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

Hey, Jeff, whaddya know.

:(

There's a guy at work who says that to me, and every time I'm thinking "Wait. I know a lot of things. Hang on," but he's already gone by the time I come up with a response.

That guy.

man, people have been violating the fuck out of the "social contract" today, either being self-absorbed idiots or just garden-variety assholes.

There's a guy at work who says that to me, and every time I'm thinking "Wait. I know a lot of things. Hang on," but he's already gone by the time I come up with a response.

I'd go with a mock-shouted "Not much! You?" and out myself as a big dork.

And not even by choice, just by reflex.

this isn't innocuous, like most things here i guess, but the modern corporation's hr structures really bother me. like i mean, the constant "personal development plan" or meetings to try and dig their nails into you for longer, and to keep you there, or like part of their stupid fucking world.

i just want to do my job with an honest effort then go home. it's fucking insufferable the amount of stupid meetings, enforced fun, and needless daddying, that they force you to endure.

not sure if this is widespread or just cos i work for a company that's desperate to feel like a google or a facebook, not that it ever will be.

I'd go with a mock-shouted "Not much! You?" and out myself as a big dork.

So are you the first person that I've ever encountered who does not hate this show? My local NPR station used to play this for two hours every Saturday and literally every person I ever talked to really really disliked it.

Then they started asking listeners to rate shows, after which time it went down to only one hour for a couple months then vanished completely without fanfare.

Oh no, I hate it.

It was part of WHYY's Sunday morning lineup during a (pretty sweet, in hindsight) period in my life when my Sunday morning routine involved bagels, the newspaper, and NPR and Whaddya Fucking Know came on in the middle of an otherwise Top Hits lineup, so I would suffer through it to get to whatever was next.

coworkers who append 'hilarious' nicknames to contacts in their outlook address book
just stop it

ie

to Jim 'Big Honkin' Smith
cc Sally 'No Whammys' Black

:/

I don't know, seems very professional.

completely

this is not just limited to internal emails. oh no. let's make sure those folks are copied in on emails to outside suppliers.

in a fight between 'Big Honkin' and 'No Whammys', who would win?

my money's on sally because she would not put up with whammys

p sure I've mentioned this one before but:

- when you hold a door for someone behind you so the door doesn't slam in their face and they walk past you and through the door like you're a fucking doorman.

when you're waiting with a wheelchair user who needs to get in a lift going down and you have to wait forever because every down trip is full of perfectly able-bodied fuckwits who can't be fucking bothered to walk down a few flights of stairs

You have no idea what the functional capacity of those fuckwits is, no matter how annoyed you are at having to wait for an elevator.

no i know that, and i often tell people not to make assumptions, but when the lift's gone past for the 3rd or 4th time i'm assuming that statistically the majority of the occupants could've walked, even if i don't know which ones

also this is mostly college students so thoughtlessness feels like a fair assumption

I take the elevator one floor all the time. Stairs hurt.

And I look fairly able bodied.

yeah like i just said i wasn't making the assumption that everybody in there was able to use the stairs, but in a big group there'll be plenty that were

i was thinking that we shd have some kind of "is your journey really necessary?" posters. it's an eight floor tower block and i'll usually take the lift up if i'm going above the fourth floor but going downstairs shdn't be an issue for the majority of our users

innocuous things that make me irrationally angry: paleo diet

figured I might as well just come out & say it

lol otm

I feel the same, as you might have guessed

I had to unbookmark that thread.

I eat terribly btw

the barefoot running thing also, which is sometimes called "paleo running"

like ok why don't you also just run barechested and tie your nuts up in an animal skin

I am not ideologically against that. It just sounds painful.

xpost... or is it?

http://images.wikia.com/kingdomhearts/images/archive/5/50/20100609143553!Tarzan.jpg

I'd never heard barefoot/VFF/minimalist running called paleo running until you did today.

I dig my New Balance Minimus shoes. A+ for deadlifting

ugggh the barefoot running thing and those goddamn toe shoes

innocuous things that make me irrationally grouchy: pretty much anything at the moment especially when booze is mentioned

the only things that make me angry about the toe shoes is (1) the toes and (2) when someone runs by you wearing them and it sounds like they are wearing two deflated basketballs on their feet and i want to laugh at them. i don't like the smugness of it but i guess it's ok if they want to not have running shoes.

i'd use the stairs if they were unlocked, and if i didn't work on the top floor.

i think I need an 'actual things that make me angry' for this but I am getting so tired of the smug way my friends so smugly share image macros LOL CREATIONISTS/RELIGIOUS PPL R SO DUMB DON'T THEY SEE HOW SMART ATHIESTS ARE or LOL CONSERVATIVES R SO DUMB DON'T THEY SEE HOW SMART LIBERALS ARE...image macros that they share with people who *already agree with them 100%*

like, who is this for? are we supposed to applaud

every now and then I see what a huge circle jerk it is and I'm just like ugh why

xpost harbl the deflated basketballs description made me laugh out loud

http://paleorunners.blogspot.com/

Also this, which doesn't actually use the phrase, but kind of implies it:
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1363214092&sr=8-7&keywords=barefoot+running

i have nb trail minimus for lifting and when i run to/from the gym it's like slap slap slap slap

- those wee text/link boxes on youtube videos
- trying to click the wee x to close them
- the measures people go to to make it difficult

similarly, the box that pops up on the mobile version of some newspaper websites saying "install this webapp" and you need to hit the wee x to close it, but it's too wee for your thumb and you end up opening an article while the box is still open

i've been suspicious of paleo for a while because of intersection w/ raw food nutters, evolutionary psych misogyny-justifiers, libertarians, but the paleo thread lists many delicious-sounding things so i was nearly tempted

then i uh "borrowed" one of the paleo books recommended onthread and about 3 pages in i was going "there is no way i could give up this stuff and also congrats to the author on being the dawkins of diet"

(cutting down on wheat, yeah, i've been thinking that might have some benefits. totally giving up wheat AND soy AND peas, beans, peanuts AND about six million other things i blanked out because i was too horrified about peanuts tbh GOOD GRIEF that is no way to live)

also onimo reminded me of the way the youtube control bar is shrunk down until you mouseover it, so if you want to skip forwards/backwards you put your mouse on the timeline to do so, and the timeline moves because the control bar expands, so you have to move your mouse again, and maybe you go a pixel too far, or maybe you just pause for a tenth of a second to think about where to skip to, either of which make it shrink again

tl;dr annoyed by tiny pixel-perfect operations

wait peas beans and peanuts why what in the

i have a peanut allergy and a sensitivity to other 'legumes'. i stay away from lentils and chickpeas as well.