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

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Lady Bizness said:
Not every, but most! I work in education. At this point I just want to tell every parent that shows up to board meeting complaining about school curriculum and expectations to just fucking homeschool then. Seriously, if you know better what your child needs, then you do it. Many families do make that decision in fact. Some of the big initiatives that have failed our students have been this:
  • No zero policy - if a kid looks at a paper he gets 50%
  • Everything digital/not teaching handwriting
  • Scaffolding - basically the teacher writes the desired answer and takes away bits of it for the kid to fill in so we can pretend he did the cognitive heavy lifting
  • Infinite retakes of tests and opportunities to redo assignments
  • No homework
Anyway what I came here to post about, funnily enough, is about the most retarded hot garbage I heard today at a staff development day. They made all these teachers
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I also work in education, not as an educator but as a Technology Coordinator (glorified Laptop Repair and Inventory) and yep. This is what I have to deal with the outcome of. Kids not having any cognitive function.

"Miss. My laptop isnt working."

"Whats wrong with it?"

"It wont turn on."

"Lets have a look."

They didnt press the fucking power button.
 
fist_of_khonshu said:
(glorified Laptop Repair and Inventory)
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Thank you for your service. Our district went 1:1 on laptops at the semester and it's been hell according to my teacher pals. No charger, no laptop, laptop shattered, meanwhile they're supposed to be proctoring exams. I'm just so tired of the helplessness paired with destructive tendencies.
 
ChompChomp said:
The dumbest trend that I've seen is additional traffic signals near the end of on ramps to control traffic flow instead of expanding infrastructure and teaching people how to actually drive (no, you won't get a fucking speeding ticket for going freeway speeds sooner than the end of the ramp .
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Those are there to create gaps between the cars entering the freeway during high volume hours, so zipper merging can be utilized.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
My most recent rental car had this feature where the current speed limit showed in the dash and turned red if it was exceeded by even 1 mph. The feature isn't perfect, however. I was flagged by the system for exceeding the speed limit even though the speed limit it displayed only applied during school hours and it was late at night.
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Oh fuck that kind of noise, I'm torn about renewing my car because I want better features overall but this kind of shit or when you dare to fucking peak away from the road to read a sign and it beeps at you gets me up the wall.
Next fucking thing you know it will snitch emails to your insurance company if you don't "behave" like the drone you're supposed to be.
 
When people from a "minority" (ie: outnumber my people 4:1 in the world and 2:1 in my own fucking country at this point) get huffy about [white woman] doing things on their behalf and how it mildly inconveniences them. Yeah, Based Paco, you'll just have to accept that I'm not really bothered by the fact that Shannon down in accounting was worried her frozen burrito lunch might offend you. I'm too busy trying not to lose my job because three of your third-generation immigrant kids are trying to get me fired for having sugar skull art on my coffee mug and they feel micro-othered by it.
 
how the unskippable ads on youtube seem to come in waves of the same thing whether it's those fake as fuck chink robot puppies and pandas or "glucose meters" with some spick stock footage where they didn't bother to remove the hospital name in the back as being from some third world shithole oh and btw what they're selling is a blood oxygen meter.
 
Any video essays or documentaries made by generations past Gen X are borderline unwatchable because they habitually insert le quirky jokes in the middle of an explanation such as:

- "Behooved. BEE-hooved? BehOOved? im sure im not pronouncing it right lol"

Makes me wanna glow BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS
 
I sometimes wonder if the medical profession as a whole is taking the mickey.

I had a wisdom tooth extracted yesterday. Had one taken out already, about 10 years ago, and I don't remember it being this severe.

I'm not even in so much pain that I need any of the Ibuprofen I was prescribed (what hurts more is how much they had to stretch my mouth to pull the tooth - my mouth is child-sized), but one of the post-op directions is no exercise. For three weeks.

Also, when they said I needed the tooth out, the tooth next to it needed a crown because it had a cavity. Okay, one week later and the game plan is, no crown, even though they quoted me for it. They say three weeks later. I didn't hear about that a week ago.

And what rankles me the absolute fucking most is that while I'm in the chair, the dentist has the balls to comment on how pissed I am about all of this, like I'm the one with the attitude problem for not having been told shit up front, and for the office's wait-and-see approach to removing my wisdom teeth in the first place (had they removed it at any point over the last 20 years as I'd argued with multiple dentists about), I wouldn't even need the fucking crown, let alone wasting another afternoon of annual leave over this shit. Fine if they said that up front, but they didn't.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
My most recent rental car had this feature where the current speed limit showed in the dash and turned red if it was exceeded by even 1 mph. The feature isn't perfect, however. I was flagged by the system for exceeding the speed limit even though the speed limit it displayed only applied during school hours and it was late at night.
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You can adjust those settings or disable it altogether.
Lady Bizness said:
Anyway, one dipshit young teacher raised his hand and said, "I'm shocked to see no Special Ed students enrolled in our honors and AP classes! Why is that?"

So what grinds my gears are these people who think shit like this is a problem. What the fuck does this guy want?
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MUH REPRESENTATION

I’m surprised honors or AP classes even exist these days. I know some high profile school districts have been trying to eliminate them.
OiledSoba said:
Next fucking thing you know it will snitch emails to your insurance company if you don't "behave" like the drone you're supposed to be.
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This already exists: https://www.progressive.com/auto/discounts/snapshot/
 
I have an unemployed guy that does nothing but smoke 24 hours a day above me and an unemployed guy that does nothing but smoke 24 hours a day below me and now my apartment is starting to reek of weed too.

I may have to move.
 
The Last Stand said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kn27hJXhAMo
People who think VAPING is different from smoking.
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Bill Burr grinds my gears.

He should be angry about becoming a minority in his own country and being cucked by his wife, but he chose to bend the knee instead. Now all his anger is cowardly, wimpish, hollow, half-hearted, and pathetic. Directed at minor annoyances in life rather than the big boils that need lancing. Bill will rant about how bad cruise-ship food is on the Titanic rather than laying into the crew for fucking up navigation. He was popular enough to make it on his own but that wasn't good enough for Bill; he had to be 'famous', Kosher.

Go ahead Bill. Bitch about vape pens while you raise your vanta-black child and collect your forty pieces. Bitch about slavery and bitch about the WASPs. Go on bitching Bill, because you were bitch-made and made to bitch the moment you were born.
 
The Hardest R said:
I’m surprised honors or AP classes even exist these days. I know some high profile school districts have been trying to eliminate them.
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My kids' (former) high school has almost 30 AP courses, a full IB program (nearly 100 courses), and scads of basic honors courses starting in middle school.

Where are schools trying to eliminate them? I can't imagine families continuing with those schools, unless the school is of the type that is recognized as providing superior education as a basic level.
 
The local government is planning to enact speed limits of 10km/h for bicycles. How you're supposed to do under 10km/h without falling off the damn thing is yet to be determined, but it's just insane that you could be fined hundreds if dollars for going above a jogging pace.
 
If you’re gonna remake an old series, at least don’t make it look like it was filmed in the same Canadian cul-de-sac where every Hallmark movie about a widowed cupcake magnate happens.

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The lighting’s so soft it looks like everyone’s about to learn the true meaning of Christmas.

Don't get me started on vaping Minecraft Malfoy.

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