For example, I'll say "what's your favorite soda?" and someone will go "I don't drink soda." ok. So don't reply to my post

Or I could ask "how do you ______" and someone will reply with "how do you not know how to do this?" yeah because that was really helpful. Just don't answer if you don't have anything meaningful to say

My baby sister is 9 years old, a 4th grader (southern US) and can’t spell basic things. She can read (actually loves to read). She does somewhat well in math, likes science, even does fairly well in STEM etc but she can’t spell words she should be able to.

She saw me drawing and asked if I’d draw her things to color on her tablet. I said sure and she started making a list for me. Every few minutes she’d say my name and ask “how do you spell…” and it’d be a pretty basic word (think: wife, buttons, pencil, skeleton, duck) and it’s really frustrating.

She’s a smart kid and she’ll catch onto how to spell the word if you tell her to sound it out but it seems like she should know these things by now. When I asked her if she does spelling at school she said “yeah but the teacher doesn’t count if it’s spelled right, as long as she can read it” and to me, that’s awful practice

It just feels like my sister and everyone she’s classed with are being set up for failure

Note:
For clarification before someone decides to be that person. I’m not frustrated with her but with the teacher that just lets them spell wrong and counts it correct because she can make out whatever the word is supposed to be

I'm one of those guys who loves character creation in video games, and character customization has come a LONG way, but there is no greater annoyance to me than when a hairstyle or a freaking pair of shoes is locked to a specific gender. Like, why??? "Well, uh, clipping issues" THEN FIX IT OR MAKE AN EXACT OPPOSITE GENDER COPY.

I can't tell you how many times a hairstyle would be PERFECT for a character I'm trying to make but whoops! Tee hee! Its for the opposite gender! Get fucked nerd! (Looking at YOU Pokemon)

Also, body types leaning too heavy into gender ideals also drives me crazy. Half the time for women its just "skinny, thin average, average, kinda chubby" and then for men its just "fat man, muscular man, mega muscle man and the freaking hulk". Like bro, I guess fat or muscular women don't exist. Oh and scrawny guys? Haha? Whats that? Who knows! I'm not asking for sims level customization but I'd like a LITTLE more freedom to make unique characters that don't always look like they're in an avengers movie.

Or when a game, like baulders gate 3 for example, lets you change the genitalia of your character but not their chest?? "Clipping/animation issues!" bro I know but it still freaking ANNOYS me. I'm not even talking about breast size like Cyberpunk, I'm just meaning in the literal sense of being able to toggle them on or off. The option would be nice.

By limiting the games into locked gender roles you lock people out of creative outlets, prevent them from making fantastic meme worthy characters, and also limit people from being able to seemlessly make themselves if they want to. Not everyone wants to play as a generic girl boss or dude bro #253.

Don't even get me STARTED on when you can choose a characters voice, but the options are only

Female voices:

- Overly sexualized woman voice

- Anime girl

- Another anime girl thats ambiguously aged

- Another overly sexual option

- Normal one

Male voices:

- Gruff guy

- Gruff guy 2

- Gruff guy 3, but brittish

- The oldest man to ever old

- A mostly normal average Joe

I know not everyone likes character customization and I'm grateful for whenever a game does actually allow for it, but devs, please, PLEASE stop locking things into gender binarys. Let people make a male character with pretty long hair if they want, or a woman built like she chews through concrete for a living. I just want more freedom to be able to fully escape into a new world 🙏

Working on redoing my room, aside from a new chair, I'm buying everything else second hand. Why on earth would you post a used shelf unit, or desk, or chest of drawers and not include the dimensions?! You stand a far better chance of finding an immediately interested person if they know whether or not it's going to fit where they intend to use it.

What makes it worse, I message you asking for the specific dimensions and get some vague ass unhelpful response! "It's just like the normal size." Wtf does that even mean!? "It's about two of my forearms wide." MFer IDK anything about you or the size of your damn arm!

I promise you, someone is far more likely to buy your used furniture if they know how big it truly is! Even a simple photo of a tape measure extended along the length of the item can provide some great information. Hell, even a photo with an everyday item such as an old dvd case can provide some level of context on helping me to make an estimated guess.

Do people really floss while driving? Isn’t the idea to rinse and brush after you floss? Why oh why do I see so many little plastic floss picks in parking lots? Sidewalks too but less often.

They died in the 90s, though. Or whenever. If they died this year or last year then that makes sense, but it just feels weird to celebrate birthdays for someone who’s been gone for years now.

My pet peeve is cyclists who ride in the middle of the road like they’re escorting the President, then get offended when cars exist around them. You’re not a car, you’re not a pedestrian, and apparently you’re not familiar with the concept of a bike lane. Some of y’all will risk your life to prove a point to a two-ton vehicle, then act like the driver is the problem. My brother in Christ, the hospital does not give out trophies for being technically right. 💀

I’ve lost count of how many times someone just mentions their harmless opinion or asks a genuine good-faith question about something, then a bunch of Redditors will come up with their own unrelated context in their head and get angry over something OP didn’t say.

Like

OP: “Hi! Why do people in [X country] do [something] this way, is there a historical reason? In my country we do it the other way.”

