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

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

Google's

Did you mean: "x"

thing not having a question mark.

(worse, and not at all irrational, is the thing where it searches for something else and asks you if you instead want to search for the thing you originally wanted to search for)

Not at all innocuous, I mean.

even worse is when it just fucking assumes and does it anyway

People who use the squeegee to wash their car windows at the gas station before they fill the tank with gas. Do it while it fills, you doofus!

Also, people who jog in the middle of the street when the sidewalks are too icy. If the sidewalks are too icy, then maybe you should take the day off from jogging, you doofus! If you get hit by a car, you have the world's worst defense.

"How did you get hit by a car?"

"Oh, I was just running down the middle of the street, and the next thing I knew ..."

People jogging in the road because the pavement is icy is an infuriating mirror image of one of my IA peeves, cyclists who cycle on the pavement, distracted, wobbling and one-/no-handed, while making a phone call or eating a snack, because doing that in the road would be dangerous

(yes, yes it would - so maybe you should do these things while stationary, instead of expecting pedestrians to scatter out of your way)

Bicyclists who think they're a pedestrian with wheels.

People who use the squeegee to wash their car windows at the gas station before they fill the tank with gas. Do it while it fills, you doofus!

Can't do this in Mass. State law sez gas pumps can't have that little notch that locks the handle in place. You have to stand there holding it the whole time.

was just gonna express my curiousity at the magic automatic robot gas stations they have in chicago.

Not just Chicago! I've lived and visited many parts of the country and never seen pumps that don't lock into continuous flow mode.

Need a catalog of places with stupid gas station laws: New Jersey, Massachusetts, _______ ?

Oregon, IIRC?

How could you ever clean out your car if you have to stand there pumping gas the whole time?

but it only takes about 30 seconds to fill a tank!

even worse is when it just fucking assumes and does it anyway

more likely they found that this is what people wanted and it's literally just ONE click more. its to prevent people from having to fix their typos when Google can figure out what they probably wanted anyway.

xp: so the pumps in MA are supersonic? It probably takes 4 minutes to fill a tank in Maryland.

Can't do this in Mass. State law sez gas pumps can't have that little notch that locks the handle in place. You have to stand there holding it the whole time.

well, you can wedge your gas cap under the handle, i mean that's how I handle this problem

Fuck, elmo solved one of the grand challenges of engineering right there.

Also, people who jog in the middle of the street when the sidewalks are too icy.

I occasionally run in the street, mainly when there is not room on the side walk because people are walking three abreast both ways. Not sure someone would run down the middle of the street though. I run just off the side walk going against traffic.

Speaking of IA while running, I have not been getting IA, but I've had two cases where people yell at me after I pass them as they are walking down the sidewalk. I think they are just startled? I go around them with plenty of room to spare, but they get so angry.

This always seems to happen in front of Je55e's place.

Are you sure it wasn't Jesse?

Isn't it better for your joints to run on the road?

(if it's safe, I mean - it's clearly not better to have your knees smashed by speeding trucks)

No idea. I assume all exercise is bad for my joints. At least in my case.

OK what??

Did you mean: duffle bag

Not angry, just wondering, what??

more likely they found that this is what people wanted and it's literally just ONE click more.

plus the 15–20 seconds wasted looking at the wrong search results

harlem shake. it made me angry a week or two back when i first started seeing people post about it, it still makes me mad now on the rare occasions where someone talks about it.

i still don't know what it is but i've seen a lot of people talking about it (most of whom were angry)

Isn't it dangerous to just wander off and leave your petrol tank filling up on its own? Or does it somehow know when to stop? (NB: I don't drive.)

If you get in and out of your car, it can build up static that can start a fire, but it's a very rare occurance.

we're not allowed to do it here either. tbh i just thought they were all broken or there was a ~secret~ trick.

last year i was told off for checking my phone near the pump. i've done that thousands of times without incident or lecture.

There's nothing wrong with that.