Things That Irritate You in Life

Another thing... When people, institutions, or organizations make all kinds of nice promises, but then they just never follow through and never deliver... As I brought up earlier in this thread, my third grade teacher once said yo me, "I don't want to hear excuses, I want to see results" it was a good and relevant statement.
 
UngulateNerd92 said:
Though I understand and respect what they are doing and even the positions/circumstances they are in, it feels inconsiderate and disrespectful and it makes me feel like I don't matter or that no one cares... or puts any effort or pride into what they are doing... Whether it is true or not, that is how it feels and looks...
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Not to demotivate you or anything, but you’re right. They don’t care. Some positions have so many applicants they don’t even remember the specifics on the people they’re interviewing until they’re sitting across the table from them in the interview reading their CV for the first time.
 
Zoofan15 said:
Not to demotivate you or anything, but you’re right. They don’t care. Some positions have so many applicants they don’t even remember the specifics on the people they’re interviewing until they’re sitting across the table from them in the interview reading their CV for the first time.
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You probably aren't wrong...
 
Another thing, when people, institutions or organizations twiddle their thumbs and drag their feet, especially when they are tasked with or faced with important and serious issues and projects!
 
Another dynamic that really irritates me and gets under my skin is the "Every man for themselves" ethos;

From Merriam Webster Dictionary "Used to describe a situation in which people do not help each other and each person has to take care of himself or herself As soon as there was a crisis, it was every man for himself"

Also adding to that, this ingroup outgroup tribalism that is commonly paired with this every man for himself minsdset.
 
UngulateNerd92 said:
Another thing... When people, institutions, or organizations make all kinds of nice promises, but then they just never follow through and never deliver... As I brought up earlier in this thread, my third grade teacher once said yo me, "I don't want to hear excuses, I want to see results" it was a good and relevant statement.
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It also goes the other way: I've made it a habit to reply to relevant requests, job / externship applications etc. as soon as possible. I don't like to be kept waiting, so I try not to keep others waiting. And it ticks me off that more and more people (usually the ones that stressed in their original message how urgent their case is) never respond to my reply and ghost me.
 
I just want to say that I hate how social media has become havens for exotic pet owners flaunting their caracals and fennec foxes and whatever else. Also how I can't look at wildlife videos without finding someone handfeeding twenty raccoons hotdogs or giving a fully grown buck with large, sharp antlers carrots, and the comments just eating it up with comments like "real life Disney princess." I've come to hate that term now because it's always attached to videos or stories like that. There's a reason signs at parks and zoos say "Don't feed the Animals," it's potentially dangerous to the animals and to the person doing the feeding!

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Breckenridge said:
I just want to say that I hate how social media has become havens for exotic pet owners flaunting their caracals and fennec foxes and whatever else. Also how I can't look at wildlife videos without finding someone handfeeding twenty raccoons hotdogs or giving a fully grown buck with large, sharp antlers carrots, and the comments just eating it up with comments like "real life Disney princess." I've come to hate that term now because it's always attached to videos or stories like that. There's a reason signs at parks and zoos say "Don't feed the Animals," it's potentially dangerous to the animals and to the person doing the feeding!

mini rant over
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Everyone will have their regional equivalent of this. For me, it’s seeing videos of tourists casually walking up to a Southern cassowary. Anyone in Australasia will know how lethal these birds are and how the video could turn out (even if the idiot in the video came out of it unscathed).
 
Zoofan15 said:
Everyone will have their regional equivalent of this. For me, it’s seeing videos of tourists casually walking up to a Southern cassowary. Anyone in Australasia will know how lethal these birds are and how the video could turn out (even if the idiot in the video came out of it unscathed).
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Can't forget pictures/videos of people handling blue ringed octopuses! it seems to mostly be people who don't know what they are and are unaware just how dangerous they are.
 
DaLilFishie said:
Can't forget pictures/videos of people handling blue ringed octopuses! it seems to mostly be people who don't know what they are and are unaware just how dangerous they are.
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That’s scary. Although I certainly knew what they were (and how dangerous they are), I admit when I first saw a Blue-ringed octopus, it was a fraction of the size I expected. As was the Platypus; while the Common wombat was about five times as big. :D The cassowary was exactly to scale. :)
 
Zoofan15 said:
That’s scary. Although I certainly knew what they were (and how dangerous they are), I admit when I first saw a Blue-ringed octopus, it was a fraction of the size I expected. As was the Platypus; while the Common wombat was about five times as big. :D The cassowary was exactly to scale. :)
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Ahahah yeah, blue rings are tiny! I think that contributes to the number of people who handle them, they see a cute little pretty octopus and want to pick it up! I too was surprised of the size of wombats when I first saw one, they're twice the size I thought!
 
DaLilFishie said:
Ahahah yeah, blue rings are tiny! I think that contributes to the number of people who handle them, they see a cute little pretty octopus and want to pick it up! I too was surprised of the size of wombats when I first saw one, they're twice the size I thought!
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I blame Auckland Zoo. I read their history book as a kid and there’s a photo of a keeper holding two wombats under each arm. They’re the size of Koala. They were obviously juveniles, but I assumed they were regulation sized wombats until I saw one irl.

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Zoofan15 said:
I blame Auckland Zoo. I read their history book as a kid and there’s a photo of a keeper holding two wombats under each arm. They’re the size of Koala. They were obviously juveniles, but I assumed they were regulation sized wombats until I saw one irl.

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another animal that surprised me by it's size was the Grey Reef Shark. I'd always thought they were of comparable size to the Blacktip Reef Shark, so when I saw one in the flesh I was surprised to find they are considerably larger! I was also quite shocked to learn how large Bluefin Tuna can get, I had imagined them roughly salmon-sized!
 
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You mean a meerkat can't kill a wildebeest? (true story)
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It was a good game, but the specifications on what percentage terrain in each exhibit was needed were irritating.

Nothing was more pedantic than the African leopard who’d go spare if there wasn’t enough rainforest to savannah and only half an exhibit of Baobab trees could put things right.

The game even said that irl Polar bears find irregular terrain such as grass stimulating, but not in the game they didn’t.
 
Zoofan15 said:
It was a good game, but the specifications on what percentage terrain in each exhibit was needed were irritating.

Nothing was more pedantic than the African leopard who’d go spare if there wasn’t enough rainforest to savannah and only half an exhibit of Baobab trees could put things right.

The game even said that irl Polar bears find irregular terrain such as grass stimulating, but not in the game they didn’t.
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Oh man, you're unlocking memories of that game and all the frustrating min-maxing you had to do to get your animals happy. It also meant you could never have much variation in how certain exhibits looked or try certain species mixes unless you were okay with your animals being unhappy.

Also, God forbid you place an interactive object next to a structure or fence in Zoo Tycoon 2. I'd place certain food or enrichment items tucked away in a corner to make my habitats look more naturalistic and then just get spammed with messages saying the animal can't use it or the keeper can't refill it because their pathfinding is on the fritz. Three of the four sides could be completely unobstructed and it'd still do that.

Still one of my most favorite game series ever though.
 
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