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

i am an introvert

Aw. <3

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Why do you need music? I've had my new iPhone for 3 months and I still don't have a single song (or Spotify, etc.) on it. Just don't listen to music.

otm. also why do you need a phone? then you just have to talk to people.

nobody talks to people on phones

- am currently slightly IA that there are an uneven number of Wasa crackers in a pack. I like to enjoy them two (2) at a time and now I have one (1) spare

- rage

Buy another pack. Then you can use the odd ones to make a new pair.

Of course that's my plan. I just like whining about things

Cordon Bleu in Pasadena?

trade tech in downtown l.a. -- they have a full-on culinary program with real disgruntled chefs and everything, but it's a public college so it costs way less than cordon bleu.

What happened to the urban planning thing (if you don't mind my asking)?

no jobs. the last exam i went for (city of beverly hills) had 150 other applicants and the department only gave callbacks to people with perfect scores.

i mean, i'd like to use my economic development/sustainability education to get involved with local food policy in some way. i don't look at any of this as mutually exclusive.

the fact that listening to music is banned in the course room where i have to spend the next 8 months & I think I work better to music. We're having to spend a lot of time doing exercises on our own so I would normallly tend to put on some of the Dead stuff on archive.org or something. BUt the teacher saw somebody else in the class with headphones on yesterday and gave out to them saying he hoped it wasn't music & how he couldn't abide it or something to that effect.
Seems very schoolroom as in 2ary school, justt been used to things being a bit more relaxed on past courses.

& I'm betting that my having to get up and walk around to clear my head when a program has gone differently to the way I've expected it to is going to be the subject of future comment. I don't think teacher would be very happy to have the computer picked up and defenestrated or at least hurled to the other side of the room as I felt at the time.

the fact that listening to music is banned in the course room where i have to spend the next 8 months

this is fucking savage and i would protest

BUt the teacher saw somebody else in the class with headphones on yesterday and gave out to them saying he hoped it wasn't music & how he couldn't abide it or something to that effect.

WTF?

hell is other people

I think the idea is that students are supposed to be able to concentrate more fully if they're not listening to music. With me I think it actually helps, since it relaxes me. COuld just be that teacher is very old school about things like that. This is a government course where the students are aged from somewhere around 20 to 60+ so seems a bit too control orientated, but he is saying that things are currently pretty slow and will speed up massively as the course goes on.
Still I think i work better to music, & if I'm concentrating on doing work on my own and using headphones I would think it would be up to me. THough I'd probably have to avoid the too toetappng stuff.

BUt the teacher saw somebody else in the class with headphones on yesterday and gave out to them saying he hoped it wasn't music & how he couldn't abide it or something to that effect.

Maybe I misunderstood. I thought the teacher was saying that he hoped the student was listening to anything other than music. Which would be bizarre, b/c why would a podcast or whale songs be any better?

some random teacher in high school told me to take off my headphones in the study hall because i couldn't possibly concentrate with music on. that teacher went on to be the boss of the entire school. hopefully she managed to get a clue at some point in the past 20 years.

meanwhile here i am in my late 30s, doing my best work while listening to music and rich enough to buy an ~island~

I can't work while listening to music w/ lyrics.

I did my best work today while listening to Judas Priest. Sometimes I can't deal with lyrics, though.

the alternative thing that you can be listening to on earphones in that classroom is a set of course related tutorial videos.
Still there is a large amount of time when you are trying to be immersed in work that I would prefer to be listening to music of some kind to keep me going during. Does look like there are others here who think that too, shame that isn't likely to convince the teacher though.

& yeah would probably be better if it was instrumental stuff at least largely I guess.

here's a good one

sometimes i go to whole foods to get lunch but they have the most horrendous parking garage like full of people rich enough to not have jobs during the day. i don't need to park real close to a place i just hate parking garages. anyway. the way people wait for someone to back out, and sit there with their signal on. it's ok if the person is actually getting into their car to leave. but this one started waiting while the person in the spot was slowly loading groceries into the back of her suv. like it's gonna be another 3 minutes before she backs out. oh also this lady had a cart. i saw her start to push the cart back to the front of the garage but then she just decided to leave it by another car and that's an irrational anger in itself. if i was her i would have taken my time to lol at that guy sitting there while no less than 7 other cars are backing up trying to circle the garage. dumbass. if you had driven to another spot and walked to the store you would have gotten in there way earlier.

Loading up a playlist including some 70s tunes and when the good ones come up, they're all karaoke versions.

^^^^ this

No offense to any Bostonians - I've never been there, I'm sure it's nice and all and I have nothing against the place - but after seeing so many things recently about Southie Rules, or Boston's Finest, or hearing that damn Dropkick Murphys song randomly I started to get IA about what I feel to be the city's disproportionate representation in popular culture.

It's only the 10th largest metropolitan area in the US (though admittedly it's the 5th largest 'combined statistical area' counting into New Hampshire and such) but I swear I see ten things about Boston for every one about Phoenix, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, or even Chicago which are all larger metro areas.

The worst part is all that over-representation, and it's terrible, to boot.

celts be quarrelin

Hello? Is there an American better disposed toward the Irish than I? I thought I'd like Boston, was v excited to go there originally, and yet it just falls flat on every visit.

ok fair point

i've only been there once; i liked it but yeah boston sports fans are pretty terrible

Coming up next: IA II, The Wrath of DJP

Yes I'm rather awaiting that particular fiery comet.

feel like djp would defend mn more heartily than ma tho

http://www.dxdvds.net/images/201208/goods_img/594_G_1344040062536.jpg

specifically the way that the title on the spine on series 1 is a good 1/2" lower than the the other two.

otm

Haha, you're familiar with the television series "Monk" about a private eye with OCD?

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/monk-dvd-OCD.jpg

That shit happens when some fucking marketing genius decides sales will perk up if you give the product a "fresh" look. They usually have not inquired about any amount of existing stock that may or may not be in the warehouse or out on shelves. When it comes time to do a boxed set you will want to kill them.

i have 27 (28?)mv issues of Lone Wolf and Cub on the bookshelf. the dark horse logo, prominent on the spines of each, changed between the first printing and the second. 8(

(but they are reprinting them shortly in 12 omnibus editions, ~600 pages each)

Whoever made Alasdair Reynolds' new book (and presumably all the new editions of all his previous books) not only a different colour scheme but a different height to all the old ones, you are on my list.

Also not being able to buy Kindle ebooks for someone else as gifts on Amazon UK, as whinged about on the Kindle thread.

That Monk thing is hilarious, though.

and there was a site where people would post dvd spine art that they'd designed, so you could download it and tuck it into the cases.

i bought the BFI kurosawa samurai box set before they finalised the packaging so it now doesn't match the 3 that followed.

(the reynolds is the start of a new trilogy. so that's ok. which reminds me - absolution gap wasn't available in the same oversize paperback format of the first two, only hardback)

i was going to mention that thing where a book spine is printed upside down, but tbh i think it might be for the disgusting savage thread

I think the US and UK standards are different re that.

I HATE THAT. It actually does send me into an IA rage. I mean, it's not completely innocuous, but the wrongness of it:my anger is definitely out of proportion.

I think the US and UK standards are different re that.

ime it's just doofus publishers being doofuses

I don't know that I've *ever* seen a US book with the words starting at the bottom and running up, but I do see it on a certain number of UK publications, esp older ones.

it's just dumb publishers

It may be dumb publishers but it doesn't happen in the US. It's a UK-only dumbness specialty.

I'm guessing it's also an Australian dumbness speciality, at least, unless AA imports a lot of books from the UK.