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

[Larry Poster]

Niggers

 

[internet friend]

More and more I've seen recently people complaining about people/opinions that don't seem to exist. It's getting more frequent that in the comments of something I will see a million comments saying "XYZ people getting so mad, fighting for their lives in the comments" but not even one comment from XYZ people.
I've found this especially prevalent with anti-AI people who will talk bucketloads of shit about AI-people stereotypes that I have never seem to come across. Is this just some advanced form of shadowboxing?

 

[Local Fed]

More and more I've seen recently people complaining about people/opinions that don't seem to exist.

Is this just some advanced form of shadowboxing?

It's just more strawmanning and team sports. You see it from everything from politics to literal team sports and everything in between. It'll to evoke a reaction, no different than a salacious headline.

It's like you're watching the person who is watching the person that's supposedly tilting at a windmill, except the person who's supposedly attempting to fight something often isn't or is having their intentions severely misinterpreted, dishonestly or otherwise..

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Non-committal communication (polite deflection/diplomatic dodging/corporate speak/professional ghosting/whatever else it's called).

Absolutely hate that shit. If you disagree with what I have to say then fucking say so instead of vaguely implying that you do but not currently. Worst case scenario is when you get this stuff coming from relatives and not just some randos in a business setting of some sort. I'd have a lot more respect for people if they were more blunt with what they mean rather than leaving you hanging with false hopes like that.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Youtube commentators whose stupid little toys are prominently displayed. You're an adult, presumably, so act like it.

 

[pyrinyx]

More and more I've seen recently people complaining about people/opinions that don't seem to exist. It's getting more frequent that in the comments of something I will see a million comments saying "XYZ people getting so mad, fighting for their lives in the comments" but not even one comment from XYZ people.
I've found this especially prevalent with anti-AI people who will talk bucketloads of shit about AI-people stereotypes that I have never seem to come across. Is this just some advanced form of shadowboxing?

People want to just bitch all of the time, it is what they're capable of. So if there's nothing there for them to bitch about and to bitch to, they'll just take a dump of their opinions that nobody asked to hear or read. And this gets multiplied by similarly minded people until you have a colossal trainwreck of everyone firing all sorts of bitching and even catching eachother in the crossfire that starts infighting, all over things that didn't exist.

Thread Tax:

People who think they're holier than thou because they cancelled their subscription like Prime for boycott purposes. The reasons they always list start with "Wow! I realized that I didn't need it when I was just buying things because I could!11" No, what you're really saying is that you have absolutely poor impulse control, so you buy shit out of boredom and subscribe to things out of boredom too. They all do this for brownie points when they unsubscribe from things like Prime and whatever because they have the feel-feels for causes they probably wouldn't do shit about so they settle on the bare minimum.

It doesn't make you look bold or anything, just makes you look stupid and wasteful. Also another thing, you can't entirely cut out convenience from your life, you're going to need it one way or another when you're tightly managing things around you. I shop at places near me, even when I disagree with the corporate way of how they handle things. I take advantage of Prime when I'm offered my 100th 30-day trial, because it's there and I may never know if I'm going to want something right here and soon.

It's just, I'm better at handling my money than most of these fucks who do this shit and know when it is time to be an opportunist.

 

[Flatline]

I fucking hate teenagers. This isn't even an age thing; it's with how reckless, inconsiderate, messy and arrogant they are.

Giving them access to smartphones and the internet was a mistake.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

There should be a law against linking to reddit, YouTube or Google without warning. Thanks for giving my browser AIDS, faggot.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

More and more I've seen recently people complaining about people/opinions that don't seem to exist. It's getting more frequent that in the comments of something I will see a million comments saying "XYZ people getting so mad, fighting for their lives in the comments" but not even one comment from XYZ people.
I've found this especially prevalent with anti-AI people who will talk bucketloads of shit about AI-people stereotypes that I have never seem to come across. Is this just some advanced form of shadowboxing?

Let me tell you a thing. If I had a billion dollars and I wanted to influence people I would do it by "fact checking" claims my organization just made up. I've often seen something similar(accident? intentional?) going on with the fact checkers on the google news feed. They DEBUNK! the other sides claims that so-and-so is true because of a "viral" or "widely spread" Facebook post with 200 likes. This creates the idea that the other side believes in all kinds of crazy boomer shit, so you don't want to associate yourself with the larger 'them'. Even if it's just some absurd bullshit with 200 likes on Facebook, because fact checkers sell it like this is currently a common opinion among that group you don't like.

