformers that unfold into swinging-arm gates at the front, stop signs on the side with blinking lights, messages that come on in the back when the driver brakes that say STOP FOR BUS, and of course the strobes.

When I was a kid, I sat right next to the bus driver and he'd let me turn the lights on with the switch. Four yellow lights, four red lights and the little foldway stop sign with no lights. THAT WAS IT.

people posting on soundcloud mixes "this is great, check out some of my mixes"

this makes me furious, i'm mildly ashamed to say.

Also people posting links to mixes with no indication as to what the mix is. Do they expect me to visit their site, cue it up and scan through a whole hour just in case I'll like it?

That's what did for MySpace, dinnit? (xpost)

generally people's self promotion really riles me, and in dance music even more because it's so splintered by accessibility and the quality of the thing goes to such a low level.

"Just a minute, we're improving your Skype experience" = more ads

Does this happen for anyone else?

When you click through the tabs on Internet Exporer, you get a flash of the last picture based page (e.g. youtube, or some popup advert) you looked at?

Even though you closed that page down?