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

i needed help for something once (i cant remember what) - two helpers told me two different (totally wrong) things & i was so confused i went back out to my car, looked the shit up myself on my phone & found what i needed myself. dickwagons.

Yes, I know. I call my local Home Depot "Homo Depot" b/c it's by Boystown, and it's staffed by a number of gay men, so sometimes I feel awkward asking for a screw, caulk, wood hardener, or a variable-speed throat-fucking. xp or a dickwagon

lol

yeah if u need ever need a dickwagon or two home depot is def the place

How else would I get those bags of dicks home to eat?

hee hee

still lol-ing at "variable-speed throat fucking" tbh

Super busy Christmas shopping buy-panic at St. Pancras. A motorised trolley, like a little tuktuk or tractor towing several luggage wagons weaves its way through the crowd. I kind of move and stop to let it come through, when I hear a voice behind me. I take my earphones out and look around, and there's a man with a woman standing behind me (it's always a man with a woman, isn't it?) 'excuse me?' I ask.
You're in the way'
'I'm letting this trolley and other people through'
But too late, he's barged past me (nearly throwing me in the path of the trolley thing) yanking his perturbed-looking girlfriend or wife along with him.
I haven't quite felt that livid with a member of the public in quite some time, so much so that I yelled out 'ASSHOLE!' after him across the station (Quite loudly might i add, and yes the American variant as it sounded somehow better for that situation. He really was an asshole.

What do the british say instead of "ass, gas, or grass?"

arse, petrol, or...

- when people say "I wish I was dead" instead of "I wish I were dead"
- the guy at Whole Foods bemoaning their lack of organic berries in Chicago in December

kill them imo

Had to stop yesterday for some last minute baking ingredients at Giant Eagle. On the way out of the store I was behind a woman pushing a cart. As she approached the door where all the carts are lined up, she pushed it in front of a product display, took her bag, and walked away. She literally would have had to push it about six more feet, in the directon she was walking, to put it back into the line. It may have been the laziest thing I've ever seen.

Then, to add to my irrational anger, I got so peeved I grabbed to cart to push it back into the cart line, and as I was turning it around -- which required me to back up a step or two -- some guy behind me shoved around me with an exasperated sigh, because I delayed him for all of two seconds.

Merry fucking Christmas, assholes!

- Everything, for some reason. What is wrong with my brain chemistry today?? I want to throttle everyone.

But on the somewhat more rational anger tip: Someone left a faucet running full-force in the bathroom at my gym. I thought the guy using the mirror next to it was using it, but he walked away from it without touching it. Then 2 other guys used that mirror, but left the tap running. WTF.

- the lie that is chlorine-resistant swimwear

not even innocuous, just straight up assholish behaviour

idiots who pull into small, hard to navigate parking lots and decide that because all the parking spaces are full that they will just idle the car and duck into the store rather than trying to find a park somewhere else adjacent.

L-shaped parking lot with only one entrance/exit, three cars trying to navigate around this FUCKING ASSHOLE and we're all trapped because no-one can get in or out now until she moves her stupid car. I mean seriously. and she left her daughter or someone in the passenger seat who has to sit there giving everyone apologetic looks while she tries to call the stupid woman on her phone

Here are some things

- Philadelphia is mostly entirely one-way streets with parking on one or both sides; most do not have bike lanes
- Pennsylvania has a law where in order to pass a cyclist, a car must have a minimum of 4ft clearance btwn it and the cyclist

No one obeys this and people will routinely blow by me giving less than 2ft or even 1ft of room, and it pisses me off *so fucking much*. I flip each and every one of them off w/o exception.

I pretty much bike in the middle of the road now.

Good! If cars won't treat you safely, take the lane. If PA is like OH, you're permitted the entire lane anyway. Anyone doesn't like it, fuck 'em. Speed limits are a limit, not a right to go a certain speed,

Some dude at Chipotle wanted his rice and corn without cilantro, holding up the line by two minutes, an eternity in Chipotle time. Which I could have lived with but he pronounced it ci-LAN-tro and kept saying it over and over I don't want ci-LAN-tro in my rice that's fine as long as there's no ci-LAN-tro in it you're sure no ci-LAN-tro ARGGGGH

how else do you pronounce cilantro?

Ci lahn tro versus sounding like "land"

slantro

mh CORRECT

Co-ree-ander

jk I actually prefer 'cilantro'

if you don't like coriander then fuck you tbh

fuck you too NV :)
that shit is vile

i know yr vile but what am i

ohmygod can't believe anybody doesn't like the taste :(

it's genetic, some people aren't blessed with the ability to taste cilantro in its full glory

i am waiting for curry to be delivered so not feeling irrationally angry about this

Love cilantro. Hate parsley. Tastes like dirt.

- trying to make paninis on a gadget that doesnt have sprung hinges. top bread slides off, everything gets v annoying v quickly ragh

^People who pluralise the already-plural 'panini' ;-p

People who want to make me look silly in cafes by asking for a panino.

(unless the cafe is in Italy in which case, no objection and I expect a very high quality panino)

anyone who ever pluralizes a word in english w/ an 'i' at the end deserves the death penalty

by that I mean anyone who thinks they're being clever by speaking the wrong language instead of adding an s

Paninaro, woah-oh-oh

I have always found the way Polish people pluralise the English "tips" (as in painted finger nails) as "tipsy" cute.

Love cilantro. Hate parsley. Tastes like dirt.

― Jeff, Sunday, December 30, 2012 1:30 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't know that parsley was edible until about a year ago. Always assumed it was just something to pretty up the plate. And after tasting it, I'm still not sure I'm wrong about that.

have always found the way Polish people pluralise the English "tips" (as in painted finger nails) as "tipsy" cute.

Likewise I have always found the way Asian people use "stuffs" rather than "stuff" kind of cute.

As an American I feel this way about the British "maths". And yet "sport" vs. "sports" still makes no sense to me.

Love cilantro. Hate parsley. Tastes like dirt.

― Jeff, Sunday, December 30, 2012 1:30 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does anyone else find that overcooked eggs can smell like wet dog?

TV programmes starting at anything other than zero or thirty minutes past the hour - fucking up switching options to other stations before and after.

As an American I feel this way about the British "maths". And yet "sport" vs. "sports" still makes no sense to me.

Sport is a little weird. "Drink driving" bugs me.

Drink driving?

Nice dn.

I don't know what your football games do, onimo, but our version of it frequently has kick-offs at 11:37 or 5:06.

Lots of fun when you're compiling an online calendar.

Drink driving?

Driving under the influence (DUI), driving while intoxicated (DWI), drunken driving, drunk driving, drink driving, operating under the influence, drinking and driving, or impaired driving

The drink drive limit
There are strict drink driving penalties if you are caught over the limit.
https://www.gov.uk/drink-drive-limit