Things that piss you off!

[Burkingam]

Somebody is playing drum with my brain. Why the fuck is there no aspirin in my cupboard?

[megido-rev.M]

The fact I need to avoid checking email before I finish the report that's taking a while.

[Nikkoru]

So I have friends, shocking though that may be. Quite a number of them are into the whole Xmas thing and consider my lack of festive spirit something of a black mark on my character. My usual excuses of being a hardened apostate, from a family of Buddhist, and possibly a witch, doesn't exactly work in the face of their insistent arguments that Christmas has little to nothing to do with genuine Christian theology anymore and filthy lucre is awesome.

So I bought everyone a gift online, aviator goggles, pendents, cufflinks, a Cthulhu Saves t-shirt, Breaking Bad on blu-ray, tarot cards, the usual. The problem comes days later with a Purolator delivery, which obviously I miss. The pick-up place is in the crater of Mount Doom as far as I'm concerned -- and being carless and cheap -- I called upon stout allies to aid me in the noble quest of redeeming my purchases before all hope is lost. Namely people who can drive me there first thing in the morning and not get all huffy about it.

I found someone, after many emails. We've known eachother since the second season of the Simpsons. He's actually a Mountie in training right now, or whatever. So... yeah, apparently it's been a while since we've really have had any 1 on 1 time... it was perhaps the most awkward hour of utterly terrible small talk in my life. This includes dinner with the parents of the girl I was dating in highschool who were devout Jehova's Witnesses. Now, I don't want to put this all on him, the world doesn't exists to entertain me and he's like a legit lawful good paladin. It's this feeling of ineffable sadness that I couldn't simply fall back into that gentle groove of comfort you feel with old friends. We talked about the weather for the 9 hells, the weather! I kept on wanting to, I don't know, relate to him or acknowledge his existence... but we might as well have been in separate cars.


So I'm pissed off at lots of things.

[kurandoinu]

What's wrong with talking about the weather? It's the way we Brits bond!

"Do you remember the sun?"
"No... what's that? Mind that puddle it's so deep you'll drown."
"Dear heavens! What a monster of a puddle, my father drowned in a puddle just like that last year."

It pisses me off that I keep getting in the way of my light sources. Stupid opaque body.

[megido-rev.M]

Apparently I've been getting a metric wrong in an assignment.
Attempted four times, trying about all the possibilities: still wrong ?

[metro.]

Exams.

[megido-rev.M]

^hi-5

[Ixarku]

So I have friends, shocking though that may be. Quite a number of them are into the whole Xmas thing and consider my lack of festive spirit something of a black mark on my character. My usual excuses of being a hardened apostate, from a family of Buddhist, and possibly a witch, doesn't exactly work in the face of their insistent arguments that Christmas has little to nothing to do with genuine Christian theology anymore and filthy lucre is awesome.

As far as the Christmas thing goes, don't feel too bad.  I had a coworker ask me today if I had put up my Christmas tree yet.  I replied, "Nah, I don't do that stuff."  Which led to a series of puzzled looks from said coworker even after I explained that I'm a single man living with someone else who isn't family or a romantic partner.
 
Seriously, how many bachelors living alone or with non-family roommates do people know that actually bother to decorate anything in their homes for any holiday unless there's a party involved?  Religious considerations aside, it's work to do all that bullshit, and for whose benefit exactly?  Yeah, until (if) I actually get married and have kids, my house is staying bare, thanks.

[Nikkoru]

So I have friends, shocking though that may be. Quite a number of them are into the whole Xmas thing and consider my lack of festive spirit something of a black mark on my character. My usual excuses of being a hardened apostate, from a family of Buddhist, and possibly a witch, doesn't exactly work in the face of their insistent arguments that Christmas has little to nothing to do with genuine Christian theology anymore and filthy lucre is awesome.

As far as the Christmas thing goes, don't feel too bad.  I had a coworker ask me today if I had put up my Christmas tree yet.  I replied, "Nah, I don't do that stuff."  Which led to a series of puzzled looks from said coworker even after I explained that I'm a single man living with someone else who isn't family or a romantic partner.
 
