People just adding others in pseudo-friendships, friendships that don’t really mean anything and people treating others like they’re a service or speed-dial or so. I am part of the last generation of people it feels like, where, you befriended someone with intent to build a bond with them and that bond is built upon year after year. You gain memories, then when the old memories are old, you make new ones.
I’ve noticed an alarming amount of people who’ll just add you because they only see you as someone to lean on. Not because the relationship is meaningful, but someone who is just there ‘when in need’ as they go off not doing anything for large portions of time. This creates an artificial, shallow and hollow experience where a lot of time, you will feel like you’re the one upholding the friendship.
And that only isn’t normal to me, but simply unacceptable. Then you’ve got people who can’t even go a day without communication so now they call it ‘ghosting’ which is another overly spammed word that has lost meaning. I’m low maintenance, who can go periods of time without talking but at the same time, I do also want things to be meaningful. Doesn’t have to be constant, just something within the year.
And I’ve had people in my life who simply cannot do that. I’ve had people who still consider friends after not talking for years and years. What do you mean you’re okay with that? That’s lost time! I don’t enjoy having to spend however long playing catch up.
Bringing dogs into places where dogs don’t belong. No your energetic little puppy is not a trained service animals. Even more annoying when they walk right past signs that say no animals. Obviously the rules don’t apply to their little ball of fur.
That and people using their car’s hazard lights as a “I can park here”
Around here they use their vehicles hazard lights as a shield against… something. I see at least ten people driving down the highway a week with their hazard lights on. They are not speeding and its not legal to use them that way in this state anyway. I’m sure its some stupid social media thing.
It doesn’t sound like the case here but I will briefly turn my hazard lights on for a few blinks if there is a hazard ahead on the road. I keep moving but my intention is to warn drivers behind me that there’s shit going on down the road where they might not see it and have time to slow down.
That’s literally what they’re for.
You don’t have to tell me that. Tell literally everyone else on the road how to use their blinkers. Imagine for a second a BMW driver doing it. Just kidding. Those cars leak blinker fluid like a tap.
I had a person park in front of my driveway, throw on hazards and disappear for an hour and their battery ended up dying. She ended up walking up to the door and asking for a jump. I declined help and somewhat politely informed her not to park in front of driveways.
Few month later it turns out my neighbor was cheating with this woman.
spicy story
Those are the “park anywhere lights”.
fake service animal vest, cant believe people actually think a small dog can be a service animal, especially a mutt and you cant confront them. theres a reason they use working line dogs. notice some ratchety people who are going to shoplift in stores will bring a dog that intimidates people like pitbulls or dobermans they are asking for trouble.
Putting your shopping cart up on the curb/grass at Costco.
Look. I know about the shopping cart return litmus test for humanity. And in my experience, at the average supermarket or shopping center or whatever, it’s usually not too bad. There are a couple of shit stains out there that leave their cart in a parking spot or anywhere else not returned.
But Costco? What the fuck is going on there? It’s like the wild-fucking-west. It’s lawless. I have seen people add to trains of carts stacked together in a parking spot. The curbs just have dozens of carts pushed up on them. It’s like some kind of broken window theory parking lot where normally decent people see the state of it and go “No order exists here, and I will treat it as such”
Return your fucking cart. It takes like 40 seconds max.
Specieism. Although, living a fully antispecieist life is only possible since a short time (being vegan was not possible before). But it is not normal now that it is possible for animals well-being first, for fighting starvation and for the planet.
what’s your position on animals that are raised ethically for the principal goal of food?
Could you raise a person ethically for the principal goal of food?
The objectification of women
constant surveillance. Where we are, where we are going, who we are with, how we feel, everything we say, what we are looking at. Just constant needling to answer those questions by multiple groups at every chance they can for myself and everyone i know.
Like it skeeves me out for myself, buy for the kids in my life i am more enraged about it. Like leave them the hell alone. I dont trust the goverment or corperations trying it or that they wont let other creeps get ahold of that info either.
I’ll just leave this here.
uploading images in “.jpg to .png” websites. If you upload ANY image they can keep it downloaded forever. Now imagine the amount of photos of Passports and IDs
I see people do this shit at work all the time. except instead of photos they’re sending contracts with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.
some people deserve to have their fingers broken for breaking compliance.
parasocial behaviour of “public people” influencers, celebrities(especially if that person is a shithead and you still try to defend him like you are thier family) they dont know you. falls in two camps, aggressively moniter online spaces of said celebritiy, especially if they are an influencer on thier channel(attacking anyone that challenges them) and the more extreme ones( the ones that issue death threats to percieved competition).
Hpotter fans, swifties, PEWPEWdie is probably the most recent cringe, why suddenly defend him when he appeared after years of escaping critcism.
My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk. General unconscious consumerism.
