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

[Nick Obre]

I have a coworker that keeps using "inquiry" when they obviously mean "inquire". Like "I wanted to inquiry if you could update this?"

I have a coworker who keeps pronouncing "focus" as "fuckyous"

People who try to sound smarter than they are and how they abuse newly found words to add to their vocabulary. "Look, I learned a new word! I don't know how to properly use it, when to use it, and whom to speak it to, so I'll just take my chances and spam this word over and over until I use it right!" When they could've just simply fucking looked at the word in the dictionary itself to better understand. That or you know, there are some conversations and situations where it's okay to use simple language. People sometimes turn a conversation when they're asked about how the weather is, into a monotonous exposition of breaking down every detail of the weather of that particular day. Dude, it's just fucking sunny, warm, and with some clouds out. Stop complicating shit!

 

[Rick Nekieta]

The person who waits for you to finish 98% of your work, only to shoo you away on the final step, claim credit for completion of task and offer a host of critiques that deprive you of both the final nail AND attempts to position themself as the superior, taking focus off the fact that you did all the heavy lifting.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I wonder if Limburger cheese smells as nasty as all those old cartoons make it out to be.

The very mention of it brings to mind that villain from Biker Mice from Mars.

 

[AnOminous]

I wonder if Limburger cheese smells as nasty as all those old cartoons make it out to be.

It does, but it has a mild taste.

 

[invisibult plus+]

Recently I read a comment saying that, get this, a cartoon needs a sensitivity reader for mental illness. It’s retarded because for one it’s wasteful, but also trying to bubblewrap everything is a recipe for disaster. It’s inherently dishonest. People aren’t super accommodating and understanding all the time, whether someone has mental illnesses or not. There are ways to handle that without messing with the writing and the characters.

If it’s for kids?

Well, that makes the sensitivity reader even more worthless.

Kids don’t want to watch that shit, and they shouldn’t either. It sets them up to fail by giving them false, unrealistic expectations of being coddled and “safe” all the time. Mental illness, disabilities etc. have become a bougie badge at best and a complete joke at worst, something for people to use and hide behind, which is a shame because they are important issues. They’re important, so don’t trivialize them with this stupid shit. I’m so sick of hearing about “neurospiciness,” or sponsorships for that scam BetterHelp, or seeing characters have panic attacks for the millionth time. It’s gotten so bad over the years that it’s nauseating at this point, and it’ll backfire immensely in the future.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

These married guys who shit talk their wives and kids and perv out on women at their jobs. It's really pathetic. As bad as Incels are they at least aren't betraying someone else and you expect them to be pathetic. Like dude, I'm eating my lunch I didn't ask to hear your cheating fantasies and lose all respect for you. I had this guy telling me about his wife's miscarriage history and how they're still trying and literally later on talking about some woman he would do this and that to. I used to like you man.

 

[Jason Wynn]

These married guys who shit talk their wives and kids and perv out on women at their jobs. It's really pathetic. As bad as Incels are they at least aren't betraying someone else and you expect them to be pathetic. Like dude, I'm eating my lunch I didn't ask to hear your cheating fantasies and lose all respect for you. I had this guy telling me about his wife's miscarriage history and how they're still trying and literally later on talking about some woman he would do this and that to. I used to like you man.

Damn, I thought the whole “hurr durr I hate my wife and kids!” type of humor fell strictly into the boomer camp.

Tax: It is 19 degrees out, wind speed close to 20 mph and expected to snow. For Christ’s sake can’t you homeless vermin take a night off from being the scum of society and just let me have one quiet night? It’s bad enough dealing with the weather without having to constantly be in the lookout for you filth.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Damn, I thought the whole “hurr durr I hate my wife and kids!” type of humor fell strictly into the boomer camp.

Man, I wish it was humor. Some of the older guys are genuinely funny in a dead pan way with that. Because you know they aren't serious, it's a joke. It's never jokes about cheating either. These other younger guys are serious. They seriously want to cheat so bad. They talk about it very explicitly and even go as far as putting feelers out. I swear it's 90% of what some of them talk about.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

I'm of the Married With Children generation that grew up watching Al complain about his family all day, but would do the moral thing 100/100 times when push came to shove. These deadpan older guys are clearly tapping into that. Even older than that there's the old comedic staple "Take my wife..... please" which is a timeless classic, which was probably the precursor to the MWC humor. Even Sunday comics were replete with the trope of the nagging/jealous wife, as per Andy Capp and the General and his wife in Beetle Bailey or Helga in Hagar the Horrible. I think the main issue then is that in the pre-internet days you were venting to a buddy, maybe a group of buddies. Nowadays, people are chasing clout 24/7 through every medium available and if it starts as a joke, it doesn't stay that way. Fuck the 21st century.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I'm of the Married With Children generation that grew up watching Al complain about his family all day, but would do the moral thing 100/100 times when push came to shove. These deadpan older guys are clearly tapping into that. Even older than that there's the old comedic staple "Take my wife..... please" which is a timeless classic, which was probably the precursor to the MWC humor. Even Sunday comics were replete with the trope of the nagging/jealous wife, as per Andy Capp and the General and his wife in Beetle Bailey or Helga in Hagar the Horrible. I think the main issue then is that in the pre-internet days you were venting to a buddy, maybe a group of buddies. Nowadays, people are chasing clout 24/7 through every medium available and if it starts as a joke, it doesn't stay that way. Fuck the 21st century.

