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

It's not a "current year" term, but I haven't been able to find the thread for linguistic pet peeves for some reason, so I'll post it here to get it ofd my mind: "whenever" instead of "when," for events that have been completed and aren't being done again.
"Whenever I go to the store, I buy tp" is fine, "Whenever it was that I went to the store, I got tp, I don't remember if it was Thursday or Friday" is fine, "Whenever I walked down that street, there was a smell, I'm glad I don't go that way anymore" is fine.
"Whenever I lived in that city [where I lived once for a fixed time and am not returning], my parents came to visit me and they hated my flat" makes no sense and it should be "when."
I've only ever heard white Americans say this, regardless of class or regional origin. If anyone has any insight why they say this, I'd be really interested to know.
 
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Anthony Bourdain
I don't know why, I just hate Anthony Bourdain. He has the Epstein phenotype and he reads as a pedo/rapist. His fans are annoying and act like he was Gandhi or something.

Hinttitroniikka said:
It's not a "current year" term, but I haven't been able to find the thread for linguistic pet peeves for some reason, so I'll post it here to get it ofd my mind: "whenever" instead of "when," for events that have been completed and aren't being done again.
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Wendigoon does this constantly. Maybe it's an appalachian thing.
 
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I have a colleague who always smugly points out pronunciation mistakes to others, even though he is not fluent in English himself. Oftentimes his corrections are plain wrong as well and it drives me up the fucking wall.
Sometimes I get petty and send him the right pronunciations, but that gives me only 5 seconds of satisfaction, I want to strangle him though.
 
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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.
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Sad but true, this goes for anything these days. Somebody illegally dumped a sofa so I filled out the county's online form. Filled it out again with stronger language a week later. Then a washer and dryer showed up plus some other junk. I hate confrontation but I finally called. Really nice guy. Uh huh uh huh. Real swamped. Understaffed. Yup. Okay thanks.
Next day there's some county guys with reflective vests loading the shit into a truck.

... maybe I shouldn't do my job either, not until random citizens call me.
 
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When you go to take a nice long shit, but your peace and quiet is disrupted by some dumbass blasting tiktok slop videos in the stall next to you...especially if half of it is politics related.
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More like going to a public restroom and hearing somebody taking a shit or making noise.
 
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People who wear cologne to the gym, especially the ones who reapply it. All it does is make sure I smell your sweat instead of having it blend into the background like everyone else's, and sometimes it really lingers.
 
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Modern appliances and also them not coming with any real manuals.
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I'll do you one better: modern appliances that want you to connect them to the internet.
We all know why they do it: data collection.

And since we're talking appliances: electric stoves. I don't mean induction stoves. Those are great if you already have steel and cast iron pans. I mean electric stoves. They are, hands down, the worst fucking thing when it comes to cooking. Imagine driving but your accelerator only allows for coasting along or redlining your engine. The second I'm done paying off my car, an getting an induction stove since I don't wanna set up a gas line to the kitchen.
 
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Pretty much everything in the last couple days.

I get home, put the car in the garage and get out and something is clicking, loudly. I first thought it was the car EV charger but I turned that breaker off. Turns out one of the ceiling Z-Wave outlets that control the garage lights had a seizure, reset the circuit, still fucking clicking. So first thing this morning I got to rip it out and put in a regular outlet, and if I want it controlled I'll get a controllable Z-Wave plug. Then replaced one of the GFCI outlets that had also died. Then replaced the Z-Wave wall controller which controls the garage lights since it never worked right, new one is still doing the same shit. I love the concept of Z-Wave but the execution is crap. Will fix it again later.

So, then I go to use the string trimmer in the yard, get about half way done and I run out of string on the head. The new string things you don't just unscrew and wrap more line around it, you actually wind it on, and it's "easier", yea, not today. So I go to mow instead. Hit the first hill and the mower quits. Figure maybe it's a low oil shutoff, but it doesn't have one. Finally figure it's probably water from sitting in an uninsulated shed and getting condensation. Too lazy to figure out how to drain the bowl so I just run it and shake it until it runs rough and let it work it out.

Hopefully nothing explodes when I try and wash the car tomorrow and do more mowing.
 
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I want to punch the dipshit who keeps leaving shitty sitcoms on in the break room tv. I hate nearly all sitcoms and they never got better. Right now they left the tv on to 2 Broke Girls or whatever it is called. Stupid unfunny shit and has every sitcom stereotype you can imagine.

They play the audience laughing clip every other line to a weak joke. They play audience reaction clips to everything. This appeals to soulless and humorless people and I guess the person who left it on is one too.
 
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