Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance

Yup. Did it once for Thanksgiving. My wife doesn’t like the tomato glaze though. :slightly_frowning_face:

I don’t like it either if it’s aggresively tomato-y. Like basically ketchup. We make ours more like BBQ sauce. Still tomato based, but with more oomph.

My teeth are already grinding!

When I’m reading a news story online, then I move the mouse to the top so I can close the window, a stupid AD appears. They purposely put in a code that detects when I’m about to close so they can choose that moment to stealth-spam me. Why oh God, why?

That reminds me… when I’m reading a news story online, and there’s a video at the top of the page. I scroll down, and a mini-video player pops down to the corner and autoplays. You know what, news site? If I wanted to watch your fuckin’ video, I would have stayed at the top of the page.

There are Firefox settings in about:config that disable this nonsense, which I did at home some years ago. But that doesn’t help me with the computers at work, where I would have to look the settings up and then implement them every day, because the computers are “restored” nightly. If I even have permission to access about:config to make the changes.

Youtube videos that have a “this video contains paid advertisement” banners on the preview that are way to easy to click on accident.

Does anybody know if Chrome has a similar setting? I’m with @GESancMan, this is a bullshit feature.

I’ve notice a trend recently with the loooooooooong exposition then a bunch of sponsored links to go through then the recipe.

When that happens my fury is not out disproportionate, and totally justified.

Allow me to recommend www.based.cooking

by accident. This one that annoys me nearly as much as “try and do x” instead of “try to do x.”

or, accidentally. Bugs me as well, like "waiting on line (vs in line).

It’s really bad form to call someone else’s dialect wrong but, yeah, crap that noise needs thrown out.

Usage of “try and” vs. “try to” is different in British and American English.

The British usage is, of course, wrong.

To me “try and” implies you’ve already got it accomplished.

But then, I’m one who has no problem with the current usage of “literally.” The meaning has changed over the last several hundred years.

We all find our pedantic mounts to climb.

I’m curious, could you explain why this annoys you more than a very little? I think I’ve heard “try and” all my life. I probably say it too. I wouldn’t write “try and” in any formal correspondence though I’m not really sure why. This is the first time I’ve ever encountered any mention of it.

This is Paintcharge IRL, which should help explain things:

Wise, you are.

Here’s a website that changed my goddamned life: https://www.cooked.wiki.

Here’s how you use it:
Click the URL for some recipe that begins with the Epic of Gilgamesh or whatever. Copy it. Type “cooked.wiki/” and paste the URL. Voila!

Compare these two views of the same recipe (click through for the full effect):

Original:

Modified by that website:
https://www.cooked.wiki/https://www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-and-smooth-hummus-recipe/

(This is also a genuinely delicious hummus recipe that I make a few times a month and highly recommend).

It’s just about the best website ever.

C’mon - it’s not as though @Snarky_Kong said that by purpose.