You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

ProblematicUser420 said:
Parents who blow thousands upon thousands of dollars on stupid shit they never use, or flat out continually falling for scams, and then screaming and their children when they ask for a dollar fifty candy bar.

I don't think I'm going to be friends with that guy anymore.
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I once saw a couple in very expensive clothes buying insanely expensive scuba gear say some really fucked up shit to their kid who looked to be about five, just because he asked them for a little toy fish he saw that was something like $2. One of those little knick-knacks by the register, I think. They were basically berating him in that really condescending voice, asking him about what kind of job he has. "Oh, so you don't have a job? You're not the one making the money? I see, I see..." Something along those lines. I was a kid myself, so that scene really stuck with me.

Does anyone remember those commercial spoofs from SNL about the rich couple constantly going on vacation while making sure to spend as little on their kids' upbringing as possible? This memory was what I first thought of when I saw those.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
When the power goes off in the summer. FFS Texas it's May. It was only 94 today and you're still telling people to save electricity to keep the grid happy. We've got five more months of often much higher temperatures than 94 to go through!
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Shutting off electricity for entire areas to save power is some third world bullshit. Fuck us and all the food in our fridges and freezers, right? Those who need various medical devices operating on electricity can go eat a bucket of dicks, I guess. I'm not 100% sure if that's what's going on in what you're talking about, but I know some places here in the US are doing it on purpose. Isn't it bad enough that so much of the country doesn't even provide tap water that's clean enough to drink?

Corrupt politicians giving all our tax money to other countries for laundering and bribes while gradually turning our country into a third world shit hole by design pisses me off. I'm so patriotic that I love Independence Day and think we need more of them.
 
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Nonconsentual Pronouns said:
Shutting off electricity for entire areas to save power is some third world bullshit. Fuck us and all the food in our fridges and freezers, right? Those who need various medical devices operating on electricity can go eat a bucket of dicks, I guess. I'm not 100% sure if that's what's going on in what you're talking about, but I know some places here in the US are doing it on purpose. Isn't it bad enough that so much of the country doesn't even provide tap water that's clean enough to drink?

Corrupt politicians giving all our tax money to other countries for laundering and bribes while gradually turning our country into a third world shit hole by design pisses me off. I'm so patriotic that I love Independence Day and think we need more of them.
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No, AFAIK it's uncontrolled shutdowns due to equipment failures. Usually big equipment, like whole plants. The problem with Texas' power grid - which is completely disconnected from the rest of the US (thanks Republicans) - came to light during the snowmageddon last year when hundreds of thousands of people were without power for days.

Now we're told, fairly regularly, to avoid using too much electricity because the grid might fail again.

In my case this was a pretty quick failure, it was back in 45 minutes, but still.

Now one of our electric breakers is crackling when we turn it on. The one controlling the AC compressor outside. Fuck, tomorrow is going to suck.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
No, AFAIK it's uncontrolled shutdowns due to equipment failures. Usually big equipment, like whole plants. The problem with Texas' power grid - which is completely disconnected from the rest of the US (thanks Republicans) - came to light during the snowmageddon last year when hundreds of thousands of people were without power for days.

Now we're told, fairly regularly, to avoid using too much electricity because the grid might fail again.

In my case this was a pretty quick failure, it was back in 45 minutes, but still.

Now one of our electric breakers is crackling when we turn it on. The one controlling the AC compressor outside. Fuck, tomorrow is going to suck.
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I'm honestly not sure which of the two scenarios we described is worse, considering the root causes are still the same.
 
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Nonconsentual Pronouns said:
Shutting off electricity for entire areas to save power is some third world bullshit. Fuck us and all the food in our fridges and freezers, right? Those who need various medical devices operating on electricity can go eat a bucket of dicks, I guess. I'm not 100% sure if that's what's going on in what you're talking about, but I know some places here in the US are doing it on purpose. Isn't it bad enough that so much of the country doesn't even provide tap water that's clean enough to drink?

