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

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.

guys

My prob w/ people talking about any kind of diet is the implied assumption that I should be congratulating them for their food virtue, like they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize in "Redirecting All of My Free Time and Energy into Obsessing about Food," to which I say, fuck that. Eat (or don't eat) what you want, but shut the fuck up about it.

I don't see how Born To Run implies "paleo"? The mention of tribe in the title?

paleo in that it's an appeal to "primitve men having it right"

Do you have an objection to barefoot running in itself?

My prob w/ people talking about any kind of diet is the implied assumption that I should be congratulating them for their food virtue, like they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize in "Redirecting All of My Free Time and Energy into Obsessing about Food," to which I say, fuck that. Eat (or don't eat) what you want, but shut the fuck up about it.

― carl agatha,

word stfu

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

― Habemus mundissimo ostentus nomen (onimo),

Worse is the way the box moves up a smidge as you mouse over it, causing you to miss the wee x control if you're not expecting it and click on the ad as if you want to see it.

Eat (or don't eat) what you want, but shut the fuck up about it.

I'd go vegan, but I think that talking about it all the time would be so exhausting.

free market capitalists like us
baby we were born to ignore several million years of food cultivation development

what if no one ever talked about food, would there be 7 billion types of cuisine

someone might try to open a restaurant but it would have to close because no one would know about it

commercials in which employee of Company X is way too perfect and accommodating to ridiculous weird customers with insane requests

like yeah sure you're probably gonna wanna make your employees seem perfect but no one falls for it, just fucking write the script so the employee gives them an exaggerated weird look and helps them anyway

flo from the insurance commercials is prime suspect 1

born to run is not about barefoot running, it's about ultrarunning (100 mile races), the author and nearly everyone profiled make constant fun of the one guy who insists on running in tevas.

Doctors/dentists/restaurants that call to confirm an appointment or reservation and insist that you call back. I'm a goddamned adult, if I tell you I'm going to be where at a certain time, I'm going to be there.

Unfortunately a great deal of goddamn adults don't behave like goddamn adults b

The place where I get my hair cut sends a confirmation email with a link to click to confirm. I think that's a good compromise.

I basically ignore them all and just show up.

My podiatrist calls, emails, and texts.

Men who wear hats in restaurants. Should also go in the disgusting savages thread I guess.

ia: cheap perfume/aftershave/bodywash/etc. i get really nauseous around it and can't breathe. i'm not some weirdo delicate flower, either! i generally have a pretty strong constitution. but i'm really sensitive to fragrances.

Cheap fragrance is a headache in a bottle.

it's particularly bad at rush hour on the subway because i can't move away from it.

Here is a clever retro bit of cubicle decor for anyone dealing with a loud phone talker to print out and hang up:

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/3/14/13/enhanced-buzz-25588-1363283724-0.jpg

Why exactly I got my bag back from the cinema check room with one side soakiong wet I can't begin to fathom. They insist you check any type of bag you're carrying and the ngive it back wet?
Really don't remember it bein gthat way before I gave it in and then when I got it back I went to pick it up by one of the straps and it was wet to the touch.

The free bar at the exhibition opening closing when I asked if they had the 3rd item on the list, a creme de menthe on the rocks, after i had had a few of the other 2. I mean god, how is a person supposed to lig free drink if they refuse to serve you any more? I should contact the union.

Hanging that poster in my office would insure that the volume would get about 100 decibels louder.

"Upgrade your Hotmail account to Outlook!"
<clicks upgrade button>
"Sorry, we're not upgrading accounts at the moment!"