What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
People who use their turn signal AS THEY'RE TURNING. You asshole! You're supposed to do it a bit before you turn to let people know your intent. There's no point in signaling as you're turning because I CAN SEE YOU TURNING! Fuck!
And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).
So generally I use turn signals correctly. But there are a few times I don't for particular reasons.
If I am sitting at the rightmost lane at a busy intersection and intend to turn right, I honestly tend to not turn on my right turn signal. The ambiguity of whether or not I'm turning or going straight helps keep assholes behind me from honking at me. I've found that an unfortunately large amount of people get impatient when someone in front of them is turning right on red onto a busy road. They honk and act like assholes because they want you to dangerously jump into traffic and not wait for a clearing so they can go sooner.
I know I could turn on my turn signal and just let an an asshole lay on their horn, but honestly I really truly prefer to avoid that.
Happens all the time yeah.
Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can't search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don't have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I'm not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.
I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”
put the phone to my ear
Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s
It's so inconsiderate too. If you want to use your voice then use voice-to-text and send a text message.
Someone does this in a group chat I'm in, it drives me crazy.
I used to be in a group chat of just voice notes.
I'm not a hater but I understand the sentiment. I only exchange audio with very few people I feel comfortable with we both want to listen to our shit for that long, and I never expect a quick reply.
Randoms or new acquaintances sending audios without asking permission first usually annoy me.
I had a boss who would send audio messages constantly. I'd be having a conversation with him, he'd get a text message on his phone, stop talking to me to mess with this phone, do a voice recording, mess it up cause he'd whisper it so others wouldn't hear him (we still totally could), repeat it, rinse and repeat until he got it right, send it, then would ask me what we were talking about.
I'm convinced people who use voice messages have no situational awareness and are potentially psychopaths
I'll make one exception for audio messages: the other person being in a situation where they cannot easily type the message, but it's not an emergency. Hands full, driving, inclement weather, etc. I take it as an implicit "this message is important, but not drop-everything-else critical."
People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn't affect them at all
Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread
Arguably, somebody else being offended doesn’t affect you at all.
If you're sweating so much you smell bad and are working less because you're overheated and you're wearing a North Face™ mountain climber ahh jacket in a packed Amazon Delivery Station during peak time where there's like 100k packages being delivered today, yeah, I'm offended as hell.
And... My mother forced me to wear my jacket when shopping as a kid and I'd be overheated and nauseated, and she'd shop for at least six hours, and I wouldn't be allowed to take the jacket off because "we're leaving soon get over it" like you didn't say "soon" three hours ago. I'm offended at people who do that on purpose.
buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it's like nobody cares about light pollution.
I've been considering reporting streetlights that don't point straight down because they technically violate city codes.
Oh shit I've always liked the way those looked. I thought they made the house look fancy but I never considered the light pollution.
- TikTok.
- Short form videos.
- Tutorials in a 10 minute video format. Just give me a list of instructions I can skim to find the thing I'm looking for.
- Influencers and "content creators". Please get cancer and die.
- YouTube after 2011 or so
- Monetization of platforms
- The way software development evolved from a highly praised skill to being regarded as nothing more than a fleshbased code printer for creating more shareholder value
- How the art scene is now mostly relying on social media exposure and followers
- so, Actually most of the modern internet.
- The lie that you can become rich and succesful by working hard and putting in the hours
I can go on for quite a while. Millenial disillusionment is real.
You're talking about Gen Z trends.
Millennials are pretty well aware that they are fucked unless they were born lucky, we're all just wallowing silently in our depression while wishing we could afford a house.
Can I just copy and paste this as my answer?
The concernedly rising sightings of "could of" and "should of". And it's always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn't even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?
Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.
(Every two periods, or twice a period.)
If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)
Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.
Fortnightly is fine, so is biennial.
All of the other bi-timeperiod words are worthless because they mean both twice each time and every two times.
"He T-Posed Fortnitely down the stairs"
It's funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.
Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.
Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.
I really hate that California dropped all new shower heads down to 1.8 gpm. I feel very alone in this outrage. People are flying around in private fucking jets, and you want us all to take one for the team and suffer a shitty dribble of a shower every day. A generous hot shower is one of the few things that makes our lives far better than our great great grandparents. Taking out the flow restrictor is like having sex without a condom. A whole generation of suckers won’t even know what they’re missing.
