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

[The Last Stand]

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.

Oh my God, that's why I hate sitcoms. Don't tell me when something is funny. I should decide that.

 

[xertruglia]

If you've ever made one of those ai ghibli pictures and made it your icon or presented it to everyone as if it's something interesting I immediately think of you as some 90iq blobfish-type person

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

People who are working with customers that have AirPods / earphones in one ear.

 

[Lovely Kin]

The infantilization of society and how many have Peter Pan syndrome.

 

[Flatline]

When I see furniture on the sidewalk with "free" written on a piece of paper attached to it. No shit it's free. It's on the fuckin sidewalk, discarded.

This is true in most cases. However, some people discard furniture on the sidewalk because they scheduled bulk disposal with the town or city. If the bulk removers come and there's nothing to remove, there have been cases the person who booked the reservation gets hit with a fine.

People who are working with customers that have AirPods / earphones in one ear.

I've come around to foreign drivers having an earpiece to talk to whomever on the phone, so long as they get me to my destination as quickly as possible and they don't make awkward small talk.

 

[Nick Obre]

I know this is a common complaint, but people writing common expressions wrong, because they've only ever heard them and don't realize they're using a homophone instead of the right word.

Reign in -> Rein in. You're pulling the reins on something to control it, like you do with a horse
Tow the line -> Toe the line, you put your feet behind the line that has been drawn by whatever applicable authority
Intensive purposes -> Intents and purposes. Self explanatory but the mistake also limits the meaning, instead of all the cases, it's only the intensive ones.
Picked/Peaked/Peeked my interest -> Piqued my interest. Piqued means excite, it excites your interest, it doesn't select your interest, make your interest take a look, or reach its maximum point.
Baited breath -> Bated breath. Bate means restrain, you're holding your breath as you wait or expect a thing. Your interest isn't being drawn by bait.
Wet your appetite -> Whet your appetite. Your appetite is sharpened, like with a whetting stone, it's not moistened.

Many more, but those exist in the front of my mind and I see them everywhere, even here, and I SEETHE EVERYTIEM.
Tow the line is one that really gets me. Given the themes of freedom of expression and virtue signaling and people conforming to The Cathedral and similar things we often discuss here, seeing it over and over just fucking infuriates me.

And also:
I could care less -> Fuck you and everyone who has ever known you

 

[The Last Stand]

When you're frustrated at a service or product, vent about it, then CONTINUE to use it.

 

[Local Fed]

I know this is a common complaint, but people writing common expressions wrong, because they've only ever heard them and don't realize they're using a homophone instead of the right word.

Reign in -> Rein in. You're pulling the reins on something to control it, like you do with a horse
Tow the line -> Toe the line, you put your feet behind the line that has been drawn by whatever applicable authority
Intensive purposes -> Intents and purposes. Self explanatory but the mistake also limits the meaning, instead of all the cases, it's only the intensive ones.
Picked/Peaked/Peeked my interest -> Piqued my interest. Piqued means excite, it excites your interest, it doesn't select your interest, make your interest take a look, or reach its maximum point.
Baited breath -> Bated breath. Bate means restrain, you're holding your breath as you wait or expect a thing. Your interest isn't being drawn by bait.
Wet your appetite -> Whet your appetite. Your appetite is sharpened, like with a whetting stone, it's not moistened.

Many more, but those exist in the front of my mind and I see them everywhere, even here, and I SEETHE EVERYTIEM.
Tow the line is one that really gets me. Given the themes of freedom of expression and virtue signaling and people conforming to The Cathedral and similar things we often discuss here, seeing it over and over just fucking infuriates me.

And also:
I could care less -> Fuck you and everyone who has ever known you

Go off, king (slay.)

Another that I see every so often is "You reap what you sew." The one that annoys me the most is "intensive purposes" which you've mentioned, but I'm also very annoyed by its retarded cousin, "segway" (into something.)

 

[one man party]

Many more, but those exist in the front of my mind and I see them everywhere, even here, and I SEETHE EVERYTIEM.

Another one I'm seeing more and more is the use of "costed" where cost should have been used. "Dinner last night costed $40." NO.

Costed -> a pre-planned expense ("the project has been costed out and incorporated into the budget")
Cost -> how much money was spent ("it costs $0 to avoid sounding like a retard")

 

[WhoBusTank69]

people writing common expressions wrong

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

 

[pyrinyx]

People who are working with customers that have AirPods / earphones in one ear.

I've noticed this. This is some double standard bullshit. Customers are going around with their stupid earbuds on, because I guess their shitty taste in music adds to the "shopping experience". They bitch at you, the worker, for having earbuds on because you can't hear their whiny complaints. Then it's like, there's those workers who do it too and it just fucks everything up. Why is this a thing? Why is a damn thing?

 

[AnOminous]

I know this is a common complaint, but people writing common expressions wrong, because they've only ever heard them and don't realize they're using a homophone instead of the right word.

These all piss me the fuck off not just because they've never seen the phrase in writing, but because they're so goddamn dumb they don't even know WHAT THE WORDS MEAN.

Then it's like, there's those workers who do it too and it just fucks everything up. Why is this a thing? Why is a damn thing?

