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

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I hate a visceral hate for podcasts, that are supposed to be informative, where the hosts start talking about their personal life, their politics or anything else unrelated to the topic of discussion,

A podcast I enjoyed had one specific episode I stopped listening to not even five minutes in because the host, during the Summer of (2020) Love, felt it was a good idea to immediately sperg out with his guest about Driving While Black and White Privilege - topics totally unrelated to the usual content and format.

For telling people "Never trust someone pretending to be your bank." They sure are shit as making sure you can actually trust them when they do call.

Both financial and medical institutions are notorious for this: They use generic "TOLL FREE CALL" or "(STATE NAME) CALL" as their caller ID display name and - when legit - they don't understand why people are skeptical about these calls.

Recently, Parent Pie received a generically-labeled call claiming to be from the local hospital and asking to verify insurance information. When challenged, the caller stated privacy reasons disallowed them to disclose anything that would prove they were who they claimed to be, Parent Pie had to hang up on them, call the hospital back using its general number, and be transferred to the department in question only to learn the call was legitimate.

I had a similar experience with my credit card company. A "TOLL FREE CALL" appeared on my display and the operator wanted to know if I purchased some item. Said operator was a bit huffy when I replied, "Given all the scam calls that sound like this, I'm going to hang up and call the customer number on the back of my card just to be safe." Again, the call turned out to be legitimate, but it's irritating when the same institutions that tell you not to give out personal information to cold-callers over the phone get mad when people question the veracity of legitimate calls (as they rightfully should) and want assurances the call is legit and not the latest attempt at identity theft.

Thread tax: The fact social media has become less of a way to keep in touch with people and more of an ad factory and haven for doomposters to contantly whine about stuff that has little impact on their lives and the overall scheme of things.

 

[✨Tard-Star✨]

Idk why but curly hair is so gate kept now? As a wavy hair gal, I wear my hair both curly and straight-ish.

When I take the time to style it, there's always that one asshole who asks:

"Are those your natural curls?"
"Why don't you wear them more often if they are?"

Convenience. I'm still new to wet styling and it takes FOREVER.

 

[OvercookedBacon]

Both financial and medical institutions are notorious for this: They use generic "TOLL FREE CALL" or "(STATE NAME) CALL" as their caller ID display name and - when legit - they don't understand why people are skeptical about these calls.

Got a replacement phone a few years ago, and not even a day later I was getting at least thirty spam callers a day. I've taken to blocking any number I don't know that doesn't leave a message, and then I usually block those because they're ... well, usually spam callers.

Thread tax: living in the middle of buttfuck nowhere means there's nothing open at midnight, not even the gas stations.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

The heckin Canucks and their iniquity

https://www.christianpost.com/news/mayors-bank-account-garnished-after-refusing-lgbt-proclamation.html

Unlike the U.S., which typically holds pride events in June, Canadians celebrate pride from June to September.

It's true.

There's an entire fag month in June.

Then individual towns start declaring rolling "Pride Weeks" over the summer and they repeat the same shit all over again.

The justification being that the fruits want the entire month of June to tour Pride events across the country and want a separate carve out for their own hometown conquering humiliation ritual.

I actually saw the Emo, Ontario forced garnishment of the mayor's wages story show up in a normie newsfeed last week. With no new updates, but of course a victimhood journoscum angle that the heckin' reasonable fag lawyer that demanded a town of 1k rural people hold a day of fealty in his honor. And any denial of this narcissistic demand was clearly discrimination and bigotry.

I saw a quote in that article that the poor township had additionally already spent an additional 40k two years ago in legal fees trying to stand up to the crybullies.

 

[The Hardest R]

Idk why but curly hair is so gate kept now? As a wavy hair gal, I wear my hair both curly and straight-ish.

When I take the time to style it, there's always that one asshole who asks:

"Are those your natural curls?"
"Why don't you wear them more often if they are?"

Convenience. I'm still new to wet styling and it takes FOREVER.

Muh cultural appropriation. Curly hair is not allowed for white people anymore. It started with cornrows a few years back.

 

[✨Tard-Star✨]

Muh cultural appropriation. Curly hair is not allowed for white people anymore. It started with cornrows a few years back.

I guess it is cultural appropriation to the super far left.

But cornrows on white people? Idk dude it just looks....bad. maybe they have a point lol

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Aphantasia is the inability to visualize in the mind's eye. Having aphantasia must really suck for people who like to read novels. Opposite of aphantasia is hyperphantasia: the ability to visualize vividly. Great for people who like reading books with no pictures, as that mental imagery in the mind can be better than any big budget movie made.

