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

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

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

Also sites that look as though they are blogs offering an ebook or music download link but are just fronts for paid Usenet/filesharing services.

iphone/ipad app updates with comedy text in the release notes

'oh har we are funny here are some jokes lol and some self-awareness har har and now some puns lol aren't we deliciously clever'

yeah I dislike that too. I think there's a thread somewhere about the overinjection of humor into EVERYTHING

(unrelated to prior post)

moments where everyone as a social custom is sort of expected to make obvious comments on the same thing, like right now with the marathon bomber. I'm happy he's in custody too. But I absolutely hate those moments like, e.g., when I walk into the work break room tomorrow and I'll have to say some obligatory completely obvious thing about it.

a little aspie of me

yeah i hate that too, mainly because it intersects with small talk

yeah it's been kind of awkward all week

I don't even mind small talk so much as I mind the kind of small talk that feels like it's always already been said

like, "where ya goin on vacation?" "to bermuda" -- totally ok. At least I got a new piece of information.

But "really glad they caught the bomber" or whatever, or just noting some detail from the news that everyone is obviously already going to know or maybe only one person won't, that's what I hate

it's doubly awkward here because we are not america yet the outpouring of sympathy/interest is massively out of proportion with ~world~, so someone will be 'oh isn't that terrible' and i'll be resisting the urge to say 'uh actually these things also happened in ~world~ this week'

I don't have any ideological objection to this sort of conversation, I just get really uncomfortable and frustrated whenever it occurs, you might even say 'irrationally' so

hurting otm.

i dread mondays during football season for the same reason, and i love football.

yeah, when you're like recapping the recap

espn digests the game for you and then you play the game with your co-workers of collectively regurgitating the digested version

Its the media that is making me angry and I mean no offense to any americans here but ffs the front page of our online local paper has this GIANT photo of a buncha bostonians waving american flags in gleeful joy with a pic of the bloodied suspect in one corner. And in tiny tiny print about 2 scrolls down, oh BTW a couple hundred ppl have been killed in a massive earthquake in Sechuan nbd.

And Obama making sickworthy "we are united like no other country we prevail" speeches, fuck you man you arent Morgan fricking Freeman.

Sorry the whole things been treated like such a sick action movie circus, I dont get it.

it kinda was a sick action movie circus for a lot of the last 24 hours

the kind of circus where people are tossed to the lions

lol i just noticed your DN

it's my concession to multiculturalism

I think we can all unite in our hatred for that great Australian pile of corporate shit.

i had no data for two hours today thanks to those fucking savages

it's saturday go home