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

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It snowed a bit here and insane amounts of dog shit are just piling up on top of the snow. I don’t know if people clean it up less when it snows for some reason, or think it’ll all just melt away magically with the snow, or if it’s just more visible with the high color contrast, but either way it has made aesthetically neutral-good areas in my neighborhood look completely horrific.
 
A weird one but probably relatable: it pisses me off how, as an adult, you can look back on shit and realize why things went the way they did and it's far too late to ever change it.

I'd love to actually talk to my best friend about some grade-A bullshit she pulled in high school but i know there's no point now, and i also understand why she did it. It just sucks.

Doesn't help any when you've lost contact with pretty much everyone you knew back then so there's no point trying to reconnect and maybe be friends again, and it makes me weirdly mad seeing how many people don't have that issue. Or seeing youth going down the same slope i did and knowing they'd never listen to a warning.
 
Was yours out of the office for the ICE Out protest? Cuz mine was ♥️
Nope, but she does call in sick a lot. Like almost every week she's usually out one or two days because of a migraine. So she says. I often joke with my family that she was probably misgendered or deadnamed so she's having an existential crisis. Who knows?

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I hate when the same pooner coworker claims she's such a nerd, yet she often doesn't know about anything that's truly nerdy or have any dorky hobbies to speak of. In her pre-pooner lesbian days, she was apparently a hipster. The nerdiest thing she likes is Star Trek. Honestly, I wouldn't care if she didn't try make a spectacle of her "nerdy credentials" either. But she's a pooner, so of course she does that.
 
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I don't get this need for content creators to talk about things outside of their wheelhouse. Imagine if a political commentator just randomly dropped his opinion on the best way to install a toilet.
At least
1. you might learn something.
B. It would be funny as hell.
I get it though. I read a review of the Ghost show in my area, and Forge had to say something about muh hecken fascism during the show.
Shut the fuck up and sing. I wish Trump was the fascist dictator they keep yammering on about.
 
A weird one but probably relatable: it pisses me off how, as an adult, you can look back on shit and realize why things went the way they did and it's far too late to ever change it.

I'd love to actually talk to my best friend about some grade-A bullshit she pulled in high school but i know there's no point now, and i also understand why she did it. It just sucks.

Doesn't help any when you've lost contact with pretty much everyone you knew back then so there's no point trying to reconnect and maybe be friends again, and it makes me weirdly mad seeing how many people don't have that issue. Or seeing youth going down the same slope i did and knowing they'd never listen to a warning.
I've felt this way about something and have brought it up with them. They actually instantly knew about it and seemed to realize they were a fuckface during it. It was both gratifying and frustrating. If they instantly knew and admitted it I wish they'd said something. I'll admit me bringing it up was a total shot out of the blue but it was just modestly relevant.

I'd say if they are someone you still talk to give it a shot but it doesn't sound like you are. I've tried to reconnect with someone and ended up having it fall through again. I think they just didn't care so I have left it to be buried. I don't get how someone can just drop everything, stop talking, and just ignore that you existed at all even if you still have similar interests.
 
Doesn't help any when you've lost contact with pretty much everyone you knew back then so there's no point trying to reconnect and maybe be friends again
You should try, tho. If only to discover how much they changed.

I'd say if they are someone you still talk to give it a shot but it doesn't sound like you are. I've tried to reconnect with someone and ended up having it fall through again. I think they just didn't care so I have left it to be buried. I don't get how someone can just drop everything, stop talking, and just ignore that you existed at all even if you still have similar interests
Uh, certain people just do that. They may not be bad people, think of it as a type of emotional retardation. It hurts, but you should try atleast talking to them about that.

I read a review of the Ghost show in my area, and Forge had to say something about muh hecken fascism during the show.
Shut the fuck up and sing
Dude, it's Ghost, they had never been normal.
 
A weird one but probably relatable: it pisses me off how, as an adult, you can look back on shit and realize why things went the way they did and it's far too late to ever change it.

I'd love to actually talk to my best friend about some grade-A bullshit she pulled in high school but i know there's no point now, and i also understand why she did it. It just sucks.

Doesn't help any when you've lost contact with pretty much everyone you knew back then so there's no point trying to reconnect and maybe be friends again, and it makes me weirdly mad seeing how many people don't have that issue. Or seeing youth going down the same slope i did and knowing they'd never listen to a warning.
I can see what you're saying. I sometimes wish I was one of those people that don't always think about the what-ifs and could've been moments. Yet, I am and just stuck being a vessel for all of these shitty memories with people I've associated with, who, just continually like dropping the ball on our friendship multiple times. It's a little awkward to bring up something to someone about things that happened so long ago, but it is sometimes a chance worth taking if you really desire some sort of closure.

But the ball is in your court in how you want to go about all of this and designate the person in question as. For me, I just determine someone who is just plainly a shit person if they can't manage a friendship or much less, handle things as normal as they can be when establishing a friendship. It is sometimes a two-way street too, depending on what you personally have done or said.

TT: People who go online to ask a questions they know the answer to, but just want validity. Was reading up on how some 23 year old was claiming to have serious issues with family to the point of violence being involved. It was so bad that when they got into therapy, the therapist had to step in and do something he wouldn't which in this case he should just move the hell out after getting a plan together. Get the police involved if you have to, then orchestrate a get the fuck out plan.

