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

oops, got my 'i's and 'o's wrong

162. people who sign their e-mails with just their first initial

aw cmon srsly?

do you want me to call you "d" if I ever meet you irl

beats shit outta 'daz' if i'm honest, and yeah 'd' is fine.

163. The theme tune to QI.

162. people who sign their e-mails with just their first initial

:( this is something i do as an affectionate thing to friends!

I do "xok" to friends
kisses, hugs, kate

lol at voilagina!

163. The theme tune to QI.

― Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Thursday, 7 October 2010 10:21 (47 minutes ago)

That's one of the best theme tunes on TV though!

Then again I'm kind of a suckah for terrible cod-reggae.

It's one of those tunes that begs for totally made-up lyrics while you hear it.

"Q-I with Ste-phen Fry/He... is rea...lly smart/Al-an is kinda dumb/And I forget about the other one..."

Haha that works pretty well.

Lol "violagina"

164. "Special edition" CD digipacks that are so tightly glued that they tear the first time you get the CD out to play it

Which one?

Most recently, Underworld's 'Barking', and before that Ben Frost's 'By the Throat'

Ive also had that happen with the packaging of the last several seasons of Simpsons on DVD. Stupid carboardy folded packages that end up smearing packaging glue onto the discs :/

165. Being hounded to get in line at a buffet.

164. "Special edition" CD digipacks that are so tightly glued that they tear the first time you get the CD out to play it

See also: price tags and ad stickers that are so tightly glued to the digipack cover you end up tearing it when you try to take them off.

or that leave that evil sticky glue residue that's still there 10 years later...JB HiFi in Melbourne I'm talking to YOU.

166. Not angry, but irrationally shaking my head: The Johnny Depp gif, the Andy Rooney YouTubes, the freaking madlibs getting passed around... All of these things have been online for the past three or four years. Not trying to be "That's sooooo 2008, you guys," but ILX is above my 60-year-old co-worker who keeps forwarding us the meringue dancing dog video.

Are you talking about the word-replacing gifs, or just people posting general gifs a lot? The word replacements really annoy me, but I don't think it's irrational - they are annoying, fact. I certainly don't mind textual things like the DUMPLINGS! substitution, but that doesn't repeatedly flash at me demanding my attention.

See also: price tags and ad stickers that are so tightly glued to the digipack cover you end up tearing it when you try to take them off.

― Tuomas, Friday, 15 October 2010 20:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or that leave that evil sticky glue residue that's still there 10 years later...JB HiFi in Melbourne I'm talking to YOU.

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2010 04:02 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yes! YES! They shall know my RAGE!

Sections/tabs of websites that are headed "contact us" but instead of leading to an informative section with phone number, address, email location and opening hours, automatically opens a 'mailto' email in Internet explorer or some shit.

168. Those wee knobbly bits at crossings in city centres (presumably to stop blind people walking in front of the buses). I should not have to endure mild discomfort through thin-soled shoes just to prevent blind people from dying!

(& you'd think they'd hurt the guide dogs)

still, more than ever, and this burning is an eternal flame: PEOPLE WHO DO NOT JAYWALK

the rage

It's been a while, but:

The person who used to forward "inspirational" messages regarding some child that died but before he/she did, created some epiphany regarding the world/god/etc that was moving and touched the heart of the vicar/priest/mother/whoever.

Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac) wrote this on thread Current Facebook friends status updates on board 7Curtis's 7borad on Jul 23, 2010

next person tries to teach me about JOY IN LIFE gets a tubgirl in return

This is probably the most innocuous thing on the whole thread, and I really don't know why it annoys me: when you're on a bus, and someone rings the bell for the next stop *milliseconds* after it pulls away from the current stop. Just let us believe, just for a moment, that we might move more than 500 yards without stopping AGAIN?

Sections/tabs of websites that are headed "contact us" but instead of leading to an informative section with phone number, address, email location and opening hours, automatically opens a 'mailto' email in Internet explorer or some shit.

Fuck yes. This is the only way anyone remembers they still have Outlook on their home computers, right?

As someone who has spent the past month trying to find the physical addresses of way-too-many college basketball arenas, I second this "innocuous thing".

H8 OUTLOOK

172. Vevo

or that leave that evil sticky glue residue that's still there 10 years later...JB HiFi in Melbourne I'm talking to YOU.

JB Hifi drive me mad with their crappy excess shrinkwrap and stupid stickers grrr.

Do they still use that yellow tape? Argh!!!!

chipmunks...until i shoot them

I'm sure this will be another one that straddles the "innocuous" line for some of us, but after my last two morning commutes - I need to add commuters who sprawl out with their daily newspapers on a packed train.

That's just plain rude. Non-folders are straight-up assholes & deserve our wrath

Yeah I'm with you on that one.

This is probably the most innocuous thing on the whole thread, and I really don't know why it annoys me: when you're on a bus, and someone rings the bell for the next stop *milliseconds* after it pulls away from the current stop. Just let us believe, just for a moment, that we might move more than 500 yards without stopping AGAIN?

I do this, I like to give the driver plenty of warning. And what annoys me is when someone pulls the cord after I have already signaled for a stop. Then they continue to tug on it because they think it's not working. I ALREADY DID IT BRO, RELAX.

people who press the buttons at pedestrian crossings when there are 50 people already there waiting.

Haha, that one cracks me up actually, like we were all sitting there watching this latecomer thinking, "gee, why didn't WE think of THAT!".

Grown women who speak with a fake little girl voice.

Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" has Bern stuck in my head for a couple of days now, and I love the song to death but the subtle wrongness of some of the lyrics is now driving me batshit. They're the only lines stuck in my head now.
"You and I must make a *pack*" - pact! Pact! please say the t at the end, please!
"...she better be good to you / Cause if she *doesn't*, I'll be there"
Isn't! Isn't! GodDAMMIT, isn't!
"look over your shoulders honey!"
Agghhhh Michael you're killing me!

been, not Bern. Ty predictive text

xxxpost

I am guilty of this, but that's because quite often, no-one DID think of pressing the button, I guess assuming someone else did.

Littering. And as a smoker I do this myself, to the extent that I throw cigarette butts onto the sidewalk very occasionally, but with typical "mote in thine eye" nonchalance I'm infuriated by people who can hang out in a public place, crumple something up in their hands or suck the last drops of soda out of a take-out cup, and then just casually drop the remains. Onto a subway track, into the street, right next to you on the sidewalk...it's such a small thing and yet it makes me see red immediately.

maybe they only do it 'very occasionally' though? /just sayin

Ouch.

:)

people who press the buttons at pedestrian crossings when there are 50 people already there waiting.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:00 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha, that one cracks me up actually, like we were all sitting there watching this latecomer thinking, "gee, why didn't WE think of THAT!".

― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:01 AM Bookmark

You wouldn't believe how many clueless tourists and sidewalk badasses don't do this. They cross with the stoplight and not the pedestrian box.

I push it so the box says WALK and if I get hit by a car, I can sue them for a million bucks.