I hate ordering a beer in a restaurant and it comes in a shaker pint (conical pint), which is usually a 13 oz pour. How can we have a government who verifies the measurement of fuel pumps, but not beer, when beer costs like 15x more than fuel. Fill lines are a simple, cheap, and good solution.
I hate metering lights. For those who don’t know they’re stoplights on the on-ramp to an interstate highway. Waste of fuel, don’t help with traffic.
I really hate advertisements. It seems the more I block them, the more offensive they are when one gets through.
I’m with you on the shower heads. I rip out the flow restrictors before I even install one.
I just measured my showers. I was thinking it would be over 3 gpm but my downstairs is 2.6, and upstairs is 2.25. Pretty modest actually. My guess is that they’re designed for the national standard of 2.5 gpm without a restrictor. It just makes me so mad to squeeze simple pleasures from the poor through regulation. People are miserable enough for fucks sake, if they can afford a $0.50 shower let them enjoy 10 minutes of the day.
I really hate advertisements. It seems the more I block them, the more offensive they are when one gets through.
Bruh YouTube ads feel like I was called every slur ever made and pissed on by Hitler when my premium expired. Before then, an ad was just another ad.
YouTube ads start playing on mobile YouTube and I recoil in disgust, "like fucking hell you do!", and swiftly retreat to ReVanced
YouTube is pretty bad. If I’m watching a video at 1.5x, it remembers this setting for the next video, so the same courtesy should apply to the ads. Avoidable in a web browser for now, eventually I’ll just have to youtube-dl anything I want to watch.
I really hate that California dropped all new shower heads down to 1.8 gpm
never heard of this, but wow I'll definitely keep it in mind next time I buy a shower head (which is probably never because of how much those things last, but good to know anyways)
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?
It's not clear why. It could be an issue with being able to accurately perceive your own temperature, it could be a comfort thing, it could be that they're more likely to want important possessions to be harder to steal.
So either medical, emotional or social. 🤷
Had a lot of teens walking around with the puffy jackets or hoodies on and ski masks over this past summer. Don't think we have that many schizophrenic people around here.
Advertisements
Maybe it's my age, but I'm more and more painfully aware of how many ways adverts pretend to be your friend. It'sv one of the most insipid and disingenuous things about modern society. The sheer ubiquity of charming voices trying to act like the common man, a chatty friend, a hapless discoverer of product X that offers you "up to" a benefit of.. whatever.
The whole damn thing is just horrible and crap and predatory and wears down the soul, because my soul was programmed to be surrounded by a 'clan' motivated by my wellbeing (and I theirs in a meaningful way)
Actually.. quite specifically it's the "up to" thing that happens in adverts. "Up to 100% effective" the advert says. "Well what the hell does that mean?!" I yell at the telly. "Sometimes it's 1% effective?? Why are you even talking to me about this thing?". It's ghoulish.
/rant
Capitalist propaganda has had decades to hone and refine their techniques for manipulation and deception, the only way to win is to not play their rigged game, but if you're forced to because they've captured all of the resources under a government backed judiciary that's purpose is to centralize wealth and power under a minority ownership class i think you'd be justified to take more drastic measures to subvert or remove their propaganda.
I always hated ads with a passion. I don't really know why, even back in the 90's when these was like 2 commercials per movie or something. It never felt right. So much so that i went out of my way to cut out all the ads in the movies i vcr'd. I ditched TV pretty early, because i just wouldn't have it.
But here is my question. These days, every youtuber and podcaster is basically a door to door salesman who just wan to sell sometimes quite literally shit to you. How do you continue to like people like that. I have my favourite podcasts, and i never want to hear any of their ads, because as much as i like them, they just spend 10min of their podcast lying to me and trying to sell me shit that they know is garbage. I'm not a parasocial guy, i know they are not my friends, but it still feels soooo dirty.
I HATE PEOPLE WHO CARE WHAT THE FUCK IM WEARING!
It's more that you're not wearing anything...
Birthday celebrations
Birthdays make me so uncomfortable. Even when they’re mentioned in work chat and it’s flooded with gifs/“happy birthday!”s, I just don’t get it.
