I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
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 habit of people to skip any or all nuance in assessing a situation because it’s “more palatable”.
A good example of this is familial relations. Family is more than just “parent”, “child”, “sibling”, “friend”, and/or “spouse”, you could have grey areas where something would come off as not quite one thing or another thing. Age-gap siblings can develop into having an aunt or uncle who is younger than you, or you might be older than your step-parent, or you might manifest a relationship in a way that contains some aspects of a friendship, etc. But there are people who don’t want to hear any of the buts about it, they just want a one word answer.
The color brown, especially in clothing. I can’t quite put my finger on why that is.
Wood is mostly okay, though.
It’s overdone especially decor and furniture. Same with beige, navy blue, black, or other neutral business casual “adult” colors.
Bowling.
More like bow-ring! Get it, boring, hahaha, ha… I’ll get my coat.
Mercedes & BMW drivers
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
Please call me if you encounter these issues
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
Are you sure that’s your jurisdiction? Isn’t that typography or something?
Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely “unique” experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.
Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely “unique” experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.
The pet chimpanzees thing I get. Its a wild animal and shouldn’t be a pet.
However all the other stuff is only affecting that person doing it. Why do you care what they do to themselves (as long as no one else is involved without their own consent)? How is your life negatively affected if those other people do those things to themselves? Do you want those other people having a say in what you do that doesn’t affect anyone else?
No, I just don’t want them in my life. We can be the bestest of friends, but if you backflip on the top of a tall building, I don’t know you anymore.
No, I just don’t want them in my life.
This part we agree on.
but if you backflip on the top of a tall building, I don’t know you anymore.
The list of things that people can do that I wouldn’t want them in my life is nearly infinitely long, but I guess I don’t call that a list of “things I vehemently hate”.
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 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
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.
buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it’s like nobody cares about light pollution.
I’ve been considering reporting streetlights that don’t point straight down because they technically violate city codes.
Oh shit I’ve always liked the way those looked. I thought they made the house look fancy but I never considered the light pollution.