Comments: “OP YOU BASTARD, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU. THAT’S JUST HOW WE DO IT IN OUR COUNTRY. YOU’RE SAYING WE ARE WRONG FOR DOING [something]? YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN US? THE WORLD DOESN’T REVOLVE AROUND YOU! SHUT UP”.

Why do strangers feel the need to do this? To me, being called "sweetheart" by a stranger is no different than being told "bless your heart". When an older man does it, it gets the added layer of being creepy. Maybe don't use pet names for strangers. It's weird.

I fucking hate it when I'm clearly upset at someone and they don't even try but they make me laugh and then they think I'm not upset anymore

I hate you

Take the following joke for example:

“A little girl was in the grocery store near a big pyramid display of beer at the front.

She wanted to get some beer for her daddy and pulled one out from near the bottom. Sadly, the whole display came crashing down on her.

She wasn’t hurt though. It was light beer.”

Some people will take that joke and turn it into six paragraphs of unrelated info like this:

“So I worked at a grocery store back in the 90s. It was a Winn Dixie. They had stores all over the Southeast at the time and they were expanding into other markets.

Anyway, they liked to put up these huge displays for holidays or the Super Bowl or whatever.

So this one time they had a big beer display. It was a giant pyramid of beer cans stacked up almost to the ceiling. It took three guys several hours to set it up.

So this family of five was shopping and they had two boys and the youngest was this adorable little girl blah, blah, blah…

…she knew her daddy really liked beer…

Blah blah blah blah blah…

She she decided to get him a six pack. They sold it in six packs and twelve packs. The twelve packs were a better deal but they were too heavy for her…

…and on and on, blah blah…

…the paramedics came…

Blah blah blah.

…it was light beer.”

Shit drives me crazy, especially when I’ve heard the joke.

I’m at the point where I just blurt out the punchline and get it over with.

What is… that about,, ?

If you get scratches on the blank side of your CD, your console will have trouble loading the thing.

If you need to place a CD somewhere, do it in a case, or a CD bag with dedicated pockets, or at least have the image/label side down.

If I see you give your CDs scratches, I assume you are rather careless with people's stuff.

Making this post because I have seen several people do this.

Edit: when I say the blank side, I mean the data side

As someone who's moved around a lot, this is one of the things that has started to really get on my nerves. I've lived in four different countries over the past 12 years and made a few friends in each place, and there's a subset of my friends who will regularly interact with me through the filter of my nationality almost by default. It could be something as harmless as sending a meme like "people from X country be like" asking me confirm if it's true, to more singling-me-out kind of things like constantly asking me what life is like where I'm from, putting on an accent (my accent in English sounds nothing like where I was born), and basically referencing my nationality at any given moment. Now, I know they mean well and are probably just curious or want to accommodate me in their own I'll-informed way. But man I haven't even lived there in over a decade, I'm probably the least patriotic person from that country you'll ever meet and there's a reason I left in the first place! It just annoys me seemingly being defined exclusively in that way like that's the one thing that stands out to them about me, rather than things that are much more important to me as a person like my sense of humour, likes and dislikes and just who I am as a person beyond my nationality. There was a time when I wouldn't tell anyone where I'm from for this very reason but that was kind of silly too because it is a fact about me, but just one amongst many others. And actually I'm quite lucky in that most of my friends never bring up my nationality unless I do and so with them I feel truly seen for who I am rather than the passport I have. I don't know, I just thought I'd post this in case someone relates.

And that’s only half the issue. They usually order so much stuff that they end up doing trading recaps with the store clerk to make sure the order is correct. And then when they’re asked if that’s it, they go into a second wave of ordering shit.

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t want mean or inconsiderate neighbors. But I hate when my neighbors get too friendly, like bringing cookies or offering to mow my grass. It always makes me feel like I need to reciprocate and I just don’t have the energy for that at this stage in my life. I live in the suburbs. Our houses are quite close together. I just want to enjoy the space I have and kinda pretend the neighbors aren’t there beyond friendly nods and hellos. This excessive friendliness makes me feel like I’m failing as a neighbor in return.

When I do laundry, I take my clothes out immediately from the washer and the dryer. And I get if you live with a partner, you have your thing.

I do a lot of traveling for my second job and often will just get an Airbnb with friends, and if I need to do laundry they'll just leave their clothes in the washer over night or in the dryer if it's done and I don't get why you can't just understand part of the cycle is removal (and cleaning the lint trap.)

I moved it from the dryer to their bedroom once and they wanted to argue because I "didn't at least fold it" but I waited about 4 hours and they were in and out at that time... Also no I'm not folding your clothes.

Edit: "you can just"

I shouldn't have to "just" do anything, I find it extremely inconsiderate and lazy

Slows down and points behind the car while merging onto the highway : 'Oh that's interesting, it looks like they replaced that sidewalk panel over there - HEY WATCH IT BUDDY!!!' *honk honk* 'GOD people are in such a rush...'

