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

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I'm starting to see too much Among Us shit. Has this surpassed Minecraft and Fortnite as the Zoomer autism outlet?

Pretty much, yeah.

 

[Dysnomia]

I hate slot machines in stores. They are everywhere now. Do people really need to gamble that bad? There's a bodega across the street and it has two machines. This pregnant woman literally sits there all day with her bratty toddler. During a pandemic.

The kid is so bad. He has his toys all over the store. I think something is wrong with him. He hissed at me yesterday.

This woman has two kids and one on the way but she gambles all day long. The kid practically lives at the store. It's pathetic. I never liked her when she was a teen but it looks like she has mellowed out a lot. Too bad she'd got a gambling addiction.

I found out this woman is the sister of some nasty kid I used to get stuck with sometimes because he had no friends and just tagged along with whoever was around. He was really bad and broke windows for fun. He carried around a baseball bat. No one wanted to play with him because he would get you into trouble by association. He once convinced my then five year old sister it was ok to take a tub of Cool Whip from the store. He thought it would be funny if she got caught stealing. But the manager wasn't mad because she was five and an older kid who knew better told her it was ok to just take the item.

Anyway, the pregnant woman I mentioned isn't the only one to haunt the slot machines all day. Every store that has a machine has at least one resident gambler who plays all day long. Some of them don't even wear masks because the bodegas around here seldom enforce it even though they have signs up. I imagine the Asian run stores are different. But it's mostly Latino and Middle Eastern stores around here.

I'm not super paranoid about the pandemic. I think the whole thing is overblown quite a bit. But at least follow the rules in the hopes that it keeps the positive tests down so we can get back to normal faster. Yes I am being overly . Let me have my moment.

 

[Meat Target]

slot machines in stores. They are everywhere now

I hate to ask you to powerlevel, but what kind of den of iniquity does this happen in?

bodega

SoCal?

 

[Sped Xing]

I hate to ask you to powerlevel, but what kind of den of iniquity does this happen in?

SoCal?

Slot Machines in stores have been a thing in Texas for years. It's a staple of skeezy quickie marts. It's fucking depraved, but it's way more popular than raising taxes, so here we are.

I believe "bodega" is an NYC term.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Paranormal fanatics who straight up threaten people who dont believe in that shit.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It always amazes me when "professional" people don't know how to properly answer a phone.
This may be 14 years of retail talking, but unless you're answering your personal phone, it's never appropriate to just say "hello".

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I hate to ask you to powerlevel, but what kind of den of iniquity does this happen in?

SoCal?

Not Latino (or American for that matter) but I'm pretty sure bodegas are run by Puerto Ricans and Latinos in Southern California are mainly Central Americans or Mexicans.

 

[Sped Xing]

It always amazes me when "professional" people don't know how to properly answer a phone.
This may be 14 years of retail talking, but unless you're answering your personal phone, it's never appropriate to just say "hello".

I always answer my business line, "Third Army, Patton speaking."

 

[Orion Balls]

I hate slot machines in stores. They are everywhere now. Do people really need to gamble that bad? There's a bodega across the street and it has two machines. This pregnant woman literally sits there all day with her bratty toddler. During a pandemic.

The kid is so bad. He has his toys all over the store. I think something is wrong with him. He hissed at me yesterday.

This woman has two kids and one on the way but she gambles all day long. The kid practically lives at the store. It's pathetic. I never liked her when she was a teen but it looks like she has mellowed out a lot. Too bad she'd got a gambling addiction.

I found out this woman is the sister of some nasty kid I used to get stuck with sometimes because he had no friends and just tagged along with whoever was around. He was really bad and broke windows for fun. He carried around a baseball bat. No one wanted to play with him because he would get you into trouble by association. He once convinced my then five year old sister it was ok to take a tub of Cool Whip from the store. He thought it would be funny if she got caught stealing. But the manager wasn't mad because she was five and an older kid who knew better told her it was ok to just take the item.

Anyway, the pregnant woman I mentioned isn't the only one to haunt the slot machines all day. Every store that has a machine has at least one resident gambler who plays all day long. Some of them don't even wear masks because the bodegas around here seldom enforce it even though they have signs up. I imagine the Asian run stores are different. But it's mostly Latino and Middle Eastern stores around here.

I'm not super paranoid about the pandemic. I think the whole thing is overblown quite a bit. But at least follow the rules in the hopes that it keeps the positive tests down so we can get back to normal faster. Yes I am being overly . Let me have my moment.

We've got them in every little corner store and laundromat, ourselves. It is oddly surreal to see the same dude just gambling his day away every time you go to wash clothes.

 

[Meat Target]

I believe "bodega" is an NYC term.

I first heard the term reading Blood Meridian.

 

[Sped Xing]

I first heard the term reading Blood Meridian.

I've only ever heard yankees say it, which tracks since Cormac McCarthy is a yankee.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

We've got them in every little corner store and laundromat, ourselves. It is oddly surreal to see the same dude just gambling his day away every time you go to wash clothes.

What state are you guys in?
I've never seen one of those out and about.

