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

[teriyakiburns]

This one is very specific. There's an old road near me that is quite narrow and that gets even narrower for part of its length, down to a single lane. Basically a country track that identifies as a main road and got highway-affirming tarmac at some point in the past. It's on a hill, with good visibility, so the usual behaviour for two-way traffic is that cars at one end will give way while cars from the other end pass, until a small queue has formed. Then the cars at the other end will wait for that queue to pass and vice-versa. Everyone seems to understand it, local or not. Sometimes you get a moron who sees a car stopping at one end and decides to pass him because he obviously deserves to go first and shouldn't be made to wait, but generally people prefer to do it properly. The one thing that you have to do is make sure you're waiting far enough back for oncoming cars to pass you.

Every so often you get a retard, who despite seeing traffic already on the narrow part of the road when he reaches his end of the narrow spot, continues pushing forwards until he realises just how very narrow the road is. Then he will sit there, almost blocking the passing point, with some combination of smug and angry expressions on his fat, stupid face as everyone slowly tries to squeeze past him, while he occasionally jerks his car forward another couple of inches and flails at his horn like a complete mong because the five or six cars ahead of him haven't all collectively decided to reverse back down the road to let his house-sized electric go cart can zoom the way he wants.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Red blinkers. Less contrast, cheaper for the auto maker, overall garbage. Fuck anyone with red blinkers. THEY SHOULD BE AMBER YOU FUCKING CHEAP BASTARDS

Where on earth do they not have yellow indicators?

I hate to give the guy a shout out since he's teetering on the edge of cowdom, but Technology Connections actually made an episode ranting about this.

https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA?si=lGSc09t8TX4GfeMX

Granted it's from the perspective of a smug, "America bad" Reddit-tier libtard, but a broken clock is still right twice a day.

Tax: it pisses me off the amount of people online assuming brazilians speak spanish

Well duh, they speak Brazilian.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

This is an extension of a previous grievance I made about the punitive and excessive nature of a (relatively) newer credit rating practice where they no longer only take the last 3 years of payments into account, but have now extended it to the last 7 years. The aforementioned post is here, I will not retread the arguments.

To add to these arguments, it bears noting that I could break a store window in the middle of the night, steal 20,000 dollars worth of property, record my crime and, if I went unfound for 3 years and a day, I could provide notarized evidence of my grand larceny alongside video evidence while taking out a full page in the newspaper documenting my crime in terrific and vivid detail, and I could not be charged because statute of limitations expires after three years. Statutes of limitations are a holdover from when crimes were prosecuted with paper records and digital records either did not exist, or were too onerous to keep for years or decades on end. Despite the fact that evidence retention, preservation and archiving technologies have grown at leaps and bounds, the legislation is a holdover from a less technologically advanced world. However, the same holdover doesn't apply to "on time payment status" as now a late payment is on your record for as long as a bankruptcy is, seven years. If Adam knocked over a store in Jan of '22 and Bill didn't settle his Nov '21 bill until Jan of '22, I know which one I want let off the hook. They are more concerned with someone being 35 days (or even 59 days) late in their payment than an actual criminal.

 

[Guiron]

Teammates in War Thunder who seem to actively refuse to play the objective, yet still get pissed off when they inevitably lose the round, especially if they try to act like it's my fault we lost the game even though I was the only person capping points and destroying bases and/or AI targets while they were busy ramming into each other and fighting to steal kills against the other team. The game tells you what you're meant to be doing - if one team doesn't manage to do what the game says, and the other team does, then the team that did not achieve the objective loses. It's pretty fucking simple.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Mindy Kahling - The walking face of the H1B, the kwayne of wokeness, shits on the thing that made her wealthy the same way she shits in the streets, ugly, vapid, fat, most likely has a terrible aroma and is just an all around smug and insufferable bitch. That bitch is the reason I struggle with hypertension.

