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

> 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.

I think they both attempt to annoy you into agreeing to the "just go ahead and do what you think is best without asking" option.

Ubuntu seems to be going down that route as well, although they seem to have stopped being so blatant about it in the latest version I installed (i.e. loading Unity even though I specifically clicked on Gnome arrrgh)

I will admit the reason my PC is better than my Mac is probably that the PC is mine so I have carefully calibrated it to be pleasant to me while the Mac is work's so secretly I do prefer that it irritates me and I get to grumble more.

I get to grumble about my work PC all the time cos I'm using all this open source shite that doesn't work properly, e.g. MySQL Workbench which we have taken to calling Bench since it doesn't fucking work (as it happens it is currently hanging for no reason at all right now, time to Force Quit AGAIN)

I hate that google maps pretends like it doesn't know where I am just because I'm not logged into g+ or whatever. If I open a new google maps window it's centered right on my location, and you know they cookie and track this shit and know what my exact address is, but when getting driving directions they still make me type it in each time.

i've literally been delaying a windows update every four hours for two decades

Shades of Lost!

momentary power outage fucking up PC startup for like a fkn hour aggggh ugh

can I have a pc brain implant now instead plz

Lame puns.

Is it my imagination or have lame puns really gotten out of control in the past 5 years or so? Punnery always seemed to me to be a cheap and dumb technique, and now when people use it there is some implied irony about it all, and the more crass the pun is the more it draws attention to the wordsmithery of the speaker. Like the person saying it KNOWS it's stupid and not only do you have your ears assaulted with this effing pun but it's packaged with a whiff of intellectual superiority as well. Things that make me IA.

It seems really big in advertising right now, which is another thing that never fails to make me IA. I feel like over the years ads have gone from trying to impress us to (via post-consumerist post-Gen-X irony and all that) straight up just not give a shit, portraying consumers like total idiots, using gratuitously crude messaging in order to seem clever, meta, or ironic. It makes me so IA, probably because of my relationship to a generation of advertising which was a little more formal and overt. Nowadays it feels like Idiocracy-style stupid messaging is the way to go, and it passes for clever rather than condescending because we're in this cultural era where the media-savvy consumer knows that marketing is done to the lowest common denominator. By accepting an advert that calls them stupid, it's like getting the joke, scoring a point in the pop culture game.

Somehow ads have found a way to call consumers brainless idiots, and the more crude and demeaning this message, the more the consumer feels like they are in on the joke.

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puns are about the few avenues of humor where you don't have to be cruel. most other brands of humor depend on someone stepping on a rake in some way.

I like puns. When well done.

Even better when they're rare.

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Speaking of advertising I fear I'm turning into a prude in my middle age, as I heard on the radio the other day an ad for Frank's Red Hot Sauce. Their new tag line is "I Put That Shit On Everything." With the profanity bleeped, of course, but still. Someone got paid to come up with that lazy crap.

e.g. http://youtu.be/rdqwWo13pyw

xp Gah that's like the insecure content warning on whatever iteration of IE we use at work where you click "no" to load the full page.

"Do you want to view only the web page content that was delivered securely?"

Yes! Yes yes yes. Fuck.

Oops wrong thread.

Aw, I thought you were being really supportive about confusingly worded Windows error messages.

Jk! It was the right thread all along! What? Fuuuuuck!

windows is nagware

I hate the automatic restarts b/c sometimes I leave windows open as a to-do list and the restart wipes them out. It's not my main system but it's annoying when it fails.

ffs Windows, a mandatory SP update and two other updates yesterday, and another update today?

I get disproportionately furious with people not responding to emails promptly. I mean in a work situation and when there in the office etc

they're, jesus, i also have a disorder where my grammar/spelling on ilx goes haywire

MESSAGE BOARDS THAT LOG YOU OUT WHILE YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF MAKING A BIG LONG POST, AND THEN IT ASKS YOU TO LOG BACK IN AGAIN BUT ONCE YOU DO THAT YOU FIND THAT YOUR MESSAGE IS GONE AND YOU CAN'T RECOVER IT EVEN BY HITTING THE BACK BUTTON OR PRAYING

That I wouldn't have a clue how to work out the likelihood of a large amount of music on a 20gb walkman never getting played. Occurs to me that there is a likleihood that if the machine is set to random it wouldn't get to all the music that was on it.
But also not fully sure how what I'm taking to be somewhat similar to a hardrive picking tracks at random actually does that random picking. Though it presumably can't be like a hard drive if it is portable and able to withstand some degree of motion without simply messing up what it reads from the storage area with.
Plus factors like battery life presumably must come into play. I think I have about 350 hours of music on the player and battery life may be about 5 - 10 hours. It's atrac so that might factor in too. & I'm probably saying this on the wrong board to get any kind of an answer so I'm also unhappy that I don't know the best place to ask it either.

the ipod classics and my old 20GB iaudio m5 certainly have an hdd in them. you could feel mine spin up when you turned it on.

anything less then 32GB these days will be solid state.

my upstairs neighbors, about whom i have complained before, pay the landlord for the only 2 spots in back. it's probably $70/month each, though he might have let them pay less. the spots in front of my apartment are tow away from 4-6 and fill up rapidly after 5:50 p.m. so it's like a dream to get home at just the right time. they both move their cars in front just before 6! SO STUPID. the spots they pay for are empty all night! i hate them so much!

like maybe they think they are less likely to experience break-ins in front? i don't know!

