go to get a glass of water from the tap, down it, realize too late that the water in the pipe is still warm from when i washed my hands
― s1ocki, Sunday, 30 December 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
spilling water down you front - sure, it won't stain, but you still look like a jackass for a minute. AND its cold!
― nickalicious, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Taking off your shoes and settling into the couch with a good book then remembering you left your phone in the other room.
― nickalicious, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
not to be all gross, but when a poop does not dislodge cleanly and you know this will require a lot of wiping.
haha ^^otm
― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
soaker on the sock
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Hongro
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 December 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
dingleberries when you're in no position to remedy the situation.
― Z S, Sunday, 30 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
pan n scan dvds
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 30 December 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dimension 5ive, Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
so bad
― s1ocki, Sunday, 30 December 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
(i assume you're referring to having your nutsack squirted by a watergun)
― s1ocki, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
seeing the grease left on the window on the bus after somebody has fallen asleep against the glass
― o-ess, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
trifling fingerprint or whatever the fuck on the dvd making it skip + me remove and wipe it + go through fkn menus + resume.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
fingerprints on my photos and moniter.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Fumbling blindly in a web of cables to find the scart box behind the telly to switch between the Wii and Sky.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
not having sky
although this gives me some sort of moral comfort
but fuck it i really wish i had sky
― Just got offed, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Murdoch probly isn't the nastiest capitalist I give money to.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
losing an earbud
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
every time you buy a breakfast cereal etc etc xpost
― Just got offed, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
wearing an earbud
not xpost well as a drinker and part-time smoker that's some pretty lousy bastards I'm funding right there eh?
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
as a user of plastics you're doing your bit for the middle east
i dunno, murdoch's just such an obvious, glaring hate-figure. my dad's gotta express his disgust at capitalist greed somehow, even if he does work (albeit as a computer programmer) in the city
the real reason we don't have sky, i suspect, is that i'd rarely stop watching it.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's pricey, but if we had to give it up now we'd all miss it bad, and therein lies the rub.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
My TV remote and cable box remote locked forever in conflict meaning i can't use either to their full capability
― blueski, Sunday, 30 December 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
lifting your head up and bumping it on something
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
being out of toilet paper
thinking you have food x in your pantry but it not being there
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
someone left the newspaper all folded back the wrong way
― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
thinking you have food x in your pantry and only having the last of it which is worse than not having it at all
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 December 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
dread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 December 2007 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
rapidshare shit taking forever to download
trolls =
yeah, pouring a bowl of cereal and then WTF NO MILK sucks.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Getting caught behind a car displaying a bumper sticker that you find offensive.
― j.lu, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Only discovering after you've eaten it all that the bread you made your sandwich with had mould all through it.
― Trayce, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Furry teeth, but no access to a toothbrush in the immediate future.
― jim, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh jeez Trayce one time I had some toast and 15 minutes later I went to make sandwiches to take to work and there was this fucking mould beard all down the side of the loaf. It still makes me gag thinking about it.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
When you're reading a newspaper and can't bloody get the pages apart and you have to keep trying with your thumb over and over again.
When you ask someone to repeat what they said, and you still don't hear them the second time.
When someone asks you to repeat what you said, but they still don't hear you the second time.
― franny glass, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
realising LJ isn't making a statement about winter.
― stet, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
or that he is cordoned off in some opaque dome
― dell, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
omg i accidentally wrote the perfect elegy for subterranean oppressed future dystopia
― Just got offed, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
realising that I couldn't have done that on purpose
taking a while to figure out what losing an earbud really meant and having a few pretty gross image-based interpretations cross my mind
― rrrobyn, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Having to pee and every urinal is full.
This could be a big displeasure depending on the severity of your urine.
― Ivan, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes on the muzak at work ;_;
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 December 2007 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
wrong thread.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 December 2007 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.urban75.org/tech/images/sony-fontopia-mdr-ex71SLlg2.jpg
those gray things get dislodged pretty easily if you aren't careful and searching for them is my ultimate small displeasure
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 December 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Picking up the wrong toothbrush
― The Reverend, Monday, 31 December 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
when the little foamy things come off i just get used to the small displeasure of using the buds without them
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 December 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lol ew xp
forgetting to charge laptop/cell phone
― J0rdan S., Monday, 31 December 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
using windows
Forgetting something at home/work and remembering it when you're out of the building, on your way to do your thing. Mildly annoying the first time it happens, but my greatest small displeasure if it happens again and again.
True life example: In car. Forgot documents in office. Return. Forgot to have documents signed. Return. Left car keys on desk while getting documents signed. Lost will to carry on.
― Jesse, Saturday, 24 July 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
A wall of strong perfume greeting me in the empty office elevator. Twice it happened to me today.
I'm not perfume sensitive, I appreciate a nice fragrance... But cloying, gaggingly strong clouds of perfume displease me.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 24 July 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
when a pen you like runs out
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 October 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Putting on a sock on crooked and the fixing thereof
― ed.b, Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Press ESC to exit full screen mode.
