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

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

People who pretend to be "filmbuffs/cinephiles/weebs" when they haven't watched anything older than the past 20 years. Obviously no one's seen every great movie and there's plenty of people into film/anime or other artforms that haven't gotten around to certain stuff. But I'm sorry... if you're into film you should at least have a Bergman film on your watchlist. You should be trying to discover old arthouse films, decent foreign films, classic Hollywood. If you're a degenerate otaku, you should at least be trying to check out stuff like Astroboy, City Hunter, Herlock and all the stuff that inspired your "super deep" modern isekai/pedobait bullshit. I know that sounds elitist as fuck, but I'm really tired of seeing people larp as critics/fans of certain artforms while completely having no interest in the very foundation of what they like.
Liking Star Wars or Avengers doesn't make you a film connoisseur. Being a fan of Demon Slayer doesn't make you a weeb. I'm not going to be that guy who will freak out because someone hasn't watched something good that had an impact on their fiction of choice, but I'll damn sure respect them a lot more if they at least bring up taking an interest in something not immediately accessible to most people.
To me being a devout fan of cinema means being as autistically into every facet of it and wanting to absorb as much radically different shit there is out there like a sponge even if it's not the coolest shit to talk about in a group.

That and anyone sticking to only one genre of music/film/television to enjoy. When you become a "metalhead" and commit to a larp, you lose the chance to truly enjoy so many different kinds of genres. If you're only into shonen or isekai, you're not a fan of anime, you're just a fan of whatever that genre immediately offers you.
Yeah it might not seem like a big deal but I really think a lack of culture or eclectic taste is why everyone is kind of a mentally stunted twat nowadays.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

A 34 year old guy who is constantly complaining that it's *impossible* to move out of his parents home in this economy spent the entire night tonight bitching about how he *had* to spend 1000 dollars on a new phone because the one he bought a year ago broke. This guy doesn't require a special phone for work or anything, and is also known to blow entire paychecks on parts for his "show car" which is really not impressive at all.

I don't judge if people don't move out of their family home because I've been through tough times before, but don't fucking bitch to me about how it's impossible when you're making nearly 50-70k a year depending on overtime.

 

[Stoicism Is For Losers]

Weeks, or rather weirdos who make calendars where the week starts on sunday, sunday is on the "weekend" not the "weekbeginning"

 

[The Foxtrot]

Weeks, or rather weirdos who make calendars where the week starts on sunday, sunday is on the "weekend" not the "weekbeginning"

I second that. I have never understood why calendars have Sunday as the first day of the week, when everyone I've ever known treats Sunday as the last day of the week.

 

[McMitch]

When someone refers to a person online as “she,” rather than by their username, it’s 100% a tranny. It’s irritating that they’ve so thoroughly co-opted basic language on the computer.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Weeks, or rather weirdos who make calendars where the week starts on sunday, sunday is on the "weekend" not the "weekbeginning"

The Gregorian calendar brings out my inner autist more than just about anything, I think. Structure and practicality were thrown out in favor of vanity and an extremely petty superstition.

• A month is supposed to be 28 days, aka exactly four weeks, aka one moon cycle, aka other naturally occurring cycles. The moon cycle is off by some number of hours or something, but fuck off, it's as close as we can get.
• It's the "weekend", not the "week bookends". Monday is the first day of the week.
• The spring equinox is the real New Year's Day. Do the math with a pen on a calendar following the 28-day month structure and you'll see why OCTOber is named as the eighth month and DECEmber is named as the tenth month.
• Non-leap years are exactly 13 real months and one day long, leaving that one day as a monthless holiday of New Year's Eve or it could be New Year's Day itself on the equinox, doubling up every fourth year.
• That extra day isn't even marked as any normal day of the week, so the rhythm of each day of the week being the same day of the month is unimpeded.
• Butchering the calendar into the garbled mess it currently is out of fear for the number 13 is on par with the chinks who are so afraid of the number four that they can't buy or do anything in fours, despite it being easily one of the most important and convenient numbers in existence.

We're past the point where the only people who would cling onto the Gregorian setup are calendar printing companies and people who can't handle objective change for the better for no actual reason. Shit's so stupid beyond any rationale and can go straight into the trash along with daylight savings time that was invented and lobbied by fucking American chocolate companies, I'm not joking.