 

[internet friend]

When grown adults still don't understand the concept of an "inside voice". I don't care if "you're excited", you're a fucking grown up, that's not excuse to yell at someone less than a metre away from you in a quiet room. I could understand a little kid doing this, but come on.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Businesses that allow bums to just loiter and harass people. I went to a Dunks to meet a friend so I could pay back a loan, and there's some asshole outside begging for change. He absolutely stank of piss, I could smell it approaching the door. He asked me, too, and I made a show of pinching my nose when I said no. I just hate them, they're fucking everywhere.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Businesses that allow bums to just loiter and harass people. I went to a Dunks to meet a friend so I could pay back a loan, and there's some asshole outside begging for change. He absolutely stank of piss, I could smell it approaching the door. He asked me, too, and I made a show of pinching my nose when I said no. I just hate them, they're fucking everywhere.

Yeah or the ones that "play" music right by the entrance.

Anyway thread tax: people who don't remove their clothes from the dryer/washer and let it sit in there for hours while you're standing there, waiting for the dumb cunts to get their shit.

Excuse me, does it offend you to set a timer? Why is this concept so foreign to anyone but fucking me in this place?

I could dry it inside the apartment except the fact that it's prohibited as it increases the risk of mold and I don't want to risk that.

I could remove it but I've already tried some asshole getting in my face because of it. Jesus Christ.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Yeah or the ones that "play" music right by the entrance.

Anyway thread tax: people who don't remove their clothes from the dryer/washer and let it sit in there for hours while you're standing there, waiting for the dumb cunts to get their shit.

Excuse me, does it offend you to set a timer? Why is this concept so foreign to anyone but fucking me in this place?

I could dry it inside the apartment except the fact that it's prohibited as it increases the risk of mold and I don't want to risk that.

I could remove it but I've already tried some asshole getting in my face because of it. Jesus Christ.

The best possible resolution to this dilemma I can offer is to record the dormant machine for *at least* a 5 minute time period to show that the cycle completed (you did not prematurely end a cycle) and that ample time existed for the appropriate party to move their clothes. If you have five minutes or more of inactivity prior to your clothes removal, you have evidence to protect you from malicious retaliation from the aggrieved party. Another means of self-protection, which admittedly is something of a dick move but possibly necessary, is to contact the super or laundromat owner (I gather the super applies to your situation, but laundromat manager/employee/owner in the case of a laundromat) and request that a third uninvolved party free up the machine for your use, protecting yourself from "keep your hands off my clothes pervert" claims. Perhaps talk to management and get a hard and fast rule regarding how long the user has to clear the machine. Arguments exist for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes or 20 minutes, but getting an official policy on the wall would protect the person forced to move washing machine/dryer contents. Request/demand video footage that resolves who was in the wrong (did someone hijack a cycle or act too soon or did the party in the wrong make a malicious complaint?)

This is one situation where it is fully justifiable to go full Karen or Ken because it really is a reasonable request for a 10 minute limit on contents in dormant machines. I say 10 minutes because this gives you 5 minutes to shit and 5 minutes to get to the machine. If I were the super, this would be my policy. MAYBE, I would make it 15 TOPS. But yeah, absent an ambulance level emergency, there is no reason to get contents out of a dormant machine in 15 minutes
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Thread Tax: People who objectively lie to you (I am not talking deception, I am talking making abject false statements while knowing they are false) despite the fact that you have the means to fact check their story, then proceed to argue why the third party who busted their lie is either lying or unreliable. More generally, this can be extended to "people who attempt to win arguments by attrition rather than truth." They just want to frustrate you til you let it go.

 

[Sean_Igger]

Managers/executives who bring their young children to work and let them wander around. Their employees are supposed to be babysitters but without the pay I guess? What a liability and distraction that is. The parents would be on the hook in the end if something happened to them but these are the types who would take it out on their employees regardless.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

The laundry issue eventually fixed itself. I went out there and decided to give him ten minutes.
Mind you, extra ten minutes at 3-ish hours.

