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

holy cow, what is even the point to that.

"You thought turning across an intersection was challenging? Let's try it from as far away from the center as possible."

staring death in the face is v invigorating

I thnk the only way it makes sense is to think of it like a roundabout, but yeah theyre mental.

i didn't know this had a name either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_parking_chair

In Baltimore, after the First and Second blizzards of 2010, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced that the city would not enforce an existing ban on the practice. She said that it could not be stopped, just like "people saying hon" could not be stopped.[17]

i think they can stop

That's very popular in Chicago, too.

Dibs, motherfucker.

I grew up in what the weather channel now lists as the #3 snowiest city in the US; I think they got 48 inches of snow in the last ten days.

Anyway, the concept of reserving parking spots is totally foreign to me as you can't park on any city street between 2am and 6am, lest the city tow your car so they can plow. It kind of sucks for staying out late as chances are pretty good your car will be gone and you'll need to spend a hundred bucks to get it back.

In boston they call it banging a left, and it doesn't require ascent.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bang%20a%20left

Have we covered those weird non-flag house flags yet? The ones people hang out the front of their houses with like anthropomorphic flower faces and bees and shit on them?

God I hate those things.

You dont mean tibetan prayer flags I assume? (see those everywhere here, damn hippies)

Nope. In context those are actually cool compared to this stuff

http://www.windowbox.com/media/catalog/category/resized/E5-157722-Garden-Flag_1.jpg

Oh gooood, my mom loves that shit.

is that an elongated god or an elongated good

this is important

god

my wife does this

*awk*ward

nah it's cool, she's old, I'm old -- I hold the yarn with my hands out like *this* while she knits the flags.

back to IA entries then

- that amazon has an option to filter books by 'biography' but no further filter for 'not reality tv unpeople fuckin morons'

otm

- the dingalings sitting next to us at a popular breakfast restaurant who are listening to music on a laptop.

not sure how ia this is, but when you stay in a hotel and you can hear the television next door, but you don't know whether it's the sound volume or the shitty paper-thin walls, so you just sort of sit there and put up with it

dudes shoulder-banging their girlfriends at shows

c'mon, dude, stop.

I bet I posted that already, after the last show I was at

maybe on the embarrassed thread instead but w/e

why you gotta be all rubbin yr girlfriends, dudes at shows, they aren't going to disappear if u stop rubbin them

I mean I know you probably are just tryin to confine yr rubbin to areas that are acceptable to rub in public but let me tell you it's not really acceptable

oooooh

i was trying to figure out like, do they get on their knees

haha I have no idea what you were imagining

aaahhh I get so IA whenever I try to GO anywhere

waiting 30 seconds for a car to make a mess of turning into the side road I was trying to cross, then missing my bus by 5 seconds; having to stop moving completely so a bike could overtake another bike right in front of me instead of waiting another couple of seconds until I'd got past

PS sorry silby, I hope you didn't get into any trouble over my irrational ranting last week

the phrase "sweets for my sweet".

I've had to drive (and park) in the city a lot lately. Driving is the worst, I don't understand why so many people do it. I am so much happier when I use public transportation.

when ladies with cool last names get married and take on boring last names. feel like if you want your family to all have the same last name, the objectively awesomer one should win.

I was once told "We love your name, it's so cool! You can never get married!"

if only there was a way to get married and still have an awesome name

i know a couple ladies who took on boring names because they were tired of having to spell out the cool ones all the time

seems a pity, but i have the boringest name so what do i know

my sister is changing her name when she gets married this year and then i will be the only person in the world with my last name (it's hyphenated)

kind of bummed that she's not gonna make her kids have a double-hyphenated last name

'ian reise-moraine-moraine'

my parents made me suffer w/ a weird name, feel like that's a tradition that should be passed down, like hazing

i never changed my name when we got married bc I was still in the middle of immigration paperwork and they made it seem like this annoying thing to go get a court order from a judge and all this nonsense, so we figured eh I'll leave it til the immigrating's done with. then when it was done I was kind of happy that I hadn't changed it -- it's one of the few things from home I got to keep when I left Australia :)

is your last name Blooming-Onion

HAHAHAHA

no it's Shrimp-On-the-Barbie

I had this longish bitchy post about how a friend I follow on twitter won't stop tweeting about her eating incompetence and I xposed w/ Brownie and LOLed and deleted that dumb post, so thanks Brownie.

np

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RSu9Gw61U

imagine her pained tweets if she finds out she got run off this thread by a brownie.