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

Bunny Tracks said:
The police calling me to ask for donations. I'd rather flush my hard-earned money down the toilet. It would accomplish just as much.
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And the other thing with those so-called police charities, @Bunny Tracks, is that most, if not all of them, are actually political lobby groups and donations to them are not tax deductible (at least the police robocallers that call me have a closing disclaimer stating that anything you donate isn't tax deductible).

Thread tax: Police who in their efforts to provide crowd control for a march snarl traffic worse than had it been left alone.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Weirdly aggressive people in general are annoying. If I'm being an asshole that's at least understandable, but sometimes it's just totally random.
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Yeah it is hard for me to get angry at anyone for anything these days. I am pretty much always happy and since my cat spends basically all day curled up right next to me, that happiness is infinitely renewable. If I ever start to feel annoyed about anything I just reach down and pet my cat, and she looks up at me with her little monkey face and I am happy again.

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The only time I ever feel annoyed about people giving out little trashcans here...and not just to me, I see this happen to other people too...is when the first one or two were clearly just people who didn't understand a reference that someone was making. If there are more of them afterward (and its almost always 2023 join date Fresh Meat that hops on the bandwagon...I immediately assume those people are zoomers that say things like "no cap" and "frfr" in their private lives) then they are only doing it because they are following the first one or two. Whenever that happens to me or a friend I post a picture of spilled garbage on their profile and say that they "forgot to empty the can first" lmao it's all in good fun. But...unfortunely for these people, they may have some day received a wonderful photograph of a Cat from me on their profile, instead of spilled garbage...if only they hadn't been Dill Holes...
 
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Cats said:
people who reply with negative feedback because they didn't understand a reference you made

I should not have to suffer because someone is uncultured !!!
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So long as it doesn't devolve into Reddit-style flowchartposting

You know, that thing when someone posts a reference to something and you know exactly what the replies will be, always the same chains of replies, with at most a couple diverging paths (hence flowchart posting), etc.
 
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Patrick Bait-man said:
People that think that admitting to their shitty habit(s) puts them in the clear. "Yeah, I like to smoke and I know it's unhealthy for my body and I'm a dumbass for it." That doesn't make it any better, nigger.
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Better than pretending you need your emotional support cigarretes to cope with being gaslighted by your narc mom who gave you ptsd and or some of the other bullshit rethoric people use nowadays to justify their vices. I am so tired of the locus of external control that someone at least owning up to something seems more respectable
 
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Nick Obre said:
So long as it doesn't devolve into Reddit-style flowchartposting

You know, that thing when someone posts a reference to something and you know exactly what the replies will be, always the same chains of replies, with at most a couple diverging paths (hence flowchart posting), etc.
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Oh, no. You never explain it to the person. you just vent later in threads like this and then feel ashamed for even worrying about it at all so you try and forget about it.
 
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AnOminous said:
Possibly unpopular opinion: BPD is nothing but a fancy way of saying Bad Person Disorder. In fact, the entirety of the class of personality disorders is just a taxonomy of different kinds of asshole.
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Not to mention that essentially every official Personality Disorder is untreatable.

Even if the subjects acknowledged the nature of the problem and were committed to change.
 
Responding to any kind of optimistic statement with "cope".

Not that it's necessarily wrong that some people are actually coping & in denial, but it seems like it's being used way too broadly even when the optimism has a reasonable basis. If you're gonna accuse someone of coping, you better explain why it's actually a case of someone grasping for straws to find something good. Mindlessly saying "cope" makes you look like the one coping because you can't accept that something good is happening to people you don't like.
 
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Neighborhood Curmudgeon said:
This is very petty, but one of my coworkers thinks he such a nerd just because he likes Big Bang Theory. I don't care that he likes the show, it's that he thinks he's nerdy for liking it that irritates me.
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Are you seriously telling me that in 2023, people still watch the fucking Big Bang Theory?

Bunny Tracks said:
The police calling me to ask for donations. I'd rather flush my hard-earned money down the toilet. It would accomplish just as much.
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Yes, let's give more money to the authoritarian pricks that nobody likes

Stoicism Is For Losers said:
People with ADHD, they act like kids who had too much sugar, jumping up and down and just running their mouths and trying to make all sorts of annoying unfunny quips. Like shut up dude no one cares about your fucking austin powers reference when I'm trying to talk to you seriously about your behaviour.
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You think that's bad, try dealing with a grown ass man with Tourettes randomly yelling about tits or some shit in front of customers and singing (badly) the same line from a song over and over and over and over and over and over again!

starborn427614 said:
Weirdly aggressive people in general are annoying. If I'm being an asshole that's at least understandable, but sometimes it's just totally random.
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Lowlife Adventures said:
Responding to any kind of optimistic statement with "cope".

Not that it's necessarily wrong that some people are actually coping & in denial, but it seems like it's being used way too broadly even when the optimism has a reasonable basis. If you're gonna accuse someone of coping, you better explain why it's actually a case of someone grasping for straws to find something good. Mindlessly saying "cope" makes you look like the one coping because you can't accept that something good is happening to people you don't like.
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It might be weird to talk about on a thread about things that piss you off, but there seems to be a general disdain for positivity online. Like yeah, people autistically over-enjoying things can be cringe (DeviantArt inflation art) or whatever, but just shitting on people because they enjoy something or are wanting to talk about it online makes you come off as a huge tryhard. Like, why even waste your time posting that shit if most people are going to ignore it?

It probably boils down to depressed people just wanting the miserable company, since miserable people often think that getting attention will take them away from their misery, instead of, you know, facing the problem head on and trying to deal with it.

Cats said:
If I ever start to feel annoyed about anything I just reach down and pet my cat, and she looks up at me with her little monkey face and I am happy again.
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Daww look at that little loaf
 
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People who preface their opinion with "I know this is gonna get negrated" or "give me your hats" bother the shit out of me. It's the least charming form of self awareness. If you have an unpopular opinion then just state it and leave it at that, pussy. Not every post you make has to be receptive to a larger audience.
 
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maguyver16 said:
but there seems to be a general disdain for positivity online
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Not just online, but seems to be general sentiment in general in my travels. Countless people seem to embrace negatively and "depression" as it's trendy. I blame the California mindset presented in most big movies.
 
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Mr. Confederate Man said:
Not just online, but seems to be general sentiment in general in my travels. Countless people seem to embrace negatively and "depression" as it's trendy. I blame the California mindset presented in most big movies.
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It's even more mind-boggling to see certain social media platforms promise, "We don't condone hate/harassment/etc!" while allowing posters who try to be positive get run off the platform by negativity hate mobs.

I think the efforts to de-stigmatize depression and other so-called "mental health" issues has swing the pendulum too far the other way in that negativity is now accepted as normal and those who aren't accepting are seen as the ones with the problem.

Hand in hand with this, it's gear-grinding when people glamorize anything that should be discouraged or seen as inappropriate and dismissing any reasonable disagreement with their opinions as hate speech.
 
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maguyver16 said:
Are you seriously telling me that in 2023, people still watch the fucking Big Bang Theory?
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Yes. I didn't want to believe it either, but apparently, at least from my own interactions and observations, normies seem to unironically love the show.

More power to them. They can like what they want. However, I will never share their enthusiasm for it.
 
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Neighborhood Curmudgeon said:
Yes. I didn't want to believe it either, but apparently, at least from my own interactions and observations, normies seem to unironically love the show.

More power to them. They can like what they want. However, I will never share their enthusiasm for it.
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How far can that man’s mouth gap?
 
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