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

[Billy Beer]

Reading is better when I do it while sitting with my wife. Sue me.

How is that comparable to sitting on a phone? If i walked in to a restaurant and saw a couple reading, i would think "Fair play, they must be a strong couple"

It's OK for people to be friendly.

Is it though? A friendly stranger is the biggest red flag to me. Nobody does anything without reason and the reason 'being friendly', in my experience, has always translated to: "I want something in return" or the 'friendly' is a front to get you on 'their side' of community gossip or slap fights.

The only friendly people that i have no issue with, is older folks in the countryside. I'll stop and chew the fat with them anyday, mainly because it's always a positive exchange.

 

[Sped Xing]

How is that comparable to sitting on a phone? If i walked in to a restaurant and saw a couple reading, i would think "Fair play, they must be a strong couple"

Dogg, what do you do on YOUR phone? I watch television with her, too. Sometimes we even play vidya.

Is it though? A friendly stranger is the biggest red flag to me. Nobody does anything without reason and the reason 'being friendly', in my experience, has always translated to: "I want something in return" or the 'friendly' is a front to get you on 'their side' of community gossip or slap fights.

The only friendly people that i have no issue with, is older folks in the countryside. I'll stop and chew the fat with them anyday, mainly because it's always a positive exchange.

Well, my neighbors are old ranchers and orchard. . . ers, so fair enough. I'd be suspicious of friendly neighbors in a city. They're either looking for something to steal or trying to convert you to their religion.

 

[Billy Beer]

Dogg, what do you do on YOUR phone? I watch television with her, too. Sometimes we even play vidya.

I don't. It's basically an emergency device/alarm clock/email checker.

I think you've missed the point. Doing shit with your other half is fine. Both going out to eat, to spend the whole time ignoring one another to look at your phone is mind-boggling

Well, my neighbors are old ranchers and orchard. . . ers, so fair enough. I'd be suspicious of friendly neighbors in a city. They're either looking for something to steal or trying to convert you to their religion.

My parents live in the country and their neighbours are friendly and helpful when it comes to community stuff. They organise events like making their own wine or having a feast. But they also understand that privacy is a big part of a community. So yeah i can see old ranchers and orchard owners being pretty cool.

In a modern city and the suburbs, everyone is a cunt out to get something, because nobody wants to earn anything anymore. Why be independent when you can gibsmedat by acting friendly?

 

[Sped Xing]

I think you've missed the point. Doing shit with your other half is fine. Both going out to eat, to spend the whole time ignoring one another to look at your phone is mind-boggling

You are correct. I don't understand the point. Why is reading a book OK, but reading something on my phone not OK? Father, I cannot click the book.

On a first date, I think phones out is weird and rude. If you don't even know her and she pulls out a phone, walk out and stick her with the check.

 

[Billy Beer]

You are correct. I don't understand the point. Why is reading a book OK, but reading something on my phone not OK? Father, I cannot click the book.

Because the book you're reading is a book. You've put thought and effort in to taking a book to a restaurant. It's weird, granted, but it's a book.

Whn a couple of twenty-somethings are on their phone, they aren't looking up Kant, or reading the Iliad, they're posting pictures of their food on SM, or checking SM. They're ignoring real society, and their partner, to continue living in fake society. Reality over Virtual reality, any day.

On a first date, I think phones out is weird and rude. If you don't even know her and she pulls out a phone, walk out and stick her with the check.

100%. TBH my tolerance of people getting their phones out in social situations, or when people are talking, has reached zero for me. If i'm having a convo with someone and they pull a phone out, i walk off. If i'm in a group and people pull their phones out, i walk off.

 

[Sped Xing]

Because the book you're reading is a book. You've put thought and effort in to taking a book to a restaurant. It's weird, granted, but it's a book.

Whn a couple of twenty-somethings are on their phone, they aren't looking up Kant, or reading the Iliad, they're posting pictures of their food on SM, or checking SM. They're ignoring real society, and their partner, to continue living in fake society. Reality over Virtual reality, any day.

I actually have The Iliad on my phone. Fite me.

 

[Billy Beer]

I actually have The Iliad on my phone. Fite me.

Is it the audible version?

 

[Sped Xing]

Is it the audible version?

I have both. I'm not always driving.

 

[Meat Target]

100%. TBH my tolerance of people getting their phones out in social situations, or when people are talking, has reached zero for me. If i'm having a convo with someone and they pull a phone out, i walk off. If i'm in a group and people pull their phones out, i walk off.

As I've said upthread, I often get annoyed with my company's customers (thankfully, my job minimizes my interaction with them).

It drives me up the wall when one of them is on the phone while also expecting service in-person. If you are here to do business, you deserve my undivided attention.

 

[The Last Stand]

People in an unhappy relationship, yet they remain.

