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

[sodaboard]

gym staff having secret competitions to see who can play the absolute worst music over the speakers

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Speaking of computers, when your HD decides to die with absolutely no reason or warning whatsoever.

Is it an SSD or HDD (solid state or magnetic)? And what OS were you using?

 

[Money Wizard]

Is it an SSD or HDD (solid state or magnetic)? And what OS were you using?

I mean, it's been several months since I last did anything with it, I can't even remember much anymore but I'm assuming HDD.
As for OS, Windows 10. I have a screenshot I took with the specs but I don't know if that would be PL'ing or not. Granted my old laptop was from 2019 and it only died in June this year so it could've just been really old.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Granted my old laptop was from 2019 and it only died in June this year so it could've just been really old.

Did you have access to the SMART* status?

* (internal diagnostic thing drives have)

 

[Money Wizard]

Did you have access to the SMART* status?

* (internal diagnostic thing drives have)

No. To provide a more detailed description, I power on my laptop, it boots for a couple of minutes, I get served a warning about the battery capacitor (meaning I basically have to keep the power cord plugged in or it runs out faster). Then a menu pops up that says "No Hard Drive Found" I can run a couple tests but that's about it. I can pull up the BIOS menu and change a few variables but that didn't fix anything. I can't even run CMD or anything else like that.

Spoiler

Also we should probably take this into DMs to avoid derailing the thread further

 

[Friendly Primarina]

When a fun hobby is full of dorks who kill the fun. If I go to a track day, it's because I want to (at least try to) drive my car fast around a circuit. I don't want to listen to people talking about some old shitbox they used to have 20 years ago, or watching your recordings of what you did last year, or hear about how many hundreths of a second you changed in that corner by clenching your asscheeks or whatever. Its amazing how some people are able to turn something high adrenaline like car racings into a snooze fest full of excel sheets.

Normally I'd agree but are you really mad that you went to a track day and were surrounded by racing autismos? That's like going to Milan and being mad that there are so many Italians.

 

[General Patton]

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.

 

[The Last Stand]

My knee is killing me.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

No.

Oh. Either way, computer problems are BS. Also selling electronics could almost be considered a scam given how short they can run for.

 

[Fats McGee]

Power outages.
But not the outage itself, although it knocks out Internet too even on generator.
But not knowing.
Do I drag out the big-ass-generator, hook it up, switch the house over and the power comes back 5 minutes later?

To add to this, I get extremely angry when a power outage happens that was easily preventable. I live in bumfuck rural America, so our power lines are automatically at a disadvantage. Old, dryrotted poles, overgrowth around the wires, basically everything you don't want. If the wind sneezes, we lose power. So one day I was out for a walk, and at the end of my dirt road I saw a pine tree that'd snapped in a wind storm. It was prevented from falling directly on the lines because a branch from another tree caught it, but that branch was also cracked and not likely to be very long for the world. It was over my neighbor's culvert, so I knocked on the door.

"Hey Jim, you got a tree down that's about a cunthair away from taking out the power line."

"That's within 30 feet of the road, that's the county's problem."

"It'll be everyone's problem soon enough, Jim."

To which he basically told me to fuck off. As I walked back home I called the county. They told me that was the electric company's problem. I called the county a bunch of whores and hung up. I called the electric company.

"Is it touching the wire?"

"No. It's hanging on by a thread about 5 feet above the wire."

"We can't do anything unless it's actually touching the wire."

I then called the electric company a bunch of whores and hung up. The next day. The next cocksucking day the wind picked up. We got one good gust, and the power goes out. I put on my coat and take a little walk. Sure as fucking shit, it was that tree. Took the whole line down, and because the pole was on it's last legs, the tree tugging the wires down was enough to knock it all over. They showed up at 7PM to try and repair it. They had to leave and come back with more supplies. It was 2:30 in the morning, near freezing and fucking raining, and these linemen were still out there doing a repair that could've been entirely avoided if everybody involved wasn't a fucking retard.

 

[internet friend]

Normally I'd agree but are you really mad that you went to a track day and were surrounded by racing autismos? That's like going to Milan and being mad that there are so many Italians.

