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

[teriyakiburns]

Samsung

There's your problem.

I've had a hateboner for samsung after finding out that the TOS Link out on their TVs is a unsynchronised, crackling mess for anything that isn't a samsung soundbar. I had to nigger-rig some bullshit with an hdmi audio extractor and an hdmi switch to get reliable 5.1 digital out of my TV. Still doesn't always work right, but it was either that or drop down to shitty stereo.

And don't get me started on all this "smart" bullshit, either. God damn. I just want a big screen for my picture stories, dammit!

but some people are taking it way too seriously unfortunately.

I can think of a couple who definitely are, but they were already complete headcases anyway, so nothing's really changed.

 

[DavidS877]

And don't get me started on all this "smart" bullshit, either. God damn. I just want a big screen for my picture stories, dammit!

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[Sugriva]

The headlight bulb for my car broke off inside the socket. I don't have any of the tools required to even attempt to get it out of there, so I'll have to take it to a shop. What should have been an easy $10 job is now potentially going to cost me hundreds, and I'm livid.

 

[internet friend]

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100% agree on this one. Even just a projector with a built in speaker and a flat wall is pretty excellent. Never going back to TVs.

The headlight bulb for my car broke off inside the socket. I don't have any of the tools required to even attempt to get it out of there, so I'll have to take it to a shop. What should have been an easy $10 job is now potentially going to cost me hundreds, and I'm livid.

It's worth investing in a set of basic tools, for situations like this. If you find yourself in a situation like this, take off the headlight, pop it in the oven for a bit to melt the glue and (with gloves) open the glass/plastic, remove it and reattached.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Friends, what is grinding my gears today is an observation regarding the constant shitness of small businesses. What I have prominently in mind is a small coffee shop chain local to me.

A couple years ago, the prices were reasonable and the quality was excellent. The staff had low attrition, so the people there knew their business and I didn’t even have to say my order. I went every single morning on my way to work.

Fast forward to today, and a fucking 20 oz latte is $7, the premade sandwiches that they just stick in a toaster oven cost the same, nobody knows what they’re doing because they’re all always new, and the coffee tastes like shit because nobody cleans the equipment anymore. I’ve been there once in the past six months and it’s literally one block from where I live.

What’s the problem, you ask?

It’s that the owner of this place is completely hands-off. It’s just an investment income, so his entire plan is to draw a salary off of it without doing any actual work for the place.

Don’t do that. If you ever open a shop, you HAVE to work there yourself or you shouldn’t have yourself on payroll. The inattentiveness will destroy your investment, and you’ll end up on a fucking Gordon Ramsey “shit places to avoid” show.

 

[AnOminous]

There was a little pack of three of them this time, with one looking the part quite a bit too well. Fat, balding ~20 years early, dirty ill-fitting clothes, pedo glasses, creepy facial expressions and holy dogshit, the smell. The fucking smell.

And that used to be the worst you'd encounter in, say, a comic book store or game store. I remember one I went to back in the '80s fairly often that had some stinkers. It got to the point they put up a big sign demanding people bathe and they'd kick them out if they were too foul. It probably did them some good ultimately. I remember an RPG group we had where we did an intervention on one of these guys. I guess it worked because last I saw he looked normal, had a relatively normal (tech geek) job, and was even married.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

1. Fucking acorn-hoarding rodents in my attic. These squirrels are 6 days from TSD (total squirrel destruction) and I don't even feel bad about it.

2. IM someone at work for an update on something important. "Hey there...was just going to IM you to give you an update. Mind if I call you?" "Great, yes, I'm available." Radio silence for 11 minutes and counting.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

1. Fucking acorn-hoarding rodents in my attic. These squirrels are 6 days from TSD (total squirrel destruction) and I don't even feel bad about it.

LOL, take advantage of the free acorns. That'll show 'em.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I kinda got sucked back into watching some live baseball games on TV.

The broadcast has some random blonde retired softball player manning the studio desk as a colour commentator instead of a retired MLB player.

Not as a sideline reporter like usual. And not in the broadcast booth doing the play-by-play. She's sitting second chair in the studio, doing small talk and analysis during the pre-game and lulls in the game.

It's very obvious she's there just because she's female, blonde and good looking. But it's 2023, so it's sexist to hire her in the usual vapid sideline reporter gig getting irrelevant quotes from the players and coaches on the field and the locker room.

No, she has to be dropshipped into one of the two chairs usually reserved for veterans of the industry. So that we can hear her "analysis". Of a sport she never played and a team and region that she has no connection with.

