50 Mildly Infuriating Things That Are Making People’s Blood Boil, As Shared On This Twitter Page
Eating loudly, biting your nails in public, standing too close to another person in a line, and bringing pungent food to work are hands down among the most annoying things on planet Earth that should not exist. Yet, they still do, and from time to time, we all either fall victim or offender to them.
Having said that, some things are not so obviously infuriating yet they still feel uncomfortable. It’s even a whole phenomenon called “mild infuriation” that makes our arm hair stand on end and neurons go bananas.
While we can discuss what these particular things are, and they will surely vary from one person to another, there’s one social media account that needs no words. The Twitter page “Mildly Infuriating Images” does exactly what it sounds like and shares the most annoyance-inducing pics that induce this feeling.
Below we wrapped up the funniest, most spot-on and seriously angering examples, so scroll down!
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Bored Panda reached out to the creator behind the Mildly Infuriating Images Twitter page who said that they started it after seeing a video that covered the Mildly Infuriating Images subreddit. “The idea behind this page is to get others to see these types of photos and cringe at them with me,” the author added.
When asked how they would explain the term “mildly infuriating,” the author said that it refers to a moment when you’re quietly very angry at something. It can be something so simple, like a photo shared on this page. “I feel like my audience are people with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) or people who hate specific photos,” the person behind this Twitter account explained.
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According to the author, what makes mildly infuriating images so blood-boiling is “something so simple to do being messed up so badly in an uneven way ticks some people a certain way.” “They think ‘how did they even manage to do this?’ And they get frustrated,” the author said.
“If I were to add something, it would be to always try and get out of your comfort zone, whether it’s talking to new people, looking at mildly infuriating images, or just picking up a new hobby, I’d say go out and do it,” the author concluded and added that it's important to remember that “you only live once!”
Day by day, hour by hour we get annoyed by little things. It can be a sock left in the middle of the house by your roommate, a car that won’t start like a stubborn baby, or an unexpected email that sends your brain cells into rage mode. Do you wonder if our reaction to the world around us, the good and the bad of it, is something we can control? And if so, do we always succumb to the same frustrations?
According to Andrea Bonior, a therapist and mental health columnist, the term "frustrating" refers to one of the most common emotional labels we all use. Most often people use it to describe difficult times in life, from everyday annoyances to larger ruts that feel impossible to get out of. Bonior argues that interestingly, frustration is likely to be the top layer of a feeling. “It speaks to a sense of stagnation or helplessness, an inability to make things happen in the way that someone wants.”
I've had of these, my eyes lit up when I got it. Do you have any idea how useful these are? Once you nom all the tic-tacs, they make the best haberdashery boxes! I've got threads all spooled and organised in the small boxes; and the big one has my bias binding collection, ribbons, fusible tape, interfacing buckram, all carded and neat. If you reuse it, none of it is a waste!
Moreover, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the state of frustration in part as "feeling discouragement, anger, and annoyance because of unresolved problems or unfulfilled goals, desires, or needs."
“While this picture of frustration—the angry, sulking person who's annoyed at the futility of their efforts—is a common one, with a little emotional exploration, we can see that an additional array of possible emotions can underlie frustration,” Bonior explained. According to her, the first step in getting through the experience in a healthy way is to figure out exactly what those deeper emotions are.
Among a wide array of deeper and underlying emotions, anger, anxiety or fear can be to blame. “A classic partner to frustration, anger is often what's going on when you feel that something is thwarting you—and your ire is directed at that person or thing,” Bonior argues.
“You want to tear out your non-working dishwasher and set it aflame, or throw your frozen computer out the window? You want to scream at your teenager to get into the car already because you've told him four times to get his shoes on, and yet it still isn't happening.”
I do not have the amount of hands needed for the intensity of face palm needed for any of these.
OMG- HOW DARE YOU MIX THOSE LEGENDS TOGETHER! THEY BELONG APART! OTHERWISE... the demons awake....
In other cases, frustration may feel like a safer option to admit to than saying that we are anxious about or even in fear of something. But Bonior argues that “in these cases, what is really frustrating you is the fact that you want answers to something that's scary: You're looking for reassurance or certainty, and yet it's not coming.”