Im fine with the Italians, just spare me all the talking about other Italians they used to know.

 

[General Patton]

My knee is killing me.

I feel that. I've had busted knees since I fell on both of them when I was 16.

 

[DavidS877]

To add to this, I get extremely angry when a power outage happens that was easily preventable.

That's the one thing that doesn't grind my gears where I live. We get light winds sometimes, I think we hit 80mph twice last year and 50+ a couple more times, and it wasn't thunderstorm/tornado. But they prune everything. I have a pole in my yard for my power feed. I saw the power company trimming trees and asked if the guy could look at the tree sort of close to the pole that could possibly become a problem. He looked at it, asked "do you want it gone?" and 10 minutes later it was gone.

 

[Big Lenny]

When losers hold up the line at the gas station to buy scratch off tickets. Fuck you I want my beer

 

[General Patton]

When losers hold up the line at the gas station to buy scratch off tickets. Fuck you I want my beer

Replace that with people holding up the recycling line by putting one....can... after....another instead of pouring the entire bag of it, and that's me.

 

[Yellow Sink Disease]

I hate how these fucks have taken HAES over. HAES was meant for people like my mom: overweight BMI but genuinely healthy. And I'm not talking so muscular that BMI calculation is off - she is squishy - but she is genuinely healthy (and this isn't according to a HAES doc - her doc was sorta baffled that she appears to be in peak health despite being overweight).

And this isn't just anecdotal to her doctor. She was unhealthy when I was growing up so I know what unhealthy looks like on her and it's so different now. I've seen her work out, which she never did when I was a kid. She's rarely sick now. She often remarks how nice it is to not feel any physical pain on a daily basis and have ample energy to get everything done during the day. And the squish makes for better Mom Hugs (iykyk).

But she's fat so she can't be healthy because no HAES influencers are actually healthy.

 

[internet friend]

Someone tells you a sentence and you don't hear part of it. You ask them to repeat, and without fail they will only repeat the part you heard fine. Doesn't matter if it's the start or end you missed, they somehow cosmically know and only tell you exactly the words that came through crystal clear. Not even one misheard word would be repeated.

 

[Battery Low]

How an unreasonable amount of disgusting hair gets stuck to every surface of the bathroom, and how sisyphean it is to clean it up.

 

[The Hardest R]

The sheer number of contentslop channels on Youtube. Savox, Cadaber and the like. "Disturbing Reddit Threads", ooooh how scary!

So much of it is AI slop too. You can hear the tone of the voice if it’s AI or not. Some thumbnails will say it’s not AI and it is.

As you may have gathered from stuff I've posted, I'm not exactly a fan of "smartphone culture", but FFS using the newer "smartphones" is so rage-inducing. For example, doing stuff can involve hidden settings, the search feature in the settings may not work, and "answers" online seem to always be for other systems and in tl;dw YouTube videos that don't fix the damn problem I am trying to solve. FFS. That's not even getting into "assistant" BS crammed into new stuff now or how much privacy violation there is nowadays.

The enjeetification of apps is very unfortunate. Having to download huge apps that are buggy and unstable is annoying but my biggest annoyance is when features get quietly removed. I don’t mean put into another tier, I mean they’re just gone period. Some apps worked better in 2015 than in 2025. I used to wonder why and then I look it up and often times it’s run by jeets and then it makes sense.

DHL

DHL is the worst shipping company I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with. All of the German autism without any of the German efficiency.

And lastly and worst of all my direct manager is an American amd gets all pissy when you call him a retard, as if the peasantry cannot speak to an "engineer" like that well don't be a retard than that would solve the issue now wouldn't it? I've met plenty of Muricans that don't mind the shit talking is it a hierachy thing? Just don't get it but it's so different from what i'm used too.

That’s just someone being an asshole. Any engineer who tries to lord over the technicians or any non-engineers needs to get called out right away. I do whenever I see it.

 

[Captain Syrup]

The fastest way to tell someone’s a midwit is when you say something and they go, “that’s nothing new.”

“Oh really? Nothing new? Wow, thank you, Father Time." It's a fake-smart response. They think they’re jaded but they’re just boring.