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

I've got two fresh ones.

The first is when people approach me with a problem they want to talk about. I'll listen and commiserate, but then they sometimes ask for advice. I try to lay out what I see are solution(s) to the problem, they agree to try the solution(s), and we go our merry way. Then, inevitably, they'll want to talk about the problem again, and I ask them, "Well, did you try any of the solutions I suggested?" "No. Too much work." Motherfucker, do not ask for advice if you're not going to follow it. And then when they ask for advice again and I refuse to give any because they won't follow it, they make me out to be the bad guy.

The second is when I'm trying to troubleshoot a family member's tech problem, and when I tell them the next step I'm met with "I don't want to do that. That doesn't sound right." or "I won't do it that way, tell me another way to do it." Now, most of the time when they do that, they plain don't understand why or how to execute it, and I'm happy to show them how, but motherfuck, can they at least just say "I don't understand" instead of being confrontational? It's gotten to the point I walk away or hang up if they start doing that, and they still don't get the hint.
 
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M3xus said:
The first is when people approach me with a problem they want to talk about. I'll listen and commiserate, but then they sometimes ask for advice. I try to lay out what I see are solution(s) to the problem, they agree to try the solution(s), and we go our merry way. Then, inevitably, they'll want to talk about the problem again, and I ask them, "Well, did you try any of the solutions I suggested?" "No. Too much work." Motherfucker, do not ask for advice if you're not going to follow it. And then when they ask for advice again and I refuse to give any because they won't follow it, they make me out to be the bad guy.
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Although it's cliché, this seems to be almost universal for women.

The whole "I don't want you to solve my problems, I just want you to listen" may be true, but it's also selfish and narcissistic.

I had a relative last year who was a victim of workplace sexual harassment.

They would come over multiple times a week interrupting supper and crying for hours going over events in minute detail.

I do possess professional communication skills to handle charged situations with kid gloves, but even so it was impossible to discuss any sort of strategy in terms of next steps to address the problem because any questions about options immediately triggered "You aren't #BelievingAllWomen" fits of rage.
 
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If it were a woman, I'd understand, because I'm too familiar with "I just want you to listen". It's a male coworker constantly going on about his financial situation, but he's always eating out or going to this or that event. Every time he listens attentively when I talk about what worked for me (setting a budget, "paying yourself first"), and every time he will, without fail, not do a single fucking one because it's "too much work". I think he's convinced I have a magic wand that can fix it and I'm just refusing to wave it.
 
Nitpicky weebs

No, the newest season of your favorite animu isn't shit because you found 3 screenshots that don't even look bad (they're usually in-motion so they seem weird).
How about thank your lucky stars people worked 20 hour days for 2 years to get you another season so fast, bitch.
People really have no idea of shitty animation/art. I'm not an expert but I'm really sick of seeing manga-fags looking comparing one image from a show to the best looking panel in the manga it's from. Sometimes manga does look better but how about shut the fuck up and appreciate the fact you actually got an adaption.

On a darker note; something that hit me today...
A woman I know is going back into a relationship with a dude who cheated on her and left her behind. I was like "Why" at first but then I remembered people from my life that have abused me/manipulated me and how long I stuck by them and I just felt like shit.
I think people forget how hard it is for lonely people to leave behind shitty relationships, romantic or not and the multiple reasons why. But it still makes you look like a weak, dependent person by everyone and the joke is they're right. The amount of hatred I've felt for myself over not leaving behind people I knew were shitty for me is so vast that it's almost unbearable.
Don't get me wrong, it's weak and bad and it doesn't make much sense. But it was weird having a moment where I saw someone doing something stupid and had to realize I've been that exact same person.

ANYWAYS...
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
I hate how if you dare to talk about how shitty modern rap or hip hop is, fucking kids will immediately just start saying you're and old man and either imitate or bring up this video


As if that was hip hop until like 10 years ago.

I fucking hate how proudly ignorant urban/nigger culture is.
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This made me MATI. God forbid hip hop should actually be fun and positive, like the modern shit is any more deep and meaningful because it's full of swearing, drug and sex references.

Imagine a rock musician of today howling with laughter at Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley, would that go down so well?
 
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Dwight Frye said:
People that need to be high every second of their life.

I’m not against weed, I smoke it too. But the people who have no self control and are constantly taking rips off their pens or needing to smoke a bowl constantly irritate the fuck out of me. Moderation is key, and potheads suck to be around, dumb, lazy fuckers who can’t remember anything five minutes in the past.
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I've kinda gotten to that point. I smoke multiple times a day, though my tolerance has gotten to point where I'm "high", but not going too hard. It sucks, because it used to be something that was more social and enjoyable, but now it's pretty much just a glorified cigarette. Certain strains can either really help my anxiety or cause me to be really stoic and uncomfortable, though dispensaries have alleviated that problem by providing multiple options. People have commented on how I'm high all of the time (I've been compared to Shaggy), but like, I'm working and closing 6 nights a week now because we had to fire a guy who was too fucked up on pills to work (among other things), my customers suck, constantly having to clean up my workers mistakes, trying to save up money to move to greener pastures, and have had to close extra late on multiple days, leading to yet another set of 13 hour shifts. Look, I get that I'm not some long-suffering Old World immigrant suffocating in a Gilded Age meat packing plant, but fuck this shit.

