/r/GrindsMyGears

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Got something that bothers you down to your core? How about a pet-peeve that makes your blood boil? What really grinds your gears, reddit?


Got something that bothers you down to your core? How about a pet-peeve that makes your blood boil? What really grinds your gears, reddit?


RULES & GUIDELINES


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2) No fixed submissions, image macros or memes.

3) No comments or posts from bots.

4) No meta submissions

5) Keep reposts to a minimum.

6) EXPLAIN your pet peeve. Do not leave the text blank. Explanations for Link posts are optional.


COMMENTS

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2) Homophobia, sexism, racism or any derogatory language will not be tolerated.

3) Do not ask for or link to the personal profiles of anyone.

4) No excessive RAGE CAPS.


SUBREDDIT SHOUTOUTS

/r/rage

/r/mildlyinfuriating

/r/annoying

/r/rant

/r/BuyItForDays


We reserve the right to ban users and remove content at our own discretion.

/r/GrindsMyGears

2,846 Subscribers

2

Bad UX

When UI is not hiding while watching videos in fullscreen (cough Udemy video player cough).

0 Comments
2024/11/29
19:11 UTC

5

Annie

I don't think Annie is ok and it grinds my gears

2 Comments
2024/11/29
12:14 UTC

4

Black Friday deals

When businesses send you black Friday deals coupons a week after purchasing a product. They then refuse to apply the new discount which prompts me to return their product and buy from Amazon. I don't want to support Amazon if possible.

0 Comments
2024/11/27
22:21 UTC

4

People who left turns on unsignalized intersections during rush hour, where there’s a left turn lane and signal half a block away

It makes absolutely no sense even from their own pov. Just drive forward 30m. Saves more of your own time and you don’t block half the road like a jerk.

0 Comments
2024/11/27
02:33 UTC

7

People hogging equipment at the gym

Seriously - do your sets, then fucking move on! Stop just sitting there dossing about on your fucking phones you inconsiderate pricks!

3 Comments
2024/11/25
15:32 UTC

2

This stupid fucking video

It always appears in my search on tiktok randomly. And it always bothers me. The stupid music. The stupid animation. The stupid fucking face. God I hate his face.

0 Comments
2024/11/25
04:28 UTC

3

When super HD content has "old timey" video effects

Like, seriously, scratches and vintage film FX when you're not making your source resolution or FPS any lower is just... sigh.

0 Comments
2024/11/22
00:16 UTC

4

Every guide is a video tutorial now.

Whenever I look for how to do something, 90% results are video tutorials while text based guides are becoming a rarity.

1 Comment
2024/11/21
13:15 UTC

0

Call of duty games movement

My favorite call of duties ended up being the ones with slower movement. It's absurd when someone can go mach 10 with an LMG like mw2019-Bo6 I hate when they just reuse old maps from games that had slower movement because then the maps don't work well like Bo6 Nuketown. Omni movement can be a fun gimmick but it just feels like you gave crackheads guns and said go kill the other team.

0 Comments
2024/11/21
04:46 UTC

5

Jobs.

How is it that people who have a trash attitude/resume of being fired, can get FT jobs. Then God forbid if you ask them anything..."not my job" or "idk go ask someone else". The straight up "FU" attitude people get FT customer service jobs, but then a legit people person can't even get a job as a greeter. Has anyone else seen this???

0 Comments
2024/11/14
23:36 UTC

8

"Lol, u sound like ur 30, get off this game"

Why is everyone suddenly believing that you have to arbitrarily drop gaming just because you're an adult? Where did this even come from? This is the type of thinking that comes from boomers who think playing games is for kids, but it's coming from people my age and younger. It's bizarre and disappointing.

Edit:

I'm gonna go ahead and mention this, because I'm annoyed.

When I say "game" I don't mean Roblox, or whatever you weirdos like to play.

VRChat, Sea of Thieves, Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto, etc, etc. Most if not all of these games shouldn't even have kids on them. So please save your karma farming for somebody else.

6 Comments
2024/11/14
10:29 UTC

7

Everything Ranch

I do not understand the desire to coat so many foods in ranch dressing.

