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

[Grundlejungle]

I think that "retard switch" was "smartphones", "social media", and "social justice" combined.

Social media is actually AIDS. It's only useful to see if someone you know is a secret retard.

Thread tax: the schizophrenic meltdown that people have during the election cycle.
There's a guy that I know that seemed pretty cool at first, but he's turned into a raging loser antifafag with crippling TDS. This jackass posts the most embarrassing shit on social media and routinely gets an internet slap fights ( that he loses ) with teenagers. I did not know this at first because I rarely use social media as I am not a woman or a child. This nigga has takes that make movieBob seem positively sane. He quit his last part-time job and now grifts EBT and is trying to get on disability for a fake white trash issue he has.
And this is all in the span of 2 months.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

In the '00s before Current Year, people could have loud phone conversations or loud ringtones.

This was made in 2000 and is even truer now we have calls on speaker:

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Fucking GNATS. And mosquitoes. Die a million horrible deaths, all of you.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

And mosquitoes.

It may be claimed that without mosquitoes it'd be an environmental disaster. But had mosquitoes never appeared, Earth life could easily have been adapted to no mosquitoes.

 

[internet friend]

People that think that since something has happened in a certain wrong way once, it will always happen that way, no matter how unlikely. Just because one time a year ago a restaurant forgot your booking doesn't mean you have to call and triple check every fucking place you ever book.

 

[Lady Bizness]

The Data and my increasing ambivalence towards it. You'd think I'd blame redditors but it's the personal shit that's really gotten to me.
For example every retard on Nextdoor (names who I recognize, so, real people) who dimly type out "the data says most of our homeless people are locals!" Yeah right, it's a small community. I'd know half these bums names if they were local, and plus, the numbers don't work out.
Also, I have a nutcase coworker who will spend 25 hours a day on Google scholar, databases, and will also contact government and educational offices requesting information IF you happen to disagree with her. At the very next staff meeting there she'll be with 20 color printed copies of her findings that prove you are W-R-O-N-G nevermind common sense, personal experience, and actual scalable practicality.
Sorry, this bitch is on vacation and she's sending emails anyway. When she croaks I'm sure she's going to Zoom into staff meetings from a toasty throne in Hell.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Getting crappy ads at the gas pump.

If the technology is ever developed to beam ads into brains like in Futurama, it would definitely be used.

 

[Meat Target]

Lately it's been people blasting music/tik tok from their phones at full fucking volume. Like the other day I was at Home Depot and I'm looking through the specialty drawer looking for nylon spacers and this fucking persian looking guy comes up behind me and is just standing there scrolling on his phone while dumbass tik tok videos played at full volume. And he'd let them repeat like two or three times!

Then today I'm in the bathroom at work and some black guy comes in, turns on a steve harvey clip at full volume, lets it repeat. When I go into a chick fil a by me there's usually at least one person with their phone playing at full volume. It's just fuckin everywhere now, at least in the diverse city that I live in.

 

[Brain Power]

I WILL NOT TAKE THE FUDPILL, STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME A DOOMER

 

[FamicomGorby]

Another thing that happened today, when did parking garages decide to hire people to stand next to the ticket machine to perform the extremely basic task of putting in your ticket followed by your credit card? Did they figure out that people were fuckin retards or is this some sort of government funded make work program?

 

[DavidS877]

Another thing that happened today, when did parking garages decide to hire people to stand next to the ticket machine to perform the extremely basic task of putting in your ticket followed by your credit card? Did they figure out that people were fuckin retards or is this some sort of government funded make work program?

You mean the guy who put the credit card skimmer on the ticket machine standing there to make sure you can't check and be sure there's no skimmer on the ticket machine?

 

[FamicomGorby]

You mean the guy who put the credit card skimmer on the ticket machine standing there to make sure you can't check and be sure there's no skimmer on the ticket machine?

Definitely a possibility, I haven't had my number stolen yet from a skimmer, but I've seen em at the airport and pretty much every car wash around me now just has some guy standing out by the machine.

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

Those fucking paper and foil seals on bottles that NEVER fucking come off with the pull tab that's glued onto them. Fuck those fucking things.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I fucking hate Oregon summers. Dry ass desert heat, zero humidity or wind to even slightly cool shit down. Everyone here thinks air conditioning is the work of evil right wing nazis and that your pets suffering in the heat is a GOOD thing!

The big quake can’t wipe this shithole stain of a state off the map soon enough

 

[Xenomorph]

Wasps.

 

[DavidS877]

I fucking hate Oregon summers. Dry ass desert heat, zero humidity or wind to even slightly cool shit down. Everyone here thinks air conditioning is the work of evil right wing nazis and that your pets suffering in the heat is a GOOD thing!

The big quake can’t wipe this shithole stain of a state off the map soon enough

0% humidity? That would be lovely. I'd love to not run 2 dehumidifiers 24x7.

 

[Fields Of Rye]

Fucking GNATS. And mosquitoes. Die a million horrible deaths, all of you.

Bad yes. But try fleas.

Yeah, like fucking, 1500s bubonic plague fleas. I brought ONE in on me after dealing with some dogs and what followed was literal guerilla warfare.

See, the real nightmare of fleas is that they are big fuckers and they bite fast, bedbugs, bedbugs are slow. Bedbugs are a nightmare but bedbugs aren’t smart. Fleas are. Fleas will get in your clothes, your sheets, and just sit there. Then you go to swap clothes and seconds later the itching starts. As you look around, it’s already hopped away.

Now if you have pets, you have it easy. Give those guys some pesticide and the fleas all choke, keep the pets outside and the fleas leave you alone. But without pets, oh boy, the fleas are after you and only you. They hunt you. They get into things that smell like you.

And just to be clear; this is one flea. A single flea. And you have to kill it soon or there will be more fleas. So now you have to do the full bedbug response all as this invisible fucker WHO YOU STILL HAVE NOT SEEN ONCE continues to nip at you.

I legit put raid everywhere then isolated myself in an empty room while I worked. found the fucker dead a day later on the ceiling.

But oh, no, it’s not ever yet,

Nah, time to deep clean the fuck out of everything in case it jizzed in your carpet because then the cycle repeats itself.

 

[anustart76]

I think that "retard switch" was "smartphones", "social media", and "social justice" combined.

It may be claimed that without mosquitoes it'd be an environmental disaster. But had mosquitoes never appeared, Earth life could easily have been adapted to no mosquitoes.

I have seen somewhere, and I have no idea where, so take it with a grain of salt, that if all mosquitoes were to disappear, it would cause no ecological damage whatsoever.

 

[dick brain]

Stories with characters with sophisticated prosthetics in settings in which that doesn't make any fucking sense.

 

[Lady Bizness]

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I have seen somewhere, and I have no idea where, so take it with a grain of salt, that if all mosquitoes were to disappear, it would cause no ecological damage whatsoever.

I heard that in my college entomology class but it was one of the grad students that said it and they may have just been thinking aloud. Anyway the idea is there are an awful lot of other insects of similar size and life cycle that would fill that niche in a heartbeat, without all the bullshit.