r/GrindsMyGears 2h ago

Printers are designed by Satan

6 Upvotes

Why the fuck do i need a subscription to print things with my own god damn printer with my own god damn ink, are you fucking kidding me? whoever thought this was a good idea needs to meet a fate i can’t say on reddit.


r/GrindsMyGears 2h ago

Self Diagnosed Disorders

3 Upvotes

I can understand if somebody has a disorder that is pretty easy to identify for the individual. Anxiety, depression, and to a lesser extent ADHD, are all pretty easy to diagnose because they're so common, and the symptoms are generally obvious.

However, when it comes to Autism, Asperger's, Schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc...those things need to be left to the professionals.

The sheer percentage of people with completely normal minds claiming to have autism or "possibly be in the spectrum" is absolute lunacy. It's completely insane! There's no way that like 80% of the population from the ages of 15-25 are all person's with "high functioning autism."

They talk about how their lives are so bad and how introverted they are, meanwhile they're making videos and live streaming, they have nearly no social problems, and they might be a little unique. That isn't autism. It's claiming to have a condition that generally brings with it a series of other problems, most obvious--socially.

Then you have the people claiming they all have "dissociative identity disorder" formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. During a shift in personality, the individual doesn't realize it, and it's actually extraordinarily uncommon if not impossible to remember what is happening when another personality takes over. That's why it's a disorder and not a personality quirk or an act. In order for something to be a disorder, it has to cause some form of issue. That's the point.

These ridiculous young adults are talking about "alters" and nearly all of them can switch personalities on a whim, the personalities communicate with each other, and they even go so far as to have him human entities they refer to with non-existent pronouns like shadowself or catself. Absolutely not. That's 100% a total act. Not even a good one.

Nowadays you have people claiming everything about them that makes them a disrespectful moron is ADHD.

"Well, I talk over others because of my ADHD."

"I interrupt you because of my ADHD"

"I didn't listen to anything you said because of ADHD."

Table manners? Relationship problems? Shitty attitudes? ADHD.

No. That is NOT ADHD. That is being an asshole. A manipulative one, at that.

Reddit, I don't know where society messed up this bad, but IF there are ANY "doctors" supporting this sort of stretch of the imagination they need to be investigated and have their licenses revoked.

Ugh this really grinds my gears.


r/GrindsMyGears 1d ago

The use of blushing in fiction with poc characters

2 Upvotes

It's annoying when authors use blushing to indicate certain emotions with specifically brown/tan poc characters. A lot of us don't experience blushing, so when I see it in fiction with a character who likely wouldn't be able to blush my gears start grinding fs


r/GrindsMyGears 1d ago

Public Transit

16 Upvotes

I ride a bus to work and each day, nearly every seat is full. People still choose to sit on the outside seat, or leave their purse/backpack in the seat next to them. Then when every last seat is full, you have to ask them to move their shit so you can sit and half the time they want to stare at you like you are an alien. Inconsiderate and selfish pieces of shit piss me off.


r/GrindsMyGears 2d ago

People who constantly pump their brakes because they don't know how to maintain a constant speed

76 Upvotes

On my drive home with moderate traffic, there is always someone in front of me who pumps their brakes every 10 seconds. And no, they're not brake checking me for being too close, I always keep a full cars length distance between us, they just keep pumping their brakes because they're getting too close to the car in front of them. They can't maintain a constant speed and they don't realize that they don't need to hit the brake, if they just take their foot off the gas, they will slow down


r/GrindsMyGears 2d ago

Mobile Game Ads

4 Upvotes

You know what really grinds my gears? When a mobile game ad such as all these survival games constantly pick the negative option and lose their armies. How dumb do you think people are? No one would play a fking game like that. End of rant.


r/GrindsMyGears 6d ago

Movie clip lied to me

10 Upvotes

There was some movie with some 90s dudebro going and I paraphrase, "that's what I like about highschoolers, I get older and they stay the same" I saw this as a child and accepted it as a fact, not knowing what he liked about highschoolers. Kinda just said, yeah 16 year olds would be 16 when you're 40 or whatever. Didn't think much about it.

