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

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

i dunno if this is irrationally angry or irrationally embarrassed but

every year our company donates gifts to local charities, senior care facilities, women's shelters, schools for disadvantaged kids, that kind of thing. they'll put up a couple of trees with tags for needed items and you take a tag and you buy something fitting and put it under the tree.

i feel conflicted even complaining about this but something about it rubs me the wrong way. there's always a handful of people who instead of buying 1 item, or a couple, will buy like, 20. suddenly there's a pile of 10 pyjamas from one person, or 24 coloring books from someone else. it's like, UGH YES YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON GIVE IT A REST FFS

ugh I don't like saying out loud, maybe it's not really as bad as it sounds. but gah it just bugs me!

We do the thing where you get a kids three item wish list, which I love. I picked two wish lists this year and both kids (9 and 11) asked for jeans, a coat, and underwear. :((((((((

Oh, hey, weren't you wanting me to go shopping for little boys' underwear with you? Do you still need help?

^^^ ilx taken out of context post, right there.

thread takes a turn

You'd think, when trying to plug a USB into a computer, I'd get it the right way up 50% of the time, just by random chance. But no, I _NEVER_ get it right first time. Every fucking day, battering away trying to get that bastard to plug in.

There should be a clue on the plug...

http://www.logoeps.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/usb-logo-vector.gif

I've got some cables where I swear that's on the 'wrong' side. Also doesn't apply when the socket is vertical and you can't tell which end would be the 'top'.

bradley wiggins

http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/67760

wtf 'irrational'

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.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 December 2012 20:02 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep, just generally anyone using mocking representation of dialect or accent to imply "stupid".

n/a otm