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

[geppeto's woodclock]

That movie could have been cool, but I think it was made for ticket sales in China, especially with that casting choice. I personally couldn't get over how it was set in Louisiana but it was so glaringly obvious that it was Los Angeles, including the people in it. Nicholas Cage was an awesome Dracula though

tbh I prefered the trailer over the movie itself. Boy Epic did a cracking cover of Creep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKKnhwNFyw

 

[Shart Attack]

Live sports events being broadcast exclusively on certain streaming platforms like Peacock or Amazon Prime. Everyone who's had a hand in making this bullshit accepted in society should be deported from this planet, from the CEOs on down to the consumers who put up with it. I'm not even that into sports, but the idea that I can't watch a game taking place 50 miles away unless I sign up for a global streaming service seriously galls me.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

How virtually every mainstream movie in the past 15 or so years needs to make a point of forcing in a "strong independent self-confident female" character. Even if the movie is about a guy the focus needs to be on some woman to make some sort of point as if it still needs "proven" women can still do stuff too.

Even that new Mario movie kinda made Peach that way.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Even that new Mario movie kinda made Peach that way.

Which makes me very curious about the movie Argylle that's coming out next month. I've been wanting to see it but I worry that they are gonna do some LE STRONG FEMALE with either the main character (despite the whole point of her being that she's some meek nerdy author who writes spy novels) or the one female spy from the trailer who's evidently meant to be a play on the classic Bond girl. You know, conventionally attractive, sassy, one-liners up the wazoo, femme fatale lady. Shit like that.

Also this issue exists in games too. I remember playing Horizon Zero Dawn, the first one, last year and Aloy was ungodly annoying. Bitchy, rude, selfish and hardly sympathetic. Perfect guest character for Genshin Impact, I guess. They did the same with remale Jill Valentine from Resident Evil.

It's like these writers don't understand how women work. They seem to treat "strong female character" and "likable" as oxymorons.

As a woman watching this, it's so eye-rollingly obnoxious, and annoying.

And speaking of movies, watched Inside Out for the first time yesterday and Joy is very fucking annoying. God, I hate that bitch. I guess that was the point of her. A less retarded but twice as obnoxious Dory from Finding Nemo.

 

[Green Seppuku]

My middle aged father has developed vocal tics and it's driving me insane every time I visit. He's quite sensitive to criticism, and I can't think of a way to approach him about it without him blowing up.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's like these writers don't understand how women work.

I've heard that in SJW-speak, "empowered" means "masculine", and the "girlboss" character is pretty much like a man.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I've heard that in SJW-speak, "empowered" means "masculine", and the "girlboss" character is pretty much like a man.

It's basically: "Women want to be accepted like men so badly that they need to develop this macho persona that they think is what masculinity is."

That's why "strong female characters" frequently turn out to act like male assholes.

It's why nobody liked Captain Marvel, but everyone went nuts for Tony Stark. Stark was a douchebag, yes, but he had moments of vulnerability and self-sacrifice, even in the first movie. Nobody figured that out when it was time to write Captain Marvel, that she needed some soft underbelly that people could look at and say, "oh, okay, she's not an inhuman asshole, she's just hiding her vulnerabilities. Got it."

Side note: if you want a well-written female character, look no further than Pepper Potts in Iron Man 1. She also had moments of vulnerability and doubt, but Tony could always talk her into doing the right thing, and she didn't need to be super-powered to do any of it.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

It's basically: "Women want to be accepted like men so badly that they need to develop this macho persona that they think is what masculinity is."

That's why "strong female characters" frequently turn out to act like male assholes.

It's why nobody liked Captain Marvel, but everyone went nuts for Tony Stark. Stark was a douchebag, yes, but he had moments of vulnerability and self-sacrifice, even in the first movie. Nobody figured that out when it was time to write Captain Marvel, that she needed some soft underbelly that people could look at and say, "oh, okay, she's not an inhuman asshole, she's just hiding her vulnerabilities. Got it."

Side note: if you want a well-written female character, look no further than Pepper Potts in Iron Man 1. She also had moments of vulnerability and doubt, but Tony could always talk her into doing the right thing, and she didn't need to be super-powered to do any of it.

I like to point at anime or Ellen Ripley for western media for my examples. Ellen didn't need to be a cunt to be badass. She naturally was and she had humanity and vulnerability under her hard shell to make her a compelling character.

Same with fucking Mulan. The original, not the remake. She was witty and smart and confident. She knew her weaknesses and worked around them to succeed.

I wish writers would stop focusing on this whole gender agenda female empowerment bullshit and just focus on writing likable women again.

But uh thread tax: morning traffic + snow = really bad fucking mood

 

[Not A Bunny]

I wish writers would stop focusing on this whole gender agenda female empowerment bullshit and just focus on writing likable women again.

I wish women would stop with this bullshit about needing to feel "empowered".

One of the social groups on my social media feed posted that she wanted to form a group of women to "empower" each other.

Like...what ever happened to women just being friends? Even if you wanted to start a group akin to The Old Boys' Club, do you think that the men who start those talk like this to each other? No, men don't do that because it doesn't sound like interested in forming relationships that are particularly fulfilling or even particularly fun.

Yeah, those guys discuss business over bourbon and cigars, but at least they're enjoying what they're doing and they don't need to constantly point out how "empowered" they feel about the power moves they're making. They're just doing things.

And that's what I hate about all of this "women in..." shit I see in tech. If the only point you ever have to make is patting yourself on the back for having a vagina and showing up, you're never going to do anything useful, and more to the point, you're telling on yourself that you absolutely, positively HATE not being a man.

 

[DavidS877]

People who move to rural areas, have a power outage and aren't the power companies priority because there are thousands of others out and then bitch about it.
Also, people who move to Portland and bitch about the power being out... they just deserve it.

But really, rural area, have backup heat and a generator. They're probably from California.

 

[Nick Obre]

I like to point at anime or Ellen Ripley for western media for my examples. Ellen didn't need to be a cunt to be badass.

One thing that struck me when I first watched Alien was that, despite knowing Ripley was the protagonist, she first seemed to be no different from the rest of the crew, just someone doing her job. Nothing to stand out, to tell you "she's the one". At most, she was shown to be a stickler for protocol, which would usually be the character that's sort of an obstacle for the protagonist.

As things advance, she falls into the role, but it was impressive to me the way it was written. In most fiction you can usually tell the protagonist immediately. Their attitude tends to be the equivalent of those "find the anime protagonist in a crowd" memes.
Needless to say, made me love the movie yet more.

 

[Enwardo]

I just had to leave a showing for American Fiction because the neighbors next to me kept waving their phone flashlights and talking. This is what I get for going on MLK day. “Yes I need this light, I can’t see.”

 

[Mouthwash Enema]

Grown-ass men (and women) who don't close their mouths when they chew food. Have I just been gaslit into thinking it's common human fucking decency to not make smacking sounds as you process the food you shovel down your gullet? Actually, just smacking one's lips in general sets me the fuck off.

 

[Sugriva]

Unholy hangovers. The kind where you're making deals with God to get you through it.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Live sports events being broadcast exclusively on certain streaming platforms like Peacock or Amazon Prime. Everyone who's had a hand in making this bullshit accepted in society should be deported from this planet, from the CEOs on down to the consumers who put up with it. I'm not even that into sports, but the idea that I can't watch a game taking place 50 miles away unless I sign up for a global streaming service seriously galls me.

Major league baseball has been doing this for years with exclusive YouTube games.

It was infuriating when I still cared about sportsball and was specifically paying extra for a cable package to watch the games.

The chosen dates also didn't seem to be pre-scheduled like the usual broadcast feeds. You'd simply see a tweet a few days before letting you know that an upcoming game was getting pulled from your feed.

It was also insufferable zoomer crap.

One YT game I watched they seemed to be interviewing a different completely unrelated YT streamer every inning.

I recall missing some of the action one inning because the feed spent the whole inning with the camera on Lewis from Unbox Therapy.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Grown-ass men (and women) who don't close their mouths when they chew food. Have I just been gaslit into thinking it's common human fucking decency to not make smacking sounds as you process the food you shovel down your gullet? Actually, just smacking one's lips in general sets me the fuck off.

Ewww that's disgusting. I thought it was basic etiquette to close your maw when chewing.

Speaking of... People who chew on utensils. Just... Just don't. It fills me with a visceral discomfort whenever I hear some grown ass adult scrape their teeth against a spoon or fork or licking knives.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

When I accidentally cut myself shaving.

 

[The Last Stand]

When you eat hot food and it burns the root of your mouth for a time.

Grown-ass men (and women) who don't close their mouths when they chew food. Have I just been gaslit into thinking it's common human fucking decency to not make smacking sounds as you process the food you shovel down your gullet? Actually, just smacking one's lips in general sets me the fuck off.

Also, when people film themselves eating. You could hear them smacking and swallowing from the mic. When and how did mukbang videos become popular? I don't want to see you eat.

 

[anustart76]

When you eat hot food and it burns the root of your mouth for a time.

Worse, when it burns your tongue and then you lose the sense of taste for a while.

When I accidentally cut myself shaving.

I bought one of those Dollar Shave Club razors because the refills were cheaper than my existing Gillette one, only for the new razor to not do a good job at all. I'm going back to the Gillette razor because of it.

 

[The Foxtrot]

I bought one of those Dollar Shave Club razors because the refills were cheaper than my existing Gillette one, only for the new razor to not do a good job at all. I'm going back to the Gillette razor because of it.

Despite Gillette's wokeshit, I'm not switching razors for that reason. I know my Gillette works, and I'm sticking with it.