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

[Linako 2.0]

The whole "we need to protect pets and vets from fireworks" thing seems contrived.

It also seems to be a recent phenomena invented by sheltered middle class girls.

 

[Gravemind]

But catharsis is just fleeting pleasure, so it's just stupid temporary good feels.

An outlet's an outlet. If you can't channel it into more productive means, then better to just cut it loose in a place like this than to do the same stupid lolcow-tier shit other people do with their impotent rage and litany of neuroses.

 

[Sped Xing]

An outlet's an outlet. If you can't channel it into more productive means, then better to just cut it loose in a place like this than to do the same stupid lolcow-tier shit other people do with their impotent rage and litany of neuroses.

Stick your finger in an outlet.

 

[Slap47]

It also seems to be a recent phenomena invented by sheltered middle class girls.

Yeah, I doubt its the vets themselves leading the charge here.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Whenever I text or message someone and they don't reply with anything. It's not that I get offended by getting ghosted, more so that I have no idea if the message just didn't send or there was some sort of glitch where they legitimately didn't see it. They could even just tell me that they don't like me to my face and I mind much less.

Related, but people who have a habit of reading messages and just not replying... at all. I'm talking close friends here.

I know several guys who will read a message, usually within a few minutes, and then just not reply to it. They'll later either message back something completely unrelated, almost as if to say 'you said that four days ago, so obviously I don't need to reply now,' or just never bother.

I consider these people good friends, but that method of communicating just boils my fucking piss. Even when I was working and studying 60+ hours a week, I'd get back to people in a few hours at the very most. No excuse for that shit.

 

[Gravemind]

Stick your finger in an outlet.

But this isn't the "Dumb things you did as a kid" thread.

 

[Sped Xing]

Seeing Austin continue to grow, turning the small towns of my childhood into hipster communes.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

An outlet's an outlet. If you can't channel it into more productive means, then better to just cut it loose in a place like this than to do the same stupid lolcow-tier shit other people do with their impotent rage and litany of neuroses.

Good point. This is better than nothing! To be fair, it does make me feel better overall to get my assorted petty grievances out of my system here than potentially doing something stupid. Speaking of more productive means, I've been trying to find more of those. In the meantime, posting here still helps.

 

[Meat Target]

If you are on the phone, turn off the fucking TV/radio and stop talking to other people. I cannot hear you.

 

[lurk_moar]

I hate how fucking slow Amazon Prime is now. Target and Walmart send me my stuff lickity split.

 

[Jazz never died!]

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Yeah, I doubt its the vets themselves leading the charge here.

I know a family friend who called the police last July 4th because people were using private fireworks. The cops told her they wouldn't do anything about it.
Having to use a cane and having people i know act concerned. I feel like telling them when i fall over act concerned then.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Shift ends at work. You’re all ready to get going, and that one coworker just won’t stop fucking babbling at you. You try several times to disengage from the conversation and be on your way “have a good night! See ya tomorrow!” A normal person would pick up on the context and reply back with something like “you too” not our guy! He just keeps babbling on and on and on like the fucking Energizer bunny. You can’t just ignore him and keep walking or tell him to fuck off because office politics are a bitch, so you sit there held hostage until the autist finally shuts his pie hole and you can escape.

what the fuck is wrong with these people that seem to have no sense of social awareness? I know the answer is autism, rhetorical question.

 

[Broseph]

I hate getting stuck behind slow drivers, idiots who don't use their turn signals and I swear everytime I take the highway home after 10PM I always have some stupid asshole tailgating me with their high beams on.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Sometimes, I get pissed off at what seems like rampant complacency. For example, and this ties into my previous rant about bad people, it seems like society is content to tolerate bad people to certain point. Sure, they might make token complains just to sound like they're taking a stand or whatever, but when push comes to shove they will ulitmately ignore what bad people do. They'll even make excuses and double standards for them. However, if you've decided you've had enough and stand up to a bad person, then the complainers will condemn YOU as an insensitive bully or a jerk because you don't care about what the piece of shit is going through. Never mind that same bad person is making their lives hell too. Just god forbid you fight back or put your foot down!

On the same note, if you don't fight back or try to be kind then you'll be derided as a coward by the same assholes who also don't want you to fight back. Like you can't win either way because society demands that you either be an asshole or a complacent part of the herd. There's no room for principles or independence. The irony is that "the people" genuinely believe they stand for something! You either aim low or stand for nothing. All while keeping up a pretense that everything is okay or that anything is truly normal.

It feels that way for many things in society. The status quo sucks. People often suck too, but it looks like they more or less want that. It makes me not take any calls for activism seriously. I look at all these causes and ideologies and it makes me cringe, laugh, and sigh at once in varying degrees.

 

[AnOminous]

Like you can't win either way because society demands that you either be an asshole or a complacent part of the herd.

Sometimes you just gotta be an asshole.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Sometimes you just gotta be an asshole.

I agree, but when you're an asshole back to the assholes, then you get in trouble. You're the bad guy just because you got sick and tired taking shit. At least, that's been my experience. It's made me bitter and jaded.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Someone complaining about there being no clean dishes only to not load the dishwasher or just wash one for themselves.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Now that I got the more melodramatic shit out of my system, I have a regular thing to whine about.

I hate it when coworkers your eating lunch with have the nerve to comment on your lunch. Especially when they happen to be vegans, vegetarians, or they're just obsessed with healthy eating. I don't care about what they eat, so they should show me and others the same consideration.

I had one coworker once notice that I was eating a donut and he said, "I would never eat that." I made light of the situation because I wasn't going to sperg over him not liking donuts, but it made me seethe inwardly. You eat what you like and I'll eat what I like.

 

[AnOminous]

I agree, but when you're an asshole back to the assholes, then you get in trouble. You're the bad guy just because you got sick and tired taking shit. At least, that's been my experience. It's made me bitter and jaded.

Then be assholes to the people bitching about it enough they learn to give you the asshole armor too.

 

[Billy Beer]

People on smart phones 24/7. Get a life, live in the real world, learn from real sources or experiences. Do not engage me in real life with virtual nonsense. When I'm at work, don't talk to me about pop culture or Internet fluff, I just don't care.

On the same vein, people who say "watch this hilarious video", shove their phone in your face then call you miserable for not laughing.

People who are fucking miserable in life then try and lecture me about how I should be more X.