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

When you go to cancel a subscription or membership or whatnot. And they give you a huge runaround about "are you suuuure?" "Here's a great deal if you stick with us!" I just have to keep clicking the cancel button over and over until I finally get to the end.
It's especially annoying when the link to finally shut the account down is tiny and tucked away at the bottom of the screen while the other links that keep the membership open are huge and more noticeable, so if you aren't paying attention you can easily click the wrong thing and your membership is still active.
 
Adaptations of creative works not being faithful to the source material. Sure, you can expand it with new subplots or sequels, but don't fucking change the story. The creator's ideas should be obeyed.

I have never understood why the entertainment industry does this. Or at least, not before it was overrun by Marcusian demands that everything must be propaganda.
V For Vendetta was one the most egregious examples of this. Fuck you, Hollywood.
 
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When you go to cancel a subscription or membership or whatnot. And they give you a huge runaround about "are you suuuure?" "Here's a great deal if you stick with us!" I just have to keep clicking the cancel button over and over until I finally get to the end.
If you know a company does that and you don't actually want to cancel you can just scam them for the offer if it's actually good. I used to get mad about companies soliciting you to change phone service and offering you free service for X months if you did and then decided to give in. Got a couple years free phone before they caught on. Now you can't do that.
 
Whether or not to overanalyze to just briefly explain something.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
People are in love with the idea of looking like some kind of brilliant "expert", social scientist/analyst/whatever the fuck, or otherwise acting like the person who "knows their shit". Apparently the rule of "If you can't explain it well in succinct, simple terms that some low-attention-span moron can grok you're not as good at this shit as you think you are" has fallen by the wayside in favor of looking like you brought the mental equivalent of the BFG9000 to a squirt-gun fight.

Probably ties into the whole "owning the dumbasses is more important than actually teaching them anything" mentality that has pervaded so many things by now
 
If you know a company does that and you don't actually want to cancel you can just scam them for the offer if it's actually good. I used to get mad about companies soliciting you to change phone service and offering you free service for X months if you did and then decided to give in. Got a couple years free phone before they caught on. Now you can't do that.
Well, they advertised me the basic tier membership at a reduced price. But I wouldn't have had the benefits of the top tier membership I had so why bother? I also was not using said membership at all so I wanted to keep my money.

They even had the "self awareness" to put the final cancel button as something like "good grief, just let me cancel already." It's not endearing, it's kind of embarrassing.
 
Was probably already said, but people who make their entire profiles about their sexuality and/or being trans. No sane person would care that you're gay or you got your dick cut off, and there are more interesting things to base your avatar, banner, or bio around.
At this point all those labels are clearly a substitute for an actual personality. Doesn't matter if it's "I'm trans here are my pronouns", "HUGE MCU GEEK I'M SUCH A NERD", or "Proud Antifa" shit - these are usually people either with zero personality or a personality that could curdle milk
 
gas or electric? also, might need to clean the exhaust vents out, lint traps don't really catch everything
Electric. I wasn't the one who started the first go, so it might not have been on the right settings, since it has towels and whatnot in.
 
I waited outside the only bathroom for what felt like ages while listening to constant splashing and running of water within. When he finally opened the door, I said "thank you!" because I was so grateful to finally pee, though he undoubtedly thought I was thanking him.

The filthy fuck hadn't flushed the shitter. What the HELL was he splashing?
 
Electric. I wasn't the one who started the first go, so it might not have been on the right settings, since it has towels and whatnot in.
Are they still wet after running complete cycles, or is your machine terminating the cycles early while the clothes are still wet?

Because it sounds like you might need to replace/clean the moisture sensors.
 
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I like going to the gym. I like 99% of the people at the gym. But why is it every time I go to the gym there's always the fat fuck dickhead who sets up weights on like 10 stations and just sits on the squat machine and watches his phone. Then he tries to do a squat and oh noes he can't do it so he gets off and takes like 5 lbs off and starts the whole process again. And God forbid you try to use one of "his" machines he set up. "I was just going to use it in a minute" and then he goes back to looking at a video on his phone, fails to make a lift takes off another 2 lbs and generally just lives in the weight room. I don't think I've ever seen him actually lift anything.

And he's there at all times. He's been there in the morning. I've seen him in the middle of the night. He's just always there. Always in my way. I just want to throw up a workout and get on with my day. Jesus, is this guy homeless and just lives here? What the fuck.

I'm thinking about going to the staff and telling them if this shithead is here tommorow when I come in and hogging 3/4th of the stations in the gym I'm going to cancel my membership.

It's just this one guy I can't handle.
 
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