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

[AnOminous]

the way people now days say the current year. instead of saying two-thousand twenty one, they instead say twenty-twenty one. i can understand why they started this with twenty-twenty because it atleast sounded catchy but the new year dosent sound right at all.

if you say "its the year twenty-twenty one" you are a retard.

That's such a super gay thing to be mad about, don't you realize it's twenty twenty one?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

That's such a super gay thing to be mad about, don't you realize it's twenty twenty one?

it may be different because of language but we have two different ways of saying the year now and it pisses me off. makes the person saying it sound autistic.

 

[Sped Xing]

it may be different because of language but we have two different ways of saying the year now and it pisses me off. makes the person saying it sound autistic.

Where even are you that people just *now* started saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand and?"

 

[Meat Target]

Where even are you that people just *now* started saying "twenty" instead of "two thousand and?"

IMO it's "two thousand" only in the aughts, because, for example, "two-thousand-eight" is easier to say than "twenty-oh-eight". 2010 and beyond is "twenty". I guess whatever has fewer syllables?

 

[Dysnomia]

FIX. THE. FUCKING. CAT!

It's not my cat and my pleas fall on deaf ears. But he has started yowling and cruising for love. He won't stay in the house for more than half an hour at most in the past few days. He is yowling all over the block and someone has already yelled at him to shut up. I'm afraid someone might get mad and hurt him because it never stops. The cute calico he's into seems to have no interest. She used to come around the back porch sometimes. Now when she sees the hot black stud who is mad for her she slinks away and makes a run for it when he isn't looking. But he waited for her almost all night in the cold. And when he was let in he immediately yowled again and again at the door. He got yelled at a lot by everyone but me. And it's not his fault. He's just doing what nature intended.

I can't stand it when people don't spay and neuter their animals. ACCT has over 200 cats at their shelter. There's tons more at the SPCA and rescues. If you want a cat please get it fixed and try to keep it indoors.

There's a lot of black cats around here now. Gee. I wonder who the daddy is?

Yes I know. Black cat baby daddy.

But if he gets neutered the cruising will stop and he will probably come home more often. I think it's too late to make him stay indoors. I love how everyone says that was impossible from the beginning. No. The cat was born in this house. You had him his whole life. Getting him fixed as soon as it was possible should have been a priority. And don't even get me started on dumping his brothers and sisters in a feral cat colony instead of contacting a rescue or going to a shelter. Or only keeping male kittens because they don't get pregnant. They still make babies. It's not an excuse not to fix your cat.

The dog isn't neutered either and he already ended up incarcerated at the pound once because of spring fever. Thankfully it seems he's getting too old to roam. But he used to get loose all the time. Just climb a six foot cyclone fence and go cruising. He's really friendly and would probably go with anyone. It's a miracle he's still here.

Excuse the rant. I just feel so bad for the cat getting yelled at for something that is not his fault and there are so many strays around here.

 

[milk]

brand loyalists that love their brand no matter what. It could be auto-enthusiasts (tesla cultists), or gamers (blizzdrones). No matter how their favorite company behaves, they'll always find excuses or others to blame and continue to consume whatever garbage presented to them on a silver platter.

 

[cybertoaster]

People dumping their "tragic" backstory on me out of nowhere. Especially on dates.

Did you at least get to fuck them? or they use you as a betapillow?

 

[Totally Awesome]

I hate that Walmart's website doesn't allow many things to be available for pickup. They will be available in the store itself, but I can't pay for it online and have it available for pickup. Shopping in the actual store is a miserable experience, and I wish I could just pay for everything and have them put it in my car.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

brand loyalists that love their brand no matter what.

Hand in hand with this is the polarization associated with Trump being impeached again. Based solely on the media, social or traditional, one might think there are only two groups of people right now:

• Liberals who feel Trump should be impeached and disgraced just for being born, let alone last week's happenings; or
• Conservatives who feel Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

The lack of any middle ground with this, brand loyalty, or anything else that splits people into two main factions is both frustrating and annoying.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

FIX. THE. FUCKING. CAT!