Seriously, how many bachelors living alone or with non-family roommates do people know that actually bother to decorate anything in their homes for any holiday unless there's a party involved?  Religious considerations aside, it's work to do all that bullshit, and for whose benefit exactly?  Yeah, until (if) I actually get married and have kids, my house is staying bare, thanks.

Ah, see -- there's the rub -- we're having a party... or several parties really. I suspect their motives in conscripting me into Santa's army of the damned entirely revolves around their own selfish and petty concerns. For every birthday party I was invited to since grade school, my parents would supply me with substantial seed capital to invest in some very legitimate gifts. I recall buying Goldeneye back when that meant something, DVD box sets when they were expensive as hell, some nice hockey paraphernalia, a skateboard, a comic collection, Jedi Knight II, and much much more. As such I have a reputation, one they hope to exploit.

That's my conspiracy theory at least.

As for decorations, not a chance I'm ever going to do them regardless of my Facebook status. I refuse to buy anything seasonal beyond tires, clothes, and tickets. It just rots in your place, taking up room pointlessly. Christmas lights in particular represent my hatred of ladders, manual labour, and being out in the cold for any significant length of time respectively.

[Ixarku]

As for decorations, not a chance I'm ever going to do them regardless of my Facebook status. I refuse to buy anything seasonal beyond tires, clothes, and tickets. It just rots in your place, taking up room pointlessly. Christmas lights in particular represent my hatred of ladders, manual labour, and being out in the cold for any significant length of time respectively.

Lol, I think we could be long-lost brothers in this regard.  The temperature here finally dropped to the 50s F at night / low 70s F in the daytime, and I've used "the cold" as one of my excuses for the last 3 weeks to avoid going outside to do yardwork or home maintenance.  (My other excuses were "Fuck it, it's the holidays," "I'm not feeling well," and "It's my birthday and I'm not doing shit!")  My guilty conscience is getting the better of me now though, so I suppose I'll be outside this weekend working on stuff.

[Nodame-chan]

Deadlines! I absolutely hate deadlines!!

[megido-rev.M]

Deadlines! I absolutely hate deadlines!!

This, and when people change plans suddenly.

[Ixarku]

Deadlines! I absolutely hate deadlines!!

Deadlines are fine.  Ridiculous deadlines with unreasonable expectations are not.  I'm so burnt out on bad deadlines now that I don't even argue about them anymore.  If I get asked my opinion these days, I just tell people to expect to deal with production issues in their software after it goes live.

[megido-rev.M]

My short-term memory momentarily shrinking if I am pissed at something.

[kurandoinu]

The cold ><

[shabutie]

Mibbit not ever letting me use my nickname

[Roven]

Sand storms

[kitamesume]

Sand storms

this alone is kind of annoying.

[Bob2004]

Cardiff Students Union. I'm helping to organise my society's annual ale and cider festival which we hold in the union great hall (its all we can afford), and they are being so bloody unhelpful. The biggest problem is that last year we had more customers than we had capacity, so we ended up with huge long queues going outside. So, this year we want to increase capacity a bit to handle that, since demand is likely to go up again as well. We're prepared to pay for extra security etc to make it happen.

But the union has told us that since there's a rugby match on the same day, they won't allow us to increase capacity any further because they don't want lots of drunk students running around. But at the same time, they don't want long queues clogging up the union, and if that happens, they'll force them to disperse (in other words start throwing out our paying customers for the heinous crime of coming to our event).

When I tried to point out that you can't have it both ways, either we increase capacity or we have long queues to get in, their proposed solution was that in our advertising (posters, flyers, and the like), we should encourage students to come earlier in the day and start drinking before it gets busy. Because that'll really work, and it's really going to help decrease the number of drunk students

Bloody imbeciles, the lot of them. And that's just the tip of the iceberg

[undetz]

Get a few students to work for minimum wage and some free cider to increase your capacity? Or is that out of the question?