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

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

"This file can't be deleted because it is open in some program you've never heard of that does not appear in the task manager. Googling the exact contents of this error message will either bring you that stupid ice-fishing yeti or bring up threads that give no help other than a bunch of technical jargon you know nothing about."

Here is what you do on Windows when this bullshit happens:

1. Click the Start button
2. Type "resmon.exe" and press Enter
3. Go to the "CPU" tab
4. In "Associated Handles" use the search bar, type the name of the file and press enter
5. You should get a list of processes that use this file, right-click them and kill them

 

[Baumstriezel]

Saw my sister cut/sand down mould lines/cast errors/whatever on some plastic doodads she got for her friend. Great how we fucking got to the point you need to work on things you paid money for.

My parents brought a 600 euro bed frame recently, and it was delivered dismantled, with a single page of instructions, and required two power tools to build. There wasn’t an option to have someone else assemble it for us, either… motherfuckers, this ain’t IKEA! You didn’t sell us a bed, you sold us a bunch of pre-cut boards that we had to make holes in and assemble ourselves! To add insult to injury, it’s made of fucking particle board.

My gears are ground.

 

[Ethereal Eye]

Restaurants using facebook pages to list their deals and menus. It basically FORCES you to use facebook just to see what their damn restaurant has to offer. Why should I have to be forced to use social media slop just to see a menu or a deal?

 

[Jarl Varg]

Day 4 of 100 degrees. To top that off, the air quality has been shit, no outside activity for me after 10am. To make matters worse, this is year 4 of drought. We've had 6" of rain this year, and we average 28-30".

 

[pyrinyx]

I keep getting this ad on Spotify for "BetterHelp" which is an online therapy service. The lady's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard (kinda, it's a really nasally "soft-spoken" voice) and I've always been vehemently against therapy shit from my own past experiences with it.

She boasts about how 62% of people felt less heckin' depressed after 6 weeks of online therapy, which seems like a rather poor figure all things considered. There's also a little tidbit at the end where she's like "BetterHelp, that's better H-E-L-P"... as if I don't know how to spell a 4 letter word. It's just very patronizing, I guess. I'm sure the SSRIs are so amazing.

That's like almost every other shitty Spotify advertisement and online ad in general. They talk down to us and insult our intelligence as if we can't figure it out what it is they want us to do. And then when it isn't that, they're making us wanting to sharp our axes and turn the marketer's lives into a bloody commercial, when they're still as retarded as ever with making cringe-inducing songs based off of some old-ass hit from the past.

But yeah I really hated it when podcasts tried pushing BetterHelp too, it's a scam, to be boasting about those kinds of statistics.

Every and any advertisement I ever hear or see, I'm thinking of ways as to how we can market the many deaths of marketers and advertisers as we can.

 

[Flatline]

I fucking hate the Walmart fitting rooms. I can't ever use them to try on jeans because assholes go in there and take all day. They also only have fitting rooms in the women's section and not the men's.

Time for me to start shopping for clothes at Kohls.

Why are you buying jeans at Walmart?

 

[Cherry Milk]

Shit loads of adverts during true crime/missing people podcasts, pisses me off.
Maybe one ad at the start and end, ok. But not randomly throughout the episode.
It's not only off putting and crass, but, it's really disrespectful, IMO.

 

[Jarl Varg]

Why are you buying jeans at Walmart?

The George jeans are actually decent work jeans. Only $15 or so, just chunk them when they wear out.

 

[McMitch]

It fucking pisses me off when I go to look up the book, and the only results are for some faggot movie that came out during my adulthood (an era of only faggot movies).

 

[Señora Airi]

I keep getting this ad on Spotify for "BetterHelp" which is an online therapy service. The lady's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard (kinda, it's a really nasally "soft-spoken" voice) and I've always been vehemently against therapy shit from my own past experiences with it.

She boasts about how 62% of people felt less heckin' depressed after 6 weeks of online therapy, which seems like a rather poor figure all things considered. There's also a little tidbit at the end where she's like "BetterHelp, that's better H-E-L-P"... as if I don't know how to spell a 4 letter word. It's just very patronizing, I guess. I'm sure the SSRIs are so amazing.

Didn't they get sued because the therapists on there had no idea what they were doing?

 

[The Last Stand]

I hate tags on the back of shirts. I'd pull those bitches out the second I get a chance.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Oh, you love dogs, they say. You just don’t know it yet.

Then one morning, you step outside to go to work and immediately land your foot in a freshly executed pile of dog crap.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

Band: Can you promote our show?
Me: Sure, just send me the material.
Band: Right on, we did it ourselves this time!

