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

Hahaha, I think I've got a new Amazon password.

Pray to the Aqua Backrat.

aqua backrat!!!!!

that would be an amazing name. for, like, a superhero vole.

acrobatic aqua backrat

yup, dats me

A telemarketer with an unsure command of the English language called for Katharine the other day, except kept referring to her as "Godfrey".

I was the only one in the house who thought this was hilarious.

you OTM

hahahaha

A clerical typo at the INS now addresses my husband Clayton as "Clayto".

Ding! Instant nickname.

That's not my Name!

(I was going to retype but realized I'd told this story at least once before)

Barvel!

Dying over here...lololol

"What'd that guy just call me?"

And it makes me think of those columns in womens trashy mags, like "Mere Male" that are all "lol! hubby put a shoe in the REFRIGERATOR, he is SUCH A DUMMY!"

&*^^&% uuughhh.

― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:07 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Massive xpost but this this this x 3297623984729384734. What especially shits me about Mere Male is that it's seen as a subversive way to empower the sorts of women who are writing letters to women's magazines that publish write-in columns like Mere Male.

My surname is so unpronounceable, even for Irish people, that we decided just to give our Daughter her mother's surname instead, so she wouldn't spend her whole life spelling it, then pronouncing it, then spelling it again, and then wincing when even people who know you well get it wrong.

I don't know how Welsh people cope in the rest of the world. My dad has a Welsh middle name (Gwydir, pronounced goy-der), and it's never been written correctly on official forms. He gets 'goiter' a lot.

everything, tbh

n. I know we've done people who take up THE ENTIRE WIDTH of an escalator but those people who, when you give up asking politely and resort to pushing past them, get all uppity and entitled ('omg how rude' etc.)
n. People who in 2010 have clearly never used an ATM before and forego READING THE INSTRUCTIONS in favour of randomly poking shit at snail pace until their money comes out (possible actively reprehensible)
n. Peds who think they have right of way everywhere and crack the shits at you for driving a car on a car road full of cars that is built for cars
n. All combovers
n. People who, in naming their new child, eschew actual person names in favour of smashing their face on a keyboard ('this is our new son Phylayhgan')
n. Men who wear black jackets, black executive shoes, white shirts and jeans, and lean forward ever so slightly
n. Men who think rocking a goatee means they deserve respect
n. People who sit on the train in giant clumps reading the local free Murdoch rag like the braindead zombies they are
n. People who greet me loudly by name in office toilets
n. Baristas who serve soy lattes above the requisite 60° temperature
n. People who hold open the lift for their slow mates
n. When you turn up at a client site to run a five-person workshop and 10 turn up, including the CEO who uses his clout to derail the whiole bloody thing
n. Those tiny stickers on fruit
n. Just all moustaches

You guys sure get angry a lot.

RARR WHAT DO YOU MEAN :)

my sister's middle name is phylayhgan u dick

In that case I am deeply sorry Bhryhshayhlin Darraghmac, please accept my apologies.

bhryhyshaylin is how an irish traveller instructs a child they are to come in for the evenin

- flaky people who either don't keep plans or refuse to make them until the very last minute
- baggers at the grocery store who put each item in a separate bag

- People who indignantly spell hifalutin 'high-falutin'
- People who see you taking a self-portrait, STOP YOU and insistently offer to do it for you, srsly wtf do you think the point of a self-portrait is
- People who say 'infer' when they mean 'imply'

ENBB otm about flaky people

One of my best friends is this way. We arrange to go places to movies or out for dinner and she'll still say the night before, "Give me a call tomorrow" or somehow make it so that I still have to chase her and I'm like "No bc if I call you'll say you're not feeling well or blah blah and ffs can't we just agree to go somewhere and freaking GO?"

xp Oh and re that self-portrait one:

- When you ignore that person for three seconds so you can take the photo and they crack the shits because you didn't immediately abort your self-portrait and gushingly accept their unwelcome fucking offer

Also, on that:

- EVERY PERSON WITH A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT

ENBB otm about flaky people

One of my best friends is this way. We arrange to go places to movies or out for dinner and she'll still say the night before, "Give me a call tomorrow" or somehow make it so that I still have to chase her and I'm like "No bc if I call you'll say you're not feeling well or blah blah and ffs can't we just agree to go somewhere and freaking GO?"

