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

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.

pretty sure it's universal dumbness

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

fwiw i'm guessing io is referring to the two main channels of english language publishing/distribution (called 'commonwealth' and 'something something america', last i checked), rather than the countries in which printing occurs

btw it's something that also happens with cd/dvd/vhs covers, perhaps more commonly so

Oh internet:

In the United States, the Commonwealth, Scandinavia and for books in Dutch, titles are usually written top-to-bottom on the spine. This means that when the book is placed on a table with the front cover upwards, the title is correctly oriented left-to-right on the spine. This practice is reflected in the industry standards ANSI/NISO Z39.41[27] and ISO 6357.[28]
In most of continental Europe and Latin America, titles are conventionally printed bottom-to-top on the spine so, when the books are placed vertically on shelves, the title can be read by tilting the head to the left.[29]

long ago when i started working in bookstores, a customer complained that his neck was sore from tilting it (to the right) to read the titles on the shelves. he suggested that we stack the books flat in piles so the spines would be easier to read.

he was srs too

now THAT's a savage.

did you pick him up by the pants and throw him out onto the street

I love bookstore stories

I definitely get angry when I see CDs that have the titles printed upside down (bottom to top). There's one particularly egregious example in my CD tower right now - it's the only volume in a series of compilations (I own about eight in the series) where this is the case; all the others are printed right-side-up. I have actually put that CD upside down in the tower.

It will not surprise people that there are entire Doctor Who sub-forums complaining about this. 2 Entertain actually bowed to fan pressure and the sleeves are now double-sided although they still don't match closely enough for many and there is a period which is unmatched without fan covers (of which there are legion, and some of which are much nicer than the commissioned ones).

i fucking love my Artificial Eye DVDs with the writing going bottom to top tbh, makes a pleasant change from leaning the same way all the time, also i may be an anatomical freak but i can read spines without tilting my head if i must

When I think I'm almost out of ahousehold item (dish soap,toothpaste, deodorant, etc.) so I go out and buy some on my weekly grocery trip. But then the original, almost-finished item lasts beyond the next week's grocery trip.

It's a matter of underestimating how much use I can get out of the dregs of something. hate it to death though. I made this mistake with so much stuff on my previous trip to the grocery store.

If I am at any point in using the 'last' of something, I buy new household items whenever I see them on special offer. Would rather not run out of anything so if it takes longer to squeeze the last dregs from the toothpaste, bonus.

yeah, does it really matter if you have more? as i get older i am pleased by running out of things less frequently.

Well, its mostly innocuous. But sometimes I'd rather have an extra $20 or whatever instead of Qa bunch of dry goods I'm not actuallygoing to use for 2 weeks.

I hate it when smokers litter their butts wherever they want.

And people who spit their gum on the ground are assholes.