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

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

tanuki, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

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.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

<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!

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link

See? You're golden.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link

:D

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link

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?

― koogs, Friday, March 23, 2012 5:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my brother used to do something similar in the mid 80s from what I remember. think it was quite the style on the funk scene or was that 'rare groove'? maybe it grew out of funkateers being either blind or dressing in the dark?

Stevolende, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link

I have flamingo Vans. And fake checkerboard Payless ones. I can wear them together in your honor, VG.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

I had to listen to waffling the other day about using a coupon at store. "I don't know what to do!" Gahhhh.

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link

thanks for your solidarity, haha

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah my ex R wears odd- coloured Docs sometimes. One red one blue.

zooey bechamel (Trayce), Friday, 23 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link

Is curry work microwave-verboten? I'm talking Indian or Thai or any other. It has a strong smell but I don't think it's objectively *offensive* like fish. But idk.

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

eh, some people get whiny but I'm cool with it

mh, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

people who come to complete stops prior to going over the speed bumps in my condo complex. I know SOME forms of speed bumps/humps require this to prevent you fuckin up your suspension but geez ours are meant to drive over at slow speeds like 5 mph.

tired of waiting 10 mins to drive the .5 mile from the gate to my house cuz some dude stops EVERY TIME he arrives at one.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link

Windows Explorers' way of handling photos aggravates me. It doesn't use rotation info from EXIF data, so I have to go in and rotate a bunch of images or use another file viewer. Googling results in basically dealwithit.gif. Ugh.

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

Iphone time settings under settings-->general-->date and time. Not under clock.

ledge, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 08:35 (twelve years ago) link

is that a thing on the new firefox (11) the way it opens images centred on a black background? is ugly.

koogs, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link

not really 'innocuous' but...people who cut you off or almost run you out of your lane in traffic, and don't even give you an obligatory "I'm sorry" gesture with their hand.

worse is when they do give you a gesture, but it's not the one you had in mind. I love being flipped off when someone cuts me off as if it's my fault.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link

- the way scrolling sticks for a couple of seconds every now and then on facebook

we are not bemused (onimo), Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link

that we don't have salt in the office kitchen.

i should buy my own thing of salt and hoard it in my desk and refuse to share it.

future worm food (n/a), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

My boss - Li66y - and I keep salt shakers at our desks. I think courtnoodle does too? I am sort of surprised more or most people don't.

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

mr veg has a peppergrinder at his desk, lol. not just a pepper shaker. a pepper GRINDER.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link

I have a bottle of sriracha, or I did until I used it all

mh, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

mmmmmmmmm sriracha

I enjoy calling it cock sauce (giggle)

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link

I keep salt at my desk.

Jeff, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

I have a drawer full of oranges at work

tanuki, Friday, 30 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

In the drawer to my left: larabars, trail mix
In the drawer to my right: ricolas, emergen-c, and a single purple nitrile glove (no idea where that came from)
no salt :(
no sriracha :(

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

in the draw to my left: soy sauce
in the draw to my right: travel sized crest toothpaste

fine with 49 (sunny successor), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

classy

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link

i know right. no chopsticks or toothbrush though

fine with 49 (sunny successor), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link

Fingers for both, I say.

nickn, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link

L1ggy?

Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 1 April 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link

Jesse's googleproofed nickname for his boss. As it the name is a special nickname he gave his boss, which he then googleproofed. Two-level security.

carl agatha, Sunday, 1 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link

we've been given temporary eyes-only clearance - it's very hush-hush

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link

It's only one level. 6 = b

But we do call her Liggy now. Which makes me think of tubal ligation. And she's a lawyer, so "ligation" makes me think of litigation.

People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Sunday, 1 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, I didn't see that you had written "Li66y." I was just going by Stevie's L1ggy, which is Liggy, googleproofed.

carl agatha, Sunday, 1 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

ipad keyboard makes me IA
it's *just* spread out enough to fool you into thinking you can touch-type but nooooo it's just cramped enough that you hit the N key everytime you try to hit the space key and raaaggh

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link

what about if you split it?

mh, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

split what?

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

there's a button in the lower right of the ipad on-screen keyboard that splits it into right and left sides that are further apart

mh, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link

the hell you say

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link

i'm IA that over the weekend i bought two sticks of the same deodorant, and the deodorant ended up having such a disgusting cheap-perfume smell that it made me nauseous the whole time i wore it. i'm not a delicate flower but i do have some allergies to chemically produced fragrances. anyway, i'm mad that i wasted money and a trip to the drugstore, and i'm mad at arm & hammer, who usually make reputable products, for selling me garbage.

eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

when i was at tj's yesterday, i bought a stick of their house-brand unscented, and it's MUCH better. i can breathe again.

eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link

^ hahaha

Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link

- Yelp keeps defaulting me to London. I have never lived in London!
- Trying to order takeout and NO phone contact details on the website, not even under 'contact' which is a customer feedback form.

kinder, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link

^That last one reminds me...

What I want to see when I visit a restaurant's website: days and hours of operation

What the restaurant thinks I want to see:

the story behind the name of the restaurant
what the chef's grandmother used to cook on Sunday
what TV shows the chef has appeared on
coverage of latest charitable food program sponsored by restaurant
awards won by their desserts
pictures of Tuscany

Josefa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link

- under no circumstances, their phone number

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link

Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link

Also relevant: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?

joygoat, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link

Relevant: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website

Haha! "The Papyrus font," so true.

Josefa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link


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