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

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

Weird, I noticed that exact same second hand thing on a clock in a meeting today

pp i'm going to assume you found that image by searching "jygoslav ru-2/2k"

you just know this stuff

My dad had one, never trusted pagers.

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

― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 13:46 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Is it just me or is it hot in here" is fair use..

I'll give you that. I was thinking more of "Is it just me or am I the only one NOT watching the Bacholer tonight?" Drawing attention to yourself when really you are just judging everyone else.

This is going to sound insensitive, but twice in the last week, I've nearly been mowed down by someone on a mobility scooter whizzing full speed round a corner and both times they've glared at me as though I'm in their way.

it's not insensitive, some people ride those things like complete arseholes

like, if you're travelling twice the speed i can walk then gtfo the pavement

Oh man this attorney who used to come to my old job was like that. He actually collided with me once (I was recovering from an ear infection that rendered me temporarily deaf in one ear, on his side of approach, and I didn't hear him coming). He gave me ten kinds of stink eye then sped off zzzzooom! I actually said, "Hey, watch it buddy!" because being run into by a power scooter turns me into a NYC cabbie c. 1968. Then I called him an asshole. THEN I felt bad and confessed my sins to a coworker who was like, don't feel bad. He's a dick! He runs into people all the time.

getting a decent hoodie out of the washing machine/dryer only to find out that the zip on its front has presumably been bashed against the drum until it broke off, so has no handle or loop that the handle attached to. Now wondering if I should look into getting the zip replaced. Bummer

if it's a standard size & common brand (like YKK) it should be easy to replace, can't hurt to bring it to a dry cleaner / tailor to ask

sitting at break around a table with other people on the course and the same guy sitting next to me decides he should lean out of his space right up against me. Not sure if he's aware of what he's doing but it's really annoying, like he thinks he's up against a wall.
Enough space for like 8 people to sit around the table with chairs perpendicular to it with space to eat what's in front of them. He comes in turns his chair to an angle then leans back. haven't noticed if he's doing it to anybody else. Probably need to point it out to him or try to avoid him coming along and sitting next to me. Which is difficult if the class is sitting as a group around a table.

when you walk too close to a door frame or whatever and tear a small piece of your pants....hraaaaahhhgghhh

I actually said, "Hey, watch it buddy!" because being run into by a power scooter turns me into a NYC cabbie c. 1968.

<3 <3

I say, as someone whose manners in random confrontational situations owe more to the ante-bellum South.

My goodness, I do declare etc.

I always keep the "things ladies say" thread in the back of my head for those kinds of situations

I had a similar situation yesterday -- was biking to work, and some dude riding on the sidewalk and not looking came off the curb right at me, so I had to make a hard swerve to my left to avoid maiming both of us. I yelled, "Yo, dude, heads up!" I am not the kind of person who usually uses "yo," "dude" or "heads up."

My response in those situations is usually "Dude, what the fuck!"

It was only 7:00am, I wasn't on my game.

The other day I was riding in the bike lane on a Brooklyn street in broad daylight and a man crossed the street and almost walked right into me without ever turning to look for traffic. He had like 4 ppl behind him all talking, which was what he was looking at instead, so I couldn't even go AROUND THEM because they were strung across both lanes. I was reduced to shouting, "SIR! SIR! EXCUSE ME!" while braking like crazy until one of his companions pulled him up.

After I passed, he yelled a lot of things about how I should have a bell. Because me SHOUTING AT HIM was totally ineffective at getting his attention.

Also DON'T CROSS TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC COMPLETELY BLIND, MAYBE.

Just carry around a bell and throw it at people's heads.

Once a kid was trying to sell me candy bars and I said, "Go on, kid. Beat it." Because when I'm not a NYC cabbie, I'm pulp detective, I guess.

I just don't talk like that when I'm thinking about it. But it does give me hope that if I'm ever in a situation where I'm cornered by a bad guy who thinks he's got me dead to rights but doesn't see that my partner/a monster/the fuzz is about to get the drop on him, I'll say something really awesome in the heat of the moment.

I'll probably say, "Yo, dude, heads up!" Which would be characteristic, unfortunately.

"irrationally angry" maybe isn't the phrase for it but whenever i'm watching a tv show and it begins with a flash forward and then 30 seconds later cut to black and "48 hrs earlier" or something...kind of a minor pet peeve of mine.

yes agreed, that shit does not work in television

You know, that just happened in a book I was reading and I mentally rolled my eyes about it. It's overdone. Although I think Breaking Bad uses that to really good effect.

i think it works on breaking bad ok, and it was effective in the classic film 'starship troopers' but generally speaking i despise it. i feel like it was used particularly poorly in BSG and alias or something.

Although I think Breaking Bad uses that to really good effect.

oh man, that pink teddy bear can fuck right off, i hate that shit

I was thinking of the way they started this last season, which was very intriguing. But I was okay with the teddy bear, too. It was a little silly, definitely, but I was surprised and satisfied with the way the whole thing resolved.

I'm sick of the phrase "tipping point".

All of a sudden the AM reception in my car went to shit. Listening to sports talk radio really ameliorates the crappiness of my commute, so this has been not fun.

i didn't mind the pink teddy bear on breaking bad but i wish they'd just done it the one time before the first episode rather than what seemed like every episode.

when you buy clementines but they turn out to be mandarins

55yo men who wear sensible chequed short-sleeved shirts (tucked in), beige shorts and beige shoes to restaurants, and say things like 'I'M TOO OLD'

when there's identical twins and people go 'oh wow they look so alike' as though that were unexpected

That small provincial branches of supermarkets used to sell nice boxes of e.g. Lindt chocolates and now just sell those crappy Thorntons Classic boxes

(Thorntons do still make some nice stuff but it doesn't make it to supermarkets. Not that I imagine Lindt's best chocolate is ending up in a £6 box in a British supermarket either.)

(it is the day before Mother's Day in the UK - don't panic, it's not for 2 months everywhere else in the world - and I am trying to find something which doesn't look crap without having to get my cheap, lazy arse on a bus to some real shops)