You Know What Really Grinds My Gears

[Frankie Bones]

When people purposefully misspell words because they think it makes them look cool, you are an adult, grow the fuck up! You and your ilk are the reason for words like "bae" or more specifically "werk" (thanks Evan for inspiring this post)

When Social Justice Warriors create new language in order to justify their right to exist and demand respect for their idiotic ways of thinking and emotional states, a lot of these words and terms are meant to replace the word "woman" some examples include; "person with a cervix" and "pregnant person", some ideas that they have used to justify these new terms are even more ridiculous, for instance "menstruator" which is being used to avoid offending trans identified males who may be feeling left out of womanhood. 

When did the term "you hurt my feelings" begin carrying more weight than the action of physical attack?

What really grinds your gears?

Edited December 2, 2021 by Frankie Bones

[Evan Shorten]

Lmaooo 😂 your welcome Frankie ❤️

[COSMIC CHARLIE]

Holy shit I agree 100% Frankie . All that really pisses me off and gets me going . All those terms, people getting offended at words like women. 
I don’t get it. The loud minority really makes their voices heard, when most do NOT agree with it. 
 

and the spelling none sense always was a pet peeve of mine. 

[SleepyManLance]

Creating new language is fine so long as it serves a higher purpose by bridging gaps in understanding of new concepts or technology. When new terms are created to denote concepts rooted in fantasy (e.g. the notion that there are more than two genders) then it absolutely grinds my gears. 

I am particularly enraged when words that are in common use are suddenly deemed "hate speech". I would never refer to someone with Down's Syndrome or other similar mental disability as "retarded" yet if I use the word to describe any other person(s) as ignorant or stupid it is considered offensive. 

I encounter people who are less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for their age all the time. One might also refer to them as immature but that's not considered offensive. 

The term "village idiot" is also used as a stereotype of the mentally disabled but calling someone an "idiot" is not considered hate speech. It is the selective demonizing of specific words but not their synonyms that I find particularly ignorant and a sign of the regressive trend of humanity.

 

Edited December 4, 2021 by SleepyManLance
grammar

[Frankie Bones]

6 hours ago, SleepyManLance said:

Creating new language is fine so long as it serves a higher purpose by bridging gaps in understanding of new concepts or technology. When new terms are created to denote concepts rooted in fantasy (e.g. the notion that there are more than two genders) then it absolutely grinds my gears. 

I am particularly enraged when words that are in common use are suddenly deemed "hate speech". I would never refer to someone with Down's Syndrome or other similar mental disability as "retarded" yet if I use the word to describe any other person(s) as ignorant or stupid it is considered offensive. 

I encounter people who are less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for their age all the time. One might also refer to them as immature but that's not considered offensive. 

The term "village idiot" is also used as a stereotype of the mentally disabled but calling someone an "idiot" is not considered hate speech. It is the selective demonizing of specific words but not their synonyms that I find particularly ignorant and a sign of the regressive trend of humanity.

 

I couldn't agree more, this also grinds my gears!

[Shaynap848]

A lack of common sense really gets me & laziness. I get having lazy days or relaxing. When there is so much at our fingertips in todays world that things aren't to difficult to figure it out and learn but instead insist on you doing it for them on simple tasks. 

[COSMIC CHARLIE]

Love how I write “none sense” instead of nonsense while Im talking about spelling. Damn iPhone  🤦‍♂️😆

[ScooterStan]

you just going to have to accept that I really cant spell well and the only time i formulate a proper spelling is when it highlights it for me that I didnt spell it correctly...   people spelling stuff wrong on purpose doesnt sounds like it would make you cool,

[Jenna]