For many people it's the one day of the year they feel special. I think we all deserve that, and it costs me nothing to wish someone a happy birthday. That's not to say I'm required to spend time or money on them, but it doesn't bother me when all they want is a bit of recognition.
the way yoga instructors speak, for some reason. I don't hate Yoga itself, just that fake calm voice makes me pretty mad. I could relax much better if the instructor just shouted like a drill sergeant all the time
Same. I hate how TikTok popularized it for things that have NOTHING to do with yoga or relaxing and so many youtubers copy TikTok either ironically or unironically, and it's hard to escape.
I used to work in an email heavy industry, so people who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without reattaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that either lack relevant information due to poor cropping or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand all make email super annoying to deal with. And what’s with being expected to confirm you received each and every email? Ever heard of read receipts?
Also, people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone has sent me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?
Goddamn. LED. Headlights. Also the way different manufacturers have these tacky headlight setups to somehow set then apart from others so not only are they as bright as the fucking sun, they have way more diodes than is ever necessary.
There is a confluence of problems here. LED headlights are stupidly bright, but if they’re aimed correctly and the headlights aren’t too high up, they’re not as big an issue generally.
But the arrival of LED headlights coincided with cars getting tall as fuck. There are pickup trucks whose headlights are nearly as high up as my head. Which just compounds the problem, because even if those lights are aimed mostly correctly, they’re still gonna blind people.
It’s infuriating.
omg it's the worst. When I'm not in a great mood, I flash my brights at said tall-ass pickup trucks. Probably gonna get shot one day.
Got misophonia, the sound of dog licking triggers me
licks his dog, loudly
It's the sound of snow squeak-crunching under my feet for me. I shudder every time it happens.
Ugh yes, our dog is constantly licking his teeth and smacking his lips. Even while he's just laying in his dog bed at night. It's so annoying. Vet says its normal...
Perfume and cologne. Makes me wheeze. Also long dirty fingernails, people who work with soil or grease or something excused from that.
I was at a fried chicken place and there was someone in there wearing so much perfume it overpowered the oily aroma of fried chicken. What the fuck
Glad to hear that workers like me have an exception. Always feel a little insecure about my dirty nails (I'm a woodworker and the grit from sharpening gets onln my nails and hands).
Also hate super strong perfume. Sometimes there are old ladies, who I assume have little sense of smell left, utterly dowsing themselves in perfume. As soon as they open the door the smell hits you like a brick. Honestly I dont know if I hate the smell of BO or chemically perfume more. One grosses me out and the other makes me winse. Sometimes its so strong my sinuses and nostrils burn.
I just mean people who are lazy about cutting their nails, it's obvious when it's someone working with their hands like you. Usually it's gross old men with untrimmed hair and beards and these nasty ass fingernails and you know they've been on a bullshit disability claim since they were 50 and do nothing but watch TV.
Sometimes old ladies shop at my work and the lingering smell of perfume transports me back to childhood, lingering in the hallway while my mom got herself ready to go out. That's about the only positive thing I can say about most perfumes. I do like my wife's sweet vanilla scent, though.
Billionaires.
When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God's sake - either answer it or mute it, don't just ignore it!
This infuriates me to no end. I dont understand how these people live. Every few seconds is another notification. If its a Snapchat notification its even worse and I dont know why.
FOMO is a bad beast
I was at a symphony concert where the guest performer was Yo-Yo Ma. And up in the cheap seats where I was, phones went off no less than FOUR TIMES during his performance.
It sure seemed like three of them were the same phone, but there were at least two different phones that went off.
How on earth do you not silence your phone going into a concert? And if you forgot to, how do you not silence your phone when someone else’s goes off? And most importantly, how do you not silence your own phone if it goes off?
During the applause the same person’s phone went off again and I just started laughing.
I later said Dvorak was remarkably far ahead of his time to write a piece for “solo cello, orchestra, and iPhone.”
People that leave trash in my car, usually the same people that exclaim “your car is so clean” when they first get in and see that it’s completely empty save for a few things in the glovebox.
When people block aisles at the grocery store and you say "excuse me", but they act like they don't hear you and don't move. It's literally just you and them in the aisle, they don't need to have their cart in the middle of the aisle while they stand next to it. There's enough room for 2 people and their carts to fit in an aisle.
