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

[Cats]

Something that has made me dump someone as completely useless is when they're obviously getting scammed by someone, you warn them about this, and they just get mad at you. Then when they're finally forced to admit they got conned, they're still mad at you as if you're the one who stole their money. Fuck you, idiot. Should have listened to me.

MAN I am sorry you had to go through that, that had to be so infuriating (like in an "i kinda wanna deck this guy" way) Good example of the kind of shit I was talking about.

Whoever it was that said "a person is smart, people are stupid" was half right but you know there really are just some seriously dumb motherfuckers out there, just these dumb ass, baboon ass motherfuckers

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

MAN I am sorry you had to go through that, that had to be so infuriating (like in an "i kinda wanna deck this guy" way) Good example of the kind of shit I was talking about.

Whoever it was that said "a person is smart, people are stupid" was half right but you know there really are just some seriously dumb motherfuckers out there, just these dumb ass, baboon ass motherfuckers

I one time pointed out an obvious scam to a boomer, and their response was "I'd rather take a chance even if it is a scam than pass such an opportunity up."

I mean it was fucking OBVIOUS too. I was so pissed.

 

[AnOminous]

I one time pointed out an obvious scam to a boomer, and their response was "I'd rather take a chance even if it is a scam than pass such an opportunity up."

I mean it was fucking OBVIOUS too. I was so pissed.

One of the dumbest early crypto scams I saw was the "Bitcoin doubler" scam, where purportedly if you sent BTC to some address, it would send twice as much back. So the scammer would do this reliably for a while for small amounts of money until it got to be real money then just dip basically saying thanks suckers. I saw this bullshit pulled dozens of times.

 

[Cats]

I one time pointed out an obvious scam to a boomer, and their response was "I'd rather take a chance even if it is a scam than pass such an opportunity up."

LOL that is one of the most boomer sounding things ever

Reminds me of my friend's dad. He's dead now and I don't really want to besmirch the man by revealing too many personal details of his life. But I will anyway because he was a piece of shit. Let's just say that he got in at the ground floor of computers and the internet and had a rather delicious patent that allowed him to become INSANELY wealthy along with the dotcom boom, but he constantly wasted all of the family's money literally like almost a dozen times over on retarded get rich quick schemes and outright scams so while they could have easily been multi-millionaires, they were perpetually forced to live a meager lower middle class lifestyle.

He also thought he was actually a prophet from God because some homeless man outside the McDonalds said he was glowing with a holy aura and so he spent 800,000 dollars to write some retarded fucking religious book about Revelation (that was supposed to have happened in the year 2005) but it was just mostly about how righteous and pure his soul was and about all the good things he had done. He printed up thousands and thousands of copies of his book that never made it out of the boxes in their garage. Also, he had severe diabetes but wouldn't wear his compression socks because "doctors don't know anything" and so eventually acquired many ulcers throughout his legs. He blamed his sons for his wounds saying God was punishing them through him, he was suffering for them. Literally the most frustratingly idiotic man I have ever known. If I'd have been around him in my later teens I would have attacked the man for treating his family so poorly. He was insufferable to be around, too, very fat and cruel and disgusting. After the book he sold the rights to whatever interests he had in the computer business to get involved in an African gold dust scam and then he just up and left his family when all the money was finally gone.

Oh, and he was a hoarder, too. Because of course he was.

 

[WolfeTone]

One of the dumbest early crypto scams I saw was the "Bitcoin doubler" scam, where purportedly if you sent BTC to some address, it would send twice as much back. So the scammer would do this reliably for a while for small amounts of money until it got to be real money then just dip basically saying thanks suckers. I saw this bullshit pulled dozens of times.

Armor trimming bros rise up lmao

 

[internet friend]

Sir, don't listen to any of these posters saying "oh it's an obvious scam", they're just jealous they didn't get in and get rich. It's definitely not a scam, please go and give me the Google play cards ok?

