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

(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.

I would fucking love to have a typewriter at work. Especially if it was one of those gigantic IBM Selectrics that would sit there humming at you when you weren't actively typing.

You think an office full of chattering keyboards is loud? The sound of those old newsrooms where everyone was whacking away on a typewriter was deafening.

Seriously; send someone under 30 into a room like that, they'd think they'd walked into a firing range.

I like the sound of typewriters and there is something satisfying about the words immediately appearing on paper, but the drawbacks are far greater than the charms.

please tell us more, this is fascinating

I'm gonna.

i took a typing class w/selectrics in hs -- probably the most useful thing i did there, although it's taken years to get past the two-spaces-after-a-period thing.

new ia: shops that whack a 'PLEASE CLOSE THE DOOR WE HAVE AIR CONDITIONING' sign on the door, and are too cheap to spend fifty bucks on a thing that closes the door

just spend the fifty bucks and shut the hell up

close the fucking door you savage jeez

did they spend 50 bucks on the door of the barn you were born in did they huh

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/28535/pilgrim%20punch.jpg

Similarly, businesses in cold climates that don't add one of those extra canvas awning doors to their existing front doors to make a little airlock so every time someone enters or leaves, that person isn't exposing all the patrons inside to Arctic winds.

Also the fact that I have no idea what those are called and can't google my way to an answer or even find a picture of one. What are they called???

hmm one variation is called a flyscreen iirc?

vestibules?

YES! Vestibule enclosures!!!! Thank you, mookieproof!

http://www.signexponyc.com/images/Vestibules/vestibule2010.jpg

IA - businesses, mostly restaurants and bars, that don't have one of those (or a revolving door or a permanent airlock) in the winter.

Also referred to as "winter enclosures" and "windbreakers." I'm so happy right now.

that'd keep a fly out surely

Better than nothing, but that solution just sets up another opportunity to get IA: most people are idiots and just hold open the outer door and the inner door at the same time. People are dumb with doors, believe me. You could put a sign up with door-handling instructions right at eye level and still most people would ignore it. I've seen this happen many times with the kind of door that doesn't close behind you by itself. There is nothing in the world you can do to get people to manually close the door to a restaurant or bar if they are not the type that naturally does it.

on the usefulness of vestibules

^That guy nails it. If you have a pair of couples, or even three people entering the building, that vestibule is worthless.

Sit near the door of a place w/out a vestibule and you'll come to appreciate them. They're nowhere near perfect, but overall they're far better than nothing.

winter is to be cherished while we still have it

i think we can all agree on that.

no