Grinds my Gears

[Poison Arrow Frog]

This is a place where folks can post small and large pet peeves.

[Poison Arrow Frog]

Unchartered territories (referenced in the faux lawsuit Mike Lindell just sent to the Supreme Court)

[Poison Arrow Frog]

Intensive purposes

[Poison Arrow Frog]

People who say, “I’m not an anti-vaxxer but…”

[SFAFrog]

Having to visit my (only Covid) antivax in-laws with my daughter who is too young to be vaccinated.

[RSK]

[pcf]

Having to keep up with what my kids think is funny or cool is annoying.

Invariably it is a short phrase that becomes infused with a significant secret meaning a la Ok boomer, which I thought had to do with the Sooners.

All these stupid slogans like let's go Brandon should be carved in wood, busted into splinters and shoved up the rears of the Twitter and Facebook users who share them.

Other than that, nothing bothers me.

Except Bears fans chanting fire Matt Nagy at his kids hs football game. These people should receive enemas with overinflated footballs

But other than that, I'm cool with everything else.

Except the governor who think school libraries in Texas are filled with porn. He should get whatever "porn" he finds shoved right up his base

But really not much annoys me

[SFAFrog]

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of banned words/phrases in my house:

That’s not PG [insert age]
savage
Why you bully me?
I’m Devin and I’m savage
Nuni
You’re trash
You’re doodoo
Meh?
You’re doodoo my guy
Mardi Gras
Moneygram
Beckfast
Deez nutz
When life give you lemons, squeeze them like some titties
Oh my god
You suck
No! MOMMA!?
Domme tu cocita
Lebron James
Boi
Mere boi
I’m just not trying
Dad stop!
You better stop!
I hate...
John/Juan Cena
Jerk
Songs they don’t know
Bruh/bro
Kid
I like turtles
Up your butt
Anything from vine or YouTube
Damage
Stupid dancing
Gucci gang
Ooga booga booga
It smells like cereal
Oh yeah mr crabs
What do you mean?
I’m hungry
Chu papi muneno
Moans
Other sex sounds
That’s what she said
Justin

[NFFrog]

"Justin"

Why do you hate the Cdn prime minister?

[SFAFrog]

We actually love Trudeau in our house.

It’s this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xQJ3OOPXMec?feature=share

[RSK]

I would chant Fire Nagy at his wedding.

[Boston Frog]

I can't say deez nutz at SFA's house? Guess I won't be visiting any time soon

[SFAFrog]

It should also be updated to include anything from TikTok or Reels.

[SFAFrog]

Also

No quema cuh
takuache
trokiando
Cuh

[SFAFrog]

I forgot to add that my younger son asked for and received tickets to the Baylor/Villanova for his birthday. That game happened to be the day after his birthday. He’s not cheering for Villanova…

[Zebra Frog]

I don’t know where to start, but will go with announcers of college football that try and explain a rule and don’t have any idea what the rule is, along with the talking head that explains it but it’s an NFL rule and not an NCAA rule. Which leads to thousands thinking it’s the rule and then go to social media and complain how their team got screwed by the refs.

[pcf]

I don’t know where to start, but will go with announcers of college football that try and explain a rule and don’t have any idea what the rule is, along with the talking head that explains it but it’s an NFL rule and not an NCAA rule. Which leads to thousands thinking it’s the rule and then go to social media and complain how their team got screwed by the refs.

Announcers generally. I like Tim Brando a lot. Most of the rest I can't even find words in English to describe. I have to use the Spanish phrase El Stinko.

[MercenaryLibrarian]

People that don't use turn signals (I will go out of my way not to let them in until the blinker goes on)
People that don't yield
KillerFrogs
Christmas car ads
Other shoppers at Costco
Influencers
Most of the crap my kid likes to watch on Youtube (particularly Preston Playz and SMG4)
Baker Mayfield
People that come home from college and eat all my pudding cups
Staff meetings
Elf on a Shelf
Feeling the obligation to watch Christmas Vacation every year even though I don't really like it and find Chevy Chase to be a horribly unfunny person
My dad's family
mushrooms in otherwise tasty dishes
"Stay alive! No matter what occurs. I will find you!" which prevents Last of the Mohicans from being a perfect movie
plain M&Ms

[Friskyfrog]

Those first two feel potentially contradictory.

[Friskyfrog]

- TCU alums that represent us poorly
- educational administrators who don’t put the students’ interests first
- escalators
- toenail clippers
- what college football has become

[Boston Frog]

I am feeling this big time, especially the first one

[weklfrog]

Trump, trumpers, MAGA'ers, anti-vaccers, pro ivermectiners, believers in crazy false myths about COVID and the vaccines, believers and purveyors of the Big Lie on the "stolen" election, politicians who are working to restrict voter access,

The idiotic car insurance campaign with the creepy guy and his creepy bird. Everything about it grinds my gears: the creepy guy and the stupid bird, the use of yellow in everything, the theme music, the incessant repetition of "you only pay for what you get" and almost nothing else. Please explain how that differs from other policies in which you can choose your level of coverage.. Even their commercials that don't have the creepy guy and the bird are incredibly stupid.

Universities that dishonestly use the cover of COVID to permanently and significantly reduce their contributions to employee retirement accounts.

[NFFrog]

Yeah...there was no faculty union or strike ever at my university even after some 70s idiotic admin decisions got the university on censure...until they started taking pension "holidays". Union came soon after and strike followed. No more "holidays". Most faculty considered that even more important than salaries (which were in the bottom 10% in the country at the time).

Faculty now sit on the pensions boards, most are economists.

[weklfrog]

Compensation is already below the median for comparable universities (except for the top administrators whose compensation is top 10% for comparable positions in comparable universities) and the reduction in retirement contributions made it worse. Applications and enrollment are at record levels so it is not as though the university is hurting

[Boston Frog]

University administrators are assholes. That's pretty much universal.

[pcf]

Trump, trumpers, MAGA'ers, anti-vaccers, pro ivermectiners, believers in crazy false myths about COVID and the vaccines, believers and purveyors of the Big Lie on the "stolen" election, politicians who are working to restrict voter access,

The idiotic car insurance campaign with the creepy guy and his creepy bird. Everything about it grinds my gears: the creepy guy and the stupid bird, the use of yellow in everything, the theme music, the incessant repetition of "you only pay for what you get" and almost nothing else. Please explain how that differs from other policies in which you can choose your level of coverage.. Even their commercials that don't have the creepy guy and the bird are incredibly stupid.

Universities that dishonestly use the cover of COVID to permanently and significantly reduce their contributions to employee retirement accounts.

Channel 8 had a report on the QAnon people at Dealey Plaza. I felt a lot of pity for them. They had mixed God and politics and conspiracy theory so completely that they don't have a prayer of any sane thought.

They all came across as capable of being perpetually swindled. The ladies tended to have one of two similar looks. Prim church lady or good time Southern lady. The guys were all baseball cap wearers unless they were wearing a flag