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

imo if you're racist and sexist and unconcerned about how others feel about your opinions, you're not actually that friendly

The nice thing about "likes" on youtube is they're anonymous so you can ignore this request and no one is the wiser :)

seeing people standing up holding laptops really bothers me for some reason. Like: http://en.clipdealer.com/preview/image/001/869/216/player/1--1869216-smiling-man-working-with-a-laptop-while-standing-up.jpg. There was this Microsoft commercial a few years ago with this guy wandering around his apartment yammering about wifi or something and I just wanted to smack the damn thing out of is hands.

dumping laptops would be much, much more expensive than dumping books

Occasionally I see a very awkward looking guy using a laptop on the subway and it brings out my latent wedgie impulse.

I sing in a ten-person spiritual ensemble; 5 men, 5 women. A round of emails just went out stating that 4 of the 5 women will not be at tonight's rehearsal due to prior commitments and illness.

We have gigs in a month.

chicks, man

that doesn't sound totally innocuous

Women be busy.

I sing in a ten-person spiritual ensemble; 5 men, 5 women. A round of emails just went out stating that 4 of the 5 women will not be at tonight's rehearsal due to prior commitments and illness.

We have gigs in a month.

― DJP, Monday, January 14, 2013 2:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I blurred this with the prior discussion and thought for a sec that "ten-person spiritual ensemble" was a kind of drone rock band

with the 5 men and 1 woman form space rock combo

d'oh

i feel the rehearsal thing cuz I do theatre, and run into the same shit. after a while it gets exasperating. with music it's even worse.

imo you should all find them and drive around in your cars following them trying to force them to harmonize w/ you,e ven if they're out at dinner

My wife and I were at the Cleveland Art Museum on Saturday, and in one exhibit on 1930s-40s art and design, they have an Ironrite "Health Chair". It's clear from positioning and context that it's actually part of an exhibition, and yet some moron walked up and sat down on it. And not ironically or something, he appeared to genuinely think it was for weary museum patrons. I really, really wanted to punch him.

xp: well, one of them is my wife, who only yesterday started sounding more like herself rather than some weird Grover/Cookie Monster hybrid

also it's mostly innocuous because the set we're planning is 60% material we can sing in our sleep, but we need some rehearsal time on the new stuff

the influenza outbreak is hardly innocuous dan

The nice thing about "likes" on youtube is they're anonymous so you can ignore this request and no one is the wiser :)

The other nice thing is that there is also a dislike button :)

Hell, share the link cos I don't like him either by the sound of him.

my wife didn't have the flu
another woman is at an evening meeting
another woman has a cold
the final woman did have the flu, apparently

in summation, I am cold and unfeeling

you played on your sympathies, DJP.

unforgivable.

I did reply to all the emails saying that it looked like we'd be switching tonight's rep to a readthrough of Brahms' "Alto Rhapsody" but no one gave me even a solitary lol, and that made me irrationally sad

couple more people miss and it'll be a readthrough of "4'33"

It's clear from positioning and context that it's actually part of an exhibition, and yet some moron walked up and sat down on it.

http://www.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2010/04/4422517148_7484749fd1.jpg

"Oof, I'm telling you, it's good to sit down, rest my dogs. How 'bout you, you from out of town?"

Touché!

Goddamn non-melting styrofoam packaging peanuts should not exist. There is nothing to do but throw them away, which makes me feel horrible, because they literally serve no purpose but to take up space, which they will do practically forever now in some landfill.

Yes! I've had a box of those in my bedroom since before Christmas because I was trying to believe there was something better to do with them than put them in landfill. (There isn't. I should get on with it.)

It's clear from positioning and context that it's actually part of an exhibition, and yet some moron walked up and sat down on it.

lol this sounds like something I would do :/

(it wasn't me though)

xpost I have successfully freecycled packaging peanuts.

You could solve that problem by hurrying up u kno.

― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, January 14, 2013 9:42 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

figured a serial speedwalker would pop up and say this, THEY ALWAYS DO

the problem is also solved by slowing down and walking at a speed in the same ballpark as the rest of humanity, which is preferable as no one was invited to work out, because i can't keep up in a conversation when i'm trying to keep up with someone else's feet (and usually larger stride) and because physical issues can make this very annoying for a lot of people

the problem as it occurred yesterday was walking as a group through the city and constantly asking the speedwalkers leading the group to slow down so we don't literally lose them, bc people with smaller strides already need to take more steps per block regardless and someone in the group has a bum foot she doesn't like constantly reminding everyone about. but i was extremely angry yesterday when they wouldn't slow down after being asked several times because that shouldn't need an explanation, you should just be a decent friend and slow down when other people clearly aren't able to (or even don't want to) pretend they're on a treadmill all day.

losing a €10 note, possibly because I put it in a pocket that I thought was deeper. Will now have to replace it, cos money was going to a cause I was collecting for. Stupid, should have asked for a cash bag since I could n't find any of my own.
Really annoying.

dayo's username all filling up my screen

I used to take any styro peanuts I had to a pack & ship place, most will accept them. Of course this means it just gets used once more before ending up in a land fill, but it's a start.

