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

[Jace on ice]

"Just join da trades!11!" being touted as a panacea to the job crisis. If it worked out for you, great, now be honest and tell 'em about the 2-4 years you spent making less than a McDick's wagie, the 50 carcinogens you've inhaled on the job, and the fact that you have to work around 40-something divorced alcoholics that gossip like 13 year old girls.

I'm not even saying don't do it, I'm saying there's a lot of drawbacks no one tells you about, and it's not gonna be a good fit for a lot of people.

All my dad's peers are either dying or have six figures worth of medical debt to fix bad backs/hips/spines/arthritis and these guys are only in their late 50s/early 60s.

You can make good money in the trades but they are incredibly hard on your body.

 

[vittek]

Thanks, asshole, I now have the coof because your faggot ass thinks you're a manly man for refusing to take sick leave. And I'm probably not the only one you infected thanks to us working in a closed, poorly ventilated, little bitty lab.

Amen to that. Worse, our Boss had the GREAT idea that every worker who hasn't taken a single day of sick leave by the end of the year gets a 500$ bonus.... and it's going exactly as expected with people with the flu, common cold and even lung infections coming to work and infecting everyone. Good job!

 

[Flatline]

Use the BeatFind app. It's good at listening to music and finding the song.

Interesting. Never heard of BeatFind. Shazam has always been the go-to app for song identification, and it works 99% of the time.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

I swipe left on anyone that says they like Marvel movies. I'm middle-aged and I don't date younger.

If your taste consists primarily of Marvel movies, we have nothing to fucking talk about because you have nothing useful or meaningful to say to me.

Both related to this & the thread:
After getting out of a decently long relationship a bit ago, I made the mistake of downloading 2 dating apps at advice from a friend.

Any time I spend more than a minute on either it makes me want to blow my head smooth off.
I know it's my biases & prejudices but I swear eating damp moldy cardboard would be more interesting than talking to the cookie-cutter "Travel, wine & netflix!!" types that make up the vast majority of people on there.

 

[Fyrnite]

You can't get a job without experience; college doesn't GIVE you experience. How do you get experience? GET A JOB. Should be like a lottery program where you take an apprenticeship for a chance to get a job in your field.

Exactly. My advice to younger people starting out in life is to try and get an idea in what you'd want to do in life. You're going to eat some shit jobs one way or another, but you're paving the road with skill and experience that'll pay for itself in a world where experience is demanded. My job resume might be riddled with wage-slave work, but at least it has gotten me to where I cannot go without a job for too long, because someone will pick me due to the experience over someone who is just starting out with nothing. And holding a job for long periods, greatly enhances this.

This kind of shit is what should be taught in schools than just lying to people all of the time and saying just dreaming will get you there. Plans go further than dreams, so map your damn life out a little.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

My advice to younger people starting out in life is to try and get an idea in what you'd want to do in life

The difficult part is introducing the concept of jobs that aren't common or visible. School doesn't help you with this, I know with my generation they still pounded in the "Fireman, cop, doctor or president" mentality and from how fucked up things are today with "Influencer" being a job title I don't think there are many more kids today than in our time(s) that have any idea of what to do.

 

[Ytsuken]

People who won't shut up about whatever sperg video game they like.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I swipe left on anyone that says they like Marvel movies. I'm middle-aged and I don't date younger.

If your taste consists primarily of Marvel movies, we have nothing to fucking talk about because you have nothing useful or meaningful to say to me.

I used to feel this way about people who circlejerked about The Office and "how funny" it was. Thankfully it's dead now.

Thread tax: I fucking hate how every time I go on X, it's a bunch of crypto spam in my DMs, and people only posting engagement farming. Example: "What's your favorite out of all of these things?" or "Which one of these should be removed permanently?". Shit website.

 

[Jarl Varg]

Any company still advertising in spanish should be boycotted.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

YouTube videos in the "Professional game designer explains..." "Character artist examines..." "Professional voice actor reacts..." genre.