I think all retail personnel should be allowed to beat the living piss out of some Karen (male or female) once a year with no penalty. It might calm these faggots down if they didn't know whether or not the person they're Karening still had their beat a shitty customer into a coma ticket for the year.

 

[Ytsuken]

I know this is a common complaint, but people writing common expressions wrong, because they've only ever heard them and don't realize they're using a homophone instead of the right word.

I hate when Negroes write "should of" instead of "should've".

 

[McMitch]

[I refuse to copy this atrocity.]

You missed "should of," "low and behold," and "kitten caboodle."

I took my dog, a Belgian Malinois, to our usual park today. We're there, like, 150 days out of the year. We turn a corner on the trail to two black labs, off-leash. The law is dogs need to be leashed in-town; even if it were not a law, I would still consider it a desirable rule of thumb. Dogs are generally at higher stress when on-leash, since it removes their ability to protect themselves.

Knowing my dog will be reactive to other dogs approaching him (read: running up on him while he's on-leash), but preferring to continue the direction we were heading, I took the nuclear option and hoisted him over my shoulder. At the next turn, we finally ran into the dogs' owner: some middle-aged guy. I tell him he really should have his dogs leashed while on the trail, for the sake of his own dogs as well as my own. To his credit, he did not try to argue and I would have left it at that; but when I passed and finally got to set my dog down, one of his dogs ran up on mine. I only avoided a dogfight because I was already in position to pick my dog back up.

This motherfucker tries to tell me I shouldn't bring a vicious dog to the park. When I called him an asshole for causing the whole situation, he says even in the state he's in he could kick my ass. Just the general desperation to avoid taking responsibility for the animals he is responsible for is appalling. Had he had them leashed, even one of those stupid leashes that tethers to the owner's stomach, we would have passed by without incident.

tl;dr Dumbass retards letting their dogs run up on mine, on leash or off, and trying to pass the buck when it almost starts a dogfight.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

When you're frustrated at a service or product, vent about it, then CONTINUE to use it.

So-called oppressed gamers when Switch 2 pre-orders open:

 

[Ytsuken]

People who pronounce coup de grâce as 'coup de gras' (literally "blow of fat").
It's /ku də ɡʁɑs/, not /ku də ɡʁɑ/.

 

[Dean Pentel]

When I called him an asshole for causing the whole situation, he says even in the state he's in he could kick my ass.

You have a lot more patience than I would have had in this situation.

I know we're talking about things that irritate/annoy us but I get downright unreasonable with those that would not only imperil a loved one but would then act as if they're not wrong and are down to fight about it.

 

[pyrinyx]

Spineless people who can't offer a resolution to problems they rally and cry about. There may be a split on how the immigration deportation situation is being handled, but to me, it is a matter of something being done. But I've yet to hear a single resolution from the piss-ants who're against it. Anytime you hand the podium over to them when it comes to debating white-hot issues, they only just scream about how they are against it. Just doing the bare fucking minimum to try and show that they care. They always they "IT SHOULD STOP!" or "THIS IS WRONG!"

Bitch, that's great and all but we're open to hear you say something that constitutes a resolution, now do you have any? Anything? No, you don't, it's just more rally cries for what you think is wrong. If it's not that then it is just unrealistic and idealistic leftist fantasy dreaming bullshit where we should again open our borders up. That's not a resolution, that's worsening the problem.

My point of the entire matter is - I hate people who do not bring any solid resolutions to the table to problems, but choose only to complain and complain about it. Go back to the fucking corner and leave the problem solving to the adults, you stupid child.

 

[McMitch]

You have a lot more patience than I would have had in this situation.

I know we're talking about things that irritate/annoy us but I get downright unreasonable with those that would not only imperil a loved one but would then act as if they're not wrong and are down to fight about it.

I mean it was still a shouting match over the course of a couple minutes, and I was using every bad word I could use without, say, losing my job if I used them at work. Preferably, I can just correct the situation without having to rely on others, which usually amounts to moving to a different location which is what I am doing anyway.

There are people who tolerate behavior from their dogs (especially as the dog gets smaller) who have no concept that they alone are responsible for the outcome of any interactions. Part of me really wanted to just let a dogfight happen, but I would have felt bad for the other dog who was just doing what a dog does as much as I would have felt bad for my own doing just the same at the same time.

 

[Book Thief]

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.

Had that one yesterday. When I noticed it, it was the most obnoxious shit ever. I don't need to listen to your Donald Trump TikTok clips on full fucking blast when I'm trying to shit in peace.

On that note, any kind of electronic noise pollution. I'm willing to make exceptions for children because they don't know any better, but a few times I've encountered what appears to be a middle-aged man at a restaurant playing some mobile phone shit at full volume, so while I'm trying to eat, I have to listen to some douchebag collect coins in some skinnerbox for retards. Anyone above their preteens doing this crap should have their toys taken from them and then smashed with a hammer.

As for another bathroom pet-peeve, how 'bout when you're at the urinal, and some other guy comes along and tries to strike up a conversation with you. I didn't come here to make small talk with strangers, asshole.