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

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.

I get stuck with a traffic light about 400 yards from where the bus stops if I'm approximating right. Got a set of lights that seems to take forever to change when you press the crossing, so if I see it has changed when I'm betyween the 2 I tend to try to get across the road a bit down from it.
Or alternatively if there is a crossable break I'd get across then rather tahn going all the way to the crossing.
But crossability gets screwed up by drivers supposedly being helpful by slowing down or indicating pedestrians across when there isn't a break on both sides of the road. Ho hum.
& traffic does tend to look unbreaking at the time of the morning I'm having to get in to the course

Venturing out into holiday-era parking lot HELL yesterday led to plenty of ITTMYA. After getting some wine at the grocery we decided to walk to the bank ATM and then back to the car rather than drive. At pretty much half of the intersections we were met with cars making right turns but not having their blinkers on, leading us to start walking before realizing a car was about to plow into us and the driver was just too lazy to let the outside world know what they are doing. I think not using blinkers is my BIGGEST driving pet peeve, cos some days it seems like no one does it!

the uploading of weird, unnecessary torrents, even though they inconvenience me in no way

like do we *really* need the 1987 second portuguese cd pressing of the wall in 192k cbr no we do not

Trying to "view image" something found on GIS and instead, it's some weird blogspot thing that automatically downloads the file straight to my hard drive.

Tell me I'm not the only one this happens to.

That's a new one to me.

i, too, feel your pain, plains

I don't drive but locally, & this was the first town I noticed it in when I moved here, the car parks tend to be connected to supermarkets. & most of them have signs up saying that if you park there and are seen to leave the area of the carpark to go shopping elsewhere your car will be clamped with a €30 or €40 release fee. Very far from green consciousness if you need to drive out of one place and park in another within about 5 minutes walk of each other.
One of these has a shopping area one side of the road and another on the other side of the road with different shops in each. Also a LIDL and an Argos another couple of minutes walk away in another area. Not very user friendly I would have thought. Not sure how heavily it's policed & glad I don't drive.

people who use mock colloquialisms like "guvmint/gubmint" or "'murrca" when describing the views of people they disagree with. this is really really gross and it's also totally misleading. this isn't even innocuous, i think it's harmful to the "debate" that is supposedly happening.

I hate that, too.

oops, I did that this morning