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

"Take it to the next level"

When has that tagline ever sounded cool? Max Payne 2 did a parody of it. I think the Mario movie with Bob Hoskins had a tagline like that. All it did was leave them wide open to bad reviews. ("This ain't no game," it's a piece of crap)

Similar thing: I loathe it when I’m eating and asked what I’m having for lunch. Might be because my coworkers are fatasses that disgust me when I hear them talking about food.
I get asked that all the time. I think women like to vicariously eat through you,
 
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"LeT's TaKe ThIs To ThE nExT lEvEl"

When has that tagline ever sounded cool? Max Payne 2 did a parody of it. I think the Mario movie with Bob Hoskins had a tagline like that. All it did was leave them wide open to bad reviews. ("This ain't no game," it's a piece of crap)


I get asked that all the time. I think women like to vicariously eat through you, especially when they're watching their weight.
These are grown men
 
My 3G phone has to be upgraded and I can't understand anyone I talk to at AT&T. Are you allowed to request a native English speaker? Or would I end up the subject of an angry blog entry by a blue checkmark looking for extra #wokepoints?
I have a strong feeling that requesting this would cause a shit-storm even if it was well-intentioned simply because there will always be someone who will be offended at such a request.

It sucks, especially for anyone in your situation, because it seems like different areas of AT&T's support are staffed domestically and/or competently. I recently called for an internet issue and talked to someone who sounded like he was within the US, quite helpful, and even made a follow-up contact. It's a far cry from when I've called for other reasons and spoke to someone who was a combination of unintelligible, unintelligent, or unaware of what services were and weren't available from the company they worked for.

Thanks to AT&T's "diverting your calls to customer service until you upgrade" idiocy I was left with no way to get a fucking cab from the ER at midnight.
If you're saying that AT&T is disallowing all calls from older 3G phones and redirecting them to a customer service person who's more interested in asking "Are you going to upgrade now?" than allowing calls -- especially important ones -- to be placed then that's rather scary because it effectively leaves someone without mobile phone service.

When someone I've only just met starts in with the "bro" bullshit.
Related to this is the women who used "Daddy" to refer to they are flirting with, attracted to, or interested in. After reading the DD/LG thread on here as a lurker, I cringe any time I hear women say this.
 
The Wern is trying to speak Spanish now.

I should just laugh and watch him flail, but something about it is incredibly irritating.
 
Call centers that outsource to other countries or use mainly immigrants with poor English skills.

My 3G phone has to be upgraded and I can't understand anyone I talk to at AT&T. Are you allowed to request a native English speaker? Or would I end up the subject of an angry blog entry by a blue checkmark looking for extra #wokepoints?
I have a strong feeling that requesting this would cause a shit-storm even if it was well-intentioned simply because there will always be someone who will be offended at such a request.
Say you are hard at hearing, and if they even try to do anything else. Begin to belittle them about being hard at hearing is an actual disability. They can't prove anything, so bs it as much as you want.
 
The continuous drone of prerecorded Big Brother type "safety" announcements while trying to shop for groceries. It's always in a soft, slow female voice that feels vaguely AI and gives the impression it's meant to put you to sleep, which makes it both creepier and more obnoxious somehow. We can all see the masks and those stupid floor stickers at every turn, can you at least give our ears a rest from this BS for five fucking minutes??
 
It drives me up the fucking wall when news reporters interview young children on TV. Kids can only muster up a few words or sentences because they're too shy or not even ready converse with adults maturely. These interviews are such a bloody waste of time and don't contribute anything interesting to a debate or even helpful to gathering information on a report.
 
I hate how every TV ad in my country has to have some dirty nigger in it. Makes me think PG Tips monopolised all the advertising.

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Okay, who is this guy and why are people using the same guy as profile pictures now?

It's the human hive from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Might be for sexual predators/homosexuals to identify each other on the site.
 
Kids can only muster up a few words or sentences because they're too shy or not even ready converse with adults maturely. These interviews are such a bloody waste of time and don't contribute anything interesting to a debate or even helpful to gathering information on a report.
About the only times interviewing kids seems reasonable is when they're being asked if they're excited about the first day of school or certain holidays. Apart from those, I tend to agree with you.

It perpetuates the idea that anyone can become a star.
Sites such as BuzzFeed, among others, help perpetuate this because they allow anyone to write about anything/anyone they want while making the author appear as some sort of authority on whom or what they write about when they aren't.
 
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