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

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People (especially boomers) who will blame and throw every product in existence under the bus rather than admit they don't know how to use it. I can accept if your microwave doesn't cook evenly or something, but when it's your microwave, your oven, your fridge, your air-conditioning, your fan, your TV, your computer, your car, your internet, your stereo, your phone, your hot water system, your other car, and your dishwasher?
 
Neighborhood Curmudgeon said:
Right now I'm enjoying a staycation. Before I took my vacation, certain people at work were happy for me that I'm taking a staycation but then lamented how they wish they could do the same with their own vacations. What pisses me off about that is I wish they realized that vacations doesn't mean you have to go somewhere or do something. Just because you're off from work doesn't mean you have to have an adventure or whatever. If you want to relax, then just relax!
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That was exactly me last week. I had 5 days off, because I felt I needed it. I only maybe went out to go to places within short reach of me, but no where far. I hate that expectancy from other people too where they think you're going off to the Bahamas or Jamaica or some other exotic location somewhere. Like, in this economy? I'd be lucky as shit that I go visit another country in my life that isn't Canada or Mexico, somewhere I could just drive to if I wanted.

When I take time off, it is because I need to reset myself and actually contemplate half of the time if the shit I'm doing are things I actually want to be doing.
 
I consider it a Redditor phenomenon but I see it on all social media platforms - when something is overblown as abuse.
A friend sent me a video on insta of a mom replacing the candy goop in a kinder egg with an actual hard-boiled egg and then hot glued it back together. She gave it to her little girl who seemed confused and then ate the egg anyway. My friend sent it because I had been complaining about our neighbors giving our boys a flat of Kinder eggs which is the last thing we need in here. Anyway, I thought it was funny.
The comments on the video were the most hysterical thing I've ever seen. People predicting this mom is going to be left to die as cat food in her dottage, or put in the worst kind of elder care facility. Detailed descriptions of her misery clearly typed with one hand. Then there were the people claiming the child was going to be poisoned by the hot glue, claiming there are dangerous chemicals in hot glue. It looked like the kind you find at craft stores meaning it's really just inert plastic, not some hardcore adhesive off gassing toxic chemicals. I mean, you don't want to go chewing a glue stick but a one-time prank where the glue isn't even touching the actual food is fine.

I wonder what these people would do if they found out I routinely did the dismembered finger illusion to my kids.

The internet is filled with self-made autists with perma-chips on their shoulder who probably should have been spanked when they were kids because they sure as hell have no real frame of reference.
 
explaining to 80% of normies or boomers that a white straight american male shouldn't, nor should internally, feel obligated to cry in the rain, overthrow, or attempt to, the country, and die alone/kill themselves

explaining to over 90% of them that they shouldn't see a coke head waving a knife, or a literal cartel member wanting in, or mass muslims deciding texas looks good, and go "well shucks joe i gotta be a good neighbor, what are they gonna do, kill me?"
 
internet friend said:
People (especially boomers) who will blame and throw every product in existence under the bus rather than admit they don't know how to use it. I can accept if your microwave doesn't cook evenly or something, but when it's your microwave, your oven, your fridge, your air-conditioning, your fan, your TV, your computer, your car, your internet, your stereo, your phone, your hot water system, your other car, and your dishwasher?
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This is probably the case if you bought all Samsung.
 
What the fuck is with people walking like phone zombies? Dont wander in front of me, don't suddenly stand in front of me and stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk, don't make it impossible to walk around you. Fuck you, wander into traffic please.
 
Motherf*cker said:
What the fuck is with people walking like phone zombies? Dont wander in front of me, don't suddenly stand in front of me and stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk, don't make it impossible to walk around you. Fuck you, wander into traffic please.
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When I do it it's usually because I've got a video playing while I'm walking, lol. But I tend to step to the side and not block people.
 
TeaBaggins said:
When I'm trying to remember a song that I once heard and want to hear again, but it doesn't really have any lyrics, and I can't describe the tune. I'm never hearing that song again.
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And if when you try to Shazam the song, it somehow doesn't register it despite being crystal clear coming out of the speaker.
Lady Bizness said:
I consider it a Redditor phenomenon but I see it on all social media platforms - when something is overblown as abuse.
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>a family member or boyfriend does a prank that goes slightly wrong or makes a woman the butt of the joke
>"wow abusive. You should cut him/her out of your life".
>Someone clearly gaslighting, lovebombing, and/or grooming someone
>"um you should still stay with them"

Tax: The fact that my apartment complex doesn't have a nightshift maintenence person.
 
Squanto Airi said:
And if when you try to Shazam the song, it somehow doesn't register it despite being crystal clear coming out of the speaker.
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I once spent years trying to track down one song, and it was way before Google, so putting in the few lyrics I knew didn't take me to any videos, because this was also before YouTube.

It took me literally years to finally find out that the song was That Girl by Esthero.
 
TeaBaggins said:
I once spent years trying to track down one song, and it was way before Google, so putting in the few lyrics I knew didn't take me to any videos, because this was also before YouTube.

