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

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.

While I'm at it, I also want to be able to sort legal search results by year, newest first, and by court, appellate then district. And I want a pony. A pony that will finish writing this motion so I can go take a nap.

motion carried

naptime upheld

all in favor

jfc someone posted "Let It Be released 43 years ago today." with a YT of the full album and this shit makes me fume

43 years

are you going to do this every single year with every single beatles album until the end of time

the appropriate 43rd anniversary gift is "a single button that fell off your shirt", that's how unimportant 43 is

when you're 43 you'll understand

I'm 43 where's my button ;_;

ALBUMS DON'T HAVE FEELINGS

Band on the Run turns 40 this year. Now that's something to think about.

the absolute worst google thing is when you search for a word and it goes 'showing results for' followed by some other word it THINKS you meant

fuck
you

continuing a theme

- you search for a story on Google News and get a load of results
- you order your search by date using Google's handy search tool because you want the most recent articles
- "Your search did not match any news results"

Just got a cd through the mail with no case and it's shattered into 3 pieces. Gravitar Edifier too, so yet another pain today. Took an age to get here too.

That on top of my messing up an exam today and not having thought the best way of doing it if I'd run out of time nearly. Could have left one section until th enext retake in September. INstead I started that and din't get very far and now think I missed points ion th eother 2 sections and passing needs you to be as close to perfection as humanly possible.
Shity, fuck it.

the absolute worst google thing is when you search for a word and it goes 'showing results for' followed by some other word it THINKS you meant

more times than not Google is right

How about narrowing your search results to some times in the past, like "between 2000 and 2005" using search tools. And getting back results that say like "January 3 2004" on the results page, but when you open up that page, there is.solid.evidence that.it's been updated since then.

Fed and state courts that I deal with say in their rules that discovery documents SHOULD NOT BE FILED WITH THE COURT (w/ one very minor exception), yet time and again, we get discovery that "old school" lawyers have filed with the court and it makes me IRRATIONALLY ANGRY. They should be fined and publicly shamed.

In one case, opposing counsel was apparently filing literally every document involved in the case, including letters between him and the other lawyers.

Also bothering me: The IL Supreme Court made it mandatory that attorneys include an email address for service of documents on every court filing, but day after day we get filings w/out email addresses.

ALSO, and finally: When people don't update their iPhone OS or apps. A friend and I were talking about how his wife drives us crazy b/c she never, ever updates her iOS and always has 30-some un-updated apps. None of my business at all, but it makes me see red.

Shit, his wife reads ILX..... Hi sweetie! We love you!

It's also weird how you called her your friend's wife instead of just your friend since he's only your friend because he married his wife, who was your friend first.

are you talking about my wife? because she does that.

she complains about her phone being slow and i'll look and she'll have 20 app updates and 150 photos sitting on her phone

Do photos slow down your phone?? B/c I have at least 300 on mine.

carl, I referred to her as his wife b/c I was talking about her in reference to his and my conversation. It seemed unnecessarily specific to say his wife and my friend.

N/a, we're not talking about your wife/my friend.

I am a reformed that-person

I believe I know who Je55e is talking about - did I recently change the background on her phone as a joke? I recall seeing big red numbers over all her apps, like 200 unread mails and a thousand unapplied updates. Which is totally in character for her and utterly non-surprising.

hahaha we're all friends in real life haha! ilu guys

Honestly I have only met three people who post here in real life, and two (Je55e and Carl) only because they were at this speculated person's wedding last fall.

That's her.

She came up in her husband's and my chat b/c I told him my iOS has been begging to be updated for at least two months, and I thought about saying "lol I'm turning into [her name]," but thought that might be rude, but then he said, "Oh man, don't be a [her name]."

Because it is amazing and awful, here is what [her name]'s new iPhone background was, which is a creepy, demeaning objet d'art in my bedroom at the house a bunch of us rented last month

http://i.imgur.com/NMr7lnK.jpg

I can't update my iOS software because I get work email on my phone and they sent out an alert telling us not to update until they did compatibility testing. I should just get a dedicated work Blackberry but I'm loathe to carry around more crap.

xpost oh god that's horrible

trying to get rid of a video ad on the side that starts playing, pressing the "x" on the video multiple times which actually just sets it to full screen, struggling to get out of full screen because it doesn't follow common exiting-full-screen commands, finally pressing the correct "x" which i think only just appeared, which actually makes the video slowly travel to the center of the screen and, like, grow an image ad around it which i then have to press another, more correct "x" to get rid of

hate x 1000

in the old days you had to do a lot less and then you'd get a stuffed monkey in the mail a few weeks later

is that a porn site or

no! it was slacktivist. porn sites just do that annoying "are you SURE you REALLY want to leave??" popup thing

i never see those because adblock

but wow, way to brute force an audience

I never update any apps because I don't like change.

i know I'm going to get a whole bunch of 'well you know apple and itunes are 2 separate things etc etc blah blah' but this the IA thread and I need to get IA

I have an Apple gift card, but the only way I can use the leftover funds for Itunes is to purchase physical Itunes gift cards on the Apple.com store and have them mailed to me, which takes at least **a week**. Or I can pick them up in the Apple store (which is not located conveniently near me or where I work so I have to go there on the weekend because it's impossible to get there on weekdays). And i'm just...listen you fuckers. If I can buy the ITUNES CARDS on your stupid site, then why can I not just apply those ITUNES CREDITS to my fucking ITUNES account and not have to be mailed a piece of plastic. I mean, THEY ASK YOU TO SIGN IN FOR SHIPPING WITH YOUR FUCKING APPLE ID. IT'S ALL THE SAME FUCKING THING.

aaagggggggggggggggh

*collapses in a heap*

and I'll cut anyone who steps to me to try to 'explain' why this is not unreasonable. *narrows eyes*

That does sound completely unreasonable to me.

thank u!!

conference call coming up, and I just saw that a partner e-mailed his associate (with everyone copied) "E____ can you patch me in?"

What a fucking douchebag, you can't even be bothered to dial into the call yourself?

Similarly, one of my bosses ALWAYS emails me or the associate atty. to say, (to the associate) "Please have Jesse email me ___," or to me, "Please ask Brian to call me." Or to either of us: "Please email [bookkeeper] to ask her how I should bill for ____." WHY?????