So if I had money I would start and promote a service like that and really get it out there. Then from time to time just make shit up, attribute it to opinion-opponents, then debunk it because whatever I made up is obviously not true. But people would get the impression that some people actually believe and say the bullshit I made up. This doesn't create new votes for whatever political party I affiliate with, it keeps "my" voters from moving to the opposing party that I'm soft targeting by fact-checking bullshit.

 

[Verpa Teutonica Ingens]

I hate that people keep sending me the wrong mail. USPS tells me to write "not at this address" on them and put them in the mailbox, but I still get them sent back.

Just throw it in the trash. If it's not important enough for the sender to send to the right address, then it's not important enough for you to care about.

 

[pyrinyx]

Giving them access to smartphones and the internet was a mistake.

And damn the parents for enabling it. I had just gotten into an argument an hour ago, because some mother was complaining to me about how I talked down their 17-year old. She was whining about "they're still a child! and you're saying nasty comments to them!". It's like lady, that child needs to know sooner than never, about what happens when they run their mouth, they can't be expecting shit not to come back to them. I'm not going to sit here, and take whatever that little shit has to say. Besides, they aren't a child anymore, they're a teenager, one last step before adulthood.

They're going to walk into a world and one day, run into more people who're not going to take their shit. I am the least of their problems, but I am the first of the welcoming committee that said "I'm not going to take your shit, sit the fuck down you entitled little fuck". Mommy and Daddy aren't going to be around to protect their little 'champion' from what people say about them and to them.

All teenagers and children online in general has truly contributed in degrading the internet. It seems like some of us are the last of a generation online, where if you're going to call me a faggot, I'm going to call you a faggot back. And we'll just spend all day calling eachother faggot and going below the belt word jousting until someone is tired or someone steps in to stop. You can't do that with these fuckers these days, they just expect you to take it when they bring it, but break down like a figure made of glass when you dish it back. Quick to report, quick to run to their nest and complain to their parents or their shitty friends.

 

[DavidS877]

Just throw it in the trash. If it's not important enough for the sender to send to the right address, then it's not important enough for you to care about.

If the mail isn't First Class or marked "Return Service Requested" or "Electronic Service" then the post office is probably going to toss it anyway.

 

[Made In Wales]

Anybody who begins a sentence with 'So'.

I hope you get raped by Jimmy Savile's rancid demon rape dick.

 

[Captain Syrup]

So, in an act which I can only describe as self-vandalism I watched the new Night Court. Wendie Malick? Again? Apparently no bad sitcom can exist without her. She wasn’t funny on Just Shoot Me. She was a charisma vacuum on Frasier. Hot in Cleveland made Betty White like like Meryl Streep by comparison. And now she's here, like some kind of network TV grim reaper. So why does she keep getting work? Is this for the blue-haired bingo crowd?

And by the way everything I just said can also be applied to Katey Sagal. Glee, Big Bang Theory, One Piece, The Connors—the woman keeps showing up like a firmware update you didn’t ask for.

 

[Lovely Kin]

People who fuck with elderly people and think it's funny. Leave them alone.

 

[The-Mad-Asshatter]

More and more I've seen recently people complaining about people/opinions that don't seem to exist. It's getting more frequent that in the comments of something I will see a million comments saying "XYZ people getting so mad, fighting for their lives in the comments" but not even one comment from XYZ people.

I think people like to dramatize online things for excitement, because their real lives are pretty boring.

I've found this especially prevalent with anti-AI people who will talk bucketloads of shit about AI-people stereotypes that I have never seem to come across. Is this just some advanced form of shadowboxing?

I think it's the obnoxious AI fanboying and whiteknighting that leads to it, not everyone wants AI but it's fanboys act as if such opinions are held by knuckle dragging Luddites who are 'afraid' of progress. When in reality the fanboys can come off as out of touch dreamers who want everything to be connected to and in service to The Machine.

And damn the parents for enabling it.

You can thank the people who thought up the term 'digital natives' that endorsed kids and teens being in places they don't belong.

