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

you wouldn't get matt cardle launching into song or ainsley harriot whipping up a stir fry in the same situation, tis true.

otm

biggins was on, he didn't sing

but the less said about Andy McNab's appearance, the better.

You're blowing my mind tbh

Turning left on a red light gives me a silly little thrill b/c it feels like I'm breakin' the law.

Turning left from a one-way street into a street that's also one-way (going left from your POV) is legal, just like turning right on red.

― nickn, Thursday, April 4, 2013 3:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never heard of this, but traffic laws vary from state to state so you're giving out dangerous advice.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrust,31828/

I've never heard of this, but traffic laws vary from state to state so you're giving out dangerous advice.

Nah, just do it. If it's not legal where you're at, well, it should be.

Wikipedia:

The following states and territories ban left turns on red: South Dakota (unless permitted by local ordinance), Connecticut, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Guam. New York City also prohibits left turn on red lights, unless a sign indicates otherwise.

New Hampshire, I am disappointed. "Live Free or Die As Soon As This Light Changes" is more like it.

And I've talked about it before, but I still have no idea how in some states, you can legally turn left on a red-light from a two-way road.

From Washington: However, the vehicle operators facing a steady circular red signal may, after stopping proceed to make a right turn from a one-way or two-way street into a two-way street or into a one-way street carrying traffic in the direction of the right turn; or a left turn from a one-way or two-way street into a one-way street carrying traffic in the direction of the left turn; unless a sign posted by competent authority prohibits such movement.

probably designed with empty-ass roads in mind

Why have a light at all then?

I liked what they did in my college town. At midnight, all the lights would turn into either flashing red stop lights or flashing yellow caution lights. You didn't have to worry about sitting at a deserted light for no reason in the middle of the night.

people who add the old "is" into their fbook statuses when it makes no sense

right now there's "*** ****** is Go Phils!" on my wall

how

actually to make it even more innocuous i also hate when people use it and it makes sense "*** ****** is rooting for the Phils! Go Phils!" statuses have been under the name for years now, get over it.

yesterday i was showing some of my students how to use our online library resources (various databases, ebooks, other stuff that will make their lives so so so so much easier) and i couldn't find the "log out" button on this one, so i just scanned L-R until I saw something that i thought was it. know what it said?

"i'm good"

the fuck?! since WHEN does "i'm good" mean "log out"?! these people need to seriously cool it with the "fun" language/jokes EVERYWHERE (even on the moving company's website!)
i just want it to stop and feel super crotchety about this trend

On Spotify, the proliferation of offbrand compilations that just clutter up the list so that for artists with long, large catalogs it becomes exceedingly difficult to find the exact album you want. Also the fact that their search isn't more advanced by now (you can't search for an album by an artist, only one or the other). Also the fact that some albums are listed by original release date while others are by reissue date, so you can't go chronologically either.

wtf @ "I'm good"

Also the fact that their search isn't more advanced by now (you can't search for an album by an artist, only one or the other).

I don't think this is true. Put "miles davis jack johnson" in the search bar and you'll see.

No you're totally wrong, I couldn't find the Jack Johnson album "Miles Davis," just some jazz rock crap.

haha, I love the "I'm good" button

Do you want to restart your computer now?

"Aight" "Nah, I'm good" "Holla at me later"

- Taboola links. Taboola, period.

- English muffins that get cornmeal and breadcrumbs everywhere.

I haven't had an English muffin in forever. I want and English muffing now.

A good, old fashioned English muffing.

oh do you know the muffing mang

gonna do some heavy duty english muffing this weekend

It sounds so dirty when you say it.

:D

Cornmeal dusting is horrible.

Cornstarch dusting, otoh...

Corn and Its Dusts

Oh. Carl was that an in-joke?

Everybody: Carl and I used to work at a casual-fine-dining Low-Country-Asian fusion restaurant and bakery where in the stinking hot Carolina summer, I would dip into the bushel of corn starch barrel and liberally apply it to my hot, clammy body.

D:

He was like a chinchilla, taking dust baths in the pantry.

do chinchillas take dust baths in pantries?

je55e the chinchilla sure did

Chinchillas and their Dustcontents

the idiom: "you don't get to say"

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Everybody: Carl and I used to work at a casual-fine-dining Low-Country-Asian fusion restaurant and bakery where in the stinking hot Carolina summer, I would dip into the bushel of corn starch barrel and liberally apply it to my hot, clammy body.

okay lolling so hardcore here

again a daylight saving change, again billions of people calling it 'daylight savingS'

time
is
not
a
supermarket

i have coupons & everything

We've gone over this. Daylight Savings Time is fine with me b/c it's a time of savings.

The common variants daylight savings time and daylight savings use savings by analogy to savings account.

ugh

autumnal things that make you almanacally angry

everything

I bought a hand-held vacuum from big box housewares chain Bed Bath & Beyond on Sunday. After taking it to the movies (the BB&B is a block away from the movie theater), I brought it home and tried to set it up and it was USED and FULL OF DOG HAIR. I actually spilled a little pile of some other person's dog hair out onto my lap while attempting to put it together. Gah.

So anyway, I took it back today after having a weird and frustrating morning trying and failing to communicate effectively with my colleagues and I was super psyched to be angry about this return. Like, seriously, this is the most right I have ever been about anything in my life and I was going to milk it and talk to a manager and I was really hoping they'd accuse me of using it myself and trying to return it for cash (I bought it with a rebate gift card*) so I could make a real fuss. But instead the CS rep was super nice and just like, "Oh my god, that is really gross. I am so sorry. That is awful. I am so sorry!" She got me a new one and unpacked it to make sure it wasn't also filled with dog hair (what are the odds, but still) and we completed the whole transaction in under five minutes.

Hmph.

*I bought a fancy electric toothbrush from BB&B a few months ago and sent off for a $35 rebate, which they sent to me in the form of a gift card for BB&B instead of a check, because they are huge jerks.

Everybody: Carl and I used to work at a casual-fine-dining Low-Country-Asian fusion restaurant and bakery where in the stinking hot Carolina summer, I would dip into the bushel of corn starch barrel and liberally apply it to my hot, clammy body.

okay lolling so hardcore here

― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Saturday, April 6, 2013 12:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fapping, tbh

lol