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

i always wonder if these people have notebooks somewhere to record their findings in so they can calibrate their lifestyles

I bet they're the kind of people at boring seminars who actually DO have questions at the end because they can't pay attention to information unless it's delivered to them one-on-one personally

lol fuck those people. NO QUESTIONS LET'S GO

totally

I should carry an airhorn and just blast these ppl whenever they pull their bullshit on me

Could you explain the difference between the parma ham and the Serrano ha--*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP*

Wait, I think I just made you fart on the person. Hold on...

Could you explain the difference between a skim milk latte and a whole milk cap---HHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Is there any way you could put stevia IN the teabag---PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPP

I'm sorry but when I ordered nonfat green I assumed you would make it with sencha, I'm allergic to---PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP

We have both of those types of women in my neighbourhood in London, which is rife with lawyers and expat grad students with North American accents. Add to them the women with MASSIVE buggies who need babyccinos for their CHILD - by which I mean, everyone around them has kids, but they have a CHILD. If I had one of those, there would be NO pink shit, NO monsterbuggy and NO fake grownup drinks...

The place I normally go for coffee is tiny and regular-friendly and I have been known to interrupt the interrogation of the barista and/or dissect the entitlement issues of these people once they're out of earshot. We also have a game called 'spot the consultant' where exceptionally well-dressed corporate drones stand there yelling on their phones in an attempt to direct the person meeting them for coffee. Not one of these consultants ever mention the giant landmark that is the coffee shop sign at 90 degrees to the wall outside so I wonder how they feed and wash themselves, really.

Is there any way you could put stevia IN the teabag

Please please pleeeeeeese tell me someone really said this

I have been known to interrupt the interrogation of the barista

So, er, you queue-jump? Really rudely?

and/or dissect the entitlement issues of these people

Someone sounds like they have entitlement issues, sure.

I'm sorry, but no matter how annoyed you get at someone taking a long time, and no matter how hideous they seem to you for doing it, it is totally within their right to ask questions about what they're getting and if you behave in that manner, you turn it from them being the problem to you being an asshole. Bitching about it on the internet is one thing, being an aggressive dick is quite another.

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.

― how's life, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THis has been true of the power supply plugs for external harddrives for as long as I've been buying them. Not sure if they are intentionally designed that way but does seem to be a constant. I have surge protector plug boards that can't be fully used cos plugs go the wrong direction and obscure sockets. Presumably I should be able to get power supply plug replacements that weren't quite so idiosyncratic but don't fancy the expense of replacing them all.

xxpost lol no BUT there was a guy who asked a Peets barista if they could put sugar in the portafilter after they've added the coffee grounds, before they pull the shots. it so there's sugar in their espresso.
Peets said they're not allowed to do that because DUH it would fuck up the machine
I spent the rest of the day wondering who the fuck would do that
Had he ever done it himself?
Like, I am a huge coffee nerd and even I was like, how do you even think of that?
What's wrong with just putting less sugar in your espresso if that's the goal?
What is wrong with you that you can't just have your coffee in a relatively normal way?
so many questions!

I have no problem with question askers in general, to be clear. It's just that certain TYPE.

the fact that I seem to be mildly lactose intolerant and actually enjoy soy milk lattes, leading me to feel like I am drinking a fake coffee beverage

guess it's back to straight espresso for me

yeah I tried fucking with nonfat lattes for a while and hated myself for it

Does soy milk foam?? I've never asked for a soy anything because a) not crazy about taste of soy and b) I was under the assumption that it basically wouldn't work. But sometimes I reeeeaaaally want a cappuccino.

God help me I get decaf soy lattes. I can't answer the foam question because I'm a disgusting savage who doesn't really care about such things as long as the coffee isn't going to give me a panic attack/make me poop all day.

it works not as well :(

Apparently there's some kind of barista formulation brand of Silk that works for soy foam (who the hell knows, could be a myth) but mostly it doesn't foam that great. But from what I understand it normally doesn't foam well because it's got all that, uh, particulate in it? And there's no fat and that's the thing in milk that helps bond and create the yummy microfoam.

I've tried foaming almond milk and it sorta works -- you get much 'bigger' foam, and it dissipates p quickly. Cutting it with a little 2% milk can help, but obv counter productive if yr lactose intolerant

I get around all of this by drinking black coffee

That's disgusting.

unlike "soy foam"

I like black coffee, but not 100% of the time

I can't do black coffee, gives me terrible cramps

Latte soy foam shame.

xp

only drink black coffee tbh

only started drinking coffee at all in my 30s, can't stand hot milky drinks

a small perfectly formed whole milk latte is my ultimate pleasure in life

Skim4lyfe

milk is gross. though i will get a cappuccino as a treat sometimes.

Soy milk has fat in it, but only half as much as whole milk per the completely unscientific internet search I just performed.

I remember the last whole milk latte I had and it was incredible.

My lactose intolerance is waning, but I'm not ready to find out what would happen if I drink a cup of milk. The consequences of failure are too grave.

God, seriously.

I like to tell people that, rather than being lactose intolerant, they are poop proficient

i like soy milk cuz it tastes good

xxxpost HOWWWWW on Earth did you get queue-jumping out of what I wrote, e.mily? Go tell someone off who actually needs a mommy, okay?

Of course there's nothing wrong with asking questions about what's on offer at a coffee place, it's just totally unobservant/rude to play 20 Questions when there's a queue of 10 behind you.

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I don't know why that coffee mug is making my try to make a poorly-constructed Shirt Tales joke

i get around all this by not drinking coffee

not worth it

keeps me from having my entitlement issues dissected tho

Having a mug like that tells the world that even though your bowels are callin' you're not going anywhere until the coffee's gone

xpost that's what u think

I have been annoyed at my evening class teacher bcz I did most of the homework but don't qualify for a grade because we weren't told the length requirements until the last day of term

(I do the course just for fun and the certificate is basically worthless, so innocuous/irrational)

except last night I found out that the length requirements don't exist and it's just that I didn't hand in enough work, and I went "???" a bit, and found that even though I did like 7 out of 8 homeworks I apparently only handed 2 in, so now I am angry at myself

(most of them were just short exercises which we went through in class, she didn't ask us to hand them in, and I mostly didn't see anyone else handing any in, but apparently they all were?)

I dunno, I wasn't there.

I feel like I wasn't either! Anyway as you can tell I am IA at myself but also at all the other students for their stealthy handing-stuff-in ways, and at the teacher for not having a big flashing neon sign saying "hand! in! work! NOW", etc

anyway I wrote a weasely email because I have no shame (also because she'd only listed one of the 2 pieces I actually handed in) so I expect somewhere on a parallel internet there is a sudden revival on a thread entitled "Shameless weasely students who make you rationally angry"

nah it's bad teaching imo, shd've clearly asked for hand in, shd've chased you up once a couple were missing