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

"Please Je55e may I disembowel you? Thank you."

Ok I just went to Target and I had to get on the floor on my knees like an animal in order to find ANY unscented women's deodorant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8LzZpZVfxM

Haha.

If they did lyrics fill in the blank for The Glove at pub quiz, I would be so victorious.

I'm not a pervert, but I'm enjoying Laurel and VG planning on disembowling me.

LL, have you ever seen the music videos for some of The Glove's songs?? I stumbled on them on YT one night. I had no idea they existed!

\Probably not irrational but...

Coworker just bought some Halmark stuffed rabbit toy that comes with a book, and you read the book and the toy responds to voice commends. The books are all about how the little girl rabbit wants to be a grown woman but is really into tea parties and dress up and lots of girl things. Anyway, the one sample interaction goes like this:

Reading person: Abigail, is that how a lady acts?
Stuffed rabbit responds, giggling: No. I'm so embarrassed!

I deserve a damn academy award for keeping a neutral face during this display. I want to throw that town in the fucking lake.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:23 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mom-in-law bought evie one of these books but not the stuffed puppy that's supposed to go with it so there are all these bolded cue words in the book but nothing happens when you get to those parts

you don't have an animated zucchini that talks or something? slackers!

je55e -- no, i haven't. but i will look.

xpost Je55e you are so too a pervert, just not for those reasons

(I don't know why exactly, it just seemed fun to say)

Emails from a CSR at a major telecommunications company with signatures like

"The Heart of Worshipping [sic] is Worship from the Heart"

My desire to kill you is killing my desire for you

LL, have you ever seen the music videos for some of The Glove's songs?? I stumbled on them on YT one night. I had no idea they existed!

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 21:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember a TV show performance. That's probably around someplace...

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http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/film/cinema.yodas/12.jpg

He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.

To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.

Lol I thought of that dude as well!

So our admin brought her granddaughter to work today (this is not IA-making, as the child is clever and well behaved and has drawn me one picture and given me two hugs) and gave her the Gender Norm Enforcing Lady Rabbit book'n'toy and the kid has not read the entire book once. Instead she just reads the tag lines to get the rabbit to respond. Ha.

(also, unless the children are absolutely vile or mean, I like kids at work because I was always the kid at work growing up and I have a lot of fond, formative memories of chilling in people's cubes and drawing pictures on the chalk board or reading the old Reader's Digests in the nurses' lounge, and also work is boring and having kids around gives me an excuse to watch cat videos on my work computer.)

Beeps came up here with me for a few hours yesterday. It was weird to be talking to someone only to have my daughter walk up behind me. Worlds colliding…

Her proudest moment came when I gave her a shiny dollar coin and told her to get something out of the vending machine and her five-year-old mind was able to work out the two-digit code under the doritos, put the money in, punch in code and retrieve said doritos by herself.

wtg beeps!

that's an important rite of passage <3

That is excellent.

(ps I got a third hug)

well what lovely kid wouldn't hug a carl, I mean really :)

I agree!
Her 7th birthday is Monday and my coworkers were throwing money at this kid because of it. I swear she walked out of here with $20 in singles. I thought that was really weird.

Not to give a kid birthday money, but a coworker's grandkid whom you just met? Is that a thing grow ups are supposed to do?

that's v weird

not to mention grownups throwing singles at a child haha

Don't bring your kids to my work. And definitely don't let them hug me.

I don't know why this makes me IA, and I feel bad but... a friend of mine had a cancer scare recently, and mostly dealt with it in private and just told a few close friends. He got the tentative all clear today, and so put a message up in the online group we're part of. So everyone says yay for him and he jokes about it and all is well.
So later today I see that this girl in our group has posted a youtube video for him , of a talk show with a comedian talking about having the same kind of cancer.

And I'm like, really? Who thinks: oh hey "people talking about cancer" hey person who might have had cancer but actually doesn't, you might enjoy this?

I get that she thought it was a funny conversation and it kind of is but ugh it just sat SO wrong for me.

Better question is maybe how he reacted to it?

