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

[Lady Bizness]

I don't intend to speak spanish, ever.

I work in education in the US and no matter what level of that shit show you work in everyone is worried about speaking Spanish. The law of the land is that instructional materials must be in English though - thank God.
Anyway, I used to work in a school where the primary language other than English was not Spanish, but Vietnamese, Tagalog, various other Asian and Indian languages and then Spanish. We had people at the district who were just there to call home and speak gook when a student needed some kind of intervention. I don't want to get into how I really feel about all of that - I'm just saying the spic worship is obvious and I'm tired of it.
Nobody ever asks me if I speak Tagalog or Urdu with that same shmarmy look on their face when they ask me if I speak Spanish. When I spit back at them what other languages I do speak (ha ha and I'm totally rusty so it's not like I'd be worth a damn) you can see their brains break.

And can I just say, it's not an appropriate language replacement for English? I'm eager for someone who knows to provide a counter argument because I really don't know much about Spanish. But from my experience it seems like it lacks nuanced vocabulary. Could just be because I'm primarily hearing it from non native speakers, people who are teaching others to speak Spanish, and stupid beaners.

I have taught English to immigrants before and boy, it's too bad English is the lingua franca because it's difficult . Our grammar is quite obnoxious with so many exceptions! However, besides "colonialism" there must be a reason it's so often a common language. Taking a stab at it, there is a lot of ability to convey nuance and that's important to me at least. I'm glad my immigrant relatives insisted on English-only households when they got here. I can learn their mother tongue at my leisure on a lark.

 

[Jace on ice]

Current AI tech is just glorified chat bots with predictive algorithms and I'm already to go full clanker genocide. Society was already pretty sloppified but dear God the AI slop content is fucking everywhere and it is absolutely insufferable and repulsive.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

I have taught English to immigrants before and boy, it's too bad English is the lingua franca because it's difficult . Our grammar is quite obnoxious with so many exceptions!

Counterpoint: I am literally retarded and yet I am talking to you here right now, despite my English teachers ranging from incompetent to "makes us roleplay stupid scenes written for 3rd grade in 7th".
English is so easy, my brain slips into it when it does not feel like doing complex tbings.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

A couple of Google Play Ad shits I took screenshots of:

 

[Captain Syrup]

mUh nUAncE

Most of the things online types insist are nuanced are actually extremely straightforward. When someone bitches about nuance, what they really mean is they’re afraid of losing or being "cringe." It’s not nuanced and not especially logical either.

 

[ChompChomp]

Tagalog

Thread tax:

Whenever I see this word, i start yearning for Girl Scout cookies.

However, besides "colonialism" there must be a reason it's so often a common language.

My guess is that being a world leader in so many different areas probably helped.

Like, most major programming languages are in English (as far as i know), so if you didn't even mean to learn the language, you'd have to know a bit to understand operators, expressions, etc.

#include <stdio.h>

// What does main() do?
//
// Learn English to find out!

int main() {
   printf("Hello, World!");
   return 0;
}

Also, it's easy to understand basic English speakers because inflection doesn't play a major role. It's way easier than trying to understand Cockney.

 

[Captain Syrup]

 

[Return of the Freaker]

TT: When I watch a single video on YouTube that I found interesting and suddenly I see a 100 copycats sprout in my recommended feed. It happened when I watched a video from a channel called aboringday, who revs up the voltage to electronic toys until they break down. I ended up seeing about 25 similar channels come up since watching the video.

This and the whole "zomg our phones are listening!" is done to death at this point. But the past few weeks I've had frequent conversation at work about getting Yodeck digital sign players to replace non-upgradable Win 10 PCs that have been sitting in lobbies looping Powerpoints for the past decade plus. Within the last 7 days, I've been bombarded with ads from Yodeck. For bonus points, the video is clearly AI. Possibly the narration too.

Yesterday I finally went to get all the salt and mud off my car since it's been mostly above freezing the past few days. The car wash I usually go to has been under new management since I last went. They had an attendant out at the kiosk where you'd normally pick what you want and pay yourself. The old management would also do this when things were really busy and the line was pretty long when I got there. This fucking kid was so aggressive trying to sign me up for a monthly subscription when I just wanted to get in and out and move on with my day. Like 5 times I had to insist no, just charge me for this wash. Yeah, I'll definitely come back (but not if they pull this hard sell bullshit again) but I'm not interested in a fucking monthly plan right now!

