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

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

cannot imagine waiting tables without a steady supply of Gold Bond

Damo Suzuki's portable vagina

Went to sandwich deli for lunch today. Woman behind the counter calls my name indicating my sandwich is ready.
I approach the counter and say YES very loudly, noticing that she is a)some distance away from the counter where she would be handing me my sandwich, and b) she is facing away from me, still at the sandwich station wrapping my sandwich. She doesn't turn around, and she calls my name again.
I say YES again, louder, muttering about how it would help if she was actually a) facing me and b)handing me the sandwich
She calls my name a third time and thank christ she turned around this time and handed me the sandwich.
I wasn't sure if I was going to have to climb over the counter to retrieve the sandwich from her. Idk, I guess they're used to people not responding when their name is called? It was bizarre.

that reminds me of that eric clapton song: would you know my name / if i saw you yelling it while making my sandwich

haha

"you don't get to"

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where did this come from??? what an obnoxious thing to say!

ftr, it's only annoying as fuck when it's used as a passive-aggressive imperative

you don't get to choose in which circumstances etc etc..

I don't want to start an endless flood of posts about macros, but something about this "One does not simply ___ ___" gifs

I hear winter is coming too.

I don't like musical guests on otherwise-non-musical shows. Unless there's a band I already like, I don't want musicians robbing me of time when I should be otherwise entertained. Fucking bands interrupt a podcast I otherwise really enjoy.

Me neither. There were some good performances on Chappelle show, but you know, I kinda just wanted to watch some Chappelle.

Young Ones worked around it - sorta.

this kind of attitude:
http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/47535235327/my-general-level-of-understanding
(posted by a law school facebook friend)

STOP TELLING ME THERE IS A NEW CHROME ON IPAD I WILL UPDATE WHEN I AM GOOD AND READY

I don't like musical guests on otherwise-non-musical shows. Unless there's a band I already like, I don't want musicians robbing me of time when I should be otherwise entertained. Fucking bands interrupt a podcast I otherwise really enjoy.

― Je55e, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 9:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been a problem since the radio sitcom days

I've fast-forwarded through many a Dennis Day song on Jack Benny tapes.

fuck you gizmodo and your animated gifs. i get why webpages sabotage themselves with flashing adverts (for the money) but you're doing this to yourself.

I don't like musical guests on otherwise-non-musical shows. Unless there's a band I already like, I don't want musicians robbing me of time when I should be otherwise entertained. Fucking bands interrupt a podcast I otherwise really enjoy.

otm, this is a hangover of the variety show days when we had little choice and heaps of patience (although tbh i don't recall having the patience for this shit even when i was at kindergarten age)

xp imo animated gifs (or really anything that flashes/bounces) on normal web pages or apps is beyond innocuous and well into disgusting savage territory

google something > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page > click "images" > click on an image > hit back > ah shit it's gone back to the main search page

'follow' or 'accept' or 'buy' buttons in emails that are obviously not going to work because they're in a freakin email, and then of course you hit one and it opens a LOGIN window in your freakin browser

Yes, eyeball. yes...

Pretty much getting deadset against any pop-up "lightbox" image. Google's isn't exactly like that, but it's equally annoying.

Having to get up and go and tell the staff in a cinema that the trailers have all been showing in silence. I only found out when the trailers started, not just the adverts. had been listening to my walkman til then.

Some girls a few rows in front of me had sent one of their party out to tell somebody but I think she only went as far as the ice cream booth. The guy there said that the sound would start when the sountrack ended or something that was a scrambled version she said to them, possibly further scrambled by myself here. I think most people haven't got a clue how things work, I'd asked the guy in front of me if this was the first point at which there had been no sound before that, and said that somebody would probably have to go and tell the staff if it continued. I was going to wait til the next ad to make sure it hadn't corrected, but the girls took that asa cue to send one of them out.

When nothing had been sorted by the time several trailers had played I went out to where tickets are collected, & then the main concessions stand, where a manager happened to be. Went back in and the don't smoke, keep feets off seats thing was playing silently then suddenly parped into sound.

Would like to know more about things like that, like how a multiscreen cinema now runs films. Presumably there is now one projectionist for several screens if the thing isn't fully automatic. I had thought there had been an earlier showing of the film so would be odd that sound had been turned off in the interim. Except they play cds or something in the empty cinema between screenings, which could mean sound is turned off one thing and on another. But that sounds like very low tech doesn't it?

I got some insight into the inner workings of Odeon a couple of months back when the visuals disappeared from our film (Lincoln) with half an hour to go - a lot of dilly dallying because it turns out that recently they had let go of all of their projectionists but one, who was also the manager. Then he couldn't do anything about it because the projector had shut itself down so comprehensively. So I guess it's pretty close to fully automatic in these kinds of places.

leafblowers

leafblowers

fucking goddamn motherfucking leafblowers

long, tedious, quiet intros to rock records/songs. I used to dig that sort of thing (Pink Floyd's Meddle whoa so much sadness and despair and tension building) but now it's just like fuck you I have heard this a million times and I have better things to do with my extra 45 seconds.

banning u fyi

:(

I feel very similarly about most rap album skits -- shut up and start the beat already, I am trying to walk around fantasizing that I am a badass