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

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.

hey wow Phil you must work in my office

facepalm

using chrome on my phone. hit 'new tab' and it immediately brings up a list of bookmarks. but then it refreshes them *exactly* when i go to press the one i want. no idea why it does that.

Going along the lines of being called "Buddy".

My name's Tre. At the radio station, they called me T-bone, which I tried to object to while also trying to be a good sport.

Now I'm working with this guy who's actually a nice guy. Except he calls me Tre Bones all the time.

"Hey, Todd, what's up."

"nothing much TRE BONES."

If I want to get all bent out of shape, well I deservedly look like an ass. But it's annoying and perhaps even a little patronizing.

I've called him Todd Bones a coupla times, but he's all Ha, that's what I call YOU, Tre BONES.

i call my cat buddy because she's my buddy but i would never call a human over age 5 buddy

call him todd THUNDER xp

call him boner, pplains

because he keeps it up with the bones

Dunno what it is about cats that makes them suit being called buddy. I call my cats buddy, and I'm English and therefore have never called anyone buddy ever.

Both good suggestions, but I like where Mookie's going.

Not much TODD of THUNDER.

Have a good night, and TODD SPEED.

What in TODD'S NAME is going on around here?

TODD DAMNIT

or just put on a beavis voice and say, "whoa, it's todd"

i mean butthead

i hate being called "boss". only thing worse was being called "big guy" when i was fat.

i get 'big guy'

one time i was asked 'what time you got g' which was pretty sweet

kinda want to be generically referred to as 'jackson'

i get "big guy" (because i'm skinny?) and "buddy" all the time. coming from certain ppl it's tolerable or even likable but most of the time it just automatically makes me think "fuck you"

You TODD DAMN SONOFABITCH how are ya

YOU BETTER THINK ABOUT IT BUDDY.

the first todd i knew was called 'moose' by everyone, because his brother said he looked like a moose when he was born

later his brother literally ran him up a flagpole; not sure if anyone saluted

The way people say "girl crush" all the time now really annoys me. When did this start? Is it really so heinous for a woman to just say they fancy another woman? It's like there's some twee corner of the soul reserved for micro-lesbianism or something.

TODD FUTURE WOLF GANG

"micro-lesbianism," I'm going to start using this word immediately

i currently hate the way when certain people like a thing a lot they say "That dress/show/dog/ is EVERYTHING"

it's worse than the overuse of amazing

What?! Is that a West Coast thing?

idk

my friend says it. also a project runway contestant (also from Sacto) said it. maybe it's a lame sacramento thing

NME 50 Greatest Punk lp list not being findable, at least by me online.
Could extend to the NME website not being great or easily navigable.

Wanted to post the list so that people could give opinions on the validity of it, but guess something else has screwed up on me.

Alongside possibly the course I was trying to get to do for the next few months.
Have to go back and try again tomorrow but may have already messed things up. Not sure if I'm going to get another chance to organise things.

This link in this post:

'In Utero': Classic or Dud?

reminds me of how much I HATE this usage of "slut". I'm not crazy about it in its original meaning either, although it has its uses, but this whole "we're SLUTS for musical instruments" thing drives me up the wall.

A while back a colleague (who I otherwise like a lot) told this story about how when she was a little kid, she and her sister would eat a bunch of candy: "oh yeah, we were total SLUTS for chocolate".

STOP!

Once I was taking a cat-sitting job, and the lady was describing how the cat would sometimes go spend a week at the neighbors' house: "she's such a slut."

NOOOOOOOO!

"I'm a total slut for naked dudes"

is that ok?

it is!

um YES

Slut it up for naked dudes afaic.

I think we should make it the only acceptable usage. naked girls too I guess if we're gonna be inclusive.

It sounds like an Arrested Development line. "I am such a SLUT for this soup!" And then Tobias would say, "I'm just a SLUT for sausage!"

That goes along with the suffix -porn for every visual compendium devoted to one subject: foodporn, historyporn, trainporn, carporn, etc.

I know pornography when I see it, and none of that fits the bill.

"I was expecting something a little, uh, you know, more than just brocolli bacon quiche."

open-face sandwich though right RIGHT

sorry

are you talking about the gearslutz link? the name doesn't so much embarrass me so much as make me think it's some kind of juggalo thing especially with the 'z' at the end.

Dude, look again, this is not "Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarassed".

so... it's rational to be embarrassed by juggalos?

an embarrassment of juggalos