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

if i'm getting in an elevator, and there are other people already in it, i'm always keen to do everything with maximum efficiency and as little delay as possible. so i'll turn and stick my hand out toward the keypad, but then sometimes my floor as already been pressed. so, press it again.

sometimes the elevator doors will respond to the button press as if you had pressed "Door Close"

Which also does nothing.

you cold also theoretically just drop your pants and announce "anyone is free to inspect my private areas!!" instead of pressing door close

if I get on an elevator and my floor has been pressed, I turn an accusing eye on my fellow passengers and shout "WHO DID IT??? WAS IT YOU????????"

today I walked the stairs becuase I didnt wan to ride an elevator with a chef - was that wrong?

Which also does nothing.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:35 PM (2 minutes ago)

...except satisfy my primal button-pushing urges. Those are important!

xpost, did you think he wanted to tongue-kiss you?

you cold also theoretically just drop your pants and announce "anyone is free to inspect my private areas!!" instead of pressing door close

I can't stop laughing at this.

I was being serious - its better than getting frenched in every 'vator!

I'm rather unconvinced by the pressing floor button makes door close theory. How do you guys know that the door didn't close as it would have anyway? Do you actually time this stuff to be sure? I think the elevator knows what it's doing.

Trust. It's what friends do.

Who, you and Otis?

It's one of those facts that continually makes the rounds in psych and social-themed articles, with citations, so I'd believe most close buttons do nothing.

I'm rather unconvinced by the pressing floor button makes door close theory. How do you guys know that the door didn't close as it would have anyway? Do you actually time this stuff to be sure? I think the elevator knows what it's doing.

― Kim, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:52 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

On some elevators pushing the floor button or the "door close" one makes the doors shut, and on some it doesn't. On the ones I use regularly, it does (work, courthouse (U.S. one, but not the state one, IIRC), and home.

I don't know if this is common, but at my workplace, you can make the doors stay open by pressing the number of the floor at which you are standing. That is until it gets fed up and sounds a terrible alarm then overrides the buttons so that the doors close.

The lift at my workplace most certainly obeys the door close button, cos if you dont press it you stand there like a chmp for a full minute before the doors close.

When you go out of your way to buy delicious fruit that you look forward to eating and it lets you down

- pluot that tasted like detergent
- fucking mealy-ass fuji apple

Boo. Grouchy snacks.

people who stand there pumping pedestrian crossing buttons are the worst.

OK, elevator irritation:

People in lift.

Person outside "No, it's OK, I'll get the next one"

Doors begin to close, person outside pushes lift button. Lift doors stop closing and open.

Person outside "No, it's OK, I'll get the next one"

(After the third time, I had to get out of the lift and chase the person saying "STOP PRESSING THAT BUTTON UNTIL WE'VE GONE!!!)

a coworker's ringtone is blur's "song 2" and now I've had that song stuck in my head for 3 days.

also, I keep expecting him to answer his phone with a loud "WOOHOO!" but instead he answers with a polite "hello".

I keep expecting him to answer his phone with a loud "WOOHOO!"

If only!

VegemiteGrrl, mealy apples are the WORST. Especially when I've been looking forward to an afternoon apple all day and then bleh.

It's the definition of disappointment!

people who stand there pumping pedestrian crossing buttons are the worst.

You wouldn't believe how many clueless tourists and sidewalk badasses don't do this. They cross with the stoplight and not the pedestrian box.

I push it so the box says WALK and if I get hit by a car, I can sue them for a million bucks.

― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:09 AM Bookmark

http://tinyurl.com/whitepony

OMG

That's cool - does it make you irrationally angry? (I know the horse falls, but they're not made of china.)

That makes me irrationally anxious because 1) will that horse break a leg??? and 2) somebody once said of a horse rolls on the ground its intestines will twist up and it will die. Is that horse going to die, Jesse?

Healthy horses will get down and roll on purpose sometimes (for a dirt bath or back scratching) if they feel safe and unthreatened. Sometimes they'll roll because they're in gastric distresss, and it's important to keep them up then. A fall or roll wouldn't automatically be dangerous to that horse.

Thank you. I can enjoy that gif now.

the Horse WmCerer

I hate when herring fart

I think my wife would freak out if I sent her that gif. She is one hundred percent okay with blood, guts, and gore in her movies, but the moment she anticipates and violence or harm about to befoul a horse she tenses up something fierce. Its a testament to the quality of Game of Thrones that she was able to make it through the entire season with all the horse violence.

does she know ho wglue is made?

not having enough work to do in a job...i fucking hate this so much.

not having enough work to do -> more ilx time

does she know ho wglue is made?

pretty sure knowing something happens and actually seeing something happen are two completely different things

not having enough work to do -> more ilx time

nah i can't relax properly for this in work...i much rather being busy and connected to everything.

i mean in nearly 10 years of posting here i've never posted on ilx with any clothes on...not about to start now

It bothers me when horses fall flat on their backs in old westerns. They are twisting and falling at really terrible angles, and I am certain some of them got hurt. :(

Didn't a lot of horses die/get hurt during the filming of Conan the Barbarian?

Also they drowned real rats in The Food of the Gods, which is too bad because it is otherwise a spectacular movie.

I was watching "Stagecoach" the other evening and wondering how many horses died filming the big final chase.

^My grandfather's in that.

Seriously, though - I was really into horse racing when I was little but now, I think it's really inhumane and cannot watch it.

i accidentally put some bleach in with the non-white bedding! i feel so racist over my irrational laundry-integration anger!

arm & hammer vs. board of education

2) somebody once said of a horse rolls on the ground its intestines will twist up and it will die. Is that horse going to die, Jesse?

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

they say this about great danes too but mine does it all the time. she pukes a gallon a neon yellow liquid sometimes too.

by the way that pony doesnt look like its new to playing with that ball so dont worry

Seriously, though - I was really into horse racing when I was little but now, I think it's really inhumane and cannot watch it.

― chavatar (suzy), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:34 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

pretty sure a lot of owners are obsessively in love with their cash horse

does she know ho wglue is made?

― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

My father was an industrial chemist that invented different types of glue. i never made the horse connection before *GASP*

not having enough work to do -> more ilx time

nah i can't relax properly for this in work...i much rather being busy and connected to everything.

― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I hate this too. I usually ask my boss if someone needs help to stay busy. problem is they usually don't.

I usually ask my boss if someone needs help to stay busy
Wow, i bet your colleagues love you!

they prolly do but like, let's be honest, I'm not doing it to be some awesome employee, I'm doing it to A. prevent boredom and B. make sure this isn't an excuse to lay me off in two months time! lol

when i was at my last job, i did everyone else's work -- i didn't care about the job or the company, but i'm a responsible person and i wanted to see the work get done.

i mean, i did care about the job, but i wasn't being supercareerist or anything.

It's a lot easier for me to do the shit than to wait for the shit to mosey its old way down the proverbial pipeline.