The material:


Except for the phonebook-y details which I've changed, it's a faithful recreation of real promotional art I just received. I'm contemplating sending them the following re-design suggestion:

 

[Yakka Hula]

Store websites that after using the search function for a specific product - which of course you will use - have a large banner that takes of a full third of the screen with no option to minimize it while scrolling down to peruse the items you’re looking for.

Target. I’m talking to you, Target. Fuck you and your little dog too.

 

[Farsided]

Band: Can you promote our show?
Me: Sure, just send me the material.
Band: Right on, we did it ourselves this time!

The material:
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Except for the phonebook-y details which I've changed, it's a faithful recreation of real promotional art I just received. I'm contemplating sending them the following re-design suggestion:

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RBG to CMYK is going to make that thing an even bigger mess if it goes to print.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Oh good, another app I didn’t ask for that I can’t delete unless I perform a ritual involving three settings menus and a goat.

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Goodness, that's me and Motorola because for whatever reason, the Moto app had permission to download and install apps automatically, bypassing consent from my end entirely. Got so pissed because I didn't ask for this shit and I was so over waking up to three random ass apps installed on my phone overnight. Had to fiddle with some settings to kill it.

Nowadays, I just get unwanted notifications. It's better than random ass apps.

I keep getting this ad on Spotify for "BetterHelp" which is an online therapy service. The lady's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard (kinda, it's a really nasally "soft-spoken" voice) and I've always been vehemently against therapy shit from my own past experiences with it.

Didn't they get sued because the therapists on there had no idea what they were doing?

I don't know if they were sued, but it did come out that they were massively incompetent and unethical in regards to proper therapy services.

Hasn't stopped a bunch of YouTubers from sponsoring them nowadays, though.

Online ads in general have just gotten completely intolerable. Everytime I see one now cause my adblock doesn't work it just reminds me of how all advertising execs deserve to get punched.

That's me and TEMU.

I have never ever downloaded the app, nor have I bought anything from it. Neither that nor Shien yet I am bombarded with the ads, especially TEMU and it's the worst. Lots of text-to-speech in my native language and lots of false advertising like "Buy fifteen pieces of garbage and get a free tablet that's totally real and true!"

How about fucking no. And leave me alone, already.

Even when I go to the Google App Store, it pops up right there, "sponsored". Could you fuck off for a second? I'd rather have those family friendly pajeet money laundering bank ads or whatever the fuck is with the "shorts stories".

So, suppose my thread tax is overexposure to a certain kind of brand. It certainly won't make me give in. I am proficient in malicious disobedience in that regard.

In addition, I wish people would stop treating me like I'm some kind of elitist snob because I refuse to touch TEMU and Shien.

"But it's so cheap! You can get everything there! What is wrong with you?"

Bitch, there is a reason why TEMU as an adjective is a pejorative.

 

[The Last Stand]

Oh, you love dogs, they say. You just don’t know it yet.

Then one morning, you step outside to go to work and immediately land your foot in a freshly executed pile of dog crap.

That's not the dog's fault; that's the irresponsible owner not curbing their dog.

In addition, I wish people would stop treating me like I'm some kind of elitist snob because I refuse to touch TEMU and Shien.

"But it's so cheap! You can get everything there! What is wrong with you?"

Bitch, there is a reason why TEMU as an adjective is a pejorative.

What you MEAN you won't be cheap Chinese crap that would break easily?

 

[DenseDeerFather]

What you MEAN you won't be cheap Chinese crap that would break easily?

"Oh but so many hot and cheap clothes."

And it's a roulette spin on whether or not it fucking fits you. Let me be an elitist snob and dish out shekels for some clothes that will last and won't smell like fish or have period stains on it or whatever.

Anyone who buys electronics from TEMU deserves to get scammed. Did you actually think you'd get a fucking Iphone for 15 bucks on TEMU all places? I found that same piece of shit for five on Amazon and it's clearly a kid's toy. At least try not to be retarded.

Actually, people so stingy to the point of irrationality make me more annoyed because they are so smug about it and try to push their bullshit onto you like they're the cavemen that made it out of the cave or whatever.

 

[The Secret Sauce]

Something relatively minor happened lately that seriously annoys me, but I can't tell my Kiwifarms brethren about it without running the risk of being phonebooked

 

[BigBadBastich]

I hate how nothing seems to really stick when it comes to trends in clothes, music, movies etc. Even I personally had my own interests, people would talk about whatever new band or group came out for months or a game or movie. Now everyone needs to move onto the next topical discussion of debate, the next meme or movie and show from streaming services. All the accessibility has made things feel hollow and ironically more vapid and lonelier than ever.