I was sick in one of the more comical areas of one's anatomy, so I was okay with the humor. Last summer, one of our executive guys told a girl in the office who had recovered from thyroid cancer that her new nickname was "Deep Throat", and well, that one didn't go over so well.

whoa. yeah I can't imagine why not. crikey.

he had the cancer scare in the comical region too, actually had the orchiectomy. overall he's been really open about it and LOVES a good laugh, so I know he'll be cool with the vid.

The more I think about it the more I'm just being catty, maybe it's more I don't like this girl than I don't like what she posted. :/

ia: overhearing on facebook that there's some big dinner with an ex-professor and nobody even thought to invite me, even though i'm VERY REACHABLE through e-mail and facebook and even the goddamn phone, i mean why don't you just come out and SAY that i'm not awesome enough to hang out with you? congrats on your awesomeness though, that must be fun, i wouldn't know.

friends who post links to articles about peak oil or water wars or whatever, and then remark with much gravity "for a long time i have felt that we are approaching a precipice ... "

JBR: ugh thats happened to me with the very close-knit group of ex workmates I still see a lot of, I found out a large group of them were having regular steaknights and no one had ever once asked me along. I was really quite put out by it. In fact I mentioned so to one guy and he expressed suprised, apologised and said he'd include me on the list... and I still dont get invited.

:(

That's so dumb. If you lived close to me, Trayce, I'd invite you to everything.

co-sign 4 life

Netflix makes me irrationally angry now because its search results won't include DVD-only titles if you're logged in to a streaming-only account.

Waffling makes me exasperated. Don't waffle. Have an idea--I might judge you for it but at least I won't be annoyed.

people who microwave leftover fish in the work break room

no fish in the micro at work - that should be a rule

Leftover fish is kind of a gross thing to eat anyway.

one night we got a lot of snow and I had to go 15 miles on the highway, but it was late and there was nearly no traffic. after about 10 minutes a guy in a huge truck gets on and slides up riiiight behind me. I'm going only 30, but he doesn't pass me (don't blame him - I couldn't see the road!) - instead he just stays about 6 feet behind me ALL THE WAY HOME, with his supercharged lights reflecting right off my mirror. several times I hit pure black ice and couldn't accel at all. I wanted to go faster but if I hit the accelerator any harder I would spin out. I wanted to shout "Hey asshole, it's just you and me on the road, if you want to get there safely all you have to do is NOT HIT ME!!!"

Waffling makes me exasperated. Don't waffle. Have an idea--I might judge you for it but at least I won't be annoyed.

I wish I could learn not to waffle because I get so IA when my dad does it.

(So almost every day when I lived with him I would inevitably say something impatient and then HE'd get angry and call me petulant and childish and then start again even more longwindedly and a giant family-wide meltdown would start, all the time, over some minor thing like "what should I write on this form" or "did you put the kettle on". Sigh.)

woke up half an hour late because I didn't set my alarm this morning, so that's IA right there

grabbed my Vans out of the closet in the dark, put them on in the darkened living room and flew out the door.
It wasn't until I walked out of Sbux to my car that I realized I was wearing 2 different Vans, (1 flamingo, 1 checkerboard for those following along at home)

fml fml fml

all the kids are doing it

they will be now.

saw japanese kid on the tube around christmas who had odd shoes on. same style, in different colours. can you buy them like that in japan or did he just have two pairs?

I've seen some old-school kicks back in the 90's that came out with odd colors, but that was way back when that was a thing.

I'd guess he had 2 different pairs.

It's just a Punky Brewster tribute, nbd.

Irrational anger: the suffix '-ista'.

especially when applied to males, i.e. "fashionista"

At least wearing Vans of the same style (slip-ons?) but totally different patterns could be thought of by most people who see you today as intentional. I once wore two nearly identical but not quite black sandals to work. It wasn't until about 3 that I realized I'd spent the whole day wearing odd shoes.

We have a microwaved fish situation in the kitchen here right now. It's not good.

<3 Enbb, yeah I guess I'm not quite as badly off as I could be

and my sweater's not inside out or anything!

See? You're golden.

:D