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

12. My boss coming by and saying "how's it going?" and trying to make small talk when he can clearly see that I'm on the phone.

13. People who smoke in front of their young children in restaurants.

then again, that isn't so innocuous

14. Passive aggressive LA sidewalk walkers. Like, either say "excuse me" every time you need someone to move, or be a fucking city person and bowl them the fuck over, a la NYC. This expectation that all others will move out of your way, followed by subsequent bent-out-of-shapedness, is SO FUCKING LAME.

15. People who flash their lights at you in the right lane. If you want to go faster GET IN THE LEFT LANE, YOU FUCKTWIG.

16. People who camp out in the left lane. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!

17. People who make left turns on red. THAT'S ILLEGAL.

LEAVE THE GODDAMN PACKAGE AT THE DOOR, IT WILL NOT SPROUT WINGS AND FLY AWAY

have had them stolen tbh. well just one time. and also i lived above hooligans who sold knockoff purses and meth, so um.

also, the people who send the packages are the ones who choose whether signature is needed or not. it's optional, so blame the person who sent the package really...

18. Someone said this already elsewhere on ILX, but sandwich artist - YOU"RE supposed to know what makes a good sandwich, don't ask me, just make it!!!

19. ILX

20. Pulling up to the drive through and hearing nothing but dead silence for 3 minutes, then hearing a voice get annoyed when you say "Hello?" WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, MASTURBATING?

There is an Italian market in my neighborhood where the dude behind the deli counter makes sandwiches totally based on what the best stuff he has in at that time is. You just ask for a sandwich, and he makes you one.

I have never had a bad sandwich there. And I have them a lot.

He's an artist. Those motherfuckers at Subway are sandwich assembly line workers.

21. People who don't have enough/any change for the tollbooth, and actually get out of their car to ask the cars behind them for change. THESE ARE UNMANNED BOOTHS AND THEY GIVE YOU THREE FREEBIES, JUST DRIVE THROUGH YOU COCKFARMER.

20. Pulling up to the drive through and hearing nothing but dead silence for 3 minutes, then hearing a voice get annoyed when you say "Hello?" WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, MASTURBATING?

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:45 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

idk ones like this don't seem that innocuous to me. i.e. i don't think you're being upset at someone who is being pretty directly rude to you is all that irrational.

I guess it's innocuous because in the grand scheme of things, it's not gonna ruin my day...

22. People who can't do simple math in their heads.

xpost ahh ok. i guess i was expecting more like 'lol why does that bother me, at all' as opposed to 'these are petty things that bother me'

it can be that way too. some of my entries were more your first example than second...

23. use of the word "random" outside of anything mathematical. i think it stems from ppl who use it to describe anything slapstick or absurd (a monkey in hockey skates omg so random!!!!) but i now have a Pavlovian response to it in any context.

I posted this on my FB but

24. People humming along to music they haven't heard or humming something completely unrelated while other music is playing.

He's an artist. Those motherfuckers at Subway are sandwich assembly line workers.

25. People who say things like 'I bought a Subway' for lunch. No, you bought a shitty chain-store sandwich. Giving it a brand name does not make it better.

I think I said this elsewhere, but

26. People who have widescreen TVs/monitors, but don't adjust the aspect ration, so everything is squat and fat.

what if they mean they literally bought a subway? d'ja ever think of THAT?

OK, good point. They bring that fucker to work and I'll be impressed. And I'll use it to go home.

I think my speech patterns for the day have been set to ice cr?m over here: "My mom thinks I'm cool" - the lamest boasts you've ever heard

27. People who call their husbands "DH" on the internet.

28. Rocky Horror pre-shows.

Ugh I hate that one (xpost the DH thing)

29. Stubbing my toe/tripping over something
The other day I tripped over the vaccum cleaner and got SO MAD I almost smashed the full jar of pasta sauce I had in my hand against a wall :/ WTF.

Oh man I just burnt myself AND got a splinter in the past half hour and I was so disproportionately Hulked out. It was fucking stupid.

Haha I do that too. Cat gets under my feet? RARRRGH. Kick foot on table? NNRRGHHHH!!^%%^$ Spill sauce on my shirt? FUCK YOU SAUCE I KILL YOU WITH GUNS.

I had a moment of horrible self-recognition once watching Black Books, and Bernard Black turns on the tap and starts yelling 'Come on! COME ON!' at it in the second it takes for the water to start coming out.

