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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/rodney-king-dead-swimming-pool-160339712.html

 

So this is all over Facebook. I'm honestly sick of hearing about it, but figured those who don't go to Facebook, or Yahoo news may not know this, but then again I doubt many actually care..

 

Enjoy...:p

 

Literally made a joke about him last night. Jeeze, my bad sense of humor has terrible powers! :p

 

Ehh, its too bad to see anyone die... however there isn't anything postive I can think of to say of him.

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Last year in September I believe it was, after the new 52 in DC comics came out I made an order at a local comic book shop. They were out of the first issue of Batman, and I told them I'd really like it and and I'd set myself up with the program they had for some of the new series.

 

I originally went in the store because I knew their buisness was bad, and I had just gotten a pretty ok job. So, I was doing less as in interest of ever going to the shop, as much as giving them an extra twenty or so dollars a month to try and help keep it going. I would give more, but its what I had.

 

The girl I was talking to at the store was nice and helpful. She signed me up, told me she would see if she could get the comic for me, and that they would call when it came in. I was pretty happy I could do something to help the community with my meager paycheck.

 

Its now June 16, 2012 and they called and left me a message in a rather nasty tone of why I haven't picked up anything in the past two months. It took me aback because all of this started what seems like a lifetime ago. I've since lost said job, I've unfortintly come down with a "physical condition", and I really don't go out as much as I should. So getting reemed like I was a kid over an order I barely remembered making really ticked me off.

 

No real end to the story yet, because I'm trying to think of how to politely tell them that they're poop out of luck, unless they're willing to take ten bucks and a smile :p

 

To be perfectly honest, that casts you in a worse light than the comic book store in my opinion. :p If you order something on a pay-on-collection basis the least you can do is cancel the order if you no longer want it.

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Literally made a joke about him last night. Jeeze, my bad sense of humor has terrible powers! :p

 

Ehh, its too bad to see anyone die... however there isn't anything postive I can think of to say of him.

 

Just wondering, as a clueless Brit who only knows of him as "that black guy the police beat the **** out of for no reason", why the hate?

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Just wondering, as a clueless Brit who only knows of him as "that black guy the police beat the **** out of for no reason", why the hate?

 

 

On the night of March 2, 1991, King and two passengers, Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms, were driving west on Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. Prior to driving on the Foothill Freeway, the three men had spent the night watching a basketball game and drinking at a friend's house in Los Angeles.[6] After being tested five hours after the incident, King's blood-alcohol level was found to be just under the legal limit. This meant that his blood alcohol level was approximately 0.19—almost two and a half times the legal limit in California—when he was driving.[7] At 12:30 am, Officers Tim and Melanie Singer, a husband-and-wife duo of the California Highway Patrol, spotted King's car speeding. The officers then pursued King at high speeds.[8][9] According to King's own statements, he refused to pull the car over because he thought a driving under the influence test would violate his parole for a previous robbery conviction.[10]

 

From the Wiki article about him. It's easier to just do this than explain it. The problem is he resisted arrest and attacked the first two officers. They called for others to come. While they didn't need so many guys beating the crap out of him...it's kind of one of those double edged swords where it ws excessive, but needed to a point (not seven guys...albeit if it had only been just the two defending themselves I fear it would have been the same outcome)

 

Now why this is so big is because this sparked the Riots in LA where a driver who was minding his own business (A white male) was stopped at a traffic light on his way home was pulled out of his vehicle by two African american males and beaten almost to death. The guy was latterly on life support for a while. He then had to publicly apologize to these two men for pressing charges on them. That's what most people are angry about.

 

In no way am I saying Mr King deserved what he got by those men. But I am saying that if you resist arrest and are driving drunk and putting other peoples lives in danger you deserve to be knocked up side the head a few times.

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To be perfectly honest, that casts you in a worse light than the comic book store in my opinion. :p If you order something on a pay-on-collection basis the least you can do is cancel the order if you no longer want it.

 

To be fair though, I never heard from them once in those 9 months. If I had, I would have gladly paid for them. But to be honest, I completely forgot about it. They apparently call everyone once a week, and didn't have me on the call list.

 

I guess its partially my fault for not checking up on them, but really I was a bit miffed because I felt like it was there loss and not mine.

