Stupid little things that make you stabby!!

[FairyChatMom]

Of course “wah-la” is incorrect. It’s spelled *WALLAH!!
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Something I saw today didn’t so much make me stabby as make me say “Wha???” A man in a hoodie with his hands deep in the pockets, long pants, and flip-flops. Right up there with the girl in a long-sleeved turtleneck, shorts, and knee-high boots. Is it a fashion statement? Did I miss a memo? Maybe he has really hot feet and she has really hot knees…

[incidental]

wait, wait, wait. Stop the thread!

@Lowdown

-Soft people who try very hard to look like badasses. I don’t know why it bothers me so much but it does. You are not fooling anyone, just dress normal. Take the faux-dog tags off, and the Affliction t-shirt, and the bedazzled jeans or whatever, and just be a regular person.

…bedazzling is badass? What?!

I had to google bedazzle to check and see if I knew what it actually was. Top google images appear to include tutus.

Are tutus badass now? The world just got 37% more magical if that is true.

whoosh…?

[Sunny_Daze]

I have been inspired to add no ketchup at the drive through after I specifically ask for it. I see it come up on the little screen, but when I get my bag: no ketchup. Since this causes the kids to have a serious fit, I become stabby. Annoying kids are annoying. Just give me the fucking ketchup that I asked for, and we’ll all be happy.

[UltraVires]

I vote for people who are for some reason unable to simply and directly answer a question. For example, if you were to ask me what time I woke up this morning the answer would be 9:30a.m.

Some people, when asked that question, begin with a discussion about how they have not been sleeping well the past week, how late they stayed up last night, etc. For some reason people want to answer the question that they think I want to ask instead of the very simple question I asked.

And it seems common that those people are also the ones who insist on a ten minute answer to a question that requires a one word response.

[AppallingGael]

@RivkahChaya

Oh, and what’s with people spelling “whoa” “woah”? that makes me almost as stabby as people who invent spellings for “voila,” such as “wha-la.” I understand prescriptivist vs. descriptivist, and you can end all the sentences with prepositions that you like, but “wha-la” will never, ever be right.

At least, not until “persay” and “segway” (in its non-scooter sense) are. Or “heresay”, though I can see a certain logic in that misunderstanding.

[minor7flat5]

@elbows

Internet sites/info with no dates. Yes, I realize it’s not an accident. That your review/info will seem ever relevant if you remove any dating references. But it’s just hugely misleading.

If you can’t/won’t date your info my automatic assumption will be its a few years out of date and I’m going to keep looking till I can find something that IS dated and I can confirm is current.

And especially Google! Is it just me? Or are more and more of search results woefully out of date? Search for how to do anything on an iPad and you’re likely to get videos/articles from when it was first released! Thanks for nothing Google!

This annoys me as well. Especially since my life at work revolves around searching for relevant technical answers to problems. Thankfully, databases just aren’t as quickly changing as iPhones, so an article from 2013 is usually just fine.

A corollary to this: Amazon’s “sort by customer rating” is less than helpful at times. I recently searched for a product that had several hundred choices and so I decided to sort to get the best rated one. No good. I waded through page after page of 5 star ratings from 1 or 2 people.

Amazon, please include a way to give more weight to an item from an established vendor with 4.5 stars and 3,500 ratings than a product from a newbie with 5 stars and 3 ratings (because that’s the vendor’s spouse, brother, and uncle writing reviews).

[dizzee_dee]

@Nava

There’s a law which has been in place for more than a year, whereby restaurants and other locations serving food are required to indicate allergen content. Many places are adding information such as which dishes are vegetarian or vegan.

Most places ain’t done shit. A lot of the time the descriptions are good enough that you can tell, but you may need to ask. What almost gives me a stroke every time is descriptions which are missing key info or which are completely misleading.

Case to stomach: yesterday, a “zuchinni lasagna” which turned out to be roasted sliced zuchinni with ham. Add “Galician-style octopus” which added chorizo and ground meat to the standard recipe of “octopus with sweet red pepper”. Bonus points for pulling both stunts on Good Friday (a day when Catholics are invited to fast and to abstain from meat) and in a location which gets most of its visitors during Holy Week.

Where was this?

[Rick_Kitchen]

@elbows

And especially Google! Is it just me? Or are more and more of search results woefully out of date? Search for how to do anything on an iPad and you’re likely to get videos/articles from when it was first released! Thanks for nothing Google!

Go to the Search tools and click on the Time option, and limit your search.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Magiver

Retired people.

Every time I try to get something done on my lunch hour it involves waiting on retired people who always have some issue going on.

