OT: Name some things that drive you fucking nuts

[mattola]

A fight about of pineapple pizza??? Gotta get some popcorn

 

[Comeds]

A fight about of pineapple pizza??? Gotta get some popcorn

Popcorn on pizza? Sounds odd but I'll try it.

 

[thedddd]

 

[thedddd]

that's an abomination on pizza

you pineapple nazi's are fighting the wrong war.

Yeah a white pizza is fine but with that I had a white sauce on a phillycheese steak pizza which was good.

As for what @elocomotive mentioned about pesto, I love that and make it homemade. The only reason is I let my planted basil get out of hand and need to use it for something.

 

[forty_three]

Searching on websites. They don't give two shits if you get relevant results, they just want to give you results.

Example: Best Buy - Search term: "VW Stereo Removal Keys". Search Results: 2 Whirlpool Trash Compactors and a Kitchenaid Mixer.

Second Example Amazon - Search Term: "VW Audi OEM AC fan blower motor". First result is one of those tinted sun visors. But Amazon gives me the ability to put in the specs of my car and filter results by only parts that fit my car. GREAT! But then the first two results are "Sponsored" results with great prices. One for a GMC pickup, and one for Honda Civics. And of course and ad for Whole Foods grocery delivery. It even gave me irrelevant results when I searched for the exact part number.

JUST GIVE ME THE RESULTS OF WHAT I ACTUALLY SEARCHED

I understand, a lot of people are really fucking stupid and you have to account for them. But you know what? Some of us know what they need. So make the fucking morons suffer, and make your site usable by people with IQs higher than their shoe size. I get so fucking sick of things working badly because the people who program them have to account for the stupid. Like self checkout lanes. When they first came out, I loved them. Because I know how technology works. But too many mouth breathers couldn't figure them out and now they are dumbed down to the point where they are barely usable.

 

[puckhead]

Early on in the thread I had a list of cars who's drivers were usually fucking awful.
need to update to add Tesla towards the top.

for a group of people who are supposed to have increased consciousness, they can be the most oblivious motherfuckers out there.
driving 48 in the fast lane beside someone who is doing 48.5.
stopping in the middle of the road to figure out if they want to turn left or right.
no concept of mirror or turn signal

 

[mattola]

Early on in the thread I had a list of cars who's drivers were usually fucking awful.
need to update to add Tesla towards the top.

for a group of people who are supposed to have increased consciousness, they can be the most oblivious motherfuckers out there.
driving 48 in the fast lane beside someone who is doing 48.5.
stopping in the middle of the road to figure out if they want to turn left or right.
no concept of mirror or turn signal

was it a white tesla with a woman driving on Oak? I experienced this as well.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Early on in the thread I had a list of cars who's drivers were usually fucking awful.
need to update to add Tesla towards the top.

for a group of people who are supposed to have increased consciousness, they can be the most oblivious motherfuckers out there.
driving 48 in the fast lane beside someone who is doing 48.5.
stopping in the middle of the road to figure out if they want to turn left or right.
no concept of mirror or turn signal

Probably more a function of just how many teslas there are in these parts, no? Most per capita in north america (if that isnt an old stat anymore)
Spotting teslas on road trips is the kids new modern yellow punch buggy no returns game.
my kids couldnt move their arms for days after the trip to vancouver island

 

[puckhead]

Probably more a function of just how many teslas there are in these parts, no?

could be a function of where i drive 90% of the time (downtown / west side / richmond), but I didn't want to be racist.
i.e. it's the new housewife car.

 

[dare2be]

Early on in the thread I had a list of cars who's drivers were usually fucking awful.
need to update to add Tesla towards the top.

for a group of people who are supposed to have increased consciousness, they can be the most oblivious motherfuckers out there.
driving 48 in the fast lane beside someone who is doing 48.5.
stopping in the middle of the road to figure out if they want to turn left or right.
no concept of mirror or turn signal

On the flipside, I've been fascinated by this channel for a while.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

On the flipside, I've been fascinated by this channel for a while.

#4 granville and 41st in vancouver lol

 

[forty_three]

Using COVID as an excuse to provide shitty service. Early on, most stores had their bathrooms closed. Oh, in a global pandemic, you have closed the one place I can wash my hands? Brilliant.

