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

thing that makes me irrationally angry: when I have to put together a bunch of documents and mail them to a bunch of people. So many things can and do seem to go wrong. Tonight I almost had a nervous breakdown trying to get my name and direct line to line up with the letterhead (yes, we still use pre-printed letterhead in my office...), only to eventually realize that it kept going wrong because I had been using THREE SUBTLY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE LETTERHEAD that were ALL MIXED IN TOGETHER. And the docs were all in PDF/A so I couldn't combine them on the computer and had to print them separately to NEW pdfs. And when I finally put everything together I realized that it didn't all fit in the envelopes I had already printed labels for and labeled. etc.

ooh, here's one: my registration appointment for summer classes was this evening at 6pm. i leave class for a few minutes to go register at the computer out front. there is only one class that i'm interested in, so i log in to the system and enter the course code. i get sent to a screen telling me there is a hold on my student account because of an unpaid fee. i run back into the classroom, grab my debit card, and run back out to the computer. the fee is $150 -- ouch, but i pay it, and the hold is released. take two: i get to the "add" screen, enter the course code, and... the class is CLOSED, with no waiting list. it's the end of the month, i'm already low on cash, i'm out another $150 bucks, and i can't even register for the goddamn class. if they'd told me the class was closed ahead of time, i would have put off paying the outstanding fee until a time when i didn't feel so squeezed. i have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and a prescription to pick up and i haven't finished paying down my deductible, so that's gonna be another sock in the gut.

Yesterday the local newspaper published a special section on the top 250 players in the NFL draft, and a friend and I were going through it to see who had the longest name that might look comical squeezed onto a jersey. I came across one player whose short biography noted that his family "came to the US from Africa when he was a child." Oh, from "Africa," did they? Anyplace in particular? No, just throw a dart, it's all pretty much identical!

Yeah that's a persistently awful thing. Cf all of the ridiculous geographical mistakes being made during the Boston Marathon (Chechnya = Czech Republic = Turkey etc.)

We have the internet now!

Ordering a thing from amazon.com, then changing my mind 20 minutes later and trying to cancel the order. Then getting told "the order is shipping soon and we'll try to cancel it, but hey, we can only do our best here". Then hitting the cancel button again like 100 times and getting the same message. Feeling pretty confident that you've taken care of cancelling the fuck out of that order. Then getting a text message "Hey check it out, you're order has been shipped! : D"

HEY! FUCK. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIUIUIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUU.

sorry, also the text message is 6 hours later.

FUCKERS!

Waitup I didnt see this bit. adam you know theres those blue status machines you can use to see what the card's balance currently is and view usage history, right?

not on trams or buses

...fair point.

Ordering a thing from amazon.com, then changing my mind 20 minutes later and trying to cancel the order. Then getting told "the order is shipping soon and we'll try to cancel it, but hey, we can only do our best here". Then hitting the cancel button again like 100 times and getting the same message. Feeling pretty confident that you've taken care of cancelling the fuck out of that order. Then getting a text message "Hey check it out, you're order has been shipped! : D"

HEY! FUCK. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIUIUIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUU.

― how's life, Friday, April 26, 2013 7:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

those amazon robots are FAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxZDJ1HiPE

Jusst somehow managed to delete visuals on Facebook while trying to get rid of an advert tahta shouldn't have been appearing in my stream. & after running through all the options I can see on the site I can't get them turned back on.
I just have formatted text with no pics/avatars/videos. Bit annoying and leaves the place not very appetising.
Hope it ain't permanent.

- stupid front door that sticks. trying to get out the door in the morning when you forget that your hands are slightly damp from doing the dishes and you have to put all your shit down and wipe your hands dry and then yank the bloody thing open ragh

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE GODDAMN BIKE LANE, ASSHOLE

DO NOT PARK IN IT DO NOT IDLE IN IT DO NOT WALK IN IT DO NOT STAND IN DO NOT BE IN IT UNLESS YOU ARE ON A BIKE

WITH YOU, BOO

DO NOT STUMBLE INTO IT DO NOT HAIL CABS IN IT IF YOU GOTTA JAYWALK THAT'S COOL WE ALL DO IT BUT DO NOT DO IT W/O LOOKING AND AT A WEIRD ANGLE SO THAT YOU SPEND LIKE 7 SECONDS IN THE BIKE LANE

