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

[Lady Bizness]

I have a gray polo, dark blue polo, slightly darker gray polo, slightly lighter blue polo. What more do I need?

A pink one with pineapples on it for the weekend.

 

[Theongogablogian]

I can’t stand restaurants that get hyped up as “must-try” spots, only for you to end up paying a ridiculous amount for some pretentious bullshit that leaves you hungrier than when you walked in.

 

[DavidS877]

I can’t stand restaurants that get hyped up as “must-try” spots, only for you to end up paying a ridiculous amount for some pretentious bullshit that leaves you hungrier than when you walked in.

In the before-times, that is before 2020, I used to travel for work. One nice thing about work travel, besides not paying for your own food, was going to those kind of fancy places on weekdays when you could just walk in. After a few I once made the comment I think next time I'll just go to the Subway across the street. Give me a burger place(not-smashed), steakhouse or BBQ any day over farm to table small plate whatever.

 

[spaztocate9000]

I hate how all restaurants are just reheated sysco slop now. I wish there was a directory for restaurants that cooked food from scratch.

 

[The Last Stand]

I’m at a stop sign. I stop and take five seconds to look both ways. The car behind me HONKS AT ME to move. I’m sorry I took five seconds out of their life to follow traffic rules.

 

[internet friend]

I’m at a stop sign. I stop and take five seconds to look both ways. The car behind me HONKS AT ME to move. I’m sorry I took five seconds out of their life to follow traffic rules.

There's a few special drivers that think that you're just supposed to smash into the car in front of you to get out of their way. Especially dumb in a traffic jam. What's the good of honking at me? I'm the 13th stopped car in the line, where they fuck can I go.

 

[nycifer]

I can’t stand restaurants that get hyped up as “must-try” spots, only for you to end up paying a ridiculous amount for some pretentious bullshit that leaves you hungrier than when you walked in.

Or they'll serve you a version of a commonly made dish or menu item you could readily have made at home if you wanted. "BUT OUR CHICKEN SANDWICH IS THE SHIT AND IT WAS MADE BY...BOB WHO ALTERED THE RECIPE BY USING A URINE SAMPLE! $13 PLEASE!" yeah okay, whatever.

I’m at a stop sign. I stop and take five seconds to look both ways. The car behind me HONKS AT ME to move. I’m sorry I took five seconds out of their life to follow traffic rules.

I've been trying myself, to regulate my driving habits so I don't gain anymore citations or violations I can't afford to pay. Also, I'm just tired in general of just speeding unnecessarily when it isn't needed. So the stretch of road not far from me, is 35MPH and I'm trying to maintain that 35. I'm even one of those people who'll sit and wait on a red to turn right on. Because we have red light cameras everywhere too and I'd like to not fuck with those.

I've got people from mix of middle-aged fucks to immigrant squatters working to pass me, giving me dirty looks, flipping me off and shit. Honking to urge me to move, making near misses behind me or infront of me.

Why? Because I'm trying to drive better for myself and not you? Fuck you, I hope you crash somewhere.

 

[Theongogablogian]

I've been trying myself, to regulate my driving habits so I don't gain anymore citations or violations I can't afford to pay

I swear, traffic laws are a whole different fucking rabbit hole of bullshit.

 

[The Last Stand]

Data centers are to blame for our energy utility bills going up. So now I have rent increase on top of energy bills going up next month. All the more reason that finding other work is stressful as hell itself. So defeating to work for subpar pay only for the majority of that pay to go to bills and expenses.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I guess when something gets caught up in the YouTube algorithm, I will eventually be a recipient of whatever whims it has, and some of them are really, really stupid.

Case in point, I've been getting videos lately from a couple of channels of online shops that do ASMR videos of a woman with acrylic nails putting together a package of glammed-up self-defense items (pepper spray, tasers, seat belt cutters) as part of an assortment with cute purses and keychains, and I have stared at these videos in abject wonder.

If you're the kind of woman that needs a Snoopy blinged-out taser on a fully-stuffed keychain of self-defense items (and cute keychains), it makes me think you're an overly-paranoid weirdo that is not in any real danger, you just think it's cute to have these things. But what bothers and annoys me is that if someone like me who never sought out these videos in the first place, I wonder who else is getting these videos, particularly, dumb college students who think it's perfectly acceptable to assault people on campus whose opinions they don't like and are so immature that they would buy them if they have Louis Vuitton (knock-offs) and Hello Kitty on them.

So yeah, the implications of these videos really get on my nerves.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

One of my friends send me this track not too long ago and i still have a hard time coming to terms with this shit actually being a real thing:

I looked this up afterwards and these No Delivery zones are not even that uncommon in the US, like what the fuck? There are articles about this that date back into the early 00s, utterly ridiculous. I spent many an hour in A&H and kind of know how blue gums behave over the pond but this shit leaves me kind of speechless. The fucking pizza man doesn't come anymore because your ilk can't behave? How the fuck do you manage getting to that level?!

Edit: Regarding the lyrics, "Your place is in the basement" for a reason, it seems.

