SMALL DISPLEASURES

spilling water down you front - sure, it won't stain, but you still look like a jackass for a minute. AND its cold!

Taking off your shoes and settling into the couch with a good book then remembering you left your phone in the other room.

not to be all gross, but when a poop does not dislodge cleanly and you know this will require a lot of wiping.

haha ^^otm

soaker on the sock

Hongro

dingleberries when you're in no position to remedy the situation.

pan n scan dvds

soaker on the sock

-- Dimension 5ive, Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

so bad

(i assume you're referring to having your nutsack squirted by a watergun)

seeing the grease left on the window on the bus after somebody has fallen asleep against the glass

trifling fingerprint or whatever the fuck on the dvd making it skip + me remove and wipe it + go through fkn menus + resume.

fingerprints on my photos and moniter.

Fumbling blindly in a web of cables to find the scart box behind the telly to switch between the Wii and Sky.

not having sky

although this gives me some sort of moral comfort

but fuck it i really wish i had sky

Murdoch probly isn't the nastiest capitalist I give money to.

losing an earbud

every time you buy a breakfast cereal etc etc xpost

xpost

wearing an earbud

not xpost well as a drinker and part-time smoker that's some pretty lousy bastards I'm funding right there eh?

as a user of plastics you're doing your bit for the middle east

i dunno, murdoch's just such an obvious, glaring hate-figure. my dad's gotta express his disgust at capitalist greed somehow, even if he does work (albeit as a computer programmer) in the city

the real reason we don't have sky, i suspect, is that i'd rarely stop watching it.

It's pricey, but if we had to give it up now we'd all miss it bad, and therein lies the rub.

My TV remote and cable box remote locked forever in conflict meaning i can't use either to their full capability

lifting your head up and bumping it on something

being out of toilet paper

thinking you have food x in your pantry but it not being there

someone left the newspaper all folded back the wrong way

thinking you have food x in your pantry and only having the last of it which is worse than not having it at all

dread

rapidshare shit taking forever to download

trolls
=

yeah, pouring a bowl of cereal and then WTF NO MILK sucks.

Getting caught behind a car displaying a bumper sticker that you find offensive.

Only discovering after you've eaten it all that the bread you made your sandwich with had mould all through it.

Furry teeth, but no access to a toothbrush in the immediate future.

Oh jeez Trayce one time I had some toast and 15 minutes later I went to make sandwiches to take to work and there was this fucking mould beard all down the side of the loaf. It still makes me gag thinking about it.

When you're reading a newspaper and can't bloody get the pages apart and you have to keep trying with your thumb over and over again.

When you ask someone to repeat what they said, and you still don't hear them the second time.

When someone asks you to repeat what you said, but they still don't hear you the second time.

realising LJ isn't making a statement about winter.

or that he is cordoned off in some opaque dome

omg i accidentally wrote the perfect elegy for subterranean oppressed future dystopia

realising that I couldn't have done that on purpose

taking a while to figure out what
losing an earbud
really meant and having a few pretty gross image-based interpretations cross my mind

Having to pee and every urinal is full.

This could be a big displeasure depending on the severity of your urine.

Yes on the muzak at work ;_;

wrong thread.

http://www.urban75.org/tech/images/sony-fontopia-mdr-ex71SLlg2.jpg

those gray things get dislodged pretty easily if you aren't careful and searching for them is my ultimate small displeasure

Picking up the wrong toothbrush

when the little foamy things come off i just get used to the small displeasure of using the buds without them

lol ew xp

forgetting to charge laptop/cell phone

using windows

Forgetting something at home/work and remembering it when you're out of the building, on your way to do your thing. Mildly annoying the first time it happens, but my greatest small displeasure if it happens again and again.

True life example: In car. Forgot documents in office. Return. Forgot to have documents signed. Return. Left car keys on desk while getting documents signed. Lost will to carry on.

A wall of strong perfume greeting me in the empty office elevator. Twice it happened to me today.

I'm not perfume sensitive, I appreciate a nice fragrance... But cloying, gaggingly strong clouds of perfume displease me.

when a pen you like runs out

Putting on a sock on crooked and the fixing thereof

Press ESC to exit full screen mode.

Yes I've only fullscreened whatever I'm watching let's say several thousand times in my life already, I do not need your view-blocking help!

― anatol_merklich, Friday, July 23, 2010 5:40 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sort of stunning that this displeasure still exists four years later

related: my phone unfailingly telling me that I've got cellular data turned off for apps that don't even need data.

