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

Pubs that insist on playing "Sunday chill-out" type CDs on a Sunday (jack Johnson, live lounge acoustic covers etc)
JUST BRING ME MY ROAST DINNER

the principle of soothing music on a sunday is fine, it's just that the stuff you listed would be v. unsoothing

- people wishing me happy Easter

Normally I welcome all well wishes, even those specific to religious holidays I don't celebrate, but I guess it's because I don't acknowledge Easter in any way? Or maybe because (pagan fertility egg rabbits aside) Easter is too central to the o_O parts of Christian mythology? I dunno. My it irks me.

So you're exactly the same as Christians who get bugged out by people saying "Happy Holidays."

It occured to me on watching a QI where they were talking about th eoposite of hibernation being (a)estivation that Easter was probably from the Latin for summer or something. Turns out that that is aestas. Which would indicate to me that Easter was actually a festival indicating something to do with summer, birth of it or something. Which would in turn indicate it was a coopted pagan festival. & since all Xian celebration seem to be at heart syncretic adaptations of pre-Xian rites anyway I think it probably needs to be looked at from a non Xian perspective.

Symbology of popular cultural imagery for easter seem spretty pagan too. Celebrations of eggs meaning new life and rabbits meaning breeding like them etc etc.

Still not sure why Good Friday means no booze in Ireland.
But I am partial to a bit of chocolate & the 13FE lp so there you go.

So you're exactly the same as Christians who get bugged out by people saying "Happy Holidays."

Yes and I'll be on NPR this morning to announce my nationwide Atheist initiative "The Real War on Easter." BRB I've got to out up my yard signs informing everyone that Christian Easter was fabricated in 325 AD and practice my judgmental looks and persecuted sighs in preparation for going out in public later today.

Tea towels that are 0% absorbent

I rebuke thee, non-absorbent tea towels, and call on the The Lord to intervene as only he can do.

non absorbent tea towels are some bullshit imo

if you can't manufacture absorbent tea towels, don't be manufacturing tea towels

EXZACTLY

April Fools fake stories are terrible.

I fell for an NPR April Fools news story in 2003 where they said that a company was going to be projecting laser advertisements on the moon. I figured it out when I tried to find out more info about it online.

Pic from a friend's 9th annual "Seculeaster" party this weekend

http://i.imgur.com/bDmIQwxl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6wWhGMdl.jpg

v. transgressive

that looks like literally the most unpleasant person in the universe and i hope to never end up in the same room as him

:(

ipad newsstand apps that always default to shop view. when i open your app, idiots, odds are i'm on a wifi-less tram and i want to READ something, not browse your dumb shit

:(

― Je55e, Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't worry it's p innocuous all told

xxpost Je55e, Mr Veg fell for the exploding maple trees NPR story years ago. It's still a source of GREAT amusement to me :D

that looks like literally the most unpleasant person in the universe and i hope to never end up in the same room as him

That dude is a good friend of mine that I have known for pretty much my entire life (same with the other two visible people), and seeing that picture instantly made laugh as I imagined him saying a bunch of ridiculous shit.

Don't take this as me being offended or outraged or anything, I just think it's legitimately hilarious that you got such a visceral adverse reaction from it.

if he were smiling in the 2nd pic it'd be totally different

hard-to-read graphs with three vectors (i.e. left-side vertical = %, bottom horizontal = time, right side vertical = absolute number)

i.e. -- e.g.

people who don't keep their damn laughing to themselves

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 29, 2013 10:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sometimes it feels like people primarily to signal to other people LOOK AT WHAT A GOOD TIME I'M HAVING! and not so much the actual enjoyment of the object of laughter. Though maybe it's just me getting crankier as i grow old. It's like some people laugh because they love hearing the sound of themselves vocalizing pleasure or something. Effing narcissists.

I don't think that's you getting crankier, I think that's a real thing.

I left my headphones at home & now I am stuck listening to music through hated iphone earbuds

jimi hendrix sounds like he's playing through a tin can far far away in the distance ;_; uggggh curse my stupid forgetful brain

yeah I hate earbuds. People who shell out for "high end" earbuds are weird too, like ok man enjoy your premium cheez wiz

they irritate my ears something awful if I wear them too long

Haha when I was changing planes in ATL at 4 in the morning or whatever the fuck it was the other day I bought a pair of earbuds from one of those Best Buy vending machines. I'm still not sure why exactly I made that choice.

Ugh iPhone ear buds are horrible. My not-great-but-not-Apple ear phones died so for awhile I was using those new-style iPhone ear buds that came with the iPhone 5 at the gym and omg. My ears would get sweaty and those things would just come flying out. Hate.

- people claiming to be "totally OCD" about things like it was a quirky badge of honour rather than a debilitating condition that blights your every waking moment.

I used to do that but I don't anymore because OTM. As someone somewhere on the Internet said, "You don't have OCD. You're just tidy." I'm just tidy.

Also I'm sorry it took me awhile to be less of a dumbass in that respect.

yeah I hate earbuds. People who shell out for "high end" earbuds are weird too, like ok man enjoy your premium cheez wiz

headphones are impractical, can't fit in pockets, can't be easily worn when exercising.

you could make the same argument about portable headphones and say everyone should have the best available instead.

when did everyone start saying "what is that mysterious glowing ball in the sky?" lol when it's sunny after a few days of shit weather?

i swear this has reached epidemic proportions (in the uk) and it's like each person is feeling clever for saying it.

that started in the year dot i think

feels like critical mass now, maybe due to the recent weather.

"You know what they say about [THIS GEOGRAPHICAL AREA]. Wait around five minutes and the weather will change to something else!"

Everybody in every contiguous state says this, btw. I'd bet they even say it in Seattle ("Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't!")

In Chicago we say, "If you don't like the weather in Chicago, go fuck yourself!"

A local t-shirt shop started selling these this winter:

http://media2.newsnet5.com//photo/2013/01/29/529059_10151387579302472_690858338_n_20130129201616_640_480.JPG

xp credit for that bon mot goes to Je555e.

In Chicago we say "if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait 5 minutes, then go fuck yourself."

Loll xpost

wow, cleveland and weather on the same shirt. I'm aroused.

Carl said it correctly. No need to wait 5 minutes to go fuck yourself.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/04/i_married_young_what_are_the_rest_of_you_waiting_for.html

David took the bar exam shortly before our first wedding anniversary. This should have warranted a lavish vacation: Most new lawyers celebrate finishing the bar exam with a trip to Europe or Asia.

This woman is way out of touch with reality.

I’m a married millennial. I walked down the aisle at 23. My husband, David, was 25. We hadn’t arrived. I had a job; he, a job offer and a year left in law school. But we couldn’t buy a house or even replace the car when it died a few months into our marriage. We lived in a small basement apartment, furnished with secondhand Ikea. We did not have Internet (checking email required a trip to the local coffee shop) or reliable heat.

Oh fuck you so much, you were "poor" when you got married because you knew you still had to wait another 9 months before your husband would earn $160,000 a year at a large law firm.

(the only kind of "job offer" you tend to have with a year of school left -- smaller firms don't hire like that)

and carl agatha otm. We spent an overnight at the beach, and then I went to work.

Although I guess Jeff and I did take a vacation that also doubled as a two-year delayed honeymoon to Glennwood Springs, CO after I took the bar exam. Never mind. She's right. Everybody get married in your early 20s.