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

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.

or their phlegm or their saliva

people wantonly littering just astounds and infuriates me, i have to stop myself telling them to pick it up. /dad

cig butts are tricky sometimes but not my problem any more.

wd shoot all spitters on sight tbh.

when i go running, my fucked up respiratory system produces so much gunk that i must confess to an occasional furtive spit. i bring tissues with me but sometimes i forget or run out.

I probably spit or snot rocket a gallon of phlegm when I run.

i do make a mental reservation for peeps engaged in sport but couldn't y'all wear some kind of snorkel/bag arrangement?

Spit into the street at least, and not where ppl are waking.

(this is why I hate shoes in the house. All that spit you're brining inside.)

"spit you're brining" = i gagged a little

I spit beside the lakefront running path, not on regular streets.

Oh god I'm sorry for that horrible typo. Ugh.

Tire warranties suck. I have bought 60K rated, 80k rated, etc. And they never last more than about 45K. Ever.

Also, faxes are horrible and grate on my nerves. So many organizations still "require" them.

ugh faxed orders are the worst. oh please yeah can I hand-key 10 pages of bullshit that I could import in 2 minutes if you had your shit together?

and the bastard cousin of this, medical forms, is rage inducer as well. It's common at a US health facility to have to hand write 3-5 forms of the same information and same signatures. So retarded.

Oh, and don't worry 23 signatures on a mortgage--I hate you, too.

And come to think of it, should I elaborate on my hatred of "legal sized" paper?

legal sized paper is a plague on humanity

I HATE LEGAL SIZED PAPER

When I inherited this office, there were three half-finished pads of legal sized paper in one of the drawers so every day is a battle between my hate of legal sized paper and my hate of wasting things.

and the bastard cousin of this, medical forms, is rage inducer as well. It's common at a US health facility to have to hand write 3-5 forms of the same information and same signatures.

― Actually, I did build it you fucktard (dandydonweiner), Monday, March 4, 2013 5:48 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Had an apt. w/ a doc. They had me fill out all new paperwork. Then when I went to pay for my visit with a credit card, they said the only way for me to do that was to fill out all the same information in electronic form on this mobile iPad-like device with a card reader attached to the top. WTF. INTEGRATE YOUR SYSTEMS, YOU FUCKS. Like, why not have everybody just fill out the goddamn electronic records because guess what NOBODY WRITES CHECKS ANYMORE.

- I am going out for dinner with friends on Wed night. One of my friends begged that we go to this restaurant she's been raving about for months so that's where we're going. I looked at the menu and I dunno but the food itself better be fucking AMAZING because the menu looks like a tarted up Applebee's entree menu. I just get really IA about ppl charging $25+ for boring entrees. Wow half a roast chicken and root vegetables. hold me back.

plus I'm in a crabby mood so this whole thing is going to end badly

Love legal-sized paper. Give me a yellow pad, a red Flair pen, and I'll feel like I've got half of a stable hold on whatever organization I'm attempting to do.

Hate Applebee's.

I like legal pads b/c the size and color of the paper makes it easy to find notes in a heap of paper.

we switched from legal file folders to normal ones last year and i was so thrilled because we never ever use legal paper. boss sent an email saying, i'm sorry, we tried to get the admin to let us keep the old folders, so we'll have to switch. i was like ???? office manager is still occasionally making long files until they run out. it makes me so mad to get them. i hate them!

considering starting a whole new thread for challenges faced by introverts

legal-size paper was definitely created by an extrovert.

GOD the introvert/extrovert thing makes me so ia. i'm not going to subscribe to your mars/venus dichotomy because you're too deluded to face the reality that you're actually just anal-retentive. and it's always self-proclaimed introverts who go on at length about the nature of these different personality types. JUST DO WHAT DARWIN WANTS U TO AND DIE ALREADY.

so yr an extrovert I take it

otm

i am an """"""introvert"""""" who rejects applying the psych equivalent of a facebook macro to himself

and has learned how to remove a few sticks from his own butthole (always a few more in there!)

Why behold the sticks in thy brother's butthole but not consider the beam that is in thine own butthole?