You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[El Misfit]

A'ight!

 

Seeing as how Netflix doesn't have season 16 of Top Gear on.

[Chainsawmidget]

Fox News had a really interesting scientific article that pointed to the actual existence of Cthulu thousands of years ago in the world's oceans, then they took it down!? I wanted to post it, damn it!

Okay, that's a big WTF! 

Cthulu is a fictitious creation of H. P. Lovecraft. I'm definitely interested in seeing the article, however. I've tried to find it and can't. Are you making this up, Circus?

 

I read an article recently that claimed the Kraken might well have once existed....

Balls! I meant the Kraken. 

Ehh... they both have tentacles and live in the sea.  Close enough. 

But seriously, I've read before that the Kraken was associated with a tentacled sea monster by the Norse people. And I think I read that the mythic legen may have arose out of collosal squid that did exist at one time. They seldom came to surface, but there are historical records that indicate it did happen occasionally and they even attacked ships. This would certainly be a fantastic thing to happen, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if such a thing got worked into mythology. Humans are known to embellish. It's part of the human condition. It's perfectly plausible that a few giant squid attacks of ships, which is terrifying enough by itself, would get embellished even further into a mythical creature even greater and more terrifying.

hat's my view.  Seems to me that if you believe in giant squid (which do for a fact exist) then you pretty much have to accept that there was a kraken.  (The size may have been exaggerated just a bit.) 

Apologies for thread derailment. Back to all the gear grinding!

Maybe we should start a new topic on this kind of thing. 

[Mr. DS]

People, partcularly women, who act much younger than they are.  If you're 40 something you shouldn't be on FB bragging about going out and getting drunk.

[Jack]

Netflix is screwed up.  I had to sign into their damned site about 8 times yesterday, and now today it won't even accept my email and password - even though it's the same automated thing I gave it yesterday.  Oh wait, after several attempts it finally let me in, so it could tell me "Search is currently unavailable. Please try searching again later."

Oh for chrissakes, and I'm one of the few people who didn't complain about their recent price increase.  They're trying to chase their customers away as fast as possible.  I mean, c'mon, this is your damned business.  You need to fix it so it freakin' works all the time. 

[Mr. DS]

^ Yep, same here. 

[Newt]

People, partcularly women, who act much younger than they are.  If you're 40 something you shouldn't be on FB bragging about going out and getting drunk.

Oh.    Well at least I don't do the second part. 

[Flick James]

Netflix is screwed up.  I had to sign into their damned site about 8 times yesterday, and now today it won't even accept my email and password - even though it's the same automated thing I gave it yesterday.  Oh wait, after several attempts it finally let me in, so it could tell me "Search is currently unavailable. Please try searching again later."

Oh for chrissakes, and I'm one of the few people who didn't complain about their recent price increase.  They're trying to chase their customers away as fast as possible.  I mean, c'mon, this is your damned business.  You need to fix it so it freakin' works all the time. 

The way I look at it, this will dictate whether or not Blockbuster, who are trying to get their piece of the Netflix market, will fail or move forward. They have a golden opportunity here and they could really do well for themselves if they can strike while the iron is hot.

[FatFreddysCat]

Y'know what REALLY grinds my gears? Morons at the RedBox machine who can see you're standing their patiently waiting for them to pick a film and get out of the way, yet they take for-freakin-EVER to make up their minds. I had just such an experience today with three teenyboppers.

Teenybopper #1: "Dude, you pick."
Teenybopper #2: "Dude, no, YOU pick."
Teenybopper #3: (Points at screen) "How'bout this one?"
Teenybopper #1: "I heard that sucked."
T#2: "How'bout something scary?"
T#3: "Nah, I hate scary movies."
T#1 (glances in my direction, notices me beginning to do a a slow burn) "Dude, let's hurry up, this poor guy is waiting."
T#1: "OK, OK, dude, you pick."
T#2: "Dude, no, YOU pick."
T#3: (Points at screen) "How'bout that one?"
T#1: "I saw it, it sucked."
T#2: "You suck."

and on, and on, and on....fortunately they finally made up their minds before I acted on my urge to scream at the top of my lungs "WILL YOU F**KING PICK SOMETHING ALREADY?"

Seriously, am I the only person who goes to RedBox with something in mind? That way I don't stand there for five minutes or more staring at the screen scratching my head like a monkey and hold up everybody else.

Or am I just a d**k?

[El Misfit]

^ you ain't a dick, those guys are just dumb punks that can't agree on stuff. you should tell them to wise up and choose before hand or at least stop being 14 year olds.


I hate the new look of yahoo Mail, why can't we have the old version back?

[diamondwaspvenom]

You know what grinds my gears?

Lately whenever I buy a brand new DVD, it starts skipping as soon as I start playing it. When taking out the disc and looking very closely at it, I discover small hairs or tiny fingerprints all over the place.

WHAT...THE...HELL?! 

What's going on??? Don't DVD distribution companies TRY to take care of their products? 

[El Misfit]

You know what grinds my gears?

Lately whenever I buy a brand new DVD, it starts skipping as soon as I start playing it. When taking out the disc and looking very closely at it, I discover small hairs or tiny fingerprints all over the place.

WHAT...THE...HELL?! 

What's going on??? Don't DVD distribution companies TRY to take care of their products? 

http://cinemassacre.com/category/ykwb/
Scroll down and watch the DVD episode, NSFW

[Mr. DS]

People who automatically think just because I'm going out to pick up lunch for myself and a few nearby work neighbors that it is required I go around and ask EVERY single person in the office if they want something.  You have a car, you know where the restaraunt is, get out and get your own damn food for your circle of work neighbors you lazy bastards. 

[Jack]

People who automatically think just because I'm going out to pick up lunch for myself and a few nearby work neighbors that it is required I go around and ask EVERY single person in the office if they want something.  You have a car, you know where the restaraunt is, get out and get your own damn food for your circle of work neighbors you lazy bastards. 

And then every freakin' time it's these people with their "Quarter pounder with cheese except without the cheese and no onions but with extra pickles and mustard.  And ask them for a container of barbecue sauce with it.  And if they don't want to give it to you then tell them that last time I was there the assistant manager said it was okay.  And a glass of water with no ice too."   

[Mr. DS]

People who automatically think just because I'm going out to pick up lunch for myself and a few nearby work neighbors that it is required I go around and ask EVERY single person in the office if they want something.  You have a car, you know where the restaraunt is, get out and get your own damn food for your circle of work neighbors you lazy bastards. 

And then every freakin' time it's these people with their "Quarter pounder with cheese except without the cheese and no onions but with extra pickles and mustard.  And ask them for a container of barbecue sauce with it.  And if they don't want to give it to you then tell them that last time I was there the assistant manager said it was okay.  And a glass of water with no ice too."   

Then...oh boy then...the people who b!tch about not being asked are the ones who always say "no" anyhow.  However its the "premise" that I should have asked them that counts even there is a 99% chance they'd say "no". 

[Kaseykockroach]

Bronies.