Mostly old guys joke about domestic violence in such a dead pan but over the top way it's hard not to laugh. It is cartoonish. Many of them aren't even married and still make "my wife" jokes. I haven't seen them talking about genuinely trying to cheat with some woman at their job like these other guys do. Not to say they have some upstanding moral character from a bygone era. It's likely simply they know they would never be successful. these other guys are talking about being on hook up apps, subbing to only fan, and trying to get numbers from people working there, or even who works there has an only fans. Just loudly openly talking about it.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Mostly old guys joke about domestic violence in such a dead pan but over the top way it's hard not to laugh. It is cartoonish. Many of them aren't even married and still make "my wife" jokes. I haven't seen them talking about genuinely trying to cheat with some woman at their job like these other guys do. Not to say they have some upstanding moral character from a bygone era. It's likely simply they know they would never be successful. these other guys are talking about being on hook up apps, subbing to only fan, and trying to get numbers from people working there, or even who works there has an only fans. Just loudly openly talking about it.

Yikes, yeah, that does grind a few gears, doesn't it?

 

[Captain Syrup]

Man, I wish it was humor. Some of the older guys are genuinely funny in a dead pan way with that. Because you know they aren't serious, it's a joke.

My wife gives great headache!

 

[Rick Nekieta]

My wife gives great headache!

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You know what I like best in a woman?

Me.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Damn, I thought the whole “hurr durr I hate my wife and kids!” type of humor fell strictly into the boomer camp.

Greatest Generation, even earlier:
(Henny Youngman, b. 1906)


It's "funny" (not funny), though: men bitch about how bad their wife is, and it reflects poorly on the wife; if a woman bitches about how bad her husband is, it also is perceived to reflect poorly on the wife.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

New gripe: A particular line of dialogue from a particularly bad movie called Best of the Best 2.
The villain captures the protagonist to force him in a battle to the death for profit for a bunch of wealthy gamblers. The dialogue is as follows.

"I have waited a long time for this Tommy Lee."
"The feeling is mutual."

A statement of fact is not an expression of feeling, nor is time subjective (although what constitutes a long time is), so this particular exchange always rubbed me the wrong way. The response would fit if the preceding line* of dialogue were "I have waited too long for this Tommy Lee" and would easily be fixed in a second take, but why bother doing a second take when you made a movie starring Eric Roberts? I generally think Cinema Sins level commentary is pretty pedantic, but this one is particularly bad.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Representations of CPR in fiction where the emergency personnel just bounce their hips up and down while simply positioning the hands on the sternum without pushing into the chest any. For fuck's sake, get a handful of prop torsos so the actors can actually push into the sternum and simulate real CPR. Fake CPR is on the same level as "the explosion gently pushed our protagonist to safety."

Saw a video recently of some elderly man getting CPR after collapsing in a store. You could legitimately hear all of his ribs crunching as the paramedic/EMT guy administered the presses. Traumatic as fuck.

 

[Captain Syrup]

New gripe: A particular line of dialogue

Can I take a moment to vent about something I’ve noticed? It’s this tired, overused trope where villains are described as “cold" and "calculating.”

First of all, has anyone ever used that phrase in real life? And before I start sounding like a grouchy critic who spends his days picking apart every show, let me say this: Only an absolute idiot would hear that line of dialogue and take it seriously. It’s been thrown around so often, by so many characters, and almost inevitably leads to a Silence of the Lambs rip-off, where the bad guy is supposed to be this mastermind, but he’s just another two-dimensional dope. Nothing undermines a villain’s intelligence more than hearing others blabber about how “smart” he is.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Can I take a moment to vent about something I’ve noticed? It’s this tired, overused trope where villains are described as “cold" and "calculating.”

First of all, has anyone ever used that phrase in real life?

Counterpoint: Dick Cheney

 

[ForgedBlades]

The amount of bloatware on Samsung phones. I got rid of my three year old Motorola and picked up a Galaxy S25+ today (even though I swore I'd never spend over $500 on a phone again but that's beside the point) and fuck me. There's like 15 different Samsung apps for everything from password management to file management to AI that run on top of or override the Google apps for the same thing. It's fucking irritating as shit. I can't imagine being a tech illiterate zoomer or boomer trying to get this thing to just work. Took me three hours of disabling and configuring their retarded apps to get it where I want it. WHY IS THERE A FUCKING SAMSUNG APP STORE? I MEAN, I KNOW WHY BUT GODDAMN. HOLY SHIT. FUCK THESE PEOPLE.

Also the default Samsung launcher sucks chode. I'll never buy another Samsung Android product again. Should have bought a Pixel.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Why do we not have a national day of recognition for either a) emergency responders or b) people who work professions with even higher hazard levels than emergency responders? Professions like loggers, fishermen, oil rig workers and such deserve "line of duty" status. If your profession is as hazardous, or more so, than an emergency responder, you can rightfully describe your work as "in the line of duty" as far as I am concerned..