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

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"

is there a rolling computer problems thread

There's A thread for boring computer questions. but if you just want to vent and not be helped then you may as well stay on here. Also there's no guarantee you'll actually get any help on the other thread, or that you won't get "have you tried..." on this thread, so, whichever title you find more pleasing, really.

(this may be why I failed my Thread Police interview. whatever, man, you just post wherever, i'll be sitting here watching these totally cosmic dotted lines between the posts)

People ~whispering~ on their cell phones on the bus, or cab drivers doing it in their cabs. Instead of a normal voice, all I hear is irregular sibilant noises, which is every bit as as bad as the sound of someone smacking and slurping while they eat. Rrrragh.

Totally! The guy behind me at work (now left) used to either talk out loud to himself or just mutter to himself. Everyone else thought the former was annoying, but I was sat closest to him and I can filter out actual talking-frequency noises (quite often our office's other resident talker will leave the office and everyone else will crack up at some ridiculous excuse/complaint she made and I'll be going "she really said that? wow. I had no idea, I wasn't listening") but hissing sibilance - whispering, sniffing, slurping - drives me up the fuckin' wall

oh thank you aps, i definitely want to try to fix this problem

i have drafted a letter to my city councilperson with some suggestions for improving parking for residents and making it worse for visitors. i hope he or she likes it. (i have to look up the name of this person.)

I don't actually personally think this is innocuous but ymmv so:

Delays built into traffic controls.
1. They've just changed the lights at the junction near my house. The filter works when the sensor senses a car is in that lane. But - it only works if the car's in the lane a certain period in advance. Quite often I get there just in time for the filter to turn green, only it doesn't and I have to sit through a whole cycle before I get through. Why? It would be better if there were no filter at all - everything they do to this fucking junction makes it worse.
2. In the other direction at the pelican crossing, the green man has a thirty second delay built in, whether he's recently been on or not. Why? The result is inevitably that a natural gap appears before he comes on, you cross, and then the light turns red just in time to stop the now-oncoming traffic for no reason. Gawd, the guilt.

Innocuous in principle perhaps, but it drives me fucking mental.

IA: accidentally 'liking' facebook statuses because "like" is in the same place as "bookmark" here

yes. also i end up marking facebook posts as spam because of the X where close normally is.

post office ia # 3457

local post office puts out receptacles for standard-size stamped Christmas cards so people don't have to stand in line and wait to have them mailed.

I witnessed an elderly woman bring in at least 10 amazon shipping boxes of Christmas cards *for her business*, and proceed to fill up every. single. receptacle til they were overflowing with HER christmas cards.

hey lady. How about you tell a clerk you have a bunch of them, put them in one big box and leave them with the clerk so you don't fill up the receptacles that people who are only sending a handful of cards for their PERSONAL use.

ragh! as if the post office isn't annoying enough already. jesus

Online shopping.
VIEW ALL. ALWAYS VIEW ALL

P sure we've had this already but I'm not clicking through 100 pages of 8 items any other time of year, let alone this joyous shopping season

otm

Fucking wires.

The apparently now-standard use among marketing/PR people of "SMB" for "small business." They have the same fucking number of syllables.

(Provided you pronounce "business" like a typical USA-ian.)

bizniss

bidnes

burzum

Other people say what, "busy-ness"?

bnz

buh

1) Toilet paper dispensers that only give you one tiny sheet at a time

2) Everything* else about public toilets: locks that don't lock, missing coathooks, hot water that's fucking scalding hot, cold taps that you can't push on unless you press really hard and they then hose ten gallons a second out, missing soap/rubbish soap, urinals that splash back, creepy dudes.

*except Dyson Blade hand dryers and rubbish graffiti

"You have successfully submitted you question or comment."

Would it be SO HARD to make sure your web page is correct?

1) Toilet paper dispensers that only give you one tiny sheet at a time

Paper towel dispensers piss me off enough already (21st Century problem: having to leave rest room with wet hands because paper towels have no batteries,) but were I to see something like this for toilet paper…

…I'd shit.

because paper towels have no batteries

what a bleak horrible future