WRT the fast walker, just let him walk fast and separate from the group, by the time he notices you will have ditched him!

I noticed that Lush had taken to using popcorn as their packing stuff a few years ago. Used to get a free Xmas gift box if you spent over a certain amount in the shop after Xmas, have stopped now. But presumably you do still get that stuff in there as packing material.
Would at least mean it was biodegradable, could be bunged on a compost heap or something.

Clicking on the "Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry" thread, not realising it hasn't scrolled down to the newest posts as per usual, and reading dozens of innocuous angrifying things from two years ago.

- people not using bookmarks :)

dayo's username all filling up my screen

― mookieproof, Monday, January 14, 2013 2:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. And all other display names that are not just alphanumeric.

- edits of huge poll posts in the admin log

Ugh, yes. Very clever, you can make a terrible mess of things with your display name such that I can barely read the site on a mobile device. You're hilarious and brilliant and I validate your choices. Now please change it back to something less obnoxious.

hmm, and now you can make thread titles stay bold, even after thay have answers...

When I have two different shaped plugs that I want to plug into the same two-plug wall outlet but one somehow blocks the other.

oh i hate that!

it only happens to ME though!!!!!

Little two-way street I drive down to get to the parking lot doesn't have a line painted down the middle, but there is a line there where the two sides of the street met when they originally laid down the asphalt.

Why other drivers coming from the other way can't acknowledge that line as the de facto middle and stay in their own lane is beyond me.

Oh jesus God, yes....that.

I also hate how people in my condo complex treat speed bumps. There are bumps, there are humps, these are bumps, and they are meant to be driven over at slow speeds (5-10 mph). However, half the idiots in my community come to a COMPLETE STOP before driving over them. This wouldn't be so annoying if I didn't live at the back of the community (0.5 miles) and had to go over 6-7 of these.

The other thing is when they try to drive down the center to reduce the impact of the bump, then stay driving in the center lane even though it's a two lane road, no matter who is coming at them. I purposefully don't move over to accommodate them at all when they do this.

Then there's the asshats who drive 25 mph through the subdivision, which scares me because there's a large population of little kids who live near me who are always playign in the street (innocent kid stuff, they're not doing anythign bad). I always slow it down when I near that area, I keep worrying some asshat is going to mow them down if they're not careful one day.

people going over 20 in any urban street where kids are obviously going to be playing near/crossing makes me rationally angry tbh

yeah that part's really not innocuous at all. It's always the same one or two vehicles I see doing it too (young doofuses showing off their rides)

the other thing that bugs me is when someone's entering a parking lot and someone's exiting and there's clearly enough room for both vehicles but the guy entering apparently doesn't understand this and refuses to enter until the other person leaves.

i see all sorts to be fair, a lot of people who just look like they're going to/coming home from work, even in streets that have advisory 20mph zones. a lot of peeps just don't think i guess

my observation is strictly relegated to my complex, really. it's a strange mix of people, really.

, really

there's a certain *type* of woman is keeps stalking me. And it seems to only happen when I go to Peet's for coffee at lunchtime. I don't go every day, maybe once or twice a week, but over the last month, at the store by my office and the store downtown, almost every time I go in there's at least one woman standing at the counter not really sure what kind of coffee or tea she wants and could she maybe try one of them and oh what do you recommend and no I really don't like green tea but oh what about that guatemala coffee what is that oh it's a dark roast now when you say dark what do you mean by dark and then they go to pay and they start asking questions about all of the snacks in the display, oh now this chocolate, do you think it would melt if I kept it in my purse?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggg. And I'm not exaggerating, it's always these women who are over-50-but-not-really-seniors women with hiking-brand name coats and maybe those weird leggings that people wear when they go jogging or maybe she's wearing some kind of woven jacket that you buy at REI...and they just seem to have NOTHING better to do with their day than act like they're the only person in the store.

I'm serious though. They're all stalking me.