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

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.

Well, mine is. (xpost re rings)

Still, I have 2 kids who will get the phone and chat away, even though the caller is asking for me to sell me a new gas/electric/phone package.

Oh, yeah, that's all right, isn't it?

My mother calls until someone picks up and then she talks so much it makes my ears sweat.

It annoys me when you ring someone back or whatever and they are all "so where were you earlier?". None of yr business!

(Usually this is my parents, and usually the answer is something really quite mundane but bad form to admit to, like "I was taking a crap" or "I'd just sat down to a hot dinner and couldn't be bothered")

Oh I will gleefully tell ppl I was taking a crap so that they stop asking me invasive questions

my boss asked me once at my old job where i was for 20 minutes. She didn't get the answer she was looking for, "Im hungover and was taking a massive shit." I got written up.

Hey, chris. I just sent you an email:

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2075/screenshot20101209at927.png

eh?

Just ringing your phone. Get back at me when you wish.

Students that wear pajamas and slippers when they come into class and/or the library. It's like dignity and self-respect are dead.