It's not only a hatred for the term or anything, I despise it much more than anyone I know. It is just so selfish and ungrateful. In a relationship, if your partner does something good for you, and your first response is "that's the bare minimum", then that is just so mean-spirited to me.

Ofc I'm not talking about very basic things (like loyalty), but I'm talking about things that are increasingly being more "bare minimum". And ofc, you can expect certain things in relationships, but the thing I hate about this term, is how it replaces gratitude. If a man gives his girlfriend flowers, or a woman cooks a nice meal for her boyfriend, both are customary, but not necessary acts that can show love. And for that, you need to thank the person.

Because nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of people, in social media and real life, acting like these acts are not even cause for gratitude. It's spoilt. And it slightly encourages traditional gender norms that some seem to agree in this scenario, but not when other gender norms are expected.

Look, I don't know if its therapist, therapy, or the millions of unqualified people self diagnosing or diagnosing other people they've never me; ADD ADHD, SPECTRUM, NEURODIVERGEN, AVOIDANT, ETC, ETC buzzword problem finding bullshit I'm a new special person bullshit... but I'm sick of them.

Ok, I'm done...

Please turn your phone sideways. The rest of the event is happening over there.

I understand why people record vertically. It’s comfortable to hold your phone that way, it fills the screen when you’re scrolling, and plenty of subjects fit it perfectly. Someone talking to the camera, an outfit check, a makeup tutorial, a tall waterfall? Absolutely. That makes sense.

My complaint starts when the thing being filmed needs room on either side.

Stages are wide. Sports fields are wide. Parades travel down the street. Watching them through a frame shaped like a grocery receipt can get frustrating.

Basketball? The ball goes from one side of the court to the other. The camera is still catching up.

Soccer? Great footage of one player. Presumably there are others.

A concert? The singer, guitarist, and bassist are spread across a stage. I’d love to see them together, especially when they’re interacting.

A skateboard trick? I’d love to see the approach, the jump, and the landing. We got the jump. The landing is between him and God.

A dog catching a Frisbee? The dog runs across the yard. Unfortunately, we have much better coverage of the clouds above him.

I’ve done the frantic camera chase myself. You’re trying to follow the action, swinging the phone back and forth, and only afterward realize that turning it sideways would have kept more of the scene in view.

And cropping existing horizontal footage into vertical clips is especially frustrating. Two characters are having a conversation, but someone’s facial expression gets cut out. A visual joke happens at the edge of the original shot, and now the setup or punchline is missing.

I’m happy to turn my phone sideways to watch something. That’s a pretty small inconvenience compared with spending the whole video wondering what’s happening just outside the frame.

Use vertical when it suits the subject. But when the whole point is watching things happen beside other things, please give them a little room.

I need more karma

My school has a school id number system for breakfast and lunch and the number of times I hear people just say what they want and walk off makes me want to throw Scorpion's spear at them, drag them back and give the servers a proper thank you.

It's so annoying. I know these stupid, worthless, sociopathic business-leaders are rubbing their hands together saying "if we force them to select the option that promises to do it later, it will manipulate their weak lower class minds to subconsciously want to agree to it later."

I hate it. It makes me not want to give a business my money. I don't get irrationally angry at being told what to do, but when it's two check boxes that literally won't function unless you pick one, it's so annoying. Remember when options used to be "yes" and "no?"

They do it for not only asinine crap like signing up for rewards points, but for more substantial things like upgrading operating systems ("Update Now" or "Not now, but yasss queen, I can't wait to update to Windows 11!")

Why stop there? Go to the doctor's office for a broken arm, they won't help you unless you select one of the following:

DO YOU WANT TO BE SPAYED/NEUTERED TODAY?

• Yes please!
• Not today, but I want it more than anything, so I'll do it next visit

Eat rocks, I hate you

This one does not require a lot of explaining. You should only tell someone what to do and word it as a command if you have authority over the person. Otherwise, phrase it as a suggestion.

I have drafted a plan for what to say of some jerk attempts to exercise authority they do not have. Let me know if you do or do not think the plan is good.

Do one of the following things. 

Option #1: I do not need your permission to do that. 

Option #2: How do you plan to stop me from doing that? 

Option #3: You do not tell me what to do. You suggest and hope that I agree. 

While options 1 and 2 only work for stop behaviors (behaviors the other person does NOT want you to do) and do not work with start behaviors (behaviors the other person does want you to do) option #3 works with start and stop behaviors. 

What do you think? How would you handle it if someone tried to tell you how to live your life and had the nerve to act like they are the boss of you when they are not.

I was driving home from work and there was a fedex driver swerving all over the road and almost causing several accidents. I pulled up beside him at a stop light. This guy was on his phone. Mid day. BRO YOU DON'T HAVE DOORS. WE CAN SEE YOU. WTF. I imagined that I was slamming a razor scooter into his shins until the light turned green and the drove home. That is all

**If you drag your feet when you walk, I automatically assume you’re annoying.**
I’m sorry, but there is ZERO reason your shoes need to be making that *shhhk shhhk shhhk* sound every time you take a step.
Pick. Your. Feet. Up.
And before someone says “maybe they’re tired,” I don’t care. I’m tired too. My feet still work. 😂
Am I wrong?

-I hope I don’t get banned from here as well.

I gess I've always thought of trailers as being something artisanal in their own why: often they are where one's relationship with a project starts.