 

[jray4559]

Modern appliances and also them not coming with any real manuals.

Family just got a brand new oven installed to replace the old ass one that's been chugging along for 10 years and starting to break. This new oven comes with one of those glass flat-tops, which means that you can't set something that just came out of the oven on an unused burner like I've been used to doing (setting something hot on the oven top at all could break it), which means now I have to have a cooling rack next to it all the time, that's one little annoyance.

Second little annoyance is the control panel, specifically the numbers. The old one was a nice simple green that worked perfectly and wasn't too bright, the new one is those awful blue color that all electronics seem to have nowadays that's ultra-bright and annoys the shit out of me. Oh, and now instead of simple beeps it plays a ditty when I press buttons for no real reason.

But the third annoyance, and the worst by far, is that it didn't come with any proper manual that actually explains any of the features that the oven has. The new oven does come with a little book that is called a manual in three languages, but 99% of that is dedicated to telling you how to install it (which didn't matter because we had the delivery people from the store install it) and it doesn't even try to explain anything about how to actually use the thing. Only when I go to the manufacturer website and type the model number in do I luckily find a small PDF that actually properly explains what the buttons are. I shouldn't have to have an internet connection and go through a whole easter egg hunt just to learn what the Lasagna button does. (Yes, it has a Lasagna button. No, I probably won't use it)

And this is a relatively cheap (sub $1000 US) oven that doesn't have Wi-Fi like an increasing number of them do. If I ever have to connect my oven or dishwasher or anything else to the internet to use its basic features I'm gonna go out and choke someone. Half of the supposed conveniences in modern appliance stuff are simply just less convenient than the old less fancy ways it was before. It's the same kind of thing as touchscreens in cars. Fuck modern technology.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

This new oven comes with one of those glass flat-tops, which means that you can't set something that just came out of the oven on an unused burner like I've been used to doing (setting something hot on the oven top at all could break it), which means now I have to have a cooling rack next to it all the time, that's one little annoyance.

Wait, you are instructed not to put hot items from the oven on to the glass flat-top stove elements?

I can see a theoretical possibility that placing a supernova item coming out of oven directly on to the room temperature glass could cause thermal cracking like a car's windshield.

But "Don't put hot things on the stovetop" seems pretty kek.

I find the modern glass flat-top stove surfaces very dangerous wrt burning oneself compared to the raised coiled ones.

The painted on element rings stay hot forever. There's also very little to tell you if they remain hot once shut off besides some useless "Hot Surface" LED indicator on the Stove clock face.

As you said, the flat glass stovetop is just a natural surface to place things and act as a working area to move all sorts of things around. But the lack of differentiation between element & neutral areas, along with hot vs not hot is an accident waiting to happen.

Another example of a change in design that wasn't need or asked for but creates new problems.

I also find the glass stovetops somehow harder to keep clean ironically.

Things spill and burn on the glass and are surprisingly hard to scour. The finish on the glass also seems cheap, as wear marks start appearing way earlier than they should.

Finally, the glass surface doesn't clean well. When wiping it down, if one doesn't specifically pat it dry, it ends up with awful streak marks that look worse than when it wasn't clean.

 

[The Hardest R]

Wendie Malick

She’s the female Ted McGinley. Ted is best known for showing up on shitty sitcoms or the tail end of a once popular sitcom that is no longer back in the 80s and 90s. He acknowledges this and jokes about it. I have no idea if Wendie does as well.

People who fuck with elderly people and think it's funny. Leave them alone.

This extends to people unable to defend themselves in general as well as animals. The quality of a person is how the treat old people, animals, or people like waiters.

 

[The Strongest Haaton]

USPS is constantly late when delivering things I send. And when dealing with some official things, a lot of places use PO Boxes, which can only be done by USPS. If you use a different carrier, they just drop it off to USPS. This generally wouldn't be all that bad since I don't typically send things at the last minute. But 3 separate times in the last half year they've misplaced the mail I sent for a month+. I'm so fucking pissed at them not being able to do anything. They have a system you can enroll in to get them to search for a potentially lost package, and it never once led to anything. One single time when I called to complain, they got off their asses and "happened" to find it a day after. I would use anything else if I could.