30. mediocrity

31. pedestrians walking in the bike lane THERE IS A MOTHERFUCKING PED PATH PARALLEL TO THE MOTHERFUCKING BIKE PATH

i mostly think this when i am walking on the ped path

32. ppl who don't use turn signals. this may be a holdover from having my foot run over by someone who failed to use a turn signal.

wait what the hell is DH

if it is "da husband" then i reserve the right to be rationally angry

33. bars that have no free option for sober dudes (doesn't affect me but hey i have sober friends)

irrational largely because i expect bar peeps to give out stuff for free, which makes no sense. but cmon fuckers pony up

34. When I say 'Thank you', don't say 'Uh huh." Just don't. BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING LAZY. USE YOUR GODDAMN WORDS.

35. 20-something Little Miss Sunshine barista at my local Starbucks omg I fucking hate you: unless you are 50+ years old, you cannot call me 'sweetie' or 'sweetheart' or 'hon'. In fact, UNLESS YOU ARE A FUCKING WAITRESS FRESHENING MY COFFEE AT A TRUCKSTOP IN EAST FUCKOFF IOWA, YOU CAN EAT A DICK. JUST SHUT UP AND MAKE MY COFFEE. Please.

36. Friendly, engaging conversation first thing in the morning. SHUT UP SHUT SHUT UP YOU RIDICULOUS FREAK OF NATURE.

37. "Orientated".

if it is "da husband" then i reserve the right to be rationally angry

Its "dear husband" afaik. Theres horrid acronyms for the kids too, tho I forget what they are now.

And it makes me think of those columns in womens trashy mags, like "Mere Male" that are all "lol! hubby put a shoe in the REFRIGERATOR, he is SUCH A DUMMY!"

&*^^&% uuughhh.

38. I really hate that sound in YouTubes when there's no sound but breathing and the camera moving around in someone's hand, all Kkkkllonnkkkuuhhhh

east fuckoff

Bicyclists who run stop signs because THEY ARE INVINCIBLE.

39. I really do get irrationally angry on internet AND irl when anyone does the "well CRYSTAL bands are the new WOLF bands" joke or any of its variants ("I'm starting a band called Black Deer Crystal Wolf Bear, right?").

Most people think it's a cute joke, but I've heard it like nine bazillion times. It's like a warning flag that someone pays a enough attention to music to joke about it, but not enough to actually form a substantive opinion on anything.

the fact that LAFTH guy--a professional comedian!--has a variant of it in the jacket copy of his book pretty much cements the fact that he is a total hack

We were making wolf band jokes, like 4-5 years ago

To be fair, the people who usually do this are 20 year old boys who have a tenuous relationship with the physical world and their frontal lobe.

(xp to myself... or maybe not)

For that matter, WOLVES are no longer a hip or funny reference

40. People who eat noisily at their desk in a cramped shared office space. There's someone who's manages to slurp when eating an apple - how's that possible?

41. people who litter
42. people who don't clean their dogs' poop off the sidewalk

actually these belong on the "disgusting savages" thread.

43. people who say they are "going down to X" when they are actually travelling north or vice-versa

Yeah, but on the other hand people pronounce it "Missour-ah," where's your God now?

Actually, the Garden of Eden is in Missouri, but you're right, I guess He's not there.

re: NYC... Actually this did come up recently when the anti-brunch crowd in Williamsburg used the no-alcohol law as a weapon to try to keep people from setting up brunch tables on the sidewalk.

Beer, I believe, is OK as of 2006. It's liquor that's still prohibited. I don't know where that leaves mimosas.

The tiny airplane bottle law was the LOL-iest blue law of all.

Cornstarch for ants? We are developing an ant problem and I have cornstarch and am afraid of poisoning my old sickly cat with ant spray.

Ew what are you people going to cook?

Cornstarch for ants works reasonably well. It looks messy, but less so than having ants running around.

when SC was forced to mix cocktails with those tiny little airplane bottles

My friend worked at a SC-based crab shack that opened a location in Greensboro, NC. She said that at first they priced drinks based on the prices they charged in SC, w/ its tiny-bottle-law. This meant that a Long Island iced tea cost $11, which at a casual restaurant in NC, might as well have been $40.

can we start a new thread? this one crashed my browser twice this morning when i tried to load it.

Got to watch out for buses sometime soon since they are going to be running a few minutes earlier since the kids won't be going to school and thereby delaying them to what is currently the normal timetable. There is only a list of supposed times up as a timetable. That is to say where a bus ought to be baseed on head stops, with no fare stages in between so no real regulation as to where one will be when.
You can currently expect a bus to do what is scheduled as about a half hour trip during the day in about 15 minutes at night. Which means that most of the time the timetable is very out.
So anybody travelling in at the time the schoolkids are normally going in will find their schedules disturbed. At least there is only about 15 minuts between scheduled buses but still I doubt people head in to work very early, so that delay will be telling. Certainly threw people out last holiday time, Easter. I wasn't the only person checking my phone/timepiece to see why a bus was speeding by the stop when I was right on time still walking towards the end of the road. Just got told taht some of them at least were ending already when I bumped into the teacher of the course I'm on dropping his kid off at the child minder's that I walk by en route to the training centre.

can we start a new thread? this one crashed my browser twice this morning when i tried to load it.

