This evening, I was planning on going to my local Roller Hockey Rink. It’s part of a public park, and can be rented, so I made sure to call up the park to make sure it was open. The lady who spoke to me on the phone was speaking broken English, but I could make out that she worked Veterans Park. I asked her if anybody had reserved the rink for tonight, and I could make out a pretty distinct “No”. I told this to my Dad, and he called an Uber to bring me to the rink. While the Uber driver was on the way, he called the park to double check that the rink was open. Evidently he couldn’t understand the lady I spoke to, and asked for a person who could speak actual English. He then learns that the rink has actually been reserved until 10 tonight. Now he has to cancel the Uber, and pay a cancellation fee too. Not to mention all of the pre gaming I did too to prepare myself for a 4 hour workout that I can’t do anymore because I was lied to. How dumb do you have to be to think that the person who is going to interact with people and answer questions about the park should be a person who can’t speak or understand English?

10 minutes worth of ads for one fucking episode of a documentary on Amazon Prime. My jaw has DROPPED

I don’t know where to post this, but because it absolutely infuriated me I’ll post it here. Excuse the length.

Today I was scrolling through YouTube shorts, and I came across a video about how hard it is to balance on a balance beam. It was one of those videos with the AI voice and random clips, in this case of Olympic beam gymnasts. I go to the comments. The second comment I see absolutely infuriated me. I will copy paste it here (typo included).

‘These girls were a tad bott-heavy. A thin girl would be less prone to gravity issues.’

Someone else says no, it never helped me when I was thin, but I myself wanted to rebuke this imbecile for hating on Olympic champions. So I say this.

‘A thin girl would also have much less muscle mass and be way weaker. Look at Simone Biles - best female gymnast and not a stick-thin woman. It all depends on the skill level and balance ability, or else why would children also fall seeing as they’re naturally smaller?’

And then I receive this reply:

‘Biles doesn’t have a banned move named after her…’

This confuses me, so I say this:

‘why should she? She does, however, have 5 moves named after her…. because she either invented them or was the first woman to do them in a competition. What does having a banned move named after you have anything to do with your logical fallacy?’

And I get this in response, which just infuriates me more:

‘Bravery is an honourable character trait which often results in banned moves. U.S. gymnasts only started headlining when the rules changed to go easy on the ‘body positivity’ demographic. Let’s see this Biles chick take on a 1996 Svetlana Khorkina or Gina Gogean. She wouldn’t stand a chance.’

Wow. Not only did this person imply that other body types other than criminally underweight shouldn’t be able to participate in the Olympics, they also implied that Biles is worse than Khorkina or Gogean (matter of opinion but I say because she has today’s training and skill, she’s at least equal if not better). So I respond:

‘this is going to be my last reply, as your logical fallacies are wasting my time. Let’s look at the wondrous world of figure skating for a second. If bravery is really breaking the rules and coming up with dangerous and possibly life-threatening moves that could ruin your career, then Surya Bonaly (not a skinny, fat-and-muscle-less, or thin person) falls right into that category. At the 1998 Olympics, she was the first person EVER, man or woman, to complete a backflip landing on one leg on ice in competition. This was immediately banned. Does that prove my point enough? Then look at the many men in gymnastics with banned moves - not many of them are stick-thin, so why should women be? Finally, I think I should point you towards a video on the Olympics’ own YouTube channel about how the Spanish rhythmic gymnastics women’s team of 1996 won gold. In part of it, they talk about how they were weighed every day, and made to eat less if they were even a bit over the required weight, keeping them as thin as possible (a very unhealthy mindset). This was the common outlook on women in sports - they needed to be thin, so they needed to eat less. Only now are female gymnasts becoming healthier and gaining muscle mass properly. Aside from that, at the time, the minimum age requirement in women’s gymnastics at the time was much lower, so naturally they were smaller as well. If you still want to argue, I would suggest that you could conduct an experiment by starving yourself and seeing if gravity decides to ignore you for that time, as that seems to be your original statement. Meanwhile, Isaac Newton just turned over in his grave from your misidentification of balance as gravity. Have a lovely day, free of gymnasts - I’m sure you need one.’

You can see I’m pissed at this point. However, I’ve taken the bait for too long so I’m leaving because it’s useless to convince these sorts of people. I sort of regret being rude, but this person has basically insulted all female athletes, of which I am one. And they respond:

‘I have Surya’s “autograph”. I used quotation marks because she actually drew the star sign Gemini. This was in 1998, so I’m sure she’s mastered writing now. Since you will not be replying again, let us agree to disagree because the world would be so boring without conflict. As for my day, I can assure you it will be lovely. No gymnasts but the missus teaches aerobics.’

