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

[Sped Xing]

Anyone else think the modern world has way too many rules in just about everything?

The invention of the printing press has been a disaster for mankind.

I don’t think I’ve ever had water that tasted bad. Probably because I’m not poor I’d surmise. Side note, I was once interviewed for some guy’s book and he bought me a ten dollar water at some fancy restaurant.

Except in particularly shitty places like NYC, tap water is still usually safe to drink. A lot of places have funky water, but that funk is usually the result of the treatment process. A decent, affordable filter will take care of that funkitude. Luxury water, like all luxury, is a tax on the wealthy.

I do find it amusing how Dasani, Sparkletts, and many other big-brand bottled waters are just municipal water from places like Houston which aren't exactly known for great-tasting water.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Anyone else think the modern world has way too many rules in just about everything?

I don’t think we have enough rules personally. Though the people are clearly far too stupid and or in some cases just unwilling to follow the ones we already have in place even if it is often to their own detriment. Rules exist for a reason, not always good reasons mind you and I obviously believe that not all rules are necessarily good. That said however I think humanity has become too complacent to operate without strict guidelines. Without them most people are like lemmings.

 

[LargeChoonger]

Doesn't that waste cartridges?

Some people keep their chambers or guns empty for "safety", which I find redundant

 

[Sped Xing]

Some people keep their chambers or guns empty for "safety", which I find redundant

They believe it when people say "the gun just went off!"

A depressingly large segment also think that guns often go off when they get dropped.

 

[Devyn]

I don’t think I’ve ever had water that tasted bad. Probably because I’m not poor I’d surmise. Side note, I was once interviewed for some guy’s book and he bought me a ten dollar water at some fancy restaurant.

Most of the tap water I've had was fine, though occasionally it smells faintly of chlorine (gross).

While bottled water of any kind that has been sitting on the shelf too long smells like plastic, there are some brands that are always bad; Aquafina and Nestle are two I refuse to buy because they taste so metallic and horrible.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

People who barge in front of you without even having the courtesy to say "excuse me".

The Germans have a wonderful way of cutting in line or responding to cue-cutters; saying "entschuldigung", means/implies "excuse you/yourself", because personally breaking the order of things is a high-order sin to the teutonics. It's never permissable to admit fault in such things.

 

[Local Fed]

Most of the tap water I've had was fine, though occasionally it smells faintly of chlorine (gross).

While bottled water of any kind that has been sitting on the shelf too long smells like plastic, there are some brands that are always bad; Aquafina and Nestle are two I refuse to buy because they taste so metallic and horrible.

Aquafina was exactly what came to mind when I read your first post about water. That shit is vile and tastes like someone took water out of a freshly chlorinated swimming pool.

 

[cybertoaster]

Pretty much every time I interact with some random person a little and come to the conclusion they might be at least a little based, next time I see them they'll start spewing a bunch of full-on NPC nonsense, especially stuff that literally contradicts what they said earlier. The hell's with this?

Tbh sometimes I say npc-shit to hide my powerlevel

We live in an age where any faggot can get you IRL banned over anything

 

[Sped Xing]

Aquafina was exactly what came to mind when I read your first post about water. That shit is vile and tastes like someone took water out of a freshly chlorinated swimming pool.

Exactly what the water tastes like out of the tap in Houston. :thunkful:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Well, there wasn't a rule (explicitly) stating I couldn't do X," or ,"I didn't know I couldn't do that," to try to avoid any consequences for their lack of personal responsibility.

Excess rules could also be because people are so easily offended, overly paranoid, or don't want to get sued by others because of the first 2 reasons. The modern world is obsessed with safety and avoiding "inappropriate" or "offensive". People who say "there wasn't a rule saying I couldn't" could be jerks, or the ones imposing rules could be, or both.

The invention of the printing press has been a disaster for mankind.

In INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE, it's argued that this gotta go fast modern world is so complex that there has to be a lot of rules for it to function.

I don’t think we have enough rules personally.

