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

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

liverpool vs. sunderland, 7:45pm

Ted Turner should get some blame for this.

"drink drive" sounds like a good time, like cruising around with a glass of champagne

Like a booze cruise.

Put dates on all your documents. It's such an easy thing to do. Just put a date on the documents. The date you wrote them or the date you signed then, whatever. But put a goddamn date on it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/R.E.M._-_Document.jpg

There's no date on that. Burn it.

but is it really a document?!?

customers who don't understand how email works.

ie when ordering a title, don't just give the name as a single word reply
give me the name, quantity, and perhaps even your account number ffs

but noooooooooo instead we get to play backy forthy text messagey email word at a time story.

hours later, I put in your order that I could have entered with ONE SINGLE INFORMATIVE MESSAGE YOU MORON

sigh

but so many people do this with email now it's maddening. I have friends who do this, and trying to decide on a place for dinner takes fking hours

People who don't remove labels from their coat sleeves.

kinda irrationally angry-making, mostly sad

i think i feel the same way about people who don't remove the dealer frame from around their license plates when they buy a car

people who are assholes when i call them at work but make sure to add a "happy new year" at the end of the call

like seriously people, own your asshole-ism