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

BTS4Lyfe said:
Even the commentators are like " ... as you can see on the scoreboard presented to you by nissan." Nigger I can see that the nissan logo is at the bottom there why the fuck do you have to mention it every time. Everything is sponsored and has a fucking branding on it.
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It is beyond the pale, they even have commercials during timeouts now. I have the control at the ready and am quick on the draw with the mute button. That doesn't shield me from the close-ups of some of the disgusting goyslop they are peddling. The sight of it makes me nauseous.
 
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I'm a cook and I'm never late, but I try to be 15min early and sometimes that doesn't or can't happen, like if I'm frying food (putting it in a hotbox makes it go soggy, so I have to fry it as the last thing and send it straight out.)

My coworkers like to just stand there, uncomfortably close, and go.... "Um... Is it done yet?" because they are waiting to take the food out.
You literally see me frying food. The food is in the deep fryer.

I will TELL YOU when it is done. I ALWAYS announce when the food is done, to the entire kitchen, in the exact same format every day.

STOP hovering over my shoulder looking impatient.

I have tried to get them to clean when there's nothing to do, but they are really shit at cleaning. They'll sweep right around my feet while I'm still actively cooking and know I need to sweep when I'm finished. They are just constantly in my way, even if I'm holding a gallon of boiling soup and shouting "Hot pan" they just stare at me.

They also are little narcs that freak out and get accusatory at the slightest thing. "You coughed once? Are you getting sick? Should you be here? You should wear a mask." No, I'm sensitive to your 15 sprays of shitty perfume. "He touched that food with his bare hands!" Yes retard, he used clean hands to put a frozen egg roll into 375 degree oil.

They both say they have social anxiety, and I guess so, but holy shit, people don't like them for actual reasons.
 
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BTS4Lyfe said:
As an eurofag I have a question for any american cunt willing to answer.
How do you even watch sports? It's almost all advertising. Even the commentators are like " ... as you can see on the scoreboard presented to you by nissan." Nigger I can see that the nissan logo is at the bottom there why the fuck do you have to mention it every time. Everything is sponsored and has a fucking branding on it.
I like baseball and football more than soccer. But that shit is unwatchable.
I hate this.
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Norbert the Tiger said:
It is beyond the pale, they even have commercials during timeouts now. I have the control at the ready and am quick on the draw with the mute button. That doesn't shield me from the close-ups of some of the disgusting goyslop they are peddling. The sight of it makes me nauseous.
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I've found that playing sports yourself is so much more fun than watching sports. It's why I also prefer video games over TV or movies; I like to be a participant in the action.

When you're in adult rec sports, you can play for love of the game. It's the nostalgia of playing ball as a child without having to be in a dick-measuring contest with the jocks from school.

Which leads me to my "grinding gears" tax: when your team has to forfeit or reschedule because your teammates would rather watch a game. I understand if you have prior obligations like work or family, but c'mon. Why choose living vicariously through others, instead of reliving old memories and forging new ones?

It also bugs me when fans use the royal "we" when referring to their favorite sports team. What position do you play, armchair quarterback?
 
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What is grinding my gears right this minute is barn-raised idiots in an open-plan seating arrangement who don't know how to use their inside voices.

Especially this oaf nearby (if you consider 30 feet away "nearby") whose whole "how do I name files in Excel?" saga I've been forced to overhear for the last 15 25 35 minutes. Which ratcheted up right after the oaf on the other side finished his call, for which his main contribution seemed to be occasional hokey comments about bureaucracy.

They are both male, both fat, both white, and both in their 50s. Wtf. And one of them periodically coughs like a sick toddler - you can tell he doesn't even try to cover it. Meanwhile, I'm deafening myself turning up the volume on my own calls so I can hear them over these guys, which is made even harder because I've had 3 info heavy/ presentation calls where each of the main speakers has had both an exceptionally soft voice and an exceptionally heavy accent.
 
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Clem Fandango said:
One thing that's been grinding my gears lately - a children's show on BBC called "Vida the Vet".

On the surface it's a completely inoffensive cartoon about a little girl who goes through a little door at the end of her garden every day and emerges in the magical land of Sweetwood which has talking animals and where she's a vetinarian.

So what's bothering me? Well, Vida has two dads. Two mixed race dads. Of course.

But that's not what's bothering me. That's just the surface level. This goes deeper. What bothers me is that it makes me feel like a hypocrite.

What do I mean by that? Well, it's basically LGBTQIAP+++ done in the most tasteful, non-intrusive way possible. You usually only see one of the two dads at the very start or end of each episode, so watch any given episode in isolation and you probably wouldn't even notice. I have seen episodes where they both briefly appear together but these are rare, and they don't do any gay shit. She just calls one of them dad and the other papa.

So to (finally) get to the point I'm trying to make, this makes me feel like a hypocrite because I used to, and largely still do, consider myself a live-and-let-live liberal. A 90s liberal. Yeah, we can all get along, just leave other people alone.

So if you had asked me back in the day what "good" gay representation on telly looks like, I might have said something like this. It's not "in your face", it doesn't affect the story, it's not preachy, etc.

What makes me feel like a hypocrite is that I feel like I got what I asked for, and - if I'm honest with myself - I still find it it utterly, utterly repulsive. Instead of this being "how to do it well", I'm actually disgusted that this type of thing is essentially being snuck into a TV show aimed squarely at kids, in a way that is actually more difficult to even complain about than if it were more obnoxious.
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Maybe you wouldn't be bothered by it if we lived in more normal times. Right now, we're being asked to accept tons of bullshit and pretend they're normal. If we weren't living in times where a gigantic bearded man is a woman cause he says so then maybe smaller things like that cartoon wouldn't even be on your radar considering your beliefs. Some kids have 2 moms/2 dads would be a thing that just is. Maybe it's that now you can't really divorce it from the LGBTQIA+ bullshit and it all seems gross to look at. Just a thought, since diminishing support for lesbians and gays in young people today is a thing and there's just no way it isn't linked to the entire fucking alphabet of morons that are now attached to the basic homos.
 
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When you're having a discussion about which way to do something and after they finally convince you to their way, they end up saying "nah we'll do it your way". You've spent 5 minutes telling me why it should be done in way X, but when I finally say "ok do it X way", you up and flip to "no we'll do it Y way". Drives me up the wall.
 
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Dumbfuck government decisions that look wonderful on paper (if you're a retard) that ultimately bring nothing but suffering onto the good, hardworking people of the country.

Example of my own stupid government, all regional train rides were recently price-capped in my state to something really low, like $10 or something, the reason supposedly being that the prices were unreasonable for long-distance trips (they weren't). Now, of course, the trains are completely overflowing with the lowest forms of humanity, constantly overcrowded, the conductors do nothing about unruly passengers and it's a totally miserable experience for regular passengers.

Not to mention, the fares are so low, that on top of the fare-evaders that never get pulled up, the revenue is going to be so minimal that regional transport is going to run even further in the red than it did already. We are seeing the beginning of a precipitous decline for the already-shit regional public transport system, and the government will asspat themselves for doing something good for the little guy. Fuck you!
 
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