― leno dunham (get bent), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah may be time, this thread is at least 3 years old. So probably is time innit?

Only 15717 posts and counting.

I'm usually the first to say bookmark that shit, but yeah, 15,000 posts in one thread might be a special case.

If I had the ability to find old posts in here (and I don't mean "search" since half the time I don't know what I'm looking for), I'd likely not repeat myself so much.

Cornstarch for ants works reasonably well. It looks messy, but less so than having ants running around.

― pplains, Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cornstarch works very well because it wont poison carl's cat and the ant's think its some kind of awesome food but back on the hill after dinner their entire crew is DAS. Its not messy unless you're the type of person who feels the need to stack it 6" high at every door and windowsill *cough*

Where do you put it? Wherever it looks like the ants are getting in?

yep

yknow what I hate? someone ripping the shit out of a tape gun in the middle of a quiet afternoon. and then randomly doing it over...and over...

it's unavoidable. as a serial tape-gun user I understand the conundrum. but that SOUND when you are not expecting it. ugh i hate it

it's like the internal sound of the fabric of my patience being ripped to pieces

I support the creation of a new thread.

So corn starch kills ants, but what about roaches? I wouldn't want to accidentally feed a roach while killing the ants.

boric acid is the thing to use for roaches.

^^^ yes and dont waste any nuclear weapons you might have laying around.

heres a little boric death chamber:

http://www.wikihow.com/Kill-Cockroaches-or-Ants-Without-Pesticide

nb borax is different from boric acid. i think borax is safer to play with. i can't seem to find diatomaceous earth but it sounds awesome. my house has some carpet beetles.

omg i'm really hungry and i just wrote differen't and assid

Substances and mixtures imported into the EU which contain Borax are now required to be labelled with the warnings "May damage fertility" and "May damage the unborn child".[23]

huh

unless you're the type of person who feels the need to stack it 6" high at every door and windowsill effectively kill each and every single ant that infiltrates the domicile *cough*

yeah if corn starch kills ants, it must follow that lots of corn starch kills lots of ants

right yes borax.

so we have the choice of:
a mass ricin style delayed poisoning with cornstarch (ants only)
drying them from the inside out via dehydration with borax (ants and cockroaches)
scattering diatomaceous earth (crushed fossilized hard shell algae essentially) which will slice their bodies to shreds (slugs and small insects, bed bugs, fruit flies, earwigs, tomato hornworms, snails, ticks and cockroaches)

so many ways to kill

don't forget spraying them with hairspray - works well with ants espeically if they're climbing up a wall you don't really care about, then you can leave them shellacked to the wall to serve as a warning to the other ants

i am ant hitler, sorry

both of my kids have had come in with tick burrowed into their skin in the past week and the dropping fruit from our persimmon tree attracts insane amounts of fruit flies every summer. i feel a diatomaceous earth purchase coming on.

I'm still wondering if roaches would feast on cornstarch.

it's probably like a perfect bulking food for roaches and will turn them into horse-sized monsters

Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Compared to places like Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon that have one state-run liquor store per town that close at 7pm and aren't open Sundays it was positively luxurious.

You can buy booze in grocery stores in WA now!

True, but in the year since the law kicked in I have yet to buy liquor in WA. I live right over the Idaho border and booze is easily 25% less in the state liquor store over there. Cigarettes are like half the price there too because it's Idaho and who are you to tell them they can't smoke?

It'll be funny next year when all the Washingtonians still buy smokes and booze in Idaho but all the Idahoans will be heading over this way to buy weed.

Compared to places like Minnesota, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon that have one state-run liquor store per town that close at 7pm and aren't open Sundays it was positively luxurious.

You can buy booze in grocery stores in WA now!

― kate78, Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:26 PM (2 hours ago)

hey wait now, mn does not have state owned liquor stores, and they close at 10 on weekdays depending on city ordinance. they are closed sundays which is stuuuupid

State owned or not, it just seems that buying liquor or higher than 3.2 beer in MN is a pain in the ass.

I didn't mind while I worked at Liquor Depot off Washington. "New Year's Eve? Let's close at 10, and buy the way, feel free to buy your drinking resources at cost."

*Sniff*

the sound of drumsticks clicking to count off a song

relatedly, bass players who do brief little noodly things right after a song finishes, like a little string slide or a quick thump.

I believe I have the same hatred for guitar solos.

FYI: This thread has been retired. Here is the new one:

Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier