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

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.

otm

emil.y, there's an automatic shutoff such that when the gas reaches a certain level in the tank, the pump senses it (through witchcraft, imo) and cuts off the flow at the nozzle.

That does sound a lot like witchcraft. But at least I can rest easy knowing that you're not all spilling petrol all over the place.

I went to lunch at The Habit (burger joint). They serve their fries in those little paper boat containers. Saw a gentleman take his tray of food from the server, immediately dump his fries on the tray and then go over to the condiment station and proceed to fill up the container the fries had been in ENTIRELY WITH KETCHUP. All the way to the top.
And then go back to the server and ask if they had any RANCH.

"Um I'm sorry sir you have exceeded your condiment privileges at this establishment. Get the fuck away from me."

! 0_o

Current things driving my IA:

- after a harrowing journey through the phone tree for the EEOC (Equal Employment Commish): "Your estimated hold time is 37 minutes"

- having to use a TYPEWRITER and CARBON PAPER to fill out a 1099 tax form (boss wouldn't buy software for this one stray form that the accountant didn't catch)

FUCK A TYPEWRITER

1. It does SHIFT LOCK, not CAPS LOCK, so when I try to type "$900" it comes out "4())"

2. Even if I weren't using carbon paper and I COULD use the lift-off tape, the machine deletes the whole word only, not a letter at a time

I honestly don't know how people used these fucking things. I'm frustrated to near tears at the moment.

That call took 50:21, including 1:15 of actually speaking with the agent who gave me another number to call.

wooow

please tell us more, this is fascinating

Missed three deliveries from UPS because it had the wrong name - but right address! So I got to thinking, hmm, maybe it was meant for me, but just misnamed (though correctly addressed). So I went to the UPS customer pickup center in the middle of nowhere (but not really that far away), and they ask you to sign for the package with the name it is addressed to, which is not me. So I tell them I'm not that person, but it is my address. They ask if it's an apartment, and I say no, a home. They're a little confused. Is this person (the generic name John Smith) a previous resident of the house? No. So they ask if I'm expecting anything, and I say I have no idea, I get things all the time, but given the size of the package it's seemed like nothing I was expecting, but I couldn't rule it out. So they say that it'll just go back to the sender, but I ask what if they just misaddress it again for the same reason and it comes here again? Eventually they open up the manifest and I take a guess that the contents are not for me (though they could have been).

Anyway, not mad at UPS for once, just mad at the idiot who sent something to my house with someone else's name on it. If it makes its way back here again, I'll just sign for it.

Reminds me of a mis-delivered letter that once made its way to my house. I took it to downtown Chicago and just dropped it in a box. And the next day ... it arrives at my house again!

I just bought a new flower pot from Ikea. It came with instructions! In multiple languages!

1. puut die floowar en die pooet
2. floowar weeil groowen

I honestly don't know how people used these fucking things. I'm frustrated to near tears at the moment.

Think about a person who's only used a typewriter and picture them trying to work a computer.

Reminds me of a mis-delivered letter that once made its way to my house. I took it to downtown Chicago and just dropped it in a box. And the next day ... it arrives at my house again!

Ha! Nice work, Chicago postal service.

Think about a person who's only used a typewriter and picture them trying to work a computer.

http://www.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/34743-tell_100_year_old_woman_stop_smoking.jpg

Geez, man. I briefly used a typewriter in my affected teen years for high school essays, but I couldn't handle one in a work environment.