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

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.

inbox zero

there's a new commercial for outlook where everyone is like turning to their computer in the middle of whatever they're doing, they don't even put down the guitar or the saucepan or whatever, and then ZAP they delete fifty noncontiguously selected emails, like…

why is it so pressing to delete those that you can't just stop and do it some other time??

exactly

best to do that sort of thing when you're skydiving, I find

WAAAAAAAAAAAA delete AAAAAAAAAAA delete delete AAAAAAAAAAAAA

no see you don't have to do it a bunch, you just do it all in one fell swoooop, and everything swishes away so that you can get back to your nonstop lyfe

my inbox has 5,434 items and i do not care

mine has 12,499 and i'm not even sure it's metaphysically possible to care about it at this point

but what if you don't delete them

what if they're still there in the morning

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

I would think it's the exact opposite. Only younger people who don't know any better would be impressed by "unique blends" of whatever. People born 1968 and earlier didn't grow up with post-modern mix-and-match pop music.

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

re ATMs, it doesn't exactly make me IA, rather just boggle at the maximum stupidity of it - why do ATM's in the USA make you enter the cents when you type the amount you want in??????? Why God Why?

they used to do that too

here

too

^ Never seen that.

I would think it's the exact opposite. Only younger people who don't know any better would be impressed by "unique blends" of whatever. People born 1968 and earlier didn't grow up with post-modern mix-and-match pop music.

that's not what "unique blend" ever means on NPR tho, it really jsut means "calypso" or "jazzy salsa"

that's not what "unique blend" ever means on NPR tho, it really jsut means "calypso" or "jazzy salsa"

Ha.. OK then, that's a little sad. I am not an NPR listener, but I can believe they would be fast and loose with their terminology.

I've never seen an ATM that wanted you to enter in the cents either.

Now, I am that guy who when is asked "[] $20 | [] $40," pushes the extra button so I can withdraw $30.

All the ATMs I used a couple of weeks asked for cents. Can't remember exactly but I think they were Chase and Bank of America.

I also get really thrown by ATMs in the USA that give your card back immediately, then let you carry on making a withdrawal, like I get really paranoid I've missed some logout button or something and some bastard will come and empty my account.

couple of weeks *ago*

Haven't seen the card thing either, but look, I'll admit it. Most of the ATMs I've used have that sky-blue text on black background, like it's powered by a Tandy-500 or an Asteroids machine.

I usually just get my cash from Walgreens or the grocery store. (Mostly the grocery store, fuck Walgreens those bitches.)

I hate ATMs that hold onto your card while you make your transaction. Chase's are nice b/c they are the mind you just duo your card into. No more forgotten cards.

inbox zero

there's a new commercial for outlook where everyone is like turning to their computer in the middle of whatever they're doing, they don't even put down the guitar or the saucepan or whatever, and then ZAP they delete fifty noncontiguously selected emails, like…

why is it so pressing to delete those that you can't just stop and do it some other time??

― j., Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't get that commercial. Is deleting emails a new feature? Maybe they can have various representations of hip demographics that are in the middle of painting or dj-ing at a club turn to save a document in Word or something in the next ad.

the feature is that it is so FAASSSTTT that you can delete a hundred emails at once

Yippee. This is worth a whole television ad that runs per every third commercial during every break? Some focus group determined this is the exciting feature everyone needs to know about?

Also, Outlook is actually shit at this, anyway.

outlook is shit, in general. i have to use it for work; today I discovered that it had defaulted all my archive settings to DO NOT ARCHIVE. also this archiving thing SHOULD be helpful but it's raaaaaaaaaaagh always making me angry

worse commercial is the one where everybody in the office does that coordinated dance with their laptops

pretty much all tv ads make me IA except for the geico one with mutombo

worse commercial is the one where everybody in the office does that coordinated dance with their laptops

― brimstead, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:53 PM (39 minutes ago)

When they had a guy doing the worm or whatever across a conference table without any irony they were all "this will sell computers!"

Obviously the campaign and marketing strategy is targeting idiots, which says something about the product itself? Not promising at least.

oh great now i'm getting ads for christianmingle.com. outlook, come back! all is forgiven! tell me more about deleting things!!

musical toothbrushes

i don't know how this happened and i don't know why it keeps happening

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-whoptc.gif

lol

justin
bieber
musical
toothbrush

I'd buy an audio toothbrush if it made DJ scratching noises with the motions of my brushing.

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-whoptc.gif

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/People/edance.gif

- the twitter website, in particular its bugginess around expanding and collapsing tweets and conversations

People who add an invisible M to OPEN, thus pronouncing it 'ompen'.

When my dad says "Best Buy's" as if it was opened originally by some guy named Raymond Bestbuy or something.

That is a very common construction in my homeland. Notable examples include:

Kmart's
Walmart's
Acme's

and my favorite from my banking customer service days: cheking's account

checking's account, that is.

Boots's annoys me

haha adorable

Walmarks
Krogers
MacDonalds
and from an editor's point-of-view, Walgreen's.

Dunkin's Donut

Burger's King

Starbucks's

Wendy

T.G.I's Friday

People who add an invisible M to OPEN, thus pronouncing it 'ompen'.

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