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

Most bank drive-thrus I know of have at least three lanes - the window lane, the vacuum tube lane and the ATM lane. Why not make the middle lane a dual ATM/tube lane?

Then you have the anxiety-intensive feeling of picking the slowest lane, but at least there'd be two lanes.

I get my cash from the grocery store.

It has been super foggy the past two days, and I have seen dozen of cars using their high beams.

pet hate. fuckers!!!

I can't tell if I am more IA at the drivers who had NO lights on during the foggy morning ride.

i drove to and from NYC this weekend and the drive was horrible both ways, and i did end up using my high beams but only when no one was in front of me obvs. tonight i had maybe 10 ft of visibility at times.

anyway IA: people who are apparently incapable of walking at a speed lower than "speedwalking", no matter the urgency and despite the conversation they're trying to have with you

When did 'too funny' become a thing? Never fails to sound church-ladyish in use.

One could argue that using your high-beams in fog only illuminates more fog, but one's personal experience may vary.

anyway IA: people who are apparently incapable of walking at a speed lower than "speedwalking", no matter the urgency and despite the conversation they're trying to have with you

You could solve that problem by hurrying up u kno.

^this

Slow walking is fine as long as the slower walker doesn't get in the way.

Two or more slowpokes strolling abreast, unaware that they're impeding everyone, those folks need punching.

some company I heard of actually has some VP-type person who does walking meetings, as in they meet somewhere and do laps through the large hallways of the workplace

I would really enjoy walking meetings. I hope that the VP doesn't make them mandatory, though, since not everybody can or wants to do that.

Hah!

MANDATORY

they probably get a negotiated discount from their health insurance company. or this actually could be one of the insurance companies, as I've forgotten who it is

wellmark has a strict NO SMOKERS CAN WORK HERE hiring policy, too. pretty crazy shit.

Don't get me started on workplace wellness initiatives because they are not innocuous.

I avoided a recent work health fair that promised to tell you your blood presh and body fat content or some shit like that, and gave you some kind of price for participating. For the price of a mass-manufactured keychain (or w/e) I should give you my confidential medical information? Oh yeah no.

* prize for participating.

if you go in for a free health screening at a random clinic, my company gives you something like $500 to put towards your yearly medical expenses

Do they ask for the results of the screening before they hand over the cash?

I don't think they necessarily care. It's more of a push to recognize preventative medicine, which people are generally horrible at.

Drone rock/space rock. Makes me irrationally angry.

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why you braek heart

I have the attn span of a golden retriever puppy w/r/t music. I went to a show on Sat that shd have been good or at least innocuous and I tried to relax and ~vibe with it~ or w/e but fuck it I just hated those bands.

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more dirty dronerock boys for the rest of us

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Get off my case! I like shouty pop/pop punk/slop rock and songs no longer than 4 minutes or so.

xp haha yes, mookie.

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Do they ask for the results of the screening before they hand over the cash?

nope!

I'm glad I got a whats-up from carl at least, jeez.

just sad, no judgment

I feel so much better getting that off my chest. I felt tooootally lame on Sat cos the cool kids were standing around kinda vacantly, sloooowly headbanging to the beats which were like a geological age apart, and I drank too much beer and tried to keep present by talking too much but it felt like slogging through mud in my brain.

maybe it was just shitty dronerock/spacerock though. which, to be fair, there is a lot of. And I'm not a huge fan. But shitty three-chord punk pop songs are just as agitating.

Well not to me. I love shitty three-chord songs, especially if they're under 3 minutes. That's all I'm saying.

I definitely recognize that there is a specific way in which overly-self-serious, overlong, not very interesting droney/spacey music can bore an obnoxious hole in your forehead, especially when you're not in the mood for it. I think it's a genre where it's especially easy to fill a lot of time with very little ability, and hard to actually do something interesting.

I love shitty three-chord songs, especially if they're under 3 minutes.

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- the way every link on these pictures of scraps of paper just opens up the pictures of the scraps of paper

http://arctangent.co.uk/info/

so you click on e.g. what looks likethe ticket enquiry email link and it opens the picture of the ticket enquiry email link

Yes, like most music, it is hard to do something interesting. Fascinating.

Yes, please tell me more about space rock that I couldn't tell from hearing two hours of it on Saturday, and how I would like music I just said I don't like if it were better.

Take two: Like most music, it sucks.

I was responding to Hurting 2 fwiw

watch out digging that hole, I think in orbit is in the mood to hit someone with a shovel today

Space rock is awful fwiw, I agree jeez

sarcasm. searing.

No, I actually think space rock is mostly boring crap but it's no more boring that the other shit music out there. I'll fight all of you, though, grrrrrr!