Shut the fuck up. Making an indie game that got 15 plays on Steam/hasn't even released, drawing furry art or doing a voice in sub 100 view YouTube videos does not make you anyone with an opinion worth listening to. It's interesting if it's actually someone of who worked on a project with a lasting history, but it's always some nobody who labels every video they release this way when they've contributed literally nothing of note that gives that designation any credibility.

 

[Fyrnite]

People who say stupid shit like "I know this is going to get negative likes" or "I know this opinion is going ruffle some feathers" or in videos "Now I know some of you are going to feel a particular way..."

Shut up and say whatever shitty opinion that you've got to say, who the fuck cares about the feelings of strangers? Who are you exactly trying to appeal? People are going to get offended anyways because you think differently and trying to wear kid gloves to "soften" that blow is not going to make it better.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

YouTube videos in the "Professional game designer explains..." "Character artist examines..." "Professional voice actor reacts..." genre.

Shut the fuck up. Making an indie game that got 15 plays on Steam/hasn't even released, drawing furry art or doing a voice in sub 100 view YouTube videos does not make you anyone with an opinion worth listening to. It's interesting if it's actually someone of who worked on a project with a lasting history, but it's always some nobody who labels every video they release this way when they've contributed literally nothing of note that gives that designation any credibility.

Lmao. The best is the channel 'Game makers tool kit'

He's never made a game. Yet he's super pretentious

 

[Bunny Tracks]

People who go out of their way to be edgy assholes. And I don't even mean the normal ones. I mean the obviously tryhard ones that are basically larping as a shitty version of the Joker.

 

[The Last Stand]

When people go a preamble before getting to the point. I don't need to hear your life story, just tell me what's happening and what you want/need.

 

[Fyrnite]

People who go out of their way to be edgy assholes. And I don't even mean the normal ones. I mean the obviously tryhard ones that are basically larping as a shitty version of the Joker.

Funny you mention that because that was actually my impression of KiwiFarms for the longest time. Every time I glimpsed at the site before registering, I just saw everyone saying 'nigger', 'retard' and some profile pictures with hitler and other controversial things. It to me felt like this place was a band of nothing but edgelords who hadn't grown out of their angsty teenage phase from high school who still find all of this shit funny for edginess sake.

But it appears, after registering and spending a few months here, everyone more or less is as they are. Normal human beings with maybe a little tilt to their persona, who are allowed to finally say what they really want to say because social media in general has gone on a sanitizing crusade to "purify" how we engage online. After being on places like Reddit, Facebook and all them, it's a breath of fresh air to get all of those feelings out since you can't get away with much anymore on them.

Though I get what you mean, if you're still doing all of the things I listed in unironic fashion, then you truly have not grown up.

 

[Captain Syrup]

EXECUTIVE: Jenkins, baby. We got a problem. Focus groups hated the poster for Batman. Said it was “too coherent.” We need something bolder. Louder. Dumber. I’m talking so dumb it makes people question if they still know what movies are.

JENKINS: Okay, so like... Batman in front?

STUDIO EXEC: NO! Put EVERYONE in the front. Batman, Robin, Two-Face, Riddler, Nicole Kidman. Stack ‘em like it’s a Jenga tower about to sue us.

JENKINS (writing furiously): Got it. Bad composition. No focal point.

STUDIO EXEC: Now drench it in green. Not stylish green. Mountain Dew green. But make "Batman" extra huge, like it's yelling at the viewer. Make it look like Batman’s about to guest star in Saved By The Bell.

JENKINS: And the tagline?

STUDIO EXEC: “Courage. Truth. Forever " Or whatever. Just make sure it’s dumb.

 

[Lovely Kin]

When they choose the urinal next to me and try talking. Go the fuck away.

 

[Ytsuken]

People who watched and talk about Minecraft or the Minecraft Movie.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

This shitty AI cover of starship troopers that Kindle uses

 

[ToroidalBoat]

People who watched and talk about Minecraft or the Minecraft Movie.

I still recall when that vidya was this odd cube-y thing played by older guys.

Now a few years a decade or so later and it's really popular with little kids?