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

[Lovely Kin]

When they brag about how hard they worked in the military and demand respect, but really, they only did IT stuff and never saw combat.

 

[ChompChomp]

I was about to leave work for a doctor appointment yesterday and sure as shit, some cunt comes in and needs my help for something past due

but the combination of them meant that my commute was 10-20 mph from the moment of exiting my city and for a solid 10 MILES toward home. And God forbid they open up the toll HOV lane at any point, even though virtually no one was in it.

Y'all should have pushed harder for ongoing WFH.

No empathy here. Sorry.

Thread tax: People who caved into RTO demands, but could largely work remotely.

 

[Señora Airi]

This fetishizing of introverts, it's become popular the last few years and I find it annoying because it's nothing to glorify. It can hold you back, keep you from living. Are a lot of people idiots and not worth the time? Sure. But to withdraw completely isn't the answer. You miss out.

It's not introversion that gets fetishized - it's social anxiety and being antisocial.
Unfortunately those two poisoned the well and made introversion harder to understand than it really is (introversion is just having your social battery recharged by being alone rather than being recharged by being with people).

EDIT: I hate that 90% of all "craft beers" end up being some form of sour or IPA. It'd be nice to have something that isn't overpowering and offensive to the senses.

 

[sixtynine69]

People who walk slowly in the literal middle of the sidewalk. If you aren't hauling ass, stay to the goddamn side. Some of us have places to get to.

When I went to England, they did what you described. In the London Underground when on escalators, people who are just standing stand on the right hand side and people who are actively walking up the escalators can get by on the left. I've never seen this in my country.

 

[sixtynine69]

People that let kids have social media profiles before they enter high school. I don't know why, this just bothers me for some reason.

Similairly, I think it is bad when people but up pictures that have their kids in them up online, where anyone can see.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

Getting asked for my phone number when I go to pay at a register. "What's a good phone number for you?"

It’s a shame that the Klan’s hotline stopped working. That used to be hilarious to give out to people.

 

[ruckingfetard]

I hate smokers of all kinds.
Cigarette smokers:
smell awful, obviously, but they also throw money away for their addiction. And many of the older smokers absolutely refuse to acknowledge their health problems are their own problem. During covid I used to work with some obese italian old lady who went through packs a day, and when she found out I wasn't vaccinated she tried lecturing me saying "I HAVE COPD, IF YOU GET SICK YOU WILL KILL ME!" not the fact she wont lose weight or stop smoking, surely.
There is also their complete dirtiness. I had jobs where I had to clean parking lots. The amount of cigarette buds littering the ground when a trash can is literally two steps away blows my god damn mind. It's that much of a compulsion to them.
Vapers:
Speaking of shitty jobs I used to have, I used to work somewhere that I had to sell those things. And The amount of times I have seen sloppy whores come in with their fatherless children, promise to buy said kid some candy or a toy, only to come to the register and have their card decline so they tell the kid to put the toy back but proceed to buy themselves their vape. Disgusting. I have also seen single mothers who smoke those things around those kids. And vapers in general seem to be under the impression that since it's not a cigarette and they are puffing on something flavored like candy, that people are fine with that shit being in the air around them. I am noticing a trend with smokers not being considerate of others, yet expecting everyone to be considerate of them.
Potheads:
I hate all smokers but I hate potheads more for one reason: it smells like shit. Like straight up shit. And these niggers have the gal to tell you "it smells better than cigarettes! It's more healthy! At least I don't smoke cigarettes! It's good for you!" I am not shocked by the mental gymnastics because all potheads have a heaping amount of it. They swear they can't be addicted, yet insist their lives are miserable without it or that they can't do anything productive until they smoke first, and then proceed to waste an entire day bedrotting bc they are high and useless. Living anywhere near a pothead is the worst because that shit can be smelled a mile away. Apartments are the worst, but having a roommate who was a useless slob pothead was probably the moment I peaked into my hatred of them. Also if you are a man and your addiction is pot, you're a homosexual.

Random little note. Cigars somehow smell the least awful out of all of these, and you rarely see them in public (aside from actually niggers who buy those cheap little cigars). So I am inclined to have less beef with cigar smokers. Some cigars smell pleasant.

 

[A-Stump]

When they brag about how hard they worked in the military and demand respect, but really, they only did IT stuff and never saw combat.

I don't give a shit even if they were in combat. Like congrats you took on a bunch of goat farmers with Soviet-era weaponry, kudos, what a hero you are. It's definitely not like kicking sand in the retarded kid's face at the playground

 

[Mysterious Figure]

When they brag about how hard they worked in the military and demand respect, but really, they only did IT stuff and never saw combat.

I'd rather be an IT person. It sucks ass being a soldier, risking their lives fighting a never ending, unwinnable war.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Vapers

I hate them the most out of the whole group even though their stink is far less pervasive. It's the smugness while looking like an absolute dork, bonus points if the smell like a Snapple flavor.