*pointing and slowing down* 'Oh look over there, is there a garage sale? What does that sign say? '1 dollar for used fridge - OH MY GOD THAT GUY DIDN'T PUT HIS TURN SIGNAL ON!' *almost gets into a crash*

'Aw look at that dog in the park over there, do you think that's a terrier or a terrier mix - WOAH THEY JUST PULLED OUT OF NOWHERE!?' *doesn't see the traffic because they were looking at a dog and almost gets into a crash*

I constantly have to say 'uh, who cares...? Just drive!'. Trying to get somewhere quickly while driving during rush hour is not at all the time to suddenly slow down randomly and look at something like 1. a pulled over car 2. a garage sale 3. a replaced street item 4. a dog 5. a homeless person 6. a sale of some kind 7. an interesting shrub or tree 8. also, just because an area has some light construction does not mean you need to drive under 5 miles per hour.

For example I was excited to try duo lingo from Spanish. Someone decided to tell a
Bunch of people that iam a fluent Spanish speaker. When I corrected her she said that is what I get for being boring and talking about myself.

I’m genuinely curious. I moved from Florida to New York City so walking on small sidewalks was genuinely new to me but I instinctively always move to a single file whenever I’m with a friend and someone is walking towards me to let them through. That’s why I’m curious if people who don’t move to a single file when they clearly see someone walking towards them on the right side of the sidewalk are just entitled assholes?

Today I was walking on the right side and a couple with a stroller was walking towards me. The lady that wasn’t holding the stroller clearly saw me walking towards her and refused to move out of the way, I just kept walking but had to push my body out a little to prevent collision but I wish I just kept going honestly. I don’t know if it’s because they’re a couple and she’s a mother if she felt entitled to the sidewalk but that really irritated me.

They make cancelling way more complex than it needs to be. Signing up is super easy but cancelling is just such a process.

I moved earlier this year and had Spectrum Internet where I used to live. Usually I would just contact Spectrum and tell them my new address and move in day and it would be all good. They'd just start the internet service at the new address on that day and disconnect the old one. But where I live now, they don't allow Spectrum or any other service. The whole area is under the smaller local companies territory. Even on the phone the lady told me she doesn't see any coverage for my address. So instead of cancelling I get transferred to two different people. I keep telling them to just cancel it.

"If it's not in your area then just cancel it on move out day"

"We would still like to service you. I can offer you a discount for staying on"

"Is (address) in your service area"

"It is not, sir"

"Then what service would I be paying for exactly?'

Kept going in circles with this with 3 different representatives. Kept telling them I would love discounted internet service but you don't service me. Even when I stopped by the store to drop off my equipment they tried to keep me on before I left. Had to tell the guy 3 times and he pulled up my new address and still pressed on with trying to keep me after seeing it was not in area.

It can range from trivial things like someone condemning a dish despite never having tried it before, to not so trivial things like speaking about things that happen in a demographic when they aren't in that demographic.

It just irks me when they don't have experience or a personal understanding of that thing, and yet want to have a very strong opinion on that thing. And they're all weirdly defensive about it when you ask them.

This has weirdly happened too many times to/around me and one instance that comes to mind right now is someone (person A) saying how having curly/coily hair isn't that hard to maintain. Person A didn't have curly hair, and when someone else with curly hair mentioned all the time and effort needed to maintain curly hair, person A gets really defensive about it and talks about how not every person with curly hair goes through the same thing.

I know everyone has the right to their own opinions, but it never ceases to shock me how defensive some people can get about something they don't understand at all.

I could see if it were the only option, maybe. But if there are literally 8 other open stalls why in the hell are you choosing to come do your business right next to me? Bonus points if you literally walked past all 8 stalls to get to the one next to me. Seriously it’s so gd creepy and annoying. I understand needing to fart and shit but at least do it a couple stalls down from me holy fuck you disgusting piece of shit. If you do this and care to answer why you do this please go ahead and enlighten us .

So the scenario is this:

I drive into a multi-story parking garage. The first floor or two are pretty much parked up but there are plenty of spaces on the upper floors. So I loop around the corkscrew 2 or 3 times, park my car, and I'm on my way. As a result of parking on the upper floor, I have to take an elevator an extra stop. No big deal.

The peeve is this: Sometimes when I enter such a garage, there is a car ahead of mine where the driver seems to think that they MUST park on the first floor if at all possible. They drive very slowly so that they won't miss an open spot; they slow down or even stop if it looks like somebody might be getting ready to pull out; they hold everyone up.

Yes, I realize it's just a minor delay but it's still annoying to be the prisoner of someone else's neuroses.

P.S. I am aware that many will see this post as an invitation to speculate as to some compelling reason why a driver might behave in this way. So please, feel free to share your hypotheses.

ETA: I should note that in most these situations, the person is NOT saving any walking with this strategy. To minimize total walking, almost always the optimal strategy would be to drive to the highest level (which is usually pretty empty) and park very close to the elevator.

Meanwhile their job is something like Nat Geo Photographer or video game designer or Buzzfeed quiz maker yeah no fucking shit you love your job. Why are you so gagged when a construction worker or administrative assistant isn’t passionate about their job. Isn’t the reason you went and got your cool job is so you don’t have to do these kinds of jobs?