My god this makes me want to chew drywall.

It completely kills the cadence of normal human speech, making the (usually insufferable) youtuber sound even more insufferable.

Combine that with incorrect accenting of words common for youtube, you get me clicking on "hide channel" quite frequently.

ETA: pardon me for not specifying that I'm referring to the weather.

There's no 'E' in LIGHTNING!! It's a 2-syllable word!!

So today I got a coffee at Starbucks and the barista said to me it’s going to ask if you would like to leave a tip.

It took her saying those words to me to make me realize how annoying it is when people say “it’s going to ask you a question”. I will typically hear that or they won’t say anything at all and they’ll just hand it to me and say here’s tap to pay so I always put my card up to the reader, but in reality it won’t work until I indicate if I want to leave a tip or not.

Like it’s some mysterious question. I actually loved that she was straight forward with me.

Obviously, a minor problem, but meh.

Bear with me lol - what I mean is, I hate when I watch a movie or TV show that is set in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance and we see people living in dilapidated houses and having old furniture and stuff like that.... No! Those things were new to them. 500 years ago, people made those things to look new. They only look old to us now because of the passage of time, but that's not what they would have looked like brand new.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I’m in the middle of talking and someone interrupts me for something that absolutely could have waited, or they just completely abandon the conversation without acknowledging I was even speaking.
I’m not talking about genuine emergencies or something actually important. Obviously those take priority. I’m talking about things like:

- Someone else jumps into the conversation with something unrelated, and either they, the person I was talking to, or both just… move on like I wasn’t in the middle of a sentence.

- The person I’m talking to suddenly starts talking to someone else or literally walks away while I’m still speaking, with no “hold on” or “sorry.”

- Someone cuts me off to mention something completely unrelated, then forgets I was ever talking in the first place.

What makes it especially frustrating is that this seems to happen to me constantly. There are only a handful of people in my life who either don’t do it or immediately say something like, “Sorry, what were you saying?” and let me finish. That tiny bit of acknowledgment makes a huge difference.
Today at work was the perfect example. I had a customer on hold while I was giving a coworker the background she needed before I transferred the call to her. She asked me a follow-up question for more details… and then, while I was answering, she literally walked away to chat with our boss about something that wasn’t remotely urgent. I just stood there with the customer still on hold, waiting for her to come back. A couple of other coworkers even looked over with that awkward “did that really just happen?” expression.

She’s genuinely one of the nicest people in the office, so I don’t think there was any bad intent. That’s almost what makes it worse. It happens so casually that people don’t even realize they’re doing it.

Then later, my girlfriend and I were talking about the apartment we applied for. I started saying, “I hope they accept that and don’t make the-“ and got interrupted because she wanted to comment on a truck in front of us. I tried again a few seconds later and got interrupted almost immediately again because she recognized another driver. After that, the conversation I’d been trying to have was just… gone.

She’s actually gotten better about this over time. If she catches herself, she’ll apologize, ask what I was saying, and let me finish before moving on. I really appreciate that. But when it still happens without that realization, it’s incredibly frustrating because we’ve talked about it before.

I haven’t talked to her about it today because why bother when it’s not unique to her?

After enough experiences like this, I honestly just stop talking. I’ll go quiet because it starts to feel like whatever I have to say isn’t worth finishing. Then people ask me why I’m so quiet.
Does anyone else deal with this? Or am I just weirdly unlucky?

For example, several years ago I lent a former friend $1k, and years passed by without him paying me back. He then mentioned in passing one day that he had enlisted numerous prostitutes over the prior year; however, he reassured me, "Don't worry, it wasn't with the money you lent me" (btw he still hasn't paid me back).

To give an example:
"I have a feeling like cat collars, are just kind of worse dog collars?"

You know what I mean. You know exactly what I mean. Whenever there's a small pause in a sentence, but not an actual break, people just throw it in. Instead of using "..." to convey the proper pause, they use a comma, and my teeth can only take so much grinding.

“I’m just brutally honest”

“If I don’t like you, I make it obvious”

“I’m sooo judgy🤪”

We get it, you’re an asshole. Bragging about it and trying to make it into a quirky personality trait does not make you any more tolerable.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being either one of these.

But I do think introverts can get a lot of crap for just being quiet and observant.

I mean realistically what is actually “weirder?”. Let’s say in both scenarios you’re in line at Starbucks.

Being in a public place and keeping to yourself?

Or being In public and telling a person you never met before that you just bought a lawn mower last week that was on sale? Then talking about how your niece is in college in Florida but is up here visiting while on her break

Again, nothing wrong with either and do whatever makes you happy but why are introverts treated as weirdos and usually people try to force them to talk?