When you're just minding your own business, and all the bad shit you've done just comes to you.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Waiting outside the only available shitter while some camel jock makes a loud phone call from inside.

You gotta do a role reversal and just shit right outside the door like they would in their homeland.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

More phone shit: I have an elderly relative who must think, "I need to call Prima, but I don't have my hearing aids in. Should I take 30 seconds to fetch them and put them in? Nah, I'll just scream into the receiver."
Every time she calls, I have to hold my phone a foot away from my ear to avoid hearing damage. Like I love you but Jesus Christ take a minute to put your hearing aids in.

Going to the bathroom right after somebody else. There's a scent that lingers.

Even worse when the seat is warm.

 

[The Last Stand]

I have an elderly relative who must think, "I need to call Prima, but I don't have my hearing aids in. Should I take 30 seconds to fetch them and put them in? Nah, I'll just scream into the receiver."
Every time she calls, I have to hold my phone a foot away from my ear to avoid hearing damage. Like I love you but Jesus Christ take a minute to put your hearing aids in.

And when YOU have to scream on the phone because of that.

 

[Sped Xing]

When my Mom turns off her hearing aids because she "doesn't need them," and then screams in my face because she thinks *I* can't hear *her.*

 

[M3xus]

Got two!

My power company is a piece of shit. We just had the power cut out on a perfectly nice, calm, sunny day. This is not the first time this happened, and it will not be the last. I hoped Irma a few years ago would have knocked down enough lines they'd improve their infrastructure, but no such luck. Thank goodness the part of dinner that had to be cooked is done.

The second is people standing in doorways to hold a conversation, then have the gall to act offended when you ask them to move so you can get through. If your conversation is so important, step into the room with the guy you're talking to so people can use the doorway, you fucking retard.

 

[Totally Awesome]

I broke my old cheap phone to the point nobody could hear me in phone conversations, and the battery kept running down fast thanks to Google Play.

I went and bought a better cheap phone. Bigger screen that is higher quality. It actually responds well and doesn't smudge. It has more RAM and a more recent version of Android, so it should be more stable. I shouldn't have avoided buying another phone for so long. When this phone gets broken I'll go look at something recent that doesn't cost too much. It will blow me away!

 

[A Grey Cat]

I bought the extended cut if waterworld but the extended version is only on the ultra HD 4k blu ray... The one that needs a 4k player and TV to watch which I don't have the money for. I still got the film on regular blu ray so it's not a total ripoff but still.


From what I've heard I'm not missing much all the extra 40 minutes are are just talking and exposition dialogue and the revelation that the mariners name is Ulysses. Universal more or less made Costner keep in all those stunts and action scenes since... Ya know they paid a lot of good money for them and were banking on waterworld being as big a money maker as Jurassic Park was in order to pay for them.

They pretty much cut all that fluff out to keep the film at a respectable blockbuster running time but Costner wanted the film to be longer with more mellow drama in the hopes the academy would give him more Oscars for it.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

In past call center work I've done, there are alway customers who don't understand how to use the address bar in their browser. When I tell them to put in a website's address, they go to Google and put it in the Google seach bar instead.

Someone older that I know does this. When I pointed out they could put the address directly in the address bar and save themselves an unnecessary step, they looked at me like I was trying to explain multivariable calculus to a kindergartner.

My power company is a piece of shit. We just had the power cut out on a perfectly nice, calm, sunny day. This is not the first time this happened, and it will not be the last.

My power company decided to raise rates 50% during summer weekdays from 2 PM to 7 PM because of "peak usage" -- something they hadn't done until this year AFAIK. While I can adjust my daily routine to do my computer work at night after dinner, it sucks that people who have no other choice but use the most electricity during those hours are getting shafted. The sad part is the company will probably report record profits in the third quarter by doing something that's supposedly intended to cover increased costs.

I went and bought a better cheap phone. Bigger screen that is higher quality.

When I switched carriers this past Fall, the new carrier uses the same network I had been using and charges nearly 60% less for the same service. Even better, the new phone I got from the new carrier cost just $150 when my previous carrier would have charged $600 or more for the exact same thing.

My current piss-offs are people who seem clueless when you have to answer the same question they've already asked multiple times or those who expect you to clean up their messes when they drop the ball -- more-so when it involves professional people who should know better.

 

[yasscat]

People who take the long way around answering a yes or no question. Example: "did you find that car listing online?" "yeah, I saw it on carguru." "So, yes." "Well yeah, but not on like social media." "So. Yes."
It's a yes or no question. Stop wasting time. I don't need qualifiers or a story--nobody does. I care significantly less when it happens online, but irl, it drives me up a fucking wall.

 

[TFT-A9]

People who:
1. have a problem
2. acknowledge they have a problem
3. acknowledge that this problem is the result of personal choices
4. but are bound and determined to continue making the personal choices that will ensure the problem persists