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

[Jewthulhu]

 

[AnOminous]

Not to sound racist, but I HATE talking to somebody on the phone that doesn't understand English.

I've gotten to the point I speak fluent street shitter and can understand the thickest Indian accent. I get that people trying to get tech support who can't understand that shit get mad when they're already having problems and now they have to try to pierce a thick veil of pajeet on top of that, but I'm pretty past it at this point.

 

[Jason Wynn]

How the fuck is it possible that almost any time you need to deal with a company or representative that requires you to be able to communicate clearly and understand English it’s almost always some fucking pajeet or border-hopping wetback that is less fluent than a toddler? At least Asians still learning the language will try and make an attempt to understand and you can work with them, albeit at a slower pace. The goddamn Indians and illegal Mexicans though I swear are legitimately retarded. Definitely not sending their best and brightest over.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

How the fuck is it possible that almost any time you need to deal with a company or representative that requires you to be able to communicate clearly and understand English it’s almost always some fucking pajeet or border-hopping wetback that is less fluent than a toddler? At least Asians still learning the language will try and make an attempt to understand and you can work with them, albeit at a slower pace. The goddamn Indians and illegal Mexicans though I swear are legitimately retarded. Definitely not sending their best and brightest over.

I've noticed that too. Most of the asians will speak more slowly in order to put more effort into enunciating every word they say, but the pajeets and spics just fucking ramble off incomprehensible word salad while making no effort to stop gargling the dick that I can hear rammed down their throats. On the rare occasion one does slow down, they still make zero effort to enunciate as though they're not still in the middle of giving a BJ to afford the medicine they need for their horribly audible sinus blockage.

Can't even put an estimate on how many of these cocksuckers I've asked to transfer me to someone who speaks English after trying dozens of times to politely get anything coherent out of them. I've even switched services and stopped patronizing more than a few companies because none of their outsourced support staff speak fucking English. I wish everyone else would do the same in order to force those companies to cut that shit out.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

This both irritates and sometimes surprises me, but normies are a lot more narrow-minded that I thought. Their threshold for condemning something as weird is very low. For instance, a few of my normie coworkers, who again are very nice people, thought something as harmless as "Wallace and Gromit" was too weird for them. Same goes for neighbors and acquaintances. Sad thing is, I'm sharing stuff that I assumed wouldn't be treated as weird, yet it is. I don't get why people are like this.

 

[AnOminous]

This both irritates and sometimes surprises me, but normies are a lot more narrow-minded that I thought. Their threshold for condemning something as weird is very low. For instance, a few of my normie coworkers, who again are very nice people, thought something as harmless as "Wallace and Gromit" was too weird for them. Same goes for neighbors and acquaintances. Sad thing is, I'm sharing stuff that I assumed wouldn't be treated as weird, yet it is. I don't get why people are like this.

Anyone who has any problem with Wallace and Gromit needs to face the wall immediately. We seriously need to get rid of this kind of person.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Their threshold for condemning something as weird is very low. For instance, a few of my normie coworkers, who again are very nice people, thought something as harmless as "Wallace and Gromit" was too weird for them. Same goes for neighbors and acquaintances. Sad thing is, I'm sharing stuff that I assumed wouldn't be treated as weird, yet it is. I don't get why people are like this

Anything even slightly whimsy and not clearly metaphorical is "weird". Oddly, same people could be ok with modern internet cutesy guro and other gross crap.

Thread tax: anytime whores get whiteknighted the second someone suggests even camwhoring is bad. Making fun of whores should not get pages upon pages of ree on otherwise rather normal site.

 

[Hummingbird]

The person who lives in my apartment complex who lets their dalmatian run loose all over the complex without a collar. This dog has a tendency to get in the way of oncoming cars and one driver had to blast his horn to get the dog to leave when it was in the way. Nobody likes the dog or it's owner.

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Anything even slightly whimsy and not clearly metaphorical is "weird". Oddly, same people could be ok with modern internet cutesy guro and other gross crap.

I agree! I'd go further to say anything that's even remotely imaginative, foreign, or outside their generic average lives is "weird" too.

As far as the gross stuff goes, I think I kind of know what you're talking about. Certain gross stuff is lightly tolerated if it can be construed as cool or quirky in some way. How and why, I have no idea.

