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

[Jason Wynn]

My fault for phoneposting regarding this. Still grinds my gears.

When you’re typing out a somewhat lengthy response on a site/forum (not here), you get distracted for a few moments and when you try to go back to your post, the site fucking refreshed on its own and deleted everything you had written.

 

[AnOminous]

When someone's at a T and not using their turn signals, when if they turned in one direction, you'd hit them if they also turned, but if they turned in the other, you'd both be fine. So you have to wait for this fucking mongoloid to turn instead of just turning now in the one opening you've had in a solid minute.

 

[Zirnwyb]

When a film or a television show has (speaks [language]) for subtitles if someone is speaking another language instead of either translating it or just subtitling the language they're speaking in. I'm hard of hearing so I need to use subtitles a lot of the time. Sound mixing in shit is awful sometimes to the point where I can't hear people talking over music/background noise. Let me fucking know what the person speaking another language said! If it's Spanish I can translate it myself if I can hear or see it!

 

[The Last Stand]

This is my second cable in a year that has a burn mark on it. What is with these Apple chargers?

 

[Dysnomia]

Open drug dealing. They know you aren't going to say anything or report them due to your own strong sense of self preservation. So they don't care.

 

[AnOminous]

This is my second cable in a year that has a burn mark on it. What is with these Apple chargers?

These are one item where the chinkware knockoffs are definitely better than the actual Apple product. I have never had an Apple USB cable last as long as a year but I still have chinkware for Apple products that aren't even made any more. Apple's USB cables look and feel great. Until they fall apart for no fucking reason at all.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's almost April and it's like January outside!

 

[Friendly Primarina]

"hurr durr niggers and smoke alarms!!" Change the fucking record.

 

[McMitch]

"hurr durr niggers and smoke alarms!!" Change the fucking record.

Only when they’ve changed the batteries in their smoke detectors.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

All these porn bots that follow me and like my posts on social media, they make me feel lonely.

 

[Kiwi2Shoes]

All these porn bots that follow me and like my posts on social media, they make me feel lonely.

That or some retard's fruit ranch sock accounts.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Temperature sucks. Or at least having such a narrow window of thermal tolerance sucks.

"You Know What’s BS!? Temperature"

(a gross animation at video start)

 

[Uncle Tom's Condo]

What grinds my gears is when ostensibly educated people use the word "Y'all" in written communications. You're not from Appalachia or the South or black, and even if you are, you look retarded and I discard whatever message you are trying to convey. Same with "folks", too. Goddammit.

 

[Trollish and Suspicious]

Captchas you get wrong either because they are ambiguous or because the AI thinks you were wrong (when you weren't).

When it says click the traffic lights, are you meant to click the poles too? There's a lack of instructions for them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Captchas you get wrong either because they are ambiguous or because the AI thinks you were wrong (when you weren't).

Also annoying is when captchas interrupt using the site because the site "thinks" you may be a hacker.

 

[Clovis]

I've been putting YouTube crime/mystery/paranormal videos on in the background recently. All I've learned is that none of these fuckers understand what words mean nor can they construct a grammatically correct sentence.
If your job is writing content and you can't express yourself with correct grammar, you can't apply logic and I have no time to waste listening to you.

Genuinely shocked by how inarticulate and dumb all these people are. I worry for our species.

 

[Thomas Eugene Paris]

Genuinely shocked by how inarticulate and dumb all these people are. I worry for our species.

It's extremely distressing. We wonder why no one can string together a sentence, but much of what passes for "professional" writing these days, in fiction and otherwise, is atrocious, just poorly written, self-indulgent twaddle. Reading it enriches no one in any way. So, even the young people who do bother to read anything are mostly seeing suboptimal examples of language usage, and so the cycle goes. People have developed a skewed perception of what good writing is like, which is part of why LLMs are so insidious. Even a perusal of your local news site will show what I mean. Even "professional journalists" can't write a sentence to save their lives. Work emails from corporate or management are often unparseable nonsense. No one cares. As long as American schools can pay enough lip service to caring about STEM, the basics of reading and writing our own language can be swept under the rug and no one really minds.

It's no wonder stuff like all of this gender shit has taken hold like it has. None of the people involved are capable of reading critically, so they fall for the kind of pie-in-the-sky magical thinking that destroys people. It's worse than that, though, because none of the purported experts can write a coherent sentence, either.

We cannot read because we cannot write. It's seriously unbelievable how much gets published that just shouldn't, from fiction to scientific literature.

I'm sorry, I know I sound like a complete schizo, but this gets me going.

 

[Battery Low]

Also annoying is when captchas interrupt using the site because the site "thinks" you may be a hacker.

...and when your eyes aren't good enough to fully see the image(s) but attempting to enlarge it breaks the page

 

[Clem Fandango]

I have a friend who always "just goes ahead" and buys tickets to things, and it drives me fucking mad. Do you guys know someone like this?

Say we've been talking about going to see a cricket match in the summer, and I've indicated an interest. He'll just buy a fucking £150 ticket on my behalf and then breezily ask me to pay him back. He never checks that I'm alright with the price, and even upgrades to more expensive seats on the basis that he thought it would be worth it. Never sends a quick text message to check.

I've told him to knock it off, but he never really changes his ways. I can't figure out why, but my theory is that it's some aversion to giving other people the option of saying "no". Like, this is how he "locks in" his social engagements. I hate it. It feels so coercive.

 

[Thomas Eugene Paris]

I have a friend who always "just goes ahead" and buys tickets to things, and it drives me fucking mad. Do you guys know someone like this?

Say we've been talking about going to see a cricket match in the summer, and I've indicated an interest. He'll just buy a fucking £150 ticket on my behalf and then breezily ask me to pay him back. He never checks that I'm alright with the price, and even upgrades to more expensive seats on the basis that he thought it would be worth it. Never sends a quick text message to check.

I've told him to knock it off, but he never really changes his ways. I can't figure out why, but my theory is that it's some aversion to giving other people the option of saying "no". Like, this is how he "locks in" his social engagements. I hate it. It feels so coercive.

This is mega annoying, especially if he always picks expensive stuff like your example. What happens if you tell him that you can't (or won't) pay him back? "Sorry, $150 tickets are not in the budget right now, but thanks for thinking of me. Have fun at the match!" If it's true, you can tell him that you'd love to meet up afterward to do something cheaper instead. Then, just drop it.

I think your instinct is right that he doesn't want to give anyone the chance to say no. To be charitable to him, though, I feel like he could be doing it because he's worried that no one likes him or something, so he's trying to force you to commit. You might just have to speak to him honestly. I know it's awkward, but it's more awkward to let him think that this is a good way to socialize.

Is he from a wealthy family?