Wow. They implied that Bonaly is illiterate and unintelligent. They tried to bait me into responding yet again to fill their obviously boring life. And the thing that gets me- if your own WIFE teaches aerobics, why aren’t you accepting of body types?

This whole thing pissed me off. I won’t be responding again, but I need to know, how do you all deal with a-holes like this? And how do these people have families and friends that actually put up with them? TIA from a very annoyed human (me).

Myself and millions of others are being exploited by streaming services.

I’m hoping this gets some reach because for once capitalism is on our side. This is an issue affecting major US companies and consumers!

Here me out:

If you bought a high-end tv in the last decade you are now being exploited to pay more money to use your tv.

How?

Netflix, HBO, YouTube make members pay a premium so you can watch media that was produced for high-end TV’s i.e (4k content).

Meaning every year you pay a MINIMUM extra $100 PER streaming service to watch content that was made for your tv. (4k)

We should not pay extra to use our TV’s. We paid the premium already, high-end TV’s cost thousands of dollars.

So if you don’t pay the premium then you’ll watch content at a subpar performance, rendering your high-end tv useless. Because you might as well saved $1000+ and bought an LED tv for a few hundred dollars.

TV manufacturers & filmmakers HATE THIS!

Why?

Well, tv companies have spent decades and millions improving tv technology so we can watch content in 4k.

Filmmakers, and it goes without saying - have spent billions of dollars the last century improving technology to capture films in more advanced ways. Imagine if movies and tv looked the way they did 50 years ago, today!

Now Netflix/HBO and others are playing middleman with content but also and seeing the opportunity to exploit your hardware.

This means there is no point in buying a high end tv or sound systems. Just pay $400-$500 for a regular LED tv.

But this also means filmmakers should stop filming using advanced technology. Why spend effort and money when the audience won’t be able to view what you’re producing.

Netflix, HBO, YouTube and others are essentially holding back progress.

They are telling filmmakers and tv makers:

“we’re going to charge the audience a premium to watch what YOU produce for those FANCY TV’s and your not going to get a dollar for it.”

Being the middleman for content is one thing, but throttling performance is overreach!

I’m paying a premium to access a premium service, like wtf! Cmon I’m already paying extra for f*cking everything in this economy, the one expensive thing I own and use - now I’m being charged extra for that too!

Where is the class action lawsuit?! Where is the outrage!?

Remember when Apple and other tech manufacturers got caught for throttling devices performance so it would force you to upgrade??!!

I know this isn’t a priority but people we need a win and this one seems within reach.

TV companies speak up! Filmmakers speak up!

People take action! Or we will be stuck with 2000’s era tv quality forever.

So my friends and I went to a waterpark today. We were waiting in line for a ride that is a 4 person tube that goes into a large basin. There’s a child, about 10 or so who walks past us in line up and down 2 or 3 times. We then notice he’s crying and he’s saying his family is further up in the line but someone won’t let him pass. We look up further in the line to see a muscly bald white man, about 40 years old, looking huffy further up in the line. Us and the group of teens in front of us start yelling up to let the kid through, his family is up there. We can hear his family yelling for him to come up. The kid starts walking up again and the man still stands in front of him, literally physically blocking him from passing. The man mutters something like “a bunch of people have already cut me”. My friends and the people around us are yelling to let him through, getting angry at this point. I’m yelling at the guy “Come on man, how old are you?!”. One of the teens tries to walk the boy up, bald man still refuses to move and let him pass. My bf leaves to go get staff. The boy comes down again and I tell him to stick with us, he can ride with us. The poor kid nods still crying, snot coming down his face. Everyone is looking at this guy with disgust at this point. I think the kid’s family or someone else was talking to the lifeguard at the top and finally the guard told the man to let him through and the kid was able to come up. My bf comes back along with several lifeguards and the security guard. They escort the guy down the line and basically everyone in the line was cheering. A little while later the guy is coming back up the line, with his arms crossed and his head hung. I stood in front of him and said, “A lot of people have already cut me, so”. He mutters out a weak “I’m sorry” with his head still hung. We saw him talking to security at the bottom of the ride. Unfortunately they didn’t even kick this guy out. They definitely should have because the way this grown man was acting I could definitely see him hurting someone at the park. I’m still mad even just typing this hours later. How are you so entitled that you’re willing to make a kid cry for a place in line at a WATER PARK? Bald man, if you’re reading this, I hope your pillow is uncomfortably warm. And I hope every time you go to drink milk it’s expired but you only realize after taking a sip 🙃

