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

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

done

hence internet

so that's where it comes from *strokes chin*

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

― pplains, Friday, April 19, 2013 1:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i srsly want to fist-bump you 4 this

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

do u think it dates from when yahoo! ca. 1996 had a link on its homepage called "what's cOoL" or whatever?

word just set my whole very obviously chinese document to japanese.

re: the recapping the sporting events the next day at work, this has basically made me not watch very many sports any more. I got so tired of hearing co-workers saying the exact same things that the talking heads on ESPN have said ad nauseum about the games. You do not have any original insight into this game!! Why do you keep repeating the same thing over and over!!! Now I've taken to saying that I don't really watch sports and also that I don't have cable and couldn't see the game.

Speaking of Boston, I'm not looking forward to that next week at work either. Since I was there all week and am a runner, EVERYONE is going to ask me the same thing about where was I/what did I do/how did I get out/were my friends effected/etc. I need to come up with some short spiel so I can just say it and be done.

I'm also just going to print out this map that shows my relative locations at the time of the major events, so I won't have to try and explain it each time. I'll just hand them out to people as they come in the door.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8244/8664345315_48e0947807_b.jpg

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

I don't even mind being the 300th person that day to go "great/lousy weather, huh" but feeling obliged to make some trite observation abt "terrible business over in Boston" or "how about that World Cup final" is p. awkward, yes. especially with disaster-type events where you don't know if the person you're talking to might have family near there or be quietly judging you for being too detached or not detached enough or w/e

xpost but ... how could you be in two places at the same time !?!??!

i srsly want to fist-bump you 4 this

― jaymc, Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I figured you'd sympathize.

It is scary what you can gleam from those pages. I had to start off with the age these people were when we first wrote about them, sometimes more than 20 years ago. One of my responsibilities was to get their current age. So, you'd say, ok, just add 20 years or whatever to the age they were then. Except here it is April and they were originally written about in July. Were they 35 going on 36 then, or had they already had their birthday for the year?

LinkedIn worked sometimes. Other times, I'd go to their Facebook (if they had one.) Even if their birthday wasn't listed, if their timeline was public, I could usually scroll through it and hit the "Hey, everyone, thanks for all the birthday wishes today!" post.

When those two failed me, I found that mylife.com would give the year they were born and zabasearch would list their age. I still wouldn't have a birthday, but at least I could tell whether they had had their birthday this year or not.

Here's one I just confronted head-on:

So I am fixing a glass of ice water, open the fridge, and the way we do it is we have a bowl that holds a store of ice cubes, plus two trays that are filled w water to make the cubes. The bowl is empty, and when I take out the ice trays to make some more cubes, it is half-filled, like someone went in and selectively took out 5 individual ice cubes.

Why didn't they just dump out the whole tray? I guess that would necessitate a trip 10 feet to the sink to fill it up. Plus those other ice cubes would be used by other people, so really why bother?

last place i lived the other bloke there would use 5 cubes and then immediately refill the gaps - no way of getting at the remaining cubes without getting freezing cold water all over yourself...

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.

― The Great Natterer (dandydonweiner), Friday, April 19, 2013 12:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― pplains, Friday, April 19, 2013 1:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

next big google labs innovation will be a bigass button you click to make it search for real shit written by people instead of empty web 2.0 halls of mirrors

- the "some people also died in [insert country] too" point-scoring rubbish on Facebook/Twitter that accompanies an American tragedy dominating the news. Like I get your point but you did not say a fucking thing about those people until America got bombed and now you're using them to give yourself a pat on your self-righteous back.

their point is that they're sick of the cultural elitism (mainly coming from people who are not american but have a disproportionate view of world affairs because hollywood)

our press was all 'BOSTON GUY DETAINED/KILLED/WHATEVER' in five billion pt font (without mentioning the country (q.v. cultural elitism practised by people who are not even american (q.v. hollywood))) and down the page in the 'other shit' section there was an 'oh btw like 200 people died in some earthquake in china but it's china so' panel

Boston Globe has gone back behind the paywall. I wonder how much their traffic increased this past week and how many of those people signed up for subscriptions to get news this week.

Wrong thread.

That's what you guys get for talking about explosions in IA threads.

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