What grinds my gears is when I give someone a task to do at work, and they look at me dumb founded and ask me to get so and so to do it, or why can't I do it.  I have no problem teaching someone that may not know how to do the task I am requesting, but instead of learning something valuable, they rather be lazy and pass that task on to someone else.  Something else that also grinds my gears is someone undermining what I say or how I say things need to be done. For instance a couple weeks ago I gave certain tasks to certain people at work, when I went to those people to see where they were in completion of those tasks., they told me a co-worker who is under me, had them doing something else.  So I went to the warehouse Manager for resolution to this issue. Well problem is our warehouse manager has no back bone. So instead of the issue being resolved, his response to me was yeah she shouldn't have done that but nothing further became of it. Our warehouse manager likes to play both sides of the fence and tell you whatever you want to hear at that moment in time, without actually doing anything productive about it, because he doesn't like confrontation.  Not the position he needs to be in if that's the case. Somerhing else that really gets me seething is that the company I work for cares more about who you know, who you're buddies with, or what clique your in, rather than your work ethic and attendance.  It's literally like I'm back in high school.. I keep biding my time with this company because after all, I've spent a significant amount of my life working for this company and don't want it to be wasted time. Time is definitely something you can never get back.  I'm not trying to toot my own horn but I know I'm an integral part of why this company has grown so much and made the kind of money they have....not that they'd ever admit it. I've saved them from losing multimillion dollar accounts many times. When the company changed hands and became a cooperation it's only gotten worse. I've often thought of changing jobs to somewhere that would value all that I have to offer, but the bottom line is that I'm stuck. I can't afford to go without medical insurance for even a month.  As expensive as my medical bills are and as much as I struggle to make the payments I have, it would be impossible to pay for anything without the insurance.  I love my job, don't get me wrong, I just can't stand the higher ups that care more about lining their pockets with hundred dollar bills than those employees that are helping line those pockets. All this not only grinds my gears but saddens me. I've literally poured blood, sweat, and tears into this company and I feel like they could care less about me. Sorry for the long message, I guess you can call my place of employment, my trigger.

Edited December 5, 2021 by Jenna

[Frankie Bones]

7 hours ago, COSMIC CHARLIE said:

Love how I write “none sense” instead of nonsense while Im talking about spelling. Damn iPhone  🤦‍♂️😆

I saw that but chose not to be a grammar nazi 🤣

7 hours ago, ScooterStan said:

you just going to have to accept that I really cant spell well and the only time i formulate a proper spelling is when it highlights it for me that I didnt spell it correctly...   people spelling stuff wrong on purpose doesnt sounds like it would make you cool,

But they do Stan. I believe it harks back to a time in school, when kids considered being clever meant that you were a nerd and not being clever was a sign that you were one of the cool kids, to cool to learn, to cool to do it right, to cool to try, being lazy and unruly and against the mainstream is cool, and so even in their adult lives they think this way, more than likely as a result of being to cool to learn lol

[Frankie Bones]

5 hours ago, Jenna said:

What grinds my gears is when I give someone a task to do at work, and they look at me dumb founded and ask me to get so and so to do it, or why can't I do it.  I have no problem teaching someone that may not know how to do the task I am requesting, but instead of learning something valuable, they rather be lazy and pass that task on to someone else.  Something else that also grinds my gears is someone undermining what I say or how I say things need to be done. For instance a couple weeks ago I gave certain tasks to certain people at work, when I went to those people to see where they were in completion of those tasks., they told me a co-worker who is under me, had them doing something else.  So I went to the warehouse Manager for resolution to this issue. Well problem is our warehouse manager has no back bone. So instead of the issue being resolved, his response to me was yeah she shouldn't have done that but nothing further became of it. Our warehouse manager likes to play both sides of the fence and tell you whatever you want to hear at that moment in time, without actually doing anything productive about it, because he doesn't like confrontation.  Not the position he needs to be in if that's the case. Somerhing else that really gets me seething is that the company I work for cares more about who you know, who you're buddies with, or what clique your in, rather than your work ethic and attendance.  It's literally like I'm back in high school.. I keep biding my time with this company because after all, I've spent a significant amount of my life working for this company and don't want it to be wasted time. Time is definitely something you can never get back.  I'm not trying to toot my own horn but I know I'm an integral part of why this company has grown so much and made the kind of money they have....not that they'd ever admit it. I've saved them from losing multimillion dollar accounts many times. When the company changed hands and became a cooperation it's only gotten worse. I've often thought of changing jobs to somewhere that would value all that I have to offer, but the bottom line is that I'm stuck. I can't afford to go without medical insurance for even a month.  As expensive as my medical bills are and as much as I struggle to make the payments I have, it would be impossible to pay for anything without the insurance.  I love my job, don't get me wrong, I just can't stand the higher ups that care more about lining their pockets with hundred dollar bills than those employees that are helping line those pockets. All this not only grinds my gears but saddens me. I've literally poured blood, sweat, and tears into this company and I feel like they could care less about me. Sorry for the long message, I guess you can call my place of employment, my trigger.

You used one of my favourite words "seething". That sounds pretty rough, like your stuck between a rock and a hard place. Could you apply for the position of warehouse manager, by outlining what you have done and what you can do for them in the future, just go over the head of the current manager and lay it out why you would do a better job than he, you never know, those fat cats at the top might see the potential and give you his job, I would imagine that there would be a pay and benefit increase at that level too.

[Frankie Bones]

People who say pacifically instead of specifically, this has specifically pissed me off today 🤬