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

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The whole “answer for that!” shit.

Whether I’m talking to some incel or some racist, people tend to throw an argument I never presented at me unprompted and expect me to have an answer to it as if I agree with it.
“So, if all men are rapists—“ I never said all men are rapists.
“So, if racism towards white people is ok—“ I never said racism towards white people is ok.
I’m not going to be your nigger manic pixie dream girl that gently consoles you of all the things the meanies said as you have this wide eyed moment that, holy shit, you met one of the GOOD ones! I don’t give a shit about you and I don’t care to give you a pacifier to suck on

I also hate being unable to go to bed when I have something important that I have to wake up early for tomorrow. Case in point…
Edna Turnblad said:
Second place goes to Youtube sponsor shilling.
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I have quite literally never wanted to buy anything a YouTuber shilled to me. Nothing makes me want to avoid a product more than a YouTuber dropping everything that makes them funny, likeable, and personable so they can mindlessly spout words that aren’t their own to get me to hand their sponsors money. Like that shit makes me go from “Eh, seems like a useless product” to “I will actively avoid ever giving this a cent”.

I only ever consider it if the YouTuber seems genuine, as in, they keep their humor and personality when talking about it. If I ever need a stamp, I’ll go to stamps.com cause Doug seemed genuine with his commercials for them.
 
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Pokemon Conquistador said:
Wanting to look up obscure subject X online only to find that a popular, shitty band has named itself X so the first five google pages are filled with references to this band and contain nothing about the original subject that you wanted to study.
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Researching things on YouTube, just to get a bunch of random music videos with the title I searched.
 
Mysterious Figure said:
Researching things on YouTube, just to get a bunch of random music videos with the title I searched.
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Trying to find basic information on setting up equipment I don't have the manual for, only for all the results to be youtube videos full of brown hands that don't even answer the question.
 
teriyakiburns said:
Trying to find basic information on setting up equipment I don't have the manual for, only for all the results to be youtube videos full of brown hands that don't even answer the question.
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an ever increasing amount of my time is spent trying to stop algorithms from showing me media containing niggers and third worlders. it gets worse every day
 
teriyakiburns said:
Trying to find basic information on setting up equipment I don't have the manual for, only for all the results to be youtube videos full of brown hands that don't even answer the question.
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Thick accents you can barely understand. 2 Minute videos where they babble and answer nothing. 10 minutes or longer if they go on left-field irrelevant tirades that don't relate to the subject at hand. Shitty intros and outros. I even watched an instructional video once where it was 4 minutes and the rest of the video after cutting off at 2:50, was black. They can't even edit their fucking videos properly.

It is like, trying to introduce these shit-stains to anything useful that isn't going to be used for potential criminal activity, must be mind blowing to them. It just sends them several evolutionary stages back.
 
Every time I get into or out of my car the door frame knocks my sunglasses off my head. I've had this same car since 2003 if that gives you any idea how often this has happened to me.
 
Lady Bizness said:
Every time I get into or out of my car the door frame knocks my sunglasses off my head. I've had this same car since 2003 if that gives you any idea how often this has happened to me.
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I can't tell if I'm more impressed that you:
1. Have owned the same car and (presumably) sunglasses for such a long time.
2. If you wear them, you avoid getting your eyeglasses knocked off.
3. You have avoided an alternative egress technique amid all the signs indicating that one might be required.
Thread tax - "The Onus on the Customer" mentality by corporations.

Typical scenarios:

1. Ooh, did you want to schedule auto maintenance? Great! By giving us your phone number, we're gonna spam you with text messages! And, guess what? Yiu have to reply to us to STOP them! That let's us know that you have a mobile number and that you actively check it!

2. Say, looks like you want to apply for a job via the candidate account you created several years ago. Wonderful! Sure, you can check the box saying you don't want to receive text messages. Just don't read the legal disclaimer on the pre-submission page, okay? Remember, we "value"\*\* your data.

