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

- 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.

they're just breaking it down to sub-bucket level is all

Yeah, I see no problems here.

maybe these items are only available during this summer.

If the person has said, "Seeing Neutral Milk Hotel is on my bucket list so I'm going this summer!" that would be annoying but correct. This was in the context of, like, cutting fruit into funny shapes for kids (Pinterest. Sigh) which is a thing that you can do pretty much any time there is fruit and a knife handy.

ALSO the idea that mundane bullshit like cutting up fruit into funny shapes to amuse children belongs on a "bucket list."

I mean, clearly this ding dong doesn't know what a bucket list is, but sadly, Pinterest seems to have disabled comments so I can't point it out to her.

None of which changes the fact that I find the phrase "bucket list" twee and annoying to begin with.

You know what I am going to do this summer? Eat lots of pizza. That's on my bucket list. Eat lots of pizza in the summer of 2013.

Just because you're in a good mood today doesn't mean you have to be all cheerful about bucket lists.

fwiw I also hate books/list titled "X Y's to Z Before You Die"

(1) there are always way too many of them
(2) reduces enjoyable experience to a series of checkboxes and
(3) Oh, BEFORE I die? Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to do them BEFORE I die.

For some reason, I had thought the Bucket List was a Tim Allen/Martin Lawrence movie, but it was apparently Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman.

I bet there's an 'amusing' zombie/vampire cash-in book called "X Y's to Z After You Die".

Oh weird, I thought it was Tim Allen, too. Probably because Tim Allen makes me irrationally angry.

Honey that's entirely rational.

True.

hahaha are there any tim allen/martin lawrence movies?