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

[DavidS877]

Plastic cars.
Finally got around to installing my dashcam in the new truck. Had to, as usual, use fuse taps to grab continuous power and a switched power line. I hate using a fuse tap on a live circuit, one was a 'spare' so that was fine, the other I had to use an in-use circuit, so I chose the USB charger, figured that was safe if the tap failed or fell out. There was a spare on that circuit, but it was the wrong fuse type.

But then that was all done and it was time for the 3rd wire. Ground. My old car, only 2016 had plenty of metal accessible with screws. Older cars were obviously even better. Finally figured out that the places the plastic was held with a screw meant the backing piece was usually metal, and a ground. Had to sand some paint for a good connection, but ground acquired, dashcam working.

Of course, the fact that I have to use a dashcam in a car with 12+- of its own cameras is stupid because apparently they didn't make any provisions to record them.

 

[Bill Evans 45]

People who use metal implements on nonstick pans, especially on YouTube.
Which leads me into people that don't read the instructions on stuff, fuck it up and come to me for help fixing it.
Fuck all of these people to infinity and beyond.

 

[Dean Pentel]

Of course, the fact that I have to use a dashcam in a car with 12+- of its own cameras is stupid because apparently they didn't make any provisions to record them.

That is many cameras.

The whole dashcam is something that I dislike about modern society. I have one, have had it for years, and I think it's smart to have one. Especially if you have children in your car regularly.

The camera itself doesn't bother me. It's definitely an invasion of privacy. Mine has certainly caught me looking at my phone and driving, singing horribly, calling someone in traffic a nigger or a faggot, etc. But with how fucking retarded insurance companies and law enforcement are, it's better to have one than not, and that is what I fucking hate.

Fuck, I feel dirty typing that last sentence. It's like saying it's better to have melanoma than testicular cancer.

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

I fucking hate it when i'm trying to pull out at an intersection and every single mother fucker on the road is perfectly spaced out so that i can't do it safely. It's so annoying!

 

[The Hardest R]

but fuck I’m really starting to struggle justifying to myself doing so.

Quality of services went to shit during COVID and never recovered. There are some exceptions but food service is definitely one that fell off with no sign of recovering anytime soon.

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

Quality of services went to shit during COVID and never recovered. There are some exceptions but food service is definitely one that fell off with no sign of recovering anytime soon.

Was stupid enough to use a kiosk at a fast food place yesterday… yeah, that pissed me off enough into eating healthier. Coupled with the fact the pajeet behind the counter set my order aside (??? Still trying to figure out that one) out from the others and took a while to call my name despite getting through a few other kiosk pick up orders just fine.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Quality of services went to shit during COVID and never recovered. There are some exceptions but food service is definitely one that fell off with no sign of recovering anytime soon.

May of the "Experienced" folks who are career folks who experienced how things were pre-covid kinda stopped caring post Covid after it became crystal clear that all that "Essential Worker...Thank you for working" stuff went right out the window when Joey Shits his pants said that Covid was officially solved and people started treating retail employees worse than Pre-Covid time.

What are Companies really gonna do? Fire everyone including the Supervisors and replace them with Niggers, Spics and Pajeets with worse attitudes and zero IQ?

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Distracted drivers, I get using it as a music player or as a GPS but texting or being on social media while driving those things can wait until you are parked.

 

[Skeletron Prime]

Fake positivity hiding the worst, self-absorbed people. I'm in a niche part of a niche hobby and one of the places to keep an eye on sales, releases, and the like is a Facebook group...unfortunately.

They've banned distributors by digging through their online history for no-nos. They tone-police like mad: one guy was pissed about a release being absolutely shit and some bitch was up his ass about creating a bad atmosphere. The amount of cringe posts in search of something and how it would be SO GREAT and MAKE THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if someone could help them out in getting it, or waxing poetic for paragraphs about it...The whole social media shit show.

It's so fucking performative it makes me ill. And you can tell the moment you step out of line with what they consider decent, the venom comes spitting, and every fucking community is like this now.

 

[Obstacle]

Nigga, where do you think we are?

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Fair point my g.
But I was thinking of something I could throw a literal big-top tent over.
Rather than a figurative one.
And drive them from town to town so people can palpate their wasted limbs, smell their peculiar smells, and try to dodge their ballistic excretions.
If you wrangled every lolcow on the farms into a "Hell on wheels" road show, I think you'd get kicked out of every municipality you came through.
Comparatively, the severely congenitally deformed mistakes of nature are better behaved.

 

[The Last Stand]

When people talk over you, especially when you're trying to help.
Particularly, when WOMEN talk over MEN. Emphasis on women because of the newly coined term known as "mansplaining," which supposedly means that men like to talk over women to assert dominance. No, anybody can talk over anybody to be a dick.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

When people talk over you, especially when you're trying to help

I am sorry, I do that shit out of some uncontrollable 'tism.
But yeah, a lot of women doing that. My mom does (she loses her shit over mine, as well).

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Ear gauges. For the life of me, I can't comprehend why a person would want to turn their earlobes into gaping assholes. It looks so retarded.

