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

Meat Target said:
Boozers will drink whatever they can get their hands on that gets them drunk, including mouthwash and jet fuel (the latter according to one college professor I had; I'm surprised that wouldn't just kill you).
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How would a safety seal stop them from doing that? If you drink a cup of rubbing alcohol it is going to kill you in all likelihood. What are they protecting people from?
 
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Autumnal Equinox said:
Speaking of music, people who claim to be a fan of a genre or band, but know absolutely nothing about it. I'm not even trying to gatekeep, basic common knowledge they have no clue about.

"Oh, I like goth music too, Autumnal Equinox!"

"Right on" *starts playing some Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy*

"Dude, this shit isn't goth!"

"......."
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lol

"I just LOOOVE (whatever band) they're the best!" Then it turns out the person knows half of one of their songs but can tell you the lead singer's birthday, favorite color and hometown. Hmm.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
OH SHIT. It updated on the eBay tracking page but not on the USPS site. What did they mean by this?

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I hate comics like these. It almost proves the point that the left thinks it's always right or rational when they cannot accept any differing views or think anybody who disagrees is a fence sitter or agrees with literal "bigots, nazis, and fascists".
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Clown Baby said:
The fact that people seem to have collectively lost the existential belief that we are just blips in time and space who don't matter all that much. Everyone thinks they're special and their opinions are important. If everyone is special no one is special blah blah. Stop tweeting 700 times a day. You're lame and boring and speak in nothing but catchphrases and buzzwords, fuck off.
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I know some diehard liberal from high school who spergs on Twitter and never shuts up about the GOP or Trump but he never gets any likes on his tweets or followers whatsoever. It's sad.
 
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God is a Serb said:
I hate comics like these. It almost proves the point that the left thinks it's always right or rational when they cannot accept any differing views or think anybody who disagrees is a fence sitter or agrees with literal "bigots, nazis, and fascists".
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The bastard who made that cartoon has a thread here.

Guess what? He's FAT.

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M3xus said:
My church is dying and no-one's able to admit it.

Our pastor was caught sleeping with another woman, so he got removed, and we got a new pastor. Problem is, he's from Bumfuck, PA, and is a hippy-dippy liberal preaching to a fairly conservative congregation in a fairly large city. On top of that, in a misguided attempt to completely purge our old pastor's influence, pretty much every program our old pastor implemented has been scrubbed, which is pretty much every program aimed at the kids and teenagers. Our service is now a "combined" tradition and contemporary service where we sing a bunch of traditional hymns, and our guitarist gets up there and strums along to a "contemporary" song with the tempo slowed down enough the old folks can sing along.

I'm in my 30s and the only congregation member younger than me is the pastor's 20-year-old son. My concerns about our congregation dying out without young members are brushed aside as doomsaying. Our current pastor has no experience with big-city-living and think the bums are honest when they say they want money for food and brush off the staff's concerns about safety. The only reason I stick around is because I'm one of two people that can run the tech booth and they refuse to train another. A lot of the current congregation members are also friends of my parents, so I'd get an earful from them about leaving the congregation high and dry if I just ghosted.

It's all so vexing.
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That's not a dying congregation, that's a dead congregation. I'd leave and tell your parents that you don't like the direction the new pastor is taking things.

Mind if I ask what denomination is your church?
 
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If I ever started believing in Jesus, I'd rather be Catholic or, better yet, Orthodox.

I got no time for hippie guitar.
 
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M3xus said:
Presbyterian. So, not only do we have the usual church politics, we've got politics from the local Presbytery to worry about. Makes me miss being Catholic.
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You might give it a go at being a Lutheran. I'm not one but I do donate to them because I see them run a food pantry. I see them do good work for the community.

In my area, all I see the "licks" do is run Friday night Bingo... AND YET the local priest in charge got removed for misuse of Public/Catholic funds.
 
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M3xus said:
Presbyterian. So, not only do we have the usual church politics, we've got politics from the local Presbytery to worry about. Makes me miss being Catholic.
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Sped Xing said:
If I ever started believing in Jesus, I'd rather be Catholic or, better yet, Orthodox.

I got no time for hippie guitar.
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Catholics are some of the nicest, most genuine people I know.
 
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Meat Target said:
Cheesy, saccharine church hymns that are almost exclusively written by boomers.
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Over the years, the neighborhood church has updated the hymnals and old favorites always disappear each time. When asked, the canned response is almost always, "They aren't liturgically correct any more." Which seems more like a non-answer than anything. I could understand updating song choices to fit the times and demographics of the church.

A related peeve is new music ministers who assume that the congregation knows the new songs being played when the truth is they have no clue and many simply choose to not sing an unfamiliar song they haven't been taught or introduced to.

M3xus said:
Our pastor was caught sleeping with another woman, so he got removed, and we got a new pastor.
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Maybe the new pastor was the only person available on short notice to fill an unanticipated vacancy? Ideally, one might hope they'd try to find a pastor whose personality/views match the congregation's, but it's unfortunately not always possible. In your case, it sucks to see that the culture clash is negatively impacting the congregation.

God is a Serb said:
Those appointment-only restrictions must be such a pain in the arse, especially if you're tight on time with certain things in your day.
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I can understand impersonal corporations and businesses using the restrictions to reinforce their cold public persona.

For a small business, though -- especially one-person operations -- appointments may be more a matter of practicality than anything else. When I was thrust into running the office by myself, I started to encourage appointments to make sure I'm there (or can be there) when clients need an in-person meeting. I'm willing to accommodate client schedules so long as I know when they want to show up and it doesn't conflict with a time when I can't be available.

That said, I also realize that there are plenty of businesses that don't care as much about their clients and expect them to be the ones to adjust their schedules to the office hours. That's definitely frustrating for people whose job schedule overlaps with a business' normal hours.
 
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