Thread tax related to the above: I've actually had people tell me it's weird that I care about my hygiene. I'm not even OCD about it either. I had no idea that combing my hair, brushing my teeth, and using deordorant is weird. What the actual fuck is wrong with so-called normal people?

 

[skykiii]

Random but sometimes I wish Youtube would have a function allowing you to search a specific date range/year for videos (and I will feel dumb if it turns out they actually do).

There's a specific video about Mystery of the Druids that I've been trying to find but which eludes me. And yes, I tried asking on r/tipofmytongue and got nothing.

If you guys think you can find it, details behind spoiler

Spoiler: What I remember about this video

It is NOT The Retsupurae or MandaloreGaming video, in fact it must've existed before either of those, because I have a very specific memory of a friend telling me about Retsupurae's video and me telling him I had already seen a video about Mystery of the Druids and linking to the one I found... which is the one I'm looking for now.

It was kind of a summary/riff but also kind of a review. It was similar in ways to what Spoony would do except no live skits or anything, just edited playthru footage... like it would sum up what happened and the steps you needed to take and comment on how ridiculous they were. To my memory, the reviewer himself (and it was definitely a man) never shows himself on camera nor did he have any sort of avatar.

It was one single long video, I wanna say anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour.

The video began by bringing up the game's infamous box art. It also ended by saying something like "all you need to know is... this game, this box art. Goodnight."

At one point (I recall this section involving a hedge fence around a mansion yard) the person reviewing the game says "No you fool! Never tell an adventure game character that they can't go somewhere!"

I think it was that scene but it could've been one shortly later, but while taking the steps to solve that puzzle, the reviewer inserts Mission Impossible music.

The thing that makes it a pain in the ass to find is I don't think the video's title actually contained the phrase "Mystery of the Druids." I think the video's title mentioned the box art but not the actual name of the game, but I can't be 100% sure of that.

 

[I Do Not Post]

(and I will feel dumb if it turns out they actually do).

before:2010 after:2007

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Anyone who has any problem with Wallace and Gromit needs to face the wall immediately. We seriously need to get rid of this kind of person.

Agreed.

 

[skykiii]

before:2010 after:2007

Thanks, even though it hasn't yet found the video, its helping.

Hey, is there a way to find videos by thumbnail? Because the video I'm looking for definitely used the game's infamous box art so I'm thinking if I could search by that (assuming the video is even on YT still) I'd find it.

 

[TIM4EUS]

I have a very subtle, tasteful and glib sense of humor but society has become anti-intellectual these days so nobody gets my humor and thinks im a dumb tard instead

 

[skykiii]

I have a very subtle, tasteful and glib sense of humor but society has become anti-intellectual these days so nobody gets my humor and thinks im a dumb tard instead

BEAVIS: Hehehe... hey, Butthead, what does "subtle" mean?

BUTT-HEAD: It means, like, you say things without saying them or something.

BEAVIS: Oh, I'm subtle too!

BUTT-HEAD: No you're not, buttmunch.

BEAVIS: No, really! Girls know I want to bang them without me saying so!

BUTT-HEAD: No they don't, dillhole. You never score.

 

[Jason Wynn]

When I am off work, be that at the end of the day or my days off, that is MY time. Yes, sometimes I will stay late but the problem with doing that is it starts to be expected of you. God forbid people have a day or two to themselves without the pinhead superiors blowing up your phone because they're too helpless and incompetent to survive without you. Put your foot down and tell them that you can't come in on your day off this time and they get a little piss-ass attitude.

Sorry, I work to live. I don't live to work, and just because I stay late or come in on a day off every now and then doesn't mean you get to constantly try and take advantage of me.

 

[Spud]

When people use the phrase "I did a" then refer to the thing they did

The title is a perfect example of this, to refer it as "A thing" is wasting words when the thing itself describes what you've done. You didn't a heckin colonialism, you committed colonialism stop writing like an infant

 

[Anticipointment]

People who pronounce “especially” as “EX-pecially”.

 

[Local Fed]

People who pronounce “especially” as “EX-pecially”.

Or more commonly (at least in my experience) people who pronounce "et cetera" as "EX-cetera."

 

[internet friend]

Or more commonly (at least in my experience) people who pronounce "et cetera" as "EX-cetera."

And people who pronounce "niche" as "nitch", as well as "genre" as "john-ra"