 

[Tamamo No Mae]

I hate slot machines in stores. They are everywhere now. Do people really need to gamble that bad? There's a bodega across the street and it has two machines. This pregnant woman literally sits there all day with her bratty toddler. During a pandemic.

The kid is so bad. He has his toys all over the store. I think something is wrong with him. He hissed at me yesterday.

This woman has two kids and one on the way but she gambles all day long. The kid practically lives at the store. It's pathetic. I never liked her when she was a teen but it looks like she has mellowed out a lot. Too bad she'd got a gambling addiction.

I found out this woman is the sister of some nasty kid I used to get stuck with sometimes because he had no friends and just tagged along with whoever was around. He was really bad and broke windows for fun. He carried around a baseball bat. No one wanted to play with him because he would get you into trouble by association. He once convinced my then five year old sister it was ok to take a tub of Cool Whip from the store. He thought it would be funny if she got caught stealing. But the manager wasn't mad because she was five and an older kid who knew better told her it was ok to just take the item.

Anyway, the pregnant woman I mentioned isn't the only one to haunt the slot machines all day. Every store that has a machine has at least one resident gambler who plays all day long. Some of them don't even wear masks because the bodegas around here seldom enforce it even though they have signs up. I imagine the Asian run stores are different. But it's mostly Latino and Middle Eastern stores around here.

I'm not super paranoid about the pandemic. I think the whole thing is overblown quite a bit. But at least follow the rules in the hopes that it keeps the positive tests down so we can get back to normal faster. Yes I am being overly . Let me have my moment.

I guess I should be glad slot machines got more or less banned, they have digital ones run by the state owned lottery company that has a monopoly on lotteries here and other money games here, but those are also limited to I think it's max $50 spent per day. Of course I still see certain individuals at the nearby kiosk using them all the time, but at least it's harder to completely fuck your bank account up using them.

Gotta feel sorry for the kid(s) though, if their parent is that addicted to gambling.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I guess I should be glad slot machines got more or less banned, they have digital ones run by the state owned lottery company that has a monopoly on lotteries here and other money games here, but those are also limited to I think it's max $50 spent per day. Of course I still see certain individuals at the nearby kiosk using them all the time, but at least it's harder to completely fuck your bank account up using them.

Gotta feel sorry for the kid(s) though, if their parent is that addicted to gambling.

"You can only gamble if WE profit from it"
Lol

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

"You can only gamble if WE profit from it"
Lol

That's the nanny state for you.

 

[Tamamo No Mae]

"You can only gamble if WE profit from it"
Lol

Pretty much, in a way. The way it works is that 50% of the profits is put into the prize pool as winnings in the lotteries. The other half is put into sports clubs and other cultural activities, so technically they are not meant to make any money on doing it. On a plus side, if you do win the big one here there's no tax on your lottery winnings.

 

[Sped Xing]

Pretty much, in a way. The way it works is that 50% of the profits is put into the prize pool as winnings in the lotteries. The other half is put into sports clubs and other cultural activities, so technically they are not meant to make any money on doing it. On a plus side, if you do win the big one here there's no tax on your lottery winnings.

The slot machines in Texas are all state owned. I don't know the particulars, but crusty weirdos do hang around on them all day long.

The scam of lotteries is this: "This money is FOR THE CHILDRENSES! We made 100 million dollars for schools! Why, yes, our pre-lottery budget to the schools was 200 million, and now it's 50 million. We didn't cut taxes, meaning we spent 150 million more on stupid projects to make business for the companies we own. Why are you complaining? 100 million! For the kiddoes!"

 

[Meat Target]

Gun control activists who say "you need more training to own a gun".

Bitch, I know more and practice more than not only you, but also your average beat cop.

It's especially retarded when they give Hollywood advice like "shoot their leg" or "fire a warning shot".

 

[AnOminous]

Pretty much, in a way. The way it works is that 50% of the profits is put into the prize pool as winnings in the lotteries. The other half is put into sports clubs and other cultural activities, so technically they are not meant to make any money on doing it.

And who owns those sports clubs and other cultural activities? I'd bet more often than not personal associates of the politicians who greenlight this shit. Lotteries are an idiot tax. They're worse expected value than anything that it's even legal to offer in a casino. Even keno has better odds.

 

[Tamamo No Mae]

And who owns those sports clubs and other cultural activities? I'd bet more often than not personal associates of the politicians who greenlight this shit. Lotteries are an idiot tax. They're worse expected value than anything that it's even legal to offer in a casino. Even keno has better odds.

Could be anyone, from what I see. Politicians could be a part of it as well, could be a group of parents making a club for their local youth as well as long as they are registered as a sports club or that sort of thing.
Of course I can't deny that there might be some sort of bullshit somewhere in this system, especially when it comes to the larger associations, which are definitely full of bureaucratic crap and political relations.

EDIT:

Figured I should add something that pisses me off to the thread as well.
They banned rockets here, so we can only use batteries and other low class fireworks, so New Year's Eve hasn't been the same since because all the big fucking boom rockets are gone.
I miss those days.