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

Those Facebook posts that have reels in them, but the reel cuts off before it’s over. It seems like in order to see the entire reel you have to find the tiny Instagram link in the reel, which also often disappears to produce a new partial reel. This drives me insane.

the integration across the various Meta platforms is piss poor, especially given the fact that they constantly encourage cross posting

My place of employment sends out links for our annual HR training in October, fine. This year they were sent with a required completion date by April 1st of next year - so a solid six months to do them. Again, fine.

However, less than a week after sending out the initial link, they are starting to send scolding emails about not having finished the training, EVERY OTHER DAY.

I mean, if you want these completed sooner, say that!

I am annoyed that Facebook and Instagram keep tricking me into clicking on Threads links.

Ditto! Also annoyed with getting notifications saying shit like, "user X would like you to join them on Threads". No, Meta, I can assure you that "user X", in this case my wife, certainly does not give a fuck if I do.

I hate any notifications that are really just pushed suggestions, that is a thing on all the Meta sites

Yeah the Threads posts on instagram that are like clickbait half-tweets, fuck those too

I'm so disgusted and annoyed with the level of crap consumption that is people's holiday decorations. I'm so sorry, I want everyone here to enjoy your decor and the changing of the seasons and reasons to celebrate life and everything, I should hasten to say. That's why I'm putting this in "irrationally angry."

I hate the amount of absolute garbage that people store all year and buy more of like going to Michael's is a form of recreation...so much stuff that it fills their garages and storage spaces and spare rooms...37 different light-up lawn ornaments, inflatable characters that require electricity to run those annoying fans 94/7. Houses so cluttered that you can't put a cup of tea down or, like, WALK AROUND. And it's at least 2/3rds made of plastic! Uggggghhhhh

we have a couple of "lawn blow-up" people in our neighborhood. minion draculas and the like. sure people should be allowed their fun, but how fun can plastic blow-up minions be? grim in a way not intended.

NO. NO FUN.

Just kidding, obviously. I'm probably just being totally classist, if decor is like seasonal plants and made of natural materials and can go back to the earth when you're tired of it, I don't care. I might even like it. I'm just overwhelmed with the storage of so much stuff that people think they, like, need bigger houses to store it. It's wild.

20 fans buzzing on your lawn every night, must be good for the electric bill too.

not liking cheap plastic decorations and chemical scents isn't classist and anyone who likes that stuff just hates themselves deep down, we all know it's true.

minions make me pretty IA.

I am IA at blow up decorations in general.

Best Halloween decoration was the paper skeleton on the front door of my childhood home.

I mean, our house gets decorated for Halloween, but my wife makes 95% of the decorations by hand and recycles them into new themes every year. She does by a store bought one now and then, but is constantly reconfiguring them and never with the dumb inflatable thingies.

pumpkins are classique and all you really need imho. ok and some kind of skeleton too. respect to anyone who brings out real animal bones for their decorations. uhh not real human bones though 💀

there's a Spirit superstore that comes into a vacant grocery store every year not far from me, just miles and miles of cheap plastic garbage, the landfills of tomorrow are gonna really spooky with discarded Jack Sparrow wigs

I hate all of the parts of it. I was especially struck with loathing while visiting someone a few weeks ago. They had plastic pumpkins and light-up things all over their quite large yard and their guests kept ooh-ing and ahhh-ing over each thing like the person had DONE something, like it was a personal accomplishment. I am begging people to heal their spirits.

What about those streets - every town has one of them - where every house goes all in on Xmas decorations and animatronic bullshit figurines and lights and cheap crappy decorations and then everyone in the town is obligated to drive down the street, argghhh I hate it

SO Society of the Spectacle

Don't worry, I also hate that. Let the hate flow through you, there's more where that came from.

hate is a gift pointing you in the opposite direction of the thing you hate

through hate we see what we love thrown into relief

Distaste for Minions is not irrational.

I'm with you, io.
a family member has taken part in clean-up items in the arctic circle and you would not believe the large plastic novelty items that she hauled out of the water up there.

*clean-up operations

The degradation of quality in mainstream commercial ice cream products, e.g. the turning of Breyers into "frozen dairy dessert." My daughter went to get a king cone from the ice cream truck, and on a lark I gave her money to get me one too since I haven't had one since I was a kid and it was once my favorite ice cream truck treat. Immediately it did not taste right to me - the "ice cream" had a hard and weird consistency and the cone was SOFT. Sure enough it's "frozen dairy dessert" made with skim milk and various cheap oils and industrial food products. I know my tastebuds have matured, but I'm 100% sure King Cones were better than this when I was a kid.

OTOH, I had some Oreo McFlurry recently and it was surprisingly good

agreed re ice cream— you have to check the labels properly to get anything worth eating.

People entering Slack or any chat group with the phrase “hey hive mind”. (This is usually followed by a request to find their son’s work experience.)

A former client of mine called their group chat hivemind but spelled it in emojis: bee brain. So they started calling it beebrain.

