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

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.

I thought lawyers celebrated passing the bar by looking at their debt load and crying

this wasn't really an innocuous thing but it didn't seem quid-ag appropriate either

Also find it weird that her point of comparison is unmarried mid-20s people who "don't realize that they're a separate unit" from their parents or w/e.

I thought lawyers celebrated passing the bar by looking at their debt load and crying

That's just your typical Friday night.

Just me and my pals, Sally Mae and Jim Beam, crying until we puke.

Aren't there statistics about divorce rates among couples who marry young being higher? Something about divorce rates going down if you marry after 30, or maybe that's just women who marry after 30.

LOL Amanda Marcotte is already on it: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/04/02/a_reply_to_julia_shaw_women_marry_later_because_they_don_t_want_to_get_divorced.html

If you'd gotten married earlier, you could afford something better than Jim Beam.

I was 33 when we got married. *drinks Laphroig from golden chalice*