He came and told me that it's fine if I moved his clothes so I didn't have to stand and wait.

The best possible resolution to this dilemma I can offer is to record the dormant machine for *at least* a 5 minute time period to show that the cycle completed (you did not prematurely end a cycle) and that ample time existed for the appropriate party to move their clothes. If you have five minutes or more of inactivity prior to your clothes removal, you have evidence to protect you from malicious retaliation from the aggrieved party.

I am really bad at giving them ample time. I give them around an hour but after that, I expect the clothes to be gone. Unfortunately people don't really consider that and will be absolute shits to you or consider it rude that you just didn't wait.

For reasons.

Perhaps talk to management and get a hard and fast rule regarding how long the user has to clear the machine. Arguments exist for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes or 20 minutes, but getting an official policy on the wall would protect the person forced to move washing machine/dryer contents.

This is one I've honestly considered. Even suggesting we get a second dryer. We actually used to have one but after we changed payment systems, they just randomly scrapped the second dryer and now there's only one.

It creates problems.

Thread tax: In the vein of everything above, fucking social anxiety. What a bitch.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

The laundry issue eventually fixed itself. I went out there and decided to give him ten minutes.
Mind you, extra ten minutes at 3-ish hours.

He came and told me that it's fine if I moved his clothes so I didn't have to stand and wait.

I am really bad at giving them ample time. I give them around an hour but after that, I expect the clothes to be gone. Unfortunately people don't really consider that and will be absolute shits to you or consider it rude that you just didn't wait.

For reasons.

This is one I've honestly considered. Even suggesting we get a second dryer. We actually used to have one but after we changed payment systems, they just randomly scrapped the second dryer and now there's only one.

It creates problems.

Thread tax: In the vein of everything above, fucking social anxiety. What a bitch.

If it were up to me, the timer would start at completion of cycle and be constrained to 15 minutes. The only thing that can't be planned an hour in advance is when you use the toilet and that should be constrained to 10 minutes. Add 5 minutes to access the laundry room and that is the basis of the 15 minute grace period. Otherwise you are depriving others of a resource and the machine owner of revenue by being inconsiderate of others. The super/landlord/whatever needs to put up a 15 minute policy that starts at the moment the signage is posted. Previous offenses would get amnesty, due to lack of previously disclosed policy, but future offenses would get none. I would put a camera in the room to resolve any disputes of "he/she stopped the cycle early" or "he/she advanced my timer while the machine was in operation, therefore depriving me of a full cycle and framing me for an offense for which I was not guilty." Let a camera be the arbiter of honesty.

An hour is FOUR TIMES what I would consider "reasonable time." This idea of "I'll start a 60 minute dryer cycle and then proceed to run 4 hours worth of errands" has to go. Your grievance is righteous. It is on your landlord to accommodate reasonable access to lease negotiated services. Start nicely and be increasingly insistent as the situation escalates.

Thread tax: If you are posting a Youtube vid on the Farms as the answer to the thread question, place a description of the vid (Artist and Song Title) if the vid's thumbnail says "proceed to Youtube to watch this vid." I am genuinely interested in the answer to the question, make the answer attainable without having to leave the site. Conversely, I often provide *only* artist and title with no attached link, some people might have negative feelings about that, so I might not have the high horse.

 

[Nick Obre]

These motherfuckers with names like "Yosmarydelacaridad" and I copied and pasted that because that was my store's delivery driver's name. Where and how the fuck do these kind of names come to fruition?

Venezuela.

And it's not so weird. Yosmary is the strangest part, but Venezuelans (and similar) like to make up names like that. De La Caridad is the surname, which in my experience is kinda unusual and even rather old-fashioned. But if it's your family name, what are you gonna do? It means "Of Charity" by the way.

It's nothing compared to the nigger names I've seen from the uNigger States of America. Fucking Laquansha, Shaketa, L'Jarius (Sneed).