Most grocery stores will still not let me bring my own bags, forcing me to indirectly murder turtles and birds. The reason? Because they don't want to risk their employees' health by making them touch my bags. But they are just fine with them touching every single item I have just breathed all over in my cart and put on their belt. and one exceptionally stupid store around here also decided that the best way to enforce social distancing was to put the card payment machine at the beginning of the belt. So once all your stuff has gone through, you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the belt, where someone else has been standing (and now has to move back towards the third person in line) and stand there, breathing on THEIR groceries to pay. That grocery store is also one of those that makes you have a club card to get the prices every other store has. So you have to scan your card every transaction. The scanner is behind the plexiglass, so I have to hand over my keys every time to the cashier, but at least they don't have to touch my grubby reusable grocery bags.

A lot of places, including doctor's offices, have cut back their hours "due to COVID". Service industry places like hair salons and auto mechanics. Mrs 43 has been trying for 2 weeks to get a haircut. She is in school every day from 7 to 5. All the places to get a hair cut are open from 10-4. I can see why you might want less open hours in order to keep your place clean, but why wouldn't you be open at times when your customers AREN'T working?

My daughter's doctor's office doesn't want people who have coughs or sniffles to come in. THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE

I have fish. My pleco from my freshwater tank passed on so I went to the pet store to get another and couldn't find one. I went to several stores and eventually asked why they didn't have any of what is one of the most common fish and essential to control algae in a tank. "They are in short supply because of COVID". Oh really? How exactly does a global pandemic affect the breeding and shipping OF A FISH? AND ONLY THAT SPECIFIC FISH? If I wanted gouramis or angel fish or bala sharks they have billions. Only plecos are affected, somehow.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Using COVID as an excuse to provide shitty service. Early on, most stores had their bathrooms closed. Oh, in a global pandemic, you have closed the one place I can wash my hands? Brilliant.

Most grocery stores will still not let me bring my own bags, forcing me to indirectly murder turtles and birds. The reason? Because they don't want to risk their employees' health by making them touch my bags. But they are just fine with them touching every single item I have just breathed all over in my cart and put on their belt. and one exceptionally stupid store around here also decided that the best way to enforce social distancing was to put the card payment machine at the beginning of the belt. So once all your stuff has gone through, you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the belt, where someone else has been standing (and now has to move back towards the third person in line) and stand there, breathing on THEIR groceries to pay. That grocery store is also one of those that makes you have a club card to get the prices every other store has. So you have to scan your card every transaction. The scanner is behind the plexiglass, so I have to hand over my keys every time to the cashier, but at least they don't have to touch my grubby reusable grocery bags.

A lot of places, including doctor's offices, have cut back their hours "due to COVID". Service industry places like hair salons and auto mechanics. Mrs 43 has been trying for 2 weeks to get a haircut. She is in school every day from 7 to 5. All the places to get a hair cut are open from 10-4. I can see why you might want less open hours in order to keep your place clean, but why wouldn't you be open at times when your customers AREN'T working?

My daughter's doctor's office doesn't want people who have coughs or sniffles to come in. THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE

I have fish. My pleco from my freshwater tank passed on so I went to the pet store to get another and couldn't find one. I went to several stores and eventually asked why they didn't have any of what is one of the most common fish and essential to control algae in a tank. "They are in short supply because of COVID". Oh really? How exactly does a global pandemic affect the breeding and shipping OF A FISH? AND ONLY THAT SPECIFIC FISH? If I wanted gouramis or angel fish or bala sharks they have billions. Only plecos are affected, somehow.

Hasn't it been established that covid doesn't really transmit by contact (there's a scientific word here for it but I've forgotten it)?