Yes I've only fullscreened whatever I'm watching let's say several thousand times in my life already, I do not need your view-blocking help!
― anatol_merklich, Friday, July 23, 2010 5:40 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sort of stunning that this displeasure still exists four years later
related: my phone unfailingly telling me that I've got cellular data turned off for apps that don't even need data.
― rob, Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
As I understand it now, that annoying ESC message is really less about telling you how to get out of fullscreen than to notify you that fullscreen is indeed active. The reason, unless I've misunderstood, is that some malwarey thing you've inadvertently got on your computer could otherwise put up a fullscreen mimicking, say, your desktop, whereupon unhilarity might ensue, or something.
Still annoying, though.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 9 April 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
being asked to "go paperless" by your bank/insurance/credit card company even though you have done this probably half a dozen times in the past 5 years
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
waiting for hot water to come out of your sink
headphones getting tangled
headphones catching on something that rips them out of your ear
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
10am meetings
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
meetings
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 12 November 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
The fact that so much stuff gets posted to the "irrationally angry" thread that seems not really to be about irrational anger but SMALL DISPLEASURES
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
Hence the 'irrational' imo
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Thursday, 12 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah but people tend to post things that either (1) I do not really buy that they feel "irrationally angry" about or (2) are quite rational bases for anger
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
The very first irrational angry post about "where's George" was perfect, it was all downhill from there
― brimstead, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:45 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i came here today to post "9am meetings" and forgot that i posted this last year, back when i worked at a place that had a "no 9am meetings" policy
― marcos, Monday, 6 March 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
This is a big displeasure IMO. I fear for the safety of anyone in the vicinity when this happens
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 6 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
buckling a squirming kid into a car seat
― marcos, Monday, 6 March 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
a finicky wifi connection
― flopson, Monday, 6 March 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
the way the amazing chorus of pet shop boys' "metamorphosis" flattens out in a really boring way at the end
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 6 March 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
a wild pube strangling the corona of glans penis
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
unsatisfying dump
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 6 March 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
where that last bit stuck in limbo doesnt wanna come out
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 6 March 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
Other people's feet, and their determination to have them on display at all ti es
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
when a pen you like runs out― Ward Fowler, Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:41 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:41 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or you discover that the pen you like just leaked all over your fingers and/or document.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
My officemate talking about her upcoming wedding. I am happy for her, but when she talks again how it's perfectly all right for her to ask her guests for contributions for her honeymoon, in lieu of presents, I want to go Miss Manners on her ass.
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
old tea
― a but (brimstead), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:56 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is this money? Does this mean money? Course it's fine, but why tell you that?
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
the IA thread
― wins, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
useless paper mail, e.g. bank statements, credit card offers, insurance bills, that you don't need to keep but contain personal identifying information
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
i don't want to keep that shit but it feels weird and exposing to just throw it in the trash. i need a shredder
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
doorslammers
― j., Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
loud talkers
im rite next to u guy
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:21 (seven years ago) link
shirt tags
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
hot farts
"creamer"
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
― j., Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:41 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
people who slam toilet seats in public restrooms. it's the most startling bullshit bc if im in another stall i can't see what's happening and then i hear this loud crack
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
my toilet seat at home doesn't stay up unless i hold it. i still don't always remember that so it slams down in the middle of a piss sometimes
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
passing a warm one in winter is almost pure bliss tho
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
when you take the bins trash out and come back upstairs and spot the inevitable missed item of rubbish
useless paper mail, e.g. bank statements, credit card offers, insurance bills, that you don't need to keep but contain personal identifying information― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:28 (one hour ago)i don't want to keep that shit but it feels weird and exposing to just throw it in the trash. i need a shredder― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:29 (one hour ago)
i don't want to keep that shit but it feels weird and exposing to just throw it in the trash. i need a shredder― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:29 (one hour ago)
I have a shredder and these are still displeasures because it always seems an annoying faff to get the shredder out so they just sit around until I can be bothered to shred them lose them and then find them a month later and can't remember if I kept them for a reason
I keep my bank statements anyway but they always come with one page of actual statement and one page of same-every-month "useful information" which still has my name and card number on, argh
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
the way americans say 45 hundred when they mean 4 thousand 5 hundred.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
when i change the start time for a meeting in my calendar from, say, 1:00 to 1:15, the calendar automatically changes the end time from 2:00 to 2:15. this happens in google calendar and it happened in outlook when i used to use that. it is mildly annoying
― marcos, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
definitely can relate to this. one of those struggles between efficiency and human nature. it doesn't matter that the end time automatically updating is correct way more often, the minor irritation of having to fix it on the other occasions stays with you more.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
this pisses me off at least once a week. i never ever want the end time it gives me!
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
surely if the appointment is an hour long, if you move it forward it should automatically change the end time really?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
if you push the meeting back past the original end time, what then? you risk opening up an anti-meeting portal in your calendar that sucks up every other appointment in its path.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
dick twitches
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 3 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
belongs in the GREAT REAL NAMES thread, surely
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 4 August 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
link me
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 12 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link