Fuck dealers too, I hope they die out, but a lot of them have just moved on to selling harder substances. One of the guys I used to go through used to be a decently cool person to be around, even considered him a friend, but now has gone even more off the rails down the ol' cokey ski slope, got scammed out of $4,000 trying to rent a house people are already living in, has not appeared in court for expired plates and possesion, and is now trying to stash his guns and contraband at the houses of casual friends. Shit is getting out of hand, and frankly, he deserves it.
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
I think the worst thing about it is the way americans fetishize it. I can't tell you the amount of times I've heard people talk about how they were on drugs with the same cadence and maturity of a 12 year old looking at porn. That or them waxing poetic about how legal it should be to the already converted.
You're not a rebel and you're not philosophical for rotting your brain on a daily basis. A cop or politician isn't waiting around every corner to have an argument with you about your drug of choice.
I really do think weed is a net negative for society. It's fun once in a while but the sheer escapism and inability to function like an adult in most people outweighs most of it's benefits.
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THIS. All of these tv shows and pieces of propaganda extolling weeds virtues makes me think that there is perhaps a "Weed Lobby", or "Big Weed", that's gonna fuck with society the same way Big Tobacco did.
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People should absolutely have a right over what they put in their bodies, and smoking certainly does not make you a bad person, but this 180 flip that's been witnessed over the past 15 years is at best wishful thinking. Smoking is bad for you, and these numbnuts are trying to pretend, or are deluded into thinking, that they are doing their bodies a favor.
 
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maguyver16 said:
People should absolutely have a right over what they put in their bodies, and smoking certainly does not make you a bad person, but this 180 flip that's been witnessed over the past 15 years is at best wishful thinking. Smoking is bad for you, and these numbnuts are trying to pretend, or are deluded into thinking, that they are doing their bodies a favor.
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Nothing is wrong inherently with most vices in moderation. The only time a vice is truly terrible is when it's used as a cope or avoidance of reality.
Why try to improve and find a partner when you can watch porn everyday?
Why live in brutal reality when you can do VR and watch vtubers?
Why stay sober when being high/drunk is so much more blissful?
Why take the inspiration anime gives you to lead a better life when you can use it as an excuse to remain a perpetual manchild?

I'll go a step further, I don't give a shit if someone is a deadbeat drunk or abuser of substances... as long as it makes them able to function at other productive activities.
Willie Nelson is one of the most productive musicians of the modern age. He's a stoner.
Frank Zappa was as well. He was absolutely not a fan of drugs.
Someone can be a productive member of society if they know where to draw the line. But this whole line of thinking that all great musicians "HAD" to be on drugs is asinine. The best bands from the 60s didn't take lsd that much in the beginning because they could barely afford it. The Beatles only discovered acid halfway into their discography. They weren't brilliant because of it.
 
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the high today is about 20 degrees lower than yesterday

Bull.

(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
The only time a vice is truly terrible is when it's used as a cope or avoidance of reality.
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I think that if reality does suck, escapist stuff is not always bad, if it's not to an unhealthy excess.

I don't like the mentality of always being imprisoned in the here and now (which SJWs seem to like BTW).
 
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You know what grinds my gears? The 80s, specifically the fetishization of the 1980s. You cant go anywhere without being subjected to yet another 1980s circlejerk with shitty VHS aesthetic and dumb neon sunsets on some hot pink grid and palm trees. It's so absurdly overdone it makes me want to hurl. It's the "corporate artstyle" equivalent for millenial youtubers. People will slap VHS filters on everything for the "aesthetic", it looks like absolute vomit and it sickens me. I hate 1980s circle jerking, it's the epitome of bland consumerism.
 
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Stoicism Is For Losers said:
You know what grinds my gears? The 80s, specifically the fetishization of the 1980s. You cant go anywhere without being subjected to yet another 1980s circlejerk with shitty VHS aesthetic and dumb neon sunsets on some hot pink grid and palm trees. It's so absurdly overdone it makes me want to hurl. It's the "corporate artstyle" equivalent for millenial youtubers. People will slap VHS filters on everything for the "aesthetic", it looks like absolute vomit and it sickens me. I hate 1980s circle jerking, it's the epitome of bland consumerism.
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The vhs filters don’t even look like how vhs recordings looked either. I quite enjoy 80s media and I’ve yet to figure out where all of this came from
 
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Stoicism Is For Losers said:
You know what grinds my gears? The 80s, specifically the fetishization of the 1980s. You cant go anywhere without being subjected to yet another 1980s circlejerk with shitty VHS aesthetic and dumb neon sunsets on some hot pink grid and palm trees. It's so absurdly overdone it makes me want to hurl. It's the "corporate artstyle" equivalent for millenial youtubers. People will slap VHS filters on everything for the "aesthetic", it looks like absolute vomit and it sickens me. I hate 1980s circle jerking, it's the epitome of bland consumerism.
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Just give it a few more years, the style will change to a newer form of nostalgia bait
 
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