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

The preseasoning that cast iron pan makers use on those new pans is fucking crap. I wish I could find old pans, but it seems more people are starting to hop on the band wagon. So, if you plan on getting any new pan, just save yourself the headache and remove the factory coating before hitting it with the Crisco.
 
patenting video game mechanics
Software patents (like vidya patents) are BS. Isn't copyright enough? I think "intellectual property" has gotten excessive by now.

Can you imagine having monopoly over a certain way of how data is processed in a computer, especially when for a vidya of fiction?
 
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Software patents (like vidya patents) are BS. Isn't copyright enough? I think "intellectual property" has gotten excessive by now.
The Supreme Court thinks so, too, and has eviscerated the whole concept unanimously, after decades of the Federal Circuit routinely upholding them. You can no longer just patent a "general business method" but in SPAAACE on a computer. CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 717 F.3d 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2013), aff'd, 573 U.S. 208, 134 S.Ct. 2347, 189 L.Ed.2d 296 (2014).

A lot of such patents have since been struck down.
 
I'm pissed that my car insurance is $85 fucking higher than last year, it used to be $90. I have no goddamn points on my license, my car is old enough to vote, and I'm driving less than any previous year.
Insurance is a scam. One should have to be paying high prices just for the luxury of maybe needing something just because someone else is a terrible driver.
Weed heads or whatever the fuck you call them. I have a coworker that repeatedly runs into problems when she smokes weed, and she gets really defensive whenever the sensible solution of "stop doing drugs" is presented. "No, you don't understand, I need it for my anxiety!" Bitch, I'm rawdogging life fine, you just don't want to grow up.
And if you say you don't like the smell or that smoking weed gives you anxiety, they'll go "you haven't used the right strain".

Thread Tax: coworkers who always have something negative to say as soon as they have to do the slightest amount of work.
 
IIRC there is the claim that all who use "normie" unironically are "freakish idiots", which sounds both very dubious and conformist.
 
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Being told that you're blocked every single time you try to edit wikipedia on your phone from anywhere other than you're own home wifi
 
Our system is retarded, first and foremost. What you are mentioning does take place-little to no consequences until shit hits the fan. On the other side-felons who want to reform are getting fucked by having to "check the box" in their job application or when they try to rent a flat ("have you been convicted of a crime?"). Makes it hard to get rehabilitated after having served one's sentence. Hard to move out of a "bad area". Hard to get the job of even just a shift leader at a Burger King.
That reminds me. You have to answer all these questions to get approved for car insurance or to even be qualified to LOOK at an apartment. Meanwhile, you can be some random migrant in some third world country, waltz right in and be greeted with welfare, hotel stays, free identification no questions asked. It's harder to be a citizen than to be an illegal alien.
 
When I help someone move and they haven't organized or planned anything or even set a date. Then on friday night the call comes.
Half the stuff is unpacked and things found in 10-15 boxes from the storage/attic MIGHT get tossed but we just have to go through every single one of them first... "Oh, what's this ancient receipt... Yes, I remember it was" SHUT UP! I had planned to do something fun this weekend!
"But I brought these people to help and" - Fucking hell, they're more useless than a cock on the moon!
 
When I help someone move and they haven't organized or planned anything or even set a date. Then on friday night the call comes.
Half the stuff is unpacked and things found in 10-15 boxes from the storage/attic MIGHT get tossed but we just have to go through every single one of them first... "Oh, what's this ancient receipt... Yes, I remember it was" SHUT UP! I had planned to do something fun this weekend!
"But I brought these people to help and" - Fucking hell, they're more useless than a cock on the moon!
I feel this one deep in my soul. I once came a bit before lunch to help a friend and his roommate move. I left that night around midnight since more than half the shit they had wasn't packed when I got there. I drove home fuming.
 
Weed heads or whatever the fuck you call them. I have a coworker that repeatedly runs into problems when she smokes weed, and she gets really defensive whenever the sensible solution of "stop doing drugs" is presented. "No, you don't understand, I need it for my anxiety!" Bitch, I'm rawdogging life fine, you just don't want to grow up.
Weed smokers are just tiresome in 9 out of 10 cases. I've been aquainted with legit coke heads that had more self-restraint than your average smoker. Virtually anyone i know smokes and they seemingly can't even do a single day without it and act like it's the end of the world if they are forced to do it due to circumstances, like when the dealer doesn't pick up his phone or they blew all their money already and can't buy more at the end of the month. Like i-suck-your-dick-for-a-dime-bag desperation. It's ridiculous.
 
I feel this one deep in my soul. I once came a bit before lunch to help a friend and his roommate move. I left that night around midnight since more than half the shit they had wasn't packed when I got there. I drove home fuming.
It has happened more than once... These days I'm more of 'keys, let's go' kind of person where I take their keys and go start packing/sorting/tossing things myself after work just to save myself the pain.
 
When I help someone move and they haven't organized or planned anything or even set a date. Then on friday night the call comes.
Half the stuff is unpacked and things found in 10-15 boxes from the storage/attic MIGHT get tossed but we just have to go through every single one of them first... "Oh, what's this ancient receipt... Yes, I remember it was" SHUT UP! I had planned to do something fun this weekend!
"But I brought these people to help and" - Fucking hell, they're more useless than a cock on the moon!
Fuck moving in general, i am willing to throw ungodly amounts of money (which i don't really have) to a moving company instead of packing a single box myself ever again. Friends know to count me out if they move, for the same reasons you describe in your post. I'm not throwing my back out just because you decided to be an unorganized retard.
 
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