Corrupt politicians giving all our tax money to other countries for laundering and bribes while gradually turning our country into a third world shit hole by design pisses me off. I'm so patriotic that I love Independence Day and think we need more of them.
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Gotta get them electric cars even tho I think we have 100+ year old electric infrastructure.
 
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More annoying than pissed off, but working with a complete Marvel consoomer who will sit and incessantly talk my ear off
A Grey Cat said:
Makes me wish we had a thanks rating oh well the thumb up will suffice.


Anyways I know we probably have a goosebumps thread in the literature section but this is something that genuinely pisses me off. OK so most of the classic books from the of series are being... "altered" for e book releases. And I don't just mean changing or cutting out outdated 90s references like gameboys and using the word "tape " to refer to watching a movie.

No no no see everything from small things like calling characters crazy to references to blood (what little that series made to actual blood anyways) is being removed. Say cheese and die again has it worse of all. Possibly because in that book the evil camera makes one kid gain weight like crazy and another to lose it till she withers away to nothing. And of course in current year we can't have anything even remotely close to either eating disorders or body shaming in a kid's horror book.



I know I sound like an aging gen xer (or older millennial at this point the ones born closer to 1990 anyways) but there's a reason that generation grew up taking nothing from nobody and ate dirt in times of hardship without bellyaching about everything. It's because our media didn't hold our hands and treat us like babies past the age of 2.
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they did something similar with the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books awhile back. The drawings were the best part of those books and some of them were genuinely horrific. Can’t have a horror book be too scary though, think of the children! So the newer editions neutered all the original artwork and replaced it with these pathetic looking Jack Skellington 2spoopy4me styled things.

As someone in that nebulous aging Gen X’er/older millennial area…grumblegrumble goddamn pansy kids today and their safe spaces grumblegrumble get off my lawn
 
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People who wear their political opinions. Woman walked into my place of employment wearing a shirt that said, to the effect of "stop (list of -phobias, racism, misogyny, resist trump" and of course all I could do was hold my tongue and pray she didn't live here and was here for the one thing this city offers. God I wanted to tell her to go back to whatever liberal shit hole she was from, because you KNOW she's the type to fuck up local politics with her garbage leftism.

ETA the opposite side of the lunacy spectrum walked in with a duck, saying his chickens identify as parakeets. Kind of based but it's a midwit take. Had a teen coworker say she's "trans" (a they/them) in response. Pour one out for another lost tomboy, troon menace claims another. She can't stop me from calling her what she is, a tomboy poisoned by globohomo.
 
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Taco Bell pissed me off today. They got my husband's order wrong and he couldn't even eat it (there was meat and he's a vegetarian). He called the store and they said they'd make it right.

What he came home with about fifty ads for their rewards program inside a sealed bag with about ten stickers on it to discourage him from checking what they gave him at the drive-thru. I thought at first they were giving him coupons for free food. Nope. You get a free taco when you sign up for rewards and can only use one flyer per registered account.

A taco is not what he ordered.

I complained to corporate via Facebook. If I don't hear back in a couple days I'm calling the 800 number.

I have complained to management exactly once in my life. This makes two times, so you know I'm pissed.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
Taco Bell pissed me off today. They got my husband's order wrong and he couldn't even eat it (there was meat and he's a vegetarian). He called the store and they said they'd make it right.

What he came home with about fifty ads for their rewards program inside a sealed bag with about ten stickers on it to discourage him from checking what they gave him at the drive-thru. I thought at first they were giving him coupons for free food. Nope. You get a free taco when you sign up for rewards and can only use one flyer per registered account.

A taco is not what he ordered.

I complained to corporate via Facebook. If I don't hear back in a couple days I'm calling the 800 number.

I have complained to management exactly once in my life. This makes two times, so you know I'm pissed.
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Tell him to stop being a pussy and eat meat like a real man.
 
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Accept Only Substitutes said:
When the power goes off in the summer. FFS Texas it's May. It was only 94 today and you're still telling people to save electricity to keep the grid happy. We've got five more months of often much higher temperatures than 94 to go through!
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Seems like if this happens often enough that it’s a big issue then at some point it’s your fault for not investing in an emergency generator or something similar.
 
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