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

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*

I think "don't RULE OUT getting married in your mid 20s" is a good message, like, don't assume that you can't figure shit out with another person in your life, or that it might not even help you if it's the right person. That's pretty much my life. But she takes it a lot further than that.

Wait, maybe I was 34.

I'm so old and drunk I can't remember anything anymore.

I got married when I was 21 and my wife was 20. We both went back to work (me at a bookstore, her at a camera store) the next morning. We'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary in June.

mazel tov

i never thought I would marry young at all and here i am 10 yrs later, having married at 24. but ffs I would never say OH YOU SHOULD TOTALLY MARRY IN YOUR 20'S. honestly I was kind of a selfish asshole until I was almost 30. I think you see a lot of things much more clearly in yr 30's and fuck anyone who says there's a good time to be married.

Yeah, I think it's as absurd to say that all people who marry young will get divorced as it is to say that everybody should marry young. The stats are that people who marry young have a higher divorce rate, but that says nothing about individual couples.

Plus I think that particular statistic reflects remaining societal pressure on people to get married by a certain age and/or pressure to get married to "legitimize" a pregnancy, causing people to marry whomever is around and willing. As that pressure abates, people are still going to get married young but for reasons other than "I got knocked up and had to" or "I was the only single 23 year old woman in my high school graduating class" and that will lead to that divorce statistic evening out. Re: getting married due to pregnancy, something I read recently showed that we've almost past the point where more babies are born outside of marriages than in, so that's going to change quickly. It was in the same article showing that women are marrying older, on the whole, and delaying fertility but not to the same extent.

I got married when I was 27 and my wife was 25 and that felt sort of "old" at the time, but we grew up in a place where lots of people have like four kids by that age. The actual wedding part is sort of arbitrary I guess as we'd been together since I was 20 and are still together as I approach 39.

I guess I can see that I benefitted from a sort of naivete in meeting my wife at 22, not having gone through the ringer of internet dating and the like. I was at an age where I was just ready to trust and accept someone (although I in no way realized this at the time) and not go down a checklist of qualities. I do feel like some of my friends are stuck in an infinite dating loop. But then I also have friends who got into amazing marriages at 38. These things are very individual.

"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!")

― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you could extrapolate this beyond america with reasonable success

They probably don't say that in Arizona