Similar question was asked pretty recently.
Kids toys.
The normality of being advertised to. It’s kind of extreme how okay we are with someone hijacking our time like that. For free. As long as it’s a corporation holding our activities hostage and not like a human being in the room with us.
And to add to this: building secret profiles of people’s online activities and trading them around and selling them to the government without a warrant
Like we should be jailing everyone in big tech, all data brokers, and most of the government.
Banning advertising would be such an improvement. The only way to make a difference would be just to make a good product.
And the savings would go to the general population, instead of the one that buys the loudest voice
proprietary software
Modifying your car to be louder.
Tangentially, manosphere culture and acting like an asshole to people to secure your status in the manosphere
Over where I am there’s been legislation introduced that limits the sounds.
… If only someone would bother enforcing it.
Well that isn’t as bad as the Carolina Squat. That is the dumbest shit I have seen.
Rapist POTUS
Thats always been normalized at least since Jefferson.
What no way, he and Sally were in love
Damn you took my answer.
Fiat money.
What’s wrong with saving for a Fiat? They are nice cars.
Drinking and gambling.
I have too many complaints to list here and I’m sure others will take care of the most important ones. So I’ll just say the most recent one I’ve gotten annoyed with:
The whole internet debate culture. Every fucking thing is now a debate. One of the reasons I finally deleted my reddit account. I literally answered someone’s question and provided a bit of extra information in a neutral to positive tone. And the guy replied with “are you fucking dense” and started to argue with me. To give you an idea how fucking stupid and silly it was, it was a thread about “which invention had the biggest impact on the world” and the guy commented “why has no one answered ‘electricity’ is beyond me?!” and I answered “possibly because electricity is not a invention, it just is” and then noted how people have answered inventions that harness electricity. And for that I got abuse and arguing.
That’s not a one time thing. Go to any reddit thread and I bet 80% of the first child comments are arguing with the original comment. Even if there’s nothing to argue about. Same goes for youtube comments, “hey I liked the way you took that exhaust manifold off” is met with “yeah but thats the wrong way no one should do that or the car will literally explode!” and then the rest of the comment chain is just arguing and mockery.
I do understand that people have always argued. But it was never this bad. I’ve been chronically online since 1999 and while I have had frustrations here and there, its never been daily, until the last 5-ish years.
Personally I blame the tiktok/youtube debating streamers. Everyone thinks they are a Planet Peterson now.
Anyway, start arguing with me below:
That isn’t debate. It’s being a ripe cunt of a person.
It reminds me of my dad. Anytime you said anything he didn’t understand he’d insult you.
I agree before short-form social media took over, people used to actually be articulate and thoughtful.
Yeah thats sort of what I mean. Everyone seems to be in a default cunt mode so they take everything as a challenge, debate or a insult. Its tiring.
Good point
You’re a lovely human being.
I disagree with that so very much!
Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
You have a point.
Yet you are a mental midget, with the IQ of a fencepost!
Look, I came here for an argument, not abuse
I disagree, I think you’ll find that your reality is incorrect and furthermore the experience I have is superior. Frankly the fact you are unaware of this is shocking and shame should be inflicted on you. Any attention you now receive should be negative and shaped by my world view instead. The nuance of what you are articulating is useless due to this incredible gap you are exposing in your comprehensive understanding of what the world is actually like and you should feel bad for not clarifying any of this for me in your comment. You really do need to reflect more on what value you are adding here because this contribution is not only false it is embarrassing. You really ought to research things before making baseless claims. How dare you share an opinion that challenges my identity and sense of self. This is not something that you can get away without knowing how bad you fucked up and it is my duty to make you aware. Consider yourself notified, and I expect your full retraction and admittance in return. I will be waiting FURIOUSLY until a response is delivered post haste.
Without regard or ragrets, itsathursday
Well argued! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQlyUjp3vM
I don’t know whether to upvote you for accuracy, or downvote you for obnoxiousness
Sitting on the fence is a weak stance. I am literally shaking right now reading you are comfortable with arriving atop that position so sharply. The only fair action wood be to post your beaming support and fall on the right side of it. It’s clear that everyone on the left side is not on the right side, you can only ever be on one side at any one time and nothing you can say otherwise is a valid defence against what everyone else has hammered on tooth and nail. Pivoting or hinging your bets to be able to swing freely is latching onto false security and like agate - ornamental. You clearly must brace yourself and picket a side, cementing your footing so you do not go around paling in comparison to others who are railing around with more electrified boundaries of what they are willing to uphold. May your shaded post and foundations rot in the rainy hell you have chosen to exist.
8.5/10
Brevity is the soul of wit. Even if you’re going for bloviating, it could have been a bit more compact.
I did get a Terry Pratchett vibe, so you’re certainly on the right track
