Also another pet peeves, middle-age men acting like buffoons when talking and they just have to be right or "the old wise one" whenever you talk to them, or just use the same joking attitude 100% when they're talking to you like... okay no can you be serious 1 second of your life? lol.
Oh very much. This is my dad lol. This actually seems to happen with some younger men like those in their 20’s too who seem to want to aspire that way or be the boss and act tough and be comfy in those ideas. Idk. Maybe I’m misunderstanding them trying to be ironic but that’s also annoying when it’s constant.
One of the reasons I spend much less time on the Internet now is because I’m SICK of everything being ironic. Which feels similar to people being buffoons as you said. Idk if it spread to society as a whole but being on the internet constantly exposes it to one constantly. There’s a difference between having a sense of humor and feeling like you’re around people who just use it all the time to cope with their problems and being around that is tiring. And some of those people never know how to speak without being or coming across as “snarky” and it can get toxic. This is kind of ironic coming from me talking about being negative but damn if someone only acts this way I don’t trust them. In my experience those people pull up the irony card when it’s a convenient excuse for them.
Hell there’s even a difference between this and being lighthearted. If someone just wants to use the internet for fun and not share their problems or philosophy or something, that’s ok too. You don’t need to be some deep exposed person, or even participate, you can just lurk. I’m not trying to gatekeep. But there are definitely a lot of people who use it to cope and be ironic all the time and I hate being around that.
Some of this comes from people being faced with unhealthy expectations or prejudice but honestly every single group of people does (the rich just get to ignore most of it) and this post isn’t about that. I’m venting.
Also those who walk around in public and use FaceTime at the same time.
This AND people who put their phone on speaker in their car but with super high volume that goes through my windows
People speaking on the phone (and off the phone) loud when they don’t need to in general. Lmao I remember my mom telling me not to have my headphones in all the time but she does the exact same but WORSE now. She used to speak loud to her parents because they were very old and had poor hearing and that’s understandable but she does the same thing any time she’s on the phone or speaking to her sisters or MY sister in general. As if we’re deaf. I don’t get it, the only reason she doesn’t speak to ME louder is years of telling her that it annoys me, and because it’s her she thinks it’s an autistic trait and wwaaaahh I don’t like noise even though that was a misdiagnosis. No, you just don’t need to speak like that, come on. She also has her headphones in almost 24/7 if she isn’t watching TV or with her dad. Even when she’s sleeping. You have to be kidding me.
(note: no disrespect to anyone on the spectrum, I just get frustrated at my family holding it against me/assuming that’s why certain things bother me, despite it being a misdiagnosis. I’m not saying anyone on the spectrum reacts like my mom thinks or goes “wah”, she throws a hissy fit about certain things I ask for. I’m making fun of her.)