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

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

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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!"

Some bastard in iNdonesia hacking my email account and sending messages out to everybody in my contacts list. Bastarding bastardhood. Probably not innocuous though. Just had to chjange my dang password after several years, possibly over a decade, which is probably not the best policy to keep it the same all that time.
But gorlumme does that stink.

Microsoft offered me a free upgrade on to the latest version of Office. Upgrade = Office 365 = subscription-based products. No thanks, assholes.

So, after the hacking incident I changed my password. Today, 3 days if that later I go to access my email box & get a screen that will only allow you to change your password or alternatively go to a yahoo sign in page, which once the password is entered takes you straight back to the page where you need to change your password.

I mean how often do I need to change my password and how in hell am I going to remember it if I do?
& they're insisting that it is complex so not easily remembered anyway. Somebody needs to be lynched methinks.

I had that problem once, too. Years ago. See they've made no improvements.

- when vertically pattered hosiery is knit in such a way that unless you're willing to spend your day with the toe seem all bunched up weird around your toes, the vertical pattern twists halfway around one leg.

It...seems like that would make them defective?

Shit, I got a pair of tights like that, too. Maddening.

MOST patterned tights are made that way.

AGH yes

I guess I don't have that problem, and I actually DO buy seconds, ie rejected tights! But if I were having it I agree hulk would be inclined to smash.

I've become kind of an asshole about city walking, and I get really, really annoyed when I'm walking with someone and we stand at a light when there's a direction we could be crossing/walking in instead. E.g. we have to go west one block and north two blocks, and we stand on the southeast corner of a street waiting to cross north when we could be crossing west.

Why would you wait instead of taking the first opportunity to proceed to your destination?

I prefer walking on certain sides of the street sometimes, depending on conditions.

Why would you wait instead of taking the first opportunity to proceed to your destination?

― pplains, Monday, March 18, 2013 2:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because you have a careless, inefficient mind

There is one street nearby where I'll stay on the southeast side because I know at the light, the cars facing north get a left-turn arrow. That means that those pedestrians on the west side have to wait for that cycle to finish while those on the east side get to go as soon as the light turns green.

BUT, any other time and it would make me irrationally angry too.

xp

These tights have a vertical rib knit pattern, and the left leg is great, but the right leg takes a half-turn from mid-thigh to ankle. We can put a mobile science lab on Mars, but we can't make a pair of tights that aren't half twisted on one side, I tell you.

In fact, I don't think I've ever had a pair of vertical patterned tights without this problem. I thought it was something to do with my legs.

Before I put any tights on, I put my hand all the way to the foot in a straight line to make sure the toe seam is oriented correctly in relation to the leg. Then I hold that gathered-up foot open and stick my foot in it and pull it up straight. This seems to prevent any problems unless the tights are actually made wrong.

I might have unusually straight toes or something though, hell if I know.

Yeah, I mean I'm pretty adept to putting on tights at this point in my life so I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.

I know but I was just talking to someone who complained that her tights were twisted and I asked how she put them on and she just, I guess, pulled them on, and when I said, this is what I do, she was like, "Nah, that's too much work." WELL THEN...?

I mean I'm not accusing you of not knowing how to put clothes on, or if I was, I shouldn't be.

When bus drivers take rest stops, especially when they're on a narrow road, fucking annoys me. It's understandable if they're well ahead of time, but when they're a minute behind schedule....just, why?

Also when they suddenly slow down when they near a green light. It's green for a reason, keep fucking going.

I know but I was just talking to someone who complained that her tights were twisted and I asked how she put them on and she just, I guess, pulled them on, and when I said, this is what I do, she was like, "Nah, that's too much work." WELL THEN...?

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, March 18, 2013 7:43 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't imagine doing this! I would pull holes into all my hose within days. Not to mention the massacre that could result from one errant toenail.

I'll put them on using your method, and then pull them halfway up and check and think, no, that pattern is not lining up, and take them off, and carefully straight the leg and bunch them up, and pull them on and the pattern will be crooked, so I'll try it again and it's still crooked and then I'm late for work and my upper lip is starting to sweat from being scrunched over and in a hurry and I'm worried I'm going to spoil my makeup so I'm just like fuck it and that's the story of why the right leg of these stupid tights are all twisted looking.

Hahaha ohhhh poor carl. That is a funny/sad/familiar story.

I'm so glad tights took over the market from "hoisery" that you could easily put your fingers through by pulling a tiny bit too hard. Those were rough years for me.

YES xp - oh the frustration - you have nailed it with the sweaty upper lip

I gave up on ribbed tights for this reason. I always wondered if it was just me and my 'generous' calves/thighs that seemed to turn every straight-line pattern into some kind of pucci-mindfuck but yaaaay I am not alone itseems

There's a state law that all buses must stop at railroad tracks. Okay, I get that.

But there's this line of tracks across one of the streets on my commute that haven't been used in at least 20 years. There's weeds growing over them on either side. They don't go anywhere anymore. Even if a train somehow jumped a track and went ten miles out of its way, the tracks likely aren't strong enough to even handle a Lionel.

But the buses stop there anyway, for a train that will never, never be there. And everyone behind that bus has to stop too.

xp Okay I'm so glad that the sweaty upper lip is not just a thing that happens to me.

OTM about delicate hosiery. I used to view regular old pantyhose as single-use garments since I've usually popped holes in them in ten different places by the end of the day. By contrast, I have some ("some" okay like ten pairs) 80 denier black tights and those things are amazingly tough. Like leggings with feet.

I have a few pairs of matte jersey Donna Karan tights going strong/undamaged for two-plus decades. Bulletproof, seriously.

I've become kind of an asshole about city walking, and I get really, really annoyed when I'm walking with someone and we stand at a light when there's a direction we could be crossing/walking in instead. E.g. we have to go west one block and north two blocks, and we stand on the southeast corner of a street waiting to cross north when we could be crossing west.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 05:43 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, this drives me up the wall

just cross for ffs

Who is the butthole who always tunes in lowest common denominator talk shows in the waiting lounge of the car repair shop?

The manager.

His name is Josh.

And he's going to be mad as hell when he finds out you're dissing him on the internet and overcharge you.

He buttfucked me out of $1100 earlier today. But at least my brakes work, right?

^^ I think I saw that episode of Maury.

lolz

I'm doing some data entry this week with vital stats on people.

As I tab through the fields, "gender" comes before "race." And each time, I have to think twice because my brain wants to write "White Male" instead of "Male White."

Mentally add a comma.

- Windows telling me I have plugged a device into the audio jack when I plug a device into the audio jack
- Windows telling me when I remove said device

windows has many of these, e.g. asking repeatedly if you want to restart your computer now

kind of shows that a lot of Apple's success can be boiled down to "Don't be irritating"

windows be chill

> asking repeatedly if you want to restart your computer now

and the default snooze value being a measly "10 minutes"

i usually end up dragging the window to bottom right of screen and covering it with something else

windows has many of these, e.g. asking repeatedly if you want to restart your computer now

kind of shows that a lot of Apple's success can be boiled down to "Don't be irritating"

Eh, I do not really care about these things but my PC at home doesn't nag me too much while the Mac at work is very very irritating with this kind of stuff.