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

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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

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Christ you people are angry

I just looked at the beginning of the thread, and it's sort of a bummer that we stopped numbering them.

5,743,932. bus prices go up again
5,743,933. coworkers put flat items on vertically spacious shelf of work fridge
...

5,743,934 - people saying "london town"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londontowne,_Maryland

I used to feel that way about "Chicagoland" but now I think it's sort of great.

Whereas "England Town" is .. um.. what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDZ8U-7A1A

When someone who is merely a messenger in the office gets basically hosed with follow-up questions when it is clear they're not the person to be answering them (not me, in this case, but just witnessed a colleague get that treatment)...

"Chicagoland" denotes Chicago and surrounding suburbs so I'm okay with it. You know when a business touts itself as "Chicagoland's Best TV and VCR Repair!" that shit's out in some far flung 'burb and you can cross it off your list of places to get your VCR fixed.

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Christ you people are angry

― paolo, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 8:22 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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otm

Yeah, "the Chicago area" would include the city; when they say "the Chicagoland area," that's always, like, Wheeling or some shit.

I love "Chicagoland," though; no one from outside Chicagoland believes that it's actually called that, since it sounds like an amusement park.

xp

I used to feel that way about "Chicagoland" but now I think it's sort of great.

more ppl need to say 'raleighwood' imo

I strongly dislike the term "Southland" in reference to Southern California.

"La La Land" for LA. I don't even live there, and I'm not like super in love with LA or anything but it's just such a hick thing ugh

Hollyweird

u_u

inland empire

tri-state area

DMV in reference to "Delaware Maryland Virginia" instead of the older "Delmarva".

i actually like tri-state area, but it initially makes me think of the one from my childhood rather than my current one

xp yeah don't like dmv

sorry "The DMV"

dmv is for DC, tho, not Delaware

delmarva is different, i.e. the eastern shore

do people understand "tri-state area" to mean "New York, New Jersey and Connecticut" or just "the parts of those states that are close to NYC"?

For real? DC shouldn't count.

the latter, i think xp

you're right about the eastern shore thing though. my mistake.

People don't say Delmarva anymore??!?!?!? Do they still say "Delmarvalous"??? I can still hear a WBOC newscaster saying "Our Delmarvalous peninsula!"

The DMV. UTTER NONSENSE.

dunno about delmarvalous, but delmarva is still a thing

go shorebirds

mookie cleared that up. I guess they do say delmarva still, I just thought it was in reference to the same thing that The DMV is in reference to, which it's not.

DMV reminds me too much of "Demilitarized Zone"

better that than department of motor vehicles

Demilitarized Vehicles

As a born-and-bred Marylander, I stubbornly and obnoxiously refuse to acknowledge the existence of any of these "Departments of Motor Vehicles".

Thank goodness Delmarva is safe. I'd never heard "DMV" referring to DC, MD, and VA but it's been a long long time since I've lived near there.

In DE, "tristate" refers to DE, MD, and VA in the southern half of the state, and DE, PA, and NJ in the northern half.

but maryland is still right there in the northern half?