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

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"decimate" is the new "penultimate."

808s and Hatebeak (get bent), Friday, 1 October 2010 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link

stifling lols at the citrix thing here.

kkvgz, Friday, 1 October 2010 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

ledge, Friday, 1 October 2010 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah the Citrix thing made me cack myself, Citrix is a POS.

cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Friday, 1 October 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Pseudo Operating System?

meta the devil you know (onimo), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link

128. People who say "God Bless", how do you know I don't worship the sun. fuck you.

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link

How do you know God doesn't?

Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link

I dunno, for God to create something, then immediately worship it right after, I guess that would mean God=Prince.

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link

God could probably bless you even without your consent

peter in montreal, Friday, 1 October 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link

I have Citrix, where's MY laser????

I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Friday, 1 October 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link

"decimate" is the new "penultimate."

― 808s and Hatebeak (get bent)

But wait, penultimate still means penultimate, right? Because the expanded meaning of decimate is becoming standard useage, but I would murder anyone who uses penultimate to mean anything other than second-to-last.

(Also, I think the above may be my favourite username ever.)

emil.y, Friday, 1 October 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I have Citrix too, for GoToMeeting.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link

People who say 'bless you' when you sneeze. I might be sneezing three times in a row, you gonna do this every time? You want me to say thankyou every time? LET ME SNEEZE IN PEACE.

― ledge, Friday, 1 October 2010 09:19 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yes this! Thank god someone agrees with me. I started a thread about this a few years back and most people leapt on me for being a D.S. and about it being good manners to say bless you.

village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 1 October 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link

"Bless you" is nice

Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

I've known more than a few people who have used "penultimate" to mean "really really ultimate"

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link

"Bless you" is annoying. I really don't need people commenting on and drawing attention to the fact that I've just tchacked a bunch of snot into my hand. Seriously, fuck off.

village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link

wow

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link

A very religious woman i worked with complained to management about someone saying "bless you" after someone sneezed and "aww bless" to something nice or cute, saying it wasn't right to keep saying it?
Stupid woman!

not_goodwin, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link

I sneeze all the time, like it is my job, and I've trained my coworkers to hold off on all the blessing until the series is complete. I'd prefer if it didn't happen at all but what are you gonna do?

kate78, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Co-worker just sneezed and I didn't say "bless you", thanks for alerting me to how angry that makes people.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link

waiting for someone to post, "i just sneezed and no one wished me blessings or health! how rude!"

kate78, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link

xposts complaining about it for religious reasons is kind of ridic tbf, but it is a ridiculous and antiquated custom that people use and think is somehow polite. The simple truth is that we no longer have rat plagues killing people off one by one and it's therefore defunct. Is it polite to go "Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link

I hope so, as I do it all the time.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Phwoar! I hope you don't have bum cancer!" if you hear someone fart?

I might have to start saying this :)

not_goodwin, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I feel cheated if I sneeze and no-one says "Bless you". Bereft even.

Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Double bagging at the supermarket.

paulhw, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Phwoar!

kate78, Friday, 1 October 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link

129. Employees who comment at my purchase at the supermarket by saying things like "you don't cook, do you" when I buy 20 tv dinners, or "I guess you don't feel very perky" when I buy Pepto Bismol (both of which have happened). This is why I hesitate to buy condoms in stores!

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link

citrix suck fyi btw ty

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link

What's wrong with double bagging? Some of us walk several blocks to the grocery store and you definitely don't want bag failure on the trip back.

Jeff, Friday, 1 October 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Spesh with them rubbish Tesco bags.

I put one sliced loaf in and it did split.

Mark G, Friday, 1 October 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link

Tesco bags are SHIT aren't they? I guess they're made like that on purpose.

village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link

Thing about sneezing is I usually do it because of photosensitivity, which means like 4-5 big ass sneezes when I leave a building until my eyes adjust to the sun or whatever. I mean I already feel like a jerk sneezing so much but it makes it worse to get 5 'bless you's in succession.

Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Friday, 1 October 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I habitually say 'bless you'...sorry ILX. (Don't know why, not relig at all). However I draw the line at multiples. You'll get maybe 2 'bless you's maximum, and not if they immediately follow each other. Allergies/sneezing attacks, you're doomed, no amount of blessing can save you.

VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 1 October 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link

jeez it's pretty obvious when someone's on a run of sneezes just wait til it's done and bless em once ffs

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

makin me so irrationally angry up in this

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

do you have to indicate via a formal statement that it was an all-encompassing bless?

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

there's a particular hand movement, it's kinda pope-y

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

pope-y g stinkgarten in fact

i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Haha awesome, lemme just tweak dog latin's posts to cover co-workers who always ask "Are you OK?" after every ten-second coughing fit resulting from me choking on my coffee, which I do on a weekly basis.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 1 October 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link

people at bus stops that have been there for 5 + mins, that when the bus actually arrives and enter it, then start to look for money/change or ticket.

not_goodwin, Friday, 1 October 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link

People who, when you ask them to please speak up, do so for the next three words, then drop back to their previous inaudible volume.

Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 October 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link

132. The fact that there is a show on the television named "Thintervention"

the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link

ugh yes hate that fucking show name

horseshoe, Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link

133. Phrases used like Quadrilogy on product. IT'S TETRAOLOGY FFS

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah I hate the word quadrilogy too!! It always makes me think of the Lobster Quadrille from Alice in Wonderland, lol

VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 2 October 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Are you sure about that? I thought Tetralogy was the study of horrible deformations.

I'm a DUDE, Dad! (Viceroy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link

ya know like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy_of_Fallot

I'm a DUDE, Dad! (Viceroy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link

tetralogy = four of something
teratology = study of deformities

kate78, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link

the potential for misuse here is kind of great

VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link


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