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

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'.

what is this

this bugs the hell out of me: on movies/TV where people remove necklaces from other people by yanking them down like they will magically stay intact which they then do

Yeh I was wondering about that, too.
xp

this might be the ultimate first-world ITTMYAA, but: places that sell iced coffee but don't have sugar syrup/simple syrup. thanks for my grainy, inconsistently sweet iced coffee

You should use Splenda, which tastes like sugar b/c it's made from sugar.

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I randomly received a sample of some new artificial sweetener from Domino that was half-stevia and half sugar and I was going to save it to give to you but I just threw it away instead.

That's also what I did with your birthday present.

Because it was the birthday present.

I always loved "Kmart's" especially because it sounded like you were talking about Mr. Kmart's store.

I was pretty sure it was JC Penney, but I had to look it up just now to make sure.

Stevia is gross.

But I like Splenda b/c it tastes reasonably like sugar. And you know why.

US Postal Service removed a bunch of mailboxes in Chicago, including the three right outside my workplace, and the ones a couple blocks away. Didn't tell anyone, gave no clue as to where to find those left standing. Fuckers.

Our mail carrier - a lovely woman - said they the mailboxes were eliminated b/c the USPS hired PriceWaterhouse to do an efficiency study, and PW advised that a mail carriers could more quickly collect the mail if they had fewer sites to collect from.

But you know, they could be even faster if they had only a single mammoth mailbox for all of Chicago. Fuckers.

Next up: restructuring their Chicago retail locations to one giant post office located in east Des Plains. There are spaces for 100 clerks to serve the public, but only three people working at any one time.

I'm with you, Chicago.

But I do wonder where the line is drawn. If you have 1000 mailboxes with one package apiece inside, it's going to take more work to empty them than 10 mailboxes with 100 packages. When you get to the point though where you've got some super large mailbox that can hold 1000 letters or packages, that's going to take more time than the 10 mailboxes because good lord, that's a haul for one person to sort and carry.

Just took a walk and saw that they'd plopped down a mailbox 1 block away from my workplace. It's just sitting there on the sidewalk, askew, next to a trash can. A strong wind would easily topple it (I tested it). Assuming they're going to bolt it down.

T.G.I's Friday

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:46 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last weekend a cafe charged me for two 'burger of the weeks'

last week, and this week

Truman Capote got "Tiffany's" wrong too.