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

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Years ago, after seeing something like this, I wondered if journalists had to take Dumbass Questions 101 in college. I was only halfway joking. Shoving a mic in someone’s face after a tragedy just to ask, “How are you feeling?” is appalling.

It's been going on as long as I remember. For any oldfags who remember the space shuttle explosion in the late 80s, I still remember the press asking President Reagan dumbass questions after his speech - one of them being what First Lady Nancy thought about the explosion. Did they think the President might say, "She said, 'Good, it deserved to blow up,'" or something equally ridiculous? The press has a tendency to ask the worst questions at the wrong times and they almost never ask the questions that deserve to be raised. And it's only gotten worse over time when the old-school journalists that took some sort of pride in their work retired and got replaced by this generation's shit-tier journalists.

Try being invited to a 10 am dentist appointment that runs one hour late, takes another hour while your friend is in the chair, and another two hours to wait for an X-ray or some shit I do not remember.

Medical offices that fall behind schedule as the day progresses or have inexplicable waiting times between different parts of the visit are my gear-grinding medical moments. I'm expected to arrive early to check in and fill out forms; communicating to me any sort of known extended delay in the appointment seems equally reasonable.

Thread tax: The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get the least expensive oil change. 15-20 was standard not *that* long ago and now you're incredibly lucky to find them under 40 without a coupon

My educated guess is that the fees for disposing the oil properly have increased over time and this in turn drives up the cost of the oil changes. I still remember when the so-called "environmental fee" was only $1 and oil changes were in the $20-$30 range depending on the place. Now, the going rate is in the $40-50 range. Worse is labor rates which have gone up nearly 30% in my part Kiwi Land since COVID hit. For a small repair job, the labor can far exceed the marked-up part cost.

Thread tax: The general trend of people being increasingly unable to separate fiction from reality or blatant exaggeration from truth.
Edited for selling and clarity.

 

[M3xus]

I do not understand people that willingly go out in their PJs from the night before. New parents I can cut some slack, babies are demanding and I'm not going to judge you for not having the energy to get dressed when your little guy has kept you up being collicky. But when you're a grown adult with no such responsibilities you should have the curtesy and self-respect to get dressed before going out.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Hearing a boomer casually explain what "blackpill" meant to someone old enough to be my dad was a real "what a disappointing timeline" moment.

IIt’s taking me longer and longer to recover from sustained physical exertion.

Ah, so this is what aging feels like. I'm willing to fight on, but my resilience is eroding bit by bit and there's not much left.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

I hate that we went from several days of 70 degree sunny weather, to today's 30 degree cold weather with snow. I feel like I have a mild cold. Thankfully the weather is warming up starting tomorrow.

 

[polaris_VII]

Vacuum cleaners, yes that's autistic but I feel like they're obnoxiously loud on purpose.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's St. Patrick's Day but there's no green frosted donuts on sale.

 

[Rick Nekieta]

Fucking drunks who can't read the room and let you politely excuse yourself.

 

[The Last Stand]

Fucking drunks who can't read the room and let you politely excuse yourself.

Drunks in general. You have no self control to where you let a beverage take you out of your element.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I cannot stand people who are so pushy about trying to be your buddy. Like man I've met you like a couple times.

I think in that same vein, people who aren't that close to you, but still use you as their personal diary - or therapist. I get friends doing that but random ass strangers just make me uncomfortable. It's sort of weird when it's someone older than you.

I was at a party once and a guy spent thirty minutes telling me his life story of crime and drug abuse and gang violence and shit. Uhm hello? I just met you.

Or some other girl saying how drug abuse shouldn't be called abuse because drugs are just medicine and it's a choice to take them and then telling me a story about how her friend cheated on her boyfriend because he couldn't fuck her as he was undergoing a liver transplant. Then I was asked my opinion on whether the cheating was justified or not.

???????????????

Hearing a boomer casually explain what "blackpill" meant to someone old enough to be my dad was a real "what a disappointing timeline" moment.

