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

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

films (mainly hollywood) that have such an enormous dynamic audio range that they're alternately impossible to hear and blow-out-your-windows loud at the same volume setting

imo these are the same dickwad sound engineers who think mastering music beyond saturation point is reasonable

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Fuck you.

That reminds me: I signed up for a rewards card at The Sports Authority so I could get a sale price or something, but now, in order to unsubscribe to their stupid emails, I have to register with their site.

Did you buy a soccer ball?

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― you say potatooles (onimo), Sunday, May 5, 2013 9:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fun fact: these exist not because the retailers want to be assholes but because the suppliers are assholes trying to set a Minimum Advertised Price, and someone decided at some point that being logged in to a website was the online equivalent of displaying a less-than-casual interest in a product. Just so you know who to direct your anger against!

I think this thread has put a curse on me. I was just thinking I couldn't remember the last time I saw "log in to see our prices!" and then I went looking for a replacement light bulb (my flat takes a weird type of energy-saving bulb that Homebase etc don't sell) and pretty much all the places I hit want me to sign up to see prices. Probably wholesalers for electricians anyway.

Good thing about these lights: I've been here 3 years and none of the bulbs have blown.
Bad thing about these lights: I am becoming increasingly convinced they're all going to go at once, I can't buy them in the local shops and I'm scared of ordering the wrong one online because there are 3 different almost-identical varieties with the pins in different places

ugh our dining room light/ceiling fan seems to blow 1 bulb like, every other month. stupid fucking thing

Those medium-base ceiling fan bulbs are the worst! Houseflies have longer lifespans.

ridiculous things imo

yeah, my last place regularly had over-voltage electricity with surges and brownouts, and I'd have to replace a bulb somewhere every few weeks. so not having replaced the main light bulbs in 3 years is beautiful but unnerving.

(the bathroom lights are less long-lasting though but still way better than the last place)

yeah our house is 100 years old so we have an exciting mix of new good fittings, existing mediocre fittings and old unused 'mystery' fittings

I hate when people ask me "Are you ready to go?" to something and I say my goodbyes or get my jacket and get ready to leave and then we all spend half an hour just standing around shooting the shit and not actually going anywhere. This is extra annoying after a show, when there is a house party or other show we could go to, that everyone has decided we should go to, yet we just end up hanging out in a near-empty parking lot instead of going to a rad party.

That's why I arrange to meet people at places instead. I hate it when that happens.