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

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

That one is exceptionally clean. Give it a few weeks and it will be sticky and filthy and probably out of order. Crappy execution of a sort of cool idea.

I was really disappointed when I first put garbage in one of those that it didn't LOUDLY and IMMEDIATELY compact my garbage. I wanted a little powernoise show.

haha hey my trash can is out of order

For reasons of energy efficiency they're being shot into the sun.

That's … the little man on the trash receptacle, is he showing off that he's got an analog bin that doesn't need hand-to-handle contact?

I hate those gross ass trash cans. Whose dumbo idea was it to put a freaking handle on a public trash can??? Jesse OTM about how filthy that thing will be, except in a couple of days not a few weeks.

pp - LOL yes! wtf. "LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE MISSING WHILE YOU TOUCH THIS DISGUSTING TRASH HANDLE THAT SOMEBODY PROBABLY HORKED A LOOGIE ON!"

I hate those trash cans because you can't just toss stuff in them. I have no issues touching the handles though.

Just toss *at* them like everyone else apparently does.

Jeff OTM; we have those all around Philly (and we've apparently lost tons of money bcz of it) and it is SO ANNOYING to have to throw something away with two hands. It closes too quickly to try to yank open and toss yr shit in.

If theyre fancypants and digital anyway you'd think they'd invent some kinda motion detection so you can just wave at the opening and the lid opens by itself, no touching at all.

foot pedal, y'know, like every kitchen bin since time began.

Things that used to make me irrationally angry but now I'm all -o_o- eh about.

• People talking on cellphones in public.
• All lowercase characters used in texting.
• Foglights on cars that stay on all the time. Daytime headlights.
• When a car makes a chirp after its owner had locked it with a key fob.
• Required registration on ILX.

Things that still make me irrationally angry.

• People speaking on bluetooth earwigs.
• All uppercase characters used in texting.
• Those ultra -white hot florescent headlights.
• Car alarms.
• Security questions on websites with vague answers. ("What's your favorite team?")

referring to a wireless headset/earwig as "a bluetooth"

I mean, I get where that is coming from but, no.

Oh god they're called EARWIGS?

I don't know what the hell they're called. I'm just tired of having random conversations like

FELLOW PEDESTRIAN: I don't know, this traffic is crazy.
ME: It's always crazy. Someone's bound to get hit here one day.
FP: Now some guy is talking to me.
ME: [Looks around] Who's talking to you?
FP: I don't know him at all. Welp, the light's turned green.

nah they're called a headset or earpiece or whatever

earwig is a great one though

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/117/1175803/19-effed-up-moments-in-family-films-20110613051457022.jpg

"So I told that bitch that the letterhead was going to get sent back or else… Yeah, I know… Man, this buffet line is taking forever."

- LUDDITES & TECHNOPHOBES

(cross-posted from the co-worker bitching thread)

Seriously. Luddites GTFO and take your pencils with you.

Just because you drive a Porsche/Ferrarri/Corvette/whatever -- does NOT give you the right to drive or PARK like a total asshole!