 

[sodaboard]

I cannot take internet drama seriously when people are throwing around some of the most retarded usernames and claims. Every giant discord meltdown I see is always something like "On June 18 ForeskinVelourskin sent ImABigCock a message that implied he slept with DaddyCummies69, but moderator LlamaDramaAlabama quickly took screencaps and leaked them to the community of 12 users. This greatly broke my trust in him and fellow user CumFunYuns and I am ashamed to be part of this community". I'm not going to be reading your dozens of pages of discord screencaps while trying to get over why anyone would name themselves something so retarded and think people are going to take them seriously.
This also extends to people who use their handle in real life. You coming up to me and saying "Hi, I'm CumGuzzler" is going to make me laugh in your fucking face.

 

[Asian tech support]

i HATE graduation season. it's one thing to chalk "congrats ____ class of 20XX!" on your car but it's another thing to write your paypal/cashapp under it. i have no idea how many people actually donate or even care, hopefully zero. what makes you think you're important enough for randos to send you money for graduating not college, but HIGH SCHOOL? it's not like they have some school debt to repay or any legit reason to panhandle on their car. like congrats, you did the absolute bare minimum that everyone else has done too, why should we give a shit?

What really gets me is those fucking little signs that people put in their yards. At first it was college grad signs, then it was high school graduation signs, then middle school, and now I've even seen some for fifth grade graduations. And they print their kids names on them! Congrats, your lil nigga failed his way through the public education system and I don't care. He's completely ill equipped for everything and I'll probably still be paying for his ass despite already paying for his "schooling."

 

[internet friend]

Whoever made the fucking ID standards in this country. I have just been told by the licencing department that a foreign licence is "proof that you can drive, but not proof of who you are". Neither is a foreign birth certificate, but what is acceptable is a bank card with just your initial and last name. We were legitimately advised to "open another bank account and get another bank card" to meet the ID requirements for a learners permit. This country is ran by lunatics.

 

[veritarded]

now I've even seen some for fifth grade graduations. And they print their kids names on them!

some of my neighbors do that shit too. this is how the average 12 year old public schooled american writes and you expect me to give a shit or be proud of your kid for moving up a grade?

 

[AnOminous]

Whoever made the fucking ID standards in this country. I have just been told by the licencing department that a foreign licence is "proof that you can drive, but not proof of who you are". Neither is a foreign birth certificate, but what is acceptable is a bank card with just your initial and last name. We were legitimately advised to "open another bank account and get another bank card" to meet the ID requirements for a learners permit. This country is ran by lunatics.

They're not really equipped to judge the authenticity of ID from every single country in the world, so anyone could pass anything whatsoever off to them and they'd have no reliable method of detecting a forgery. And once you have a TrueID like a driver's license, you can bootstrap that into anything else you need.

A foreign passport with a valid US visa is generally an acceptable primary form of ID.

Although I just kind of assumed you meant the US, and if not, disregard this, but it's not uniform to require more than proof of valid residency in the US and who you are to get a driver's license. If it's a state requirement, it's that state's fault.

As for why a bank card would be sufficient, they may not have checked your identity personally, but strong KYC/AML regulations (since USA PATRIOT) require the bank know who you are, so they know someone was legally obligated to make sure the person whose name on the card is known to be that person.

 

[internet friend]

They're not really equipped to judge the authenticity of ID from every single country in the world, so anyone could pass anything whatsoever off to them and they'd have no reliable method of detecting a forgery. And once you have a TrueID like a driver's license, you can bootstrap that into anything else you need.

A foreign passport with a valid US visa is generally an acceptable primary form of ID.

Although I just kind of assumed you meant the US, and if not, disregard this, but it's not uniform to require more than proof of valid residency in the US and who you are to get a driver's license. If it's a state requirement, it's that state's fault.