One time I was working my way down the bread/dairy aisle at a grocery store. It's one of the wider aisles there, if 2 people pulled their carts off to the side, a third person could squeeze down the middle as long as those first two took a little care to not stick out into the aisle too much
Of course they never do
So there I am coming down the middle of the aisle, trying to squeeze between some idiot agonizing over which container of sour cream they should buy, and some moron who can't decide on a loaf of bread who are stopped directly across from each other, uttering plenty of "'scuze me/pardon me/lemme just squeeze through heres" and of course neither of them move an inch
I nearly make it, but do tap one of their carts a bit in the process
I give her a quick "sorry" and continue on my way.
Then she yells down after me with a very indignant "excuse you"
Lady, you were the one blocking the aisle without any situational awareness, and I already apologized, fucking die mad about it.
Up here during COVID, a lot of grocery stores implemented arrows and traffic directions in their aisles so that no one aisle was two way. They basically became one way streets.
I desperately hoped that they would keep that, but nope. Quickly returned to the old jack-assery.
See you get it. And this seems to becoming more and more frequent of late.
I have moved carts before, with their owners right there. Usually they apologize, so maybe people are just not aware of their surroundings, or maybe I’m a 6’3” big guy with a pissed off look on his face. Could be either
"Hate" is a strong word, but I very much dislike it when a website that I can access on my computer only allows phone users to actually use it, or when certain features of a website are hidden for desktop users but available for phone users, such as Instagram Stories. I just don't agree with desktop/laptop users being restricted or offered the barebones version of a website considering that the internet has existed long before smartphones were a thing.
And vice versa: sites that will render fine on a PC, but refuse to load on mobile and direct you to an app instead, or have fewer features than the full site available.
Or vice versa. Why can't I access features in the phone version of my banking site, but I can in the desktop version on my phone? Now why, if you have two versions, can I not even access both from my phone or computer?
The aspect ratio! With some hard work and intensive empathy training I got over the vertical format being default, but when someone uploads a horizontal video to a vertical format site, and then you're trying to bring it to full screen on your also horizontal monitor... I could headbutt the monitor in.
I counted pixels once. It took up less than 10% of the display area. Just a fucking thick black (EDIT: or non-video regardless) "border" on 90+% of the monitor. And why? Because of one dipshit deciding they will consider horizontal screens nonexistent (while it's closer to natural, human vision). I can't even blame the uploader, sometimes they don't even know this use case isn't even handled.
I'm with you on the one about Instagram. I'm a hobbyist photographer trying to maintain a decent portfolio and it grinds my gears that in order to publish a collab post for example, I have to do it from the app on my phone.
The smell of coffee. I don't know what's wrong with me (or alternatively the vast majority of people) but it smells as disgusting to me as a steaming pile of dog poop. I learned to ignore it to some extend but I still hate it in all its variations: The powder, freshly roasted beans, freshly brewed coffee, cold coffee, coffee breath, ...
I learned to ignore it to some extend
That must not have been an easy thing to do, and I feel for you knowing how omnipresent coffee is. Heck, I had my first coffee I was not 9 year-old. I remember it vividly, it was a large and thick cup (to my kid eyes at least) half filled with black coffee (not the tinted water many people erroneously call 'coffee'), without milk but with sugar, way too many. I liked it, probably because of the too many sugar in it, and I never quit drinking coffee for 50 years or so, up until very recently and only because my doctor told me so.
As for the smell, obviously I would not compare it to poop like you did but I reckon there is one thing they may both remotely share, very remotely though, a kind of 'earthy' smell?
Maybe I phrased it in a confusing way. Coffee does not smell like dog poop to me. It's just exactly as disgusting. Can't really compare it to anything else but it's a very intense smell that I just can't stand. I noticed that microwaving chocolate milk can lead to a similar smell but by far not as bad as coffee.
It's not roasted stuff in general that I despise and also not related to milk.
It is amazing how much this kind of thing depends on conditioning; there is a culture I read about recently where if someone sees you drinking coffee then they would ask you how you were feeling because it is considered to be a gross drink that you would only have when you were sick; tea would be the beverage of choice at all other times.
Double spaces in text
I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .
There's a reasonable explanation for that one, namely: the French.
I'm guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces
I'm fine with it on social media, but on websites, articles, research papers etc I see it as a lack of quality control. It's very easy to fix too, just hit ctrl+F and type space twice to find any.
