Things that piss me off.

[AnCap Dave]

Making a thread to talk about the stuff I see every now and then that just really irks me. Some of this could probably go in fail quotes, but not everything I post here will be politically related, so I figure I'll just make my own thread to talk about these things.

With that out of the way, I guess I'll get started.

You know what pisses me off? Douchebags in the Youtube Gaming Community who, ever since Nintendo went full dipshit on the copyright front, decided it's time to shit all over people who choose to make money off of their videos and lambast them as being both greedy and "not in it for the love of gaming."

You know what? Fuck those people. What about those who want to make a living off of doing something they love? This really just stems from the old "profit = greed" argument from the left (which the YGC is full of by the way.) Quite frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of it.

[BlameThe1st]

Oh! let me join in:

You know what pisses me off? Comments on YouTube videos that mock those who downvote. Have you ever watched a video, specifically one made by some overrated hack, with OVER 9000 upvotes and maybe a handful of downvotes? Then you scan the comments and you see a comment along the lines of "nine people need to go freak a cactus" or "twelve people have no idea what true art it"?

Oh yes, how dare somebody not like something and express their disapproval of it. Don't these people realize that popular always means great? How dare they not be like everyone else and like this masterpiece. We need to treat them like crap, because how dare anyone not submit to the hivemind. How dare they have their own opinions! How dare you think for yourselves!

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Public restroom slobs
One of the greatest signs of class is how you treat those who have to clean up after you.  No, you're not too good to flush, the garbage can is NOT that hard to reach and for crying out loud, just wash your hands with the water, you don't need to play with it.  HOW old are you?

[Travis Retriever]

People who curl in the squat rack...just...guys, you already have places for that like this:
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(And many of them even have a place where you can set the weight done when you're done.)
And there are often TONS of them.  But most gyms only have one (or two) squat racks/power cages (if you're lucky), and I'm pretty sure these guys can always do their curls standing up like the rest of us.

People who interrupt you in the middle of a set to tell you how to do it causing you to lose your concentration and lose track of your rep count. Seriously? They can't just wait until I'm done with the set before doing that?

People who bang the weights together while doing dumbbell flies.  It's VERY annoying and breaks people's concentration (and ears if you're too close).

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Public restroom slobs
One of the greatest signs of class is how you treat those who have to clean up after you.  No, you're not too good to flush, the garbage can is NOT that hard to reach and for crying out loud, just wash your hands with the water, you don't need to play with it.  HOW old are you?

I feel ya, man. I work at a private country club. Have to deal with the same bullshit.
I swear the five year olds eat cleaner than our adult members.

[AnCap Dave]

You know what pisses me off?

The fact that professional wrestling still relies on the clearly dated "foreign heel" gimmick when it comes to making bad guys.

They have this guy on the roster who goes by the name Rusev. He's Bulgarian, but his gimmick is that he's a Russian sympathizer and has a valet named Lana who cuts promos about how Russia is great and Putin is a manly man and what not. They even go to the extent of using Edward Snowden in order to get the crowd to boo.

First off, last time I checked, Edward Snowden is arguably the world's greatest babyface (wrestling lingo for good guy) at the moment. Secondly, I understand that Russia has been in the news lately, but for fuck's sake give your characters something deeper than "I like Russia and I hate America." The thing is, he only gets the proper reaction if they're down south where all the super jingoistic rabble show up. When they're in other places, the guy gets damn near silence when he comes out. They tried to pull this shit off in England recently and the crowd did not give a single shit.

Simply put, in the year 2014, we should be past this bullshit nationalism based story telling. Only very specific crowds give a single shit about characters like this and the rest of the world couldn't care less.

[dallen68]

You know what pisses me off?

The fact that professional wrestling still relies on the clearly dated "foreign heel" gimmick when it comes to making bad guys.

They have this guy on the roster who goes by the name Rusev. He's Bulgarian, but his gimmick is that he's a Russian sympathizer and has a valet named Lana who cuts promos about how Russia is great and Putin is a manly man and what not. They even go to the extent of using Edward Snowden in order to get the crowd to boo.

First off, last time I checked, Edward Snowden is arguably the world's greatest babyface (wrestling lingo for good guy) at the moment. Secondly, I understand that Russia has been in the news lately, but for fuck's sake give your characters something deeper than "I like Russia and I hate America." The thing is, he only gets the proper reaction if they're down south where all the super jingoistic rabble show up. When they're in other places, the guy gets damn near silence when he comes out. They tried to pull this shit off in England recently and the crowd did not give a single shit.

Simply put, in the year 2014, we should be past this bullshit nationalism based story telling. Only very specific crowds give a single shit about characters like this and the rest of the world couldn't care less.

The character might actually work if they turned him into a good guy, and gave him more of a story. Other than that, I thought we were over the "foreign dickhead model character" thing when they back staged William Regal.

[AnCap Dave]

The character might actually work if they turned him into a good guy, and gave him more of a story. Other than that, I thought we were over the "foreign dickhead model character" thing when they back staged William Regal.

Yeah, so far this guy's story is about the equivalent of a Bulgarian Ivan Drago, only with less work out montages.