 

[DenseDeerFather]

It's nothing compared to the nigger names I've seen from the uNigger States of America. Fucking Laquansha, Shaketa, L'Jarius (Sneed).

When you miss the days of Tyrone and Shaniqua.

PL probably but being something between first and second gen immigrant, my name is quite different compared to the natives. I think reading what other people call their kids makes me feel better about my name.

I think in that same vein, I can't help but raise a brow at people who purposely misspell names to be more unique. Sure, your kid is still named Riley but you look like an attention-starved whore when you change it to Ryelee or whatever.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

I was recently on a road trip through South Dakota, where highways often go up to 80 mph. I noticed that NO semis went over 75. I am NOT mad at the semis. I thought about why that might be. Most likely, there is a company policy that demands they drive at optimum speed for resource conservation. Most likely, 75 mph is the ideal speed for fuel consumption. Whatever level of fuel is required to travel 80 is a greater cost than the "lost time" (Effectively turning 5 hours of driving into 5 hours and 20 minutes of driving). Now, the most disturbing part about this practice is the panopticon that not only the semi-drivers, but all of us live under. If that semi-driver gets a heavy foot and that speed hits 76, it is almost certainly logged via sattelite in a remote database somewhere, alerting their employer and/or the owner of the semi/semi's contents about the speed.

I hate living in a world where we are always watched and documented. Yes, I am aware of the web site on which I am posting. But rebel spirits are quashed by this excessive surveillance, whether public or private, and that's just bullshit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Having a sore throat can make eating hurt, which can mean going through much cough drops and/or sore throat spray. Yet another reason I don't like this endless "winter" BS.

What's even more BS is if a canker sore joins in on the "fun" too.

Eating can be a painful ordeal without medicine. Also, that is BS.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

What's even more BS is if a canker sore joins in on the "fun" too.

Eating can be a painful ordeal without medicine. Also, that is BS.

I find pasta to be the best food to consume during a sore throat because it has the triple properties of wet, soft and warm (let's not be perverts here). At least temporarily, it suppresses the symptoms of a tight, constricted or irritated throat. And down Nyquil or Dayquil every 6 hours to at least lessen symptoms. I am downing Nyquil at bedtime despite not being sick to help me sleep and calm my throat, as it heals from not smoking at the end of the night. I had a sore throat from illness a couple of weeks back and now it is constantly irritated because I am going in and out of smoking. Paradoxically, the first few days after not smoking leads to incredibly irritated throat and lungs, as well as nasty outbreaks of heartburn that are not easily treated.

Thread tax: When you no longer enjoy something that you used to love because you had to use it to get through a tough time in your life and now you associate it with your tough time. Case in point: Road House. I no longer can achieve escapism through Road House because it reminds me of a shit time in my life.

 

[McMitch]

Tyrone

Tyrone is an actual name, and heralds to the Irish immigrant roots of modern American black culture.

 

[Captain Syrup]

When grown adults still don't understand the concept of an "inside voice". I don't care if "you're excited", you're a fucking grown up, that's not excuse to yell at someone less than a metre away from you in a quiet room. I could understand a little kid doing this, but come on.

I've got the opposite gripe. It's become a damned struggle to make sense of Gen Z. They speak in this nonchalant murmur, as if they’re too cool or too disinterested to bother raising their voices.

I notice it a lot at work, especially when they're not super into what they're saying. Totally get it, but with the air conditioners blasting and the noise from the computers, I need you to speak up, or else I’m gonna have to ask you three times and probably still not get it.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I've got the opposite gripe. It's become a damned struggle to make sense of Gen Z. They speak in this nonchalant murmur, as if they’re too cool or too disinterested to bother raising their voices.

Similarly, when they use a bunch of random ass slang and you're like "What in the name of Satan's diluted asshole did you just say?"

And then they act like you're the stupid one for not using Tiktok as a dictionary or whatever.