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

I don't know about inside out sweatshirts, but when I was in junior high c. 1985 or so, the thing to do was to wear v-neck sweaters backwards, so the v was in the back. The look required a specific type of cotton shaker-knit v-neck sweater from The Limited, and a men's white t-shirt to wear underneath.

Note: We could not afford clothes from The Limited so I did not partake in this trend. I really wanted to, though.

the rolled-up jeans look circa '88 or '89 was infuriating to me, i feel like only the metalheads didn't do that one.

i was (and remain) horribly unfashionable, but i remember partaking in the brief late-80s phases of pinstriped jeans and short-sleeved o.p. shirts with the (alternate color) cuffs rolled up

von dutch of the '80s

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yesss

i went home to pittsburgh for xmas and was briefly in a mall on xmas eve

despite having grown up there and my own style impairment, i was immediately struck by how many ppl (and women specifically) were wearing some kind of sports apparel -- generally steelers, but rarely ben roffles (i doubt too many safeties ever have had as many fans as troy polamalu). and also how many ppl were wearing the sweatshirt-sweatpants combo, which is not so evident in nyc

i could never convince mum that my fads were worth her investment

and when she did come around it was always slightly too late and ~the wrong brand~
sigh
it became character-building later

i only remember a couple, like having a pair of sunglasses on my head at all times & never wearing them
and many layers of neon socks at diff heights

the sweatshirt-sweatpants combo

lol that shit reminds me more of Paulie Walnuts than unstylish Midwesterners.

wait, Paulie wears a tracksuit -- haute fashion for the goombah set.

i could never convince mum that my dads were worth her investment

pittsburgh isn't the midwest, turnpike-exit-boy xp

The only sweatpants I see these days are Juicy and Victoria's Secret PINK.

butts with names on them

yup

http://bandoffathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/pants1.jpg

MYSELF, GODDAMN.

and shouldn't "pink" be in front of the crotch and not over the ass?!?

that is a very un-juicy butt xxp

good job guys

i want one that says FARTY

Or failing that, PARTY.

I don't even see juicy anymore! Just the rare VS PINK one. Hardly make it to the mall these days, though.

I was with someone some time ago and she wore stuff like this in public once or twice and my instinct, which should have been followed, was to dump her insignia-stamped ass on the spot

http://www.henrysalternatives.com/images/T/yoga350.JPG

Not bookmarking that!

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.

Yes, sport is an exception but even then the programmes tend to have e.g. 7pm starts for 7.45pm kick-offs so you can watch failed and unemployed coaches talk about what guys in jobs should be doing.

I'm more annoyed about crappy cable comedy channels starting half hour shows at 10 or 50 minutes past the hour when everything else starts one the hour or at half past, meaning if you want to switch from one crappy cable comedy to another you have to miss the end or start of one of them. Completely innocuous because I could record stuff if I was that bothered and I should really be doing something else other than getting angry about it. Like watching sports.

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

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:39 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this trend on the rise? Because I feel like people are getting lazier in their responses.

I feel like burying an, "or should I stab you in your eyeballs," clause in my emails, so that when I get the inevitable "OK" response, I can be like, "But he asked me to do it officer."

I think it's because a lot of ppl are getting their emails on their phones now, so they just dash off two word replies on the go

It's to the point where I try not to have more than a short paragraph of questions/info for someone, because if there's more than one para they're not even going to scroll down to read it, let alone answer additional questions. it's crazy

I respond to a whole team of people who don't read their own emails, NEVER scroll down in the chain for the explanations, and alternately complain that a) I give them too much data per email and it's confusing, and b) I send too many individual emails and they can't keep track.

At least one of them also doesn't respond to his emails until after business hours, so I lose a whole day asking him a question.

xp Exactly!

pistachios that are too hard to open. it's like, fuck you

I would like to add: He never responds until 5.30 pm so I just lost a whole day, plus he complains that my emails are too long and won't fully read them so I have to ask all over again because he didn't answer the question, and then at the end of it all, he calls a meeting to ask why it takes so long to get things done.

lool omg that would drive me insane

i know, right, it's like these pistachios are driving me insane!

Honestly, the arrogance of morons, sometimes. Fake workplace ADHD is the worst thing, ever - it's like the people who are habitually late for things and try to front that your concern about their timekeeping is like totes uncool and anal. Maybe you need to tell him, in professional company, just exactly why it takes so long to get things done? Provide a hand mirror.

i don't see how that's going to help with these pistachios?

