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

mg siegler

Most initial ppl I know are dudes named after their dads who got differentially initialed as kids & stuck with it.

My cousin T.R. is one of these. Imagine a 6'4" Mark Ibold look-alike telling British people this and the British people asking "Tiara!?!"

ayo, i'm someone who goes by his initials more often than not. my friends use them because it's the usual nickname given to ppl with my name and now that i live abroad where ppl have a hard time with my name, i just give them the initials, makes things easier.
i'm also someone who laughs at things he reads and so on, not because i'm seeking attention, but because i'm easily entertained and am not a robot who keeps his laughter in.

i'm also a grocery cart with fucked up wheels.

Disgusting savage.

Also not crazy about when people call me by my initials. (The "Tre-Bones" dude in my office doesn't do that thankfully, but probably because his initials are T.T.)

My brother, God bless him, had always gone by his middle name until he got to college. Now he goes by First Initial-Middle Name.

Even when he got married, the preacher said, "Do you, L. Chris, take this woman to be your wife?"

Whoa. He seriously goes by L. Chris? That is fantastic.

I didn't use his real name, but yes.

I'd go by "El" Chris.

Like the train.

I'm a little disappointed it's not actually "L. Chris," because that combination in particular is delightful but the decision to, as an adult, go by First Initial Middle Name is still pretty damn fantastic.

Oh shit i would be d sean, i love it

I have a friend who suddenly started to go by First Initial Middle Name which sort of made me wonder what got into him, if he was getting too fancy for his regular name, but he has fairly common names and needed to distinguish himself from several others in his field with the same name. He felt sort of embarrassed about it which redeemed it for me.

I also know a dude who legally changed his name at age 21 to "John", which is his dad's name. Giving yourself a nickname is one thing but legally becoming a Junior is really weird to me.

If I went by init + middle name, it would just sound like "Ellen" and be really confusing.

That is pretty weird. Might want to talk to somebody about his relationship with his father...

My dad was born John Edwin III but was always called Mike. NO IDEA why they settled on that. He changed the first name legally to Michael after his dad died.

Half of my family goes by their middle names, but they always have.

It makes researching the family tree online fun.

I think it may be a preppy thing? A lot of Mary and Elizabeth being hidden in favour of middle names/family names eg. Hadley amongst my friends.

It's just taken some getting used to.

I'll see his wife at Thanksgiving, and she's all, "It's funny, M. George was just telling me this the other day."

C'MON. I've known the dude since his birth. His name is George, not M. George.

a friend got badgered (imo) to change from Sharon (first) to Elizabeth (middle) by posh in-laws. post divorce she's Liz.

My brother goes by his middle name, but this was something always intended. Apparently our parents thought the full name scanned better putting the name they wouldn't use at the front? I dunno, seems silly to me, but you get used to it.

People using their middle names is quite common.

I got First Initial-Middle Name bestowed on me as a nickname by my grandmother when I was about 2 years old, but she was literally the only person in the family that ever called me that. My mom and my sister occasionally did so as a joke, but it was grandma's pet name for me.

My government name is the same as my dad's, which was the same as my grandfather's. Let's say it's Pleasant P. Plains.

Apparently, when my dad registered for kindergarten, they asked him what his first, middle and last name was.

His response: LITTLE PLEASANT PLAINS.

Awww!

Was thinking there might be something to family tradition in places dictating 1st fore/ Xian name whereas the individual would be known by the name parents picked individually for that specific child. Though that sounds really orthodox/square/ Victorian.
Think I have 2 half siblings who arent known by their birth cert names

ia grabbing a banana for breakfast only to find that it's far more on the ripe side than I would like and is kind of a bit mushy and ugggghhh i can't just toss it away so I have to glumly finish it boooo

Came up in another thread this week but yeah, island tradition is that you could well end up bein known by yr second name at home, yr real name at school, and yr family might have a nickname or just have the paternal grandfather's name added instead of a surname

ia grabbing a banana for breakfast only to find that it's far more on the ripe side than I would like and is kind of a bit mushy and ugggghhh i can't just toss it away so I have to glumly finish it boooo

I could complain all day about fruit.

artists/writers/musicians who achieve only a small or moderate amount of success and then decide to make art that takes a cheeky look at how disappointed they are with their careers. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Even when he got married, the preacher said, "Do you, L. Chris, take this woman to be your wife?"

this makes me wonder what m. night shyamalan's wedding was like.

the priest was m. night all along, and you can kill him by splashing him with water

^^ That was better than me spending ten minutes looking for a screen-cap from that Greg Kihn video.

those little comment blurbs on soundcloud files: "DOPENESS!" "amazing!" "this is where it gets HOT!"

it's like having someone talk through the song

agreed, hate it

*ZOMGGGGGGG WOW*

I did not mean to hijack this thread with my annoyance of self important initialed people.

the flapper on our toilet refuses to predictably work. Random times of the day, the toilet will run. And I could be listening to MBV at +11, and I can fucking hear that water running.

That gave me a visual of a little 20s lady standing on the cistern tank, arms crossed, refusing to do a 23skiddoo.

I also hate those soundcloud timed comments and yet I always feel compelled to hover my mouse over them to read them even though
1. they are never worth reading
2. you can just scroll down* and read them all anyway
3. hovering the mouse is not a good way to read them if they're all on top of each other

* On the other hand my other soundcloud pet peeve is how hard it is to scroll with the keyboard - press down or pagedown, have soundcloud jump back to top, repeat forever. You have to hold the key down and watch the screen flicker annoyingly for a few seconds before it realises that maybe you want to scroll down.

I guess nobody else uses the keyboard to scroll because everyone else is on magical touchscreen devices but eh.

I hate them too but how does one comment on a SC track not in-situ as it were? Im sure I used to know how but they changed the darn layout recently.

Been working on a "where are they now?" sort of project at work lately, so I've been doing a bunch of Google searches along the lines of: "Rock Hardy" Mississippi

And as I'm typing out that search, Google shows up with a drop-down window that reads "Do you mean Rock Hardy Mississippi?"

I'm all, thank god, there's no way that I have the stamina to type out all of "Mississippi," so I click on the suggestion to finish it for me.

Of course, the next page is a search for rock hardy mississippi - any page with rock, for example, showing up. I fall for this shit every time. Why would you do that, Google?

otm

I think back to that day in 1997 when I was fully AMAZED by how accurate and awesome google searches were

*waves goodbye*

Postmen who stick a "you were out" card through your door when you're not out, and now I have to go down to the sorting office tomorrow morning to collect my new phone rather than, y'know, answering the door when I was in and expecting the delivery. (not that irrational, but the level of my anger is)

Totally rational. Apparently without sending a memo around, they've just repurposed 'you were out' cards as 'we have your package' cards so postie doesn't have to carry a bunch of potentially high-value packages around.

honestly, I dread "doing a Google search" for anything anymore, because I know there will be so many dead ends and bullshit links to sift through.

9/10ths of the first 8 pages are going to be intellus radaris and mylife stuff anyway.

ok internet search shit I HATE HATE HATE is when you search for specific data and a site generates a fake link that looks like it links you to the specific data but then it's just their main page. Like "2008 Toyota Corolla Bluebook Value" and you get a kelley blue book website link that looks like it has that exact info but then it's just the kelley blue book main site

I hope whomever invented that "FREE WIFI" in airports scam gets raging case of crabs