What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Deus Machina]

Considering my job, the big ones are traffic. Someone wouldn't have shown up arranged in vaguely the right order if he hadn't tried to weave between the railroad crossing bars, on a section you can only see ten yards in either direction. Numerous people would have been sleeping at home if they didn't grab one of those electric scooters and wobble around on the lane markers, or try to ride them on busy sidewalks and go around pedestrians by swerving into the road without looking. A lot of others would be just fine if the bike lane was wider than the pedals and wasn't getting used as a turn lane.

The little stuff? People raised on English that butcher the language. "I seen" never ends with 'a textbook'. You don't insert an apostrophe just because a letter ends with S.

Websites that sign you out every hour. Especially when they have a 'keep me signed in' box.

Doing an online search, and getting results that don't include any of the phrases.

When I click the mousewheel to open a new tab on my laptop, and it decides to open a new tab, open that link in the same tab, scroll up a line, and turn on the autoscroll, all at the same time, and has a stroke for five minutes.

[Cdn_Cuda]

A 21 year old on one of these bikes just learned the hard way in my area…. Or he would have if he survived. Regular bike helmets aren’t mean for those speeds, if there were even wearing one.

[Spec]

Electronic bicycle riders that travel at motorscooter speeds but act like pedestrians. Had to take family to CA for medical and they were everywhere. Looks like a regular bike, batteries in the tubes, motor in the gear hub, a slow pedal gets you 20 - 30 mph, blasting through stop signs, using pedestrian cross walks to avoid stopping in traffic, no signaling of course, no reflective gear. Nerve wracking trying to not to kill one, knowing that whatever happens, it'll likely be ruled your fault.

[DocsMachine]

[cracks knuckles]

Facebook. Why go on the internet, and then restrict yourself to one small corner of it, where a bunch of busybodies can and will tell you what you can and can't say, can and can't post, and who you can and can't talk to?

People ON Facebook, who have no idea there's a wider world out there- or worse, believe anything that's not fed to then through Facebook is "fake news" and to be stayed away from. Keep that flock in it's pen!

YouTube's algorithm. I spend the day looking up videos on how to program and operate CNC machines, and the 'algorithm' still wants to feed me cat videos, bulls**t "reaction" videos, and those ones where somebody took a Reddit thread and made a stupid slideshow out of it. Watched a video on a Brother Speedio mill, cutting an entire small enclosure out of a block of aluminum in like seven minutes. That channel has like three dozen other videos. What did YT recommend for me next? Some "Idiots in Cars" compilation.

Sending everything over to China to be made. That's a big chunk of the reason we're in the middle of all this global upheaval, y'know.

"Just In Time" manufacturing and inventory. See above. Also see "Canal, Suez".

Speaking personally? That I did NOT spend a good portion of the last twenty years as a full-time machinist, learning more about this newfangled "CNC" thing.

That it's only a few weeks from winter (statistically, we'll have a first dusting of snow on a week or two) and I spent my entire damn summer fixing and installing new machines, doing major reorgs and building workbenches. Yeah, it'll hopefully pay off, but it's kind of a case of [blinks twice] "What? It's f**king October already?!? It was MAY, like, eight seconds ago!"

And finally, Office paperwork. Orders, receipts, invoices, inventory lists, tax paperwork, you name it. I still hate it.

Doc.

[Jonnydread]

I hate when people hide raisins.

[Chuck E Ducky]

People who Make money off my gratitude, Like I don’t know what stuff is worth.

People who beat me on deals for markers I actually wanted only flip them on EBay.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Ooh, the list is long. But I’ll stick to paintball related. People who sell thing but are too lazy to clean them even minimally. You pay hundreds for a gun and gear and can’t be bother to at least spray it with a hose?! Lay to the effing ZE.. And the usually want top dollar. “Just needs cleaning.”

Multiple dead flies in you power tube require more than a quick cleaning…

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

Ads in the middle of songs. Between songs i can deal with. Middle of a solo F$&@ YOU! .

[SETHZILLA!]

people who keep onions in the fridge … savages

If you keep them in the fridge the vapors that make you cry don't come up as fast.....

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[autococker04]

Only thing worse than a flaky onion is one that grows half a foot overnight

[bored383]

people who keep onions in the fridge … savages

[autococker04]

What chaps your ass? Rustles your jimmies? Browns your banana?

I, for one, just used the sweeper in my fridge for the second time this month because Big Onion decided the best way to contain their product is repurposed fishnets.

Honestly. Apples come in bags. Potatoes come in bags. But the one piece of produce that flakes like a dehydrated chameleon? Repurposed lingerie.

Anyway, here’s a venue to air your grievances