Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

because it's time for a new thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbhOZjSuic

I'm super pissed off at the powers that be who are irrationally censoring get bent!

omg yes I used to get irrationally angry that I couldn't load that thread

xp - i don't want anyone's boss to get irrationally angry.

melon farmers

fyi GB yr new thread title is the best.

i'm kind of IA about having a new thread.

Limp handshakes. I've met about a half a dozen people from the head office this week, and they all had the worst handshakes.

But at least they didn't hug me.

limp hugs

when someone says 'can i borrow your laptop/ipad for a second, i won't change anything' and then fucking close all your browser tabs

-Cadbury Boost wrappers

People in big cars who lurk in your blind spot on the freeway.

tags that won't quite rip off clothing and in the process of trying to rip them out you tear a hole in your clothes.

YES i know I should have used scissors SHUT UP ffs

RIP longest thread I ever started ;_;

thats not anything that makes me IA though, i was just amused to get momentarily irked by a wheresgeorge.com and then CREATE A MONSTER

if we ever irl meet I will give you a hug for creating the IA thread

tags that won't quite rip off clothing and in the process of trying to rip them out you tear a hole in your clothes.

YES i know I should have used scissors SHUT UP ffs

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:05 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is like we are two halves of the same person, separated by half a continent.

<3 <3

and then i will give you an awful limp hug so i can live on through this thread for all eternity xxpost

lol

People in big cars who lurk in your blind spot on the freeway.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:56 AM (1 hour ago)

^this. I also hate it when I'm in the right turning lane to exit a parking lot, and a big car or truck pulls alongside me in the left turning lane and inches up really close to the roadway so that I can't see if there's an opening in the traffic and can't safely make my turn until the person to my left makes their turn. in the meantime I probably could have made my turn much sooner without inconveniencing the dickass driver one bit.

http://i.imgur.com/9JTe6fw.png

except it's more like

http://imgur.com/VKqB4VW

where I have an opening and can't see it

er,

http://imgur.com/VKqB4VW

http://i.imgur.com/VKqB4VW.png

(also IA at not being able to post images)

I hate that.

ugggh I hate those ppl!!! this happens to me a lot!

Similarly - and I see this at multiple intersections, multiple times a week - drivers at a T-intersection (represented by the light blue cars below) who get the green light, turn left, then stupidly think they have to stop at the cross-traffic light, thereby blocking every direction because they are idiots. (As are the planners/traffic engineers who didn't just put the goddamned lights on the other sides of the intersection.)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/421196_10200717713321921_700208077_n.jpg

v glad for youtube embed

ohhhh and while we're at it, those stupidass motherfuckers who decide to pull into the middle of an intersection when traffic is backed up, KNOWING that the light is going to change shortly, instead of hanging back and letting the light change so that people like me can actually get across when my light goes green instead of waiting for your stupid ass to pull through the intersection

this seems to happen ALL the time with intersections where level crossings are nearby. idiots.

In Chicago, particularly in the downtown business district, pedestrian traffic is very heavy so when people do that bullshit where they pull into the intersection without being able to get through and then the light changes, they suddenly find themselves trapped because pedestrians don't give a fuck about their dumb asses and block their way forward, and then cars on the perpendicular street go crazy with the honking and the cursing and the near misses as they swerve around the blocking car, while the driver just sits there looking like a total idiot. It is beautiful and swift justice and I admit to sometimes catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

props to chicago, they know how to handle their shit imo

sacramento could do with a LOT more of that

^^ I enjoy doing that too, but this isn't the irrationally PA thread.

view blocking gigantic cars/trucks happens to me all the time probably because its arkansas where 90% of people have gigantic cars/trucks and i drive a nazi beetle

...catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

― carl agatha

This is much better than an evil look or finger.

Big vehicle turning left: Then there was the evening I was leaving work and same kind of thing happened except we were both turning left. (both lanes had that permission.)

Light turns green and I hesitate for just one beat because I can't see over the fucking hood of the car on my left. Within that beat, a goddamm 18-wheeler blows through the red light from my left, looking in front of me like the freight train from the Coors silver bullet commercials.