 

Alas, I went down there yesterday and talked to them. Somehow they talked me into purchasing some stuff I never even asked for. I'm a bit of a pushover, it's quite annoying :o

 

On Rodney King: He never cleaned up his life. He had a great deal of support from a wide range of people, and he continued to get into trouble. I have nothing to say about the earlier incident where he got beat, because I was too young to care at the time. All I can say is he lived a wasted life, and its sad really.

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I work six days a week, every week. I am the only person in my entire company who does so.

 

So every once in a while, I wan take an extra day off, to get some much needed rest and to spend some time with my girlfriend (who works an opposite shift from mine, and who I spend about 4 hours a week with, not counting when we're asleep.)

 

Every time I go to my boss and say I am going to take a day off, or a half day, they tell me that I can't because they (both manager and owner) will be gone that day for this appointment or that meeting or whatever. Every time, no matter when I ask, no matter the reason (even when I have doctor's appointments) it's always the same.

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Today was my nieces first game in the All-star series of her little league age group. While I understand these girls are not professionals and neither are the umpires...my problem is the ump behind the plate made some VERY obvious bad calls. A girl hit the ball down the third base side...the girl on third had to lean to her right to even attempt to grab the ball, and the ball was a bit further right than she could get to...now anyone that knows baseball knows what this means. it means the ball was FOUL. Guess what? The guy behind the plate who was staring down the third base line...called this fair...the guy on first was saying it was even foul...

 

Again I know these are young girls and they want to make the game fun for everyone. The team my niece played on scored 12 runs in the at bat before this happened against them...some of us feel the ump was trying to help the girls score a few more runs...While I understand they want to make it fun, you can't teach them to cheat to have a good time. Needles to say the parents and coaches for my nieces team were pretty pissed. My brother has a temper when it comes to sports as he's a softball player too. So it was trying to keep him from getting thrown out of the area for being loud and rude to the ump.

 

It just bothers me that some people would do this. I know in the major leagues bad calls are made, but not as bad as this. 5 in a single half inning? Poor pitcher was throwing balls clearly down the middle and getting called balls, then when my nieces team came up to bad they were getting strikes called at eye level...

 

Just my rant :)

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Sooo it appears I bring out the worst in people, and all this via Facebook apparently.

 

I posted one of those "share if you agree" things about gay marriage. I'm of the belief that what makes you happy is good for you.

 

I got a comment saying "it's against the bible" Okay that's all fine and good, but if you don't agree cool with me, if you agree cool with me, but DON'T come and tell me you disagree with something because you believe in the bible, yet you are married to a man who has three children out of wedlock, all your grandchildren are born out of wedlock, and you AND your husband are having an affair on each other. I'm not the most religious person out there, infact I don't think of myself as religious anymore, but even I find this hypocritical. This argument ended with my stepmom telling me she loves me.

 

My family is so weird...

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<p>What grinds my gears?</p><p> </p><p>

Just was playing the best game of Battlefield 3 that i have ever had in my life only to be kicked by an admin for being to good of a player. because he was on the other team and me and my team were kicking him and his buddies arses. </p><p> </p><p>

Now with players renting ther own servers. its becoming an issue now where you are kicked because you killed an Admin or well just for playin well. I seen players swiched sides mid-game by an Admin because he was playing to well against them. Its a new form of cheating.</p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Basmat01" data-cite="Basmat01" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="27610" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What grinds my gears?<p> </p><p> Just was playing the best game of Battlefield 3 that i have ever had in my life only to be kicked by an admin for being to good of a player. because he was on the other team and me and my team were kicking him and his buddies arses. </p><p> </p><p> Now with players renting ther own servers. its becoming an issue now where you are kicked because you killed an Admin or well just for playin well. I seen players swiched sides mid-game by an Admin because he was playing to well against them. Its a new form of cheating.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> And this is why I hate multiplayer online games....people are D Bags....</p>
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<p>So I have a job. The stuff I do in my job changed from stuff I know how to do to stuff I don't and the way I have to do my job changed too.</p><p> </p><p>

So somehow I have found myself working tech support for a system I don't even know how to use despite not applying for a tech support job, having no IT background at all and well ... having no clue what I am doing really.</p><p> </p><p>

This is weird.</p><p> </p><p>

Also, I am sick all the time lately .... <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BurningHamster" data-cite="BurningHamster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="27610" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So I have a job. The stuff I do in my job changed from stuff I know how to do to stuff I don't and the way I have to do my job changed too.<p> </p><p> So somehow I have found myself working tech support for a system I don't even know how to use despite not applying for a tech support job, having no IT background at all and well ... having no clue what I am doing really.</p><p> </p><p> This is weird.</p><p> </p><p> Also, I am sick all the time lately .... <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You sound like a typical tech support worker to me... <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"></p>
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You know what annoys me, completely irrationally?