If it’s a deli then there is a sea of geezers who can’t decide if their dentures will survive the roast beef and need to sample it. If it’s a bank they’re showing pictures of their grandchildren to the teller who is trying to count their rolls of change. If it’s the check out counter then They inevitably have an outdated coupon from a competitor or some other transaction that requires a branch manager and a vice president to turn their keys at the same time in order for the cash register to work.

Oh, forgot the parking lot departure sequence. Check all mirrors including the one in the glove compartment, engage the turn signal, Call someone else in the parking lot to verify the signals are working and then edge out as if it’s a Lamborghini with 1 inch of space on each side.

If Jesus needs to do a trial run of the second coming then it should be based on FIFO rules.

Yeah why don’t old people just die so they can stop annoying you?

[Magiver]

@Rick_Kitchen

Yeah why don’t old people just die so they can stop annoying you?

Well if they did, the funeral procession would surely take place between noon and one causing a traffic jam.

[scr4]

A car overtaking me on my right side, when there’s a lane open on my left, always drives me crazy. I don’t know why, it just feels incredibly wrong. Especially if the other car is behind me, and moves to the right lane to overtake me, when he could just as easily have moved to the left of me. (Doesn’t happen very often since I’m almost always in the far right lane, but sometimes there’s a merge/exit lane on my right.)

[Magiver]

@scr4

A car overtaking me on my right side, when there’s a lane open on my left, always drives me crazy. I don’t know why, it just feels incredibly wrong. Especially if the other car is behind me, and moves to the right lane to overtake me, when he could just as easily have moved to the left of me. (Doesn’t happen very often since I’m almost always in the far right lane, but sometimes there’s a merge/exit lane on my right.)

It helps if you pretend they’re British tourists. Be happy they’re not driving toward you.

[Nava]

@dizzee_dee

Where was this?

Valladolid, which vies with Seville for “most famous Holy Week celebrations in Spain”. Basically, if you like them noisy and messy you go to Seville and if you like them organized and at a noise level which does not require earplugs you go to Valladolid. I’ve been looking for websites with tourist information in English but apparently everybody who provides it still thinks their visitors will speak Spanish. Given the amount of languages we’ve been hearing, and from people who were evidently visitors rather than immigrants, it would appear to be the wrong assumption.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

@Seanette

Second the peeve with cashiers who are too busy socializing to do their jobs.

I’m not a smoker, and live in California (so can expect higher prices on everything than other areas would have), but that frankly sounds quite LOW. Based on signage I see at stores, here you’re doing well to get below $4 for ONE pack.

That was his point. The cashier was too busy talking on the phone to realize he had undercharged him.

[Catamount]

@Jennshark

Door-to-door sales folk who unbolt my porch gate to knock on the door. Guess what? If the gate is bolted, we’re not interested in hearing about solar panels/skeevy electric companies/Jesus and/or The Kraken Messiah. Go away.

I don’t know, I think I’d be interested if they’re talking about the Kraken Messiah.

[Seanette]

@scr4

A car overtaking me on my right side, when there’s a lane open on my left, always drives me crazy. I don’t know why, it just feels incredibly wrong. Especially if the other car is behind me, and moves to the right lane to overtake me, when he could just as easily have moved to the left of me. (Doesn’t happen very often since I’m almost always in the far right lane, but sometimes there’s a merge/exit lane on my right.)

On a related note, it’s apparently legal for motorcycles to “split lanes” here in California, meaning they’ll run between lanes of cars. That scares the hell out of me, since I really don’t expect another vehicle that close.

[Magiver]

@Seanette

On a related note, it’s apparently legal for motorcycles to “split lanes” here in California, meaning they’ll run between lanes of cars. That scares the hell out of me, since I really don’t expect another vehicle that close.

I never understood that one either. I think it has something to do with stopped traffic but I don’t know. It’s completely insane to a vehicle between lanes.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Seanette

On a related note, it’s apparently legal for motorcycles to “split lanes” here in California, meaning they’ll run between lanes of cars. That scares the hell out of me, since I really don’t expect another vehicle that close.

I saw this happen on a freeway in Los Angeles during rush hour, and a car ahead of the motorcycle changed lanes right in front of him, he T-boned the car and flew over the roof of the car.

[LSLGuy]

@Catamount

I don’t know, I think I’d be interested if they’re talking about the Kraken Messiah.

That caught my eye too. I for one welcome …

[LSLGuy]

People who can’t maintain a speed on a freeway. In light traffic they’ll be doing 60. Then 70. Then 60. Then 80. Then 55.