It took me literally years to finally find out that the song was That Girl by Esthero.
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You know you're old when you've had the experience of humming a tune to an employee at Tower Records, and they were actually able to help ha ha. A friend of mine got a job there but part of the interview was naming four different drummers.
 
Squanto Airi said:
And if when you try to Shazam the song, it somehow doesn't register it despite being crystal clear coming out of the speaker.

>a family member or boyfriend does a prank that goes slightly wrong or makes a woman the butt of the joke
>"wow abusive. You should cut him/her out of your life".
>Someone clearly gaslighting, lovebombing, and/or grooming someone
>"um you should still stay with them"

Tax: The fact that my apartment complex doesn't have a nightshift maintenence person.
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Oh man. I had an experience with this, not the first part, but the actual abuse in the second part.

I was part of a group for a while, and there was a girl who had a "friend" who was basically acting horrible to her, putting her through hell, and just being an outright cunt to her. The guy was apparently the victim of a groomer which is a whole other story, but the guy was very abusive to her and fighting with her all the time. I know the word gets used a lot, but he was toxic and awful to her.

When I said to her that she needs to cut the guy out of her life because he was pretty much abusing her and stressing her life out and fighting with her pretty much every time they talked, everyone else in the group told her to stay friends with him and stick with him.
 
Lady Bizness said:
I don't have a sweet tooth, and even though my husband and kids do, it's my husband that's decided NO SUGAR for health reasons. I agree. I'm not going to die if my kids eat some sour patch kids at a friend's house but we aren't actively keeping that kind of thing in our house.

However, the one two punch of Halloween followed by Christmas has made this impossible. Everyone keeps giving us stuff that we really shouldn't be eating and there's a certain point where I feel like I can't just offload this crap onto my kids hoping their high metabolism will handle it. It's just so much.

I am drowning in sugar. I can't believe people actually go and buy MORE of this to keep in their house to actually eat on a regular basis. And drink soda. God no wonder everyone is fat and diabetic.
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Just throw it away nigga. It's okay. Just say you gave it to poor kids or something.

What I hate are people telling you to your face that they hated a gift you gave them. "Don't give me a gift like that again" they say, thinking they're helping me save some of my money to give them better gifts when all they've really done is help me save ALL of my money, because I'm never giving them a gift again.
 
Lady Bizness said:
You know you're old when you've had the experience of humming a tune to an employee at Tower Records, and they were actually able to help ha ha. A friend of mine got a job there but part of the interview was naming four different drummers.
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That happened to a friend of mine, lol. He was trying to find the Two Princes song by The Spin Doctors, but they gave him the wrong song and told him to buy a different album after he hummed it to them. :lol:
 
TeaBaggins said:
That happened to a friend of mine, lol. He was trying to find the Two Princes song by The Spin Doctors, but they gave him the wrong song and told him to buy a different album after he hummed it to them. :lol:
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Same thing with me, heard this obscure 80's ditty I haven't heard in a coons age and typed in about a dozen fucking descriptions in the search and kept getting some bullshit count downs, shorts or armchair generals talking about cold war what-if's, long story short the song was Soviet Snow by Shona Laing.
 
People who say a certain movie, show season, album, what have you, gets "too much hate". In some cases, maybe it gets the appropriate amount of hate because it sucks.
 
Stupid FedEx - package supposed to be here 12/26, arranged to be home for it. Midday notification delayed and would be delivered today at x time. Then at y time. Y time comes and goes, now notification will be delivered by "end of day.". I try to do a digital signature release so I don't have to waste the rest of my day waiyinv. No can do bc shipper put on a signature restriction and since it's "somewhere" out for delivery too late even to call the shipper to remove the restriction. So now I'm stuck waiting at home until whenever the "end of day" is bc it's something for one of my kids, who leaves tomorrow am to another state for new years and won't even be back at school until after new year's.
 
Pokemon Conquistador said:
What I hate are people telling you to your face that they hated a gift you gave them. "Don't give me a gift like that again" they say, thinking they're helping me save some of my money to give them better gifts when all they've really done is help me save ALL of my money, because I'm never giving them a gift again
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I wish I had the nerve to do that, my best friend always adds something to gift I asked for/figures out a gift based on her tastes. Which do not match mine, and in one case gift triggered a real strong allergy.
I just keep nodding and giving shit away.
 
Friend of Dorothy Parker said:
Stupid FedEx - package supposed to be here 12/26, arranged to be home for it. Midday notification delayed and would be delivered today at x time. Then at y time. Y time comes and goes, now notification will be delivered by "end of day.". I try to do a digital signature release so I don't have to waste the rest of my day waiyinv. No can do bc shipper put on a signature restriction and since it's "somewhere" out for delivery too late even to call the shipper to remove the restriction. So now I'm stuck waiting at home until whenever the "end of day" is bc it's something for one of my kids, who leaves tomorrow am to another state for new years and won't even be back at school until after new year's.
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...aaaaand now it's delayed to tomorrow. 2 hours on the phone with both shipper and FedEx and very nice Indian support at both 😏, but Brandon, my FedEx driver, apparently has better things to do today.
 
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