 

[TIM4EUS]

Friend of mine has been on a few dates with a girl/been seeing for a few weeks. She let slip that she has a 'fetish side hustle' that she's been doing for the past year. For reference, this girl is Asian, a powerlifter, and has a few tattoos.

maybe im biased but I always cringe whenever I see asian people acting out like this, it feels contrived and fake to me. obviously not every asian person is a "model minority" and theres bad eggs out there but I feel like lots of asians adopt a bad girl/bad boy schtick to defy nerdy stereotypes or something. it just feels very premeditated to me

"oh haha, youve got quite a potty mouth. WHOA did not expect that from a demure asian girl! guess youre not submissive afterall hah"

 

[Nick Obre]

The Gregorian calendar brings out my inner autist more than just about anything, I think. Structure and practicality were thrown out in favor of vanity and an extremely petty superstition.

• A month is supposed to be 28 days, aka exactly four weeks, aka one moon cycle, aka other naturally occurring cycles. The moon cycle is off by some number of hours or something, but fuck off, it's as close as we can get.
• It's the "weekend", not the "week bookends". Monday is the first day of the week.
• The spring equinox is the real New Year's Day. Do the math with a pen on a calendar following the 28-day month structure and you'll see why OCTOber is named as the eighth month and DECEmber is named as the tenth month.
• Non-leap years are exactly 13 real months and one day long, leaving that one day as a monthless holiday of New Year's Eve or it could be New Year's Day itself on the equinox, doubling up every fourth year.
• That extra day isn't even marked as any normal day of the week, so the rhythm of each day of the week being the same day of the month is unimpeded.
• Butchering the calendar into the garbled mess it currently is out of fear for the number 13 is on par with the chinks who are so afraid of the number four that they can't buy or do anything in fours, despite it being easily one of the most important and convenient numbers in existence.

We're past the point where the only people who would cling onto the Gregorian setup are calendar printing companies and people who can't handle objective change for the better for no actual reason. Shit's so stupid beyond any rationale and can go straight into the trash along with daylight savings time that was invented and lobbied by fucking American chocolate companies, I'm not joking.

Tolkien came up with a perfect calendar the Hobbits used in the Shire. It works by the same lunar cycles as the real world, and it's made of 12 months of exactly 30 days. The handful of leftover days are used as special celebration days that don't belong in any month. I'm sure a system like that could be adapted to the real world, with Christmas and New Years and such things being those days, but of course, it will never happen.

 

[The Last Stand]

A 34 year old guy who is constantly complaining that it's *impossible* to move out of his parents home in this economy spent the entire night tonight bitching about how he *had* to spend 1000 dollars on a new phone because the one he bought a year ago broke. This guy doesn't require a special phone for work or anything, and is also known to blow entire paychecks on parts for his "show car" which is really not impressive at all.

I don't judge if people don't move out of their family home because I've been through tough times before, but don't fucking bitch to me about how it's impossible when you're making nearly 50-70k a year depending on overtime.

The economy IS bad right now, but people like HIM aren't helping. Stories like that get me mad when I can barely afford to live out on my own.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

The economy IS bad right now, but people like HIM aren't helping. Stories like that get me mad when I can barely afford to live out on my own.

I don't judge if people don't move out of their family home because I've been through tough times before, but don't fucking bitch to me about how it's impossible when you're making nearly 50-70k a year depending on overtime.

To me that's right up there with bougie college kids protesting "the elite" or 1%.
The joke is... they're not """wrong""". It's just they shouldn't be the ones doing it.

I'll add to that anyone who says how tired they are of living with their parents... while proceeding not to move the fuck out.
TMI but I moved out when I was 18 because literally any other alternative was better than living where I was. I didn't bitch about it relentlessly to people while in my mid 20s'.
It just tells me that whoever says that shit obviously must not have it that bad. If you can't find a single roommate or friend and an alright job then my heart goes out to you. But if you're going through anything else I don't give a shit.

Seriously, "kids" (and by that I mean 20-30 year olds still in their chunibiyo phase) need to move the fuck out. It won't be fun a lot of the time, it will come with a lot of stress and hard work, but it will make them grow and mature at an alarming rate.
Nothing wrong with staying with your parents, especially during really shit economic times. But maybe save up and put something in savings or interest instead of buying another 10 funkopops. Unless living with your family isn't really that fucking bad (which it isn't half of the time).

 

[Matt Damon]

People who say something "can't be understated" should die. I hear it frustratingly often in videos by "Youtube essayists" and it's depressing to think people with such a tenuous grasp of English are technically professional writers.

