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

Phil, no offence but I reckon the opaque tights thing is OK and I just might know more about style compared to... most people on ILX? If you don't believe me or carl, please defer to Miuccia Prada.

People who don't understand the word "irrationally".

I get rationally upset at people that don't understand the word irrationally

I'm not making any claims to being stylish. Someday, wearing opaque tights with whatever kind of shoes will no longer be fashionable but I vow here before God and ILX that I will never let that stop me.

It's been acceptable in London for about 15 years, so may have moved into standard/staple territory as a result. However, yellow or orange opaques are no good unless you want to look like a giant bird with long bird legs.

I am actually the last person to be criticizing anyone's sense of style. I just know what I don't like!

When you come in to buy something new bring an old item of clothing with you & we'll pass it on to Oxfam. We call it shwopping.

RRRARAAARARARGGHHH!!!

I thought shwopping is when you spank someone with a cupped hand.

That shwopping thing baffles me whenever I go in m&s. Why can't you just take your clothes to oxfam yourself? Do you get a free thing?

£5 voucher I think. But if Oxfam is taking Workfare serfs, don't bother.

Ugh, they're not are they? No more knickers and sous-vide lamb for me until they clean up their act

Just checked the Boycott Workfare site and they say Oxfam HQ gave them verbals that they were not participating, but every now and then a serf-pimping org manages to place somebody there. But I hate Oxfam anyway because their prices are not exactly low.

Colleague invites me and another colleague out for drinks. Great! Thanks! It will be wonderful to catch up.
Colleagues and I all work in different parts of the city.
One colleague drives and needs parking and the rest of us take public transit.
Colleague who invited me tells me to pick a place that is central to us all and has easy parking and is close to two different rain lines because she is not "familiar with the city" despite having lived here nearly as long as I have.

So I guess in short, don't invite me somewhere and then expect me to do the logistical legwork of organizing your damn outing. Especially because I don't fucking know about parking. I don't have a car, in large part so I don't have to care about parking!

train lines not rain lines who cares I'm too annoyed to use the right words.

picnic at the city dump. that'll teach her

"not familiar with the city" Jesus

people who stand in lift/tram doors and wonder why they're not closing

Searching for Rooms to Go furniture store (my mom needs furniture and is really cheap....) and Google Maps keeps showing me DRIVING DIRECTIONS from "rooms" to "go" or "rooms" to "go furniture" or to "Salisbury, NC."

When I put "Rooms to Go" in quotes it gave me driving directions somewhere in Brasilia, Brazil.....klma;sdfklja;sdflkja;eflkjfa

we need the og altavista back

WE'RE SORRY ALTAVISTA COME BACK ALL IS FORGIVEN

http://www.roomstogo.com/storelocator/

I don't know how to use that.

I have a weird soft spot for Rooms to Go because the first piece of furniture I ever bought new was a giant blue couch from RTG for $500. Also a friend's mom gave her a houseful of furniture because she moved in with her boyfriend and didn't need it anymore and it was all fully coordinated Rooms to Go sets and it was all so ridiculous that it was ultimately kind of charming.

Automatic doors that don't open until you're 000000000.01 cm in front of them, making you wonder until the last split-second if it's 'read' you and it's going to open.

i wave my arms around and get stared a

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Searching for Rooms to Go furniture store (my mom needs furniture and is really cheap....) and Google Maps keeps showing me DRIVING DIRECTIONS from "rooms" to "go" or "rooms" to "go furniture" or to "Salisbury, NC."

When I put "Rooms to Go" in quotes it gave me driving directions somewhere in Brasilia, Brazil.....klma;sdfklja;sdflkja;eflkjfa

― Je55e, Friday, May 24, 2013 11:59 AM (2 days ago)

I searched google maps for "ass to mouth" (yes, I am very mature), and it took me from A.S.S. End of Arm Tooling in Livonia, Michigan, to Wendy's in Ann Arbor. seems about right.

xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAX8Im-T8MA

I spend ages thinking about buying the Nico The End remaster and when it finally arrives it sounds like the sound's been hollowed out. Reading reviews of the thing online and it's being talked about asa mrked improvement on previous versions, all instruments being very clear etc.
Damn just wanted this to sound rihght cos it has some of my favourite tracks by her on side of the lp.

When you pull a tissue out of the box and the next one doesn't come out and stick up, so that you have to stuff your hand into the box and scrabble around to get the next one, and you end up yanking out a whole bunch more than you need and then have to stuff them badly back into the box

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:04 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you ever had this happen with Clorox Wipes? Its a give that your coming out of the fix with a couple of very sore fingers

you're whatevs

People changing plans makes me meanly, venomously angry. So far this weekend almost every single social plan I've made has been completely KO'ed by the other parties. Some of their reasons were perfectly reasonable and I'm not mad about those, but some of them are just self-centered lazy flakes. I just reorganized something involving multiple people all for one person who couldn't get it together this morning.

