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

[Captain Syrup]

The amount of bloatware on Samsung phones.

Alright, so I finally bit the bullet and bought a Pixel. The camera, eh, it's crap. Most of the time, the only reason I even take pictures is ‘cause my job forces me to. I actually kinda like the Pixel though,. But the photo gallery? Terrible. The calendar? Ugh. And the file explorer? None of 'em do what I want. I’ve been looking for solid apps to replace them, but so far, nada.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Something that always gets me is movies set in the post-apocalypse never having pedal bikes. Do they just assume that, during the apocalypse, black people are stealing them and they hand them off to the Dutch to throw into the rivers? Seriously, this question fucks me up every single time.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Something that always gets me is movies set in the post-apocalypse never having pedal bikes.

Audiences seem to believe that the key is an armored car, to offer safety. The survival trick in Mad Max is the ability to outrun anything.

 

[Arlo Gunthrie]

"they're only in it for the money" when talking about heathcare workers...
Because if people don't work for free they are bad

 

[Captain Syrup]

"they're only in it for the money" when talking about heathcare workers...

Isn't it the case that the AMA stands as the opponent to universal healthcare? Doctors are not your ally.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

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.

Naw man. Samsung may suck in many ways but the Pixel is so awful in different ways. These things get hot just in prolonged or even short but frequent normal use Especially in the sun . In the summer trying to use GPS or something with max brightness to see? Phone gets so hot it won't even charge or will start turning off things because it's hot. It's a common issue with them. Allegedly the 10 series will finally ditch this shitty SOC and it'll be like any other phone. I prefer the Pixel launcher and everything but Samsung just has a better product in hardware by far.

Isn't it the case that the AMA stands as the opponent to universal healthcare? Doctors are not your ally.

Obamacare ruined healthcare enough. It really did. and the US cannot have universal healthcare while also having government subsidizing being unhealthy with what you are allowed to buy on EBT. We would be ruined. Everyone wants universal healthcare until they have something that needs extended treatment and then you can't get any help so they always end up coming to the US. Nobody considers that universal healthcare "works" in other countries because the population isn't a bunch of unhealthy fat retards and illegals grifting the system. And now when they are increasingly having this burden on them they just are promoting suicide

 

[Arlo Gunthrie]

Isn't it the case that the AMA stands as the opponent to universal healthcare? Doctors are not your ally.

Heathcare workers are not just doctors


I don't know what any of that means. Not to powerlevel but I've been in healthcare for 5 years and don't have health insurance.

People expect not to pay even privately, you have to work for them for free because they have cancer or can't walk. If they wanted insurance to pay for it they probably could honestly

 

[Dean Pentel]

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.

I remember participating in my first code in the O.R. It was my turn for compressions and the patient's ribs audibly cracked pretty quickly. The attending didn't even wait for me to look up and shouted, "JUST KEEP GOING!"

Obamacare ruined healthcare enough. It really did. and the US cannot have universal healthcare while also having government subsidizing being unhealthy with what you are allowed to buy on EBT. We would be ruined. Everyone wants universal healthcare until they have something that needs extended treatment and then you can't get any help so they always end up coming to the US. Nobody considers that universal healthcare "works" in other countries because the population isn't a bunch of unhealthy fat retards and illegals grifting the system. And now when they are increasingly having this burden on them they just are promoting suicide

We could have universal healthcare in the US rather easily, at least from a financial angle. The barrier to that is several major things would have to change in ways I don't think they ever will: the pharmaceutical industry, the let-all-these-third-world-niggers-in-with-no-checks industry, and there'd need to be massively reduced government bureaucracy in the healthcare industry in general.

And that leads me to my current gripe.

People considering a career or just beginning a career in healthcare need to understand that it's a business first and foremost. Medicine is science and healthcare is an industry. I wish more people and entities would make that clear right from the start. I write this because if you're thinking patient safety or healthcare is actually what any admin/supe/board cares about, you're in the wrong field. They care about exploiting employees and patients for dollars. That's all that matters to them at the end of the day. This doesn't mean you can't get a job you like in it. Rather, understand you're not there to provide the highest quality patient care. That shit is too expensive and you'll never have enough staff on hand to do so (it would cut into the profits that could go toward administration).

I see a lot of people become immediately disillusioned by the reality of healthcare in America. Treat your relationship with clinics/hospitals as a business relationship first and foremost. And stop fucking complaining. If you're still there after a year, you know good and well what you're signed up for.

 

[Arlo Gunthrie]

They care about exploiting employees and patients for dollars. That's all that matters to them at the end of the day. This doesn't mean you can't get a job you like in it. Rather, understand you're not there to provide the highest quality patient care. That shit is too expensive and you'll never have enough staff on hand to do so (it would cut into the profits that could go toward administration).

