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

I use the Maryland one to approve fb friend requests. "Oh wow, it's Dave - I haven't seen him in years! Wait, that's where he's been? Unauthorized removal of livestock? Naw dude, you don't get to see pics of my kids."

The IL sex offender registry is very user-friendly.

Oh jeez, we were really happy when my wife's mechanic moved onto our street until he turned up in our regular check for sex offenders in our zip code.

The IL sex offender registry is very user-friendly.

I read that as being some new board on here...

I think a dude down my street is on the registry but for something like statutory or something. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

On a semi-related note, I noticed a guy who was kind of shitty in elementary school on the recent arrests mugshots! Apparently he was trying to sell meth and has previously had a restraining order against him from an ex. What a nice fellow.

this probably belongs on the gender thread or something but i hate people who identify as "mommies" SORRY

as in like mother of a child?

I irrationally hate the song Ballroom Blitz by Sweet. There you fucking go.

that's def irrational

people who put 'husband, father' in their twitter bio

if that's the creative extent of your prose, you are going to bore me

until he turned up in our regular check for sex offenders in our zip code.

Maybe its just that I'm not a parent but geezus. You do this? It seeems incredibly depressing.

probably would be more depressing to find yourself turn up there

amiasexoffender.com

now this is reminding me of the time I employed the word "nonce" not knowing its other meaning and you all 0_o at me.

haha i did that too (although not here, fortunately)

Honestly it always just meant "idiot" to me, I had no idea ;_;

same

fortunately the person i said it to knew i was too stupid to know what i had just said

you cryptographic nonce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

awkward

@Trayce, its not a bad idea! Depressing, yes. But if we didn't, we wouldn't know that the guy down the street was a perv. Can't stop him from living there. Not gonna go egg his house or whatever. But I can know who shouldn't be talking to teenagers or whatever. Fortunately, there aren't that many in or current neighborhood. Where we used to live, there were dozens. So we moved. It's useful information.

no not the mother of a child, that would be pretty irrational although i do think humans should go extinct. mommies. it's like talking about yourself in baby talk.

So like, same goes if a husband calls his wife "mommy"?

i've never heard that but it sounds disgusting. i'm thinking like as in "mommyblogging"

people who put 'husband, father' in their twitter bio

This. Or Believer. Or worse when they put "Believer. Husband. Father." Poor kid gets the shit end of the stick.

xp Women with kids who call themselves 'mommies' are the worst. Though for some reason the British equivalent, 'mummies', doesn't grate on me as much.

the phrase "yummy mummies" makes me quite killy but has possibly never appeared outside the Daily Mail

xps to harbl: WHOA! yeah, I can see it in that context. Fuck that shit.

What I'm talking about it more the natural absorption of a word that gets flung at you all the damn time. I tend to think of myself, first and foremost, as "Daddy" these days. My irl first name is completely secondary to me and it's not really something that I planned. That's who I am, because that's what my kids and wife refer to me as most often.

the phrase "yummy mummies" makes me quite killy but has possibly never appeared outside the Daily Mail

Count yourself lucky your eyes were never scarred like mine by the poster for chicklit 'classic' the wives of bath, with the tagline 'a tale of yummy mummies with their flat brown tummies'. Sorry if you have to run out and by some optrex now.

Oh good grief.

Not so fast, Britishers. My friend P has paid for an entire house off the back of a gently satirical series of Yummy Mummy novels.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2047/2326633259_0ee29a1f80.jpg

Self-identifying "mommies" are bemusing and annoying but let's remember that women are generally called upon by the dominant culture to abandon their individual identities, interests, and goals in order to raise their kids. I mean this happens with men, too, but less frequently and to a lesser degree. So, lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for this? Ok.

Resonance FM used to have an advert featuring the words "yummy mummies" which made me want to punch things. Presumably also satirical, but that didn't reduce the punching urge.

Also always sad when posters on other messageboards have chosen usernames like MumToFiveKids or SallysMom. That's nice, but I'm not talking to yr five kids, I don't know who Sally is, I'm talking to you and I feel bad that you couldn't think of a more you-specific identifier.

However I can of course always get behind hating the patriarchy, so, that too. I mean "yummy mummy" as a concept wouldn't exist if the basic rule wasn't that the only two useful things women can do are 1. be attractive 2. spawn kids, where 2 apparently immediately annuls 1 and it's totally cool for you to be harassed in the street for either doing 1 or not doing 1

Dunno, I've been known as "Amber's Dad" for a while, and I can see that happening for a long time..

Not to us, you aren't

That cereal looks disgusting. Maybe it glows in the dark.

marshmallow is such waste

Not a waste, I just like to have it plain, and not moulded into odd shapes.

not "a" waste, just waste. pointless tasteless yuck

1. Narrow sidewalk, v fast moving foot traffic single file in each direction, woman with a wheelie bag stops short out of nowhere to pull something out of her purse causing person behind her to run into her and me to run into that person. Bonus LOLs bc it's 9F out and everybody is booking to get inside and is covered in warm clothes with just a little visibility window between their hats and their scarves, so we look like idiot padded penguins plowing into each other on an ice floe.

2. I took a shortcut through the drugstore rather than walk around the corner to the main entrance of my building (9F!) and some tool rushing in behind me stepped on my heels TWICE, prompting me to say, "Watch it, asshole," which shockingly caused him to pause to hold the next two doors open for me (not in an "after you" chivalry way, just in a pausing in the door to hold it so it doesn't slam in my face regular politeness way), which was weird and annoying bc if he's in such a hurry he should just own it and live with the consequences. He seemed actually chagrined to be called an asshole.

Not IA about either thing, actually. Just amused at human behavior.

wheelie bag

This was all you needed to say for me to be IA too

13,590 messages so I've probably said this before but:

If you're turning left at an intersection and the light turns from yellow to red, you may still (quickly) make your turn. It's acceptable.

Otherwise, you're going to be sitting in one place, waiting through a lot of signal cycles (and we will too, sitting behind you.)

xxp Arrrghhh, people stepping on my heels makes me soooo IA.

I am a sometimes heel-stepper. I take my punishment (which is to be publicly recognized as an asshole, which I am).

I think both episodes were general examples of how dressing like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fqmEVXfZbjI/SXAIrLCJ2vI/AAAAAAAAD-4/DYal0LTZPtA/s1600/070205_chicago_cold_hmed_3p.h2

limits your awareness of your surroundings in a fundamental way (the heel stepping happened seconds after entering the building so we were all still bundled up and in "WALK FAST WE ARE ALL GOING TO FREEZE TO DEATH" mode).

I like my personal space too much to be a regular heel-stepper but if I'm walking w/ someone I know and therefore trying to keep up or hold a conversation I am terrible for heel-stepping or just plain walking into them if they stop suddenly.

Plus I confess I've probably passive-aggressively heelstepped on someone for walking out in front of me and then annoying me. Someone barged into me this morning (I was waiting behind an obstruction for someone else coming the other way and the woman behind just walked straight through the middle and into both of us on the way) and that put me in a bad mood so I barged into her in return when she paused a few moments later and then felt very childish for doing so.

Damn my childish passive-aggressive impulses. I also suspect that a fat ugly woman like me walking into people is seen as approx 6000x ruder and stupider than the slim blonde 20-something who walked into me, which it might pay to remember, annoying as it is.

Yes, fat women definitely aren't smiled upon for taking up space, that is for sure.

it hurts me a little inside when you do yrself down, spacecadet

not that this makes me irrationally angry, just think hey let's be proud of the cool people we are. not you, CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT