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

[ToroidalBoat]

While there's the Current Year trend of trying to "socially engineer" adults to act like perpetual children in Clown World, it seems there's this older and opposite extreme coming out of Puritan thinking: expecting an adult to pretty much give up all fun. It is 1 Corinthians 13:11 taken to an unhealthy or fanatical extreme. "Drawing for fun is for kids." "All animation is for kids." "Tasty food is for kids." "Fun is for kids." Etc. Not all believe all that, but if one combines it all, it makes a crappy adulthood.

 

[anustart76]

While there's the Current Year trend of trying to "socially engineer" adults to act like perpetual children in Clown World, it seems there's this older and opposite extreme coming out of Puritan thinking: expecting an adult to pretty much give up all fun. It is 1 Corinthians 13:11 taken to an unhealthy or fanatical extreme. "Drawing for fun is for kids." "All animation is for kids." "Tasty food is for kids." "Fun is for kids." Etc. Not all believe all that, but if one combines it all, it makes a crappy adulthood.

I hate that mentality. These people are practically giving up culture to the ESG lunatics. Never mind that quote from literal Christian author CS Lewis:

Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

 

[PaleTay]

There's this group fitness class at my gym, and the instructor is loud enough that I can hear her from across the gym while wearing noise cancelling headphones and listening to music. I thought they were playing blasting screamo music at first.

 

[Meat Target]

I hate that mentality. These people are practically giving up culture to the ESG lunatics. Never mind that quote from literal Christian author CS Lewis:

There's a saying in amateur baseball: "we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing".

 

[PaleTay]

People who get pissy that you aren't "helping". There's nothing to do until you're done, so unless you want to get out of my way and have me do it I can't do anything.
On a related note, people who try to "help" and just make the process take five times as long because I constantly have to move them.

 

[Overly Serious]

The increasing and unnecessary use of the singular they. Some will observe that there are instances of the singular "they" going back a long way but it was typically used for unknowns. "They broke in and stole my cat" because you don't know anything about the suspect. But what I see more recently - and I attribute this to the push for "they" usage by the non-binaries et al - is its use when the individual is known. I'll see someone talking about an actual named guy and see someone write "they" instead of "he".

It's annoying and its giving ground.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

"Shrinkflation" seems to be accelerating recently. Current Year sucks.

The nearest convenience store by me used to sell affordable sushi to-go boxes which I'd often get a few times a week, due to convenience. It wasn't restaurant quality at all, but the price was right. Then randomly in January they stopped selling sushi for at least a few weeks straight. By the time they started selling sushi again, the variety was limited, the boxes were smaller (way less product) -- and they increased the price by a few dollars. So now you pay more to get half as much sushi.

 

[DavidS877]

I try and be subtle when people fuck up. Me: "Hey you may want to check X, it doesn't look right."

Idiot: "What do you mean doesn't look right."

Fine. Me: "You fucked it up and set that thing wrong, have you considered a job where accuracy doesn't matter, like being a podcaster?"(What I'd like to say)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So now you pay more to get half as much sushi.

If these trends continue unchecked, eventually food will all be all crap but nigh unaffordable. And poor people would be screwed, and middle class could be going hungry.

Some will observe that there are instances of the singular "they" going back a long way but it was typically used for unknowns.

I found out the grammatically correct way is to use male "pronouns" instead of they. Like "mankind" referring to both men and women. I can see why that is changing now.

 

[Not A Bunny]

The increasing and unnecessary use of the singular they. Some will observe that there are instances of the singular "they" going back a long way but it was typically used for unknowns. "They broke in and stole my cat" because you don't know anything about the suspect. But what I see more recently - and I attribute this to the push for "they" usage by the non-binaries et al - is its use when the individual is known. I'll see someone talking about an actual named guy and see someone write "they" instead of "he".

It's annoying and its giving ground.

If I can lay eyes on you and determine that you're male or female, my uncertainty about which you are flies out the window. Your uncertainty about this fact doesn't determine my certainty about it.