Shit, confront them!

i can't i always purposely avoid them. i think they are moving out. for some reason they have been showing the apartment themselves.

coming home a couple of days ago I went to walk across the park close to home. I get off the bus at a stop that allows me to walk down a path towards the park. So I did this and notice a load of linked fence/bollards alongside one side of the path between the path and the trees. These are the kind of things you tend to see next to swollen rivers to keep people away from the edge, at least here in Galway.
I walked further down the path only to find my way blocked by orange plastic netting fence and one of the other routes blocked by thesame bollard/fence things.
There are no signs up saying that this, an asphalted path which I've walked down for the last 4 or 5 years is closed. On the corner with the main street a little bit further down from the turning there is a sign saying 'Site Entrance Ahead' and a little orange triangular working man sign . But nothing about the pedestrian walkway being closed.

There is a school being built a couple of thousand yards in from the road, but it has been being built in a fenced off area that isn't a public right of way. You would think that if their building was going to continue into what is the actual public area and actually block rights of way they would at least signpost the fact that they have paths closed. Maybe pedestrians have less rights than drivers?
Anyway on the night I had to turn back and walk another route, which is actually down the middle of a road. Just p-es me off. & I don't know if the route I take for enjoyment and a bit of exercise is going to become open again.

Further to this, there has been fear that the road that is apparently being built at this point may link with a bus corridor that has been projected to go through the woods at the back of the estate I live on. Will be a shame since that is a nice area of woodland. Just seem sthat the council don't respect it.

those jerks with the parking spots are moving out today!!!!

Yay!!!!

I have been fantasy apartment hunting bc the jerks above us are dreadful. I don't want to move, though, so I'm hoping they'll move out, too.

Friend from LA is in San Francisco today til Tuesday. She emailed me TODAY asking if I wanted to meet up. Do I want to? Yes? Can I? No. Because I'm going to WORK. Which I wouldn't have had to if I had known you were coming! aaaaggghgh I just

you're in san francisco now?

I'm still in Sacramento. Another reason why knowing of her presence in SF requires a little bit of advanced notice.

I just hired a process server in Sacramento. In his emails he always mentions the weather first thing.

blooming lack of fare stage bus stops meaning that despite actually being on time to get to the bus stop for normal service I missed the bus. The fact that the kids in the local area are off school on Easter hols meant bus went by early, since they weren't stopping the bus at earlier stages or getting on in numbers which woulsd have meant I might have got there while it was still there.
& I get docked pay if I'm late.
Oh & the bus stop is cold and normally has a wet seat that I have to wipe down before sitting on.
But I guess at least it isn't snowing yet.

People who take the inconsequential getting on/off highway parts of google maps directions literally and/or read them out loud to you, like when it's obvious what you're doing is looking for the signs for 495, and the navigator says "You need to make a left onto Kingston road, go .1 miles, make a slight right onto kingston road extension, then a slight left onto onramp road, then stay left onto I-495BUS/I-495, then stay straight onto I-495E.

Maybe this isn't innocuous or irrational, also I'm more puzzled than angry but:

Five years ago I ordered a custom-made garment from an Etsy seller. It was total crap, but I didn't go back to the seller for a refund or anything, figuring it was more of a "lesson learned" sort of experience. I did, however, about a year later, make a comment on a different message board where people were discussing this seller saying that I had ordered a custom garment and it didn't work out so well. No hyperbole, no rage, fully admitting that my experience was probably anomalous, even admiring the clothes in general, just a "Hey, FYI, this didn't work out for me."

Then I forgot about it, until today when I was poking around Etsy and came across this seller and was like, "Hey, that's a cute dress and that last order was five years ago so they probably have their shit together, but just to be safe, I'll ask for a fabric swatch." Which I did, and then received a response from the seller telling me that my comment on that website was burned into her memory and that she can't believe I would try to do business with her again - really hurt and upset!

Anyway, I apologized, told her that I stood by the truthfulness of the comment and admitted I should have contacted her to try and fix it, and told her no thanks on the swatch. She just responded to tell me that she was raising a family in house with plastic for windows when I made that comment. Now I want to reply and suggest that if she can't take valid criticism, she find a new line of work but that's mean and also I should probably just drop it, right?

Yeah. She sounds like she's bringing her insecurity into her business relations, which is NAGL, but it'll be better for both of you if you let it lie.

I ignored the better angels of my nature and responded. All I said was that I wished her the best going forward, though, because I do, and because I don't want to transact business with someone like that (NAGL indeed), and if I wanted to drum up internet drama I'd just pick a fight on ILX.

Ha, well, that sounds eminently reasonable on your part.

I was evidencing a little last-word-itis by replying at all. :/

People who bite string cheese, instead of peeling it.