Granted a lot of vapers are either delinquent youth or trailer trash doing what they've done since the beginning of time. But vaping looks substantially dorkier. Taking a drag off a vape just highlights the sippy-cup nature of their addiction. Last time I was stuck in bad traffic the young guy next to me would tippy tap on his phone, take a drag, tippy tap drag tippy tap drag. Must have been about five times in a minute, Jesus man. Just constant dopamine cycling, must be awful. Smokers taking drags that frequently are generally played up as comedy in movies for someone who is in a bad way.

Anyway I don't know if people remember when this shit first rolled out you'd have these dorks rolling strawberry coal in public establishments getting confronted by staff and then loudly explaining that vape clouds are somehow different.

 

[Jace on ice]

This fetishizing of introverts, it's become popular the last few years and I find it annoying because it's nothing to glorify. It can hold you back, keep you from living. Are a lot of people idiots and not worth the time? Sure. But to withdraw completely isn't the answer. You miss out.

It's not really introversion though, that's the excuse but what they're really fetishizing and encouraging is anti social and sociopathic behavior which are not the same thing.

You see this on reddit a lot.

 

[Captain Syrup]

It’s true what they say, people get more reactionary as they age. I've developed the standard Boomer allergies: women who are too uppity, unhoused people, minorities who get more ass than me.

AND AUTISTIC PEOPLE!

Absolute Terminators of obstinacy. Every sentence they say is like five minutes long. It’s like arguing with a TED Talk that has zero exits.

They’ve got this superpower where they can say the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard, and then demand peer-reviewed sources when you react like a human. And somehow it always ends with you apologizing. I don’t even know how it happens. I go in thinking I’m the guy with a point, and I leave the conversation agreeing that Johnny Quest belongs in the criterion collection.

And the worst part is they provide no company. Like, you think you’re hanging out, but really you’re just a meat mirror they can bounce obscure trivia off of.

 

[AnOminous]

Granted a lot of vapers are either delinquent youth or trailer trash doing what they've done since the beginning of time. But vaping looks substantially dorkier. Taking a drag off a vape just highlights the sippy-cup nature of their addiction.

Have some balls. Smoke some unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Smoke some Pall Malls. Have the guts to smoke shit that gives you actual cancer, you pussies!

 

[Lady Bizness]

Have some balls. Smoke some unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Smoke some Pall Malls. Have the guts to smoke shit that gives you actual cancer, you pussies!

Hey if my grandfather had to die of lung cancer for his habit so should these little punks!

 

[AnOminous]

Hey if my grandfather had to die of lung cancer for his habit so should these little punks!

The only cigarettes I miss are Dunhills.

 

[Señora Airi]

Potheads:
I hate all smokers but I hate potheads more for one reason: it smells like shit. Like straight up shit. And these niggers have the gal to tell you "it smells better than cigarettes! It's more healthy! At least I don't smoke cigarettes! It's good for you!" I am not shocked by the mental gymnastics because all potheads have a heaping amount of it. They swear they can't be addicted, yet insist their lives are miserable without it or that they can't do anything productive until they smoke first, and then proceed to waste an entire day bedrotting bc they are high and useless. Living anywhere near a pothead is the worst because that shit can be smelled a mile away. Apartments are the worst, but having a roommate who was a useless slob pothead was probably the moment I peaked into my hatred of them. Also if you are a man and your addiction is pot, you're a homosexual.

Not to mention if you mention not liking it, their immediate response is "you had the wrong strain", as if I have the time or money to try every strain just go see if one is tolerable.

 

[Bowl of Ramen]

I have to vent. Being one of three be at a very planned in advance Zoom meeting, scheduled by others, and none of the people who wanted it to be at 8pm on a Tuesday actually showed up. I spent time I did not want to on a project I couldn’t move forward on because there was no group.

Literally all of them were taking naps/“forgot”

I’m trying to figure out when obligations, no matter how serious or casual they are, became options. Zoom calls, staff meetings, even social gatherings like a few friends at lunch - at least text people. Or don’t promise to show up so I’m not stuck with a bill.

 

[SandyCat]

Have some balls. Smoke some unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Smoke some Pall Malls. Have the guts to smoke shit that gives you actual cancer, you pussies!

Skip the cancer sticks, real men enjoy eating the forbidden asbestos ceiling popcorn

 

[Mad_Dog]

Have some balls. Smoke some unfiltered Lucky Strikes. Smoke some Pall Malls. Have the guts to smoke shit that gives you actual cancer, you pussies!

I inhale cigars. Always have, always will. Got me sounding like Barry White after 3 puffs.

 

[A Sentient Dumpster]

I’m so sick of people who think sarcasm and snark are appropriate 100% of the time. Sarcasm is a tool you can use to be funny or to make a point, but it’s so exhausting to meet someone who’s just got it turned on all the fucking time.

Life isn’t Reddit, you don’t score points for making the single pithy witty comment you’re desperately fishing for by being a snarky asshole 24/7.