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

[Stilgar of Troon]

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Also, men who propose in public are complete assholes.

Not to mention foolishly brave or very confident that they'll get the answer they want...

An acquaintance of mine proposed to his gf in public and she knocked him back. "Awkward" doesn't even begin to cover it, I would imagine.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's bad enough when a website or program crashes or outright fails to load, but what's even more potentially infuriating is when it just keeps loading and loading and loading but never loads. You can get the false hope that the loading finishes.

 

[Sped Xing]

Not to mention foolishly brave or very confident that they'll get the answer they want...

An acquaintance of mine proposed to his gf in public and she knocked him back. "Awkward" doesn't even begin to cover it, I would imagine.

A corollary to the old "never give an order that will be disobeyed" is "never propose marriage if it will be declined."

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

It's bad enough when a website or program crashes or outright fails to load, but what's even more potentially infuriating is when it just keeps loading and loading and loading but never loads. You can get the false hope that the loading finishes.

And when you refresh the page hoping that it will actually load up, you get a brief glimpse of the loaded page implying that it might have worked if you just waited a couple more seconds.

 

[The Last Stand]

SJW churches (which seems to be most of them these days). I have to pass by two nearly every day of the week, and both have "Black Lives Matter" bulletin/billboards. I think pretty much everyone agrees with the statement "black lives matter", but they're pushing the actual Marxist organization and it drives me fucking insane, to the point I have to consciously avert my gaze so it doesn't piss me off more by looking at them.

I hate church services. I hate being lectured. And I hate SJWs. Combine the three: Jesus Christ.

Think Pink! back when she pretending she was from the ghetto and every music video where she was ''beating'' people up 'cos she's hard. Another example would be Demi Lovato. Now I get that it's just a music video but it's so fucking obnoxious and irritating.

It's branded P!NK.

It's bad enough when a website or program crashes or outright fails to load, but what's even more potentially infuriating is when it just keeps loading and loading and loading but never loads. You can get the false hope that the loading finishes.

Or when playing a game and you're STUCK in an infinite loading screen. For a number of reasons. Better hope you're not softlocked before a checkpoint or save.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Or when playing a game and you're STUCK in an infinite loading screen. For a number of reasons. Better hope you're not softlocked before a checkpoint or save.

Sometimes I've fixed this by opening the disk tray and closing it, which makes the load screen finish.

I mostly do this with my PS1 copy of Resident Evil 2. It's better than starting from the last place I saved.

 

[The Last Stand]

Sometimes I've fixed this by opening the disk tray and closing it, which makes the load screen finish.

I mostly do this with my PS1 copy of Resident Evil 2. It's better than starting from the last place I saved.

You cannot do that anymore. Ejecting the disc ends the game. That is if it hasn't frozen on you.

Buffets that leave food out. The food either dries out, gets cold, or exposes itself to the element.

 

[totse]

And when you refresh the page hoping that it will actually load up, you get a brief glimpse of the loaded page implying that it might have worked if you just waited a couple more seconds.

Sometimes I can get the content to appear by pressing stop/esc, I guess the browser is waiting to draw until everything / certain things are loaded? This is one thing I liked about old Opera browser before it became a Chinese chrome fork, you could set it to draw each element immediately as soon as it was loaded and not wait to show the whole thing just because part of it wasn't ready yet

 

[Sped Xing]

My work truck has a huge button for a horn that covers the entire steering wheel, in addition to the traditional air horn cord on the ceiling. Its main function is to beep every time I try to sleep while waiting for something.

Meanwhile, my POV has two tiny little buttons for its only horn, which I can never find when I need to honk at something.

Both of these piss me off.


Also

Why do little cars have little shit beep horns? Do I need to warn people of danger less because I drive an economy car?

 

[The Last Stand]

When trucks, bikes or SUVs think they own the road.

 

[Devyn]

When my can opener starts to degrade/fail and refuses to pierce all the way around the can. FUCK that's annoying.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Every time Windows updates it breaks something.

Also Windows automatically installing drivers can be fucking unnerving because it would often install garbage that causes conflicts with the propietary software that you need. Case in point, Windows bullshit drivers for Graphic Tablets that auto installs every fucking time. I have a bluetooth dongle that was a pain to get working because every fucking time i plugged it in windows would autoinstall the wrong driver without asking me, i had to try to go offline and shut some windows processes and stuff so it wouln't fuck with it to eventually get it to work.

 

[donjulio]

When they release a new flavor of something I like but discontinue it later while keeping around shit flavors I hate. Why do all these bastards have such basic bitch tastes?

When they’re going to open another new business near by and it’s just another fucking Verizon, coffee shop, atv/boat dealership ,local brewery/bar, or shitty steak/ burger restaurant to compliment the 10-20 we already have.