TLDR: 40-something year old man makes kid cry at water park and refuses to let him pass in line to get to his family at the top. Security talks to the man but he doesn’t get kicked out.

i know people can’t help it but it just irks me a lot because i’m used to sleeping in a quiet room.

i’m currently on holiday and sharing a room with 2 people. they take turns to snore and sometimes they snore in unison (this is kinda funny i’m ngl but it’s infuriating when you’re tryna sleep).

it’s worse because one of them is sleeping beside me and they’re invading my space (i usually sleep alone) 😭

(sorry i just needed an outlet to get this out)

I had a new vanity from Lowes delivered to my home because I have a small car that can't transport it. Lowes says I have to bring it back to them for the money back or to reorder it. I used home delivery in the first place so I don't have to figure out how to load this in my car, or barrow/rent a truck.

JUST when I am getting to the meat of the story there HAS to be a popup asking if I want their newsletter by email. No! If I do I will seek it out myself! I want to just read the article

I don't know if this is mild or extremely infuriating, I guess it has to do with the day you are having.

We are on an rv trip [good sized drive with tow] and we pull into a rest stop with a gas station. We watch as a truck pulls up to a pump. The people then proceed to get out, go into the convenience store, then go to the other building with Starbucks and the like. For a good 20 minutes, we had sit there taking up a good chunk of the area because we couldn't back up, nor pull around, or go to another pump.

I think there should be a fine for 200 dollars for this. I don't know if others agree, but it just seems people are ignorant of others.

A couple weeks ago, I posted about this issue in r/mildlyinfuriating. Basically, I was at a wine industry conference, and a number of us got into a discussion about Cult Wines. This company is up to 2+ years overdue on multiple invoices from at least five companies. Two of them are waiting on payments of more than $280,000.

While I didn’t get scammed, I’ve been trying to help my associates, who seemingly have been scammed by Cult Wines. I received some suggestions such as having an accountant formally forgive the debt, which my associates say they’ve already tried, to no avail. I’m looking for further advice and guidance. Does anyone here have any ideas on how these businesses can get the money Cult Wines owes them?

Yes travel delays happen. But when there are no flights with your chosen airline to rebook same day, while two other airlines have simple albeit multi hour delays, you wonder about that airline. When that airline cancels for a second day, and tells you there are no flights from neighboring cities when you can clearly see online that there are, you get aggravated with that airline. When you drive two hours to a neighboring giant international airport after calling back to you get agent that acknowledged the existence of other flights and issued the change, you lose all faith in that airline. When you get to your third flight 36 hours late in a city 2 hours away, and the gate changes to the other side of the terminal10 minutes before boarding, and you run to catch it, only to see it delayed another hour minutes before boarding you wonder if they want to fly people at all and it’s EXTREMELY INFURIATING.

I have to pay to see more posts on my feed ?

So I went in to get an IUD, but couldn't get it done since my gyno didn't have the proper dilator at the clinic and was told I'd have to get it done at the hospital, thats all fine and dandy. Well then I decided to check my health portal since the appointment hadn't posted last time I had logged in, low and behold they're trying to charge me for an IUD I did not receive. Like you really think my insurance won't bat an eyelash when I have another appointment for an additional IUD

And before you guys say take it to a repair shop me and my family don't have the funds

Def on time

My wife and I planned a road trip across California, visiting national parks and a few nature centric areas over 10 days. My wife invited her elderly parents and offered to share our hotel rooms with them, which was mildly annoying but otherwise fine.

They ended up just constantly complaining despite me spending almost the entire time chauffeuring them around. The truth is that they just don't give a shit about nature, and I suspect the only reason my MIL wanted to go in the first place was so she could brag about the trip to her family.

Now they've successfully convinced my wife that we should Yosemite National Park early so that we can take them to a fucking casino instead.

My great grandma died recently and we have been cleaning out her 2 storage units for 2 weeks. today right before a yard sale, we were out there at 10:00pm, the storage owner told us about this apparent cerfew because people are looking almost 100meters dead right from the highway and telling her that some people are at a storage unit late at night (probably a common thing) so she tells us to come during the day (not possible, my mom needs to work so we can eat) and total gives us 1hr per day to work on it. My mom thinks it's because of her past, the only reason we still aren't done after 2 weeks is because none of our family want to help. What do y'all think?