If you are a person who complains about smartphones making people anti-social

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Red Mage Black

And what about the well-intentioned people that may very well just be concerned about you?

They need a hobby.

[shiney]

People who say shit like 'ATM Machine'. God dammit.

[Nique]

Shiney stop - you're making me so angry I'm about to pop a boner!

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by shiney

People who say shit like 'ATM Machine'. God dammit.

[Aerozord]

I can never remember my PIN number for the ATM machine

[Marc v4.0]

I'm a fan of The TES games

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Originally Posted by shiney

People who say shit like 'ATM Machine'. God dammit.

Why's that? I mean, obviously you could just say ATMM Or Access Thy Money Machine, but neither really rolls off the tongue like ATM Machine.

[Solid Snake]

I hate extroverts whenever they try that thing they sometimes do where they act like everyone they know is an extrovert including you, and fuck you for daring to want to an hour of silence to yourself, you gotta instead be captivated by the morass of ineptitude that is people

I hate serial Facebook users who post every little positive life event on their status updates to collect Likes as if it's their job, then have the audacity to complain at you for making a couple Facebook posts each month that just so happen to highlight controversial current events from an opposing social, political, or religious perspective, because how fucking dare you use Facebook as anything other than a personal artificial ego-inflater over how wonderful you present your life

I also hate said habitual positive-reinforcement Facebook users who post dozens of fake "I'm so happy and my life is so magical" status updates every day then they immediately block you when you make one post in a month that just so happens to be brutally honest about dealing with challenges, failures or thwarted expectations in life, like Jeez, I'm so sorry I tolerated your fake B.S. for years just so you'd send a message of complete lack of empathy the second I posted something genuine and not bullshitty enough for your bullshit cowardly half-assed acquaintanceship, we goddamn live in a world where we can't even confess we're sad lest we shatter the illusion of perpetual contentment

Also, if you are a person who is living with another person, how hard is it to use headphones when listening to loud techno music and/or loud action movies via your laptop in the common area when I'm also present in the space we co-own? I do that whenever I do that kinda shit out of simple respect, sometimes people actually want to enjoy a second's worth of solitude without having their eardrums assaulted when they simply want to live their lives

Fuck Christians who interpret hypocrisy as a part of the goddamn Creed and not the single sin Jesus screamed about most, because God forbid a Christian in America actually attempted to understand the Gospels rather than just adhere to the culturally sanctioned version of events that allows them to feel holier-than-thou and superior over folks, because y'know, that's exactly how Jesus acted [/SAR-FUCKING-CASM]

Fuck that Christian guy who told me all the Crusades (even apparently the ones against Orthodox Christians in Byzantium or Protestant-esque Christian heresies in southern France? Or did he forget about those?) were justified, sanctioned acts permitted by God, and that the world would be so better off if we kept the Crusading going and eliminated Islam off the face of the Earth

Fuck people who refuse to be honest with you when they want to break up with you after several dates. Let me be clear about what I'm not condemning here: I am not condemning a person I like's decision as an autonomous human being not to like me back! That's healthy and normal and people have agency and agency is a great thing for every human being to possess in determining who they like and who they want a relationship with. But if you want to break things off with me, actually break things off with me, after several dates of getting to know my decent character you know I'm not going to flip a gasket with a well-intentioned rejection. But if you do that thing where you claim you're just "Too busy" to date or "Something's come up" and then worse still you get angry at me for not 'reading between the lines' and intuitively understanding that you really wanted to 'let me down easy,' no, fuck that. Express yourself candidly and treat me like a person and give me the opportunity to actually get over the termination of the relationship in an appropriate manner.

(I think it's okay to fade away if it's only been a date or two, but c'mon, you can't simply expect to get away with a fade after three or more dates. And like, if you do try to get away with a fade? The person who subsequently demands some sort of definitive answer isn't a villain for merely expressing a desire for clarity. This is a weird trend with online dating that I just don't get.)

Fuck the one Christian who, after exchanging several pleasant messages, decided to inform me that she thought I was a very nice guy who'd be a perfect man for her to date, except that I believed that global climate change was a real phenomenon and based my career on fighting it, which therefore meant in her estimation that my entire walk with God was a sham and I needed to "recommit to Biblical values" before my soul was taken by the Devil or some shit, because she and apparently every other 'true Christian' out there is in an ideal position to cast the first stone at me for daring to disagree with certain so-called "truths" in Americanized Christendom

SPECIAL ULTRA DOSE OF I HATE I HATE I HATE:

Last week my father barged into my room at 10pm while I was playing Suikoden on my Vita and minding my own business and demanded I watch a video with him. The video involved a young black man beating an older black man senseless and robbing him. The video was disgusting and atrocious but my father clearly had an agenda, and sure enough, my father gleefully proclaimed that the video was of Michael Brown, like this factoid was a point of pride for him, and therefore, in his own words, Michael Brown deserved to die.

Before identifying that the video was fake, I took my father at his word and played along with his assumptions, and argued that it was fucking grotesquely immoral for him to say that a person deserved to be killed by a police officer just because he committed some prior assault or theft, that's seriously ancient barbarism. My father proceeded to scream at me at the top of his lungs about siding with black gangsters against police officers who protect this country or some shit. When I got angry at this and shouted back a defense about giving a damn about actual FACTS as opposed to his bullshit, my father then got livid at me for raising my voice when my mother was sleeping. My sister -- who actually is fairly conservative and likely agreed with the substance of my father's argument more than my own -- of all people was the one who pointed out his hypocrisy but he didn't care.

Turns out after a few seconds of internet searching I discovered that Snopes.com and several other journalistic outlets identified the perpetrator in the video in question as pretty conclusively "not Michael Brown." My father's defense to this was that he didn't believe the journalists and that it still could be Michael Brown, because, y'know, guilty until proven innocent? He still felt no empathy for Brown because, in his own words, "You have to be crazy to confront an armed Cop." I could not reason with him regarding any facts of the case, including conflicting witness testimony as to Brown's actual actions that day, or the fact that he was shot at an obscene amount of times.

When I further pressed my father regarding the case he revealed that he had not, in fact: (A) Read any testimony from the actual grand jury proceedings, (B) Been aware of the other incidents in which police officers had killed African American civilians in cold blood, (C) Been aware that the man who presumably killed two NYPD officers had previously attacked his girlfriend and that his crimes were in all likelihood unrelated to Brown or Garner's deaths, (D) know anything whatsoever about police militarization over the past decade, but (E) he did believe that African American mobs in Ferguson and throughout the United States were beating and even killing police officers indiscriminately in response to an innocent Cop killing Brown in self-defense

...This is what half the fucking country in the United States of America believes, everybody. We're all fucked.

[MSperoni]

Jesus.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I hate extroverts whenever they try that thing they sometimes do where they act like everyone they know is an extrovert including you, and fuck you for daring to want to an hour of silence to yourself, you gotta instead be captivated by the morass of ineptitude that is people

I just wish people knew what extrovert/introvert actually meant instead of grouping everyone that gets uncomfortable around strangers or is quiet as it, then freakin fetishizing the stereotype. Introversion has nothing to do with your fondness or capacity to socialize its whether or not socializing is mentally taxing. You can be a chatty party animal and still be an introvert if said party leaves you so completely drained you need to lock yourself in your room for a few hours. Likewise you can be an isolated loner but still an extrovert if you have to socialize from time to time to keep yourself from crashing into an emotional wreck

Yea thats only tangentially related but its been irking me lately so I jumped on the excuse to rant about it