3. Hey, thanks for signing up for an account 12 years ago and being active weekly, customer. Despite all those years flying by without incident, we've automatically implemented MFA on your account as an added measure of inconvenience. Sure, we know that if someone is accessing this account, you have some bigger issues to deal with, and we also know that your bank will probably flag and decline any unusual transactions, but just letting you log in like a regular user isn't safe enough. What's that? We should harden our own internal cybersecurity measures? Sorry, our offshore team doesn't know how to do that, they just integrate third-party platforms.

Folks, stop blindly acquiescing to this nonsense. Either close your account or just stop using it since they don't seem to care about you.

\*\* For as much as we can get in the open market.
 
ChompChomp said:
I can't tell if I'm more impressed that you:
1. Have owned the same car and (presumably) sunglasses for such a long time.
2. If you wear them, you avoid getting your eyeglasses knocked off.
3. You have avoided an alternative egress technique amid all the signs indicating that one might be required.
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1. Different car but same make, model and year because a relative got a new car and gave it to us and we are as cheap as you can get without being Jewish.
2. I use my sunglasses as a headband. But a couple of times they got knocked off my face getting in and that hurt.
3. I am pretty short so I'm really confused how this happens. I try ducking. Crawling in. Head first. Butt first. Butt and head first. Running jump.
4. I'm very hard headed and a little retarded... obviously.
 
The man The only man said:
I love my parents but they nagged me because I didn't know basic home skills because they never taught it. It is this weird problem where older generations don't teach their kids and then expect the kids to become self thought when it comes to basic life skills
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My mom is an extremely annoying case of this, because she is really strong, and I have noodley arms and bad back inherited from the other side, so she thinks real annoying stains require a light rub and nothing else. "This can not be so hard, how do I, an average woman, do it, then?"
 
Facilities and other services requiring you to come to their building to do basic things like transaction issues. Instead of just like, doing it over the phone or god forbid, e-mail. It is just a pressuring obstacle they push subscribers and customers through, as to how badly they need something done, so why not just beckon them to have to make the effort to drive to the building in the off chance it might not be done anyways? It has the same odds of the matter not being resolved than if it was over phone or e-mail, so why require people to physically show up?

Just to waste your time and effort.
 
Some new neighbors moved in a few weeks ago. Every time they let their dogs out, the dogs bark nonstop at everything within a mile of them. That would be bad enough, but the neighbors just sit there on the front porch watching their dogs bark, saying nothing, making no effort to stop or discipline or train the dogs. The noise would be bad enough on its own, but the sight of these boomers just sitting there serenely, contentedly watching their dogs constantly bark for a half-hour at a time is infuriating. Why is it so hard for anyone to show an ounce of consideration for others anymore?
 
people who say "sportsball" and call it bread and circuses. god damn you jerk off to anime so I don't know why you think sports are worst than that.

oh and communists I guess.
 
Lady Bizness said:
I did it before it was cool to hate on jocks and sports fans.

These days anybody saying this is 100% going to be a nerd-shit junkie, which is worse and makes me temporarily forget my beef with professional sports.
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what IS your beef with pro sports though?
 
Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe said:
what IS your beef with pro sports though?
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Eh, the last thing I want to do is piss off anyone who enjoys sports, it's useless. I know a lot of sports fans and people who have worked in the industry besides. But since you asked, the massive amounts of money that is generated seems absolutely ridiculous for what certainly is no longer your hometown boys. Even my uncle has stopped following the alma matter he used to play for because it's just not what it used to be.

Also it's boring to me, but I wouldn't mention it if the previous gripe didn't rub me the wrong way.
 
internet friend said:
Retard companies discontinuing one service without making sure the replacement service works. Of course, the new service never works first time, but the old one is disabled immediately so I guess I just don't get to look at my credit card at all then.
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As a follow up to myself, it's been a full work week and the system still doesn't work. Real smooth moves here, being unable to check my finances
 
Looking at the clock at work, and feeling like time is going by too slowly. Seconds feeling like minutes and minutes feeling like hours *sigh*
Señora Airi said:
Yeah somehow showcasing athletic abilities is "bread and circuses" yet somehow pulling up info on a d-list internet celebrity on a forum created to obsessively watch over some autistic Virginian isn't.
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I dealt with one of those types when I was in university, minus the forum part. It's tiresome dealing with those people and how smug he would sound when saying that.
 
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