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

i should like a fit and proper glass of sherry for pudding, what ho

do join us for a spot of cricket and scones in the parlor

ey up, my string vest is in the aaaaairing cupboard

looool

You guys have been storing this up haven't you?

doreen from the co-op was in a right tizz at elevenses

keep an ear out for them traffic wardens, thatcher's britain

I don't know why but I just had an Adrian Mole flashback

"Nigel says that Sharon Botts will show everything for 50p and a pound of grapes"

and he shows up to the rollerskating rink with the grapes loooooooooooooooool

things that make me ia:

a) useless council web site won't tell me if i have to get up early tomorrow to put the bin out
b) people equating Britishes accent with cockneys

only joking re: one of them

feel like city council useless websites is a worldwide ia

like they decided that that would be their defining thing

parlor?? PARLOR??

gotcha

okay the web site worked when i swore at it
then i swore again cos i have to get up early

g'night

NIGHT GUVNA

also it's Marmite here, if you would be so kind

WHY I OUGHTA

<3

sorry dude, enjoy canada btw

― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Monday, April 22, 2013 4:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're close, mate. Here's a hint, count how many Canadian restaurants there are in most U.S. cities, and then run a tally of those restaurants who serve punch to paranoid people who think the waitstaff is talking about them.

Though I wish there was a place where I could try this exotic poutine.

i don't know what that means but it sounds hot

captcha box and its illegibility drives me nuts

what ho, Marmite Maiden and Fall Yearbook my good compatriots

loool marmite maiden HAIL FELLOW WELL MET

I'll mail out Poutine in this year's Christmas swap, no worries

:D :D :D

Is there a Canadian band called the Poo-Teens? If not, there should be.

Wait. No there shouldn't.

'your terrible ideas'

brb forming band

Thanks to someone else on my FB commeting on a false flag nutter website link someoen'd posted, Ive now managed to accidentally see *way more graphic* footage of the bombings than anything that made the media. Fully explicit limbs off bones out gore.

Tanks also to FB for suggesting I "friend" the 2 women the guy I'm hung up on has been seeing recently. SUPER.

ooh is that the one about how a bunch of actors were snuck into the crowd and they all put on these amazingly lifelike "prosthesis" blown-off limb thingies in mere seconds (even though similar movie makeup takes HOURS), and "I'm an EMT and I know that you would see more blood in this picture" etc.? That's the one I saw, anyway.

My other favorite conspiracy theme so far is "Isn't it odd that police were announcing a bomb drill right before this happened?" Like, (1) bullshit (2) no that wouldn't be that odd, it would be one of those coincidences (3) what are the implications of this "oddness" -- I don't even understand. Police announced a bomb drill so they could fake a bombing?

Yeah that one Hurting. Those were real photos though, werent they? Ugh.

I mean, if you believe the "official story" then yeah they were real ;)

lol oh yeah i meant not shopped pics I guess - it was one I had not seen before and it was hella horrible (hopefully ont one of the dead people, but I assume not)

speaking of which, I really hate the phrase "human spirit" as in "triumph of" or "power of." But I really REALLY hate when it is used to describe things that are not particularly strong examples of it, like this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/images-that-perfectly-capture-the-american-spirit

I mean ok, holding someone's fucking artery closed with your bare hand, THAT might be the power of the human spirit. But just being a nice guy and pouring people some orange juice and letting them use your bathroom, that's not a testament to the power of the human spirit, that's just ordinary, somewhat minimal being a decent person. Like you are not going to be seeing a movie trailer that goes "From the director of The Kite Runner, comes a riveting testament to the power of the human spirit: The Beverage Giver"

Sorry, "The Beverage Giver" just made me snort laugh.

small acts of decency are overlooked and underrated though, and they often matter more in the long run than grand gestures do. the day in day out *work* of being a good person seems, to me, an instance of the triumph of the human spirit. idk if that's what buzzfeed was getting at though

oh i didn't click the link so i didn't know it was about the marathon tragedy. hm. i think the phrase "pure evil," which they use, bothers me more than "human spirit," which feels like a less rigid concept

been wonder how i could become a better person, going to the store for some OJ pronto

sweet. you too can change your life.

Who are these conspiracy theorists? They never show up on my FB feed. But I tried to find a legit video of Dzhokar whatshisname (sp? Zoey Daschenel?) setting down his backpack and Youtube results were overwhelmingly conspiracy crap.

I don't even understand. Police announced a bomb drill so they could fake a bombing?

OTM, but IIRC, the response to that question is something about you're a gullible sheeperson/implications are too self-evident to have to be spelled out.

sorry to interrupt talk of serious matters, but something which makes me angry out of all proportion is when people in customer service jobs lie to me about what I have or haven't done as justification for the complete lack of customer service I'm receiving.

e.g. last year I went out for lunch, our meal was wrongly delivered to the next table, we started to say "excuse me, I think that might be ours, is it a --" but were cut off with the single word "NO" and it was taken away, didn't see or hear anything about lunch for half an hour until the same dishes reappeared and we flagged them down, and the head waiter very snootily informed us that we had been asked twice if they were ours (which we had not been, but I was kicked under the table and told I was "ruining lunch" when I started to say something)

and now I've been waiting for a 24-hour delivery from Parcelfarce for a week and I finally got the tracking number from the sender and the woman on the phone told me I'd better get my ass to the pickup location ASAP or it would be sent back because I had been advised twice about it - I have not received any notes through the door or any other form of communication

plz people, just say that a mysterious error has occurred instead of accusing me of not following protocol - twice - in the face of imaginary events

-clicking "hide conversation" or "collapse" on the twitter site and twitter deciding to open the conversation/tweet in a full window
-websites that try to stop you selecting text

but I was kicked under the table and told I was "ruining lunch" when I started to say something

grrrr

Seriously! I think that would make me as IA as the server being a dipshit.

it was a really weird lunch for both servers and co-lunchers making me IA! there was one minor miscommunication and one minor-ish-but-wtf fuckup before that which the staff were IMO kind of rude about not even acknowledging, and the 3 other people at my table were all going "I don't see why you're acting like it's a big deal"

ah well.

(PS for the other IA I actually got a "we tried to deliver" card through the post 3 hours after I'd picked up the item - it was definitely not there when I left for or got back from picking the item up - and had yesterday's date on instead of either of the ones I was told they had "attempted delivery" on)

xposts

I don't even understand. Police announced a bomb drill so they could fake a bombing?

OTM, but IIRC, the response to that question is something about you're a gullible sheeperson/implications are too self-evident to have to be spelled out.

I think anyone would would grasp onto this piece of information (misinformation?) has probably seen the movie 'zeitgeist' where we learn that military training for an instance where a plane flies into a skyscraper was going on when the first plane hit the world trade center and a police drill for an instance where a bomb explodes in the tube was going on when the bombs exploded in the underground. the idea is these drills were set up so that any incoming radio distress calls would be thought of as part of the drill and not real life therefore no/confused response from the military/police. Honestly, if the Boston bomb drill was going on for real at the time of the marathon then it does kind of make me go hmmmmmm while teetering on the edge of a pannie.

you are making no sense whatsoever sorry

really? okay

like are you trying to tell me that police wouldn't respond to a distress call during a drill?