 

Online news reports/press releases. I'm not sure if it's an American thing, or is just the standard for reporting news online (there's a special name for them, but I can't remember it. Not 'press release', they're different but similar), but it annoys me when they do the following things:

 

- Add the day of the week in at random with no preposition. "The circumstances of the man's death were confirmed Friday to be suspicious". I'm sorry, but that's not English. You can't just insert "Friday" into a sentence anywhere you want to, even if you are Rebecca Black (ironically, she at least did that right).

-- A related thing which I'm sure is American-centric (probably Canadian too) is using only a number for the date. Today, for instance, is the 20th day of the month of July. It is, therefore, the 20th of July (or July the 20th at a push). It is not 'July 20'. That makes absolutely no sense in any possible context.

-- Another thing related to that which I hatehatehate, and I think is also American in origin; using 'through' to mean "from [x], until [y]". For example, "The convention runs July 10 through 20". Ignoring for a moment my previous issue, that sentence still doesn't make any sense. It runs FROM the 10th, through TO the 20th. The word 'through' is, ironically, entirely unnecessary in that sentence. "The convention runs from July the 10th to the 20th" makes perfect sense. You go through a tunnel, you go through a traumatic ordeal. You don't go through a date. Unless it's with a pen, on a calendar. Steam also does this: "New deals each day through July 22nd". It annoys me, because they're only missing one, two letter word. At least they have the 'nd' on July 22nd though.

 

- Link two related objects or people by use of a comma instead of anything that makes sense. "Obama, Romney to appear at the show". That's not English either. You don't go to McDonalds and say "I would like Big Mac, fries". Use words, people. You're supposedly paid to do that. Obama AND Romney. It's three f****** letters. Use an ampersand if you're pressed for space.

 

- Adding completely irrelevant information when introducing a person or event. This is usually the age of a person, where it is not even remotely relevant. For example: "According to eye-witness Sean Murphy, 25, the man appeared to be under the influence of alcohol". Lucky he's 25, if he was only 23, his opinion would be invalid.

 

I don't know why these things annoy me. :(

 

Edit: While on the subject - and again it involves the apparent American ban on prepositions - I hate the following sentences:

- "I hate when people litter".

- "He never wrote me back".

 

Both are perfectly acceptable in American schools (which is why I didn't include examples like "I'm better then you", because even Americans know that is wrong, but still do it anyway). The first one... well, what do you hate? Do you hate cute little kittens when people litter? Seems a bit harsh on the poor kittens. Sentences need subjects, guys - again, all for want of a simple two letter word. However, that is marginally better than "I hate people who litter". Chances are it's not the people you hate, it's the littering they do.

 

The second one is almost completely nonsensical. First of all the notion of "I wrote him yesterday" being an acceptable phrase irks me right from the start. It's only three letters; people write 'him' all the time. Good for you? You "wrote him a letter", or you "wrote TO him". Prepositions again, they're pretty good. Secondly, the sentence is invalid entirely unless the person is dead. Even fixing the first error and writing "he never wrote back to me" is a little awkward while the subject is still living. "He hasn't written back to me", with the addition of "yet" if it's conceivable that he may still do so. There, proper words.

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I know we all complain about stuff that happens in our lives. I do it a lot. We all hate when we have a bad day at work/school, fight with family or loved ones.

 

My biggest gear grinder is the news. I hate seeing terrible things happen in the world. I really don't read much of the news or watch TV because of it. When you wake up and see stories like this http://gma.yahoo.com/colorado-batman-movie-shooting-suspect-phd-student-085940589--abc-news-topstories.html it makes you want to go back to bed and wish you could wake up in another world, well for me it does.