I personally hate it when people get weird about the word 'hate' and try to use the word 'despise' instead.
Ice in drinks, because I hate straws so I almost exclusively drink from the side of the glass. Ice slams into my teeth and makes me rage. What a first world problem lol
Yeeeeeees. Why would anyone ever want ice in their drinks?
- You get less of the drink you paid for
- It ends up watered down.
- Cold = less flavour
- It's too fucking cold
And yet they look at me as if I'm the weird one for stating no ice. And apparently I'm being difficult when they still give me a drink with bloody ice
All valid points, but if I may, for me it's more like
- I don't want more drink
- I like it diluted - lasts longer
- Cold = sensory heaven
- It's never ever cold enough
- Crunchy water snack when you're done!
corporations use ice to give less of the drink, and shoved it up everyone's ass with ads everywhere, and now people just accept it without questioning
cough cough frog in a boiling pot cough cough
Ice…slams into your teeth?
Just pucker your lips a bit and use the top one to block the ice. I’m trying to think through how I drink from a glass of ice water or iced coffee and I’m relatively confident that’s how I do it…
Okay I tried it out. My upper lip blocks the ice. Sometimes if I open my mouth more a cube will tap my teeth, but only gently because it was already held by the lip until then. The only way I could get ice to slam into my teeth was to like, hold my lip up in a sneer and just let the ice hit my teeth. But my instinctual ice-water-drinking method is to block ice with lip.
Give it a try! Might change your life, cold ice water is fucking awesome.
I think I might have a weird shaped mouth haha. To be honest I usually find ice cold drinks to also be too cold overall and painful on my throat. I drink any fluid like someone who just walked a day in a desert with no water...
Actually, you know what I do like ice in? My hot drinks! I put a few cubes per cup of hot coffee or tea so I can drink it NOW, not in 20 minutes when it's safe consumption temperature but I'll have forgotten where the hell I put the mug
But the tinkle of ice in a frosty glass though ☺️
Cars. They ruin cities.
True true. Cars are outdated, fast reliable frequent 24/7 public transport is the future. Also not random
Plug in air fresheners.
If I rent an Airbnb which has them I will hunt every single one down and it's going straight out the window.
Lol why?
super unhealthy for everyone
exactly! they're so bad for our health and everything is perfumed. keep your hormone disrupting crap out of my lungs!
I remember that thing I hate: Ice cream melting faster than your consumption speed. Aaaaarrrrrrrgghhhh I hate it!
Sounds like you need an ice cream eating partner.
I volunteer as tribute
I like your solution. I accept
The use of "alumni" in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don't know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don't.
Conversely I hate the trend in English language to keep the original pluralization rules when adopting words from other languages. Just anglicize it to "alumnuses" or "alumnis" (if you want that to be the singular). Rules of the original language don't matter any more when you use it in English.
This exactly. I don't speak latin and don't want to.
True, but if I used alumnus instead of alumni, wouldn't I just sound pretentious?
No, because there's only one of you, you'd sound pretentio.
Do you find yourself correcting people who order a panini instead of a panino?
I do twitch a little when I hear someone saying bravi to a single person :)
Every article lately using the word "quietly" in the headline to drive clicks, to trick the user into thinking they're getting in on some controversial secret. It's the new "slammed".
New year's eve. I'm generally not a depressed person but new year's eve just reminds me of the unstoppable passage of time and how I have one fewer year left here and haven't achieved a fraction of what I want to. Just really depressing stuff, generally. Being at a party with cheerful friends and alcohol helps a bit.
Same with birthdays a bit, but not as bad.
2020 (or was it 2021, dont remember) new years in NYC time square was so depressing. Just empty. Like an apocalypse.
I remember my daughter and I turned on the ball drop and it was an absolute ghost town.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
I have a weird dislike of Tom Hanks. It isn't hate, but I find myself inexplicably hostile towards him. No idea why.
You watched The Terminal, didn't you?
/s
I studiously avoid anything with the big T. He's a good actor, but I'd prefer not to stare at him for 90 minutes.
Conservatives and other schizophrenics have a huge hatred for him on social media as well, believing he's part of a network of child traffickers because he thinks it's funny to post pictures of lost gloves on the street. Also, one pic had a secret code linked to child trafficking written next to a sewer grate, that was later revealed to be a perfectly normal code for city planning/line maintenance or something.
