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

I've started sometimes saying "Bless You" to my girlfriend when she coughs, blows her nose or yawns. I mostly do it to make her irrationally angry.

Works well for belching, too.

Have a Brian Blessed day!

* farts *

FIVE MINUTES. CAN YOU NOT GO FIVE MINUTES WITHOUT EATING WHATEVER THAT FUCKING CRUNCHY SHIT IS YOU CONSTANTLY OPEN-MOUTHEDLY CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH ON ALL THE LIVE FUCKING LONG DAY IT IS DRIVING ME INSANE.

srsly my boss just chain-chews on like, rice crackers or some shit and the little, sharp, constant *scrrrrrchhh ch chhh chh* behind me is JUST loud and annoying enough to set my jaw aflame with tension.

Have you noticed that Walgreens cashiers say "Be well"? I thought it was just at the one by my house, but it's happening all over the city, so it's clearly a corporate thing.

― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Monday, April 23, 2012 8:00 AM

lol yes, I thought it was a commentary on my purchase of cheap wine and a candy.

Still spun out by concept of pharmacy selling booze btw

MORE LIKE HARMACY AMIRITE

My first time to Australia, I heard "no worries" in response to everything. Thank you for the delicious espresso-based drink? "No worries." Hold the door for you? "No worries." I'm sorry I destroyed your toaster? "No worries." Certain accents would abbreviate it to a charming "n'arries". Not so bad.

I suppose I do associate Australia with a stress-free lifestyle, and when you hear "no worries" you think, "that's right, I am not at all worried and neither should you be and isn't it a gorgeous day."

Hearing it back in North America, though? Irrational anger. Or at the very least, worries. Are you being sarcastic? There are so many things to worry about.

Heh Ive heard a few people say that. I dont think ive ever heard an american SAY "no worries", it would sound a bit odd.

Walgreen's is more like an expensive, brightly lit convenience store w/a pharmacy in the back.

Several times when I've said "no worries" to people they have asked if I was Australian.

apparently we also get clowned for saying "not too bad" when asked how we are

heh, we say no worries a lot up in Canada.. as well as not too bad(ly)

gah I say "not bad" all the time without even thinking and I sometimes think "man that sounds so wishywashy and pass agg"

"well im NOT BAD but Im NOT GOOD"

I say "no worries" occasionally as well as "not bad".

Man, haven't you non "bless you" saying people ever seen Singles?

no worries bruv

i just say no wucks these days

I use no worries frequently.

lol our parody version of this nice australian girl a friend dated for a bit is just saying "no worries, mate!" and "DON'T BE A PUSSY FINISH YOUR BEER!" at each other. She said both of those a fair bit.

she is otm tbf

hahah yes.

there are the number of amusing stories, including the part where the dude she was in the country visiting had obviously lost interest, was passed out on sleeping pills in the next room and she hooked up with a mutual friend mere feet away

OH YOU AUSSIES

Hey we dont muck around mate.

yeah you do, in the next room even

I always say "not too bad" but it really does describe my whole worldview and my upbringing amongst stoic scandinavian midwesterners where you always realize that things could really go to shit at any moment and therefore the best you can hope is nothing is actively bad is happening.

Plus if things are actually really good you can't go around bragging about it.

yeah you do, in the next room even

:D

People who make the same joke over and over. We've had a surplus of Mike & Ike's in the office for the last couple of weeks, and ONCE a coworker joking pronounced it as Mike & Icky. Another coworker is just running with the joke, I think I just heard it for the tenth time just now. Please shut up. Not that funny.

Several times when I've said "no worries" to people they have asked if I was Australian.

I exchanged friendly emails with a counterpart at a competing newspaper and in his last missive, he ended it by saying "Cheers."

Oh, COME ON. THIS IS AMERICA. YOU ONLY SAY CHEERS WHEN IT COMES ON BEFORE NIGHT COURT.

And hey you Ozzies, I've got a coaster for you to put your VBs on.

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1181/1445518432_5234b906ed_o.jpg

man, that's a huge bong the guy on the left has.

I say "no worries" but I am a meerkat who is friends with a warthog.

I like it when people say "cheers."

I say cheers and no worries.

I also say up yer bum with chewing gum.

kangaroo-humping convicts, all of ya

except those poor people who had the misfortune of being on that nice continent before the convicts kept getting dropped off, I feel for them

Gotta say that "bless you" rolls off the tongue a lot easier than Geshundeit (No Guess Found).

My wife is a bit more ambivalent about religion than I am, so forever when she sneezed, I just continued to read my book or whatever. That is, until she complained that I never said "bless you." I asked, what do you care what "a man in the sky" thinks about your sneeze, and her response was still, it was polite to say it.

So now I try to say it after she sneezes. Makes me look bad when I bless the cat's sneeze and not hers.

― pplains, Monday, April 23, 2012 10:41 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SS: I ready your post on the irrational angry thread.
PP: Oh, yeah? You're not mad, right?
SS: No, I'm not mad. Just funny that you didn't mention that you've just started blessing me after we've been married for seven years already.
PP: Haha, well I wasn't trying to leave anything out on purpose. Go on there and correct me if you want.
PP: No, that's okay. You can continue to live your fantasy life online.

and then you started talking to yourself?

That's a typo, but yeah, kinda.

Oddly pp actually started saying 'Bless you' to me last Sunday afternoon then Monday morning I was blessed by a priest with holy water sourced from the Jordan river so im well blessed up iirc

I got told to have a blessed day by a lady calling trying to get me to give money to the democratic senatorial campaign committee earlier today :/

Sure, hog all the blessings. xp

Actually pp used to get so mad when I said 'bless you' to him like how dare you you filthy heathen so i started saying it under my breath. TOTALLY BLESSED BY AN ATHEIST HUNDREDS OF TIMES.

I say "bless you" occasionally

also a number of admitted atheists say "oh god" a lot during sex, iirc

Hey PP. Feeling blessed at all? Cause im blessing you right now.

See what happens? I start blessing you and some priest waltzes in with Jordan River blessings.

I feel very blessed these days. Can't wait to get home and drink another can of it.

Is Brian Blessed?

http://www.doc4design.com/wp-content/uploads/id-blessing_golf_course.jpg

they've replaced most of the trash cans in downtown chicago with these solar compacting recycle/trash cans, which is cool, but the trash can part has to be opened with a handle. i'm not squeamish about germs but i draw the line at touching a handle that is attached to a trash can and that people with trash in their hands have been touching all day long.

this is what i'm talking about:
http://induloop.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/big-belly-2.jpg

ha they're being taken out ahead of the NATO summit because police can't see what's inside them: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-06/news/chi-solar-trash-cans-yanked-for-nato-meeting-20120406_1_bigbelly-trash-cans-solar-trash