Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do.

imagine you try to buy a donut and they are like how many of these squares contain insulin

I know this is a sidebar BUT the WNBA loses money and is funded by the NBA.

So if we were to pay them what they're owed --- they would all get billed to play in the WNBA.

sounds like you agree with me on this being in this thread.

The whole thing is stupid, like it's been a long-term investment by the NBA that maybe is juuuuust starting to turn the corner toward becoming profitable, and the players are gonna manage to **** it up by forcing a lockout that's probably gonna kill the league. It probably should piss you off, because it's dumb.

People who walk around the office carrying their open laptop.

They deserve a share of the 40M the league lost last year.

When the roll of toilet paper gets smashed so it's no longer round and doesn't easily pull from the roll. It shouldn't because it takes 2 seconds to smash it round again.

2025 first year of a new media deal paying the winbae ~$200m per over a decade.

despite good chances of finally finishing with a profit,
who knows why envy of jealous players leads to this cutting cake style at the celebration party for the new face of their league

Spoiler

Show

in spite all that, one primary georgia based sponsor motto still bubbles up to the top: obey your thirst

people who keep home bogroll in a wall dispenser

flipside

people who bought a covid bidet and still have it installed in their guest restroom

This is a fantastic entry.

Not sure if this should or shouldn't piss me off, but it really does.

Local news story tonight on a woman's 100th birthday. So far, so good. Then the idiot local news reporter says she "was born in 1925. She lived through World Wars I and II, the Great Depression ..."

Really? How hard is this to check? A news reporter???

But Happy Birthday to the woman! Nothing at all against her. I'm sure she didn't regale the dumbass with tales from The Great War when he (may have) interviewed her for the story.

He didn’t even include that she lived through the civil war. Outrageous!

People who have never lived in an actual city.

people who have never flown in an aircraft

who sells door-to-door in 2025. this is not a sustainable model.

these little ass holes scoot around the neighborhood on Segways (Segwaii?) trying to sell pest control and I am going to hit one of them with the fungo bat I keep next to my front door if they don't keep away from me

That is a new form of pest control

Had a pest control guy come up last summer when I was sitting on the front porch. Went straight into his spiel, not giving me a chance to send him along.

After a few minutes, I got the chance to say, "No, thank you."

He must've been having a poor sales day, as he said, "why doesn't anyone like me?" or something to that effect.

I answered, "First, there's a no soliciting sign at the entry to the neighborhood. Second, you're human spam."

simply parrot back every exterminator word they utter while simultaneously swing a plastic fungo

In my neighborhood those ****ers would be mistaken for escapees from the target area of the shooting gallery at the nearest county fair. Life expectancy would be shorter than a WW I pilot's.

That people think they're supposed to win (for example) 70% / 30% all-ins preflop and say things like "Hold!!!", or "I wish my hand held", or "Only if my hand would've held".

You're supposed to lose 30% of the time. Each hand has a right to its equity. There is no holding. In fact if you had won the 70% all-in then you would've ran *above* expectation.

Flipping dolts. Nearly everyone in poker is a flipping dolt who doesn't comprehend basic variance.

That the kiss cam...which I thought was a gimmick only used at sporting events...now is used at concerts.

And that guys go to concerts where a kiss cam is used 😀

if you pay 350 a seat for concerts that provide audience entertainment with kiss cams instead of the main acts it may be time to consider how much profit you provide ticketmaster without actually owning live nation stock

I wish I could kick the Livenation/Ticketmaster habit.

But I don't pay tree-fiddy for a concert ticket, either.

30 years ago, I probably would have been in SF this weekend, but the yuge money grab by surviving members have really turned me off to that scene. Didn't go to the Sphere, either. I'm sure I missed out.

People with a mouthful of perfect teeth
U turns
The MTV Video Music Awards being broadcast on CBS instead of MTV

Edit: Apparently it's getting broadcast on MTV as well. I'm slightly less pissed off now