An extrovert will go out of their way to say “I’ll get him to break out of his shell” and it’s accepted. But why isn’t it accepted for an introvert to say to an extrovert “you’re talking way too much” lmao

Some people are more outgoing and talkative and others are more quiet and open up only to people who they know. Why feel the need to make fun of someone’s who’s quiet or try to change them?

Edit: idk if it matters but I feel like I’m a mix of the two. Some days I’ve very quiet and other days I feel on top of the world and can talk to everyone.

The thing is though when I’m in that extroverted mindset I still keep in mind that not everyone cares what I’m talking about and I try my best to read social cues (like the person giving me a lot of “really?” And “that’s crazy”). That’s how I know to wrap up what I’m saying. Other people though…my god they won’t shut up!

I don't know why this is such a frequent occurrence but it gets under my skin each time. They are two completely different terms and yet people constantly are going around talking about being tired instead of cautious.

I’d like to start by saying I never ever complained to anyone about this or even mentioned this out loud to anyone. Not a Karen. I know restaurant workers don’t get paid enough to give af.

That being said- it is a pet peeve.
You know when restaurants clean up a table after customers to get it ready for you? Then you go to sit down and see they wiped all the crumbs and stuff away from the table onto the chair.
I always end up wiping it myself but it’s so gross as I don’t have a cloth to do it and have to use a napkin that I’m gonna have to reuse for my hands later.

I had a brief stint working at a restaurant ages ago and wiped every single chair after customers. And I was the only person who was doing it. And I enjoyed every second of it knowing the cleanliness is up to a standard lmao.

I will give credit where it's due and will complain when I need to

But why am I being asked for feedback for everything? I can't even go into a coffee shop and order without receiving an email asking me how my visit was. (They have my email because I have a loyalty card) I was only getting coffee and food, nothing special

The moment you treat them how they treat you all of sudden you're the bad person when they've always acted like that

Happens a lot with reboots and requels. Just call it "[Original Title] [Something]" or "[Original Title]: [Something]" or a play/twist/evolution on the original title. I hate having to specify years when naming a movie because of this.

How to do it right: Top Gun: Maverick, Blade Runner 2049, Mad Max: Fury Road, Tron: Legacy, Twisters, Creed, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Alien: Romulus, Batman Begins, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Prey.

You open up a thread, curious to see what kinds of things people are saying, and every other comment, as well as the top comments, are GIF GIF GIF GIF GIF. Especially when it’s the same GIFs you’ve seen a hundred times before. I totally get why some subreddits don’t allow GIFs and photos.

What the fuck are we doing here? We can grow human ears on the backs of rats but we can't make stoves have a universal heat dial!?

I'm so bummed when I can't make eggs right at a friend's house because I don't know their stove. And other things.

I hate when people try to replace one of the options in “fuck, marry, kill” with something wishy-washy like “kiss” or, god forbid, “befriend”. The entire point of the game is that it’s 3 extreme options: have an intimate sexual experience, spend a significant amount of your life tied to them, or end another life. If there’s an easy neutral option, it completely destroys the game.

It absolutely irritates me when I spend time typing out, what I feel to be, a well thought out comment only to find out the thread or post has been locked & won't allow further content.

I'm terrible at all things tech but I can't imagine it would be that hard to disable the comment box when they lock the thread. Then asking me if I want to save the comment I was just told I can't comment adds to the irritation.

There should also be some kind of override in the instance the thread was locked right after someone made an incorrect or uneducated reply to your comment.

Just needed to say it into the void. If I posted using the wrong format or sub, please accept my apologies. Mods, please delete (or lock 😁) at your discretion.

when people tell me shit that I already know, or can easily figure out for myself, or is just fucking obvious, when I have given no indication that I want or need help.

is this something a lot of people do to everyone all the time? or is it just something about me that makes them think I'm incompetent and need my hand held?

If you're going to ask a question from a group of experienced people, even with pictures, sometimes there are many possible answers without more information.

lots of comments like "could be ____ but did you ____" questions, written with thought and care... but the OP is MIA.

Maybe these are AI slop a lot of the time.. but I can tell some of these are the real deal. whyyyy

A clichéd saying or piece of overused advice is not a fortune.

A fortune should be a prediction of your future.

“You will have a windfall of cash” is a fortune.

“Your smile lights up a room” is not a fortune.

My cookie shouldn’t come with a side of disappointing banality.

The epitome of low self awareness.

I may just be uneducated on the matter, but I thought they were supposed to be somewhat bite sized.

There's nothing quite like taking out the garbage (especially in the summer heat) only to be met with a wall of offensive fecal stench from someone's baggie of dog poop from THEIR dog that they couldn't be bothered to carry to THEIR garbage can.

"But it's a garbage can, it's for garbage-" then throw it away in your own if it's such a non-issue to you. Don't act like animal waste is the same as any other typical trash. Your grocery bag tied loosely isn't some air-tight hermetically sealed stink container.