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

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Freaking cold outside and I’ve got people trying to be smug saying “oh it’s not that cold Jason!”

Yeah, maybe it’s not that cold if you’re pushing 300 pounds and have layers of insulated blubber like a fucking manatee. Not all of us are deathfats though. Just wait until summer comes back and these same people will be sweating their ass off after five minutes outside and I can smile and say “oh it’s not that hot out!”
 
TeaBaggins said:
Hell, they were doing this for old plays as well, probably a decade ago. Giving rape trigger warnings for them.
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You know that was a subtle way of advertising "this has rape in it" while seeming to be "sensitive."
 
The phrase "shitting out a kid". So unnecessarily gross and hateful. Not to mention inaccurate. Yes, I know childbirth isn't pretty, but it's disrespectful to moms and babies to compare birth to shitting. And it just reeks of millennial potty humor "edge".
 
AnOminous said:
You know that was a subtle way of advertising "this has rape in it" while seeming to be "sensitive."
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So I looked up specific details on which classic plays have gotten trigger warnings in the last five years.
  • Julius Caesar: A 2022 production at Shakespeare's Globe warned audiences of "depictions of war, self-harm and suicide, stage blood and weapons including knives".
  • Antony and Cleopatra: A 2024 Globe production included a warning for "misogynoir references," as well as "depictions of suicide, violence and war".
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Productions have included warnings for "misogyny and racism".
  • Romeo and Juliet: A 2022 Globe production included warnings for "depictions of suicide, moments of violence and references to drug use".
  • King Lear and Titus Andronicus: These plays, known for their violence, have received trigger warnings for their graphic and brutal content, with some critics noting that even 18th-century audiences found aspects of these works "too horrid to be endured".
  • Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw): The Old Vic theater described the play, which inspired My Fair Lady, as containing "portrayals of abuse, abusive language and coercive control".
  • Spring Awakening (Frank Wedekind): The 1891 play and later musical adaptation frequently receives warnings for its depiction of sexual violence, suicide, and child abuse. A college production in 2014 issued a non-specific warning about "difficult and dark content".
  • Dracula (Bram Stoker): A London theater production of the novel-turned-play received a trigger warning for violence and blood.
  • The Wild Party (Joseph Moncure March): A theater adaptation of this 1928 narrative poem issued a warning for "sexual violence," as the musical includes an attempted rape.

Yeah, at this point, I agree with Judi Dench. If you're that sensitive, don't go to the theater.
 
People who will insert themselves into what you're doing, then try make it about them. If I'm taking a photo of something, it's because I want to take a photo of that thing, not what you told me to because you got bored or whatever. If I'm sanding some wood, it's because I want to sand the wood, not see have you try grab it and hear your idea either. It's like the little kids who need constant attention but all grown up.
 
Arbiter said:
The phrase "shitting out a kid". So unnecessarily gross and hateful. Not to mention inaccurate. Yes, I know childbirth isn't pretty, but it's disrespectful to moms and babies to compare birth to shitting. And it just reeks of millennial potty humor "edge".
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I've seen people say that parts of child birth feels like needing to have a bowel movement, so it's kind of funny to read this.
 
This will expose me as a phonefag but I don’t like the “Liquid Glass” display of the iPhone. I don’t like how iPhone tries to autocorrect shit that doesn’t make sense or proposes typos in responses. Feels like it gets worse and worse. I now have to read my shitposts here to see if it didn’t add in typos instead of just hitting the reply button and moving on.
TeaBaggins said:
I've seen people say that parts of child birth feels like needing to have a bowel movement, so it's kind of funny to read this.
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I’ve had a retarded cousin thought she had to take a shit but gave birth instead. These people are definitely out there.
Lady Bizness said:
Authenticity snobs can fuck off too.
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I hate the over the top Reddit-style performative snobbery about food or condiments. No need to have a meltdown because someone likes pineapple on pizza or someone prefers ketchup on fries as opposed to malt vinegar or mayonnaise. There’s a bunch of over the top faggotry about mayonnaise or avocados because of what they’re associated with in culture wars.

On that note, that performative snobbery about hot sauce. People who don’t actually like hot sauce who choke through it when putting it on food so they can pretend to be with it.
 
Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
"Training will be provided"
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And when they're supposed to provide the training, it's a litmus test to see if you're alive. Be it office work or operating a fork truck the instruction is far too reliant on initiative and instinct which is why bad employees slip through and dumb shit happens.
 
The Hardest R said:
I hate the over the top Reddit-style performative snobbery about food
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As someone who still reads Reddit specifically for food slapfights, the degree steak faggotry has spread to is unreal - people had started to say you can not have hamburgers and some other things well done, either.
 