When people linger in doorways. We're not hanging out with you because you're cool; we're trying to get past you. In or out, you're wasting the heat/AC!
More like wasting space and time. GTFO the way.
You want to sit and chat with someone, go to where there is space to sit and chat instead of inconveniencing everyone.
Dogs. I don't want to hear about yours and if I'm in public keep your dog away from me.
I used to sit a dog who loved sniffing random people's feet lol
people who go outside with zero spatial awareness. if youre going to walk slow, stay to the side. if you go up to get a closer view and take a pic, gtfo once ur done so others can get closer
And drivers who speed out of their driveway
You think I have that much time in my life to list all of them!?
The one that pops into my head immediately is:
There is a special place in hell for people who don't hug the curb when yielding to traffic before making a right hand turn. Instead they take up the half the through lane and half the turning lane, meaning that the person behind them can't pull forward.
The jackass in the mcfatnolds oversized gasoline powered truck acting like his steering radius is somehow larger than a semi by refusing to rotate his steering wheel more than halfway
Newspapers who use the word "ouster" but as a noun, not a verb.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster
"With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents."
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024"Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion."
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024"The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022."
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024"That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week."
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024As opposed to:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust
Ouster - One who ousts.
Yeah, I also can't stand it when words are used to convey meanings they've had for roughly five hundred years.
That have fallen out of use then come back nonsensically.
Newspapers also loved using "gantlet" instead of "gauntlet" for a time as well.
Nobody fucking says "run the gantlet".
Ah, clearly the world is your ouster.
That’s ugly
The word "poop". It sounds so disgusting and I can't bear it if anyone over 6 years of age uses it. Say shit or crap or manure or even stool, just not that stupid nauseating word.
Whenever I poop I try to say the word "poop" with my butthole. It always makes the perfect poop. Not a lot of people know that.
Well, I have to admit that saying "shit" with my asshole would be way more difficult.
I'm a non native speaker and I honestly thought poop was almost like baby speak for excrement. Hell, it even sounds cute. See also: boop. Have I been wrong all along, or is it just your own perspective?
Its absolutely the most innocent word for feces out there. It's what kids call it. It's what I call it. I'm pooping right now
I hate getting my feet wet in the bathroom because someone else dripped all over the floor/rug because they didn't dry themselves before they got out of the shower. Especially when I have socks on. Dry your entire body before you take any body part out of the shower. 😤
Especially when I have socks on.
Living dangerously there, aincha?
I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I'm showing them something. Simply... don't, okay?
I hope you shrug them off, they deserve it
shrug them off
Myself
I also choose this person
The habit of people to skip any or all nuance in assessing a situation because it's "more palatable".
A good example of this is familial relations. Family is more than just "parent", "child", "sibling", "friend", and/or "spouse", you could have grey areas where something would come off as not quite one thing or another thing. Age-gap siblings can develop into having an aunt or uncle who is younger than you, or you might be older than your step-parent, or you might manifest a relationship in a way that contains some aspects of a friendship, etc. But there are people who don't want to hear any of the buts about it, they just want a one word answer.
I hate dish towels hanging on kitchen drawers. Do people just like picking up the towel every time you need a fork?
I hate dish towels, period. I only use disposable. I think that's less eco unfriendly than driving so as a person who will never drive I don't see the problem.
EDIT: WROTE MORE INSTEAD OF LESS LMAO YEAH LET ME DO SOMETHING WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT LOL I mean I don't drive so I shouldn't be as eco unfriendly with paper dishes and plastic cutlery also I don't use a dishwasher
I'm sorry, but why do you care if people wear hot clothes in warm places?For me it's enshittification, stupid policies in any institution or just overrergulation in general.
Edit: read the other comments
Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice
The fact that middle-click is used for pasting in Linux
That reminds me of the time I didn't know that "select - middle click" and "ctrl+c - ctrl+v" are entirely separate clipboards in Linux.
So I was implementing a password manager for the very first time.
For every single account I had, I created a new password within the password manager, and copied it with ctrl+c
Then I went to "change password" in the online account and pasted the "new password" in with middle-click.
For. Every. Single. Account.