As for why a bank card would be sufficient, they may not have checked your identity personally, but strong KYC/AML regulations (since USA PATRIOT) require the bank know who you are, so they know someone was legally obligated to make sure the person whose name on the card is known to be that person.

Non-US here, so I probably have to explain the system here a bit more. We already had a passport and bank card to verify identity, but they require 3 forms of ID for some reason. You'd think after something as strong as a passport, the rest would just be a matter of verification but I guess not.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

One thing that has has always gotten on my nerves is people that email about urgent issues. If the thing you need done is so goddamn important just call. else you get to sit in the queue until we can get to it in the order it was received. This applies to outside of work as well. I don't live in my email, I don't care to, I'm not checking it more than once or twice a day unless I'm actually waiting for something.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

The two flavors of gun youtube channels that have sprung up since the rise of AI and shorts:
the first are the smug faggots who don't talk and don't show themselves and just do some faggoty ASMR shit slowly loading one at a time and some how get hundreds of thousands of likes I blame this phenomena on LifeSizedPotato who doesn't post anymore for some reason but holy shit that guy was the Jay Leno of handguns, if there was something that you never heard of or a special edition that only some higher up gun company execs were gifted you better believe he had two of it.
The other are the AI narrated fake as fuck "survival channels" who do top 5 or 10 lists with typical bullshit hype titles TOP 10 NEW NEW NEW REVOLV3ERZZZ OF 2023!!!!1!1 (GET THEM NOW BEFORE BIDEN BANS!!!!!!!2221!) and the video will be a bunch of stock footage or ripped from legit channels and you can tell cause they don't bother to remove the channel name. Oh and the thumbnails of the guns are never shown in the video and a good portion are just stolen off of Deviantart, I can't find it but there was one and the nigga actually put an Ares Predator in the thumbnail ok that would be pretty fucking awesome to own but the Ares Predator doesn't exist.

 

[seri0us]

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I guess you can say they weren't appreciated in over 109 different countries

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Went to the grocery store today. 10 am on a Thursday and the place looks like complete fucking shit. None of the weigh machines have labels in the produce department, there is barely any meat out. Workers just standing around looking at their phones and shit.

God damn I hate what the fuck has happened to this area since Covid. For some reason all they hire are trash from the ghetto to the north of us since all the businesses up and left their city and it's just making everything worse.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

God damn I hate what the fuck has happened to this area since Covid. For some reason all they hire are trash from the ghetto to the north of us since all the businesses up and left their city and it's just making everything worse.

Given the number of people who have removed themselves from the workforce or otherwise refuse to work, many business have found themselves short-staffed or hiring from the bottom of the barrel and hoping those employees don't screw things up too badly for them.

One thing that has has always gotten on my nerves is people that email about urgent issues.

What grinds me gears about e-mail are professionals who send secure e-mails with a very short expiration date.

One such contact sends secure e-mails with a three day/72-hour expiration. That may be fine during the week, but it doesn't give much of a window for something that's sent Friday and might not be seen by anyone until Monday due to the recipient's working hours and the weekend. And if Monday happens to be a holiday, the e-mail goes poof before the recipient knows it even exists.

 

[Niggerphobe]

Online commies and Nazis they want to replicate but if they where really in their type of government they would not live
And the Nazis don’t even have the same level of drip as the actual ones

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Lately, my coworkers have been pestering me to go to company softball games with them. I always tell them no and it will never happen. It's nothing personal, but 1) I hate sports, 2) I have no interest in bonding with these people outside of the workplace, and 3) while I do like my job, I don't give a single fuck about the so-called company culture or see my workplace as a second family. Work is just work and it will always be that way.

 

[Orkney]

People in the supermarket queue that can't understand why a coupon that expired back in 2018 is no longer valid.

Supermarkets should adopt one single queue for multiple checkouts, rather than one queue for each checkout.

That way, if one customer is clogging the first checkout then you can simply go to the second checkout.

Self-checkout machines tend to have the universal queue system, so I prefer going self-checkout.