What's the weirdest thing you're upset about?
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Those plastic bags at the grocery store, to put loose fresh produce in? Why the fuck do they never open easily? With all these whizz-bang technologies we've developed, you'd think someone would design/make bags you don't have to wrestle with to open.
i don't use those bags most of the time. I just put the produce in my trolley/basket.
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The root cause of what you describe is a build or maintenance issue. Properly built, tuned, and maintained bikes don't drop chains.
Lol The root cause is a 12 year old with ADHD.
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Anything text editing not supporting Vim mode, especially programming context.
After breathing Microsoft for 10 years, learning Linux and then learning windows does not have a native terminal text editor I was very irked.
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I wfh so my car is 99% of the time outside my house. It's in the shop for a few days and no one is choosing to park in front of my house! I swear to God they must think I'm a raging hambeast or something, ready to screech out the window if someone parks there. It's not MY spot. I don't own it. Please park there when my car isn't there! So annoying!
Yeah the concensus in my town is you own the spots directly in front of your home unless there's a party or severe parking shortage.
Why would you park farther than you have to from your destination?
Might be different for you if you live in tight multi family homes.
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How am I supposed to care about a series that takes 4 years between seasons
This is why I can't do manga. I switched to webtoons and novels. Novels tend to just get dropped and that drives me nuts.
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Bicycle drivetrains keep getting more complex and expensive. A 3x9 drivetrain is beyond adequate, bulletproof, and inexpensive. But NooOoOoOooo, it's nearly impossible to get a quality bike with 3x9 now, without a full custom, DIY build. Everything has to be 1x11/12, which is expensive, touchy, and very particular, all while still lacking the gear range of 3x9.
It all seriously sticks in my craw.
For mountain biking at least, 1xs are superior due to the narrow-wide chainring, not to mention completely eliminating a derailer and associated controls. I don't understand how this could possibly be more complicated or expensive than a 3x9, but I'm sure these companies have found a way.
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This shouldn't be weird, but I'm consistently upset at how dumb the average idiot is.
It's scary how stupid most people are without even realizing it and I hate how I have to suffer for it every day.
I hate how so many seem to have cushy jobs and infinite money while barely having enough brain cells to balance on two feet. Like, you can barely read and make more money than god.
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Okay, if you're looking for weird?
Bad perforations. Drives me insane. Any product that is perforated to tear easily, 9 times out of 10 they fucked it up and the perforations may as well not even be there or even make it worse
My vitamin packets: I try to separate one out but then accidentally tear open another vitamin behind it.
Cardboard food packaging: I start tearing a strip to open but then the strip breaks and leaves 3/4 still stuck on the packaging.
Plastic food packaging: "This bag is resealable!" Or, what they mean to say is that if you try to tear it open using the pre-cut line, you'll tear below the resealable part.
Glass bottles/jars sealed with plastic: You're lucky if you can even tell where they perforated it. Try ruining your nail pulling up every edge you can find until maybe it tears eventually (likely not where the actual perforation is, either). Or you can ruin a knife scratching your own tear against the metal cap instead.
Toilet paper: You'd think the sections that are already partially punctured would be the weakest point to tear most easily, but it's actually the middle of the goddamn sheet, as we all know.
Bonus points for other packages where a top film or foil covering a container is weaker than the glue used to seal it around the edges, so you're left with little bits of lid that can't be removed except surgically with tweezers.
If you can't fucking do food packaging right, save some money by not even trying and just tell me I need to use scissors or a knife, because that's what ends up happening most of the time anyways. Fuck.
Cathartic. Thank you
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HBO never finished Carnivale.
That's not weird. I mean the show is weird as fuck, but your thought isn't.
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The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don't want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I'm still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I'm a gringo, I shouldn't have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
- Auto playing and unrelated videos that play when I open a website.
- Ads in apps that needs 100 close button clicks to skip, each of which is a z-index bomb that takes you to play store to install their crappy app.
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Phil Collins pisses me off, I can’t explain why, I just fucking hate that guy.
I've never really forgiven him for normalizing electronic drums.
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The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don't want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I'm still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I'm a gringo, I shouldn't have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
It's alright, I'm gonna breathe in the month of October and eat me some Reesies Peesies
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Our prime minister couldn't explain what prime numbers are
In the '90s I had a phone call with the CEO of American Games and he didn't know what a fraction was.