I won't use it becaise6ot smells and tastes like spoiled milk to me, and I don't like milk to begin with.

I get annoyed when getting take out pizza, the include multiple containers of ranch, same thing with hot wings.

If you have to smother the spiciness of hot wings with ranch, why order hot wings?

Some people, my grandkids for example, do this. I tell them if they want ranch, just drink it straight out of the bottle.

0 Comments
2024/11/13
18:12 UTC

8

Certain words used together

When the “moist” craze was going around that didn't really bother me. And these two words separate don't bother me but together it makes me cringe so hard. They were used together in captions to describe the sound of someone putting lotion on their hands… “cream squelching” 🤢 i hate it

6 Comments
2024/11/12
07:26 UTC

7

People that won't stfu about their autism/adhd and self diagnosis

Ughh like seriously stfu 🙄. NO ONE CARES AND YOU AREN'T AUTISTIC YOU NEEDY ATTENTION WHORE. its not a flex to have something wrong with you. It's not cool or quirky. It's not some superpower like they make it out to be in Hollywood. I don't have it nor would I want it. But seriously stfu about it. Now we got these dumbasses talking about Adhd maladaptive daydreaming and it's literally just having a fucking imagination. Like why does this generation have such an incessant need to label shit to feel different. Fucking competing in the minority/trauma/defective Olympics 24/7.

Liking Warhammer doesn't make you autistic nor does trains, dinos, or any other GUY THING.

5 Comments
2024/11/07
04:33 UTC

4

Peoples understanding of banking

Over the course of the last 10 years I have either worked in finance or closely related to it in some fashion. What is Grinding my gears is peoples basic understanding of reading their statement whether digital or in paper form. We need to have a better understanding of what certain things meanwhile reading it. For example my current job includes automatically billing people monthly for a membership, not a crazy price by any means, roughly 20 dollars a month. I know times are tough but that is even more of a reason to pay attention. When people don't have funds in their account it bounces back and tells me that they missed a payment. People look at the initial withdrawal we do and don't look any further and then say we took the money, upon asking for the statement they show me their lack of knowledge. When payments bounce their is usually a number for say -20 next to the payment and usually the same day is a credit to the account for the same amount. It's right there, next to it. The issue is not me having to deal with this it's the straight ignorance regarding their banking status. Educateyourself. And on that if people have questions they can ask me

1 Comment
2024/11/03
13:53 UTC

5

Every photo result on Google is AI.

I use references for art, specifically photography from the Victorian period, or fantasy style images, Medieval, Renaissance, whatever. I can't look up portraits, paintings, photos, anything historical, without most if not all of the fucking results being AI generated images, many of which don't have anything to do with the key words in my search. So sick of this AI bullshit.

0 Comments
2024/11/03
05:12 UTC

7

“Are you still working on that?” - at a restaurant

It’s absolutely aggravating to hear at a restaurant, and almost outside of higher end fine dining, it’s such a common expression, it’s totally off-putting to me. The waiter comes around your plate could be any stage of nearly finished and they ask if you are “Working on that,” yeah… my massive plate of slop, cuz I’m a dumb fat American…. disgusting. That, and the fact is they are trying to turn tables to get you out of there… 😅😅😅 rant over

0 Comments
2024/11/02
16:33 UTC

9

When people say “just wash your ass” when the topic of hemorrhoids come up.

Like bruh that’s not quite how hemorrhoids work.

Sure doing it in the moment might help give you a little relief when the symptoms are happening but it doesn’t get rid of the problem and doesn’t prevent symptoms. That’s why certain products were made and why they do medical procedures for this.

You could freshly wash there every single hour and still get irritation going poop. Cuz it’s inflammation of the veins up in there.

9 Comments
2024/10/30
19:31 UTC

0

Yet another thing that grinds my gears.

These soo called Dragon Quest “fans” that are all irrationally upset over the Female Warrior in Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake barely wearing some clothing underneath the impractical bikini armor in updated artwork.

