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

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No.
Fuck you.

― 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.

AGHHHH yes
worst case in point: after a NYE party we left a nice warm apartment party then everyone made us stand outside in the RAIN nearly missing the free Muni home

my parents do this 'all right, better hang up' thing and then talk for 28 minutes about an errant weed in the driveway

xp But then I am also that reeeeeally tedious person who badgers everyone else until they decide to do something besides stand around.

if someone says 'yeah give me 10 minutes' then rest assured I will be standing in front of them with an expectant look on my face in exactly 10 minutes

let's GO, lollygaggers

lollygaggers

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rnboZbSKgBY/UXnm5zWjoaI/AAAAAAAAA6M/SAjxJQxNC0c/s1600/bull-durham-20100818053351447_640w.jpg

i tried to find updates for win7 to get the jump on it hassling me with that windows update restart/postpone popup. while it was searching for updates, the windows update restart/postpone popup popped up. i clicked restart and win7 said it couldn't because two programs were open:

1. some admin desktop mgmt tool which was nagging me to restart (uh i was trying to do exactly that)
2. WINDOWS UPDATE

seriously, what the hell

ilx thing that makes me irrationally angry -- thread derails where people just start free-associating/riffing with gifs based on a word or pun, e.g. the "trigger" posts in the facebook thread

So like.. most of ilx.

I agree though. Also the constant jokers.

I don't even mind the jokes when they're good, it's mindless shit that bothers me, like someone posts something with the words "I'm hot" and it gets followed by a this is why I'm hot gif and then a picture of the band hot hot heat

yeah, uninspired word association

ilx, today:

http://randysrodeo.com/images/rock/association6.jpg

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/contest/one-for-the-money-dvd.jpg

http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/files/2012/11/today-logo.jpg

I'm gonna add people that smoke cigarettes and never have a lighter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

lol

Speaking of windows update, I went to run it a while ago (I have it switched off of auto update) and it said I had to update windows update before I could update o_0

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/198067_10150101814357757_2281084_n.jpg

Yo, I put an update in your Update so etc etc

whoa

WELCOME TO WINDOWS WORMHOLE

little, ugly record label logos in the corners of otherwise nice album art

White people that go on about how 'crackerous' other white people are. Just stfu.

That's mighty white of you to consider that.

had an instance of people telling me i'm wrong about something today - signing new lease. for *twelve years* i've always got a 3rd party (ie someone at work) to witness my signature. secretary at letting agency told me today that one of them in the office *always* does it.

Hoping I get a better night's sleep tonight cos I realised after leaving the course this afternoon that what had screwed up my last attempt at making a CAD template was my having practised the template on a 2nd page of the previous one. So I presumably had a double reference or something which prevented it from working. & I can only be doing taht on lack of sleep and thought of a retake exam tomorrow.

God I'm looking forward to 3D next week and being able to sleep in over the weekend.

Loud ringtones in films/TV somehow making me think it's my phone that's ringing - even when it isn't my ringtone.

But TV doorbells that make the dog get up are always funny.

I often have the pleasure of watching Kenny Whippet going bonkers at any animal he sees on TV - especially goats.

Songs w/ sirens in them used to freak me out when I drove. Most notably, The Creatures "Speeding."

little, ugly record label logos in the corners of otherwise nice album art

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, May 6, 2013 12:27 PM (2 days ago)

Yeah I don't know if I consider Sacred Bones for example ugly but it certainly takes away from the individuality of the album art for their releases. Bothers me.

i was thinking of the Arbiter label, which puts out awesome cover art marred by this corny little elephant in the corner

You know what Google, when I put a phrase in quotes I actually mean that I only want you to return results that contain that exact phrase in quotes. I know how to do a motherfucking wild card search, you patronizing piece of shit.

This sends me into a blind rage on a near-daily basis

I do a crap ton of research on Google Scholar and it's nearly useless when I can't refine my search using their own god damn search operators that they ignore because they think they know more than I do about what I'm looking for lakdjsf;alksdjf;alksdfj

also often I have to put SINGLE WORDS in quotes because otherwise they return results that DON'T CONTAIN THAT WORD

I KNOW RIGHT?????

They need to have an option to do a natural language search or an operator search, like Lexis and Westlaw do.