What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?

And drivers who speed out of their driveway

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.

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

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.

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

I’m with you on the shower heads. I rip out the flow restrictors before I even install one.

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.

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)

Sounds like you need an ice cream eating partner.

I volunteer as tribute

True true. Cars are outdated, fast reliable frequent 24/7 public transport is the future. Also not random

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.

Can I just copy and paste this as my answer?

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.

It's more that you're not wearing anything...

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

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

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.”

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'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'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."

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.

But spoken it's fine. It's could've.

It's when that gets written as "could of" that it becomes an abomination...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.”

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.

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.

Yeeeeeees. Why would anyone ever want ice in their drinks?

1. You get less of the drink you paid for
2. It ends up watered down.
3. Cold = less flavour
4. 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

I love ice, I finish my drink then I chew the ice until I get brain freeze. It's epic.

But the tinkle of ice in a frosty glass though ☺️

Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.

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.

Eh? Semi-monthly is twice a month. Bimonthly is every two months.

Semi-weekly is twice a week, biweekly is fortnightly, every two weeks.

They work the same.

exactly! they're so bad for our health and everything is perfumed. keep your hormone disrupting crap out of my lungs!

Lol why?

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.

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.

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. 🤷

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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.

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?

licks his dog, loudly

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...

It's the sound of snow squeak-crunching under my feet for me. I shudder every time it happens.

I used to sit a dog who loved sniffing random people's feet lol

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.

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.

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.

It's overdone especially decor and furniture. Same with beige, navy blue, black, or other neutral business casual "adult" colors.

More like bow-ring! Get it, boring, hahaha, ha... I'll get my coat.

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.

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?

I loathe that.

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Please call me if you encounter these issues

I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .

I'm guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces

2020 (or was it 2021, dont remember) new years in NYC time square was so depressing. Just empty. Like an apocalypse.

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.

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.