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

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

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

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hey, this is OK in seattle. one-way onto a one-way.

44. people shouting into cell phones
45. people shouting upon exiting bars & clubs
46. people shouting to one another as "conversation" in any environment

47. people who frequently want to tell you how incredible their kids and/or pets are

48. people who have to think things over once they get to the register. you're there, fucking buy something.

that's not innocuous that's actively reprehensible

hey, this is OK in seattle. one-way onto a one-way

It's legal here too if you're going one-way onto a one-way, but in FL people do it everywhere, even 4-way traffic lights. Often to make a U-Turn, but sometimes to actually turn left. buncha dumbfucks here.

49. white people who use hip-hop slang ironically, to be funny. OK WE GET IT, IT'S NOT FUNNY, FUCK OFF.

that's not innocuous that's actively reprehensible

yeah half of these thingsa are stright up dickish, not borderline or innocuous!

^was gonna say

There's someone who's manages to slurp when eating an apple - how's that possible?

You have heard of this thing "apple juice?" I don't want to blow your mind, but it comes from APPLES. And sometimes it comes out when you're EATING THE APPLE. Apple juice dribbling down your face is nagl.

like dudes never proof reading their posts (keyboard issues really beginning to cramp my style)

Assumed "thingsa are stright up dickish" was your Italian/Cockney heritage coming through tbh.

ha!

50. People that list Passion of the Christ as an 'important' film.

Italian/Cockney heritage

Italney? Cocklian?

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