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Can't believe people don't have shame in liking whatever disney shits out.
I don't have a giant hate for disney, in fact it's fair to say I'm relatively uninformed about their offerings.
But every Disney movie I've seen is basically the same script. "I have self doubt and I'm judged by my role models for my non-conformity. Now I'm going to go on a crazy adventure with sidekicks where I discover that the things that make me different actually give me strength!"
Why any adult would want to see this shit is beyond me.
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People who chew with their mouths open should be fucking euthanized.
Obviously, I don’t actually think that, but as a misophonic person who was brought up right, it drives me fucking insane when people do this.
Also Misophonic and 100% agree.
All unnecessary sound bothers me. If you're doing a thing that doesn't need to make noise but choose to do so it's going to annoy me. For whatever reason though chewing in particular drives me to madness.
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I'm sorry, 1x11? I've never really shopped for a bike more expensive than like $500 and the idea of getting less gear options for more money is wild to me.
There’s surprisingly a fair bit of overlap on the gear ratios of a 2 or 3x that makes a 1x11 or 12 have a similar range of ratios. However you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability so you see a few more 2x on road bikes. I’ve never found myself wanting more from my 1x mtb drivetrain
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For mountain biking at least, 1xs are superior due to the narrow-wide chainring, not to mention completely eliminating a derailer and associated controls. I don't understand how this could possibly be more complicated or expensive than a 3x9, but I'm sure these companies have found a way.
superior due to the narrow-wide chainring
Fully agreed. Narrow-wide rings are absolutely a boon to mountain biking as are derailleur clutches. And 1x is superlative for hard trail riding on that factor alone.
A factor in the issue I take is the proprietary nature of modern bike drivetrains. With older drivetrains, we could mix and match to our hearts' content. But now, even within a component line, e.g. Deore XT or SRAM X[n], specs such as pull rates can be different even for the same cog count. "These are the only combinations of components we think you should use, and we will do everything we can to block you from customizing." Shimano is especially egregious about this expensive mess, and they know it, which is why they tried to un-hash things with CUES.
Pretty much everything 3x9 all works together. Road derailleur and cassette with mountain crank and bar-end shifters? Sure! Gear range for days. I sincerely believe this is to sell more bikes. Want to climb hard pack and mixed surface? You need a gravel bike! Want to get groceries? You need a commuter or loaded tourer! Want to go on a fast road ride? You need a road bike!
It used to be really easy to build up a bike that could perform most bicycle functions well. Mixed-surface, loaded, commuter/grocery-getter, randonneuring, snow, rain, club rides... one bike with maybe a wheel change*. Good luck with that now. Gravel bikes are kinda filling that niche now, but the components and frame manufacturers are again trying to fracture that even further. The gravel drivetrain won't have the range to cover all the use cases without a cassette or crank change.
Moar rant, moar example: my partner works in an LBS. We can literally afford to buy any bicycle we could want. She wants a general-purpose gravel bike, and it's not even a case of "just spend more money to get these additional features." Component selection on a pre-built, geometry, wheel selection... all tightly engineered to cover as few use cases as possible. Okay, we'll build from a naked frame. Oh, the more racy geometry frames lack braze-ons and can't fit a 50mm tire.
*It makes complete sense to have a full-squish mountain bike for the aggressive off-road stuff, and those bikes are necessarily different. Even for that case, I can hang with the LBS trail/flow rides on my do-almost-everything bike. My current do-everything took me more than six months to source compatible parts and troubleshoot. This used to be a matter of just pulling the trigger on the parts I wanted.
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I can't even count the amount of times I've sent some variation of "Yeah, so I think we should reboot the server:wq" into irc
Funny you should mention IRC as that's how I met that coworker in the first place. I miss the good old days of IRC. Freenode was a blast back in the day.
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Funny you should mention IRC as that's how I met that coworker in the first place. I miss the good old days of IRC. Freenode was a blast back in the day.
IRC is still around! I run my own server and everything. It's still a blast
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Broom dustpans don't need a fucking lip. You're sitting there repeatedly sweeping the same dirt into the same pan instead of a simple one and done because that way if you hold the pan up perfectly level like a fucking sociopath the dirt doesn't fall out.
Damn that's right
