# Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712 "2024-09-04T02:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 77
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1521 "2025-04-21T12:29:42Z")
Automatic hand towel dispensers in public bathrooms that don’t give you quite enough, so then you have to waste paper by getting 2 or 3. Just put out one decent sized piece, and I won’t have to do that. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1522 "2025-04-21T19:55:54Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Automatic hand towel dispensers in public bathrooms that don’t give you quite enough, so then you have to waste paper by getting 2 or 3. Some so called “efficiency expert” likely figured out that was saving money. I pointed this out at one job- that yes, they were saving $ in one budget, but costing more in salaries. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1523 "2025-04-21T20:56:18Z")
I hate it when the public restrooms supply single-ply toilet paper. Do they not realize that means I’m going to use twice as much? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1524 "2025-04-21T21:04:31Z")
There’s a parking structure in my town named Orange Rd. Deck. It’s on Orange Road, so the name is cool. They recently (ha!) added another story to the deck and reworked the fascia in a job that took about 5 years to complete. I know this because my son had school across the street and the building was under construction the entire time he was in that school. That’s not the infuriating part, the infuriating part is the sign they installed. Over the entrance is an arch, and following the curve of the arch is the name of the structure, it looks as follows: **ORANGERDDECK** Only lighted and curved with 5 foot high lettering. Someone who purports to be a professional sign maker built this monstrosity, installed it, and presumably was paid to do so. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1525 "2025-04-21T22:29:28Z")
ORANGERDDECK ?? How in the hell that managed to cross anyone’s desk is a befuddlement. You approved WHAT? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1526 "2025-04-22T00:03:47Z")
Seems like it’s begging for some strategic redesign, plus a picture of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1527 "2025-04-22T17:24:35Z")
Someone doesn’t know how to spell “dreck”? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1528 "2025-04-22T17:44:42Z")
Lovely, I found a picture of it: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54468153057_aa7c5dc6bb_w.jpg "yngdaniel has shared 1 photo with you!") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/22574470@N02/shares/x8Gpyke835) The elementary school kids get to look at it every day. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1529 "2025-04-22T18:16:23Z")
Ermahgerd! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1530 "2025-04-22T21:33:14Z")
There are people in this world that approved that name. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1531 "2025-04-23T06:04:11Z")
It does sound like an obscure Anglo-Saxon or Viking warrior. Or stronghold. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1532 "2025-04-23T06:25:56Z")
Ah yes, there was a whole saga about the Battle of Orangerddeck, wasn’t there? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1533 "2025-04-23T10:07:02Z")
People saying “kiLOMeter”, with the accent on the second syllable. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1534 "2025-04-23T10:26:45Z")
Wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1535 "2025-04-23T10:46:18Z")
I guess not only are Americans laughed at for using ancient customary units, but we also say kilometer wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1536 "2025-04-23T12:43:30Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Ah yes, there was a whole saga about the Battle of Orangerddeck, wasn’t there? It sounds like it took place in the Boer War. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1537 "2025-04-23T13:00:35Z")
For that matter, people who pronounce centimeter as “sontimeter.” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1538 "2025-04-23T14:29:10Z")
GIF should be pronounced like it’s spelled. The G stands for Graphics, not Jraphics. On that note… I wish the makers of _Back to the Future_ would edit the film to make one minor change: correct the pronunciation of gigawatt. But leave everything else alone! ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1539 "2025-04-23T14:37:34Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > I wish the makers of _Back to the Future_ would edit the film to make one minor change: correct the pronunciation of gigawatt. I’d be cool with that. But I find it plausible that some crazy inventor scientist guy working in his garage in 1955 could mispronounce the term, like so many words we say incorrectly having only read them. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1540 "2025-04-23T17:03:33Z")
Do you pronounce JPEG “Jay-feg”? The P stands for “photographic”. Acronyms have never taken their pronunciation from their component words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=76) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=78)