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

[internet friend]

Didn't mean to downplay, housing prices are indeed lunacy, I guess it's really just when I see someone complaining about their situation yet not attempting to do something about it, or worse, acting against doing something about it. Consoomers and housing prices are just the freshest example.

That annoys me too, but I was more referencing boomers who say shit like "you don't have a house because you don't work hard enough" because they bought a house 40 years ago for $100k that's now worth over a million.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Being a kid in public school these days certainly sucks.

I wonder how many people remember filmstrips.

Current Year school seems to be growing ever more indistinguishable from a corporate office.

actual chalk the teacher could throw at you without being fired

No one liked her and I bet she wishes she could still take a cane to children's hands.

Like I said, I got lucky in having been born late enough to avoid corporal punishment in school BS, yet early enough to avoid school being craptacular Current Year schools.

 

[Hinttitroniikka]

Social media accounts, especially on instagram and youtube, that are all adverts and no content. I've unfollowed so many formerly educational accounts, especially about cooking and handicrafts, because there's nothing but "I'm writing a book - preorder my book - countdown to my book - release parties for my book - advert after advert for my book" anymore (or course or premium channel or whatever). Worse yet, sometimes the creator or their fans get upset at a decline in general engagement when people like me unfollow, and accuse them of expecting things for free. Sometimes I've bought the thing, sometimes I don't feel it's worth it, but it's not as within means for most people as just following an account, so naturally fewer people will buy your course than the number who followed you initially. "Home interior inspiration" and it's all affiliate links, no information or ideas I can build off. Look, get the bag, do what you love, that's great. But I'm not clogging my feed or my brain with adverts if I can willingly avoid them.

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Terminal online people. Completely out of touch on the world , complain about superficial topics , gets mad about people not agreeing with them 100% of time and has fringe political views.

 

[internet friend]

The phrase "cooked". It used to be classic Aussie slang for somone who's fried their brains with drugs, but now it's just generic zoomer slang for bad.

 

[Yukako]

When people keep sending me "reels" despite me muting them. But when I do bother responding, they usually ignore what I said and send me more. What's the point?

 

[Lone Star]

YouTube making content creators censor words is bad enough, the "unalive" thing is cringe. What I really hate is when a video creator has the video's flow come to a screeching halt so they can go "Um, erm...well...YouTube won't let me say this, how should I say it...? Uh, the person 'checked themselves out' in this scene." like I'd rather them just say "unalive" and move on quickly than stop everything to find a workaround.

 

[internet friend]

When a lowcow you are reading about gets political, then it just turns into a political discussion in their thread. Even if I agree with the politics in question, I don't wanna see it. I just want to laugh at a fat faggot with bitch tits.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I thought I hated clickbait, and then I heard it on the fucking radio. That's right. They hit the listeners with clickbait. How?
SUPER POPULAR CELEBRITY PERFORMING IN A BIG CITY. WHO AND WHERE? LISTEN UNTIL THE END TO FIND OUT!
That's how. I'm all but ready to cut myself off from legacy media completely.

 

[Eadred]

I thought I hated clickbait, and then I heard it on the fucking radio. That's right. They hit the listeners with clickbait. How?
SUPER POPULAR CELEBRITY PERFORMING IN A BIG CITY. WHO AND WHERE? LISTEN UNTIL THE END TO FIND OUT!
That's how. I'm all but ready to cut myself off from legacy media completely.

I can relate, I liked listening to one radio station for years, their format was very simple: news each full hour, songs for 30 minutes, traffic news, songs for 28 minutes, 2 minutes of generic local commercials, news, repeat.

For a couple of months now they flipped the "let's appease to the social media crowd" and now the program looks more like:
News, some random talk about a garbage happening on twitter/Facebook, recap of talking points from the morning, 1 song, advertisement for their app, advertisement for a "call in and win some bullshit", another song, advertisement, traffic news, more social media talking or an endorsement for a new show or movie, song, reminder of the "call in, win garbage", song, advertisement, news, repeat.

So yeah, long time listener for years, not anymore though.

 

[Shart Attack]

This is super neurotic and tells me I need to go outside more, but I hate when people who clip YouTube streams censor their subtitles but not the audio. Someone will clip a stream of a guy saying "Son of a bitch, I died," and they'll put in English hard subtitles saying, "Son of a b*tch, I unalived." I didn't realize how much I hated this until YouTube started shoving a million gay animated shorts at me that are clipped from D&D streams about a clown and a bunch of furries or something. Whoever these faggots are, they do it in every clip. It's like, is the content offensive or not? If it's offensive, why clip it in the first place? And if it's offensive, why censor just the text transcript but not the offending audio? If it's not offensive, why censor it at all? This shit makes me long for the days of the Christian moral panic of my youth. They were no less retarded, but at least they were more consistent in their retardation.

