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

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?

to thine own butthole, be true.

so should i start this thread or

I used to be extremely introverted (socializing took energy, time alone recharged me, etc.) but over the last 20 years I became nearly as extremely extroverted. How does that work? People change over time, but I would have guessed intro/extro to be pretty essential. Or was it just mistake my erstwhile eXtreme shyness for introversion? Who *am* I?

That is what I'd post in your thread if you weren't too introverted to get out there and create it.

yes

Anytime someone starts saying something with "Is it just me or..."

Think you might be alone on that one.

Or was it just mistake my erstwhile eXtreme shyness for introversion?

ya i've recently come to think that i'm an extrovert with terrible social anxiety rather than the introvert i always assumed myself to be. (or more just that it's generally not a legitimate distinction to make anyway.)

A, I would be interested in an introversion thread, so I encourage you to go for it.

I'm still IA about TV audiences clapping on every beat when there's music.

wait, that was on the IE thread.

I get ia about clapping on the on-beat (the 1 and 3), but I've noticed a decline in that over the years.

the whole personality type thing always meant a lot of sense to me, it's not about "fackbook macroization", it's about the realization that different people respond to things in different ways and once you know what their motivations/fears are it's a lot easier to talk to them. you dont have to listen to people if you dont want to.

kind of a guilty lol at no one stepping up to start an introverts thread.

re: on the beat - between segments on UK Saturday Night TV talent shows the audience claps in time with the music (1! 2! 3! 4!). It's so oppressive and stuffy. Reminds me of elderly music teachers at school discos.

Along those lines, that 15-second segment on Letterman where they announce who's coming up next while panning across the audience irritates me, since I know that some show fluffer went out there and got everyone to applaud for no reason before the show even began.

(Assuming that they're not using the same clip over and over, which would also be irritating.)

A, I would be interested in an introversion thread, so I encourage you to go for it.

― Je55e, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 02:29 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of a guilty lol at no one stepping up to start an introverts thread.

― pplains, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 02:42 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i will do this but there's a bit much going on atm

- cereal boxes that don't have the name of the cereal on the side of them

being the middleman for a conversation via email where 2 people aren't actually replying to each other but instead only reply to me

seriously, life is too short for this

the whole personality type thing always meant a lot of sense to me, it's not about "fackbook macroization", it's about the realization that different people respond to things in different ways and once you know what their motivations/fears are it's a lot easier to talk to them. you dont have to listen to people if you dont want to.

― frogbs, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.agencyq.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Thinking-Man-Statue.png

or, let me put it this way: shut up

ball point pens that inexplicably stop writing...but then of course will write perfectly normally on "other" kinds of paper

they will write when you do not need them.

was it itt that people were ia about those tiny wheely suitcases? because sone fucking troglodyte just ran one over my foot and marked my new shoe

i like how if you hold just about any pad of paper to the light you can see the mad circle indentations of past pen victims.

My watch has a second hand that moves one whole second at a time (rather than sweep), and what makes me IA is that the points it stops at don't line up with the second/minute tick marks.

Dammit, nickn. I hadn't ever noticed that.

"They can put a man on the moon, but . . ."

SUVs that have been converted to low-riders. SUVS!!

looked in my rearview at the woman behind me yesterday and she was driving while busy chatting away on the phone using a retro telephone handset. really irked me.

seeing women behind me putting on makeup makes me immediately look to change lanes because fuck you rearending sons of bitches

ha, andrew. maybe she had one of these:

http://www.radista.info/basic_en/en_radio_unit_RU-2.jpg

WE NEED AIR SUPPORT DAMMIT

http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2011/06/lennykravitzphone.jpg