 

[The Last Stand]

Ear gauges. For the life of me, I can't comprehend why a person would want to turn their earlobes into gaping assholes. It looks so retarded.

When earbuds don't stay in your ear.

 

[The Feline Solution]

I really hate when people push a pedestrian cross signal repeatedly. You only need to push it once, numbnuts. Do you expect traffic to immediately and completely stop the moment you lumbered to the corner? Do you think it's broken? Or that you have to push it until the light changes? Fucking stop.

I will hammer that signal till it breaks every single time and you can't stop me. I don't even know why i press it at least five times in ultra-quick succession, it just feels right.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

I will hammer that signal till it breaks every single time and you can't stop me. I don't even know why i press it at least five times in ultra-quick succession, it just feels right.

Some of the ones in my area (near the schools for the disabled, and in the downtown/heavy pedestrian area) enter some sort of accessible/blind mode if you spam press them, where both signals will start beeping/making a clicking noise so that you can more easily locate them, I guess. The signal will also go "WAIT." If you spam-press it while it's red. It broke my habit of spam-pressing because people always look a little alarmed by it.

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It annoys me that a lot of people in my life don't understand fitness very well. The main thing being that they don't understand how LONG it takes. My family gripes a lot that they ate healthy for, say, two months, but it was just tooooo much and so they completely "fall off the wagon." They go between these weird binge-purge cycles of ideologies, and it always involves spending tons of money.

Spoiler: more on being annoyed by fat people's views on weight loss

When they're being "healthy," they buy tons of cookbooks, and buy expensive, strange, superfood products, and diet products, and health products. Protein bars, dried goji berries, vegan Purple Carrot meals that rot in the freezer. And they make the biggest show about how they "Just can't eat XYZ anymore!" Usually meat. Because CLEARLY red meat is the devil- no, ALL MEAT! You know all those fat-fat-fatties, eating grilled chicken!

And then when they "fall off the wagon", they just throw everything to the wind and somehow spend even MORE money. Starbucks drive-thru every day before work, spending 25 dollars for a 700 calorie coffee-milkshake and multiple food items. Entire bags of funsize chocolates. Entire family-sized bags of chips in a single sitting. "My life is so hard- and just I'm too busy to cook or be healthy right now!" If you push back on them at all, it turns into a shouting match of "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HARD MY LIFE IS!!!!" And there's really no point trying with people who don't want to change.

And the way they get angry at ME, for anything I do, just grinds my gears. If I get a milkshake, it's "Damn you and your high metabolism! If I ate like that I'd be even fatter!" If I get vegetables and chicken, it's "It's unsustainable to eat like that, you know! And meat is inflammatory- people think these things are healthy but they really just lead to poor health!" I know it really has nothing to do with me, and everything to do about them projecting things, but it's really annoying.

One of these people have an actual PhD, not that that means much nowadays. They're not stupid. But they are morbidly obese and still in that denial, "Ooooh it's just so complicated!" phase. They came asking me for advice. This was not unsolicited advice.
I said, "Track everything you eat in MyFitnessPal or similar, figure out your average eating patterns, and adjust them accordingly so you're in about a 500 calorie deficient, and then weigh yourself and re-evaluate your calorie needs every month or so." And BOY did I learn to not even try with these people. All the excuses, and cries of "fatphobia" and "it doesn't work like that" and "isn't it an eating disorder to track EVERYTHING you eat?"

The Reddit thing to say is "OMG cut all those people out of your life immediately! No Contact!" but I live in reality and reality is complicated and I actually have pretty good relationships with these people.
Sometimes you just have topics you'll never win on, or things that are always a point of contention.

 

[The Last Stand]

I really hate when people push a pedestrian cross signal repeatedly. You only need to push it once, numbnuts. Do you expect traffic to immediately and completely stop the moment you lumbered to the corner? Do you think it's broken? Or that you have to push it until the light changes? Fucking stop.

Yes, I do. It happened before.

I hate how some interactions have blind spots. Or when it's hard to tell whenever somebody has the right of way.

 

[Lidl Drip]

It is 2024 and we can still not accurately predict the weather. This is a whole ass profession that people get paid money to do and yet the predictions are about as good as a guess I could make for free.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

I hate it when people use the term "British" when referring to the English.

English refers to the people of the British Isles. They may be called Scottish/Welsh/Cornish when greater specificity is required.
"British" refers to Niggers and Pakis and all the other people who would be deported in a proper country.

I'm not from the UK and this is grinding my gears. See what happens in Glasgow or Belfast when you call people English

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

It annoys how expensive tooling is in North America to make anything. It annoys me more how hard it is to get things repaired now days, either "Oh well we just ordered a new one" or "Sorry I can't work on that".

Quality of services went to shit during COVID and never recovered. There are some exceptions but food service is definitely one that fell off with no sign of recovering anytime soon.

I hate bullshit charges tacked on without notifying you. Like I understand CC fee, shipping and taxes listed separately (So I know who to bitch against), but it's really hard for me when people charge a fee for labor and then demand tips. Restaurants are so bad at this I haven't eaten out since COVID started unless I'm traveling for work, and I'm contemplating a fucking propane burner to lug around so I can avoid that.