Arbiter said:
The phrase "shitting out a kid". So unnecessarily gross and hateful. Not to mention inaccurate. Yes, I know childbirth isn't pretty, but it's disrespectful to moms and babies to compare birth to shitting. And it just reeks of millennial potty humor "edge".
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In the same vein, "crotch fruit". Yeah, and? Do you wanna possibly throw out the word "moist", too?

Nothing is above criticism, but I fucking hate needless disdain.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
And when they're supposed to provide the training, it's a litmus test to see if you're alive. Be it office work or operating a fork truck the instruction is far too reliant on initiative and instinct which is why bad employees slip through and dumb shit happens.
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I don't know why this reminded me of the training workbooks I was supposed to fill out for my high school video store chain job. I was game to do it but it had shit in there like measuring the awning at the store entrance and counting the number of parking spaces. I had access to a tape measure and knew how to use it, and I did start counting one time, but the ambiguity of the lot (it was weird) made it just difficult enough - without pay - to make me say "fuck it". There were 3 workbooks and they were all filled with bizarre tasks like this. I'm a diligent hard worker and this was the moment I was introduced to the concept of not giving a fuck.
Oh, but don't you want the stars on your name badge? I asked the manager about two of my coworkers who were retarded and shitty and if they did the workbooks. Oh yes, they did! Really? Brandy got a tape measure and measured each dimension of the awning? She drew a map of the store? She measured the length of the walk path to the store? Wrote a script for pushing popcorn? That lazy rude bitch did all of that? No fucking way. Manager was a nice lady so I feel bad thinking about how I grilled her a bit by asking about the other employees and what the point of the workbooks were because none of it helped me learn the practical aspect of video rental. She said it helped create investment in the store. Yeah sure. She had no control over it, but I never completed a workbook and did a pretty good job there.
 
Not A Bunny said:
In the same vein, "crotch fruit". Yeah, and? Do you wanna possibly throw out the word "moist", too?

Nothing is above criticism, but I fucking hate needless disdain.
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Almost every childfree person has the most awful personality.

Your post made me think of something that gets me annoyed. When I see childfree people use those negative words for children and then turn around and call their pets "fur babies."

Their talking about their pets sounds just as annoying as they find parents talking about their children.
 
Not A Bunny said:
In the same vein, "crotch fruit". Yeah, and? Do you wanna possibly throw out the word "moist", too?

Nothing is above criticism, but I fucking hate needless disdain.
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It’s an Anglo disease, you can blame feminism or postmodernism or whatever’s on the dartboard, but it’s baked into the dough. Mencken was always losing his mind over Americans taking something delicate and beautiful and grinding it into paste just so they can pretend they’re hard men.
 
Lady Bizness said:
I asked the manager about two of my coworkers who were retarded and shitty and if they did the workbooks. Oh yes, they did! Really? Brandy got a tape measure and measured each dimension of the awning? She drew a map of the store? She measured the length of the walk path to the store? Wrote a script for pushing popcorn? That lazy rude bitch did all of that? No fucking way.
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I swear that kind of shit is pulled up between hiring seasons or something because the kinds of outright "struggles-to-breathe" types of stupid I've shared air with shouldn't have made it through the automatic doors much less gotten into a supervisor role with how much nothing they did every day.
 
I just watched 2 dudes take 15 minutes to put up a "road work ahead" sign. I wish every city construction worker would get aids.
 
Friend asked me to take a look at her TV, as it was acting up. Okay, not a problem. First issue I find? It can't connect to the internet. Why in gods name does a TV need to connect to the god damn internet? Why?! It's a TV, not a fucking computer! Spend an hour pissing around with it, no dice. It also will no longer turn off, and there are NO actual fucking buttons on the TV to do so, remote only so I have no idea if the remote is the problem or the TV is. And I don't dare unplug it, because god only knows if I can turn it back on. It's a GOD DAMN TELEVISION! Why the fuck are they making these things so fucking difficult to use?!
 
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These little shits always snap off the fucking can and i end up having to use a knife instead
 
People you've never met being cutesy or chummy with you, or calling you by your first name (older women do this with me, as if a 33-year-old wants to be talked to like a Kindergartener).

People who don't identify themselves over the phone and expect you to just know who they are.

People who talk on the phone while in the car or with the radio or TV blaring.
 
Arbiter said:
The phrase "shitting out a kid". So unnecessarily gross and hateful. Not to mention inaccurate. Yes, I know childbirth isn't pretty, but it's disrespectful to moms and babies to compare birth to shitting. And it just reeks of millennial potty humor "edge".
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agree (it is based when talking about niglets thoughbeit)

ot: grocery stores that have too few checkout lines open, making me wait in line for 10+ minutes because they're too cheap to hire enough cashiers
 
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