Like ffs I like sexy women as much as any non-gay man would but damn guys chill the fuck out and stop obsessing so hard over anime titties to the point where you wanna whine and boycott a high quality product over it!!! For the in game sprites you can barely even see the difference aside from the short shorts.

They’re ignoring so much of the good with this top tier remake of one of the best classic JRPGs. Over freaking anime boobs on a generic warrior woman lol, among a very scant few other very inconsequential things.

2 Comments
2024/10/30
03:41 UTC

5

How do you leave your car with one tire *SLIGHTLY* on the curb, and then sleep at night?

0 Comments
2024/10/28
18:10 UTC

0

A classic fast food sandwich that is chicken instead of beef for a limited time

Slippery slope, next thing you know it's gonna be Tofu, or Cricket, smh

1 Comment
2024/10/28
03:38 UTC

2

Scented Dish Soap

Why does this product exist? Are there people out there who want their clean plates or spatula to smell like fake flowers? I bought my usual blue dish soap and it has the 'new fresh' scent now. Why can''t something just be clean and smell like nothing?

2 Comments
2024/10/28
03:34 UTC

7

You know what grinds my gears?

Reading through a reddit post and comments, finding something you really want to engage in, just to hit the reply button when nothing happens and you realize it's a dimmer text and the damn post has been locked for no apparent reason.

1 Comment
2024/10/26
23:37 UTC

5

iPhone updates

Don’t update your Iphone we will drain your battery..

Don’t update your IPhone, hope you liked having Bluetooth function.

Fuck you apple.

1 Comment
2024/10/26
17:28 UTC

3

The twee wholesomeness content creation surrounding health, wellness and fitness

Brb in bed for 10pm for my morning run following by a cycle and avocado toast in a local artisan cafe.

I find it so irritating. The reels, the bland sameness of it all, the smugness. It's devoid of human spirit and just packages sport, fitness and health into this cutesy like packaged good for social media consumption.

On the flip side I can also see it as a good thing where people can be inspired to enjoy a more spiritually sustainable richer way of living. It's just when it is blatantly for social media content that it gets to me.

0 Comments
2024/10/25
13:15 UTC

6

Poor grammar

Posts with poor grammar, spelling errors, and the like get me so bad.

The subs most often guilty are r/TwoHotTakes and r/AITAH. The subs themselves are great, they just have the most offenders.

If I click on a post and it’s one long run-on sentence, I’m not even bothering to read the post. No apostrophe? Not reading. “There” when it should be “Their”? Bye.

5 Comments
2024/10/22
18:04 UTC

5

Reddit.

People on Reddit are weirdly prickly about questions. Plenty of them do answer questions thoughtfully and actually provide valuable knowledge. But then there's the other massive chunk of the individuals on here who will read something like "How do I cook mushrooms?" and COMPLETELY sidestep the question just to bitch at the OP about how mushrooms are sentient or something, so eating them is wrong.
If a question just so happens to approach 5% controversial, pretty much the entire page will just be people giving a lecture about the ethics of GMO's instead of actually answering the question in the first place.
Any searches I have (usually troubleshooting something) can get very bloated with several dozen astute gentlemen going "ERMMM ACTUALLY!!!!!!" over a person's desk layout or something, with zero actual answers in sight.

2 Comments
2024/10/21
09:32 UTC

5

"Just cause"

What really makes me so upset is when I ask someone for an answer or reasoning and they go " 'Cause" and I ask " 'Cause what?" and they then go "Just 'cause".

Like bro just tell me, stop making me wonder what the reason is over something that's not even that bad, like it's nothing important and I just wanna know why you think whatever you did and you're going "Just 'cause" like dude just tell me.

Like just tell me!

1 Comment
2024/10/21
01:04 UTC

9

“I don’t disagree….”

MFer, there’s a word for that!!!!

Say, “I agree, but”

Say, “You may have a point, but”

Say, “I’m not sure if I agree, but”

This stupid double-negative really grinds my gears!

3 Comments
2024/10/17
12:20 UTC

14

When people send me a thirsty DM but don't even upvote the post.

They liked the post enough to take the time to DM, but don't even upvote. Really grinds my gears.

3 Comments
2024/10/12
21:46 UTC

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