People that do stupid shit in traffic simply to “win” or be first like only accelerating to a reasonable speed when someone is about to pass them, actively staying in your blind spot or aggressively merging into traffic infront of you but refusing to accelerate to the same speed the traffic was at.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

and without canned air or swifter dusters it's hard to get rid of it just gets everywhere when you wipe it with a rag or something and it always comes back always. unless you live in a hermetically sealed room ala Howard Hughes you're stuck with dust untill you are dust.

Yeah, my main office seems to get dusty fast even after I dusted most of it last summer and continue to vacuum once a week. I feel as if it's a losing battle, but I know doing nothing isn't an option, either.

How about wet shoes when it's raining and a shoe gets a hole in it?

Years ago, a college classmate and I carpooled to an event. On the way, we got caught in ahuge thunderstorm and the parking lot we had to park in was flooded. My side wasn't too bad, but his was so bad that walking in the water permanently ruined his tennis shoes.

Your experience is strikingly similar to my own, about 10 years back. Homeless guy asks me for some change to buy food, I say to him 'hold on,' and head to a nearby Turkish kebab joint around the corner. I got him a fataya, some fries, and a drink. Motherfucker throws the food and the ground screaming 'what the fuck am I gonna do with this?' Last time I EVER gave shit to one of these bums.

Someone I know who runs a clothes closet for the homeless stated very bluntly that many of the homeless that grift at the area's major intersections want the money for drugs and not food as they claim. She shared a similar experience to that shared by @english_nigger about her own unsuccessful efforts to give food to one such grifter and pointed out that a particular street a block away from one of the grifting sites is notorious for having a drug house that sells stuff to the homeless when they have enough money.

I recently had a homeless person try to accost me in on my way out of the post office of all places. I acted like I couldn't hear him as I walked out.

Not to mention that being homeless or 'sleeping rough' is one huge fucking grift these days. People busk or downright beg on the street, despite having a house they can go to. There have been numerous instances where this has been the case in my city alone.

Years ago, one of the local TV news stations received a tip that a homeless person with one of those "Help me" signs wasn't really homeless. So, the station arranged for an undercover tail of that person and discovered he wasn't homeless at all; he actually lived in a rather affluent area and that the homeless thing was a ruse because he has no interest having a job.

More recently, someone stood outside of an auto dealership with one of those "Help me," signs until someone from the dealership stood by him with a sign saying something along the lines of "He turned down our job offer." The guy left shortly after that.

I have literally ZERO sympathy for homeless people.

I can have empathy for people down on their luck through no fault of their own or factors outside their control provided they sincerely want to get back on their feet and make an effort to do so. Anyone whose misfortunes come from their own bad decision-making gets no empathy if they reject all reasonable offers of self-betterment.

It's bad enough when a website or program crashes or outright fails to load, but what's even more potentially infuriating is when it just keeps loading and loading and loading but never loads. You can get the false hope that the loading finishes.

Yesterday, I had a PDF file tell me I needed a font pack upon opening it... only to have the link to the pack redirect to a 404 page. Going through Adobe's online help forum/pages turned up nothing apart from claims that such a font pack wasn't needed. My boss had me do a Select All on the PDF, copy it, and past the contents into a Word document with a note that the PDF wasn't printing properly in Adobe.
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My latest peeve is how I've been trying to get enough sleep lately only to wake up 2 hours or so before I need to, go back to sleep, and week up every 30-45 minutes after that with short odd dreams in between until my alarm goes off.

 

[Local Fed]

Yesterday, I had a PDF file tell me I needed a font pack upon opening it... only to have the link to the pack redirect to a 404 page. Going through Adobe's online help forum/pages turned up nothing apart from claims that such a font pack wasn't needed. My boss had me do a Select All on the PDF, copy it, and past the contents into a Word document with a note that the PDF wasn't printing properly in Adobe.

I don't know if this would have helped with your problem, but I recommend Sumatra PDF as an alternative to Adobe's PDF viewer.

 

[totse]

When my can opener starts to degrade/fail and refuses to pierce all the way around the can. FUCK that's annoying.

I had one doing this and I sprayed some silicone lubricant in the works, fixed it right up. If you don't already have anything at home then try some 3-in-1 oil. WD-40 might unstick it temporarily but it isn't a lubricant so it won't last.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I don't know if this would have helped with your problem, but I recommend Sumatra PDF as an alternative to Adobe's PDF viewer.

At the place this happened at, the PCs and what gets installed on them are strictly regulated, so that's unfortunately not an option there. Suffice to say, this is the very reason why I use an alternative to Acrobat on any PC where I control what software is installed on it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Earplugs. Either they fall off during sleep, make your ears sore or don't even help with sleep.

The idea of sticking stuff in your ear too.

 

[SkyKid]

I get really peeved when people snore. Am I rarted?

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I get really peeved when people snore. Am I rarted?

Not in my opinion. Most recently, a girl I dated for a few months last year, she would occasionally snore when we were in bed. I'd have to gently budge her with my leg when it got too loud. Sometimes there would be an abeyance in the sound, only for it to suddenly reach 90 decibels. Like are you fucking kidding me, bitch I'm trying to sleep.