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I know we all complain about stuff that happens in our lives. I do it a lot. We all hate when we have a bad day at work/school, fight with family or loved ones.

 

My biggest gear grinder is the news. I hate seeing terrible things happen in the world. I really don't read much of the news or watch TV because of it. When you wake up and see stories like this http://gma.yahoo.com/colorado-batman-movie-shooting-suspect-phd-student-085940589--abc-news-topstories.html it makes you want to go back to bed and wish you could wake up in another world, well for me it does.

 

Yeah, that's really horrible. What is it about somewhat smart, well off loners and killing sprees?

 

I have to admit, especially when I was a student ... if ever met anyone who seemed a bit off, maybe a loner, bit of a misfit, a bit weird or like the kind of person you just don't know what they are all about I would make an effort to be friendly with them while also not getting too involved. It might sound callous but this was my way of hopefully making the angry loner a bit less angry and alone, or worst case scenario avoiding being gunned down when the angry loner went psycho .... they might be "Oh man, that guy was always pretty cool to me, I'll shoot all the other people instead". Not sure why I thought that or why I mentioned it really ...

 

I have not followed the news for years. Ironically enough I stopped paying attention to it when I was studying journalism. Part of it may be how depressing it is, part of it is certainly apathy, a big part is how little I trust news sources in general but mostly it's just that the same stuff keeps happening so I don't see why I have to pay attention to the news regularly since it seems to do me more harm than good. I can just assume there is a war somewhere, a genocide somewhere, oppression somewhere, mass murder somewhere, a stupid celebrity somewhere, a shady politician somewhere etc etc etc and if I wanted to do something about any of it then it would necessitate me making sacrifices I am not prepared to make for just a chance at making a difference in one instance of a cycle that has repeated for as long as people have existed.

 

So I mostly just don't want tv or read the papers or listen to the radio and instead try to be a good dude in my own humble way and enjoy my life and appreciate what I have and the people I know while having the occasional bitch about things because even trying to live under a rock there is still plenty of stuff that grinds ones gears.

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Working for a company that is going out of business, but trying to act like everything is alright.

 

Every week, business gets slower and slower. My manager has shown a dangerous level of recklessness when it comes to doing anything to close a sale, up to and including giving discounts that eat away what little profit we're making.

 

Things are so bad that we're renting out a third of our space to the company next door. Technically my boss owns the whole building, and we occupy roughly 25% of the space. But we're giving up nearly a third of what we have for the neighbors to use as storage. Which is going to hurt, because the space that we're giving up is part of the showroom that we use to display our product. I'm losing space, which means less product on the floor, which is going to kill a good portion of my customer base. Add to that, the company next door will be frequently in and out of our space now, to get pick up and repack pallets and boxes (they are a distribution warehouse) which will make a lot of noise.

 

The company is very clearly on it's last legs, and my bosses are trying to act like nothing is wrong. I half expect to show up to work one day and have them tell me that I'm out of a job, because they can't afford to pay me anymore (not that they pay me much in the first place.)

 

I just wish they would keep me in the loop of what's going on. If the business is going under, there are things I could do to try and help. Or, failing that, I could start working towards protecting myself against the inevitable fall. I have a life to maintain that depends on me having a steady paycheck, and if they can't promise me that my checks will keep coming, I think I have a right to know that so I can make plans to cover my own backside.

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You know what annoys me, completely irrationally?

 

Online news reports/press releases. I'm not sure if it's an American thing, or is just the standard for reporting news online (there's a special name for them, but I can't remember it. Not 'press release', they're different but similar), but it annoys me when they do the following things:

 

- Add the day of the week in at random with no preposition. "The circumstances of the man's death were confirmed Friday to be suspicious". I'm sorry, but that's not English. You can't just insert "Friday" into a sentence anywhere you want to, even if you are Rebecca Black (ironically, she at least did that right).

-- A related thing which I'm sure is American-centric (probably Canadian too) is using only a number for the date. Today, for instance, is the 20th day of the month of July. It is, therefore, the 20th of July (or July the 20th at a push). It is not 'July 20'. That makes absolutely no sense in any possible context.