 

[Waifu Days]

Repulsive shit and repulsive fucks who make me not want to go places when I really want to go places piss me off. I really don't want to be a hermit, but it's often better than the alternative at this rate.

It feels as if their numbers are getting greater, our numbers are getting smaller, or both. This didn't use to be as bad but whatever is compelling the stink, it is taking hold.

 

[UCT]

It grinds my gears when I watch a video and the creator uses what would be a nice tune but have a version of that tune that’s mixed with insufferable trap beats and other black people noise. Just use the Wii shop menu song, don’t ruin it with your fucking monkey music.

 

[Local Fed]

It grinds my gears when I watch a video and the creator uses what would be a nice tune but have a version of that tune that’s mixed with insufferable trap beats and other black people noise. Just use the Wii shop menu song, don’t ruin it with your fucking monkey music.

I've been sick of EVERYTHING having fucking trap beats behind them. It's been like this for years, everything from movie ads, commercials for Walmart, sports (during hockey is the most cringeworthy,) Youtubers, etc. all seem to need to have something like that while a couple of guys constantly go "AYE AYE AYE" over top of it.

 

[UCT]

I've been sick of EVERYTHING having fucking trap beats behind them. It's been like this for years, everything from movie ads, commercials for Walmart, sports (during hockey is the most cringeworthy,) Youtubers, etc. all seem to need to have something like that while a couple of guys constantly go "AYE AYE AYE" over top of it.

Makes me extra glad that I don’t watch much tv that’s not old movies or from my own physical disk collection. Just can’t grasp how anyone could enjoy that type of music or those beats. Like I feel like a old man saying “All these kids music today sound like noise!” But that’s literally how rap, trap and that style of music sounds. Can’t for even a second get why anyone who likes hockey would want to here that kind of music especially lol.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

LOL, take advantage of the free acorns. That'll show 'em.

The acorns are in my ceiling so I've got no access. Tbh, I was indulgent with these little fucks for a whole year, but now I'm out to shut them the fuck down. Find another hidey-hole, bitches. Furry rats not paying rent get no truck from me anymore.

 

[MACAROON]

Normies!

 

[internet friend]

I'm sure it's been said before in this thread (maybe even by me) but people who cannot put everything they want to say into just one message. It's so irritating to have notifications constantly popping because someone's run-on sentence needs to be split over 6 texts.

 

[peach tea]

I'm sure it's been said before in this thread (maybe even by me) but people who cannot put everything they want to say into just one message. It's so irritating to have notifications constantly popping because someone's run-on sentence needs to be split over 6 texts.

It’s me

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Misspelling a URL and getting redirected to some placeholder page or some advertising site sucks. Especially if attempted malware.

hiked up the price

I don't like how stuff from the late 20th century or even the 21st so far can be considered "vintage" by "Zoomers", and the price of such stuff can be hiked as a result.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Misspelling a URL and getting redirected to some placeholder page or some advertising site sucks. Especially if attempted malware.


I don't like how stuff from the late 20th century or even the 21st so far can be considered "vintage" by "Zoomers", and the price of such stuff can be hiked as a result.

Zoomers can't comprehend the world existing before they dodged getting aborted by girlboss millenial mom, and their frames of reference are youtube/tiktok pap about things from the past and horror stories about how the past even 10 years ago was violently, cartoonishly misogynist, transphobic, and racist. "Vintage" used to mean something like "old enough and objectively tasteful to not just be nostalgic but not old enough to be antique" now it's just "thing from before i had full consciousness and ability to form memories and it's a good thing I wasn't cause I might like JK Rowling yikes"

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

I don't like how stuff from the late 20th century or even the 21st so far can be considered "vintage" by "Zoomers", and the price of such stuff can be hiked as a result.

By definition, anything that's 20-99 years old is vintage. My issue with zoomers in this context is that they act as though "vintage" actually means "antique". The drastic drop off in the quality of goods and the chasing of fads means that newer things age extremely poorly, with each new decade just getting worse and worse. By that logic, I suppose we're supposed to be just as enamored by a fucking Rugrats tee shirt being 30 years old as we are with a 130 year old rococo chest of drawers.

But that's not why "vintage = antique" in their minds. They're goddamned narcissists who can't comprehend that the world was turning before they were there to witness it, they have no idea what quality is, anything not from a fandom they know and like is boring, and anything tied directly to their own early life interests is basically a saint's relic that belongs in a museum. Zoomers have an incredible aspect of solipsism that makes them a special breed of narcissist.