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

Lone Star said:
I've never heard it said like this. And I see those Liberty Mutual commercials all the time, which have an emu in them.
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I always say it as "ee-mew" and couldn't care less whether that's right or wrong.

My general view is if you don't know how to pronounce a word, SAY IT LOUD.
 
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AnOminous said:
I always say it as "ee-mew" and couldn't care less whether that's right or wrong.

My general view is if you don't know how to pronounce a word, SAY IT LOUD.
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That's what I mean. You figured it out how to say it properly, how do so many people fuck it up. It's only 3 letters after all!
 
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I'm trying to find out some information about a product I'm thinking about buying, so I ask on an on-line place about it. People are all "just call them, they're very helpful" Yea, fuck that, I've done this enough to know I'm going to get stuck on hold for an hour, then routed to someone who speaks no English(either Indian or black) and who can't answer the question anyway, will take my information and then never call or email back about my question.

I mention this and they're like, "nooo, they really are helpful"... I'm sensing company employees post there.

Fuck that, I'm going to go to the store and see if they have one I can check out in person, or just buy it and then return it when it's totally wrong, I'm giving it about 50/50 if I can make it work.
 
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Trying to go to sleep with a cold. Lie down, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Get up, blow nose, go back to bed. Five minutes later, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Rinse and repeat until it's 6 A.M. and you wind up going to work with a massive migraine that makes sunlight feel like it's melting your eyes out of their sockets.
 
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Book Thief said:
Trying to go to sleep with a cold. Lie down, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Get up, blow nose, go back to bed. Five minutes later, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Rinse and repeat until it's 6 A.M. and you wind up going to work with a massive migraine that makes sunlight feel like it's melting your eyes out of their sockets.
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Can you buy Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride OTC where you live? I keep on about it because somebody here converted me to it and I've never looked back.
 
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I'm retarded and am addicted to youtube. Lately i've been watching youtube shorts to feed my content sludge brainrot. What pisses me off is all of these cute animal videos have some fuckwit narrarating exactly what i'm seeing on screen. Why are you talking? Is the tiktok audience YT is trying to steal so braindead that they need someone to describe the simple action of a seal running up to a photographer or a kitten making biscuits? Shut the fuck up.
 
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Nick Obre said:
But I find myself very concerned when I see women in scrubs walking around the street or at the supermarket or anywhere that's not inside a hospital. I know they're probably just dentist assistants or things like that, not people who are about to go into an operating room, but still. That shit is supposed to stay clean, bish, the fuck you're doing wearing it out in the open.
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Current Medician an Vet science for infection control says nothing below the elbow, and that's mostly complied with an the outer layer is a hoodie or jacket that's covered, as the hands are washed before an between physical interactions and they are atleast in the UK absurdly hot about it.

Cedric_Eff said:
An file? There are many things that can grind gears.
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A file doesn't work like a grinder, they are separate processes - Gridning relies on Speed and natural Abrasion - Filing relies on material hardness and tooth geometry.

ToroidalBoat said:
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.
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I get what you mean, one side tries to infantilise everything the other tries to remove any joy of the silly or stupid, I am 38 years old but I can still have a giggle at a well timed fart.

DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
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.
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Nha footwear is in decline I have lare an wide feet but also tall toes, getting even workboots to fit me is a nightmare - I can find a UK14 easy but it's normally on the cheap end and the soles dont last or the upper start splitting faster than other sizes in the same style, I am someone who will pay for custom / bespoke but the reliable places are all now fashion brands and wont make a pair of workboots no mater how much you pay them - it's got that bad I have considerd making my own.