DO NOT BARBECUE IN IT DO NOT CHANGE DIAPERS IN IT DO NOT CLIP YOUR NAILS IN IT DO NOT GIGGLE IN IT UNLESS YOU ARE GIGGLING WHILE YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE

i'll do all that if you guys stop at stoplights like the rest of traffic #walkinhere

With me I swear to god it's the double-parkers and delivery vehicles, I want to rain fury on cars that park there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI

i'll do all that if you guys stop at stoplights like the rest of traffic #walkinhere

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do! Unless after I've slowed down I see that there is no one crossing or about to cross and that there are no cars coming for like at least a block.

blazing thru red lights w/o a thought is nagl

'yo birds you got little bikes?'

There's a major bike route here with a pedestrian side and a bike side, and the bike signs haven't been repainted in a couple of years(?) and the bike lane is just full every single day of pedestrians and ppl pushing strollers 4 abreast, and I got hassled for asking some people to make room for me last week. Gives me the rage.

OH I'LL MAKE ROOM *flying kicks to the face*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ&t=76

My burgers always come out best when I bbq in the bike lane so tough.

I wasn't even behind them where they couldn't see me! I was oncoming to them, with a headlight on, and a large group with small children and 3 or 4 strollers was strung across the entire roadway and I had to ask 5x for them to notice me right in front of them, while their toddlers frolicked in a traffic area.

goddamm people emailing me PDFs for our online calendar.

first, you're too lazy to submit it on our online form?

And then you send me something that's nearly impossible to cut and paste from?

thanks

yeah we have customers who send over 10 page pdf orderforms
in excel I could load the order in less than 5 minutes but this way I have to handkey it which is AWESOME

completing the who what when where quinella would be nice too.

VG, do you have protected sheets/unlocked cells in Excel so you can at least tab rather than navigate from slot to slot? Annoying all the same but I thought I'd offer the tip.

I read a Wordpress tutorial with a bunch of php code in it today.. all presented as jpgs. Dude, it's Wordpress' code not yours, let me copy it rather than navigating through the WP site or retyping it. Shitty tutorial writing IMO.

no these are cretin-people who shun excel altogether and merely pdf their list of titles

Ah, I thought you were entering into Excel & maybe tabbing would expedite things a bit. Jerks.

total jerks

recipes that say 'makes [x] cookies/pancakes/cupcakes' and mathematically the only way to make the mixture yield that amount is to make TEENY TINY EFFING BLOODY FAIRY BLOODY PORTIONS.

Likewise packaged food that indicates X servings, yeah, if every serving is for a TEENY TINY EFFING BLOODY FAIRY!

Personal websites that are surrounded by crap like the persistent Networked Blogs toolbar at the top. Floating social media sharing tools on the side. Shit is impossible to view on mobile.

there are many tired catchphrases that are driving me nuts:

- "not so much"
- saying you are "rocking" some sort of clothing article

xp same thing with recipe "servings" -- maybe if this were part of a five course menu instead of my fucking dinner

People misusing "bucket list" as in "This is on my bucket list for this summer!" OH because you're planning to die in late August?

I mean, the whole "bucket list" concept pisses me off, but to then divorce a stupid concept from it's meaning is like two levels of irrational anger.

I pretty much hate buckets in general. Add lists to that? Hell no.

I don't understand how that is a misuse. A bucket list is something they want to do before they die, right? So this may just be things that they want to get to on that list during the summer. They don't plan on dying after the summer, but want to go ahead and cross those items off the list. You have to prioritize your bucket list, and maybe these items are only available during this summer.

Ugh, carl, that would annoy me too. Maybe they think it's a bucket like in "bucket and spade", as in a holiday list?

xp - no, it still doesn't work. That would be phrased as "I'm going to cross this off my bucket list this summer", not "this is on my bucket list for this summer".

I hate that phrase anyway. Why is the list in a bucket? Or is it a list of buckets?

maybe it's a cleaned-up version of "Fuckit List"

I had always interpreted it as "a list of things to do before I kick the bucket".

You interpreted it correctly, how's life.