As I understand it now, that annoying ESC message is really less about telling you how to get out of fullscreen than to notify you that fullscreen is indeed active. The reason, unless I've misunderstood, is that some malwarey thing you've inadvertently got on your computer could otherwise put up a fullscreen mimicking, say, your desktop, whereupon unhilarity might ensue, or something.

Still annoying, though.

being asked to "go paperless" by your bank/insurance/credit card company even though you have done this probably half a dozen times in the past 5 years

waiting for hot water to come out of your sink

headphones getting tangled

headphones catching on something that rips them out of your ear

10am meetings

meetings

The fact that so much stuff gets posted to the "irrationally angry" thread that seems not really to be about irrational anger but SMALL DISPLEASURES

Hence the 'irrational' imo

yeah but people tend to post things that either (1) I do not really buy that they feel "irrationally angry" about or (2) are quite rational bases for anger

The very first irrational angry post about "where's George" was perfect, it was all downhill from there

10am meetings

― marcos, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:45 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i came here today to post "9am meetings" and forgot that i posted this last year, back when i worked at a place that had a "no 9am meetings" policy

headphones catching on something that rips them out of your ear

This is a big displeasure IMO. I fear for the safety of anyone in the vicinity when this happens

buckling a squirming kid into a car seat

a finicky wifi connection

the way the amazing chorus of pet shop boys' "metamorphosis" flattens out in a really boring way at the end

a wild pube strangling the corona of glans penis

unsatisfying dump

where that last bit stuck in limbo doesnt wanna come out

Other people's feet, and their determination to have them on display at all ti es

when a pen you like runs out

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:41 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Or you discover that the pen you like just leaked all over your fingers and/or document.

My officemate talking about her upcoming wedding. I am happy for her, but when she talks again how it's perfectly all right for her to ask her guests for contributions for her honeymoon, in lieu of presents, I want to go Miss Manners on her ass.

old tea

My officemate talking about her upcoming wedding. I am happy for her, but when she talks again how it's perfectly all right for her to ask her guests for contributions for her honeymoon, in lieu of presents, I want to go Miss Manners on her ass.

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 13:56 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this money? Does this mean money? Course it's fine, but why tell you that?

the IA thread

useless paper mail, e.g. bank statements, credit card offers, insurance bills, that you don't need to keep but contain personal identifying information

i don't want to keep that shit but it feels weird and exposing to just throw it in the trash. i need a shredder

doorslammers

loud talkers

im rite next to u guy

shirt tags

hot farts

"creamer"

doorslammers

― j., Tuesday, March 7, 2017 1:41 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

people who slam toilet seats in public restrooms. it's the most startling bullshit bc if im in another stall i can't see what's happening and then i hear this loud crack

my toilet seat at home doesn't stay up unless i hold it. i still don't always remember that so it slams down in the middle of a piss sometimes

passing a warm one in winter is almost pure bliss tho

when you take the bins trash out and come back upstairs and spot the inevitable missed item of rubbish

useless paper mail, e.g. bank statements, credit card offers, insurance bills, that you don't need to keep but contain personal identifying information
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:28 (one hour ago)

i don't want to keep that shit but it feels weird and exposing to just throw it in the trash. i need a shredder
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:29 (one hour ago)

I have a shredder and these are still displeasures because it always seems an annoying faff to get the shredder out so they just sit around until I can be bothered to shred them lose them and then find them a month later and can't remember if I kept them for a reason

I keep my bank statements anyway but they always come with one page of actual statement and one page of same-every-month "useful information" which still has my name and card number on, argh

the way americans say 45 hundred when they mean 4 thousand 5 hundred.

when i change the start time for a meeting in my calendar from, say, 1:00 to 1:15, the calendar automatically changes the end time from 2:00 to 2:15. this happens in google calendar and it happened in outlook when i used to use that. it is mildly annoying

definitely can relate to this. one of those struggles between efficiency and human nature. it doesn't matter that the end time automatically updating is correct way more often, the minor irritation of having to fix it on the other occasions stays with you more.

this pisses me off at least once a week. i never ever want the end time it gives me!

surely if the appointment is an hour long, if you move it forward it should automatically change the end time really?

if you push the meeting back past the original end time, what then? you risk opening up an anti-meeting portal in your calendar that sucks up every other appointment in its path.

dick twitches

belongs in the GREAT REAL NAMES thread, surely

link me