Images to make perfectionists suffer

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Are you a perfectionist? Do you like everything "just so"? Do you pick lint from others' clothes? Do you alphabetize your spice rack? Are you a masochist? If you answered yes to that last question and any of the previous ones, this Imgur blog is for you! (via @arielwaldman)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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GawainLavers

What’s the opposite of anal-retention? Anal-distension?
- ldobe
  
  Oral emission?
- Mr. Customer
  
  Anal-expulsion.
  
  I know a few, too.
- naught_for_naught
  
  anal expulsiveness
- Sparg
  
  Anal prolapse
ThunderHammer

don’t forget this one. It’s so bad someone painted a monkey over it.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

It can be difficult to get the last drops out of those paper cartons with plastic spouts on the side. Opening it the old way (as pictured above) can make it easier to get the last drops, so it’s more perfect depending on what your goal is.
- PhosPhorious
  
  The fact that you have to rationalize it means they got you!
  - http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb
    
    I don’t feel gotten. I feel a little more full of lemonade.
Eark_the_Bunny

NO! NO! KNOW! NO! NO!
Boundegar

The checklist made me snerk.
Pag

My first reaction to the one on the right was “The focus is not at the right place” — photography perfectionism, I guess…
http://www.last.fm/user/kraniac/ Shazbot

I thought I was impervious, until I hit the image of the kit kat, at which point I involuntarily shouted “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?”
alfanovember

The ideal screening tool for hiring sysadmins.
gsilas

I got a sudden, intense giddy joy out of seeing the floor tile “problems”. In particular, the rectangular tile inset into the hexagonal. I will dedicate my life to irregular tiling, from this day onward!
- chgoliz
  
  I hate you. *grin*
davnel

How to drive an engineer totally nuts!
- http://www.spockosbrain.com spocko
  
  answer on other side.
  [other side]
  How to dive an engineer totally nuts. -answer on other side.)
http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

I was grooving to the balance / imbalance of the pix, until I came to the last pencil. I feel I have to go see if my mechanicals have enough lead in them.
http://profile.yahoo.com/6N333DMINCVNLBR62BHWABJ6AQ Tom

Reminds me of a trip to D.C. several years ago. In a traffic circle was a huge bed of yellow tulips with a single red one near the center. Next to that bed, a huge bed of red tulips with a single yellow near the center. I think I could have lived with it if both odd tulips had been exactly centered.
http://www.mynameisjay.com/ Jay

That tile floor can’t be real. TELL ME IT’S NOT REAL!
http://twitter.com/AndBobando ando bobando

The plates in the dishwasher!

Also the fact that there is way more relish left in the bottle bothers me more than the fact that the label is upside down. Why do they sell those three packs with equal sizes of each condiment? Ketchup should be twice the size of mustard which is then twice the size of the relish.
- tubacat
  
  Oooh – idea! Sell a regular size catsup with a double ended bottle of relish/mustard…
rob_cornelius

this is getting sent to the totally anal graphic designer in our office… I will listen to the bang when her head explodes
- TheMudshark
  
  She may be totally anal, or she may be the only one around who knows jack shit about her work and has to put up with all the ignorants around her calling her “anal” for managing to do her job well in spite of them.
http://twitter.com/SirCrumpet Eugene Turner

There’s an antidote, thankfully. http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/
- http://www.facebook.com/martin.greve Martin Greve
  
  What horrible, nightmarish world. I would go insane if everything was “organized neatly” like that.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    The screenshot from Royal Tenenbaums could have been replaced by nearly any random frame of any Wes Anderson movie. His oeuvre is a horrible, nightmarish world, y’ask me.
http://www.tavie.com Tavie

Thanks for the agita.
Matt Black

Some of the tiling “errors” are reminiscent of Islamic buildings such as the Alhambra, the principle being that only God is capable of perfection, so minor imperfections are deliberately introduced so as not to be disrespectful to the deity.
- Susan Carley Oliver
  
  I’ve heard this referred to as “the Persian flaw” in reference to leaving one knot incomplete in a Persian rug.
  
  The Japanese concept of wabi sabi comes to mind, as well.
Donald Petersen

Who doesn’t alphabetize their spice rack?

Oh, that’s right. My wife.

[/maritaltension]
- http://twitter.com/AndBobando ando bobando
  
  Mine was alphabetised once… when I first installed it.
- tubacat
  
  Why alphabetize? Don’t you want spices/herbs grouped with the ones that are usually used together (nutmeg/cinnamon/ginger vs oregano/thyme/etc)
Antinous / Moderator

This is quite appealing to the artistic temperament (as opposed to the designer temperament.) A piece broken off the statue, a single dead flower in the bouquet, a crooked tooth in the otherwise perfect face – those are inspirational to the artist.
garyg2

Love the book shelves http://i.imgur.com/0gRaG.jpg , intentional disorder, so… wicked.
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  I am so putting that as my desktop pic. I keep all my desktop links on the taskbar so as to not mar the desktop :) [way easier to deal with, too]
- Susan Carley Oliver
  
  Oo, yay – so glad to see the disqus thumbnail thingee got fixed!
  - noah django
    
    was hopeful that meant the activity tab was functional again, too. *sigh*
- Susan Carley Oliver
  
  And, garyg2 – do you have a source for this image? I’d like to use it and credit the originator.
  
  ETA – [in Emily Litella voice] Never mind.
Quiche de Resistance

There is nothing wrong with this way to open a snack bag. What is wrong is when my wife (always) tears it from half way across the top all the way down the damn side so there is no way to close the fucking thing with a chip clip and you need to wrap it with with a goddamn roll of tape to get it closed so shit doesn’t get stale or fall all over the place.
http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

I was fine until the very last one. That drives me to violence (towards pencils of course). Goddamn ingrown lead!!!
Mantissa128

I like this one because it’s Russell’s Paradox.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

What?
- chgoliz
  
  Snacks for a toddler, left out overnight so they dried out.
niktemadur

A Mexican classic – many car mechanics have a habit of buying cigarette soft packs, throwing all the cellophane wrapping away and ripping the square hole on the bottom, leaving the top foil intact.