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

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.

oh yeah I hate those e-mails. "Can somebody...?"

And then the inevitable 25 reply-alls that will follow that shit

and then it's all 'i sent you all an email why did it get ignored'

uh, because it was an email

I recognize that it is occasionally useful, but I hate people who go crazy with their email Subject lines.

"RESPONSE REQUIRED: Will someone please find out why my lunch got thrown out by the cleaning service last week on Tuesday?"

Gary Jules?

xp Or put all the content in the subject line and either leave the body blank, or type just a question mark.

"Subject: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE

?"

This dildo who tried to force me to be his friend/suck buddy used to send me emails like that, VG.

(subject): When
(body): do you want me to pick you up?

Are you
going to my show on Saturday?

Why didn't you
go to my show on Saturday?

It became apparent he wasn't trying to be clever, he just used subject lines that way.

My air

conditioning is broken. Can I sleep at your place?

My cock

atoo has a broken wing. Can you drive me to the vet?

lol, I opened the thread and I saw

"Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)"
"My cock"
"― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

also lol vgm

hahah awesome

I do that thing with the subject line with my boss sometimes....

Got the ap windstream story up already (nm)

...but only because he uses his outlook alert pop-ups like an AIM.

I'm IA because Words With Friends disallows FOP. Can't remember if I've griped about that already.

yeah that is weird

i don't think the fraternal order of police should be allowed to play

One of my kids is finishing 5th grade in a few weeks. The busybodies at school have declared that there will be a "graduation/celebration" to recognize this passage from elementary school to middle school. This is a total waste of time. In the US, kids now graduate from:

- kindergarten
- elementary school
- middle school
- high school

Oh, and to make matters worse, the announcement for this stupidity was of course used Comic Sans. Comic Sans is horrible (and yes there's a thread for that I think.)

people in shops who use the word 'today' like a punctuation mark

people in shops who use the word 'today' like a punctuation mark

http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=hc-v8CFJzu4#/186;196

xpost I am embarrassed to admit that Comic Sans makes me irrationally angry.

agh no xp

Taking collected money into a bank to put into a campaign account only to be told that the bank will no longer accept cash going into a business/charity account over the counter. That it would have to go to a different branch and even then could not be in coin. When the lower Euro coinage comes in €1 or €2 coins.

Apparently you can only put cash into personal accounts through the branch that I was using. THis only seems to have come into play a couple of weeks back and seems to do with them mainly automating money transfer, but is apparently supposedly set in stone.

Certainly never had trouble with taht before.

Yeah they reduced counter staff on the cashier side by about 5 people 6 months ago, but didn't say anything about where cash was going, i.e. what type of account it went into. & this seems to have happened in a lot of branches

people who complain about comic sans and papyrus make me irrationally angry.

I live within earshot of a nursery school, and Saturday is Dads and Kids Morning

approximately 6000x louder than all the kids put together is one dad bellowing WAAAAYYYY OHHHHH YAAAAYYYY GWAANNNNN like he is at a football match, constantly, for an hour, as if a small child could not possibly be getting enough entertainment or education from a playground full of toys without being followed round by a constant deafening soundtrack reassuring him that what he is doing is Really. Exciting. WHOAAAAA

I would pay this child a hundred lollipops and Panini stickers to turn round and say, "use your indoors voice, daddy" (ok, they are not indoors, they are in the outside sandpit area. but still, use your communicating with sentient human a foot away voice)

The fact that they have to designate a special "dads and kids morning," when "moms and kids morning" is generally known as "morning."

"Restart to install the latest version of Spotify!"

Okay... doodly doodly doo restarting Spotify aaaaand... done.

"Restart to install the latest version of Spotify!"

What the!

I KNOW WTF

ugh wtf

If it makes you go "doodly doodly doo," then it makes me irrationally happy.

The fact that they have to designate a special "dads and kids morning," when "moms and kids morning" is generally known as "morning."

― carl agatha, Saturday, May 4, 2013 10:01 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

presumably if it's a nursery school, most mornings are neither moms and kids nor dads and kids

last night I installed the Hulu Plus app on my PS3. When I opened the newly installed app, I got a prompt to "install software update" within the app

...

fuck you stupid idiots

Unseemingly common w/most video games these days.

Artist collaborations that use something other than "and" or "&" between the two names -- like the formerly popular "Blah Blah DJ vs. Kid Hotness" and the now increasingly popular "X" as though you are (inexplicably) multiplying one artist by the other artist. Also shows up in product collaborations a lot, like "Japanese Denim Brand You've Never Heard Of x APC" or whatever.

Weird, I've never seen that, but I don't like it.

How about "feat."?

I can see not wanting to use "feat" if it's an equal footing collaboration, but that's exactly why english has the word "and"

Mike + The Mechanics were pushing it, already on thin ice with me anyway.

Which reminds me, this chyron annoys me still 20 years later.

http://i.imgur.com/nATdAS7.png

I mean, that's probably not really the main reason english has the word "and" but you get my drift