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

"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

xxxp I feel that way about the Feelies--I'd like to listen to them more but if I'm walking around doing stuff and it's like 3 mins of almost silence, I am not interested in that.

Then he couldn't do anything about it because the projector had shut itself down so comprehensively

the miracles of digital etc

lol Hurting

Pretty much the only time I listen to hip-hop nowadays is walking between my apartment and the centraly queens ymha where I go to work out. During that brief time away from the family, I want full-on escape. I'm not interested in his impromptu discourse on chickenheads and biters.

what is with suddenly all these dumb tech startups naming themselves after dumb made-up adverbs? very first thing i saw this morning was a link to a web site called 'yummly'

Oh no, that is just not okay.

grammarly is a major offender in that regard

i would talk about how much i hate it, but my repulsion isn't irrational

stupid tech startup names is probably a whole thread

also, really tired of every new business now being called a "startup." Young co-worker just left for a "startup" -- I asked what it was about, and it turned out to just be something that involved buying and selling stuff on ebay or something?

soooooo OTM

also, "It's Foursquare meets AirBnB!" and all the horrible pitchphrases

fwiw i used the term 'startup' to make the point about how wanky those company/site names are (yes, a 'startup' is just a small business with too many whiteboards and impractical sofas)

free associated to food trucks, which reminds me, the fact that nu-food-trucks are so fucking expensive, that's another thing for this thread. The whole point of a food truck is supposed to be that you're saving on overhead and delivering cheaper food.

the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing us that food tastes better from a truck

the whole point of a food truck is to wait twice as long and pay twice as much than you would anywhere else

oh god really? fucking hipsters

so many of my hipster friends go bonkers when there's a food truck

my coworkers are all about foodtrucks

although honestly my natural inclination is to disavow pretty much anything that a group of people repeatedly pronounce as awesome so i'm not the best judge on whether foodtrucks are good or not, lol

i ate tim tam icecream from a foodtruck and that was delicious, however it was free so

Most food trucks are a portable grill with "artisan" bread, "organically, locally grown produce", "grass pastured meats murdered ethically", and variations of mayo.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/479865_435651676511184_1733620404_n.jpg

This, nor any variation, is never funny.

Black Calzone

Your porn name is . . . Pleasant Plains?!?!?!!

You don't understand, Plains was the name of my first pet.

my bandname would be Birdseye Souvlaki From a Truck

mine is actually 'black nuts'

seriously

Gray Couscous and Brussels Sprouts, which is just gross and a terrible band name.