I'm 33 now, that guys age of older, I'm not sure what. But he lied. I look at a 16 year old and think, that is a child. Every year they seem to get younger and younger. like an actual child. They didn't stay the same age, they got younger. Like what the fuck are you doing being older than 20 and remotely thinking about highschoolers in anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people.

My entire childhood adults sexualized teens. Now I'm just horrified by older men including my father who want to do look at highschoolers like that


r/GrindsMyGears 8d ago

When people say hamburger when they mean ground beef

0 Upvotes

A hamburger is a disc of ground beef on a bun, ground beef is ground up meat


r/GrindsMyGears 10d ago

People asking for recipes when you’ve give the ingredients.

3 Upvotes

You will put something up like on a cheap foods page and ingredients. Then people want a recipe.

It’s like do I really need to tell you to sauté onions garlic and carrots LOW until soft then add potatoes the add lentils then add water.

Like look up a similar thing online and see how they did it.

I’ve given you the ingredients ffs.


r/GrindsMyGears 13d ago

Shutting down ATM's for pressure washing

3 Upvotes

Drove to two different branch locations 45 mins apart for both ATM lanes to be blocked off by a truck running a hose to their pressure washer, while they clean the front of the buildings. mildly infuriating.


r/GrindsMyGears 17d ago

Desert Island

0 Upvotes

Can someone please explain to me what the hell is a Desert Island, doesn’t even make sense.


r/GrindsMyGears 20d ago

Deliberately filming people without permission

5 Upvotes

Tiktok seems to encourage this behaviour. It's one thing for someone to just appear in the background of a busy setting but when the uploader is deliberately recording them either to harass them and film it, or zooming in from afar on someone just trying to live their life.

Random people you encounter aren't actors for your "influencer" account to be paraded around the Internet.

I haven't to my knowledge been the victim of one of these 🤞 but there are a lot of them. Consider the woman upset at political result clip that right wingers post endlessly.

Sure, cameras existed in the 90s but it wasn't nearly as bad as it is now. People weren't automatically public spectacles to be gawked at. There should be more privacy laws about this.


r/GrindsMyGears 21d ago

“But Who REALLY built the pyramids?!”

5 Upvotes

Skilled laborers, now shut the hell up about aliens, “we can never know for sure!” Yeah and we can never ‘know for sure’ that the statue of liberty isn’t a naturally occurring chunk of copper, instead of built. You fucking ethnocentric conspiracy theorists. Like sure man! And my laptop is made of candy, you can never know for sure!


r/GrindsMyGears 21d ago

Food Recipe Videos

2 Upvotes

People who post food video recipes and throw all the ingredients on top of the food before mixing the ingredients in a seperate bowl and evenly mixing them.


r/GrindsMyGears 22d ago

Missed phone call

4 Upvotes

What really pisses me off is when somebody calls you and you miss their call by like 2 seconds and then you call them back, but they won't answer or respond to text messages like their voicemail says.


r/GrindsMyGears 24d ago

When you go to click on something and the webpage moves so you click on the wrong thing.

8 Upvotes

Title


r/GrindsMyGears 24d ago

Illegal Dumping Commercial Dumpsters

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0 Upvotes

Yeah.

This.


r/GrindsMyGears 27d ago

Online activist who only make broad statements, and don't listen to actual history and current issues, even when it can add to their arguments

3 Upvotes

Like “I don't trust the U.S. Government!” yes, You really shouldn't!! But why are you talking about aliens, or a policy that's still under review, or a small court case, o your opinion on a politician?? You can say “The U.S. used herbicidal warfare throughout Vietnam and the Cold War, testing the effects of radiation and certain chemicals on U.S. Soldiers, pregrant women, disablied children, and black people, without their consent or knowledge, making it so the U.S. Military directly killed their own citizens or made them disablied.” and you are right!! You are literally undeniably correct, you can say that, and not trust the government because they have literally poisoned people. But people only seem to focus on popular topics, instead of topics that make their points make sense, where they can point at official documentation and give solid reasoning.