It's not my cat and my pleas fall on deaf ears. But he has started yowling and cruising for love. He won't stay in the house for more than half an hour at most in the past few days. He is yowling all over the block and someone has already yelled at him to shut up. I'm afraid someone might get mad and hurt him because it never stops. The cute calico he's into seems to have no interest. She used to come around the back porch sometimes. Now when she sees the hot black stud who is mad for her she slinks away and makes a run for it when he isn't looking. But he waited for her almost all night in the cold. And when he was let in he immediately yowled again and again at the door. He got yelled at a lot by everyone but me. And it's not his fault. He's just doing what nature intended.

I can't stand it when people don't spay and neuter their animals. ACCT has over 200 cats at their shelter. There's tons more at the SPCA and rescues. If you want a cat please get it fixed and try to keep it indoors.

There's a lot of black cats around here now. Gee. I wonder who the daddy is?

Yes I know. Black cat baby daddy.

But if he gets neutered the cruising will stop and he will probably come home more often. I think it's too late to make him stay indoors. I love how everyone says that was impossible from the beginning. No. The cat was born in this house. You had him his whole life. Getting him fixed as soon as it was possible should have been a priority. And don't even get me started on dumping his brothers and sisters in a feral cat colony instead of contacting a rescue or going to a shelter. Or only keeping male kittens because they don't get pregnant. They still make babies. It's not an excuse not to fix your cat.

The dog isn't neutered either and he already ended up incarcerated at the pound once because of spring fever. Thankfully it seems he's getting too old to roam. But he used to get loose all the time. Just climb a six foot cyclone fence and go cruising. He's really friendly and would probably go with anyone. It's a miracle he's still here.

Excuse the rant. I just feel so bad for the cat getting yelled at for something that is not his fault and there are so many strays around here.

The key to him getting laid is conspicuously being seen reading "Siddhartha" and projecting he's a sensitive, caring, feeling modern cat instead of some Tom swinging his balls all around town.

 

[totse]

the way people now days say the current year. instead of saying two-thousand twenty one, they instead say twenty-twenty one. i can understand why they started this with twenty-twenty because it atleast sounded catchy but the new year dosent sound right at all.

if you say "its the year twenty-twenty one" you are a retard.

This has been pissing me off for years, except the other way around.

Think about how it was typically done before this century. Seventeen hundred. Eighteen fifty-nine. Nineteen oh one. This didn't start with 2020 because it sounded catchy, it was the normal way to say the year forever. Sometimes you would say "Nineteen hundred and eighty-four" or "One thousand, nine hundred eighty-four" if you wanted to be facetious about it (with optional "The Year of Our Lord" prepended), but this was not normal.

Then we reach the new millennium. Two thousand. Hard to fuck that up. But now it's the year twenty oh one. Wait, that sounds fucking retarded. Why is it so, when nineteen oh one seems fine? Who's to say? It's all a bit subjective. I bet if you got used to it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I bet somewhere, some population of people did say that. But at the time, in my experience, the sound of it was so objectionable that everyone started saying "two thousand one". And so it went up until 2009. And we could finally go back to the easy, natural way of saying the year. Twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve! Bliss at last! But no, they carried right on with two thousand ten, two thousand eleven, two thousand twelve. They willingly remained in this hell when the time for it had passed.

So really, from my perspective, we're simply making a belated return to the way it was and should once again be. But, like I said, it is a little bit subjective. I would put money on you growing up in the 2000s, making the convention of that time seem like the natural way to say the year.

A favorite old blog post about this: https://www.snipeme.com/archive.php?year=2010&rant=2010

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I hate that Walmart's website doesn't allow many things to be available for pickup. They will be available in the store itself, but I can't pay for it online and have it available for pickup. Shopping in the actual store is a miserable experience, and I wish I could just pay for everything and have them put it in my car.

I just have everything delivered and they usually have everything I want. I refuse to shop with Walmart otherwise because fat people disgust me.

 

[Sped Xing]

"Twenty oh one" sounds retarded because English syllables cannot begin with a vowel except at the beginning of a word. When you end a word with a vowel, followed by a word with an initial vowel, you have to say it slowly and distinctly, or else it sounds wrong.

You can say "anAfrican" smoothly, but if you say "a. . . African" it jars your flow.

Thus "twenty. . . oh one" sounds fine, while twentyohone" sounds off.

By the way, "one" is an archaic spelling, and it doesn't sound like that anymore. It's "wun," now. That's why "twentyoh" sounds awkward, but "twentyone (twentywun) does not. The rule is based on sounds, not writing.