I have moved out three times in my life when shit got intolerably bad with who I dealt with, currently in the longest stretch of time since moving out at 4 years currently. It should dawn onto people that if shit is getting as bad as they claim, you'd do whatever the fuck it takes to get out and away from that shit. Not just sit and seemingly bathe in it with the hopes it gets better.
 
I'd say if they are someone you still talk to give it a shot but it doesn't sound like you are.
I do still talk to my best friend and although I'd bring it up, they also did make up for a lot of bullshit after high school, mostly because they realized why i didn't like certain people that they kept inviting around (they all turned out to be back stabbing bitches like i had warned about in jr.high). So it's one case of letting things be in the past unless they bring it up.
You should try, tho. If only to discover how much they changed.
I am actually trying. Biggest issue is most of them are not online anymore, and i can't use my actual name as my existing parent will stalk/annoy the fuck out of me.
 
I can see what you're saying. I sometimes wish I was one of those people that don't always think about the what-ifs and could've been moments.
I don’t know if this is 'comforting' or not, but the unfortunate truth is that in real life, mistakes aren't forgiven.

You'd have to be mildly sociopathic to not make mistakes, so I don't even worry about it.
 
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Discourse around Babies On Planes. Look, I'm not a parent. Everyone's situation is different. Yeah I know "just get a babysitter/leave your kid at home" is not always feasible. I get that babies and small children shriek. You get that it's annoying. We both get that there's not much you can do about shrieking small children.

All of that out of the way? Cut the indignant "What kind of HORRIBLE person gets annoyed at children on planes!?" I'm not going to be a Karen and ask you to move. I'm not going to complain to the flight attendant. I will probably make a face. Because it's annoying. And I hate the sound of screaming children. "Public spaces aren't guaranteed to conform to your personal wishes" be damned, I'm sorry, YOU do not get to unilaterally barge into someone else's day with a loud irritating noise like a gang banger blasting rap on the bus and expect people to keep their facial expressions neutral. I know you can't turn the noise off. You do not get to dump one of your problems all over the people around you and then bitch that it's rude when people roll their eyes at you. Public space goes both ways, babe.
 
Uh, certain people just do that. They may not be bad people, think of it as a type of emotional retardation. It hurts, but you should try atleast talking to them about that.
I have made a lot of attempts to rekindle friendships and of all the ones I have, only one really stuck. The rest largely spoke a lot about wanting to talk or do things, then never speaking to me again even when I made further attempts to continue conversations. I just took it as time to leave them be.
 
I'm riding my bike in the bike lane. Fucking car stops in it to pick up some people, while there is passing traffic.
 
When I'm making a great presentation and underline something on the whiteboard with flourish but get too cocky and flip the white board marker but drop it instead of catching it so then I have to do this dainty little dip to pick it up and then ask if anyone has any questions.

I do enjoy how awkward it obviously makes everyone feel as they have to stifle laughter because it's a professional setting.

...best case scenario I catch it...and then what? Did I think people were going to applaud? Do the thing they weren't going to do prior to the presentation? Give me a high five? Invite me to a wine-crushing party in Napa?
 
My Amazon got stolen again. This is the second time in two and a half months. I'm just gonna use the Amazon locker at the gas station a mile away. I don't care if I have to walk through all that ice. I've had it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the junkies in the apartment building next door. There's always weirdos going in and out of there and banging on the door late at night. Ambulances talking people out in stretchers. Fuck this hood. Some piece of slime came up on the porch and stole a 40 can case of cat food before I could get downstairs to get it.

I was lucky enough to get a customer service rep who spoke English and was able to resend my order. But she couldn't send it to the Amazon locker. I'll be here so I guess I'll have my phone out constantly checking for a pic that it's on the porch. I'm on the second floor behind two thick doors so it's hard to hear anything.

I swear to God... If some junkie tries to sell me Friskies cat food tomorrow I'm going to spontaneously combust. It's probably gonna go right to the bodega in the morning. *sigh*
Sounds like fucking meth-head behavior. God damn I hate living around tweakers, they are unique even among drug addicts in their desire to steal anything that isn't welded down [and even then sometimes], heroin people might take a car stereo or someone's change jar, but tweakers will take shit that isn't even actually worth anything to them. In tweaker neighborhoods, the only real benefit is that if you leave a broken appliance on the curb, or like a chair or something, it'll be gone before the garbageman even thinks about coming around. You just know some fucking methhead is out there taking it apart and putting it back together over and over again, accomplishing absolute fuck-all until they eventually haul in the pieces for scrap value.
 
When I'm making a great presentation and underline something on the whiteboard with flourish but get too cocky and flip the white board marker but drop it instead of catching it so then I have to do this dainty little dip to pick it up and then ask if anyone has any questions.

I do enjoy how awkward it obviously makes everyone feel as they have to stifle laughter because it's a professional setting.

...best case scenario I catch it...and then what? Did I think people were going to applaud? Do the thing they weren't going to do prior to the presentation? Give me a high five? Invite me to a wine-crushing party in Napa?
Just kick the sucker with full force at your audience, that teaches them that you are still in full control of the situation, and the poor soul you'll hit with your pen will think twice about chuckling.

Having the day off, but waking up at 6 am anyways because your body is like "nah, you are awake now".
 
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