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

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It is 1996 and a major, national retailer does not have its inventory online.

It is 2026 and a major, national retailer does not have its inventory online.

My guy, I'm not driving across the city to find out if you carry something I need. You don't have to sell it to me online, but at least let me know if you have what I want.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
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.
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Have you watched the videos where they're cleaning a house so it can be sold but the whole house has to have every wall and ceiling washed? (:_(
My neighbour passed away and her house was given to her nephew and his family. She was a chain-smoker and they took out all the walls and opened up the windows, the place smelled like an ashtray for like a year
 
Motherf*cker said:
Have you watched the videos where they're cleaning a house so it can be sold but the whole house has to have every wall and ceiling washed? (:_(
My neighbour passed away and her house was given to her nephew and his family. She was a chain-smoker and they took out all the walls and opened up the windows, the place smelled like an ashtray for like a year
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Oh yeah I've seen old office buildings and casinos where the vent systems are surrounded with a ring of yellow from the nicotine.
 
DoomsdayElite said:
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.
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When these cocksuckers post up near the menuboards/ordering mics or by the end of the drive-thru lines. Or the ones at gas stations that walk around with a young child and try to shake your hand before they ask for "$20 in gas to get him home to his mom."

That last one I told to get his fucking hand away from me and stop parading a kid around. I got an angry eyeroll from my girlfriend at the time for that one.

I used to say I didn't have cash and then all these money-exchanging apps came out so now I simply tell them I have zero interest in giving them money and walk past them.
Paper Machete said:
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.
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There's probably a metric fuckton of good brands out there but I can recommend Koffee Kult from experience. They're cool as fuck about customer service so ask whatever questions you have.

Thread tax: people who think we're voting our way out of how fucked the US is currently or those who want to preserve the status quo. I hope when shit kicks off those assholes are facing the wall first.
 
Motherf*cker said:
Have you watched the videos where they're cleaning a house so it can be sold but the whole house has to have every wall and ceiling washed?
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My mom smokes in the kitchen and toilet, walls are yellow with waxy shit that rubs off, but builds up anew fast. My best friend used to smoke in front of computer, I got a monitor off her and wasted a pack of wipes removing nicotine film (it is still yellow).
 
Back when I was a lad, a lady across the street who smoked more than Hiroshima after Little Boy, was moving and she offered a couch to my parents. That fucking thing smelled like every cigarette that had been ever smoked. Years later even the faint trace of that smoke could still be smelled if you got your nose close to it.
 
You know what grinds my gears? All those damn languages in google translate!
"Ah yes, I want to translate some Awadhi today!"
"How do you say that in Tumbuka?"
"Mmmyess, I think today I'll look up how to say kill yourself in *checks notes* Batak Toba!... Bunu dirim!!!"
Statements uttered by the utterly deranged!

Who the hell is this for?! It's some jank ass UI Design. Just have the common languages up there like English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, French, British and a bunch of other European languages, and then let the user add a few more custom languages to show up in the UI, then hide the rest in some other menu somewhere.
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
My mom smokes in the kitchen and toilet, walls are yellow with waxy shit that rubs off, but builds up anew fast. My best friend used to smoke in front of computer, I got a monitor off her and wasted a pack of wipes removing nicotine film (it is still yellow).
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i have once had the displeasure of taking apart the computer of a guy who regularly smoked at his desk
the thick layer of yellow-brown gunk on all the fans was terrifying
 
It's a 2-fer today.
I'm trying to make my own PCB at home, yes I know at this point I could have paid to have thousands made but that's not the point. I've come to the conclusion that milling isn't consistent enough, blowing away black paint with a laser isn't consistent enough so it's time to do photoresist. Expose the coated board through a transparency with a 405nm near-UV light and VIOLA, etch resist, then just etch. Being me, I decided I'd do the exposure with a laser directly as it would be less fiddly than printing stuff and aligning it. Of course I don't have as 405nm laser, and my 450 would almost work but would be right on the edge of scorching the etch resist rather than exposing it. So, found one 500mW module on eBay, ordered it, hooked it to power, plenty bright even through the goggles. Then hooked it to the 3d printer I was retrofitting, not so bright. Thought it was PWM settings, no, all good, fucking thing burned itself out in the hour I tested it. Not worth anything but throwing it away. All the other ones are from China, so I ordered one of those, let's see how that goes when/if it ever arrives. At least my Chinese crap usually lasts more than an hour.

My friend agreed to let me put a small backup server at his hangar if I paid for an Internet connection. So I ordered it and was careful to say "Cheapest Internet" no Wifi, no other crap. Install is later this week so they sent the preliminary bill, top tier Internet, Wifi and a phone line. Now I gotta call the fuck again and explain that planes don't make phone calls and I already have plenty of Wifi gear and routers. Fucking Internet companies.
 
What grinds my gears the most are crazy bikers roaming around the neighborhood at 11 PM like a bunch of lunatics and with the loudest exhaust pipes imaginable without a care in the world. I love bikes, they're fun and i own a pretty sick-looking bobber myself but goddamn, go to a parking lot or a secluded place if you wanna go nuts on the road, better yet, just get into the highway and have that shit impounded by the cops.
 
GZX_ULTRA said:
This has probably been brought up a bunch already but people that add “like” to every fucking other word

“So like i like totally like got into a fight with like this dude i knew and like we like both like beat the shit out of each other”
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I once bullied an IRL friend into stopping this by pestering him with pictures of like-likes from Zelda, asking if his shield had been eaten lately, etc. It worked.

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I have a job interview at noon a d is almost 5am. Ive taken half a dozen benadryl and half a dozen melatonin and am wide awake.
 
"Hey I know the average house price in kangaroo land cracked 7 figures and you'll be paying it for the rest of life, but have you considered this house that's no where near where you work, fits none of your requirements and is worse than your current rental by every measurable standard?" If I recieve one more unsolicited piece of real estate advice, I'm going to punch someone.
 
JDVanceBiggestHater said:
What grinds my gears the most are crazy bikers roaming around the neighborhood at 11 PM like a bunch of lunatics and with the loudest exhaust pipes imaginable without a care in the world. I love bikes, they're fun and i own a pretty sick-looking bobber myself but goddamn, go to a parking lot or a secluded place if you wanna go nuts on the road, better yet, just get into the highway and have that shit impounded by the cops.
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Thread tax: Folks who think we want to hear your noise machine at any time of day.

PS - No one thinks you're a sick-looking "bobber," unless bobber is keyword for, "blowjob giver," in which case I wouldn't brag about that if I were a dude who was trying to act tough by riding something that vibrated the space between my legs. We think you look like a try-hard nuisance.

Why do you folks like that? To help make using pre-equipped seat dildo more exciting? Or, do you usually have to supply your own?

But, final thought, if you truly want to act like an outlaw, best to skip the helmet and leathers, both of which were designed for wussies.
 
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