Annoying

Standardly Unstandard

Chill Annoying

Couples fight about housework. Couples divorce about housework. Surely it would be easier if men just did more housework?

As I’ve pointed out before, women often have hugely, enormously unrealistic standards about housework that make no sense even in the context of a keeping a clean house.

And they also don’t count any labor that men do that’s not pushing a vacuum cleaner or washing dishes as “work.”

Not every woman, clearly. But many! Enough that I’ve been involved with two who did not count the vast amount of time I spent mowing the lawn, trimming bushes, cleaning gutters, taking care of the cars and such as “work.” According to them, “Men like that stuff” and, “It’s fun for you.”

Readers, I did not like it and it was not fun. I fucking hate lawn maintenance and house maintenance and now just refuse to do any of it (I pay people).

In one case I stopped mowing the lawn, taking care of the gutters, trimming bushes, hauling downed limbs, etc., and when my ex complained I said, “Oh, I thought you said that wasn’t work?”

That went over about as well as you’d expect. No one ever learns anything.

Ign

Chill Annoying

Am I a jerk for personally ignoring people that ping me in Teams with a mundane “Hi” ?

I do not give a single tiny little fuck about what your cultural norms are, if you think you’re trying to be polite or whatever other crap, if you hit me with just “hi” and nothing else I’m ignoring you for days. Perhaps forever (have done that before).

I do not have time to deal with that kind of thing in a chat application. Just tell me what you need. I’m not here for chitchat; I’m tryna work. Be concise, be clear and be quick. Otherwise: ignored.

Converse

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Because someone I follow linked to it, I made the mistake of reading part of an Ian Welsh piece. I couldn’t even finish the whole thing it was so insane, but what’s so repetitive about Welsh and those types is how they believe absolutely everything bad that occurs in the world is the fault of the US. Everything.

Buddy, America just does not have that much power. Clowns like Welsh buy into American exceptionalism just as much as far-right neocons and über-patriots. For many of them it’s that they secretly wish they were Americans and it drives them mad that they are not. Or at least it did before Trump. In their view, no other country has agency or desires or goals; it’s all America puppeteering them or that every action is solely a reaction to what the US does.

Like, come on. That’s not even remotely plausible. I only wish we had that much sway in the world.

Zombie Brains

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.

I have no fucking idea why this trend started, but seems to be worse in Gen Z. I think it’s due to a complete lack of social skills caused by their isolation and smartphone obsession; they see only their phone and the “people” in it as real. The rest of the world does not exist in the same way to them.

And it’s not just conversations, either. Many people listen to music and TV shows at top volume in airports, on flights, and other public places.

Anyone who doesn’t use headphones in public should be tased repeatedly. And then kneecapped if that fails to work.

Without Representation

Chill Annoying

When you include income tax, sales tax, property tax, vehicle tax and other various taxes, approximately 58% of my earned income goes to taxes1. I just did the calculation.

That sure seems like a lot, doesn’t it? And in the US we get hit with about the same taxes as European countries and get much, much less for it. And it’s almost always lower quality, too.

Also seems like a bad deal.

  1. This does not include capital gains.

Taxation Situation

Chill Annoying

I know it’s because I’m lucky enough to be in a high tax bracket, but it’s weird when you get paid and more of your income goes to taxes than you actually receive.

Kinda doesn’t seem fair when you consider how little billionaires are actually taxed relatively1.

  1. Yes, I know all the reasons/excuses for why this is the case.

Quad

Chill Annoying

I think I could’ve been a good to great scientist, but my inability to handle most practical math kept me out of that field.

It was for the better. I doubt I would’ve been happy in academia, especially now. But there must be a lot of people like me — kept out of fields in which they’d prosper because they can’t figure out the quadratic equation.

Police Call

Chill Annoying

What is the male perspective/counterpoint to the female “mental load” or “emotional labour”?

Men don’t do emotional labor because to many women, any man showing any emotion (other than perhaps anger) is a huge and immediate turn-off that dooms you forever in her eyes.

Women police men’s emotions very heavily, more than other men do (after high school anyway). And men react to this logically enough by not showing any.

Little Teapot

Chill Annoying, War

The claim that somehow Russia had to invade Ukraine because of NATO also comes down to the notion that Ukraine does not exist.

Anyone who believes that Russia invaded Ukraine due to NATO is just spouting Russian propaganda. And sounding foolish the whole damn time.

Vladimir Putin gives us no reason to believe that he fears a NATO invasion. If Russian leaders feared such an eventuality, the last thing they would have done would have been to undertake a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as they did in 2022. That amounts to sacrificing most of their army inside a country that is not a NATO member. If Russians feared a NATO invasion, they would not have created a situation in which Finland and Sweden join NATO, which they have done.

Pro tip: If you want to understand global geopolitics, start with not being an unpaid Russian shill. That’s not enough of course, but it’s a good starting place.

Doctor Law

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Alright Fellas, What’s the craziest thing a woman ever said to you?

Damn, the current top-voted comment is the same thing a terrible, narcissistic ex said to me: “You’re not ambitious enough.”

Which is insane. Because at the time, I was probably one of the youngest infrastructure managers of a medium-size corporation in the US at 26, I had been a paratrooper in the US army and also did successful day trading. I paid 80%+ of all the bills (including hers), by the way.

The real issue was that she was joined at the hip with her equally-poisonous mother and to dear old mom if her daughter’s boyfriend wasn’t a doctor or a lawyer, he was no one.

Therefore it didn’t matter how much money I made or how successful I was. Not a doctor or lawyer == failure. “Not ambitious enough.”

Glad that relationship ended, but I should’ve called it quits way sooner. Lesson learned the hard way (by having plates thrown at my head).

Going Aus

Chill Annoying, Lying Liars

One of the reasons the liberals and left deservedly receive a lot of hate is that they play idiotic words and numbers games like this to “prove” how smart they are.

What a fucking assclown douchebag the guy who wrote that tardicle is. He is both falling for the “austerity” propaganda and the perfect vector for said propaganda. Here’s a clue-by-four, goofus: “austerity” was never intended to slash spending — it was always a program calculated very precisely to privatize the resources of the state, to enrich those seen as worthy with redirected government largesse and to enforce neoliberal values both in monetary and ideological terms.

Spending has nothing to do with this, other than it’s important to the neoliberal project that public funds intended for the common weal be redirected to “deserving” private ends and hands and away from public provision.

As someone in the comments points out, during this alleged time of absent austerity the NHS was gutted, uni was made vastly more expensive, and other important services were worsened greatly by diminished funding and by privatization. Which, of course, was the actual goal of austerity — and not any decrease in spending.

Are people born this stupid or does that transformation happen in college? Fuck.

Sperate

Chill Annoying

I don’t know about women, but the reason men do this is that women are extremely allergic to anything with even the slightest hint of desperation. I swear, they can smell it upwind at 10,000 meters.

So if you’re a man, you have to pretend as hard as you can that you don’t really want a relationship, you’re absolutely perfect like you are, that no, you don’t even know what the word “lonely” means, thank you. And you must do that to even have a shot.