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

Using the word "blog" when what you mean is "blog post". Fuck you.

People, after all these years, STILL saying "log on to our website at blablabla.com" when they mean go to, surf to, check out. Logging on is entering a username and a password. :-/

People introducing memes from like four years ago as if they're brand new: hey, check out these cat pictures with funny comments on them, hahaha!

i.e. http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif

pomplamoose

Zooming in on someone's face when they're about to cry. TV makers do this ALL the time and it always angers me.

pomplamoose

The Fresca flavor??????

people who stick their rucksacks on the overhead rack on buses and trains, and leave the straps hanging down and swinging around.

^^^ you tall bastard

ppl with rucksacks on trains. you such a rugged motherfucker get out and walk.

had to hoik my 168cm 20 kilo snowboard bag up onto a rack above head height this morning, after a restless night on a sleeper train with no heating. that's rugged.

People who put their rucksacks on the seat next to them on a packed train, then act all indignant when you ask if they mind moving it. You buy a ticket for both those seats or just one, fucker?

ah yeah but sure that's standard

also far from innocuous

leaning over and quietly saying 'i dont mind sitting on that' has always yielded the desired

hot damn, out of context thread

not that kind of bag

Guilty of putting bags on the top rack, but that's what it's for surely? I try not to let the straps hang, but trains get crowded and often it involves more effort and movement than you'd think. Indefensible are the people who treat their luggage as another person when the train's crowded. These are arseholes.

People not standing on the right on tube escalators utterly drives me around the bend.

but even worse than this are those who walk on the left but stop walking when the escalator levels off. Why the fuck would anyone stop walking at the point where you are on flat ground, and it becomes easier to walk? WHY?

seasonal gripe: people who announce how much they hate Christmas music

fuck you, Christmas music is awesome

People not standing on the right on tube escalators utterly drives me around the bend.

but even worse than this are those who walk on the left but stop walking when the escalator levels off. Why the fuck would anyone stop walking at the point where you are on flat ground, and it becomes easier to walk? WHY?

if a brusque "excuse me" doesn't get these cunts moving out of my way IMMEDIATELY, i have no compunction about basically mowing them down

when i'm 2p short and the guy behind the counter insists on the full amount? you just guaranteed i'm not coming back after i go to the cashpoint

Oh god, escalator/stairway stress every morning at Baker Street station. I have to bite my tongue and resist the urge the temptation to just snap 'IS IT CONCEIVABLE THAT I MIGHT ACTUALLY BE INVISIBLE TO YOU? YOU FUCKING CLOWN!' at some poor unknowing tourist.

I don't understand people who stop on escalators anyway. Escalators are there to help you get somewhere quicker. If you're not disabled and have full function of your knees, then keep walking you fat lazy slob. This especially annoys me when I get into work, which has a single-file escalator. Paritcularly if my train is late, and I've run from the station only to be greeted by some fucktard who just stands there while the machine takes him/her up the stairs. MOVE!

I mow down European tourists on the reg in Grand Central or etc, on escalators or flat ground. What is people's problem that they get into a stream of moving traffic and then STOP? Bowled over some skinny young man (Italian? Didn't stick around to find out) on my way through this morning, with a grudging "Excuse me." If we all politely part ways so they can stand out like a rock in a stream while they look at a freaking map, THEY'LL NEVER LEARN.

So I guess I'm one of those horrible Americans who thinks that I'm really important and my needs should come first, fuck your quality of life, this is why we can't have nice things in our country.

makes me mad: people who walk really close behind and slightly to one side of you, so you move to the other side to let them past, but they don't, so you move further over and drag yrself through the gutter but they still don't go past

makes me really mad: people who keep on with above until some immovable object appears on your side of the pavement and they haven't left you enough room to step round it, so you just have to stop dead while they stride obliviously past

seasonal gripe: people who announce how much they hate Christmas music

fuck you, Christmas music is awesome

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Monday, December 6, 2010 11:55 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Word. Even my agnostic, raised Catholic, bitterly-prejudiced-against-Christianity wife was running around yesterday singing "O, Come All Ye Faithful". If you don't like Christmas music, you probably have shit in your ears.

