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

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...

escalators

...and have some consideration for people who are deathly afraid of the JAWS OF STEEL waiting at the top of the escalators

people who press the buttons at pedestrian crossings when there are 50 people already there waiting.

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 October 2010 01:00 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha, that one cracks me up actually, like we were all sitting there watching this latecomer thinking, "gee, why didn't WE think of THAT!".

― Picker of Shelves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 01:01 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've lost count of the number of times I've approached a crossing with 10+ people, none of whom have thought to press the button. Maybe it's just dickhead Melbourne people.

This/last year in a city laneway I saw at least 40 people stood at either end of a zebra crossing (i.e. lines on the road, no lights to obey) waiting for a load of cars to go past. I couldn't believe it. I pushed through everyone and just walked, and they looked at me like I had just parted the Red Sea.

I've witnessed the exact opposite, also kind of infuriating:

They've had to install little flashing lights on the zebra crossing near my house because cars seriously will not stop.
I usually slow to a halt when I see someone approach the walkway, and I have witness on multiple occasions #ZOOM# a car whizzing right through as the person crossing is halfway across the crosswalk, almost creams the pedestrian! It's like unless there's a big red/green traffic light the cars just don't give a fuck. It's across a 4 lane road, but the crosswalk is right between two sets of traffic lights as it is so no-one really can or should be getting their speed on unless it's midnight.
You have to cross that fucker with your head on a swivel because you just don't know if you're going to die or not. Even as a driver watching the pedestrians I'm kind of terrified for them.

I put the whole thing down to: Sacramento hates pedestrians. (I've been parped just for crossing the street with the walk signal. Believe me, they're right assholes.)

• The baggers at my grocery store never bag the cat food. I haven't figured out why.

We dont really *have* zebra crossings anymore so I can see why ppl would get confused by the few around.

xp to grrrl ugh god. I know this is probably tacky oneupmanship but in Vietnam the usual way to cross the street is to walk through a load of incessant motorbikes and the occasional bus all hurtling toward you at 50km/h, even on crossings with red/green lights. You are always mm from death yet you have to do it several times just to go to the shops. Somewhere at home I have video of us crossing a main road on the Saigon River and having a couple of monster lorries part around us at the last second.

We dont really *have* zebra crossings anymore so I can see why ppl would get confused by the few around.

― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:53 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

??? They're everywhere in the hoddle grid.

In tiny laneways here and there where most ppl are on foot yeah but on properly trafficed streets? Not so much, its all lights with call buttons.

Yeah but I mean 40 people? In a city full of zebra crossings? Only explanation I have for such braindead behaviour is that they're all Melbourne people.

Those fucking 'Wishing Well' cards that come with wedding invitations, that say, in bad poetry, 'We've been shacked up for years so we have all the home stuff we need, but now we're getting married, give us lots of cash'. Fuck you!

― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Friday, 5 November 2010 10:15 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh god I had one of those recently. They've got a house and a kid ffs and then they go 'oh, come to our engagement party, give us presents and/or money' (yes they explicitly asked people for money). We did not buy them a present and we did not give them money and we did not go.

I really dont see whats wrong with giving money as a wedding present, tbh.

There's giving money as a wedding present and there's asking for money as an engagement present.

Had a wedding recently for which the bride & groom distributed a list of things they wanted to do on the honeymoon and would people like to offer money to pay for them instead of buying a gift. That's fine and really quite fantastic.

"Your password expires in five days, do you want to change it now?"

HOW ABOUT I JUST CHANGE IT IN FIVE DAYS EH

Hey, post 1K!

Um, this thread sort of ambles along with minor irritations during UK daylight hours, and goes mega duting US daylight hours?

Had a wedding recently for which the bride & groom distributed a list of things they wanted to do on the honeymoon and would people like to offer money to pay for them instead of buying a gift. That's fine and really quite fantastic.

On day three, around lunchtime, we would like two burger and chips with maybe a light lager alongside it. your name here

Pretty much. It's a website (notanothertoaster.com), everything's lined up like a gift registry and you get to choose what you pay for. In this case everything was an event - tours, meals etc.

