I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
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
I love ice, I finish my drink then I chew the ice until I get brain freeze. It’s epic.
you can have all of mine 💀
Thanks! 🧊🧊🧊
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
Fair enough, lol. I got a good chuckle out of the image of downing any drink by just dumping the whole thing straight down your throat. 😂
I can literally do that lmao. Feels awesome when you’re extremely dehydrated. Probably not good for you though
I can gulp like a champ, but I’ve got nothing on this
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!
When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God’s sake - either answer it or mute it, don’t just ignore it!
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.
FOMO is a bad beast
Mercedes & BMW drivers
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.
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’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.
The fact that middle-click is used for pasting in Linux
I was about to switch all my windows machines to Linux but then you had to tell me this…
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.
When people pronounce “debut” as “day-boo”
Or dee-boo or even better, debit. “oh I love Taylor Swift’s debit album!” bruh what
For me it’s all american pronunciation of french words. Feels like butchering xP
I wonder, depending upon when a word was borrowed and sound changes in both languages, if any sound closer to their middle/old french counterparts
My favorite French borrowings are gentle, genteel and jaunty. All borrowed from gentil (kind, pleasant, nice), but at different times (13th century, late 16th, and 17th, respectively).
The French word is from Latin gentilis, meaning “of the Roman clan.” English borrowed that from Latin as gentile.
So we have 4 English words, all from the same Latin origin. Of them, genteel is probably closest to the Old French pronunciation (but the vowels are still a little bit different).
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
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’s the most ingenious horrible thing 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.
Actually… quite specifically 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?”
/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.
True, though I don’t think it’s just capitalism that causes this dishonesty. I think it’s any time that’s a depersonalised entity motivated to coerse people. And certainly that happens under capitalism. But you could point to centrally planned communist states peddling bullshit to people too.
I think the antidote (so far as practical ones go) - and speaking of the West - is to ‘shop local’. People find it harder to lie and be disingenuous when’s there’s a genuine relationship there besides the trade.
That’s the most egregious part about adverts (to me), things pretending to be my friend when there’s nothing there of the sort. It would be different if it’s an actual friend of mine suggesting this or that because they thought it would actually benefit me (and holding their tongue when they knew it wouldn’t)
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.
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.
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
People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn’t affect them at all
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.
Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread
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.
Same. I still don’t know the social script in these scenarios. Do I individually thank everyone for their birthday wishes? Do I thank everyone with one message after it seems like everyone’s done? How long do I wait? What if someone jumps in after I do that with a belated happy birthday?
I think a simple “Thanks, everyone!” message posted sometime during the day at your convenience is sufficient; individual replies or replies to subsequent messages are not necessary.
It’s uncomfortable for me too. I asked HR to keep mine private at work, but before this I would just react with a like to the wishes and write a short thatnk you all at the end of the day… The late wishes I would just ignore…
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.
My wife was raised in a culture where this is extremely rude. I know she hates it so I just take the bowl into the kitchen and finish it off there. I don’t want to screw around with the spoon for 10 hours either.
That seems like a good compromise. I’d be probably doing the same if anyone from my family complained about it.
Wait, what do you serve your soup in?
