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.”
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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.
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!
That's when I would put in a filler image explaining why we have no poster. Screw that dude.
This would have been the poster for the group project and name included.
When I die, I want the people who worked on group projects with me to be my pallbearers so they can let me down one last time.
I got an A on a science project in 8th grade for writing a really good essay on why my group's project didn't get done. True story.
I can relate because I was that guy. Not that Call of Duty was important, it was more because I overthought my role in the group, as well as forgot things because I forget some things easily while remembering something from 10 years ago. This is why I now always want to work alone.
Load More Replies...Group projects in school are one of the best real life lessons they teach. Every real world project is held up by [annoying 1] in your group and [not your group]. Doesn't matter if you're a plumber or IT. 50% of every meeting will be either you making excuses for your team and covering for [annoying 1] or someone in [not your group] deciding to throw [annoying 2] under the bus why they are even farther behind. Depending on how the project manager, customer, or team lead is feeling that day, either you'll get blamed for [annoying 1] failures since you didn't mention them or the person for [not your group] will be chastised for blaming others. If you avoid naming names, [annoying 1] and you will get paid the same thing just like the shared score on your college project. If you do throw someone under the bus, both of you will get lower bonuses for not being a team player. Good leaders learn this lesson, take the blame themselves at all times, work with annoying 1 privately, and everyone ends up getting paid better.
Throughout college, not oce did I have a group project. I'm very grateful.
Same. Not in school, not in college. Never. Had a few joint activities IN class but no-one could get away with doing nothing, no-one tried.
Load More Replies...Um... no sorry can't do it for you going a 24-hour Minecraft stream. In other words, f**k off.
I was only ever in one group project in high school and I may have been the student who contributed the least but not due to laziness. It was a heritage project and this is metro New York so high concentration of Italian and Irish people (yes and yes) and those groups filled up quickly. My only other ancestry is Norwegian and nobody in the class shared that so I got put in the Hungarian group. I'm not Hungarian. So I hosted all the group meetings at my house and took notes. Might have also purchased a cheesecake. I did my best LOL
Understandable. Hard to do something like that when you don't know heritage. However there used to be a high concetration of Dutch people in New York.
Load More Replies...That's why a lot of us teachers learned how to include participation points as a part of group project grades.
A classmate decided he would do the introduction and conclusion part of the project because "he's good at talking", which meant he'd just be summarizing the rest of our work. During our peer grading, his friend on the project gave him the lowest score possible. With my generous 70% and our group's generally low opinion of him, I think he failed a major project. Lol, makes me smile.
This is the exact reason I prefer work by myself. There's always someone who never does anything, of which sometimes I don't mind (if it is a friend) ill just put their name on it in the end, but it's often annoying when I share a PowerPoint with them and they just mess around with the slides. I end up just taking the work home and fixing everything. At least when I do it alone it's all completed to a high standard and everything syncs
It would be sad if everybody is goofing on this guy on the day he got called into active duty from the reserves or national guard.
But he sees no irony in the phrase "call of duty".
Load More Replies...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.