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

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

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/3861876_o.gif

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?

Just Elkton and Rising Sun. Who goes there? Especially now that DE liquor stores are open on Sundays.

Always liked this portmanteau:

http://www.kentuckianaplumbing.com/web_images/kentuckianaplumbing_sign1.jpg

xp tru. although in pittsburgh the tri-state area is pa/oh/wv and hell if anyone's going to weirton

Nice logo, too.

I look at that logo and I go "...que?"

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5247/5268061828_5d78eedec8_z.jpg

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

― Mark G, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A line from an Arthur Lee song? Is it 'She Comes In Colours'
apparently 'when I was in England Town the rain fell right down'

Oh that's weird, I just listened to "She Comes in Colors" on Monday for the first time....

Is it time to start a new gripe thread? I keep having to press the blue skipping x amount of messages button to get to the start of threads.
& now somebody else is talking about the amount of messages herein.

& yup having to do that then scan through is enough to make me slightly peeved. Rationally or irrationally.

maybe we can start one for things, innocuous or not, that make us mad.

whether or not we are being irrational about it, yeah.

Just Elkton and Rising Sun. Who goes there? Especially now that DE liquor stores are open on Sundays.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The first girl I fell in love with was from Rising Sun. She used to call it Rising Scum. She rejected me, and later came out as a lesbian.

USE BOOKMARKS.

^^

too much extra clicking

Regularly posting to a thread with 13,445 posts in it without using bookmarks is akin to putting "google" into your msn search bar whenever you want to log onto Facebook.