I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
The smell of coffee. I don’t know what’s wrong with me (or the 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, …
I learned to ignore it to some extend
That must not have been an easy thing to do, and I feel for you knowing how omnipresent coffee is. Heck, I had my first coffee I was not 9 year-old. I remember it vividly, it was a large and thick cup (to my kid eyes at least) half filled with black coffee (not the tinted water many people erroneously call ‘coffee’), without milk but with sugar, way too many. I liked it, probably because of the too many sugar in it, and I never quit drinking coffee for 50 years or so, up until very recently and only because my doctor told me so.
As for the smell, obviously I would not compare it to poop like you did but I reckon there is one thing they may both remotely share, very remotely though, a kind of ‘earthy’ smell?
Did you switch to something or off caffeine altogether? Black tea is much nicer haha
Yep, I drink tea (I already was) and decaffeinated coffee. For the most part, I drink good old water.
Little squirts of pure vanilla are quite nice complement for tea, particularly earl gray
/me dutifully write this down.
Never tried that, thx for the suggestion.
Maybe I phrased it in a confusing way. Coffee does not smell like dog poop to me. It’s just exactly as disgusting. Can’t really compare it to anything else but it’s a very intense smell that I just can’t stand. I noticed that microwaving chocolate milk can lead to a similar smell but by far not as bad as coffee.
It’s not roasted stuff in general that I despise and also not related to milk.
It is amazing how much this kind of thing depends on conditioning; there is a culture I read about recently where if someone sees you drinking coffee then they would ask you how you were feeling because it is considered to be a gross drink that you would only have when you were sick; tea would be the beverage of choice at all other times.
Oh, where is that? As an inspiration in case I decide to emigrate one day. 😄
I read it somewhere in a book I was reading on Buddhism and the nature of the mind; if I am able to find it I will let you know!
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.
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?
People who wear sunglasses indoors. I get fluorescent or bright led lights bother some folks, but it still screams asshole to me.
This was a pet peeve of mine when I used to work customer service. The biggest douchebags were always middle-aged men with sunglasses on.
Second only to the ones who have them upside down on their hat. You could just leave them in the car but then we wouldn’t get to see your $80 big boy flex.
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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.
Ah, clearly the world is your ouster.
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”.
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Greeting people or goodbye’s. Please don’t touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it’s back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.
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!
So generally I use turn signals correctly. But there are a few times I don’t for particular reasons.
If I am sitting at the rightmost lane at a busy intersection and intend to turn right, I honestly tend to not turn on my right turn signal. The ambiguity of whether or not I’m turning or going straight helps keep assholes behind me from honking at me. I’ve found that an unfortunately large amount of people get impatient when someone in front of them is turning right on red onto a busy road. They honk and act like assholes because they want you to dangerously jump into traffic and not wait for a clearing so they can go sooner.
I know I could turn on my turn signal and just let an an asshole lay on their horn, but honestly I really truly prefer to avoid that.
And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).
Happens all the time yeah.
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.
Had a lot of teens walking around with the puffy jackets or hoodies on and ski masks over this past summer. Don’t think we have that many schizophrenic people around here.
Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
It’s not clear why. It could be an issue with being able to accurately perceive your own temperature, it could be a comfort thing, it could be that they’re more likely to want important possessions to be harder to steal.
So either medical, emotional or social. 🤷
Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice
Double spaces in text
I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .
There’s a reasonable explanation for that one, namely: the French.
I’m guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces
I’m fine with it on social media, but on websites, articles, research papers etc I see it as a lack of quality control. It’s very easy to fix too, just hit ctrl+F and type space twice to find any.
Please call me if you encounter these issues
Are you sure that’s your jurisdiction? Isn’t that typography or something?
Hate to be that guy again, but you forgot the period at the end of your sentence.
Aaaaand that’s a Level 3 misdemeanor for attempting to correct an officer of the law.
Internal affairs will be in contact with you shortly.
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing
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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
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.
At least when they make the ad part of their show it’s easier to just skip forward past it (eg YouTube keyboard shortcut to skip forward ten seconds) It depends what you’re listening to really. A lot of content producers have made their peace with the fact that people are not going to pay for their content so some sort of spoken ad means they get some sort of return. I generally only listen to research / academic based shows where they have a separate patreon for ad-free episodes and discussions. I don’t mind paying for that where I think their content is worth it. That feels like a more honest exchange.
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)
What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?
Hate is a strong word, with or without vehemency.
There are things I despise (most media, social or traditional, being an example of), there are things I don’t like (bananas), stuff and behaviours I disagree with (certainties and personal opinions used as indisputable truth, violence), and then there are people I dislike, some deeply (like… nope, I won’t name anyone) but I’d rather not hate. Not anymore, like I may have hated when I was younger.
Hate helps no one solve any issue, helps no one in becoming a better person. It certainly does not help me, quite the opposite.
I hate bananas too. I call them Satan’s dick because of how inedible they are and how they ruin anything they’re mixed in.
And you’re not wrong
Agreed. Hate is poison to the mind. To me, it means you want to destroy something on sight. I can’t think of a single thing I dislike that much
Not even people who say “on accident”?
I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I’m showing them something. Simply… don’t, okay?
I hope you shrug them off, they deserve it
shrug them off
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.
People who do not backup their laptops or phones, then come complaint to me when they are unable to to access and get a photo when the device dies.
“What’s the cloud? I don’t want anything in the cloud! I don’t want to make an account!” then “oh no how can I get my pictures my phone doesn’t turn on”
Huge crossover with people who ask “can you help me with this computer thing” then demand “just do it for me!” and never learn to do it on their own.
