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

fast-food drive-thru wehre they are handing you your food as you're pulling up to the window, while you're still trying to put change back in yr purse and shit

like, I love fast service don't get me wrong but the dude today was practically dropping my food in my lap before the car had even pulled to a complete stop!

UK people who go up/down stairs on the right - HOPE YOU FUCKERS DON'T DRIVE

Dyson Blade hand dryers

These shit me, as the gap for your hands always seems to narrow, and you touch the sides, which is kind of creepy

Why does every book set in the South of the US seem to feature a mute? Is the real South filled with mutes? Are there even any mutes left these days?

God how I wish.

UK people who go up/down stairs on the right - HOPE YOU FUCKERS DON'T DRIVE

― Roobarb and Custos (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:30 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god yes. and people who stand on the left on escalators.

Dyson blade dryers are great. You silly people.

I think 'nice' toilets make me as irrationally angry as horrible toilets make me rationally angry, all that shiny marble and wood for no reason other than battling piss splashback, c'mon let's be honest about what's going on in here.

I was praising them, or at least saying they were among the few things I don't hate about using public toilets. The only down-side of these newfangled super-dryers is they show up how old and inelastic the skin on the back of my hands is becoming.

xp to DL

People who spend half an hour sipping their last drink after everyone else has finished.

Barstaff who vigorously spray the empty tables next to yours at the end of the night with toxic cleaning solution.

Slightly-wet trays in the canteen. At school they used to wipe them with a sopping, stinking rag whose odour persisted. That doesn't happen here, but the rage still burns.

Ugh that old wet rag smell is so awful. A custodian comes in to our offices at the end of the day to empty our trash and always takes one swipe across the edge of our desks with a funky, mildewy rag, leaving behind a wet smear and one of my least favorite smells. That doesn't make me IA, though. Just kind of grossed out. In a way it's good because if I'm still there when she comes in, I'm working pretty late and the smell drives me out of the office and home.

Also:

Dyson blade dryers are great. You silly people.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn right.

I actually get an irrational frisson of excitement when I'm in a men's room and see they have a Dyson airblade. It's like, "Yeah! THIS time, I'm washing my hands!"

LOL and also gross

Someone stealing your work "borrowing" and your ideas and then saying it is morally acceptable because it wasn't "finished" or something.

Still have never seen a Dyson dryer though I have seen those 30000 lb/inch pressurized ones with the nozzle that spreads your hand skin out like an astronaut hitting 30 g.

Would've made that one scene in Desperately Seeking Susan where Madonna dries her pits in the rest room kinda funny.

It'd be like the playground scene in Terminator 2.

Those pressurised ones are so much better than Dyson. The hoover was the bloke's one good idea and he's been coasting ever since.

are you forgetting the wheelbarrow?

http://media.dyson.com/images_resize_sites/inside_dyson/assets/UK/main/ballbarrow_01.jpg

was a typo, sorry - for 'hoover' read 'wheelbarrow'

I don't care for the blade. Its vertically makes me feels like it's spraying your hands with previous users' germs.

Slight IA just now: in the sentence above, autocorrect added the apostrophe to the first "its," and left the second one as is.

Oops, I meant HORIZONTALITY.

I have the Dyson dryers at my work, I feel like they put them there to shave 5 seconds off hand drying time so you can get back to work faster

Man, I do not like looking at all my hand skin flapping around in those things.

lol

Hand skin should not flap like that.

I like it. Looks like an effect from a low-budget sci-fi movie.

I like the high speed regular-type dryers, but not the Blades.

i get kinda skeeved out by air dryers normally, i dunno why

i like a plain old paper towel

this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yXn1K36w4Bk

where is that music coming from? why do I have 57 tabs open across two browsers? WHERE IS THAT MUSIC COMING FROM?

saintgio3 3 weeks ago
Broken Anchor is to Flagpole Sitta like Gary Jules is to Mad World.

deep show

i've never even seen one of those dyson things. my shitty workplace has terrible paper towels.

have you ever had to be around someone who smells like "#2", all the time? I don't know if they don't wipe or what it is, but it's perplexing and disgusting!

I was just at a bar with a Dyson hand dryer. It made me happy and I thought of this thread.

just a girl and her dyson blade, out on the town

closest shave there is

my lower lip is bleeding (because it's winter and I haven't gotten around to buying chap stick) and I'm getting blood everywhere

People that walk at an angle across crosswalks.

When I'm in a room and the corridor/hallway is lit brighter than the room is

People that walk at an angle across streets.

yeah i already illustrated that, if this is what you mean:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d8b8762d20421c3a37b901366643e460/tumblr_mf1snkxI2i1qzb8z0o1_400.png

hate that

p sure I've mentioned this multiple times here but I also get crazy at pedestrians who want to cross a busy street when a crosswalk is clearly visible from where they're standing.

and the chick last night, dressed in dark colors who bolted across an unlit sidestreet right where the road bends! almost 0 visibility if a car was going too fast - how on earth she thought anyone would fucking see her is beyond me. I live right nearby and I know that there's a lot of pedestrians in daylight hours there so I go a little bit slower than normal through that part. But it's a hospital campus, tons of newbies not paying attention to where they're going looking for the visitor's parking. She could have been CREAMED.

Pedestrians in the street wear the darkest clothes.

misanthropes i guess, idk

i always bring a change of clothes for when i'm about to cross the street

"When you're out at night, wear white"
-Mick Jagger

I seem to be noticing this more and more, and while I don't wear reflective white myself, I do study the street carefully before I cross, and assume every car I see wants to kill me.

p sure I've mentioned this multiple times here but I also get crazy at pedestrians who want to cross a busy street when a crosswalk is clearly visible from where they're standing.

Oooh, this. Just walk that extra yard, you lazy bastard.

Honestly expected iatee to have defended the practice by now.