 

[AnOminous]

I can't stand it when people don't spay and neuter their animals. ACCT has over 200 cats at their shelter.

I share this sentiment and got fucking ripped off and raped by the most greedy veterinarian in existence who turned a normal spaying of a calico into nearly a grand in money. Seriously fuck you vet, fuck you, I miss my now dead vet who would have done this for less than a hundred. Do you remember honorable medical professionals? They're dying off, they're mostly from the Greatest Generation. I can't wait for boomers to all die.

 

[moocow]

Youtube keeps showing me almost the exact same ad in every video with some douchebag telling me how cardio won't make you lose weight and how you're a fucking loser for doing it and last time he did cardio his whole family died and his dog got raped, and you should buy his product instead so you can look like as big a faggot as him. Go away douche-canoe, I'm sorry you can't handle jogging but that sounds like a personal problem.

I hate those stupid sexual men's hygiene commercials on Youtube and Reddit. One showing me how to wash my balls, one with a woman judging men over shaving their pubes, one telling me my soap is "shit". These things need to fuck off.

Adblock on the PCs, Newpipe on Android phones, whatever gay shit does similar things for Apple trash. All ads suck, but Youtube ads are AIDS. Avoid at all costs. At least for now there's still some decent material on Youtube that doesn't have baked-in ads, so it's worth it to set up adblock to make using the site tolerable. If you're concerned about depriving your favorite channels of ad revenue, don't be. Your view (with ads enabled) is worth maybe half a penny. They won't miss it, especially since most people still don't use ad blockers for some incomprehensible reason.

I share this sentiment and got fucking ripped off and raped by the most greedy veterinarian in existence who turned a normal spaying of a calico into nearly a grand in money. Seriously fuck you vet, fuck you, I miss my now dead vet who would have done this for less than a hundred. Do you remember honorable medical professionals? They're dying off, they're mostly from the Greatest Generation. I can't wait for boomers to all die.

Holy shit! How'd they manage that?!?! Surely if they screwed up the surgery they'd have been responsible for the subsequent care, right? The vet I've been using for 10+ years has always been really good about that sort of thing (though they've never screwed up with one of my pets, I've been privy to conversations between them and other pet owners who've had problems and they've always covered costs when they make a mistake), and that's still true even after they were absorbed by some regional OmniEvilMegaCorp.

I hope at the very least you aren't using that vet anymore. I'd also hope you sued them over it, but that would probably earn me lots of rainbow stickers.

 

[The Last Stand]

When calls are immediately greeted with a machine. And it doesn't even recognize your phone.

Some hold music is annoying, especially when played through a low end speaker.

 

[totse]

"Twenty oh one" sounds retarded because English syllables cannot begin with a vowel except at the beginning of a word. When you end a word with a vowel, followed by a word with an initial vowel, you have to say it slowly and distinctly, or else it sounds wrong.

You can say "anAfrican" smoothly, but if you say "a. . . African" it jars your flow.

Thus "twenty. . . oh one" sounds fine, while twentyohone" sounds off.

By the way, "one" is an archaic spelling, and it doesn't sound like that anymore. It's "wun," now. That's why "twentyoh" sounds awkward, but "twentyone (twentywun) does not. The rule is based on sounds, not writing.

It seems to me that if we say "twenty oh one" we would be making a consonantal y between the vowels -- at least I do, which still sounds bad but not as bad as if you inserted a stop between the vowels instead. I think the explanation for it sounding wrong lies somewhere in conventional usage rather than pronunciation and phonetics. Consider "thirty aught six".

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Patreon. I despise 99% of creators on it, I think stuff like that should be more like a tip jar than a Netflix subscription, yet you go to any YouTubers Patreon and you'll see long-form content that shouldn't be in a virtual tip jar but there it is.

 

[Pina Colada]

Hangnails.
Hangnails that get caught on your bedsheets and clothes, but are too small to see.
Hangnails that you can't pull without it bleeding, but you don't have a nail clipper on you and you have to suffer.

 

[AnOminous]

Hangnails.
Hangnails that get caught on your bedsheets and clothes, but are too small to see.
Hangnails that you can't pull without it bleeding, but you don't have a nail clipper on you and you have to suffer.

This is why I have like a dozen nail clippers and there's always one within reach. They only cost a couple bucks, just buy a bunch.