On a more innocuous tip, walking behind those little mini suitcases with the long handle on two wheels drive me really insane. And I really don't know why, but again the urge to lash out and boot one for no reason is so high. I guess somewhere in my 17 years in London I've devolved into some sort of point to point travel nazi.

I've tried stopping dead to let people walking towards you pass in a tight spot but it seems really aggressive.

I don't hate "Christmas Music", but I do object to endless poor-quality iterations of "Jingle Bells" that are played in stores.

MaresNest, those wheelie-suitcases are a health and safety nightmare. The number of times I've nearly broken all my teeth by tripping over one, I'm serious. People love them though. I see those people and I'm all "Oooh don't you love your little wheelie suitcase, don't you. Yes you do. You go home at night and dream about your lovely little wheelie suitcase and you sleep with a whole load of them and you can't wait till the next morning so you can whip it out and trip me up when I'm rushing to get to platform 10b, yes you fucking wheeliecase c**t".

Ha, yep they're so *dinky*

I've been known to announce 'move it or lose it, tourist' on the Tube escalator in my finest American accent.

If I'm going home from work I am not above the "excuse me"/barge through manoeuvre on tube escalators, I'm a right impatient bastard. I'm a bit more chilled at other times.

xmas music is great, having to hear it every single place you go, or in your place of employment for 8 hours straight, is not

in your place of employment for 8 hours straight, is not
I'm trying to distract a coworker long enough to disable his computer's speakers.

barging through people to get somewhere-- several levels above innocuous, tbh

I wouldn't say I hate christmas music, but a month of this stuff is too much. Should be restricted to the week preceding christmas.

I guess I also kind of dislike christmas music because in my head it is always associated with busy shopping malls.

6pm at Piccadilly Circus will soon drain you of any humanity xpost

barging through people to get somewhere-- several levels above innocuous, tbh

I am totally That Barger. No apologies. It's rush hour at one of the largest transit hubs in the largest city in this entire country; plan your tourism for another time of day or get to one side. These are your options.

yes.

Ditto the Euros in the cafe trying to get a sit-down breakfast and taking 17 minutes to read the overhead coffee menu board and asking what PANCAKES are, when 8968929023 hungry office workers are due at their desks in 10 mins.

I remember a couple of years ago there were these two ladies in their 50s going down a really long escalator standing side by side talking and being annoyed at always having to move aside to let people pass and one of them says "if they want to walk why don't they just take the stairs?" and it really annoyed me that they had such a fundamental misunderstanding about how escalators are supposed to work.

On Escalators:

In transportation hubs, yes, keep moving. We're on a schedule and you can relax once you're at the Diamond Joe's Coffee Beanery next to your gate.

At the mall, hold your horses. I've gone through hell and back for wrought-iron soap dish holder, and for now, I'm just going to relax for 20 seconds as I ascend into the clouds toward the third level. I can smell the beans from Diamond Joe's from here.

every one of these posts really deserves a comedy followup from the point of view of the angry-making person

Well, I'm sure the gorgeous French/Italian/Spanish/German family with impeccable grooming and accents and beaming little children who look 300% cooler than American kids and are paying top dollar for breakfast in Midtown on their holiday, they probably hate me and all my kind. I don't care about them, though, is the thing. They just came here to shop and "see America", and will go home and do nothing but talk about how much worse New York is than European cities.

ITT ILX posters attempt to make every stereotype about people living in large cities into a reality

btw 8 hours of Christmas music on loop at work? YES PLEASE (esp if I get to program the music; I will carol your ASS)

(I am thinking I shouldn't continue too far into the holiday season with this display name)

in your place of employment for 8 hours straight, is not
I'm trying to distract a coworker long enough to disable his computer's speakers.

― kate78, Monday, December 6, 2010 9:44 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol dan otm. i work with a kate too AINT HAPPENING HONEY

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Station: CHRISTMAS