What kills me is when he was in the developmental system, his gimmick was that he was just a massive brute who could beat the piss out of you and displayed feats of strength like breaking 2x4s with his head. At least that was interesting and they didn't pull the old nationalism card for cheap reactions.

[VectorM]

Yeah, so far this guy's story is about the equivalent of a Bulgarian Ivan Drago, only with less work out montages.

What kills me is when he was in the developmental system, his gimmick was that he was just a massive brute who could beat the piss out of you and displayed feats of strength like breaking 2x4s with his head. At least that was interesting and they didn't pull the old nationalism card for cheap reactions.

Heh, Bulgarian here, and this guy is complete news to me, LOL. It was extremely bizarre for me, when I watched a clip of him, and I could hear him scream "ILL CRUSH YOU" in my own language.

Too bad got tired of wrestling years ago. Doesn't seem like it's become any better.

Oh, and btw, not offended by this at all, but yeah, it's an old, tired gimmick. Then again, so is the "Super big tough guy who can crush you", but that one is an essential part of the pro-wrestling flavor (to me, anyway).

[MrBogosity]

At least Andy Kaufman knew how to create a bad guy: elitist, misogynist, and just plain asshole.

[Dukect45]

Well you know what Piss me Off the DMCA and why is that my friends well if you don't all ready know Blip.tv kicked out a lot of people from their site including yours truly so I started to upload all of my old reviews on dailymotion then when I put up my Wrestlemania 30 crossover review with a fellow wrestling fan TWK cool guy by the way it got taken down because of copyright but my other reviews fine but my WM 30 review was too much for them then I went to another video sharing service Vimeo.

And guess what my WM 30 Review has been taken down again. Man the DMCA is awesome I mean who cares about Fair Use when I can watch tons of WWE matches on YouTube,Vimeo, and dailymotion including Recent PPV Matches that's fine. but me and a friend criticizing one of their PPV's
That's wrong that's evil Ugh looks like I'm uploading my New WWE & TNA PPV reviews to zippcast and rise of the critics now :sigh:

[AnCap Dave]

You know what pisses me off?

Those stupid "tests" you see on sites like Buzzfeed where people find out what (insert literally anything you want here) they are.

It's basically the modern equivalent to astrology, but it's worse because I've seen people who fucking know better fall into this shit.

Seriously, any con artists out there want to know how to find a good mark? Talk to anyone who takes these quizzes more than once a week. Folks, while the quiz may be telling you how smart and great you are, it's lying to you. If you were truly as smart as they said you were, you would have realized what bullshit it is and moved the fuck on.

Also, I've told people how these are pure bullshit and while they tell me they know it's bullshit, they'll continue to post their results and go, "YEP THAT'S TOTALLY ME GUYS." I don't know if it's just that they like having their egos stroked every once in a while (and by once in a while, I mean every 10 minutes with some people) or if they think these things are totally legit. Either way, I'm tired of fucking seeing them.

[FeatheredTerror]

You know what pisses me off?

Those stupid "tests" you see on sites like Buzzfeed where people find out what (insert literally anything you want here) they are.

It's basically the modern equivalent to astrology, but it's worse because I've seen people who fucking know better fall into this shit.

Seriously, any con artists out there want to know how to find a good mark? Talk to anyone who takes these quizzes more than once a week. Folks, while the quiz may be telling you how smart and great you are, it's lying to you. If you were truly as smart as they said you were, you would have realized what bullshit it is and moved the fuck on.

Also, I've told people how these are pure bullshit and while they tell me they know it's bullshit, they'll continue to post their results and go, "YEP THAT'S TOTALLY ME GUYS." I don't know if it's just that they like having their egos stroked every once in a while (and by once in a while, I mean every 10 minutes with some people) or if they think these things are totally legit. Either way, I'm tired of fucking seeing them.

Your post reminds me of this video from Glove and Boots that does a nice job of showing just how stupid those quizzes are.

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[Ibrahim90]

Your post reminds me of this video from Glove and Boots that does a nice job of showing just how stupid those quizzes are.

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those?

yeah, I take them, but only for laughs: They're pretty dumb, and almost never reflect who I am.

once it predicted that my "Victorian Style" death would be via an overtight corset...which is funny since I don't wear corsets (and really, I thought women wear those: if there really be male ones, I've never heard of them).

[evensgrey]

those?

yeah, I take them, but only for laughs: They're pretty dumb, and almost never reflect who I am.

once it predicted that my "Victorian Style" death would be via an overtight corset...which is funny since I don't wear corsets (and really, I thought women wear those: if there really be male ones, I've never heard of them).

They do exist, but where you grew up you'd not likely ever see one, as they're often (but not entirely) worn by crossdressers (to create a more feminine shape), or in a subset of the gay scene that involves a lot of tight leather, or by bikers as part of their fall protection gear (which is likely how they came into the gay leather scene).  Occasionally, medieval recreationists wear them as well as part of a fall-protection system for horseback riding.  (They have been known to actually try out jousting, and others just aren't very good on horseback.)