Had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might not have hesitated. Of course had it not been for the big SUV next to me, I might have seen the truck from afar in the first place.

At any rate, it scared the piss out of me and I didn't know what to be angry about.

I also hate it when I'm in the right turning lane to exit a parking lot, and a big car or truck pulls alongside me in the left turning lane and inches up really close to the roadway so that I can't see if there's an opening in the traffic and can't safely make my turn until the person to my left makes their turn.

you know this is easy to resolve, right? you just get out and you kill them

lol i miss the first IA thread where i could freely complain about drivers who don't hang out in the intersection and keep me stuck at another red light because of their dumb lack of decisiveness

-that whistling text alert every fucker on the train seems to use

yes, yes, yes. Every fucker in our lab, too. Or at least one fucker who gets a lot of messages.

i think i killed most of the ants by putting a small buffer of borax where they were coming from. it took about a day but no ants are walking around now.

ugh this is a neverending IA for me

person A: hi i am emailing you with a request that consist of a single question and no instructions
me: hi i need instructions from you to complete this request
person A: ... [no reply]

THAT EMAIL DID NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION IN IT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WALK AWAY FROM YOUR DESK AFTER SENDING THAT NONSENSE

In Chicago, particularly in the downtown business district, pedestrian traffic is very heavy so when people do that bullshit where they pull into the intersection without being able to get through and then the light changes, they suddenly find themselves trapped because pedestrians don't give a fuck about their dumb asses and block their way forward, and then cars on the perpendicular street go crazy with the honking and the cursing and the near misses as they swerve around the blocking car, while the driver just sits there looking like a total idiot. It is beautiful and swift justice and I admit to sometimes catching the driver's eye and just slowly shaking my head at him like I'm really fucking disappointed in his behavior.

haha I do this so much

I actually saw a cop give someone a ticket for this the other day and was so happy

I also bang on their car midnight cowboy style

people seem to get really mad when you bang on their car, which is funny cause I mean it's metal, I'm probably not gonna break it

Teenaged me used to do that to drivers who thrust the nose of their car inside the crosswalk I was trying to use.

I personally wouldn't bang on somebody's car unless I was prepared to have an actual fight, which I never am because I wouldn't even know where to start. I'd probably just drop to the sidewalk and start squealing.

But that's not really my point. My point is that it's interesting that people would respond violently to someone touching their car when, like you said, you're probably not going to break it.

driving a car turns people into monsters and the car becomes part of your monster-body so it's taken as if you physically pushed them

The personality-challenged Food Network food truck competition host cleverly saying, “WTF? What the funnelcake?” It’s funnel cake. Just say fish or flan or …

wtf(ish) is a chain of fish and chip restaurants in (west?) london

their signage just says 'wtf' with 'what the fish' smaller and greyer

I am deeply irrritated that microsoft hides te left and right arrows on the photo viewer

Yep, it’s dumb

(Wouldn't it be so you could look at a photo without also having to look at two arrows superimposed over it?)

Yes but you could put them to the side of the photo, not superimposed

fuck-chop in the Trader Joe's parking lot that just idles their SUV waiting for that *one spot* close to the entrance, while a line of cars queue up just to get into the parking garage, but NOoooooo, you can't park in that other spot that's like thirty feet away, you have to hold everyone up just to get THAT one spot, you fucking monster

And I wasn't even driving

when somebody goes and "edits" their text message and then i have to get another notification on my phone but it's just some dork fixing a typo. i literally DO NOT CARE that there are typos in your text message, i understood it perfectly fine. people need to learn to let this kind of thing go imo

you shouldn't even be allowed to edit your texts now that i think of it. it should be like ilx where you just have to live with it forever

But I really hate spelling mistakes, particularly when Autocorrect chooses a word ISTG that I never typed and just… puts it there. If you correct it before they open it, then there’s no second ping.

I feel dumb when I mistype something, and try to make it clear that yes, I know basic spelling

I care, because some typos can come back and hurt you.

when somebody goes and "edits" their text message and then i have to get another notification on my phone but it's just some dork fixing a typo. i literally DO NOT CARE that there are typos in your text message, i understood it perfectly fine. people need to learn to let this kind of thing go imo

shit.. this is me. I didn't realize people got extra notifications for edits. I'll be better!

