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I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

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.”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It's so inconsiderate too. If you want to use your voice then use voice-to-text and send a text message.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn't affect them at all

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • 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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it's like nobody cares about light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I've been considering reporting streetlights that don't point straight down because they technically violate city codes.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I HATE PEOPLE WHO CARE WHAT THE FUCK IM WEARING!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Got misophonia, the sound of dog licking triggers me

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

licks his dog, loudly

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Perfume and cologne. Makes me wheeze. Also long dirty fingernails, people who work with soil or grease or something excused from that.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God's sake - either answer it or mute it, don't just ignore it!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

"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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

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, ...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Please call me if you encounter these issues

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People who subscribe to the whole male power struggle culture. Not just in a political sense; people will say things about respect or posturing etc. and it physically disgusts me to be reminded that people live like that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I personally hate it when people get weird about the word 'hate' and try to use the word 'despise' instead.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember that thing I hate: Ice cream melting faster than your consumption speed. Aaaaarrrrrrrgghhhh I hate it!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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