Yeah, this shit. Cause, like, I may plan my day around something that depends on ppl doing what they say they're gonna do, you know? My best friend is like this and it drives me nuts. I'm used to it now but ugh.

That is not an innocuous thing. That is hella annoying imo!

I love tiny fruit stickers.

btw enbb welcome to getting angry a lot ^_^

Yeah, this shit. Cause, like, I may plan my day around something that depends on ppl doing what they say they're gonna do, you know? My best friend is like this and it drives me nuts. I'm used to it now but ugh.

Uuugghh my brother-in-law does this because he "hates organising things". One time he said he didn't want to do anything much for his birthday, but he might do, but he didn't want to organise anything. Rather than sit around all day waiting for him to call or decide I went into town to do a load of errands and while I was there he was like "hey a bunch of us are going for lunch at this pub" which was miles from town so I was like GR. YES we are all happy to clear our calendars and do nothing in case you decide you may or may not want our presence!

wait what's sonofstan's surname

erraught

ewhat

- The way Americans illogically ram the day in between the month and the year when writing their dates (e.g. 11/4/2010 = 4th November)
- The incredible pain that this causes the entire rest of the planet

your shitty list of things that makes you angry is now on my list of things that makes me angry

11/4 is the way it's generally pronounced. If someone was to ask me the date, I would say "it's November 4th" not "it's the 4th of November".

Moving from the UK to US has wrecked my ability to write the date. When I first go here I was like "oh it's just the other way around" but now I have to think about it for about 5 minutes each time.

The film is called "Born on the 4th of July" and that's as American as you can get; case closed.

ie not July 4th

^^^^^^

- When someone sees a person of short stature on the street and says 'hey look, a midget'
- Conservative voters whose response to the newly ascendant centre-left party is 'but have you SEEN their policies??' as though increased banking sector regulation is somehow worse than bombing Iraq for oil
- People who, when you ask them to repeat what they just said, say it at exactly the same pointless volume the second time and scream it indignantly the third time as though YOU'RE the communication retard
- Back-seat drivers who tell you how to drive/park at those moments when you most intensely need to concentrate on not crashing into things, and then insist that they're 'only trying to help'
- Old people who cut you up and then hold you up, as though their age gives them the magical gift of going first everywhere all the time
- By the same token, women who believe every empty seat on a tram is for them because of the whole 19th century ladies first thing

So basically entitlement again.

wait - you're joking with a lot of yours, right? Please?

innocuous, irrationally

alternatively, people on a v crowded bus who stand next to an empty seat. I'm sure they're being polite and potentially leaving it for an old person but you're taking up a place by standing and making it *more* crowded.

n. People who greet me loudly by name in office toilets

this one doesnt make me angry, it makes me feel WEIRD. Ive been sitting on the loo and someone (eg my boss) has come in to use the other cubicle and she's all "hey whos that? Oh Trayce! Haha"

I DONT WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WHILE I WEE :|

bathroom talkers are the worst. The bathroom should be a CONE OF SILENCE. Any chat that begins at the sinks ENDS at the toilet stall door.

It's most embarrassing (this is a bit tmi btw) when you're anonymously having a particularly loud/aromatic experience and then leave the cubicle to a 'OH HI ADAM!!!!'

Also I know we've already done a 'people who chew with their mouth open in the workplace' but seriously, what the shit is wrong with people.

"n. I know we've done people who take up THE ENTIRE WIDTH of an escalator but those people who, when you give up asking politely and resort to pushing past them, get all uppity and entitled ('omg how rude' etc.)"

I will add my pet peeve to this one:
People who arrive at the top or bottom of the escalator, then stand statue still in front of the still moving escalator that is carrying many more people to discuss or decide if they are alone, where they are headed. Hello, move aside, there are 10 people about to crash into you inconsiderate effs...