Not "angry" but not a fan of the trend to insist on writing your band name (+ albums / songs) in lowercase/uppercase. IDK just feels like the kind of thing that should be reserved for actual logos, not regularly typed words. The difference between the Oreo logo and just typing "Oreo". Why arbitrarily insist on "oreo" or "OREO"? I'm aware this is subjective. I protest by standardizing all titles in my mp3 library as capitalized unless there is some explicit function for the special case but it's rare. To heck with your "aesthetic"! Ha!

Phillips head screws - How does anybody work with those bastards without stripping them?

make sure you're not using a pozidrive screwdriver for a phillips screw (or vice versa but the former is worse).

sorry, pozidriv

My theory about why so many acts these days capitalise their names and song titles is because DJs are encouraged to put these into All Caps wheb organising their Rekordbox crates for better readability in dark rooms

But they made all the streetsigns lowercase (or Title Case) because no one could read the all caps in the dark!

Some phillips screws are cheap as shit and will strip with little the slightest donk-up. Hardware that comes with put-it-together mechanical things is often shit-metal.

Sometimes the most frustrating part is finding the right size phillips screwdriver for the screw, especially if it’s going to take work to unscrew it- you’ve got to make sure you’ve got exactly the right screwdriver or you’re going to strip the head for sure. If I have to unscrew a phillips head screw I generally grab like 6 different screwdrivers and start the process of elimination.

I do the same thing. I have like nine phillips head--or some mysterious variant thereof--screwdrivers

I feel like, once upon a time, a phillips was just a phillips, and if it wasn't a phillips, it was a flathead.

We used to be a proper country; a child could kick a ball etc.

“lore”

really wanna round up all the tenants in my building, walk them back to the trash bins, and loudly explain what IS and what ISN'T recyclable

At the top of my voice: "Styrofoam? Are you a fucking idiot? Drop and give me ten!"

same here

Every year when it's pancake day and it starts trending on social media and Americans I follow start posting pictures of scotch pancakes with corn syrup because they think it's another made-up funny thing like "steak & a blowjob day" or "talk like a pirate day" but actually it's something I take fairly seriously (spent two hours making them this morning) and it's not scotch pancakes, it's actual pancakes (what Americans call crepes) with butter, sugar and lemon juice. I almost "correct" them every time I see it and realise how ridiculous I would look, so I just bottle it up all day, and it puts me in a bad mood, and then I am further annoyed with myself for being in a bad mood about such a minor thing. So I post about it on here.

I have learned much about pancakes this morning.

xp so you're celebrating Shrove Tuesday, right? It's not a social or religious tradition for most Americans.

Honestly I had to look it up because I know of Shrove Tuesday but don't know anyone who celebrates it, or at least not vocally.

I guess I should issue a corrective: I do know people who do Mardi Gras celebrations and Fat Tuesday is general gluttony

really wanna round up all the tenants in my building, walk them back to the trash bins, and loudly explain what IS and what ISN'T recyclable

At the top of my voice: "Styrofoam? Are you a fucking idiot? Drop and give me ten!"

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, February 12, 2026 6:52 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I want to do this with the members of my immediate family. My son is always throwing Kraft cheese wrappers in the recycling bin.

The reason I dropped in is the surname Murphree or Murfree, including the town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. JUST BE "MURPHY," GODDAMN YOU! NO NEED TO BRING A SECOND "R" INTO THIS!

Scotch...pancakes? Like............pancakes??

I am also learning so much.

also called drop scones

Social media cooks who overdub **scrape** and **crunch!** noises on their cooking videos

e.g. https://carolinagelen.substack.com/p/sheet-pan-chicken-schnitzel

They need to quit or go the whole hog and add Adam West Batman-style pop-ups: KERRRRRRUNNNCH!! SCCCCRAPE!!!!! SIZZLE!!!!!!!!!