I wish this was something that I thought about even from the perspective of working privately.. these clients I thought were being nice were really just trying to manipulate me into cheap/free labor. And when you expect you're worth your GREEDY. Company's will take advantage just as much but there's still some degree of protection for employees that I didn't have working alone. People will do anything to avoid living in a long term care facility except pay the people who keep them home

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

There's another meaningless election coming up in my country. One party has taken a visually bold approach to their poster campaign. It's just a high contrast black and white close-up of the party leader's face staring directly into the camera + some text.

What I'm trying to say is that every other lamp post I walk by these days makes it look like fucking Phil Collins is campaigning to rule Germany.



This mildly grinds my gears because the real dude is in fact not Phil Collins.

 

[Guiron]

The high levels of petty theft going on in supermarkets makes buying certain stuff a bit of a pain, especially if you just want to grab something, scan it through the self-checkout and get on with your day. There's never enough staff around to open the security cases or remove the alarm tags from stuff, so you just have to stand around awkwardly until someone comes over and glares at you like it's your fault while they fumble with a piece of plastic for two minutes.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Video game shorts where you see a player of an extremely high skill level navigate a nearly impossible situation that can only be accomplished in a very unique way putting your anxiety through the roof, only to deny you the sense of relief of completion by looping the short again the very millisecond the gamer successfully completes the nearly impossible task. Super Mario Maker is by far the most popular medium for this content, but other games are used for this as well. If the audience is on the edge of their seats for 90 seconds, let them enjoy 10 seconds of decompression.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Something that always gets me is movies set in the post-apocalypse never having pedal bikes. Do they just assume that, during the apocalypse, black people are stealing them and they hand them off to the Dutch to throw into the rivers? Seriously, this question fucks me up every single time.

I kind of get it. I mean, people fucking disdain bike riders in a civilized society.

When I was riding my bike to work in a rural-ish suburb, well, drivers let you know how much they hated you.

Now imagine you live in a lawless society where people might just be bored enough to blow off caps in people that annoy them. Bike riders are the first on the list.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Video game shorts where you see a player of an extremely high skill level navigate a nearly impossible situation that can only be accomplished in a very unique way putting your anxiety through the roof, only to deny you the sense of relief of completion by looping the short again the very millisecond the gamer successfully completes the nearly impossible task. Super Mario Maker is by far the most popular medium for this content, but other games are used for this as well. If the audience is on the edge of their seats for 90 seconds, let them enjoy 10 seconds of decompression.

This is something that affects TIHYDPs as well. The compiler will show DSP fucking up a simple puzzle for 10 minutes but cut out the part where he beats it at last. I get that TIHYDP is about Phil fucking up but if you devote so much of the video to a single part you could at least show him beating it.

 

[Sean_Igger]

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.

The bastard offspring of this are workers calling each other "work husbands/wives." Like what? Are you retards coed high schoolers?

 

[Captain Syrup]

When I was riding my bike to work in a rural-ish suburb, well, drivers let you know how much they hated you.

I’m ready to scream at cyclists but on the other hand, I’m stuck in this concrete jungle where the bike lanes look like they were designed by someone who hates both bicycles and common sense equally.

You’d think the countryside would be a cycling paradise, right? My theory is the bike represents a silent killer of energy industries, which small towns have been clinging to for decades.

 

[Jace on ice]

Ghetto/white trash trying in vain to get their 13 invalid credit cards to not get declined while I stand in line with my one or two items wasting my life.

Get the fuck out of line you poor piece of shit, that's your 12th declined card, you have no shekels!

 

[Rick Nekieta]

The bastard offspring of this are workers calling each other "work husbands/wives." Like what? Are you retards coed high schoolers?

Even the steel manned, best case scenario of a "work spouse" is such a fundamentally disgusting concept because it unionizes home life and work life in an unholy abomination of work over all. We work hard SO we can play hard or enjoy a tranquil home life. The role of a spouse and a coworker are so diametrically opposed that anyone who merges the concept can just have their perspective discarded.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Ghetto/white trash trying in vain to get their 13 invalid credit cards to not get declined while I stand in line with my one or two items wasting my life.

Get the fuck out of line you poor piece of shit, that's your 12th declined card, you have no shekels!

Even worse, they act shocked about it. Or they say "yeah I didn't think there was any money on that card" WHY DID YOU EVEN TRY

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

The bastard offspring of this are workers calling each other "work husbands/wives." Like what? Are you retards coed high schoolers?

I've been spared seeing this type of at the least emotional cheating in person. It's so disrespectful and quite insidious. I am glad to see social media trends making fun of it or calling it out increasingly