 

[hotpocalypse]

The cost of fruit and vegetables

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Bums mooching for change. There was one yesterday who had the nerve to tap me on the shoulder because I had earbuds in and didn't hear the prick, he'd been walking behind me. I whirled around, ready to commit an act of aggravated assault (at least). These assholes are getting way too fucking forward. Do not touch me, you grimy motherfuckers. Does the eight inch KA-BAR I wear openly not send a pretty clear message?

 

[nycifer]

People who gotta go around and demand you use something they use. I've spoken about this a few times, I guess it's something that really annoys me that much to be repeating it.

The whole Discord ID thing is overblown so now almost everyone is saying go Stout or go Matrix or go whatever thing they want you to go. I have had gone to alternatives before when I was sick of something. The highlighter line of that is - when I was sick of something. Not because someone told me to go here because they got sick of something.

I think what really just rubs me the wrong way about how people go about this, is that I believe in freewill and hate general browbeating. If people want to use what they want to use, let them. If they get burned enough times from said thing that they use, they'll eventually get it and try to find something else. They don't always need your help or your little curating advice.

I'll use what I want to use. If I want to continue using Windows, I'll continue using Windows and you can take your Linux laundry-list of distros and shove them up your ass. If I want to use GMail, I'll continue using GMail until I'm bored of it. If I want to use Discord, then so on and so forth.

Bums mooching for change. There was one yesterday who had the nerve to tap me on the shoulder because I had earbuds in and didn't hear the prick, he'd been walking behind me. I whirled around, readily to commit an act of aggravated assault (at least). These assholes are getting way too fucking forward.

I would've just given them a penny and if they get all raging to the point of trying to attack you, you can just bitch slap them down and have a self-defense case.

 

[Paper Machete]

I am so incredibly sick and tired of room temperature IQ midwits throwing around the word "planned obscelecence" and telling us all how nefarious the great evil corpos are for doing it, when its apparent said midwits haven't the faintest grasp of the most basic concepts.
No, unserviceable transmissions aren't a company trying to prevent you from fixing them. The proverbial "you" doesn't fix them anyway, you take it to a shop to have it fixed, and thats assuming "you" don't just buy a reman unit from the manufacturer since its essentially brand new and not much more. The reason they did that, is because making it unserviceable is a cheaper way to manufacture it, not to screw over the end user.
No, things arent being made out of plastic so they break easier, forcing you to buy more. Its because injection molded plastic is obscenely cheap to make, and incredibly fast to boot. Its cheaper than stamped sheet metal, cheaper than cast pot metal, doesn't corrode, doesn't fatigue, and takes a fraction of the time to produce. From a manufacturing perspective, you can't beat it for many applications.
Furthermore, "planned obscelecence" isn't some evil concept designed to ruin consumer products, its a way to refine a product to fit the lifespan that the average consuner will use it. Let's say I make a car, and that it will last I'm average 150k miles before being totaled, sold off second hand, traded in for a newer model, etc. Well if that's how long it lasts, then effort and materials put in to make it last beyond that is going to be superfluos, and thusly an unnecessary cost on my end as the manufacturer, lowering my margins, and increasing cost to the customer.
Not everything has to be some nefarious corpo exec twirling his mustache about how he can ruin the lives of his customers, sometimes there's rational reasons for things, not that the average normie/redditor would be able to grasp the concept

Plastic/composite components also help make the car lighter and therefor have better mileage, which IS a plus.

There is also survivor bias. A lot of older cars were not actually hardier. A lot of them did break down and need repairs before you'd think, got scrapped, have been used as a "parts car", etc. The ones still in use are the extra good ones that have been taken care of, repaired, and refurbished. That tank of a car still in the road might have gone through two transmissions. You don't know because the car is so old it's history is pretty much impossible to tell accurately. And anyway, there is a catch 22 where those are only long lasting and inexpensive options for people with the ability to work on cars beyond the basics. Cars used to be easier to work on, that's true, but that's also why a lot of them didn't have to go into shops or get traded in and not because they were perfect.

