I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
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Newspapers who use the word “ouster” but as a noun, not a verb.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster
“With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents.”
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024“Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion.”
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024“The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022.”
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024“That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week.”
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024As opposed to:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust
Ouster - One who ousts.
Yeah, I also can’t stand it when words are used to convey meanings they’ve had for roughly five hundred years.
That have fallen out of use then come back nonsensically.
Newspapers also loved using “gantlet” instead of “gauntlet” for a time as well.
Nobody fucking says “run the gantlet”.
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Ah, clearly the world is your ouster.
People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn’t affect them at all
Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread
If you’re sweating so much you smell bad and are working less because you’re overheated and you’re wearing a North Face™ mountain climber ahh jacket in a packed Amazon Delivery Station during peak time where there’s like 100k packages being delivered today, yeah, I’m offended as hell.
And… My mother forced me to wear my jacket when shopping as a kid and I’d be overheated and nauseated, and she’d shop for at least six hours, and I wouldn’t be allowed to take the jacket off because “we’re leaving soon get over it” like you didn’t say “soon” three hours ago. I’m offended at people who do that on purpose.
Arguably, somebody else being offended doesn’t affect you at all.
- TikTok.
- Short form videos.
- Tutorials in a 10 minute video format. Just give me a list of instructions I can skim to find the thing I’m looking for.
- Influencers and “content creators”. Please get cancer and die.
- YouTube after 2011 or so
- Monetization of platforms
- The way software development evolved from a highly praised skill to being regarded as nothing more than a fleshbased code printer for creating more shareholder value
- How the art scene is now mostly relying on social media exposure and followers
- so, Actually most of the modern internet.
- The lie that you can become rich and succesful by working hard and putting in the hours
I can go on for quite a while. Millenial disillusionment is real.
Can I just copy and paste this as my answer?
You’re talking about Gen Z trends.
Millennials are pretty well aware that they are fucked unless they were born lucky, we’re all just wallowing silently in our depression while wishing we could afford a house.
Every article lately using the word “quietly” in the headline to drive clicks, to trick the user into thinking they’re getting in on some controversial secret. It’s the new “slammed”.
When people linger in doorways. We’re not hanging out with you because you’re cool; we’re trying to get past you. In or out, you’re wasting the heat/AC!
More like wasting space and time. GTFO the way.
You want to sit and chat with someone, go to where there is space to sit and chat instead of inconveniencing everyone.
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
Double spaces in text
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?
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.
as a quebequer, i avoid putting the space in french too, just looks wrong.
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.
When people pronounce “debut” as “day-boo”
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).
niche… I hate hearing nitch when it’s neesh
Or dee-boo or even better, debit. “oh I love Taylor Swift’s debit album!” bruh what
Hate is such a powerful emotion. I can’t honestly think anything that I hate. I dislike many things but not hate.
I have a weird dislike of Tom Hanks. It isn’t hate, but I find myself inexplicably hostile towards him. No idea why.
Conservatives and other schizophrenics have a huge hatred for him on social media as well, believing he’s part of a network of child traffickers because he thinks it’s funny to post pictures of lost gloves on the street. Also, one pic had a secret code linked to child trafficking written next to a sewer grate, that was later revealed to be a perfectly normal code for city planning/line maintenance or something.
tbf, I hated him in the 90s, before it was
coolconservative.Again. Hate is too strong a word. Just “involuntary and inexplicable dislike”.
You watched The Terminal, didn’t you?
/s
I studiously avoid anything with the big T. He’s a good actor, but I’d prefer not to stare at him for 90 minutes.
Got misophonia, the sound of dog licking triggers me
Ugh yes, our dog is constantly licking his teeth and smacking his lips. Even while he’s just laying in his dog bed at night. It’s so annoying. Vet says its normal…
It’s the sound of snow squeak-crunching under my feet for me. I shudder every time it happens.
licks his dog, loudly
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Maybe it’s my age, but I’m more and more painfully aware of how many ways adverts pretend to be your friend. It’sv one of the most insipid and disingenuous things 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, because my soul was programmed to be surrounded by a ‘clan’ motivated by my wellbeing (and I theirs in a meaningful way)
Actually… quite specifically it’s 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?”. It’s ghoulish.
/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 there’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.
The use of “alumni” in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don’t know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don’t.
Conversely I hate the trend in English language to keep the original pluralization rules when adopting words from other languages. Just anglicize it to “alumnuses” or “alumnis” (if you want that to be the singular). Rules of the original language don’t matter any more when you use it in English.
This exactly. I don’t speak latin and don’t want to.
Do you find yourself correcting people who order a panini instead of a panino?
I do twitch a little when I hear someone saying bravi to a single person :)
True, but if I used alumnus instead of alumni, wouldn’t I just sound pretentious?
No, because there’s only one of you, you’d sound pretentio.
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”.
Aw, you don’t even know me and you already hate me
I’m going to sneak in this post and add people with those obnoxiously long curly nails. I’m as disgusted and uncomfortable as I was when I saw the blood stains on Asmongold’s wall from his literally bloody teeth. But instead of gum pain, I feel nail pain. Bleh