Nuts to your pistachios.

solution: get pistachio ice cream

piss on yr pistachios

Unnecessary, gross grunting. Like this guy in the gym locker room, not exerting any effort, but just standing around, grunting and otherwise vocalizing. These are not fatty grunts, like escape me when I stretch, or sighs. It's almost like how some people hum or whistle, this guy was going "Mrrmummbp. Hrrm. Buh. Mmf. Buhhich."

My dad watched a lot of nature programs, and he one thing that made him yell at the TV was that they dubbed in animals' voices. He said that bears don't roar incessantly like Marlin Perkins would have us believe, but I don't know - maybe they were just filming disgusting beasts that hadn't learned to control their stupid vocal impulses.

FUck you, Nick. You're so full of shit. Not just here, in this thread, but in general.

don't worry, he'll never make it above being an innocuous thing

FUck you, Nick. You're so full of shit. Not just here, in this thread, but in general.

omg

is it worth even asking what that was?

LOL i can't believe Jesse of all people is calling me full of shit. dont make me bring up the les miz incident on ilx

maybe jesse was doing it in the voice of a pistaschio?

co-worker next to me sneezes several times a day without fail and it's always loud as fuck. are some people just incapable of sneezing without turning it into an earth-shaking performance?

absolutely ridiculous goals set by corporate that are impossible to reach by design, and used as an excuse to keep everyone at a quarter above minimum wage ("you'll all get commission if the whole store is at 5%!") (and used as a means of hiring people via false hope of commission) and then having a very successful day and still only reaching 4.3% and not even dreaming of getting commission because how the hell is everyone else going to get there. and then even though i get praised like crazy for not even reaching the number, the whole store week in week out gets reprimanded for not collectively reaching this impossible goal. i'm glad i'm leaving in a week but sort of outraged that it'll keep on being like that anyway.

in soviet russia you get purged

that's exactly what my situation is like in every way

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The idea that a bus transporting people from an airport would arrive with so little luggage space available, had people struggling to rearrange existing luggage (or rather loaded luggage) to try to fit things. So I got the driver to open the other side, thinking he'd open the boot.
Got on bus, realised that where I got off there was going to be traffic on that other side. Rearranged my luggage when bus stopped at the first main stop. Had to put them on top of somebody's suitcase so I worried that whoever might wind up leaving my bags by the side of the road if they had to get that case out, luckily didn't but i checked out of the window every time th ebus stopped anyway. Think I was lacking sleep.
When I moved my bags to other side of bus a family came along with several open topped bags and shoved them into that side of luggage area.
This meant that when I took my bags out these bags fell out and scattered contents all over the road. Still trying to work out if this happened when bus door opened or if my having moved bags left other things sliding and things were knocked. Anyway the idea of putting bags that weren't securely fastened at the top in the loose luggage area seems a tad shortsighted don't it?
I wound up picking up what had been lying facedown in a puddle, picking up various bottles of perfume or whatever that I think cam,e out of one container that didn't seem closable and sticking them in a bag that seemed to be at least semi contained, though without a means of actually closing it. So I'm not sure if 2 different people's gear would have been mixed up. Did at least try to make sure nobody lost anything though.
& while I was doing that my local bus home arrived then left the bus stop on the other side of the road.

Also stupid traffic control system around this area, on way out late last month I wound up just missing one bus, thinking there would be another one along in 10-15 minutes. Instead next one arrived about 50 minutes later by which time I was hitting myself about missing the intercity bus I need to connect to further transport. When this bus arrived i asked why so late? To be told that it had been stuck at a junction for an age. THe local council had decided about 2 years back to swap a series of roundabouts around town that appeared to work for a set of traffic light led junctions. The first time this had happened it had meant that traffic had nasty tailbacks every time it was remotely busy instead of the continual flow that a roundabout meant. But no they went and did it to at least 10 other similar junctions. So you can't rely on buses in mid afternoon on Friday and the weekend. Thought this started a couple of hours after I set off though.

& to cap off everything, since this bus was so late it was fuller than it should have been so I'm standing with my bag and cases and wind up with people trying to park prams on my feet which had nowhere else to be.

Our mail unit is kind of foolishly located right next to the card reader in our condo complex, but it's rather easy to pull off to the side so that others can get by and scan in (it's a gated community).

Yet a small handful will instead park right by the card reader while they go get their mail so that nobody else can scan in to get the gate open, while they take their good sweet time getting their mail.

I do not like these people.