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

Dwight Frye said:
People (mostly old people) who take a ridiculous amount of time getting the fuck out of lines at the store. Three people behind you waiting and you stand there taking an eternity to slowly fold your receipt a half dozen times before slowly putting it in your wallet, then slowly gathering your change, then slowly getting your bags while talking the cashier's ear off without a care about anyone else's time.
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It's amazing how some people don't think about others around them at all. I genuinely wonder what goes through their heads because I can't even conceive of that kind of existence. I'm constantly worrying if I'm being a nuisance to others around me. It must be nice to just not care at all that other people have to exist around you.
 
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Disposability and perceived disposability is consooming everything and everyone and just generally degrading the world.

You're not supposed to just throw away your clothes and replace them multiple times a year or even every couple of years. You're supposed to take care of your things, expect them to hold up for several years at least, and store them in totes or whatever when it's not a good season outside to wear them.

It's not okay for electronics to be made intentionally flimsy, with software updates that hamstring it to force you to buy a new one every model cycle or two, or with software/hardware that will be intentionally outdated with new incompatible everything.

I would be here typing all week if I made this post extensive, especially when it comes to people treating pets and other people as disposable.

When you consoom enough, it becomes you who is being consoomed.
 
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Nonconsentual Pronouns said:
Disposability and perceived disposability is consooming everything and everyone and just generally degrading the world.

You're not supposed to just throw away your clothes and replace them multiple times a year or even every couple of years. You're supposed to take care of your things, expect them to hold up for several years at least, and store them in totes or whatever when it's not a good season outside to wear them.

It's not okay for electronics to be made intentionally flimsy, with software updates that hamstring it to force you to buy a new one every model cycle or two, or with software/hardware that will be intentionally outdated with new incompatible everything.

I would be here typing all week if I made this post extensive, especially when it comes to people treating pets and other people as disposable.

When you consoom enough, it becomes you who is being consoomed.
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flimsy products in the current time remind me how a lot of my older appliances worked so much better than some of the new stuff I have.
I try to get the most of whatever I buy because money isn't too easily accessible, so it's really.... useless when things are just expensive paperweights after a few years.

on another note, the thing you mentioned about people treating pets as disposable is also a HUGE issue to me, as someone who loves animals.
It especially applies to animals that aren't cats and dogs, I realized. Nobody's going to care if you lost your bird for the most part- at least not in the west it feels.
You could put out posters, and potentially no-one will post about it or try to contact you. It's really sad, especially if it's a bird that cannot adapt to the outside world as easily due to being raised as a pet.

By extension, the same DOES apply to cats and dogs- but mostly it seems people treat them as objects- smothering them, having no regard for their desires, etc.
This could lead to negative experiences like injury leading to mistreatment and abandonment of the pet, which applies to anything really.

The moral is: don't treat a living thing like an object- said animal has feelings too unlike a machine. Plus each animal is unique in it's own way- you can't just replace it.
Especially if you have an emotional bond.

Sorry for my rant, I just felt like contributing my thoughts- i suppose it also counts as some stuff that pisses me off about how humanity treats other species too in the end.
 
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Spamton said:
By extension, the same DOES apply to cats and dogs- but mostly it seems people treat them as objects- smothering them, having no regard for their desires, etc.
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This is especially bad when some asshole gets a pet with very specific needs that are completely incompatible with their lifestyle, so the animal suffers. This particularly applies to high energy meme breeds that require lots of attention, but don't get it, because the asshole gets the animal just to be cool. People like this are also just generally assholes usually and if someone does this, it's pretty likely I'll hate them on sight.
 
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God I fucking hate pitbulls.
They're statistically more likely to bite than any other dog. And more likely to kill the victim.
And every time a pit bull bites someone and sends them to the hospital or kills a child you get a metric fuck ton of retards commenting on the article that they're so sweet uwu . It's all in how you raise them. My sweet angel wouldn't hurt a fly. It's infuriating.
I hate that every dog you see now is a fucking pit bull/ pit mix or labradoodle. And no one bothers to research which breed would best suit their lifestyle, and find a repututable breeder.
 
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Cloacan said:
Regular packaged food item: 1.5 billion gigatons of sodium
Low sodium version of same: 1.49999 billion gigatons of sodium
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This and the fact that it took me this long to finally discover "no sodium added" cartons of broth because I barely shop at Walmart, much less their grocery section, makes me vaguely pissed at myself in a conflicting way. Yes I know, home made broth is always suggested, but it's just not viable when it feels like I go through an average of one or two 4-cup cartons of the stuff most days.

Compensating for salty broth by not salting the meat before searing it makes the end product taste off, and I refuse to use water when making soup, stew, gravy, etc.
 
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Patrick Baitman said:
People that don't take care of their smartphones. It's incredibly common.

I'd sperg out if my phone even fell on the carpet.
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The version of this that I've always lamented is the way that some people act with laptops, at least in my personal life. About a decade or so ago when (at least where I was) getting a laptop was still kind of a big deal it was so common to see them being abused and treated like they were indestructible, not remotely cleaned, etc.
 
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People who litter in nature. I enjoy going fishing, I don't enjoy spending 15-20 minutes every time cleaning up empty beer cans & other filth. Worst I've ever seen was a whole ass COUCH dumped into the water.

Adult carp fishermen who are 30+ years of age bragging to others at the local waters & telling them their gear is shit and they won't catch shit while blasting shitty rap music from a bluetooth speaker. Especially when they do that shit to teenagers who obviously haven't fished much.
 
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ReasonablyRetarded said:
Adult carp fishermen who are 30+ years of age bragging to others at the local waters & telling them their gear is shit and they won't catch shit while blasting shitty rap music from a bluetooth speaker. Especially when they do that shit to teenagers who obviously haven't fished much.
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Back when I fished, I found that I had the best luck with the simplest of setups. Hell, I one saw my fishing buddy catch bream for bait by throwing chips into a 5 gallon bucket and pulling it out of the water. It didn't even have holes in it to drain the water out.
 
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Mr. Confederate Man said:
Back when I fished, I found that I had the best luck with the simplest of setups. Hell, I one saw my fishing buddy catch bream for bait by throwing chips into a 5 gallon bucket and pulling it out of the water. It didn't even have holes in it to drain the water out.
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That's pretty funny, I caught my PB bream on a simple & cheap 20 euro rod reel match setup with just maggots & an area baited with canned corn and oatmeal.

Another one I witnessed was some 15 year old shy kid who was fishing with some cheap gear, some carp tards sat a few feet away and started doing that thing. During the entire afternoon the kid caught 2 decent carp and the carp tards caught nothing.
 
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Patrick Bait-man said:
People that don't take care of their smartphones. It's incredibly common.

I'd sperg out if my phone even fell on the carpet.
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All my friends make fun of me for buying cheap phones (less than $200)

Then they preceed to drop them, throw them, do everything they can to fuck them up and complain about how easy they break and how they're spending thousands a year on their phones.

Meanwhile, I can manage to get a year and a half to two years out of my cheap phone before it's so obsolete I need a new one.
 
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