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

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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

i enjoy a well-placed semicolon when the time is right

but they are meaningless bourgeois little shits out of context

;_; would make a fine tattoo

I feel weird about using semicolons too freely, so I sometimes throw in a dash instead.

Did you know that if you're wondering what sex a kitten is, you can hold them and look at their backsides. It's a boy if the holes look like a :

It's a girl if you see a ;

what if you see a !

"this tattoo on my arm is a female cat's nether regions, i'm glad you like it so much"

After my resectional surgery a few years ago, I bragged about my new semi-colon, but that horribly formed joak got old real fast.

Did you know that if you're wondering what sex a kitten is, you can hold them and look at their backsides. It's a boy if the holes look like a :

It's a girl if you see a ;

wat

punctuation is ~all around us~

IA: when someone is already waiting at the pedestrian crossing I'm walking up to and need to use, but they haven't pressed the button

irrational because ok, they may (or may not) have cost me a little time, but if they pushed it and then ran across early and I didn't come along they'd needlessly hold up traffic. But, dammit, I'm me and I want to get home and that is way more important to me than a bunch of people in cars.

irrational because 99% of those do nothing

Yeah, but I know which ones that do.

And Mr. Almanac, I'm just going to link to this picture here.

so of course I click it

ffs

Me, too, and let me tell you, I see enough cat butthole in my daily life as a cat owner.

: ;

in case it wasn't obvious.

new dn

medical professionals that make you feel guilty about not doing a good enough job of taking care of yourself. most often these are dentists but i had an eye doctor doing it to me yesterday. i'm an adult, just tell me what i should be doing and let me decide if i'm going to do it or not.

I get the dentist thing (flossing) but what kind of eye maintenance are you supposed to be doing?

swapping out my contacts more often, getting a new prescription every year, etc. this optometrist had the most disgusting old man fingernails btw.

In general it makes me angry when people call me "buddy" but a few weeks ago a slightly frustrated dentist told me "You gotta floss more, buddy!" and it's been replaying in my head and cracking me up. He had this ominous tone in his voice.

ha ha

Not everybody's prescription changes every year! That doctor's a dingus. Dr. Dingus.

I straight up tell dentists to not give me shit about flossing.

lol @ old man fingernails

i got irrationally angry yesterday for the first time in forever! i was in the middle of talking about ch 23 when this guy in my class just got his stuff together, got up, and walked out of my class. i was like "is there something i can help you with?" and he said "no, i gotta go...do a thing" and then i was like "...are you coming back?!" and he said "no" and walked out.

my brain totally went all leslie knope and wanted to go out there and be like hey come back here! people don't just WALK OUT OF MY CLASS FOR NO REASON but i shook it off and didn't let (tried not to let) the remaining s know how much it bothered me

it REALLY bothered me
i'm wondering if he'll come back and what i'm supposed to say to him if he does. this is not the first tude he has given me, so maybe he's just a pita.

I would respond to that but first I gotta go...do a thing. You know.

Chalk that up to another reason I love teaching adults. Leave if you want. I don't care. You're a grown up and I'm operating under the assumption that you can handle the consequences of your actions, and if you can't, you'll fail.

I know -- this is a grown man. I was just pissed because it was a personal affront -- I slipped and made the rookie mistake of caring if people think I'm boring. Earlier he had asked me why we had to use our online lms. I was like "because that's how I do it in my classes" and he just kinda refused to participate. Has not been short on attitude. I should have expected it -- but my reaction to it caught me off guard, hence it made me irrationally angry.

I wish you'd gone full Knope on him, LL <3

I'm kind of struggling with something like this now - it's my second semester of teaching as a grad student, and I'm in charge of an 8am class. Department attendance policy is pretty strict, so you get three free skip days and then your grade starts to go down.

I think I'm going to end up failing a bunch of people strictly based on attendance which is kind of bullshit but really, you know the deal, I told you the rules, it's in the syllabus - just get up and come to class. Or at least email me beforehand with a shitty excuse - I'm a pushover, really, and I'll buy anything you give me so long as it wasn't sent halfway through the class you're missing.

On some level I really don't care cause it's their life, but I know I'm going to get a bunch of "why did I get a C?" questions at the end of the semester and have to deal with a bunch of shitty entitlement issues.

Either that or your coordinator/chair/person who handles bureaucracy will have to handle a bunch of angry grade appeals. Those are the worst.

I hear this I'm a pushover, really, and I'll buy anything you give me so long as it wasn't sent halfway through the class you're missing all the time from new teachers, and I would encourage everyone to be more of a hardass.

Approximate conversation I just had at work via email:

Them: "Hey, we just did a great product demo for a prospect that found us by typing [X] into Google."
Me: "That's great - since we're not currently including [X] in an AdWords campaign, that means our SEO is working well."
Them: "Whoa, whoa, we are supposed to be including [X] in [current marketing campaign's AdWords]."
Me: "Actually, in the attached email from last month, you asked for [A, B, C, D and E] but specifically asked me to exclude [X]."
Them: "Please buy [X] as part of this campaign."

Right. Since we already clearly rank very highly for [X] and can get that search traffic for free, let's spend money on it. Also, fuck you.