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

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.

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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.

gray salad

filthy mushroom

paint-stained garlic?

Black Little Schoolboy

Blue Fries ft. Sriracha

This is probably really fun for pp, we should keep going for at least the next 3 hours until he has to go to bed.

Better yet, can you all copy and paste jpgs of your band name to this thread?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81BfdzVQzPL._SL1500_.jpg

http://thegoodgoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/shake_shake_shake_by_zeurel-d34rdnm.gif?w=300&h=300

lol

When you fuckin' buy something off the internet and they send you an email notification that your order has shipped with a link to the UPS or FedEX to like, Track Your Package Here! but when you click on the link and it gives you a message saying "No tracking information can be detected for this shipment at this time." This makes me want to squeeze someone's head until their fuckin' eyeballs pop out of it.

'one burrito please'
'do you want that in a meal deal?'
'no'
'would you like any drinks?'
'no'
'do you have a salsa's loyalty membership card?'
'no'
'<flashes salsa's loyalty membership card, winks> would you like one?'
'FUCK, MATE, ONE FUCKING BURRITO, JESUS CHRIST'

also what the fuck is with bus drivers playing commercial radio through the whole bus

i think that's called riding the bus since, like, forever

Thinking of buses, local o9nes are still having trouble with the bells. I can't ring the bel froma seated position next to it, or it takes 3 rings to register. Have had drivers skipping stops I've pressed for before despite the light that says STOPPING lighting up momentarily.
So need to get the company to service or replace a lot of their bells or get the drivers to register when they've been rung.

On the other hand I've also been on buses where they've juddered knocking me into a bell that went off and the bus stopped so not sure what exactly the problem is. Maybe they get adjusted so they aren't as sensitive which is a stupid idea.

Maybe somebody needs to take a closer look at bus bells and find one that rings easier while not being set off accidentally. Could make it childproof or little twat-proof so it didn't keep ringing every stop opr more frequently just cos some tit is showing off to their friends.

Somebody needs to rewrite the rules of physics so that walking in a moving vehicle is easier.

The Guardian search engine. That site seems pretty counter intuitive in its navigation anyway but this just adds to it. Seems to ignore the most recent usage of a name or term which would probably be the one being looked for.

couldn't find an entry under book adaptation, while the article was talking abot a number of book adaptations to film, to tie in with a festival dedicated to that subject.
It then got stuck on asking me for feedback while I was expecting the page to populate and wondering why it was taking so long.

I then naviagted away from the page then back to it to see if I could find the article under Stephen king or Kubrick, neither of which showed this one article. When I found the thing by working out taht I could navigate to the section it had appeared in manually both Stephen King and Kubrick were in the article title.
Would think they'd have it set up so that the most recent occurrence would show since that might be what a lot of people would be loking for the URL for to share with others who'd missed the physical paper version of said article.

So if they've just added a new search engine that is doing that I think they need to sort it out. Think the old one was at least as bad though.

Storage units. The whole phenomenon of them. The phenomenon of living in the city and having all this extra crap that you have to go to another place to get/put away. And having to pay for the unit. And feeling tethered to the unit, because it's such a pain to move everything out of one. Boxing up a bunch of winter clothing pulling, piling it in a car, moving around a dozen boxes to get to the two boxes of summer clothing you need. If not for family I think I would just live by a rule of not owning anything I can't fit in my apartment.

I really do get irrationally angry every time I have to go. I curse up a storm and throw stuff on the floor and slam boxes down.

Crossed with the irrationally embarrassed thread, but someone I follow on Twitter (I complained about here here before, actually) keeps posting pictures of her high school poetry/journals/art projects with commentary about how embarrassing they are. You know what? If you were really that embarrassed about these things you wouldn't post them in a public place where all of your followers can read them, you dingbat!!!! Arg.

otm

While I'm at it, people who post vague posts about ~something bad~ on social media. Either say what it is and reap the sympathetic responses, or don't post at all. But this "Well, I guess all my dreams and hopes have been dashed again. #don'twanttotalkaboutit" bullshit is bullshit.

The whole entire point of a post like that is for people to ask, "Oh no, what happened?" I have no beef with people who chose to deal with bad things publicly but if you want to put it out there, just put it the hell out there.

yeah I equally hate fishing statuses of a positive nature ("Sooooooo happy!" "Well that turned out better than I thought ;)" etc.)

vaguebooking, y'all

i'm all for posting up embarrassing things from my high school days that are funny now!

The truth always surfaces eventually. Sweety-sweet = fakey-fake. Should have listened to my first mind. #countingtruefriendsonlessthanahand

I have no idea, except I'd bet that hashtag has only one post on it.