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

[Tootsie Bear]

Forum sites with power-hungry mods and admins, I think that might be one of the few problems that will piss me off. where the admin has such shitty opinions about politics, gender, etc., belittles his own moderators, kicks and bans people who dare to disagree with his decisions, and lets his bootlickers ignore the rules.

This happened to me when I was a member of Vampire Freaks. Long story short, the site has a rating system where you rate members 1 through 10; 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. It just so happens the mods can see which members rate them. A special privilege I guess you can say. So I rated this mod a 1 because I just didn't find her to attracted. That's all. No crime, no foul. Just my opinion. But she got upset, rated me a 1 in return and banned me as a result. No mercy!

 

[Otterly]

Well it didn't fly into a tard rage trying to sting me, just kept hovering around where I was sitting.

A true experimentalist! Thank you. I’m also curious now - nicotine derived compounds can do weird shit to insects, I see a rabbit hole I need to go down.

 

[Faket0Fake]

Small children crying in the plane. I understand to have your babies crying, but a six year old having a meltdown while everyone’s trying to sleep? Please.

To be honest I've encountered just as many grown adults having a meltdown on planes when I'm trying to sleep. Something about travel turns people into angry cavemen/women.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Calling an American company to fix an issue.

First you have to deal with the stupid perky-sounding robot. Once upon a time you could just press buttons, but now they want you to speak with the stupid thing. If you dial 0 to skip the BS and talk to a real person, it's all "sorry, I didn't get that." Next comes the being on hold, and being reminded repeatedly that "your call is very important to us." Finally, when you manage to get a hold of someone, you keep reaching "the wrong department," so you're passed around like a hot potato between agents. And of course, that means a lot more hold time, with the same lame elevator music, and reminders of the call's supposed value.

At the end of the ordeal, the issue is likely still unresolved.

And of course, despite it being Current Year, there's no way to reach them more conveniently, like email or direct numbers.

It's like they just want money without having to deal with you.

 

[Sped Xing]

To be honest I've encountered just as many grown adults having a meltdown on planes when I'm trying to sleep. Something about travel turns people into angry cavemen/women.

They're always this bad. You just notice it more when you're trapped next to them by a small aluminum cylinder in the sky.

 

[AnOminous]

I am actually buttmad that pine nuts apparently now cost $20 a pound. Wtf.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I don’t like how every time there’s an unusual weather pattern such as: hurricanes, tornados, extreme heat or extreme cold, the first conclusion people jump to on the Internet is climate change. The reasons are as follows:

1. It is jumping the gun and not taking into consideration various changes in temperature and variables that aren’t always human related, such as
   1. The tilt of the earth
   2. Sun spots
   3. Warm and cold periods due to water currents
2. Oftentimes if you say some of those things aren’t always human related, they call you a climate change denier
3. People will use climate change as an excuse to tax people even more and kill important industries
4. The mainstream solutions for climate change are exceptional, such as:
   1. Solar energy. The mining for components of solar panels is arguably more environmentally damaging than using coal
   2. Going vegan. Buying local and in season is better. Many vegans rely on avocados, cashews and almonds for their diets. All of these things aren’t exactly environmentally friendly when you take into account the conditions some of these things are grown in.
   3. Wind energy. Probably even worse than solar energy because of cost and lack of consistency.
5. Climate change activism is only really focused on Europe and other Western nations. China and India are ignored despite having more problems with pollution
6. Nuclear energy is ignored as a viable source of renewable power

 

[AprilRains]

Nuclear energy is ignored as a viable source of renewable power

This most of all. If you don't support nuclear power, you're not an environmentalist.

 

[8777BB5]

This most of all. If you don't support nuclear power, you're not an environmentalist.

Sad thing is there's plenty of self-proclaimed environmentalists who consider nuclear power to be even worse than coal due to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima (Even though there were other factors that caused those incidents). When I was in college I had to deal with a group of these chuckelfucks who wanted to petition the governor to shut down all the nuclear power plants in the state and replace them with wind and solar panels.

 

[PL 001]

Trying to have a conversation with an evangelical family member and they always steer it to God.

Say you predicted the next song that the radio will play? Prediction is based on prestidigitation (no it's not) and is towing the line towards witchcraft.

Watch or read something that has cursing, violence or nudity in it? That's not glorifying your life to God.

Talk about idiots in the news or politics? It's a sign of the end times as predicted (ha... irony) by Revelations. Please hand your life over to Christ before you burn in hell.

Take your neices out trick or treating with your brother and his wife? You're celebrating a pagan ritualistic sabbat and corrupting the children.

I have nothing against regular Christians, but fucking hell these nutcases are exactly why some people turn into fedora tipping atheists.

 

[Ruin]

That it's impossible to make a living in tech/biotech outside of major urban hubs. Cities are shitholes full of snotty hipsters, homeless junkies, and bugmen.

 

[Sped Xing]

Wind, solar, and tidal energy are all potentially useful SUPPLEMENTS to nuclear and hydro. Solar especially would be a nice way to ramp up power just at the right time for air conditioning.

However, I'm not looking at any of this as a way to stop climate change, just as a way to lessen the shock when oil inevitably begins to be too expensive to be worth mining.

That it's impossible to make a living in tech/biotech outside of major urban hubs. Cities are shitholes full of snotty hipsters, homeless junkies, and bugmen.

I took the wife to Houston for a concert and night on the town sort of thing last week. Holy ballsacks, I hadn't encountered Twitter in real life before!

I forget that, while I'm in Houston several times a week, that's for work and everyone I speak to or interact with is a blue collar Joe or José. I didn't realize bugmen were not only common but even the majority in the shitty "gastropub" we let google trick us into eating at.

It was a whole restaurant full of wojacks drinking IPA and eating crummy, insanely overpriced burgers

 

[AprilRains]

i hope to christ austin ain't your backup plan

 

[Sped Xing]

i hope to christ austin ain't your backup plan

If I'd had this experience in Austin, I'd chalk it up to "Austin."

In Houston, it's a wake-up call.


BTW "Bar Louie" is garbage. Stay away.

 

[AprilRains]

If I'd had this experience in Austin, I'd chalk it up to "Austin."

In Houston, it's a wake-up call.

I agree. I hadn't realized the Patchouli Blight had spread that far.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

People who think that insane asylums were shutdown because of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and by liberal propaganda. They fucking weren't. They were shutdown because they were hellholes that needed to be shutdown, and replaced with better facilities. Unfortunately, we never did the latter, and decided to just let the mentally ill be homeless and wander the streets until they either die, or wind up in jail.

 

[ES 195]

People who think that insane asylums were shutdown because of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and by liberal propaganda.

Do people actually think that? Do they also believe Rocky VI ended the cold war?

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Do people actually think that? Do they also believe Rocky VI ended the cold war?

Apparently so, because I've had to correct people multiple times on this site and irl.

 

[AprilRains]

People who think that insane asylums were shutdown because of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and by liberal propaganda. They're fucking weren't. They were shutdown because they were hellholes that needed to be shutdown, and replaced with better facilities. Unfortunately, we never did the latter, and decided to just let the mentally ill be homeless and wander the streets until they either die, or wind up in jail.

I thought it was Thomas Szasz who pushed for that.

 

[8777BB5]

Commercials that put a filter over people in swimsuits because they're worried people will whack off to them. I'm looking at you Frito-Lay

Replying to this because I saw an even stupider version of this today. Pepsi did an ad where at the end they had a guy's head pop out of the pool. Despite the only thing you see is his fucking head, they still put a filter over it. I really want to know who is the brain trust who is afraid people will get turned on by heads.