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

Otm x infinity

Not being able to get images on Facebook back permanently. I opened both Chrome and Mozilla Firefox at the same time after I came home, to check what some images I'd uploaded looked like on there. & the imahges came back on Chrome for the first time in a week or 2. I then went to my timeline and everything disappeared again.
Not sure if it's related to adblocker or something, there is an icon to block element on there which may be what i clicked on intially & hence why no images. I tried to whitelist the site with th eapplication hoping that it would stop image sfrom being blocked but then when I closed the reopened Facebook images were gone again.
Really is a lot better with images on.

Also National bus strike meaning I couldn't get into town today and may have trouble getting to the training centre tomorrow. Especially if it rains, involves walking through a forest before anothe rlong walk at the far end. & apparently nobody knows how long the strike's on for.

ugh I have to do this 'food diary' thing for a health screening and
a) you can't do it on Firefox, Chrome or Safari so I had to boot up Internet Explorer and update flash and whatnot
b) you have to enter your birthdate every time you log in but no, you can't actually type it, you have to pick it from a calendar which is set to today as default so you have to click back for th- cough cough) YEARS to enter it
c) you have to pick each item from a drop-down list which is the most stupid list I've ever seen and things are spelt wrong and things don't come up when you type them and also how do I know whether my canteen broccoli was boiled in salted or unsalted water? GAH
d) also it's a massive pain in the arse

When my online editor was redesigned a few years ago, the only way to enter a date was to go through a pull-down menu of the month, date and year (which drove me crazy since as a publication, 99-percent of all stories we put in there are going to be for this year.)

But the thing that drove me craziest the most was the tool used to enter in the time of the publication. It was the pop-up with two columns, one for the hour and one for the minute. You had to pull each bar up to the number you wanted. So you'd have to remember in your head that 1400 is 2p.m. and drag the first one to 14, then drag the second one to the minute which God forbid might be :58.

It was stupid, stupid, stupid and served as a very visible reminder of how an I.T. guy thinks he's "fixing" something. Like 05/12/13 1539 is so hard to type into the system.

> Like 05/12/13 1539 is so hard to type into the system.

so, is that the 5th december or 12th may?

So you'd have to remember in your head that 1400 is 2p.m

...
... really?
using only a 12-hour clock beyond primary school is really weird to me

anyway yeah that system is STUPID.

people who go to watch a film/play/anything performed in front of an expected-to-be-quiet audience whose conversation is SO FUCKING IMPORTANT that they finish it 30 seconds after the performance has begun...I WILL CRUSH YOU...i don't care if it's only your kids and you're only there out of a sense of duty just SHUT THE FUCK UP WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN

I am an American. We don't watch the 23-hundred-hour News, we watch the 11 o'clock news.

Along those lines, our settings are set up for mm/dd/yyyy. I'm sure they could be adjusted if needed be.

Converting from "regular" time to what we call "military" time isn't that hard. Just that when every other clock around you says 2 p.m., it takes that one more half-second to convert it to 1400 when IT SHOULD JUST KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS ALREADY.

Hey, look. Even ILX knew ↓↓↓↓ how to do this.

that's very English language specific though, spelling out the month.

I can remember that 13:00 is 1:00 and 16:00 is 4:00, but for some reason only those come to me automatically. I hate 19:00 - 21:00 b/c they always mean multiple steps (starting to count up from 12:00 and remembering that its easier to subtract from 24:00).

USA doesn't use military time very much. Except in the military.

Xp - yes, military time

All you ever have to do is subtract twelve! 21-12=9pm

That sounds suspiciously like math.

I didn't even think we used the 24-hour clock that much here but having to 'convert' it is like thinking about converting 'a' to 'A'. Probably all those years sat in front of the TV/video display. Having said that I found it hard to think the same way about time differences between the US and 'home' sometimes, like sometimes the 8-hour difference would automatically be in my head and sometimes I had to work it out.

anyway now I've finished dinner I have to log into that damn thing again >:(

sentences that end with question marks are driving me up the wall atm

Why's that?

because they break ~laws~

music reviews/promos/copy that makes it seem as though the mere fact that something draws from more than one kind of music is still interesting or worthy of note in itself. NPR is a huge offender "The stylings of Jimmy Chase, who brings a unique blend of jazz, funk, rock and salsa"

also the word "stylings"

holy shit jazz and funk?! I will have to go to this guy's show just to see how he pulls off that unlikely fusion!

"unique blend" is a handy stand-in for "do not listen if born after 1968" tho

Relatedly, artists who combine their "native" music with boring flat electronic music to create boring flat electronic music.

All you ever have to do is subtract twelve! 21-12=9pm

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, May 12, 2013 4:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That sounds suspiciously like math.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Sunday, May 12, 2013 4:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, and for me that means having to take the time to count b/c I can't do "21-12" in one instant step in my head. (I do: 21-10=11, 11-2=9)

I skipped a step before those two, which is going, "Uuugh, now I have to do subtraaaction?? I bet 21:00 means 8:00 -- but no, b/c then it would be an even number.....maybe it means 7:00.... Man, I don't know -- guess I'll have to do subtraction now. Great. There goes my afternoon."

That's what I'm saying!

this stuff has been second nature to me for decades

and i am hopeless at maths

tick 'save password' box

password doesn't save

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some bullshit imo

in amazon when you look at stuff and it forgets everything or you cant go back or whatever i hate that too

evernote's apps leave me logged in but the web site logs me out every week. there is no reason for that to happen.

AND it doesn't allow your browser to save the password

theres a bookmarklet to force firefox to save passwords

for evernote?

dunno

aldo i use chrome now, but cheers for the tip

aldo also

I skipped a step before those two, which is going, "Uuugh, now I have to do subtraaaction?? I bet 21:00 means 8:00 -- but no, b/c then it would be an even number.....maybe it means 7:00.... Man, I don't know -- guess I'll have to do subtraction now. Great. There goes my afternoon."

After spending some time on my new favorite thread (best gif on this page of infomercial gifs), I want to base an absurd-incompetence informercial scene on that post.

inbox zero

who the hell cares if you've got read emails in your inbox? just deal with the unread ones

well I HAVE to live on 24 hour time in my line of work (xp)

store websites that let you check local store availability & lie to you about said availability ragh

when the ATM asks if you want cash only or cash with receipt then, when you choose cash only, it follows up by asking whether you'd like a receipt with that

Store brand coupons for items not sold in this area.

THEN DON'T SEND ME THESE COUPONS.

They changed the timing for the traffic lights/pedestrian crossing near my flat which now make me IA daily

I do not know how it's possible for me to get there just too late for the magic time to press the button and have to wait more than one full cycle, every single time, for 2 weeks. today I pressed the button at what would have been exactly the right time for them to change within the next few seconds on the old timings and still had to wait 1.1 cycles.

hulu made me log in to watch a 'mature content' episode of Hannibal. 2 minutes later I wanted to change the stream setting to high quality. it takes me to the options page WHERE IT ASKS ME TO LOG IN AGAIN.
seriously?

all this doubling up is so stupid. I understand privacy settings etc but come the fuck on.

our bravia telly plays abc iview content. once a week (i think) it throws up a 'would you like to log in again?' message, and you have to select 'yes'.

1. iview does not require a login, so what the hell
2. if logging in = only clicking a button that says 'yes' THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ASKING ME?? JUST SHUT UP AND DO IT

i.e. why the living fuck would anyone ever press 'no'

lol

this is pretty irrational, but i always get really unnerved by that one picture of slate's "prudie" that shows up on every article i read there.