In addition to the above, you made me think of this guy, I've met like...three times, ranting and raving to me about how women are all WHORES and need to lower their standards because only a minority of men are 1000/10 Chad alpha males making fifty thousand bucks a month and that single mothers are WHORES who can't keep a stable relationship and that's why they are single moms and they are no doubt WHORES who probably fuck bunch of men and have kids with all of them. And they are hypocritical WHORES who are ugly but only want hot men. WHORES.

Excuse me, we have talked to each other twice. Who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you saying this to me?

Edit: Added more WHORES in there for comedic effect. Uhhhhh something something women are all heartless WHORES and society loves coddling WHORES who laugh at men's suicide. WHORES.

Jesus fuck man. And he did this when we were alone. Just unprovoked.

 

[Meat Target]

That nagging feeling that you're forgetting something, but you can't remember what it is.

 

[Soso]

people who aren't that close to you, but still use you as their personal diary - or therapist

I get away from them fast as possible. Don't know what it's about me but I always attract those types and I get subjected to a thirty minute lecture. Worse are the ones who want to be my therapist and want to know every little thing about myself when all I said was "I'm fine, thank you"

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I get away from them fast as possible. Don't know what it's about me but I always attract those types and I get subjected to a thirty minute lecture. Worse are the ones who want to be my therapist and want to know every little thing about myself when all I said was "I'm fine, thank you"

Ew those people are actually worse. Like who the fuck do you think you are?
I had a teacher do that to me during the tri-monthly discussion about grades in high school.

"I think you're a sad, unfortunate soul. You need some inner healing and-"
Bitch, we're here talking about my grades. Either humor me or shut up.

I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to be their dear diary or psychology pet project. Goddamn.

 

[TotalNematodeDeath]

A real shit part about trying to find a job now is the fucking temp agencies some jobs use, nothing hurts worse than getting that call and its a barely audible poorly spoken indian dipshit.

 

[The Last Stand]

WHEN PEOPLE BOLD AND UNDERLINE LINES OF TEXT UNDERNEATH EACH OTHER!!
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS TO READ??!?!

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Worse are the ones who want to be my therapist and want to know every little thing about myself when all I said was "I'm fine, thank you"

I was working retail and was finally just chilling out after a busy peroid. It was a lot of running around and tons of multitasking. I was just clearing errors on self checkouts minding my own business and relaxing, this guy goes "MAN, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU HATE YOUR LIFE HUH?" and started doing that therapist shit, I just said "You a mind reader or something, buddy?" He got so pissed off and left. I can't stand that shit, like people cannot handle neutral resting expressions.

Also, I hate in video games when they have audio logs but you can't play them while you're actually playing the game because the developers think everybody is fucking brain dead and can't listen to something while also playing the video game. I actually don't mind audio logs. just if I can't listen to them while I play the game, I'm not going to listen.

Also, whatever gaming rant. I also hate games that have UI elements that you cannot make bigger like there's tons of PC centric games that get ported to console and the text size is kept at this little tiny text That's impossible to read when you're actually sitting in a living room and not at a monitor.

Also fuck games on controller that do the mouse cursor menu navigation shit. I blame destiny for that

 

[Pina Colada]

People (usually customers or authority) who always follow up their questions with a “Please?” right after I’ve already answered “yes”. That will only tempt me to throw you a snappier “YES.”

 

[The Last Stand]

I said "thank God..." to somebody. I was flamed for saying it, not because I used it offensively, but because I don't believe in faith. Never mind it's a commonly used expression used to express relief. What is the need to police speech like that?

 

[Billy Hargrove]

Kind of cringe but when I reply to a comment online in a "yes, and" sense and they reply something like "that's what I was getting at..." or "That's what I said!"

I've started having to preface every comment I make with "I agree, and" because people are so autistic they don't know how conversations work.

 

[Lady Bizness]

I completely understand why YouTube keeps adapting to ad blockers, and I'm going to keep trying my best to get an add-free experience for free.

What I can't understand is why microwaves go to such extremes to make sure you can't disable the beep. Used to be that you could do some special secret code. Used to be you could access the wires that connected to the speaker. I just want to warm up yesterday's coffee without waking the entire house.

 

[Farsided]

>Hello, we inform you we are still waiting on x & y files.
>Resend the same clearly labelled email I sent about two months ago.