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

Jace on ice said:
I ordered a drink and started reading a book and you could see the thot bartender seething and getting progressively more angry that I was minding my own business and not talking to her.
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Rather not talk than have pre-canned niceties. What's there to ask a bartender or talk about? I don't want to dump my problems and I don't want to hear how you're probably hoping your bartending gig will be a temporary hold-over for your other career that will most certainly not take off.

Thread Tax: I hate that in the summer you can keep everything clean, make sure nothing sits in the trash, and leave out traps but if you open your door once. Surprise! You've got another fruit fly dive bombing your face. Leave anything remotely damp and they'll be all over.
 
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Wahgonga said:
Ticks really piss me off. Specifically deer ticks. They are such a persistent fucking pain in the ass.

After a mild winter and a rainy spring, they're out in force. It's funny that I live way out in the boonies, in bear country, but the real threat is a tiny disease carrying parasite.
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Apparently they've found a way with CRISPR to make ticks sterile and eventually extinct but it's been radio silent since they found it years ago. My FIL got lyme disease a year or two back. Just from doing yard work. Sorry if this double posts
 
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Jace on ice said:
I ordered a drink and started reading a book and you could see the thot bartender seething and getting progressively more angry that I was minding my own business and not talking to her.
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I don't remember this. Back when the year still started with 1 I would often sit in a bar reading or writing or something similar and I'd sit as far from the bar as possible, generally during off hours, and take up a whole booth.

The staff were always really attentive anyway and made sure to fill up my pitcher or bring me my usual meal.

When did this shit start? It used to be people could pick up social cues and figure out when someone really did not just want to be bothered other than for the business of buying whatever they were selling.

I could go into a bookstore, even one where I often did actually talk for a couple hours to the guy who ran it, and he could recognize when I was just there to browse and might just buy a couple things without more than exchanging pleasantries.

I think America and maybe the entire world has deified autism to the point that just totally ignoring social cues is now the norm.
 
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AnOminous said:
I don't remember this. Back when the year still started with 1 I would often sit in a bar reading or writing or something similar and I'd sit as far from the bar as possible, generally during off hours, and take up a whole booth.

The staff were always really attentive anyway and made sure to fill up my pitcher or bring me my usual meal.

When did this shit start? It used to be people could pick up social cues and figure out when someone really did not just want to be bothered other than for the business of buying whatever they were selling.

I could go into a bookstore, even one where I often did actually talk for a couple hours to the guy who ran it, and he could recognize when I was just there to browse and might just buy a couple things without more than exchanging pleasantries.

I think America and maybe the entire world has deified autism to the point that just totally ignoring social cues is now the norm.
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I remember I went to a diner by myself a few years ago for breakfast and the waitress looked at me weird and pointed me towards some woman who was also by herself and seemed upset. I said I'm just getting breakfast and I'm not with her, more weird looks. The entire time I was there I was treated oddly. Also happened at a chain restaurant just this uncomfortable vibe when you're just trying to get lunch because you didn't come in with a party. Maybe someone who has worked in food service can clue me in.
 
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Yours Truly 2095 said:
Apparently they've found a way with CRISPR to make ticks sterile and eventually extinct but it's been radio silent since they found it years ago. My FIL got lyme disease a year or two back. Just from doing yard work. Sorry if this double posts
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Lyme disease is a real problem in my neck of the woods because of them. It's a bacterial infection that they pass on. When you find one dug in for more than a day, you need to get a shot of and/or a course of the proper antibiotics.

And then there's the the whole pulling them out in one piece issue. Nasty fucking creatures.
 
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Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
Yeah? Well Gwyneth Paltrow is Baywatch-era Pam Anderson compared to whatever the fuck creature they cast as Ariel in the live-action Little Mermaid.
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The Ariel thing is the bizarre insistence on replacing every single red haired white character with a nigger.
 
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I swear to god, dog owners are some of the most entitled, self centered, retarded, brain dead, mouth breathing, corn chip stinking, snivelling fuckers on this planet. I hate dealing with them. I hate their attitude if you DARE say anything about their sweet babies nevermind what they've done. Oh, my dog just jumped up onto you and ripped your shirt with his fucking talons and covered you in gross slobber? AWWWW ISN'T LITTLE SPARKY SO SWEET HE JUST LOVES YOU SO MUCH AWWWWW
They never train their animals and they expect everyone else to put up with it because it's cute or some shit. I used to like dogs man. They don't deserve this. But it's so bad I'm starting to hate dogs too because I see one coming and I know there is a 99.99999% chance it isn't trained for fuck all.
GOD just train your fucking dogs or don't get one. Get a fucking tomagotchi if you need something to depend on you to fuel your own ego that bad.
 
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Sean_Igger said:
When super chatters/Twitch donators spend money but don't bother to proofread their shit. Content creators are retarded anyway and can barely read so them attempting to read garbled messages fucks them up even more and annoys the hell out of me.
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>he doesn't send tongue-twisters on purpose to make the streamer look more retarded
 
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This may sound bad, but people who get somewhat minor surgeries and just blast the lead up to it all over social media and shit. Like they're not going to come out of it alive. I guess the reason it bothers me is I've had the same ones and more invasive surgeries done so I know exactly what the post surgical experience is like for the particular one that's bothering me, and it's really nothing compared to other surgeries I've had. Despite my words of assurance, the only person who can directly relate and has had the same thing done in their sphere, the posting continues.

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