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

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

tetra packs with the foil seal under a plastic flip-top lid --- when the plastic lid has been glued onto the foil in such a way that you only manage to tear off the pull tab and the foil seal remains intact. So that I then angrily jab something sharp to open it or try to pierce it with my fingernail raaagh. I'M LOOKING AT YOU BLUE DIAMOND ALMOND MILK

otmfm, I pull off only the tab and not the rest of the foil like at least 25% of the time.

yeah or you pull on the foil tab and the plastic lid-frame tears off the carton instead of the tab, so when you finally get the foil off it doesn't pour properly and slops all over the counter every time. raaagh indeed.

I mean, it wasn't that horrendous to just snip the corner of the carton before they had these fangled plastic flip tops and whatnot.

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Then you get to stab the foil with the pointy side of a spoon! So satisfying imo

Only if you have a grapefruit spoon.

I sharpen all utensils to a fine point. ;)

there is a commercial on am radio for a fish and chips place and the lady in it fakes a british accent and it makes me mad how bad it is and that they bother trying

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.

Especially annoying when it's done in writing.

going back to pedestrians being shitheads in parking lots, was driving home today from the mall when a guy crosses the street in front of me -- at a diagonal going towards me cause the mall entrance was behind me -- and i'm driving slowly enough that we could both keep going without incident, when a little more than halfway through he just decides he's done walking across the street and it's time to walk down the street. four feet into the lane. i'm exhausted and by the time i notice he shifted, i have to swerve around him which he doesn't seem to notice/care about. because he didn't want to walk the four extra feet.

Londoners who have no concept of a country outside of the capital; who genuinely believe that beyond Zone 6 it's just a wasteland with the odd hunchback bumming a sheep every few miles. I don't mind if it's just joking, of course, but I can tell when someone genuinely doesn't understand that London does not equal the UK.

London does not equal the UK.

Thank god.

We have those people, but they're mostly in NYC or socal

I have a legitimate reason for getting wound up about it. I live in a commuter belt town on the M25, basically outer London. Yesterday a rail cable broke and all trains in and out of London were cancelled. People were stranded at work unable to get home, with reports of people having to walk down the rail track to get to the next station after their train broke down. Basically the biggest, most chaotic balls-up in my own history of paying £3,500 a year just to travel 30mins to get into work every day (and that's saying something). The response from colleagues? "Well if you're going to live in the back-end of nowhere, that's your problem". And then inevitably they started moaning about how bad their tube journey is from Camden to Kings Cross. It's such a myopic, elitist view of the country, pervasive all the way through to parliament, that if it's not within the six zones, it's not even a real place.

iatee to thread to comment on outer-borough commuting

smdh @ all the pedestrian bashing

What's wrong with bashing people who do things wrong/badly?

it hurts.

just have some patience, driving turns people into crazy irrational monsters

omg I had to wait 2 extra seconds to leave the parking lot

Time's not the issue. It's the situation of almost hitting a pedestrian with your car even though you're doing everything you can to be a safe driver.

car ownership and poor parking lot design is the issue, and jaywalking was an invention of the car companies to demonize alternative forms of transportation and claim streets as the sole property of automobile owners /iatee

The design of most streets and parking lots are constructed with a prejudice toward pedestrians, but dear lord, your mama should've taught you not to walk into oncoming traffic.

agreed, people are just lackadaisical about their walking and don't give a shit about where other people are, whether it's walking or driving /notiatee

well we're talking about a lot of different possible scenarios here

I'm referring to the specific scenario detailed by zachlyon at 2:58 am CST.

I think it's good that that guy is helping zachlyon practice his safe driving technique