The Little Things that P*** You Off

[mc ukrneal]

The phrase "please be advised" is annoying in itself. It's like, I've just read your warning message - there's no need to be a dick about it, as if I am in some way not paying attention and need a textual prod at the end. If a sign requires the somewhat passive-aggressive "please be advised, then it's obviously not advertising something important enough.

It is not as if we have signs like:

    WARNING
Sharks are in these waters

      Please be advised

Instead we have signs like:

            NOTICE
The residents association have
  noticed that somebody has
been discarding cigarette butts
     in the foyer's cactus pots

   Any continuation of these
   actions will result in a fine

        Please be advised

Here's a nifty sign...

[Satzaroo]

Here's a nifty sign...

How about this one in a real estate listing: "...has a  large dick for entertaining..."

[Lethevich]

Coca-Cola can ringpulls are slightly longer than Pepsi ones. When you open a Coke can, if you bend the ringpull the whole 180 degrees, they are prevented from snapping into the drinking hole by their length. I have found that with Pepsi ones, they sometimes click inside and I need to prise them out with some keys.

Pretty much the definition of trivial, but it's so unneccessary. Design your product better, dudes

[DavidRoss]

Coca-Cola can ringpulls are slightly longer than Pepsi ones. When you open a Coke can, if you bend the ringpull the whole 180 degrees, they are prevented from snapping into the drinking hole by their length. I have found that with Pepsi ones, they sometimes click inside and I need to prise them out with some keys.

Pretty much the definition of trivial, but it's so unneccessary. Design your product better, dudes

Back in the dark ages when pull tabs were first in use, they removed a strip of metal and came completely off the can, like this:

We used to just drop them into the can through the open slot.  Never swallowed one.  Can't recall one ever flowing into my mouth while drinking, despite having done it hundreds (thousands?) of times.  I suspect that the tab retention innovation was for the safety of unsuspecting barefoot beachgoers whose footsies got sliced up by pull tabs discarded thoughtlessly by dorks.

[Lethevich]

It's hard to imagine how it used to be - I've seen photos of concerts with hundreds of the old-style ringpulls ground into the floor by thousands of feet.

When I said they "snap" into the hole, I wasn't totally clear with my whinging - I mean that it clicks under the rim but remains attached, impeding the drinking hole pretty substantially - I suppose I could push it in with a key/knife (whatever is closest), but it involves the same effort as levering out.

[Satzaroo]

tattooed women

poor enunciators

fuzzy picture quality at movie theaters

flooring and furniture that attract dust

the noxious smell of macaroni and cheese

pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.

[Lethevich]

Why are you letting the tattooed men off the hook?

I agree with you on the macaroni and cheese thing - one of my friends used to buy microwavable lasagnas and they made the whole house smell like an explosion in a glue factory.

Edit: Not something that pisses me off, but perplexes me: I went to a hairdresser today and there were three women there who looked like triplets: heavy makeup, near platinum blonde long hair with a lot of iron curls in. For a person who makes hairstyling their career, I would've thought they would put a premium on originality...

[Bulldog]

tattooed women

poor enunciators

fuzzy picture quality at movie theaters

flooring and furniture that attract dust

the noxious smell of macaroni and cheese

pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.

I like the look of pregnant women at the beach.  After all, they're producing a new life.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Working from 27th until 30th December 2010. 

[greg]

tattooed women

Yes, at least if it's too much.

[Wendell_E]

Working from 27th until 30th December 2010. 

You don't have to work on the 31st?  Lucky you!

[DavidRoss]

I hate all these new weirdly shaped plastic bottles for condiments that make it impossible to extract more than about 85% of the contents.  It's not just the idiots who come up with these stupid ideas in the first place, but the morons who sign off on them who deserve eternity in Hell trying to extract a little bit of water from a bottle that won't let it out!

[marvinbrown]

  1) Overpriced CDs

  2) Opera CDs without translated libretti (Hey I'd love to learn German, Italian and Russian but I just don't have the time!)

  3) CD Boxed sets at enticingly low prices but with less than desirable performances! (This really p***es me off as I get all excited and then I see performances dating back to the 1930s or worst yet with conductors I can't stand or are simply unknown!)

  4) Scratched CDs

  5) CDs with hardly any liner notes or inadequate liner notes

  6) CDs that skip

  7) CDs with ultra tight slip cases where you have yank that damn CD out every time you want to play it!!  (Is paper really that in short supply!)

  8 ) Damaged jewel cases that come apart in your hands as you try to open them!

  9) CD recordings that have cuts, are abridged or are missing fragments, sections you name it!  (Hey I don't give a flying fig if the CD can only take x minutes which led to the cuts!  I want to hear the work in its entirety and I do mean ENTIRETY!!!!!)

  10) Euro Trash opera productions!!

  I can go on and on but who really cares about the little things that p**** me off!!!!!
 
 

[Iconito]

  I can go on and on but who really cares about the little things that p**** me off!!!!!

We do care, Marvin.

[Lethevich]

Marvin, those aren't little things, they are tremendously important things

[DavidRoss]

Especially this!

  7) CDs with ultra tight slip cases where you have yank that damn CD out every time you want to play it!!  (Is paper really that in short supply!)

[Mirror Image]

pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.

Yes this is really bad. Now granted I don't live near a beach, but let me add that I hate pregnant women who wear tight clothing, especially shirts to where their belly just hangs out. Absolutely f****** disgusting.

[Lethevich]

I guess burkas could be a solution...

[DavidRoss]

pregnant women beach goers who expose their enormous bellies.

Yes this is really bad. Now granted I don't live near a beach, but let me add that I hate pregnant women who wear tight clothing, especially shirts to where their belly just hangs out. Absolutely f****** disgusting.

What's with all the hatin' on preggers?  Pregnant women's bellies are beautiful--unlike the beer guts of guys whose t-shirts are too short to cover them. (usually the same guys whose pants slide down to expose their asses when they bend over.  Talk about losing your appetite!)

[Brian]

What's with all the hatin' on preggers?  Pregnant women's bellies are beautiful--unlike the beer guts of guys whose t-shirts are too short to cover them. (usually the same guys whose pants slide down to expose their asses when they bend over.  Talk about losing your appetite!)

For some reason this made me really want to watch Juno.