Bus driver this morning who turns up 10 minutes late then by the time everybody has got on the bus is already 20 minutes late He picked up the passengers who would have got onto the next bus normally, & that bus sailed way ahead of us by the time we left the first road we were on. He then drives really slowly all the way.
Somebody rang the bell then didn't get off. maybe got the wrong stop. But this driver opens the door and waits for nothing for a couple of minutes. A bunch of people wound up getting to work late and he didn't seem to care.
Bloody hope he isn't on mornings again.

Bus driver this morning who turns up 10 minutes late then by the time everybody has got on the bus is already 20 minutes late He picked up the passengers who would have got onto the next bus normally, & that bus sailed way ahead of us by the time we left the first road we were on. He then drives really slowly all the way.

this happening pretty much every day last year nearly gave me a nervous breakdown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching

These non-express passengers, as well as others waiting to board, may be told that another less-crowded vehicle is "right behind them". This may or may not be true; in extreme cases, the following vehicle(s) may also be overcrowded or even more severely delayed. On rare occasions, some long-suffering riders have violently expressed their anger at chronically poor service.

When people have "I'm thinking about what I look like right now" written all over their face.

xp I have mixed feelings about this because all of the following are annoying and I guess there is no way not to have any of these 3 options:

- "bus bunching"
- running for a bus you see already at the bus stop which then just sits there, for several minutes, while other buses go past
- buses running early so you've already missed them without realising when you turn up at the stop a couple of minutes before the scheduled time (mildly annoying in the city, downright horrible on an infrequent route)

doesn't the bus just sitting there mean it's too early and is trying to get back on schedule? sometimes you can hit the bus jackpot with those because you think it's going to pull away so you don't run to get it but it's still there when you get to the stop so it's like getting something for no effort. that makes me irrationally happy! the rest of the bus makes me kind of angry though.

doesn't the bus just sitting there mean it's too early and is trying to get back on schedule?

yeah it does but it's started happening quite a lot on one of my routes recently (I guess an official change of policy) and it's annoying because I'm usually running late in the morning and I pay my money and think I'm getting somewhere

if I'm running late I've started asking them when they're going to leave, but this probably makes everyone else IA

I used to take a scheduled small town commuter bus to work when I lived in Delaware and when I missed it because that piece of shit was early, it was a total day ruiner. I could either be an hour late for work or drive in and pay $20 to park for the day.

When I get fed up with the CTA and its nonsense, I try to think about all the years I lived carless in smaller cities and college towns with little to no public transit and then I look at the bus tracker on my phone to see when the bus that stops directly in front of our apartment will be coming and all is forgiven.

It's especially annoying when your bus sits there long enough so the next bus overtakes you. I've been told they do this because it's better to have 1 bus be really late than 2 buses be slightly late, for their statistics.

Gah, for their statistics? What about for their passengers' jobs? Fucking annoying.

Come now carl, you've used the CTA long enough by now to notice how little of a crap they give about the riders.

bus bunching may sometimes be deliberately caused by individual bus drivers, so that the bus ahead of them picks up more passengers and decreases their own workload.

but, yeah IA @ this

Yeah, when I was on an hourly bus route buses leaving early were so gutting! (or bypassing my stop altogether, as I saw one do as it took a wrong turning just metres away, but far enough that I couldn't catch up with it)

Especially because the bus was often 10-15 minutes late, so you didn't really start to think you might have missed it until 20 minutes had passed, and then it wasn't worth going home, just standing around for another 40 minutes and hoping the next one came - and knowing that if the last one hadn't run at all then the next one would likely be too full to pick you up anyway. Gah.

xp this sounds uncharacteristically pollyanna-ish, but since I take the CTA nearly every day I really try not to focus on the ways that they suck (hard to do sometimes, granted), but think about how great it is that they even exist. Otherwise I spend 30 minutes at the start and end of every day angry, which isn't good for my health.

Also I really like the new train car layout so every time one of those pulls in I get unreasonably excited. I'm thinking that will get me past any CTA rage for at least the next six to eight months.

And the new cars have the opposite effect on me.

A HOUSE DIVIDED

Conversation that happens every time we ride the train together and step into one of the new train cars:

Jeff: I hate these cars.
Carl: I love them!

Every time.

They have new cars now? That is so cool. I once got to ride on one of the old-old cars (green, old-timey CTA logo, windows that opened).