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

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?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486946/

^^ That is the most bizarre casting. I was almost tempted to see it because it's so weird.

worst phrase was fuckit bucket, from David Sedaris' redneck brother.

gonna buy a bucket, it's on my bucket list

BUCKET LIST

1. Buy bucket.
2. Make list.
3. ????

put list in bucket

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a399/bumassjeff/Dick-in-a-Box-300x222.jpg

haaaa

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

― sheer tip (how's life), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:59 AM

That would be the sitcom version.

Now I'm torn, because I hate the "bucket list" phrase/concept but like the phrase "kick the bucket" and hadn't made the connection before.

("kick the bucket" was one of the first, or at least one of the less guessable, idioms I picked up as a kid, which is probably why I'm fond of it - though the Pioneers track helps too)

Have you seen It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World the film from the early 60s? Cos the phrase makes a pretty literal appearance early on.

I have not! I have already been meaning to watch it though. You might even say... it's on my... no, I can't do it

i

hate

pranksters

maybe they are not innocuous though

and i don't mean someone who just plays an april fool's prank...but the person who 90% of the time will be tempted to play a prank on someone. like my coworker who is terrified of me because I have threatened him with murder if he ever pranks me. i kind of want to murder him for doing it to other people too, just on principle

but uuuuuuuuuuuuugh this tendency is just so stupid and dumb and annoying

*fills VG's cube with packing peanuts*

MURDERS U

i don't like banksy, but i like jackass, so pranking can't be why, but i think it is.

maybe if all of banksy's art was directed at bam's dad...

making people feel uncomfortable where they work is pretty base imo

i just hate the inherent joy he takes in humiliation while pretending to be the nicest guy on the planet

maybe if all of banksy's art was directed at bam's dad...

I hate those Bam + parents bits in Jackass. I want to hate Bam for being an entitled over-indulged spoiled arsehole but mostly I hate his stupid fucking parents for enabling it all. If my son pulled a fraction of that shit I'd have killed him by now.

Passive-aggressive, cold-calling, no-research-doing salespeople. I get a lot of emails from vendors for shit my company doesn't need, either because they found my name on our blog or some conference organizer sold them a list. If I didn't solicit it and we don't need it, I ignore it.

But some persistent assholes keep emailing after the first one gets ignored. "Don't know if you saw my previous communication but wanted to set up a time to speak with you about our blah blah blah blah blah. Would this Thursday or Friday be good?" I delete that one. And the next one. And the next one.

And then I get one that says, "Based on your lack of responses I will assume you are not interested in our services."

OH LOOK IT IS CAPABLE OF LEARNING. NEXT TIME DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH AND TARGET PROPERLY.

radio 3. specifically how much quieter than other stations it is in iplayer. even more specifically how i always forget that i've had to turn it up so when i go back to non-radio-3 iplayer i get deafened.

xposts Tom Green had the same shtick with his parents iirc but it was more like painting the exterior of their house in stripes(?) etc. Also, his parents didn't seem okay with his pranks.

xp to Phil, yeah I get that shit now too. "I'm just calling to follow up on my [ spam ] e-mail..."

It's like cat-calling a random girl on the street and then the next time you see her "Hey so when do you want to set up that date we were talking about?"

I cannot say this loud enough to management types: If there is a project or a task that you would like one of your employees to do, tell one of them.

Saying something like, "Hey, here's a number for that contact we missed. Give 'em a call and see if you can get their p-95 number," in an email addressed to half a dozen people will result in one out of six workers looking at the other five going "I bet they can take care of that."

As a manager, make the decision that, yeah, Steve can do this one, and assign it to him.