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

The ignorance of American motorists never ceases to amaze me.

I had one woman honk at me angrily after I honked at her, like I was passing her on the left to get in front of her. No, this is my lane. You can't have it, especially when we're driving side-by-side at rush hour.

Once, I had someone try to turn right from the inside lane while I was on the far right. He honked at me. The only thing I could figure is that was driving in the lane that had the trolley tracks, but it's not exclusive to the trolley. Maybe he thought it was.

the people who made the pockets in the business trousers i sometimes wear to work thought it'd be a GREAT idea to stitch a second pocket INSIDE the first pocket, but not like a top-aligned money pocket or anything—this pocket starts halfway down. it's just wide enough for a mobile phone but not deep enough, so what happens is you put your phone in your pocket, it catches on this stupid half-pocket, and you sit down and it falls out. on the ground. my phone is covered in dents and scratches because of these stupid fucking trousers. i do not know what the designers were thinking. and because of where the pocket-within-a-pocket sits, it's not so much 'hey i'm being helpful for the storage of money and other trinkets' so much as 'FUCK YOU I'M A POCKET'. i just attacked said dickish pocket with the fire of a thousand suns and some scissors.

i had pants like that and my old nokia fit beautifully into the secondary pocket. however it would have been a useless pocket for much else

I have trousers with two tiny pointless pockets inside a pocket and they make me IA too.

- clicking on a trending topic on twitter (e.g. Grodon Brown, just now) and all of the recent tweets are either pr0n spam or people going "lol why is trending topic trending?"

Grodon!

not being able to hide hashtags on twitter.

you could maybe greasemonkey that (if you use the browser version)

dunno if this works?

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/70481

Script Summary: Filters tweets containing the specified hashtag.

I had hash tags/keywords using tweetbot.

Hide

yeah i wanna do it in chrome, and just on twitter.com. allegedly greasemonkey scripts should work in chrome but that one isn't, can't be arsed to faff around figuring out why. but y'know it's just an innocuous irrational gripe.

I can't stand hash tags that are written more as an afterthought. #nootherpersonwouldeverusethishashsowhywouldyoupostit

#hashtagpunchlines

FUCK YOU IM A POCKET is classic

From the upcoming Schoolhouse Rock series on clothing.

people shitting up the movie title in movie thread with "comedy"

yeah people shitting up threads with obvious parody does get irritating

Forget about it, guys. It's ILX Town.

I know, and it's completely innocuous, and something I've done to other threads.

"Hi, it's me, your work colleague in another city who you never hear from when you're seeking content for our marketing efforts - do we have any collaterals or powerpoints supporting the messaging in an ad campaign we stopped using more than three years ago?"

Poorly designed figurines ragh

I have an awesome Iron Maiden figurine that's Eddie from the Killers cover, standing on a sewer thing but he is designed so badly that even when you plug his feet into the stand he doesn't stand so much as lean, and this stupid plastic thing that's attached to it has broken off so many times that I have to prop the whole thing against a wall so it will display properly.

Also I have a whole set of Christmas Story figures and NONE of them can stand unassisted. Do people not test these things?

Pretty sure this is the most innocuous and immaterial of all the ia's here. Sorry.

I get IA on my daughter's behalf when her toy animals don't stand up properly. Dinosaurs >>> mammals in that respect.

We've got a Wonder Pets flyboat at home with little pegs on the surface where you're supposed to set the animals on using holes in their feet. Never works.

I can't stand hash tags that are written more as an afterthought. #nootherpersonwouldeverusethishashsowhywouldyoupostit

― pplains, Friday, 15 February 2013 01:53 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are people in my feed who do this compulsively. they can't say anything at all without ramming a redundant comedy hashtag at the end of every single tweet.

Also I have a whole set of Christmas Story figures and NONE of them can stand unassisted. Do people not test these things?

I hear ya, VG. My Simpsons Mr. Burns and Moe figures are always falling down. Or rather, when Mr. Burns is holding Blinky, he falls down. Now Blinky sits at Mr. Burns' feet, and that's just not right.

Maybe they're meant to be held and waved around like toys

My poseable Dr Zoidberg stands up fine but is not actually in any way poseable (the arms move by like 4mm and then go back to where they were before) and can't hold the stethoscope he came with, which was lost within about 30 seconds of opening the box

with apologies to hardcore collectors who are right now crying at the concept of opening the box, never mind losing the accessories

if you're not making them talk and then "fight" by ramming the figures together then you're doing it wrong

The worst is Mrs Christmas Story, Ralphie's Mom. I think she's meant to lean against the Dad because they molded her to slant sideways slightly and she literally does not stand ever

And the Dad is supposed to hold the leg lamp, but lampshade is removeable and falls off when it's on its side

Like, CMON

Can you guys show me on the doll where you were made irrationally angry?

*throws doll at u*

http://www.luisescobarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Lisa-vs-Malibu-Stacy-doll-throw.jpg

Eddie from the Killers cover

This is more "irrationally pleased" but the only other guy in my 7am yoga class was wearing this t-shirt today.

overuse of semicolons is driving me insane atm

one of the worst human beings i ever went out of my way to avoid at college had a semicolon tattoo

why the fuck would you want that (and why did so many people think it was cool)

re: semcolon abuse

I know a fella with a © tat.

at least that's something

what if you got it near your ass so that the dot part of it was the end-point of your actual colon?

the semicolon might be the least inherently 'meaningful' punctuation mark ... xp

lol mh

i would get "..." on my forehead

MAKES MORE SENSE THAN A SEMICOLON

yep

ANSWERING PHONES

Me: <COMPANY NAME REDACTED>, this is <ELMO>. How may I help you?
Them: ... Hi.... Is this <COMPANY NAME REDACTED>?

the semicolon might be the least inherently 'meaningful' punctuation mark ... xp

― Alice 2 Chainz - "I Luv Dem Bones" (zachlyon), Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:23 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love semicolons. ;_;

See?

just... ugh... if the first thing you do is make me repeat myself... we are not going to be friends.

Xp Me too; I hate the misuse of commas in their stead