All of the hand sanitizer stations and the poor minimum wage bastard spraying the shit out of grocery baskets (I despise this irrationally) etc. is all just panic theatre at this point.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Most grocery stores will still not let me bring my own bags, forcing me to indirectly murder turtles and birds. The reason? Because they don't want to risk their employees' health by making them touch my bags. But they are just fine with them touching every single item I have just breathed all over in my cart and put on their belt. and one exceptionally stupid store around here also decided that the best way to enforce social distancing was to put the card payment machine at the beginning of the belt. So once all your stuff has gone through, you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the belt, where someone else has been standing (and now has to move back towards the third person in line) and stand there, breathing on THEIR groceries to pay. That grocery store is also one of those that makes you have a club card to get the prices every other store has. So you have to scan your card every transaction. The scanner is behind the plexiglass, so I have to hand over my keys every time to the cashier, but at least they don't have to touch my grubby reusable grocery bags.

different experience up here. grocers seems to have done complete 180s. Would have been nice if they kept some aspects of hygenic cleaning. (Related … i just read that translink (public transit authority here) have gone from deep cleaning buses every 2 days to every 2 months lmao)

We grocery shop at 4 different places and they all went to plastic bags when covid started but now have gone back in the past couple months or so to bring your own bag or buy bags(paper or cloth reusable) Safeway kills me everytime because they have gone to paper bags that they charge you for … AND THEY DONT HAVE HANDLES!!!!

Theyve also stopped publically sanitizing carts / baskets. Sanitizing bottles and wipes are there for whoever wants to do it themselves.

i was at a local Walmart 2 months ago and they had cordoned off the entire dry goods aisles. I thought oh … corona related somehow ??? A couples days later i read in my local community paper that that store had a rat infestation!!!

WE’RE BACK BABY !!!

 

[puckhead]

i was at a local Walmart 2 months ago and they had cordoned off the entire dry goods aisles. I thought oh … corona related somehow ??? A couples days later i read in my local community paper that that store had a rat infestation!!!

WE’RE BACK BABY !!!

see this wouldn't be a problem if there were more coyotes in Walmart.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

see this wouldn't be a problem if there were more coyotes in Walmart.

Theres cougars in the swimwear aisle

/although from the looks of them they can be confused for mangy looking coyotes

 

[forty_three]

different experience up here. grocers seems to have done complete 180s. Would have been nice if they kept some aspects of hygenic cleaning. (Related … i just read that translink (public transit authority here) have gone from deep cleaning buses every 2 days to every 2 months lmao)

We grocery shop at 4 different places and they all went to plastic bags when covid started but now have gone back in the past couple months or so to bring your own bag or buy bags(paper or cloth reusable) Safeway kills me everytime because they have gone to paper bags that they charge you for … AND THEY DONT HAVE HANDLES!!!!

Theyve also stopped publically sanitizing carts / baskets. Sanitizing bottles and wipes are there for whoever wants to do it themselves.

i was at a local Walmart 2 months ago and they had cordoned off the entire dry goods aisles. I thought oh … corona related somehow ??? A couples days later i read in my local community paper that that store had a rat infestation!!!

WE’RE BACK BABY !!!

The bulk of my shopping is at Aldi which doesn't have bags at all, but I do still have to go to a regular store for some things Aldi doesn't have or brands we won't tolerate the Aldi equivalents. The other main store I go to will let you use your bags at the self checkouts (limit 12 items) or if you sign up for their scan as you go service which they charge for.

They also have these signs they put up on the carts that say "carts in front of this sign have been sanitized" and on more than one occasion I have seen them bring a long train of carts in directly from outside and put the sign in the middle of the train once inside.

I don't even know the last time I was in a Wal Mart.

see this wouldn't be a problem if there were more coyotes in Walmart.

Aren't they usually crawling with cougars?

edit: *shakes fist at jstew*

 

[Comeds]

Teams that go post a ton on social media when they lose. Hey, how about you quietly pass the time and not remind us about the loss.

 

[Comeds]

Extra items on food. If a menu lists a particular cheese steak as having peppers, bacon, onions, and mushrooms then I shouldn't have to scrape lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo off of it.

If a menu lists the ingredients on a sandwich it shouldn't come with surprises.

 

[Comeds]

People who live 5 minutes from my office checking with me to see if I am in so they can ask me to reboot machines on their desk. That does not bother me too much, but if I am not there and then they ask "when are you going to be in", "do you know if anyone else is there?", "do you think someone from operations could do it" it drives me crazy. You live 6 miles away and you haven't been in for a year and a half. Suck it up and do it yourself.