There is no other option. You are not a "they" and any insistence to the contrary means you are a bratty child that should be told "nobody fucking cares" when he or she insists on being called "they".

Thread tax: you are an asshole if, after gassing up your car, you leave it at the pump to go inside the convenience store and buy stuff. Move your fucking car to a fucking parking space, asshole.

 

[Overly Serious]

If I can lay eyes on you and determine that you're male or female, my uncertainty about which you are flies out the window. Your uncertainty about this fact doesn't determine my certainty about it.

There is no other option. You are not a "they" and any insistence to the contrary means you are a bratty child that should be told "nobody fucking cares" when he or she insists on being called "they".

I agree. But my point was that people are starting to use "they" as a singular pronoun even for regular people who have never disputed their sex and which the speaker knows. Someone will write about a male guy who knows he's male, the person writing knows is male but will still say "they" instead of "he". It's bleeding beyond just the gender specials and becoming part of the English language for everybody. I don't like it.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

people who say "thats my head canon" for real life shit that they believe or have an opinion on need to be bullied relentlessly.

 

[AnOminous]

Thread tax: you are an asshole if, after gassing up your car, you leave it at the pump to go inside the convenience store and buy stuff. Move your fucking car to a fucking parking space, asshole.

If you have to go in to pay for the gas, and start driving off, it looks like you're a drive-off. I mean pre-pay it obviously if you know that but sometimes the fucking machine isn't working.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

bob hearts abishola

i dont know what the fuck is going on over at youtube but this shows shorts are popping up at a fucking ridiculous rate for me. i dont even fucking get it, cbs actually commissioned an immigrant marriage fantasy show for prime time television?

 

[The Last Stand]

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Pedro Santos took a break from networking with underage Postal fans to post this dumb shit on the official account, just to back up Kommander Karl and his retarded take on a Charlton Heston voter. Of course going the extra mile per usual by continuing the arguments with fans on his own account.

"Safe edgy" humor like this bugs me more than it should. It doesn't come off as "funny," it comes off as hypocritical and condescending.

Let's take the trans backlash from GTA V as an example. One random YouTuber uploads a video about murdering trans NPCs, that whole community goes ape shit. So, they're fine with mindless violence and recklessness, as LONG as you don't target THEM specifically.

 

[Not A Bunny]

If you have to go in to pay for the gas, and start driving off, it looks like you're a drive-off. I mean pre-pay it obviously if you know that but sometimes the fucking machine isn't working.

Fair enough, but where I live, there's a good chance you get people that are thoughtless about that sort of thing.

 

[seri0us]

The quality of shoes has gone very downhill within the past 4-5 years. I don't remember them ever being particularly great, but "back in my day" those child slaves used to at least put some sweat into them.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

The quality of shoes has gone very downhill within the past 4-5 years. I don't remember them ever being particularly great, but "back in my day" those child slaves used to at least put some sweat into them.

I can’t relate to this honestly. I’ve had the same steel toed boots for close to a decade now and I bought them at Walmart for like thirty dollars US. I’ve had to change the shoe laces something like three times since I’ve had them but the shoes themselves have been very resilient. My comfy slip-ons are the same, I’ve had them for ages. I do a lot of walking mind you. People think I’m crazy for walking clear across town just for fun but it keeps me healthy.

 

[AnOminous]

The quality of shoes has gone very downhill within the past 4-5 years. I don't remember them ever being particularly great, but "back in my day" those child slaves used to at least put some sweat into them.

You won't find Herman Survivors any more. At least not the kind that your dad owned for 30 years before giving to you.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

I can’t relate to this honestly. I’ve had the same steel toed boots for close to a decade now and I bought them at Walmart for like thirty dollars US. I’ve had to change the shoe laces something like three times since I’ve had them but the shoes themselves have been very resilient. My comfy slip-ons are the same, I’ve had them for ages. I do a lot of walking mind you. People think I’m crazy for walking clear across town just for fun but it keeps me healthy.

I don’t have a problem with sneakers, but steel toes never last me more than a year. I’ve tried all different kinds.