You know, as opposed to turning up to a house party and having the host say 'oh no gift, that's fine, just chuck a hundred bucks on the table instead'

The best thing to get inappropriately 'listy' wedding people when you're skint is a stone mortar and pestle, because these look amazing and they're £10 in Chinatown.

I really hate plan-flakers and if someone I've made plans with pulls 'oh, give me a call' the night before, it just reminds me how much mobile phones enable dickheads to be 'better' dickheads. I've just started saying, 'no, let's make a time and stick to it because I don't want to find myself herding cats tomorrow, thanks'. Other annoying/suspicious things include 1) people who never seem to know your email/phone number and absentmindedly ask for it all the time yet when your appointment comes up they find you with ruthless precision and cancel with an hour's notice or even when you're on your way to them and 2) people whose phones always seem to be off when you phone them, but answer every incoming call when in your company.

- flaky people who either don't keep plans or refuse to make them until the very last minute

^^this. it's a thing now, right? it's not "cool" to rsvp; god forbid you might appear eager to hang out with someone.

I just don't like the stress of 'chasing' people who've somehow made it your responsibility to be Keeper of the Plans.

British special: Friends on PAYG phones who give you a 'missed' call and expect you to rinse your minutes phoning them back to hear about some saga. GET ONE FUCKING CONTRACT.

i'm often keeper of the plans anyway because i'm good at coming up with recommendations when other people are going "uhhhhhhh" for way too long. but i hate talking on the phone, so if the coordination can't be done by e-mail/text/etc, i'm not interested.

"Your password expires in five days, do you want to change it now?"

HOW ABOUT I JUST CHANGE IT IN FIVE DAYS EH

wish madd anju's cellular minutes was on yt/last.fm

people's stupid arms

when they sit down in a crowded train

but also just in general

Back in Riot Grrrl days we used to mock guys who did the legs-open thing on the tube: 'HIS PENIS! IT YEARNS TO BREATHE!'

- flaky people who either don't keep plans or refuse to make them until the very last minute
^^this. it's a thing now, right? it's not "cool" to rsvp; god forbid you might appear eager to hang out with someone.

― Hongrotronics (get bent), Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I am one of these people ;_;

you suck

it's much easier than telling somebody "actually I don't want to hang out with you please don't make eye contact with me ever again"

dont generally feel the need to organise my fun, dont appreciate when ppl try to do it on behalf of the group either.

i'm clearly a lot less busy than most of ye, tho

if you regularly get together w friends, drop by, whatever, then nobody really cares about your pathological inability to make plans but if you never initiate things, or always insist that people come to your place, or just never call someone full stop, then when you still refuse to actually commit to omg a TIME and PLACE people start wondering why the hell they are "friends" with you to begin with

26. People who have widescreen TVs/monitors, but don't adjust the aspect ration, so everything is squat and fat.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"It doesn't bother me, I don't even notice it!"

You haven't noticed that Tina Fey's head resembles a rugby ball and that everyone looks like an oompah-loompah? Idiot.

Toilet jokers using the same shitty old lines every time - either "got room for a little one?" as they approach the urinal or "so this is where all the big knobs hang out!"

either "got room for a little one?" as they approach the urinal or "so this is where all the big knobs hang out!"

i have never heard anybody say these things, thank fuck

yeah, nothing even remotely similar to relate there

omg no way

doin yer bit for scotch tourism there onimo

^^^Suspect this has to do with jovially exhibitionist strain of Scotsmen, also world's best tellers of knob jokes. BUT STILL.

My dad does this thing where he rings our phone ONE TIME and then hangs up, in case we're too busy to talk to him.

that's a great idea! h8 having to pick up and chat when i'm cooking or er watching shitty tv quiz shows...

Or, I could run over like mad to the phone to pick it up and get a dial tone!

OLDER MAN sits in green tweed recliner. Picks up phone, pushes seven buttons, hangs up.

OLDER MAN: There. I've done my part.

he's just letting you know that he's thinking about you.

start running on the 2nd ring? unless your house is huuuuge and the phone is > four rings away at full sprint.

My mum calls but wont leave an answering machine message. Doesnt want to be a bother. But will sort of pointedly wonder why you werent home, even if you were just taking out the garbage & missed the phone.
Grrrr.