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

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.

not mix it, mix THEM

read that as "disappointing breakbeats" for a second there.

That would also fit the thread, imo.

Solve the signature problem by writing in plain text CHECK I.D. in the strip.

Does anyone even look anymore tho?

No, but they definitely won't fight you on the signature either.

My most-used card has my signature, but all smeared, and it gets checked all the time. Cashiers think it says "CHECK ID" so they're always asking me for ID. I want to live where you guys do where nobody looks at this shit.

that papass touch shit.

I believe the Catholic Church is still investigating these claims.

I've mentioned elsewhere on here about a convenience store clerk who, twenty years ago, wouldn't sell me cigarettes because she thought the "3" in my birthyear was a "9".

To this day, I'm still pissed about that and I'm glad they tore that store down to build a shopping center.

No, but they definitely won't fight you on the signature either.

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:35 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was fought on the signature a couple of years ago, both times in 7 elevens and both times for like a bar of chocolate

Even with CHECK I.D. written on the back?

The grocery store I go to has the electronic reader that you sign with a wand. It never looks right and sometimes adds crazy straight lines connecting one letter to the next.

The cashiers, they don't care.

ohhhh right xp

there are at least 2 toggle light switches in our office where the switch is neither on (up) or off (down) but stuck in the middle.
(yes non yanqui ilxors this is how usian light switches are, yes it's craaaaazy dealwithit.gif)

it drives me inSANE

I want very much to flip them up or down

but I am afraid something bad would happen so I just go quietly crazy instead

that is disgusting

if you can't install a working light switch don't be installing light switches

Speaking as a usian, I have no idea what you're talking about.

I know the up/down on/off set-up differs from country to country, but setting a switch in the middle seems like would throw a breaker.

a few years ago we stayed in a hotel that had an unlabelled light switch (with a glowing red light) on a random wall, that turned off the hot water. WHY THE SHIT would i want to turn off the hot water via a switch ON THE WALL

i think i yelled the same words in the actual hotel

xpost I worded that badly -- the middle setting is totally uncommon, I just meant non usians freaking out about the up/down thing.

for years I've noticed a switch set to the middle right by the lobby elevator -- just today I noticed another one right by the coffee station

seems v careless and dumb and ANNOYING

lol AA - switch ON for electrocution

Flip the switches, VG. Flip them. Do it.

http://nick.mtvnimages.com/nicktoons-assets/video/images/ren-and-stimpy/space-madness-2.jpg

L to R: VG, me

ha

i used to get massively ia about powerpoints that were empty but were left switched on

I don't understand any of what you're saying, VG.
- do you know what the switch controls?
- what's it doing set in the middle?
- what are Oz switches like?

up is off, down is on

...really?

no. unless this is a bottom-of-the-world joek

when i was a kid the light over the stairs was controlled by switches at the bottom and the top. so depending on the order of use, you might have to flip the switch *down* to turn the light *on* or vice versa, which i found troubling, as up should always = on.

both times in 7 elevens and both times for like a bar of chocolate

ah the cashless society

If so, that's objectively -- well maybe not wrong but counterintuitive. Up = more = on and vice versa.

Xp

A recurring nightmare I had as a kid was that light switches weren't working, or worked sporadically. Realizing just now that the same anxiety is behind my current recurring nightmare of a computer or point-of-sale touch screen that is almost normal but off wrong in some small but fundamental way.

going back to jjj's op, btw, someone made something kind of interesting with the where's george data

montana so lonely