 

[The man The only man]

>Older colleague recommends a good company to me for future employment
>Look at their site
>DEI front and center (UK owned company in a niche technical field, with grunts being ~95% male)
>Negress as their "community/DEI manager"
>Multiple internal communities for browns, faggots and women
>Yearly rapports about gender pay cap (i.e. men get larger sum benefits because only 1% of men work part-time)
>Unironically uses the word "birthing person"
>20% of vacancies are related to bullshit DEI jobs
>Gloating about only promoting niggers and women into senior management
>More news/articles about DEI than actual business related topics
I don't blame the guy because he said that a friend of his worked 40 years there. Just infuriating how a seemingly good company can get pozzed so much without having anything to do with B2C markets. For whom are they doing this for, the UK government?

Also a pajeeta in india won Quality employee of the year at an international company. From the article you can easily ascertain that "her acknowledgment" was written by AI and the things she "did" were the most basic bitch stuff with vague descriptions. You 100% know that pajeets flooded the recommendations system to rig it for the pajeeta.

I fucking hate stock owned companies.

 

[internet friend]

People acting like the slightest drop in house prices is this amazing change to make living affordable. "The average market value has dropped by 20k" wow! So now instead of a house being 700k more than what its worth, its only 680k more than what its worth. Incredible affordability!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"I understand you want to speak to an agent, but..." - bot

aaarrrggghhh...

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

How clunky, outdated, archaic and obscure seller features are on ebay. I accidentally double purchased a shipping label and just to void one I had to do a digital journey into mordor to find the tab that let's you go over your shipping labels

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Shopping online is so ASS now.

* still gotta wait for days and maybe pay shipping fee
* the retailer may use some Current Year BS like "DoorDash" or "Uber"
* if you live in an apartment or suite the system may not get that number (good luck fixing the BS)
* the deliveryman usually just leaves the package there with no ringing the bell or having you sign
* the deliveryman may be incompetent and deliver the package to the wrong place
* if you get the wrong thing or it's defective good luck returning it
* "porch poachers" are a potential risk especially in a big city
* the elements are also a hazard anywhere

How the hell the "retail apocalypse" still happened with all this bullshit is bullshit. Shopping in person is much better than online.

 

[ChiliChumper]

I'm frequently annoyed by comments on tutorial videos complaining that they "can't do it".
I see this shit on even the easiest recipe videos. All you'll have to do is boil some water, fry something in a pan, and put them together and you get some overgrown baby complaining that they "can't cook." Like, ffs man, they are literally giving you instructions. All you have to do is follow them.

I genuinely fucking despise how many of my peers refuse to cook, or think my cooking is some natural talent given to me by divine right.

No culinary school. No formal training. Literally just got fed up with outrageous restaurant price trends a decade back, so I just hopped on Youtube and typed in stuff I knew I liked.

Every single excuse I hear is so brain dead idiotic it genuinely brings my piss to a boil. My favorite is "but if I fuck it up and throw it away its a waste of money." Like bro do you know how oblivious and stupid you have to be to make something INEDIBLE? It happens to me, MAYBE, once a year. And chances are it's because I was a dumbass and left something under the broiler.

My friend spent 25 bucks on chicken alfredo. Twenty five fucking dollars. And then insisted he wouldn't be able to make it himself when I chewed him out in VC.

You can't boil fucking pasta? You can't pan fry a chicken breast? Fuck it take a short cut and buy some decent jarred alfredo and youre STILL making twice the food for half the fucking money!

If you can't follow a Food Wishes/Chef John video I genuinely don't know how you're smart enough to tie your own shoes in the morning.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

No culinary school. No formal training.

I think @souschef has formal culinary training.

 

[souschef]

I genuinely fucking despise how many of my peers refuse to cook, or think my cooking is some natural talent given to me by divine right.

No culinary school. No formal training. Literally just got fed up with outrageous restaurant price trends a decade back, so I just hopped on Youtube and typed in stuff I knew I liked.

Every single excuse I hear is so brain dead idiotic it genuinely brings my piss to a boil. My favorite is "but if I fuck it up and throw it away its a waste of money." Like bro do you know how oblivious and stupid you have to be to make something INEDIBLE? It happens to me, MAYBE, once a year. And chances are it's because I was a dumbass and left something under the broiler.

My friend spent 25 bucks on chicken alfredo. Twenty five fucking dollars. And then insisted he wouldn't be able to make it himself when I chewed him out in VC.

You can't boil fucking pasta? You can't pan fry a chicken breast? Fuck it take a short cut and buy some decent jarred alfredo and youre STILL making twice the food for half the fucking money!

If you can't follow a Food Wishes/Chef John video I genuinely don't know how you're smart enough to tie your own shoes in the morning.

Cooking is not hard as people make it to be, really. The only "secret" is making sure you take care in every step. As it was said: "perfection is little things done well"

I think @souschef has formal culinary training.

Yep, but it's my trade. A home cook doesn't need formal training, though in culinary school i had a lot of colleagues, usually older people, that enrolled just because they loved cooking as a hobby

 

[nycifer]

These faggot DDoS attempts on this site.