Not A Bunny said:
The more insulting of the two was my old job emailing me about my "experiences" using a particular software suite to "help" a new employee, like they can't fucking call the developer for training. I guess they thought I'd be cheaper...meanwhile, I'm all up on LinkedIn with the tech support rep from the same software. If they press me for support, I'm going to that dude and asking what he charges an hour for support and doubling it. Hell, I may just write him and let him know this is happening for the laughs.
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Before I took up the hammer I had a rule, you get 1 week of non technical questions - "Hey we know you saved this file but what folder we can't find it" or "Did you email Bob at Jennings an ever get an answer" etc. if they wanted anything more than that they got a quote for my hourly rate billable in 4h segments.

FierceBrosnan said:
Lately I've noticed a trend while driving where, for no reason at all, people are leaving 2 to 3 car lengths between them and the car they're stopped behind at lights. I noticed it the other day when a left turn lane was backed up all the way into the travel lanes because a few dipshits decided they needed a city bus between each other at the light and would not pull forward. And now I see it constantly out here and I cannot find anything common between the drivers and why they're doing this, not skin color, not vehicle type, not age, sex, nothing correlates except the fact it's fucking retarded in every sense of the word.
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I've found the inverse lately people even when I am clearly towing a load seem to be right up my arse, I'm half way tempted to give them some goves an say have at it they get that personal.

Mysterious Figure said:
Eating something not knowing it's bad, and later end up repeatedly throwing up. Had to call off work today so I could take some Pepto Bismol, eat some toast, and rest. I have no idea where this came from.
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I was there last month, drank a milkshake an thought it was just not as good as I remeberd - nope.

Book Thief said:
Trying to go to sleep with a cold. Lie down, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Get up, blow nose, go back to bed. Five minutes later, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Rinse and repeat until it's 6 A.M. and you wind up going to work with a massive migraine that makes sunlight feel like it's melting your eyes out of their sockets.
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We are both sailing S.S Mucuous right now I feel your pain and wish you the clear nostrils and peaceful sleep of someone who's gotten over the snottys.
 
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Friendly Primarina said:
Can you buy Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride OTC where you live? I keep on about it because somebody here converted me to it and I've never looked back.
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Thanks to meth fuckers you usually can't buy it or only can with ID and only a certain amount. When they have it it's often behind the counter, even in not terribly drug-infested areas.

Oh, also meth fuckers. They grind my gears.
 
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ATI Escapee said:
I hate daylight savings time. Or lack of it, whatever. Just stop changing the time. Im feeling all sorts of fucked up from the stupid time change. I domt care which version we use (dst vs no dst) just stop changing it :(
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I hate not-DST because it means I get less afternoon daylight. I'd rather it just be permanent.

AnOminous said:
Thanks to meth fuckers you usually can't buy it or only can with ID and only a certain amount. When they have it it's often behind the counter, even in not terribly drug-infested areas.

Oh, also meth fuckers. They grind my gears.
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I got carded when I bought some throat lozenges for a cough a while back. I was very confused, partly because I didn't think the medicine in those was anything that powerful, and also because I don't think I've been carded for anything in 20 years. Except this one time I was buying Mexican Coca-Cola (the real sugar ones in glass bottles) and some retarded cashier assumed it was alcohol and made me stand around while she got someone to check my ID, only for the person who came to confirm what I had been saying, that it was just soda.

Book Thief said:
Trying to go to sleep with a cold. Lie down, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Get up, blow nose, go back to bed. Five minutes later, nose gets plugged with mucus, can't breath. Rinse and repeat until it's 6 A.M. and you wind up going to work with a massive migraine that makes sunlight feel like it's melting your eyes out of their sockets.
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Also when you have the nasal drainage and a cough. Then when you get that migraine and you have to cough, it's like getting shot in the head each time you cough.
 
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Cheeseknife said:
If they're face-timing, the other person they're talking with is almost always some potato-faced person peering down from some vacant-looking room with a rotating ceiling fan. It's uncanny.
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Lmao I laughed out loud at that. Overheard my sister seeming to argue with her boyfriend on the phone in the bathroom and I wasn’t sure if I was annoyed or found it funny.

“I tol’ yo ass…!” Toliet flush.
 
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