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

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)

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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?

i'm telling you that's the idea behind the suspicion

although i have no idea what purpose it serve in this case but yeah thats the theory

coworkers had been raving about an 'amazing' azn grocery store not far from my office, so I decided to make the trip at lunchtime since it was relatively close

- took twice as long because of every red stoplight in the universe hating on me, also traffic
- went there, it was a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge shiny supermarket, granted with a pretty expansive azn section but seriously not worth a lunchhour trip
- like this would be an 'amazing' place if you didn't like small crowded azn markets or you don't like those markets at all in general or idk but ugh

i have to stop listening to my coworkers recommendations for things, seriously wtf ppl

was it H-mart?

So many movies coming out this summer about the apocalypse or zombies. So, so many movies.

Wow, it's written by the same team that brought you a previous movie about the world ending while people hide out in a pub. And the same plot!

Wow, it's a bunch of actors PLAYING THEMSELVES. Well this really sounds interesting!

Just for that I'm going to pirate every movie i can find.

Websites that log me out. A website should never log me out if I say to Remember Me. How exactly is this a security risk when it logs me out every three weeks. If some one has compromised my computer, they would have done all their damage anyway, unless it was during the specific period in which I was logged out and hadn't logged back in, which is usually less than 24 hours. It makes no goddamn sense.

Ugh I deal with this every day at work. Granted the websites are sensitive databases of like peoples phone services and stuff, but logging me out after five minutes inactivity is some shit man.

maybe there's an argument as to why it's a good idea but sometimes gmail does this WHILE I'M READING AN EMAIL ffs

yeah i don't know what google's game is, logging me out of gmail but keeping me logged into its fucking google accounts forever

maybe that doesn't happen now but it bloody used to

signing credit cards. fuck a signing credit cards. you get it slightly wrong, you get questioned for three years. it's 2013, take your fucking signature and shove it up your arse.

Well yes but fuck remembering a stupid random pin as well, actually no, fuck that papass touch shit. What the hell? 'hey i have $30 worth of stuff here, lemme just wave some plastic at a machine ok bye'

Way to have all yr money drained in 3 hours by the dicks who steal yr wallet (this happened to someone I know)

paypass not papass, gah.

I have never had a CC signature questioned in my life. Also, I sign credit card slips for Jeff all the time, and half the time I forget what I'm doing and sign my name. He's never been hassled either.

Ive never even had my sig looked at when I sign for CC which I suppose defeats the purpose.

my signature sucks anyway, but when the pen gets caught on the number indentation that's directly below the signing strip, bang, dodgy signature until 2016

can you guess what came in the post today

also why have separate cards for mastercard/visa/amex/etc? do i look like i have room for sixty cards in my pocket? no, no i don't

The only time my sig has been questioned was when I tried to move a piddly $5 out of a dormant old passbook (!) account. I had to for paperwork reasons... I went to sign for it and was told "sorry this sig totally doesnt match". Rightly so - I'd opened the account when I was about 15 and never changed it since.

And do YOU still sign your name like you did at 15 when you wrote it 16 times with a boys surname you liked wondering what your married name would look like? no me either.

- disappointing breakfasts

I bought some fresh berries from Whole Foods and I was all excited to mix it with some vanilla yogurt so I did and the berries are by turns sour, flavorless, and kind of musty tasting but I don't have time to make something else. I guess this makes me more disproportionately sad than irrationally angry, though.