“What happened to the Native American’s is bad.” and “I hate climate change” yes!! Yes so true. Maybe dig just a tiny bit deeper though?? Climate change is going to erode around 6000 coastal native American archaeological sites by the year 2100 (that is not long from now, a baby born today will only be 75). Do you know that 90% of native Americans died from disease bought by colonist?? Can you even comprehend what that does to a people, and what its still doing to native American culture?? That Europeans were only somewhat immune because they too were similarly wreaked by the diseases??

Like yes, cool opinion, but you can make it into a FACT, you don't have to not know what you're talking about, you can be more correct than you think you are if you just use gooogle!

This goes for whether you're right or left too, I just used examples of what I see online vs what facts are close to home for me. You think immigrantion is bad, or that the U.S. Military needs more funding?? You can totally find valid reasoning behind that, and vise versa, but Jesus just find some sort of reasoning


r/GrindsMyGears 27d ago

When an internet denizen makes a long post but uses acronyms that are niche and obscure.

7 Upvotes

People who write a short story out in full spelling and normal grammar and punctuation suddenly throw out seemingly random, due to obscurity, acronyms that are almost fishing for replies like "what does that stand for?". If I don't know what you're talking about your story immediately loses all traction, I lose any sympathy I had, and I can't continue for the sole reason that I can't understand the context anymore. This is excusable, for so many reasons, but at the same time it's just pedantic as fuck. Maybe that's not the right word, but it sure feels like the right word.

There is no reason why writing "WFH" instead of "work from home" saved you any reasonable amount of time in the grand scheme of your total time spent on what you were trying to communicate. It makes you look like a dweeb.


r/GrindsMyGears Jul 31 '25

How easy it is to get banned on subreddits/reddit.

9 Upvotes

Go on a subreddit and say something people dont agree with and be a little mean boohoo 😢 youll immediately get a permanent ban lmao. maybe even a whole ass reddit ban. dont even gotta say anything extreme. boom youre banned


r/GrindsMyGears Jul 31 '25

People who play rock paper scissors while throwing on the 3 count grind my gears.

8 Upvotes

Rock, Paper, Scissor - SHOOT! The move should take place on the 4 count, not 3. There are 3 options, so you need to load up all 3, before making your choice on 4. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Imagine throwing Rock, "Rock Paper Rock", ridiculous.


r/GrindsMyGears Jul 28 '25

In anime/manga, when the rulling family and the state/kingdom share the SAME name.

3 Upvotes

I don't know why this bothers me so much or why it is so damn prevalent in anime/manga, but it's annoying.

The only example I know of in real life, that still exists, is Saudi Arabia, after the Saud family. In general, officially, countries have the name of a people, who live there now or used to live there, or it somehow describes something about the place or it's named after one person, America, Columbia, Gibraltar. There is also the aspect that locals will often call their country differently than foreigners, but rarely if ever adopting the name of a dynasty for themselves. Also dynasties rarely establish a completely new country with no history and give it a new name, especially after themselves, they generally ascend to the throne over time and they name themselves after the place that birthed the family or take a new name, but the country/kingdom name does not change. If the state name changes it is often something like Divine land or some impressive sounding descriptor.

I just don't get it why authors in Japan tend to use this trend when it's not how their ruling family does things and neither did European ones for the most part. They seem do to this when depicting mostly European inspired countries, but it seem to be across the board for most cultures they use as inspiration.


r/GrindsMyGears Jul 25 '25

IMDB Rating System

3 Upvotes

Why are anime and animated shows rated higher than shows with actual people?

When I check a shows rating, it is usually an animated show that's rated the highest.

I'm an adult, and don't watch these new type of animation. If I want a cartoon. I'll watch Bugs Bunny.


r/GrindsMyGears Jul 21 '25

Politicians who want to raise the retirement age to 70

8 Upvotes

Some people don’t even live that long.

Also, can you imagine working for 50 years, just to retire when you are too old to enjoy anything anymore? Your strength is gone, your faculties are gone, you probably have several health issues.