Complaining about quality is like complaining about kids these days, it's always been a thing.

Thread tax: I cannot find a coffee brand I truly like readily available at grocery stores and might have to start looking at ordering online direct from roasters like some snob.

 

[Motherf*cker]

Cigarette smokers. It's awful walking behind them, it's awful if you're anyways around. Cigarettes smell like I'm huffing from the top tower of a toy factory and I always seem to be down wind from it.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Cigarette smokers. It's awful walking behind them, it's awful if you're anyways around. Cigarettes smell like I'm huffing from the top tower of a toy factory and I always seem to be down wind from it.

I'm sure they're okay people, hell I knew a few, but none of them are different when it comes to smoking. Their vehicles are ashtrays and they aren't aware of the lingering smell of tobacco smoke that's attached to them.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Cigarette smokers. It's awful walking behind them, it's awful if you're anyways around. Cigarettes smell like I'm huffing from the top tower of a toy factory and I always seem to be down wind from it.

Was in a line of work where smoking was the norm due to high stress. You don't realize how much the smoke soaks into everything until you stop being around them or you have to clean the walls. Its quite putrid.

 

[DumbDude43]

I have taught English to immigrants before and boy, it's too bad English is the lingua franca because it's difficult . Our grammar is quite obnoxious with so many exceptions!

of all the european languages english is by far the easiest one to learn for a non native speaker.
spanish italian french german are all significantly more difficult to learn than english, anything slavic is even more difficult than that, and the further you move from european languages the more difficult it gets, until you arrive at chinese which might as well incomprehensible alien speech invented by martians using a writing system from alpha centauri.

 

[sherwoods110]

Cigarette smokers. It's awful walking behind them, it's awful if you're anyways around. Cigarettes smell like I'm huffing from the top tower of a toy factory and I always seem to be down wind from it.

They are unaware of how bad it smells and how strong the stench is. Your sense of smell and taste get dulled when you smoke cigarettes. I did not realize how drastic the affect was until I quit smoking for good. I wish I could go back and apologize to all of the people that I smoked around. "Oh, I'm more than a few feet away from that group of people or the open windows of that house, I'm good." NOPE, wrong.

 

[Mysterious Figure]

Cigarette smokers. It's awful walking behind them, it's awful if you're anyways around. Cigarettes smell like I'm huffing from the top tower of a toy factory and I always seem to be down wind from it.

Women who smoke cigarettes are sexy to me.

I don't know if it's because I've been conditioned to associate cigarette smoke with love. When I was a kid, many of my family members smoked, and I ended up enjoyed the sight and smell because my family was always happily spending time together while smoking.

The cigarette smoke from a woman is sexy to me and gives me that love feeling. Watching her with a cigarette in her hand or mouth is just attractive to me.

I never smoked, and nobody in my family smokes anymore either.

 

[Motherf*cker]

They are unaware of how bad it smells and how strong the stench is. Your sense of smell and taste get dulled when you smoke cigarettes. I did not realize how drastic the affect was until I quit smoking for good. I wish I could go back and apologize to all of the people that I smoked around. "Oh, I'm more than a few feet away from that group of people or the open windows of that house, I'm good." NOPE, wrong.

For sure. I quit smoking probably over ten years ago, and I don't think I ever knew how bad it smelled either

 

[The Last Stand]

Women who smoke cigarettes are sexy to me.

I don't know if it's because I've been conditioned to associate cigarette smoke with love. When I was a kid, many of my family members smoked, and I ended up enjoyed the sight and smell because my family was always happily spending time together while smoking.

The cigarette smoke from a woman is sexy to me and gives me that love feeling. Watching her with a cigarette in her hand or mouth is just attractive to me.

I never smoked, and nobody in my family smokes anymore either.

Boy, do I have something for you if you're interested. Here's a little taste:

Smoking used to be glamourous back then, even if unhealthy. Now it's a tacky pastime. I'm not advocating for people to smoke; I'm saying that glamour has changed from then to now.