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

[PaleTay]

Jeets speaking in broken English. "Hello saar I am hoping to connect with you because of your appointment on 22nd April".

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Professionals who act like a normal person can't fix or diy something themselves. They'll hang out in help groups and give really overly detailed autistic answers that to the average Joe doesn't make sense without already having a high level of knowledge in the subject, and the question they're answering is always something like "Where does this piece go on this piece?"

On the flip side, people who give you shit because you had a professional fix something for you especially in an emergency

 

[The Last Stand]

Sorry I don't have the reflexes or time to save EVERY meme I come across. Hell, I say this with anything on the Internet. I find an interesting article or video, Internet refreshes, I cannot find it.

 

[Rave3n]

Writing an effort post on any image board or forum, browsing other pages to pull links relevant to effort post, find everything you need after a bit, go back to the page, your connection lagged for a second and the page refreshes, erasing all my work leaving me holding a now pointless link in hand and 5-20 minutes of my life wasted

IT is the most demoralizing when its in a niche subject and you really cared.
But I ultimately ask myself if its worth spending another 20 minutes rewriting it, and the answer is always No

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

In threads where the idea is to discuss examples, people whose only response is to just name a title and then click "post reply." For example in the "Good Games That Should Never Have Been Made" thread (about good games that led to irritating trends in the industry) there's a lot of people who will just name a game and that's it--not explain why they chose it, which is the whole fucking purpose of the thread.

Ooh, and people who post a video without saying what it is. I don't mean funny reaction videos, but like in politics or music threads. At least give a lead-in, ffs. I've usually got music or something else going, which videos will interrupt, so entice me.

Another one, people who project their own anger onto everyone else. I'm sure we've all had this: you type (or in some cases, speak) something completely innocuous, but then someone else says you're sounding angry or temperamental, and you have zero clue what the hell they mean. Most confusingly, I've seen it happen when the person being accused of "anger" is clearly joking around and having a good time, or the "angry" comment is something that could not possibly be read that way.

Related: people who think objective information is a personal attack.

Writing an effort post on any image board or forum, browsing other pages to pull links relevant to effort post, find everything you need after a bit, go back to the page, your connection lagged for a second and the page refreshes, erasing all my work leaving me holding a now pointless link in hand and 5-20 minutes of my life wasted

IT is the most demoralizing when its in a niche subject and you really cared.
But I ultimately ask myself if its worth spending another 20 minutes rewriting it, and the answer is always No

As a Bona Fide Effort Poster (tm), I feel your pain. I (always usually sometimes) copy all text after every paragraph/ few or when I take a pause to find/ verify some citation, and I paste the copied text to Notes (also a phone poster) or some other app that holds the formatting. And I copy everything before I refresh or switch pages, too, when I remember. So I guess I'm actually a Struggling Bona Fide Extra-Effort Poster (patent pending).

 

[Rave3n]

Ooh, and people who post a video without saying what it is. I don't mean funny reaction videos, but like in politics or music threads

Same way except mostly politics
I'm not clicking random links and I am not debating your YouTube grifter with (you) if an anon can't be bothered to articulate their own argument then I just don't even bother

 

[Rave3n]

copy all text after every paragraph/ few or when I take a pause to find/ verify some citation, and I paste the copied text to Notes

I've had to do this
But sometimes I forget, and that's when internet refresh fairy strikes again

 

[The Fair Lady]

When it's too warm to sleep with a blanket on but too cool to keep a fan on.

 

[Jarl Varg]

Same way except mostly politics
I'm not clicking random links and I am not debating your YouTube grifter with (you) if an anon can't be bothered to articulate their own argument then I just don't even bother

I've had to do this
But sometimes I forget, and that's when internet refresh fairy strikes again

4chan rapefugees who don't know how to use quote, then double, or triple post.

 

[The Last Stand]

Xbox 360/PS3 servers are so fucking unstable. I'm one step away from completing the Mob of the Dead easter egg... game disconnects me from the servers. Not my Internet, the SERVER disconnected me. Two hours wasted.

 

[Lovely Kin]

When they borrow something and return it in a much worse condition. Bonus: They get mad when I won't lend them something after said incident.

 

[Jarl Varg]

When the side effects of medications are worse than what they are treating. 5th blood pressure med in 6 years, still having side effects. At least my BP is down.

 

[Power Ranger Monster]

Accusations of lying and its arrogant subtext. "You believe EXACTLY what I believe, but say differently for reasons."

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

What I found in the office today:

- a dedicated and appropriately labelled drawer filled with empty printer cartridges
- a plastic tub full of clothespins
- two sets of acryl paint
- one set of water colors
- a dedicated and appropriately labelled drawer filled with tiny padlocks
- a sewing set
- a huge plastic container with nothing in it other than an abandoned and lonely-looking wireless mouse without the receiver
- an audio CD with what appeared to be a children's choir singing Christmas carols
- a book of secret insider tips on how to use the registry in Windows 98
- an actual bass drum in one of the storage rooms

What I absolutely didn't find in the office today despite my Herculean efforts:

- a single goddamn Post-It note


What's wrong with this place...

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Working as a blue collar but not being able to tolerate the typical blue collar way of communicating, which is constant jabs at each other and continuous whining about your work. I just want to get the job done without having to listen to your nagging about how upset you are over having to do the work that you're expected to do. The banter I can handle to some degree, but not when it's 80% of the conversation at all times - makes me feel like I'm completely out of place, even if I don't mind the work itself.

 

[Captain Syrup]

It’s easy to forget how batshit the YouTube algorithm is until you’re not logged in. Who is this nightmare buffet for?

 

[AnOminous]

It’s easy to forget how batshit the YouTube algorithm is until you’re not logged in. Who is this nightmare buffet for?

Thanks to here it's even more batshit when I am logged in.

 

[Wednesday Morning's Night]

When it's too warm to sleep with a blanket on but too cool to keep a fan on.

Gotta go with the fan, then add extra blankets if needed to comfort IMO.

My biggest beef right now is seeing skylines of luxury condo towers going up while homeless bleed into suburbs. Nice neighborhoods where people won't leave their 1st floor windows open (with screens) anymore.
Packages stolen from your porch, and even though you have quality video of the theft, you're still out unless you want to go through your insurance and have that cost hiked. The same security your insurance company recommended to have your premiums lowered and coverage "enhanced" is nothing more than an insta tik tok recorder only good for "I'm sorry that happened to (you)'s"

And pineapples. The amount of work it takes to get to the fruit is not worth it in comparison to other fruits from the same regions. Don't even mention buying it pre-cut by the grocer cause I know damn well there's at least one degen at that store who will see that hole in the middle an not hesitate to sodomize my pineapple before selling it to me.

 

[AnOminous]

And pineapples. The amount of work it takes to get to the fruit is not worth it in comparison to other fruits from the same regions.

It's not really that hard. I can do a pineapple in a minute if I don't get obsessive about getting every single trace of the edible part.

 

[Wednesday Morning's Night]

It's not really that hard. I can do a pineapple in a minute if I don't get obsessive about getting every single trace of the edible part.

Done in a minute, I'd probably have half of a Pineapple left at the very best.