Having coffee, and there's a guy (maybe 70) sitting one table over, staring intently at his phone; he presses a button every few seconds, and the phone says "check" back to him. He's been doing this for five minutes. What the fuck is he doing? Checking lottery tickets is all I can come up with, but I want to walk over, grab his phone, smash it to bits, and then give him some Sam Jackson: "I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"

maybe he was playing chess, poorly

People have become shockingly inconsiderate with their gadget sounds, including watching TikTok without headphones.

There was this woman on a crowded rush hour train recently who was playing one of those 4-across games with the phone's external speaker turned up so loud it was distorting. She looked like someone who would make a scene if anyone called her out for it.

Remember when someone made a universal remote that would turn any tv off? We need that for cell phones.

That probably belongs in the terrible ideas thread.

(xposts) I glanced over as I left, and yes, chess. Embarrassed--haven't played for 45 years, so as obvious as that should have been, last thing that occurred to me. I'm gone, his phone is still in one piece.

i'm on the special climbing treadmill and this young guy gets on the other special climbing treadmill next to me. he walks for a few minutes then runs for a minute or two, then stands with his feet to the side of the belt while it is still running. i am doing my intervals. i notice he is still standing there. several minutes go by. still standing. the belt is moving. he's on his phone. i look at him and say it's really annoying that he's texting while the belt is running, that it's distracting, that there is only one other climbing treadmill, that he's on it, that someone else could be using it, that he's pretty inconsiderate for thinking that his text and his phone matters more than someone else who could be working out. "congratulations, you win worst person at the gym award, and by the way the chemicals from whatever dogshit scent you're wearing are making me gag." there is more that i said. i see him shake his head. he grabs his stuff and leaves, finally. buhbye. i'm kind of in take no shit mode when people are doing inconsiderate things at the gym and i'm not sorry about it.

if you're having a loud phone conversation, if you doused yourself in cologne, if you're hanging out with your friends like it's a party zone and you have the misfortune of being near me at the gym you will hear about it as i am growing increasingly comfortable with dishing out shit talk to you and making eye contact while doing it. i'm a big dude so i can get away with it. i try to deal it out only when truly justified.

it is 100% guys who do this sort of stuff. on the one hand i really and truly do have more acceptance and non-judgment for folks at the gym, even the talkers and the socialites. on the other, if there is a situation where i have no choice but to be subjected to whatever you are choosing to do that is impinging on my senses and my concentration, i will castigate you for it.

my gym is also very cruisy (gay). i have a body and i wear short shorts so i'm always catching looks and crotch grabs. i tune that shit out but occasionally there is someone who just hangs around like a vulture and i have to tell them to lift some fucking weights already.

I'm glad you're saying the stuff that I can't or won't.

it is 100% guys who do this sort of stuff.

Not at mine! Mostly so, but not always.

Sorry to break in, but one final thought about "check"; I should have thought of online poker, too. If the voice coming from the phone had been John Malkovich's from Rounders--"All night long, theeese son-of-a-beeeech, check, check"--I would have walked over and cheered the guy on.

fuck-chop in the Trader Joe's parking lot that just idles their SUV waiting for that *one spot* close to the entrance, while a line of cars queue up just to get into the parking garage, but NOoooooo, you can't park in that other spot that's like thirty feet away, you have to hold everyone up just to get THAT one spot,

If you’re talking about the TJ’s on Lakeshore in Oakland, it truly brings out the asshole drivers. The ground level at Whole Foods is not as bad … primarily because the lot design is inherently aggravating, people aren’t as aggravating as individuals… if I had a lot of free time, I would scientifically study whether the Lakeshore TJ’s has the most asshole drivers vs the Berkeley Bowl on Shattuck.

I have not been to either store in years because of the horrible drivers …

This is more irrationally annoying than anything, but sometimes I’ll be watching a TV show or a movie and a character will go to a restaurant and order something, then something interrupts them and they never get the thing they ordered, or they leave before they receive it. Why can’t River Cartwright wait 10 seconds for that café au lait? The average restaurant visit in any movie or TV show must be about three minutes.

Or they exit with their food barely eaten. Similarly, someone will travel to another person's home just to deliver a few lines of dialog, then leave after about five minutes. But of course, many television/film characters live in a world where texting apparently never caught on, even though they do have smartphones.