The next day I couldn't log into anything and of course had no idea what string I had replaced all my passwords with.Getting back into my main e-mail account was a bitch, cause I had set it up with my home phone number and address in the year 2004, never updated that info, and moved 11 times since then.
I was about to switch all my windows machines to Linux but then you had to tell me this...
Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely "unique" experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.
Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely “unique” experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.
The pet chimpanzees thing I get. Its a wild animal and shouldn't be a pet.
However all the other stuff is only affecting that person doing it. Why do you care what they do to themselves (as long as no one else is involved without their own consent)? How is your life negatively affected if those other people do those things to themselves? Do you want those other people having a say in what you do that doesn't affect anyone else?
Aw, you don't even know me and you already hate me
What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
Hate is a strong word, with or without vehemency.
There are things I despise (most media, social or traditional, being an example of), there are things I don't like (bananas), stuff and behaviours I disagree with (certainties and personal opinions used as indisputable truth, violence), and then there are people I dislike, some deeply (like... nope, I won't name anyone) but I'd rather not hate. Not anymore, like I may have hated when I was younger.
Hate helps no one solve any issue, helps no one in becoming a better person. It certainly does not help me, quite the opposite.
Agreed. Hate is poison to the mind. To me, it means you want to destroy something on sight. I can't think of a single thing I dislike that much
Not even people who say "on accident"?
I hate bananas too. I call them Satan's dick because of how inedible they are and how they ruin anything they're mixed in.
And you're not wrong
I call them Satan’s dick because of how inedible they are and how they ruin anything they’re mixed in.
:)
The sound of flip flops. Drives me up a wall!
Soup served in a bowl.
Who would want to consume a warm smoothie slowly with a spoon?
At least when in family I drink straight from the bowl. With the spoon (sometimes chopsticks) being only for the solid bits.
Wait, what do you serve your soup in?
So with a chunky soup, do you use a giant straw like sucking up oversized boba?
People who do not backup their laptops or phones, then come complaint to me when they are unable to to access and get a photo when the device dies.
"What's the cloud? I don't want anything in the cloud! I don't want to make an account!" then "oh no how can I get my pictures my phone doesn't turn on"
Huge crossover with people who ask "can you help me with this computer thing" then demand "just do it for me!" and never learn to do it on their own.
MONKEYS! I HATE MONKEY!
It's like God drew a crude Picture of you and said "Hehe thats you!". My God I hate Monkey so much. They are evil, they are gross and they are ugly.
I didn't know Frieza had a lemmy account.
I wish! All the monkey hate, no of the powers q_q
A drawing of Monkey is fine, a photo on the other hand.....
They are unsettling lol. Except Donkey Kong.
People who wear sunglasses indoors. I get fluorescent or bright led lights bother some folks, but it still screams asshole to me.
This was a pet peeve of mine when I used to work customer service. The biggest douchebags were always middle-aged men with sunglasses on.
Second only to the ones who have them upside down on their hat. You could just leave them in the car but then we wouldn't get to see your $80 big boy flex.
Bonus points if they're the kind of sunglasses with the polarized shades.
Celine Dion
Bowling.
More like bow-ring! Get it, boring, hahaha, ha... I'll get my coat.
The color brown, especially in clothing. I can't quite put my finger on why that is.
Wood is mostly okay, though.
It's overdone especially decor and furniture. Same with beige, navy blue, black, or other neutral business casual "adult" colors.
You'll love Anthracite Grey then.
People that don't have kids that park in parent and child spaces.
It's almost always Tesla's and Audi's. In my utopia, it would be legal to destroy any car caught parking in these spaces that doesn't have a child or booster seat.
Coming out of left field, I'll have to go with the number 22. Absolutely hate that number to death. Used to show up all the time when I was growing up, so I've learned to be a 22 hater. I'll go to war with that number and nuke it to death before admitting it's a good number.
When people pronounce "debut" as "day-boo"
Or dee-boo or even better, debit. "oh I love Taylor Swift's debit album!" bruh what
Hate is such a powerful emotion. I can't honestly think anything that I hate. I dislike many things but not hate.
People who engine brake without at least tapping the brake pedal to signal it.
Conversely, I hate people who can't maintain an even speed and are constantly hitting their brakes unecessarily to compensate for having sped up too much for the car in front of them.
Yeah especially when they slam on the brakes last minute, every time.