-- Another thing related to that which I hatehatehate, and I think is also American in origin; using 'through' to mean "from [x], until [y]". For example, "The convention runs July 10 through 20". Ignoring for a moment my previous issue, that sentence still doesn't make any sense. It runs FROM the 10th, through TO the 20th. The word 'through' is, ironically, entirely unnecessary in that sentence. "The convention runs from July the 10th to the 20th" makes perfect sense. You go through a tunnel, you go through a traumatic ordeal. You don't go through a date. Unless it's with a pen, on a calendar. Steam also does this: "New deals each day through July 22nd". It annoys me, because they're only missing one, two letter word. At least they have the 'nd' on July 22nd though.

 

- Link two related objects or people by use of a comma instead of anything that makes sense. "Obama, Romney to appear at the show". That's not English either. You don't go to McDonalds and say "I would like Big Mac, fries". Use words, people. You're supposedly paid to do that. Obama AND Romney. It's three f****** letters. Use an ampersand if you're pressed for space.

 

- Adding completely irrelevant information when introducing a person or event. This is usually the age of a person, where it is not even remotely relevant. For example: "According to eye-witness Sean Murphy, 25, the man appeared to be under the influence of alcohol". Lucky he's 25, if he was only 23, his opinion would be invalid.

 

I don't know why these things annoy me. :(

 

Edit: While on the subject - and again it involves the apparent American ban on prepositions - I hate the following sentences:

- "I hate when people litter".

- "He never wrote me back".

 

Both are perfectly acceptable in American schools (which is why I didn't include examples like "I'm better then you", because even Americans know that is wrong, but still do it anyway). The first one... well, what do you hate? Do you hate cute little kittens when people litter? Seems a bit harsh on the poor kittens. Sentences need subjects, guys - again, all for want of a simple two letter word. However, that is marginally better than "I hate people who litter". Chances are it's not the people you hate, it's the littering they do.

 

The second one is almost completely nonsensical. First of all the notion of "I wrote him yesterday" being an acceptable phrase irks me right from the start. It's only three letters; people write 'him' all the time. Good for you? You "wrote him a letter", or you "wrote TO him". Prepositions again, they're pretty good. Secondly, the sentence is invalid entirely unless the person is dead. Even fixing the first error and writing "he never wrote back to me" is a little awkward while the subject is still living. "He hasn't written back to me", with the addition of "yet" if it's conceivable that he may still do so. There, proper words.

I don't know what your talking about?

 

First off, I'm posting this responce from your post July 20, while going through Tuesday, July 24th, while eating my taco, chips, drinking a coke. D-Lyrium, age 26 when he posted "I don't know why these things annoy me".

 

Of course I posted this just to get your goat, but I do find it funny that your taking sentences completely out of context. In context, you would understand the sentence. For example. "The car in front of us just threw garbage out their window! I hate when people litter." "I sent Bob a letter every day for a year. He never wrote me back."

"The circumstances of the man's death were confirmed Friday to be suspicious." It's obvious that Friday was the day they confirmed the man's death was suspicious.

 

Your trying to keep old rules alive, which won't happen. We would all still be talking like Thor if that's how it worked. Suck it up, and get with "evolving".:p

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I don't know what your talking about?

 

First off, I'm posting this responce from your post July 20, while going through Tuesday, July 24th, while eating my taco, chips, drinking a coke. D-Lyrium, age 26 when he posted "I don't know why these things annoy me".

 

Of course I posted this just to get your goat, but I do find it funny that your taking sentences completely out of context. In context, you would understand the sentence. For example. "The car in front of us just threw garbage out their window! I hate when people litter." "I sent Bob a letter every day for a year. He never wrote me back."

"The circumstances of the man's death were confirmed Friday to be suspicious." It's obvious that Friday was the day they confirmed the man's death was suspicious.

 

Your trying to keep old rules alive, which won't happen. We would all still be talking like Thor if that's how it worked. Suck it up, and get with "evolving".:p

 

Just because that's how you write, doesn't make it correct. :p

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bwa-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

 

DJ what grinds my gears is you haven't updated your damn thread in YEARS

 

What thread are you talking about?

 

If your talking about that diary, I have updated it twice without anyone even realizing it.

 

 

EDIT: Except DeadCeleb, who figured it all out.

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