Anthologies of cyberpunk fiction that include THE GERNSBACK CONTINUUM as their William Gibson contribution, possibly the least cyberpunk thing he ever wrote.

(i've just started that)

Right now I am, once again, irrationally angry that the "Cheers" theme song is transphobic. I guess it's OK for me to be angry about that - transphobia is fucking obnoxious - but of all the transphobic shit in the world, the Cheers theme song is... not one of the things that has done or is doing the most harm in the world to trans rights.

No, I'm pissed off because when I have cause to say that the "Cheers" theme song is transphobic - which I did, today, to a good friend of mine who was trying to cheer me up by quoting the theme song at me - it makes me sound batshit insane. It's not in the part they sing in the credits. People have no reason to know the lyrics that aren't in the credits. I know the parts that aren't in the credits because when I was taking piano lessons as a child, my mom got me a book with the official sheet music to the "Cheers" theme song, including the complete official lyrics. Did that profoundly traumatize me? No, it did not. I thought it was weird. I thought those were weird lyrics. They are still weird lyrics. There is no reason on earth that anybody would expect or find it plausible that the "Cheers" theme song is transphobic. And yet, here we are. The "Cheers" theme song is transphobic, and I sound like a crazy woman when I say that. I have enough credibility problems already. Having cause to say patently ludicrous things that happen to be true doesn't help.

Music festival webpages that don't prominently list where the festival takes place! I know that if I dig into the "how to get to the festival" page it'll have a location, but it's irritating to see it mentioned somewhere, like an artist saying they'll be playing, and then I go to the page and it's like "oh, the festival we all know and love is back in 2025, here's the lineup!"

yes, but WHERE

Not intended as a knock against folks that are into it, but really IA about the continued takeover of bookstore shelf space with "romantasy" stuff. At the current rate, 85% of all bookstore floor space will be given over to it by 2027.

Likewise with me for the beer aisle at supermarkets. The non-beer alcoholic drinks are lowering shelf space for real beer. And now N/A beer is doing it too.

Oh I'm with you on that too actually. I stopped by a local small shop that used to have a pretty great beer selection, but it was completely gone and taken over by ciders and White Claw variants.

Not me being IA, but curious to know what makes people get IA when they get "caught" in a mistake.

Driving my son to school this morning and this woman in a really fancy BMW comes tearing out of a side street, not even pausing at the stop sign and cuts me off, missing my car by probably less than 10 yards. I respond in the only reasonable way I can, by honking, no other gesture along with it. She proceeds to slam on the brakes and jump out of her car, slamming on my hood and screaming at me. Fortunately my non response to her crazy must have made her realize how ridiculous she was being, so she climbed back in her car and drove off.

Like, I guess I should have just completely not acknowledged her unsafe and dangerous driving?

Dunno if we've done this one in the many years of innocuous things making us irrationally angry but... people on the phone, outside a shop or a pub or whatever, who do that slowly walking in circles back and forth across the pavement cos they're talking on the phone thing, as if they exist in a different dimension to everyone else who is just using the street. Just unbelievably weird and specific.

People do seem to stop in the narrowest places just to look at their phones.

and i saw a woman this morning walking down stairs whilst face-timing

Yeah specially now its warmer outside, quite an annoyance xp

I have a colleague who walks BEHIND MY DESK which is in a dead end! While on the phone. I really want to say something but I don’t want to seem like the oversensitive neurotic that I am.

I'm a phone pacer, but luckily I rarely leave the house

I have a colleague who walks BEHIND MY DESK which is in a dead end! While on the phone. I really want to say something but I don’t want to seem like the oversensitive neurotic that I am.

I had one job pre-pandemic where me and three or four close colleagues sat near the back of the building which had this breakout area with no desks around a corner, sort of. This meant people would constantly make long personal or random phonecalls just beside us but I guess not knowing there was a team sitting just around that corner.

It was really annoying if occasionally amusing, like hearing this one guy having these deep remonstrating conversations with his teen son, or someone else planning their wedding etc.

Still we eventually made a nice d pass agg sign and put it there, something like "A team of six people works right beside this area, please do not make loud personal phonecalls here"

The title on this film poster I randomly came across being way too small

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/494009630_10235729510847693_4979282874144612356_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=aa7b47&_nc_ohc=t-UbJWallu4Q7kNvwHv2VV2&_nc_oc=Adnq2nfnZcbaZD-GpTSMdLisc78Rqee84XWaSD11Y-q-ryQKoOagGlCl1zp0E_NbtTg&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&_nc_gid=Br3TAMYqw8Rp2CgnwEC1ug&oh=00_AfGcJh4ewbkHq84Bnp7zPkxQrz1nezzEC5Oga2HmUI7SRg&oe=68196764

I can’t tell if that’s actually a movie or if it’s a wack real estate listing meant to look like a movie.

What if it's a surprise Jaws sequel disguised as a documentary?

Some not great choices there. The look of the tagline screams “sketchy ebook cover”

Not great font choices

Title in quotes (along with being too small) makes it seem like it's not the title.