My cable company recently canceled their contract with Paramount Networks, so they no longer carry Comedy Central, among others. Don't really care about that so much as I care that my bill hasn't changed. I get fewer channels now but pay the same price. What grinds my gears most about this is that anyone I talk to about it has a kneejerk reaction that compels them to tell me about the streaming services they pay for. "I'm being charged the same amount of money for less stuff," I say. "I cut the cable years ago," they respond. "Now I have Netflix, Disney Plus, Nickelodeon Unlimited, and a thousand others." I wasn't asking you to recite your personal brand loyalties, asshole. I don't need you to tell me to switch away from cable. Cable suits my needs just fine. I just want to bitch about getting less shit for the same amount of money. Every normal American is getting less shit for more money now in every facet of our lives. This should be something with which everyone can relate, but consumerism makes it so their only response to a complaint is free word-of-mouth advertising for their favorite corporations.

 

[soft breathing]

Vagueposting.
It infuriates the everlasting shit out of me.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Terminal online people. Completely out of touch on the world , complain about superficial topics , gets mad about people not agreeing with them 100% of time and has fringe political views.

If you assume that everyone agrees with you and anyone who doesn't causes you to do immature things like not wanting to listen to them or screaming at them, you might be online too much.

My gripe for today is that barbell piercing that people get across the bridge of their nose. It's ugly as fuck on every single person I see it on, and it's never not on the face of a liberal you'd want to slap if slapping people for ignorant and ugly thoughts was somehow legal.

 

[Yukako]

The one day I didn't get to park underneath a roof, birds shit on my car. This was right after I washed it too.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

Fucking Walgreens. They have an app, but let's say you are on a regular prescription with three refills. You go to the doctor after all five refills have been filled, but before your insurance will let you do a new refill; your doctor faxes over a new prescription, insurance says not yet motherfucker, and the prescription is saved for the future.

You should be able to see this renewed, never filled prescription in the app, right?

Wrong.

The prescription is "saved to your profile" which is a different profile than the one in the app. So you have to know there's a refill available for you and call them to refill it. Occasionally the computer gets really confused and creates a second profile with a new prescription so the pharmacy tech has to submit a request for those two profiles to be merged. This can take several weeks and multiple requests.

Walgreens almost never answers the phone. When they do, because they're chronicly understaffed, they immediately put you on hold for ages. It's quicker to drive across town and talk to someone in person.

Next, Walgreens does what of chains do: fill some prescriptions at the warehouse and ship them in. I kid you not, I requested a prescription over threw weeks ago and it still hasn't come in! They finally checked today to see if they had it in stock and filled it while I waited.

My local store is staffed with lovely people. But I switched to my local grocery store. They don't have constant turnover, they're staffed appropriately, and they answer the phone!

Unfortunately, my shitty ass prescription insurance (Express Scripts) will only pay for a 90 day supply at Walgreens. My new pharmacy says that Express Scripts chronically under pays the pharmacy, if they say X drug + overhead is $35, Express Scripts might pay $20. So lots of places no longer accept them at all. As long as my store continues to take them I'll do 30 days, it's within walking distance and I usually need to grab something there anyway.

 

[Tingle]

People who think that for whatever godforsaken reason a doorway is the perfect place to rummage through your pockets, check your phone, blow your nose. Fucking MOVE

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

People who think that for whatever godforsaken reason a doorway is the perfect place to rummage through your pockets, check your phone, blow your nose. Fucking MOVE

Same with people who do that in the middle of the aisle at the store. I saw one who brought her crochet to the store, okay whatever. But she left her ball of yarn in her cart on the other side of the walkway and took her project with her. What the fuck?

I had a negress get angry with me because she and her brood were standing all the way across the aisle taking their sweet time to grab an item. I stood there quietly, waiting until they were done. She saw me, but didn't tell her children to move.l or hurry up. As she walked away she loudly complained to her children about people who don't know how to say excuse me. If I had said something, it's just as likely that she'd say something about people being rude and impatient. Basically, she was a nigger and spoiling for a fight with whitey no matter what. I like lots of black people, but I hate niggers of any race.

I hate grocery shopping in the middle of the day or early evening.

 

[Yukako]

Getting automated responses when contacting customer service, especially if it's over the phone. Just let me speak to a human.

Additionally, the unskippable ads on Spotify mobile. Not only are they intrusive, but they're always obnoxious too. I'm not going to buy your product and I'm especially not going to pay for a premium subscription.

 

[AnOminous]

My local store is staffed with lovely people. But I switched to my local grocery store. They don't have constant turnover, they're staffed appropriately, and they answer the phone!

I hate to say it but Wal-Mart actually generally does a pretty good job and they even call you rather than you having to pester them incessantly.

 

[Jason Wynn]

More entitlement from the homeless

Minor powerlevel: I work in-house security. At work last night and a homeless guy asked me for a cigarette. I do smoke but like hell I’m giving them anything. I lied and said I don’t smoke. His immediate reaction was to get belligerent and start yelling “doesn’t matter if you smoke or not! You’re supposed to have a pack on you to give out to anyone that might need one!” Told him to fuck off and made a note to remind my crew not to be enabling these parasites by giving them anything so we’ll see how that goes.