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

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

Italian/Cockney heritage

Italney? Cocklian?

I'm just imagining a mashup of those two accents

romeford

51. I have a friend who corrects me every time I say "black comedy" as she says the proper term is obviously "dark comedy" since the prior one obviously means stuff like Richard Pryor. OH YEA THEN WHY COME EVERYBODY ELSE USES THAT TERM, FECK OFF!

besides, Richard Pryor would be "Black comedy", not "black comedy"

Ha, my wife refers to African-American comedies as "black comedies". I'm trying to slowly and gently correct her. This weekend we'll be watching Dr. Strangelove, for instance.

52. Hear me out here:

I go to this bus stop every morning. The first people to arrive sit down on the bench under the shelter, then everybody else wraps around the outside of the shelter, with the line forming a bit of a tail once the number of people grows so large that they can't fit around the edge of the bus shelter.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/busstop1.jpg

However, once the bus arrives, the tail group of people break off from the line and form their own line that simply waits there until everybody else has wound their way around the bus shelter and into the bus.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/busstop2.jpg

I guess that the intent is to somehow be efficient and save the extra ten steps or so that it would take to get around the bus shelter, but it drives me nuts, like to the point where I want to yell at them.

God, I'm really glad to have gotten that off my chest.

yr friend is being just ridiculous.

34. When I say 'Thank you', don't say 'Uh huh."

I only hear this in the States and every time I can't quite believe it. I'm saying Thank you here!! Say anything but Uh huh. so weird.

Sry - xps

xxxp Try it Italney/Cocklian style, where everyone tries to cram on board the bus at once without regard for their place in the queue, all the while saying things like "'ere Guvnor! you just elbowed me in the apples and pears! Cock sparra' 'ow's yer diddler macaroni pastrami marscapone?!"

stuff like that irks the hell out of me.

xxxpost - yea I remember when I was a kid, the girl who used to pick us up and drive us home always said "uh huh" after I said thanks and I interpreted it to mean "yep, I did something for you", which came off as rude.

53. People who sit and wait for someone to back out of a parking spot when there are 3,000 other parking spots available in the lot. IS IT THAT IMPORTANT THAT YOU SAVE YOURSELF THREE EXTRA STEPS, GO MATE WITH A KANGAROO YOU NUNRAPING SON OF A DISHTOWEL

34. When I say 'Thank you', don't say 'Uh huh."

I only hear this in the States and every time I can't quite believe it. I'm saying Thank you here!! Say anything but Uh huh. so weird

I only recently realized that I do this. I've been making a concerted effort to say "you're welcome". No idea where I picked it up.

probably from one of the people at the bus stop

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.

Doesn't seem to bother me when I eat apples. I thought the juice came from crushing apples.

most of the apple juice I drink doesn't come from real apples.

"you got it" is my go-to when thanked

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.

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They do? I never heard of that.

I often say "no problem", which actually is a response that irks a lot of people too.

I think 'sure' 'no problem' 'cheers' 'yeah!' even 'you got it!' are all fine in place of the ideal 'you're welcome' and pos easier to say than the moronic sounding 'Uh huh', which has only ever come out of my mouth when engrossed with something and answering half-there.

I also worry that if I hear Uh huh around enough I will accidentally start saying it!

They do? I never heard of that.

It's not an officially stated rule, but it's one that our local expressway authority admitted to following on their message board. IE, they waited until 3 violations until they sent you a warning. Most of the locals are aware of it, via word of mouth.

The main reason is that there are many booths that are now completely unmanned, with two lanes: one for people with transponders (ie, prepaid tolls, which I do), and then the Exact Coin lanes. Some of the transponder lanes don't even require stopping, they're just open lanes with little sensors on a tower up above that scan your transponder. So lots of people not native or new to the state get confused and go in this lane by mistake.

In addition, some people go to the unmanned lane with bills needing change, and can't get it because there's nobody there. So they don't penalize you because of these inconveniences (before I had a transponder, the unmanned lane thing really pissed me off).

That's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it uh-huh uh-huh...

That's the way you're welcome no problem I like it cheers yea you got it

and when i say "you got it" i make a little pistol with my hand and make a "pew pew pew" motion at them, then blow the "smoke" off my finger

a Paul Edward Wagemann motion? what would that look like?

34. When I say 'Thank you', don't say 'Uh huh."

I've started to say "alright" which is just as bad I think, and I don't know why I started or how to stop. I find it hard to say "You're welcome" - maybe because I'm English? I used to say "no problemo" which must have been v. irritating.

When I first came to Britain, 'you're welcome' was a vulgar Americanism.

See we say "cheers" or "no worries" or "yr welcome" and you lot always complain thats cheesy and weird, but it works dammit.

You could rock the white South African thank you response: "Plezha".

a Paul Edward Wagemann motion? what would that look like?

A mime involving an invite to contribute to a blog. (The rest has been advised against)

They do? I never heard of that.

It's not an officially stated rule,....

I see, US rules. I guess it wouldn't work at the Tyne Tunnel then.

"It's my pleasure" is also British.

54. (Waiter recollection) People who go to the bathroom immediately after being sat, meaning the waiter comes to the table to take the drink order, and not all of the people are there, and nobody knows what they wantedto drink, so you have to COME BACK SEPARATELY and take the drink order. CAN YOU HOLD YOUR PEE FOR LIKE 10 SECONDS AND JUST AT LEAST PUT IN YOUR DRINK ORDER OR AT LEAST LEAVE IT WITH SOMEONE AT THE TABLE?

Hey, they may have just gone to wash their hands...

I don't care I'm an underpaid waiter I DEMAND JUSTICE.

--(me circa 2003)

looks like some people spend their whole lives irrationally angry

xp pretty sure you're actually there for their convenience while they pay to eat in the establishment, and that's from someone whose waited tables aplenty amongst other shitty jobs.

I get sorta ragey at bicyclists who either wear headphones in traffic, no helmet in traffic or Ahh-Argle-Bargle headphones without a helmet in traffic.

I haven't waited tables in years and the main reason was cuz of customer attitudes. and crappy long shifts and never knowing when your shift would end.

i suppose in fairness it is the 'innocuous' thread so yeah ok pass.

ppl speaking too loudly on the phone, society needs to invent a way to make this complaint in a way that doesn't make you seem pedantic

55. Not so innocuous, but people who have loud personal phone conversations in public areas. Look I don't want to hear the messy details of your impending divorce, and I'm sure nobody else here does either.

56. Sloppy walkers. I mean in a really mean way. Walking behind people who slop their heels on the ground at every step, anyone whose feet point way in or way out, women who're dressed nicely but walk like elephants or football players or something -- all this infuriates me. Also: people whose wrists are so loose that their hands flop helplessly on the backswing, fingers all splayed out.

57. People who have (loud) conversations even when they're not in the same room. My girlfriend's entire family does this, really annoying.

58. People who stand on those flat walking escalators instead of walking on them, but stand side by side so that you have to struggle to get past them.
59. People who say "makes you think".

first one isn't innocuous

let's get pedanitc up in this

60. People who challenge whether posts in the "innocuous things that make you irrationally angry" thread are innocuous or not.

:)