At the moment of frustration, it may feel hard to control your emotions, but it would very helpful if you try. Taking a moment to pause and breathe can work wonders to ease the unnerving feeling. Focusing on your breath and breathing deeply from your diaphragm can help reduce negative feelings and ease any tension you may have in your body, according to a 2017 study.
Some people think that they come out better from the microwave when in cling wrap. These are typically PRECOOKED for microwaving at the office. Note as people have jumped down my gullet at stating this before - this is an explanation, nothing more.
These are meant to be microwaved in the plastic, and they come out better.. I think anyway.
Is it measurably better that the plastic is worth it to the environment? Or is it some kind of totally harmless plastic?
Load More Replies...Because, they can label them microwavable and charge a lot more. When, in fact all potatoes are microwavable. You just have to make sure you poke holes in them first, so they don't explode. They are just plain raw potatoes with a plastic wrap. I work at a grocery store, and we sell a couple different brands of these.
You can put a regular potato in plastic wrap, or sandwich bag and get same effect for less money. Sometimes when you're tired and hungry, you just don't have time and energy for the oven.
Load More Replies...When I worked in a grocery store (shortly after the cooling of the earth), I saw a kid grab a potato from a bulk-bin & stick it in his mouth. I told him, "Those aren't free" and he spat it back out *into the bin.* We had to throw out quite a lot of potatoes to make sure all the contaminated pieces were disposed of. Individual wrappings like this would have been helpful for sure. (It also means you can toss a handful of these into a kid's trick-or-treat bag.)
They stay fresh for about five weeks longer than those left in the open. It's especially helpful in humid environments.
These are wrapped so you can pop them in the microwave, no muss no fuss. They cook pretty well that way. My grocery store has these and wrapped sweet potatoes.
I have bought these before and they are specifically for microwaving, BUT I will say that I have bought regular potatoes and put them in a Ziploc bag and microwaved them and they've been fine.
I have never tried making microwave-potatoes, to be honest. Sounds like a fun idea, though, for the (admittedly rare) times I feel like a hot potato for myself. Does it taste good with Sour Creme, or are they somehow different in taste than oven-baked?
Load More Replies...Google informed me that there are a variety of reasons so here are a few; they look better, they can be labeled easily, moisture stays in longer, and on one site it says they may be fumigated for fungus and possibly it helps prevent them from sprouting.Another says they ship better like this. I have seen them in one of the stores near us and they are not precooked, nor do they say they have been cleaned. They do look cleaner and bigger than the usual loose potatoes you can buy.
Because you can print instructions on them. Yes, I know all potatoes are microwavable but no potato company has paid for national ads to encourage this, so people think they need the individually wrapped potatoes. You know, it’s more important for billionaires to go to space.
these are wrapped in a material for microwaving so you can have a 'baked' potato in 9 minutes instead of an hour
I can nuke a plain ordinary large spud in about 20 minutes. Nearly halving the time doesn't seem a good enough argument for the plastic's impact on the environment.
Load More Replies...Hm, I figured it made them last longer before they start sprouting. As seen on TV has a cloth reusable potato microwave bag that cooks most sizes [all store bought ones that I've found] very well.
I've seen and used these quite a few times. Only takes about 10mins in the microwave as opposed to an hour plus in the oven. Quick and easy to make when you're short on time.
If short on time I'd just have something else. Microwaving a potato without wrapping is only about 15 to 20 minutes anyway but we really do need to stop with the plastic. Just because it's convenient is not a good enough reason to cause such harm.
Load More Replies...Agreed: Also similar thing happens when trying to plug a few devices (computer / printer / charger etc) into a multisocket powerboard 😡
I HATED group stuff. Usually, every group had one guy who never did anything, didn't show up even at meetings he suggested, then stops by half an hour late when we do the final steps (like syncing sheet formatation, font, sizes and the like, correct last minor errors), demands some weird font to be chosen, doesn't contribute any further than just complaining about everything, leaves early and at least, thereby, allows us to change it back to a readable font, after we shared his work among our own to not be graded bad because of him, and as everyone gets the same, dragging that lazy POS through. I hated that guy!
I think one or two would have been sufficient. There's more papertowel dispensers than sinks.
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Perhaps that Twitter group should be renamed Rigid Humorless Conformists.
If stuff like this was all I had to worry about my life would just about perfect.
Perhaps that Twitter group should be renamed Rigid Humorless Conformists.
If stuff like this was all I had to worry about my life would just about perfect.