It'd be (more of a) hell to live in a world with more rules than this one though. Like an actual prison.

TL;DR: The modern world sucks. But life in the past could've been even worse. Homo sapiens are quite the flawed species...

 

[Meat Target]

"Just rack the shotgun" yeah I'm definitely gonna send the potentially armed home invader into either a panic or rage and give away my location. I'm sure he will assess the situation calmly and logically and surrender

My profile's namesake has testified that, in one of the self-defense incidents he was involved in, he tried that to no avail.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Some people keep their chambers or guns empty for "safety", which I find redundant

A depressingly large segment also think that guns often go off when they get dropped.

Are these people using 17th century muskets?

In INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE, it's argued that this gotta go fast modern world is so complex that there has to be a lot of rules for it to function.

Yeah. The thing is that Ted Kacyznski could have become a pretty well respected philosopher if he wasn't a terrorist. Industrial Society and its Future is a bit too extreme with its anarcho-primitivism for me but I can understand why it appeals to some people and I definitely think there are concerns about technology that should be addressed. Instead, he got known as ”the terrorist who blew up universities” instead of ”that guy who wrote a pretty insightful manifesto”.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Yeah. The thing is that Ted Kacyznski could have become a pretty well respected philosopher if he wasn't a terrorist. Industrial Society and its Future is a bit too extreme with its anarcho-primitivism for me but I can understand why it appeals to some people and I definitely think there are concerns about technology that should be addressed. Instead, he got known as ”the terrorist who blew up universities” instead of ”that guy who wrote a pretty insightful manifesto”.

We can condemn his attacks on people that didn't even wrong him while taking his criticisms of the modern world. Though I ask is why do people think you are backwards if you feel technology moves way too fast when this span in a century is highly unusual for humanity?

 

[LargeChoonger]

My profile's namesake has testified that, in one of the self-defense incidents he was involved in, he tried that to no avail.

I'm interested. His tangents are scattered, so mind telling me which video he talked about it in?

 

[Meat Target]

I'm interested. His tangents are scattered, so mind telling me which video he talked about it in?

Paul's Top Five Guns for Home Defense

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Instead, he got known as ”the terrorist who blew up universities” instead of ”that guy who wrote a pretty insightful manifesto”.

The excuse he gave was pretty much because he wanted to get attention. Also the wilderness he was living in getting encroached on by the modern world certainly didn't help.

We can condemn his attacks on people that didn't even wrong him while taking his criticisms of the modern world.

Hopefully that's what everyone is doing.

It really would've been nice if he did something less extreme to get attention. There's better ways to get publicity.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

We can condemn his attacks on people that didn't even wrong him while taking his criticisms of the modern world. Though I ask is why do people think you are backwards if you feel technology moves way too fast when this span in a century is highly unusual for humanity?

1) agreed. It's a shame people can't play the ball as opposed to the man on this topic.
2) because ”progress” is a religion and its zealots don't like it being questioned.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

”progress” is a religion and its zealots don't like it being questioned

It's that "Whig History" thing that @Syaoran Li mentioned - and that I keep bringing up - the belief that there's only one linear path of progress to a utopian "end of history" in this world. I also compared it to the Tower of Babel: trying to reach Heaven only through human effort. This crap started in the Renaissance.

Furthermore, the individual potential was seen as a never-ending quest for being God-like, paving the way for a view of Man based on unlimited perfection and progress.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

It's that "Whig History" thing that @Syaoran Li mentioned - and that I keep bringing up - the belief that there's only one linear path of progress to a utopian "end of history" in this world.

And Whig history falls apart when you realise that as history's gone on society has, if anything, deteriorated morally. Nuclear bombs (1945), genocide (1793) and cyberattacks (late 1980's) are relatively recent inventions and caused a lot more misery than the Pax Romana ever did.

 

[Meat Target]

I love snow when it first falls, but once it stops and starts to melt, it becomes an ugly, messy, sopping-wet nuisance.