Maybe all those who advocate reading and also claim that reading is always better than likes of movies and vidya have hyperphantasia?

I think I have partial aphantasia, as dreams and imaginations are like colored smoke: not very vivid, and ever-shifting. There is also this annoying involuntary tendency of using mundane modern world as scenery for text-only stories, even when it doesn't fit. So reading text with no pictures kinda sucks in that the imagery is dim and shifting.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Mormons. They're retarded.

 

[gagabobo1997]

Social media. Scrolling Reddit or X for more than 15 minutes makes me progressively more MATI. The kiwifarms and to a lesser extent 4chan are the only sites I can use because I can actually call someone a retarded nigger if I think they are a retarded nigger. Faggot retards on the Internet need to die

 

[internet friend]

Motherfuckers who act like it's impossible to read signs on the road. I don't know if it's just a woman thing, but nearly every time I tell directions to a woman that involve a street name (e.g: "turn left on retard street") I'm always met with some form of "just tell me when, I can't read the signs until it's too late".

 

[McMitch]

Motherfuckers who act like it's impossible to read signs on the road. I don't know if it's just a woman thing, but nearly every time I tell directions to a woman that involve a street name (e.g: "turn left on retard street") I'm always met with some form of "just tell me when, I can't read the signs until it's too late".

People are just, in general, ill-practiced at reading. This goes back to what @ToroidalBoat posted above: most people who claim to have aphantasia don’t actually have aphantasia, they’re unpracticed in the skill of forming an image in their mind, from both consuming visual media almost exclusively as well as a lifestyle wherein they’ve completely eschewed problem solving and dealing with abstracts. The. They use this as justification to continue neglecting such skills; it’s the same as saying you can’t go to the gym because you can only run a 15-minute mile. The.man this gets popularized by Reddit users because, in peak lumpenprole mentality, they exault being a moron at the deference of politically chosen experts.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

This goes back to what @ToroidalBoat posted above: most people who claim to have aphantasia don’t actually have aphantasia, they’re unpracticed in the skill of forming an image in their mind [...]

I don't have complete aphantasia, but I don't have hyperphantasia either. And as a kid before Current Year, I used my imagination a lot and played outside freely -- and yet all along, "my mind's eye needs glasses" so to speak, with both daydreams and dreams. So I do not think this problem is some "skill issue" as you assume, in my case anyway.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Something I've seen in the last weeks, assholes who only ever talk on the phone in speaker mode. I was at the grocery store and some black guy was on the phone with on speaker, while he was holding it up to his ear...

Then I was in an elevator with someone speaking Spanish on the phone while it was on speaker.

 

[The Last Stand]

Ear wax around my headphones or phone speaker. All that gunk just piling up in the crevices.

 

[Nick Obre]

More to the point, I don't care what fucking hand gesture he made. Unless you can back that up with a substantial policy decision he is involved with that has strong and provable negative downstream effects, shut up.

Shut up shut up shut up.

Your side looks like overgrown toddlers looking for gotcha and somehow can't grasp why Kamala lost...because even the adults among you can't stand you anymore.

I just tell them "A Nazi wouldn't want to bring 100 million Indians into the country"

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

whoever made this chair design i hate you so fucking much
not just it looks gay as shit and its uncomfortable and its unreliable and assembling it is a pain due to all the weird angels but its EVERYWHERE
im moving soon so i have to buy new chairs and all i can see is this gay shit

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Omfg someone has been ranting at me about Trump for the past 45 minutes.

Jesus Christ would you shut the fuck up, we live in fucking Europe. I offered some counters like with Project 2025 being his project and shit, which it's not and she just ignored me to rant about the pardons and America being a third world country

Shut up

 

[internet friend]

Modern lolcow watchers/gaylogs are just the worst blight on the internet. It seems so rare to have a strange person who can be watched and laughed at now days. Everything lately is moral grandstanding, fucking 6 hour long livestreams (with donations, can't forget donations), trying to get people fired and generally acting like colossal faggots. When the takeaway I get from seeing a video about some sexual deviant is "man fuck the people interviewing him" you know shit is grim. JUST ENJOY THE FUNNY!

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

When people whine about self-service or automation, but have zero self-awareness and don't realize how stupid and awful they are. I'd rather you be "served" by a machine or computer than a real person since that's all you rate. Don't whine about "human contact" if you generally treat other people like shit.

 

[Jason Wynn]

It’s like it fucking kills people that I’m trying to sleep during the day after working all night. Phone getting blown up with calls/texts, someone at the door, cat getting clingy constantly meowing for attention. Let me sleep please!