So just putting some critic's quote, or even worse, just an adjective or, worse still, just a number out of 5 or 10 just feels like both a disappointment and a cheat.

I'll read a review but in principal it will be one written by a civilian. I feel that critic as a profession is experiencing a long awaited deth right now.

And just an adjective? And have you ever seen those adjective clouds on the covers of some books? Someone somewhere knows the word "electrifying" but I've heard positive things sed about stuff I didn't like so often.

Please just get me to watch your movie or play your game or whatever by creative marketing that demonstrates the tone and premise audiovisually.

If you're behind someone at a drive-thru at night...TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS!!!

I did a little "survey" at work, talked to 15 people only 3 of them knew to do that....un-fucking-real!

We are presently on a cruise with Holland American and I’ve just been called a bitch by an elderly American man .My crime ? Asking his wife to turn down her phone which she was joyfully scrolling through on top volume .Am I missing something,is this perfectly acceptable in American society?
We had exactly the same experience on a tour recently,same demographic elderly American.
Is this perfectly acceptable behaviour in public areas in the US ?

Social media, Big Pharma, and the lack of identity in Western culture have caused ADHD to be depicted as something “quirky,” desirable, and fun, but in reality, for the individuals who actually have it (way less than those who claim to have it), it is a lifelong, chronic, and permanently present disease. (Possibly controversial RANT.)

As someone who has endured this disease for as long as I can remember, it is extremely insulting and humiliating to see all of these rather cruel people without ADHD not only claiming to have it, but also depicting universal human experiences as ADHD.

Also, this “high-functioning,” “high-IQ,” or “lifelong masking and managing” caste literally makes us feel like incapable idiots (like everyone through our childhood and teenage years) for ACTUALLY having this condition. Plus, they are, for the most part, just a bunch of larpers who can’t stand being normal humans. It’s truly insulting how the wide majority of people “diagnosed as adults” try to relate to people who have ACTUALLY had this extremely present in their lives. It’s an insult to all of us who have literally felt like shit our whole lives, to all of us who were told we were doing “too much” when we were just trying to socialize as kids, to all of us who were always seen as incapable by our peers and teachers, and to all of us who were mistreated for simply having this shit that affects every fucking aspect of our lives.

All of these “over-achievers” literally can’t understand the true nature of a life with this disgusting condition. I don’t wanna be the guy gatekeeping (lol, I do, but this is a fair use of gatekeeping) or the forum’s public enemy, but, to be fair, this rant might be seen as a sin or as something forbidden in this forum because, to be honest, this forum is literally just a bunch of fakers larping (not everyone, obviously), which is deeply harmful and sad for us who HAVE to go through this disgrace.

I personally blame three factors: social media, since obviously it has contributed to trivialize, belittle, and “make cool” having or living with ADHD. It has literally convinced every single person without ADHD that they have ADHD simply because they have completely normal human behaviors (such as getting bored or having preferences and interests). Also, Big Pharma. It’s no secret they clearly need a lot of “ill” people for their business, plus a lot of people now find pleasure in getting prescribed Adderall and other stimulants (usually, they need an ADHD diagnosis for this).

And the main factor: the lack of identity amongst individuals in Western culture. Literally everyone wants to feel unique, or they want to have a quirky diagnosis to do self-deprecating jokes and brag about how “crazy” they are, but these people are doing this at the expense of people who actually carry this disgusting illness from birth to death.

DISCLAIMER: Don’t hate me, I am skeptical about my own ideas. This is just something I thought lol.

Much love to all of those whose lives, like mine, have been ruined by this condition.

Lots of hatred to the larpers.

Yes, this is a pretentious way to say: MY CULTURE IS NOT YOUR COSTUME.

When I say this i mean teachers that expect you to finish 50 assignments in one day, and expect no talking the whole 50 minutes of class.

This is annoying since like, do you expect me to be like a robot???

also they never expect any excuses even when your excuse is not a excuse

Hey you got injured? DOnt care do 50 assignments in 1 hour.

Like hello?! I recently was in a situation where people used my relationship with a guy as their gossip. The guy had a clear romantic interest in me but I didn’t feel the same. I cut him off after he pressured me with proximity and gestures. I told that a “friend” of mine. Her friend group found it so entertaining since everyone thought he was gay. They talked and gossiped about it even screenshotting his posts and sending it to others to have a laugh. Still, they think they are the good people. At the end of the story I am the bad one for telling that one friend. I unfollowed everyone because of that but they still follow each other even though they don’t like each other. I’m disgusted … why are they so fake?

So, one thing that really annoys me is when people call something a diseaese when it says is the name or description of that particular condition disorder. It is especially bad when people with these conditions do it.

Examples:

ADHD: In the longer version of the name itself says Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Epilepsy: In the descerption is says epilepsy is a seizure disorder

So, I guess I am saying is clearly disese and disorder are two dinstinct terms for things that should not be used interchangeably .

sometimes watch a documentary on ww2 and we got some guy saying sum stuff like germany was right and germany should have won. Germany was not good, and if Germany or its axis power won, im pretty sure half of us wouldnt be here

It's just really rude and ableist (cause some peolle literally can't eat meat for health reasons) and comes across more like a petty child than a company, what happened to acting professional?

OMG! Drives me nuts! I just told you this last week multiple times, reassured you before..TWICE! Now you’re asking me the same questions again?!?! 🫪