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

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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?

That sounds like some flaky caching thing in yr browser tbh.

When you click through the tabs on Internet Exporer

I think I have identified your first problem.

Yeah, I know, you all run Google Chrome thesedays, right?

Netscape Navigator 27.6 actually

I get that "last picture" flash when I shut down IE. There's been a few times when I was glad no one else was looking at the screen.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/te_boo.gif

Boobs or gtfo.

I don't think boobs have ever made me irrationally angry

What about this candid pic of a nude Kerry Washington emerging from a Vegas swimming pool last week?

http://www.notabasement.com/images/loading.gif

I ~~hate~~ when strangers leave a voice mail at our office identifying themselves only by first name. Potential new clients do this all. the. time. "This is David. My number is ___." Duly noted, David! Fucking at the very least say what you're calling for.

Related: I hate when telemarketers try to sneak through by sounding pal-y "Oh, hey! Is Bob around? Haha, great! You keepin' ol Bobby workin' hard? Haha! Great! Tell him it's Ken!"

My mother fell for that one: woman from medical insurer's collections agency rang pretending to be my college friend; Mom gave her the number where I was staying. The previous summer I participated in a post-treatment research study of survivors of the type of cancer I had as a child; definitely a situation that was described to me as voluntary and 'for science' and not billable at the time of survey (my treatment was cutting edge/landmark and ever since, I've been happy to contribute to this sort of study). So here's this woman insisting otherwise and being VERY aggressive: 'are you telling me you received no health benefit from this?' Me: 'Don't be presumptuous, the people doing this study begged me to participate because of the benefit to THEM. I have no obligation to pay this ridiculous bill and no intention of doing so.' Woman: 'So you're refusing? I am going to recommend legal action.' Me: "Go right ahead - but be aware I've taken your details and you've admitted obtaining my contact info through deception. Good luck finding a lawyer, because if it comes down to that, you - personally - are going to need a very good one.' CLANK.

Never heard another peep from this woman or her shitty agency.

is there a rolling computer problems thread cause it feels wrong essentially using this thread as that even though my new laptop charger is making me pretty IA

and xpost to mark g: i use chrome and that sort of happens to me sometimes? when i click out of a tab it'll flash the last page back under that tab.

we had someone calling our office and leaving voice mails at least once a day for a couple weeks, and he would just say his name in a very gruff voice and say to call him. no number. then we found out he was at a state mental hospital. it was kind of cute and sad.

restaurants where I order food for my daughter off the kids menu and they bring it out steaming hot so I have to keep it away from her til it cools off

1. calling any show/movie that takes place in outer space a space opera
2. branding things "holiday" instead of "christmas" when they can clearly only be used for christmas, like this "holiday storage tote" i have that is only called that because it's a shade of christmas red. what holiday-specific things are you supposed to even do with a "holiday storage tote"? it's just a red bin! "oh, it's december, guess i should transfer all the crap i have stored in blue bins in the attic into the red holiday bins in the attic"