The phrase is "can't be overstated" meaning "there are no words that could express this too strongly" not "can't be understated" which I guess would mean "for some reason I'd like to understate this, but I'm too honest and duty-bound to do so".

Learn your own fucking language.

 

[Polarity]

I can't handle modern day web account security features. Every cursed website has a completely random and retarded way to authenticate customers.

Random username and 128 character high entropy password? Fuck that, we need your phone number so we can text you, store it, then sell that information to brokers. New account? We'll silently reject your password or truncate it without telling you unless you inspect source and read the field parameters. Next, fill in three to six easy-to-guess personal questions and answers that I now have to store in addition to everything else.

Airlines are the worst at this. Login with your frequent flyer number, get asked additional security questions every login, have security pictures pop-up, then get SMS 2FA to cap it off. So you have faceid enable on your iPhone? Fuck you, we'll just use faceid then SMS 2FA right after.

Holy fuck I'm enraged just thinking about it.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

A 34 year old guy who is constantly complaining that it's *impossible* to move out of his parents home in this economy spent the entire night tonight bitching about how he *had* to spend 1000 dollars on a new phone because the one he bought a year ago broke. This guy doesn't require a special phone for work or anything, and is also known to blow entire paychecks on parts for his "show car" which is really not impressive at all.

I don't judge if people don't move out of their family home because I've been through tough times before, but don't fucking bitch to me about how it's impossible when you're making nearly 50-70k a year depending on overtime.

Maybe he prefers living with his parents and uses that lame excuse.
A person can buy a trailer in a years income easily on his salary.
I doubt based on the story you told that he contributes anything to the home, though.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

Livestream re-uploads but with a thumbnail and title that implies actual quality content.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

If it's after 4-5 pm, don't email/teams message/call me with your IT issue. We have a helpdesk extension that after hours/on weekends, will take your message and notify whoever is on call that week and they'll help you within 15 minutes. Also apparently Puerto Ricans and Dominicans never learned about NOT SHOUTING IN EMAIL

Retail manager here. They have to do this because the higher-ups at corporate make them.

If they fail to get enough sign-ups, donations, credit cards, etc. they at best get dragged into the office, and bitched at by managers who got bitched at by the people above them, and at worst, get fired for "poor job performance".

We all hate doing it. We all find it scummy af, and know that you the customer think that, and also hate it. Blame the higher-ups in Commiefornia for it because we can't do anything about it.

Trust me, no one hates it more than the workers, and it's one of the reasons I'm so glad the place I manage now doesn't do shit like that.

Coldstone Creamery makes their workers recite that "thank you for this dough" bit as a psyop to discourage tipping through cringe

 

[Meat Target]

If it's after 4-5 pm, don't email/teams message/call me with your IT issue. We have a helpdesk extension that after hours/on weekends, will take your message and notify whoever is on call that week and they'll help you within 15 minutes.

This is why I avoid going somewhere within an hour of their closing time. Making people stay after hours is obnoxious.

Grinds my gears tax: having to print out novels' worth of documents that will never be looked at. The nature lover in me shudders to think of all the trees I've had to kill.

 

[Sniperwoof]

I hate how if a single fringe weirdo complains about something all of society instantly jumps to ban, censor, subvert, ect that thing and bend to their demands no matter how ridiculous or outlandish they are.

Why have we collectively become so afraid to tell people to fuck off?

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I can't handle modern day web account security features. Every cursed website has a completely random and retarded way to authenticate customers.

Random username and 128 character high entropy password? Fuck that, we need your phone number so we can text you, store it, then sell that information to brokers. New account? We'll silently reject your password or truncate it without telling you unless you inspect source and read the field parameters. Next, fill in three to six easy-to-guess personal questions and answers that I now have to store in addition to everything else.

Airlines are the worst at this. Login with your frequent flyer number, get asked additional security questions every login, have security pictures pop-up, then get SMS 2FA to cap it off. So you have faceid enable on your iPhone? Fuck you, we'll just use faceid then SMS 2FA right after.

Holy fuck I'm enraged just thinking about it.

This annoys me endlessly, like, nigger, why the fuck do I have a password if you're just going to make me get a fucking code out of my text messages ANYWAY?!?

Let retards get their shit stolen and leave the rest of us alone.

 

[AnOminous]

Why have we collectively become so afraid to tell people to fuck off?

Because our nads have apparently fallen off, we can't just tell retards "FUCK OFF RETARD" like we SHOULD!

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Fetishes are icky and gross, and I want nothing to do with them.