You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[Trekkie313]

Parents that swear casually in front of their children.

I swear casually in front of my parents. 

[AndyC]

Hurrying to complete a job for somebody who is in no hurry to pick it up. Nothing like calling up a local person, who is a couple of minutes away, and hearing "I'll swing by and get it next week sometime."

Equally annoying are people who have been told their order will take a certain amount of time, but keep checking in to see if it's done early.

Even more annoying is the customer who keeps checking on the order, then takes their time picking it up after I've put a rush on it for them. Fortunately, that customer is much rarer than the other two.

[Psycho Circus]

Oh, you know people's kids questioning my gender, complete strangers calling me names when I'm trying to catch my bus after busting my balls at work. Oh, and when some guy throws beer in my face on the way home, yeah that's a laugh riot! What makes it worse is I come on here to communicate with my friends and have some geeky "douchebag" give me crap for having an opinion about a film! Grow up! Everyone grow the hell up and leave me alone! I'm on the freakin' edge right now and I'm tired of all this type of mindless stupidity every single god damn day of my boring little life for as long as I can remember!!!!!!!

[JaseSF]

Man that flat out sucks! I'd be royally p**sed too if someone treated me that way. Sounds like a crappy place to live--I think if I was in your place, I'd be looking for somewhere else to live. Pretty sad when people gotta judge someone just based on appearance...

[Doggett]

People who get revenge and justice mixed up.

[Trekkie313]

People who think someone disagreeing with them is absolutely foreign, then calling the other person names.

[Doggett]

People who think someone disagreeing with them is absolutely foreign, then calling the other person names.

Let it go, dude...

Let it go.

[Mr. DS]

People who think someone disagreeing with them is absolutely foreign, then calling the other person names.

Let it go, dude...

Let it go.

Agreed.  Trekkie, I'm going to go ahead and say this forum probably isn't for you. 

[ghouck]

People who seem to not understand the purpose of VIDEO. I see a youtube clip about Drag race ATVs, only to see it's just a bunch of different still pictures with wipe transitions with music. That or some knucklehead titling his video "My Drag Raptor's first run", and the video is of it running for a few seconds on jack stands. That's not a RUN, it's starting the machine and then shutting it off. A RUN is when you make a pass down the strip, you know, actually RIDING IT.

[AndyC]

People who seem to not understand the purpose of VIDEO. I see a youtube clip about Drag race ATVs, only to see it's just a bunch of different still pictures with wipe transitions with music.

Jeez, I hate that. Especially when it's supposed to be a tribute to a movie character or an actor. A crappy slide show set to music.

Want to show stills? Just put them on a page. Put them on a message board. Put them in a Flickr account. The web handles photos extremely well.

Mind you, I have another peeve with home video that goes back to VHS cameras, and it also involves people who don't understand what video is for. People who use their video camera like a still camera. Shooting video of people standing in a line, smiling. Worse, you don't just get that, you get a record of the entire process of arranging them like that, and the voice of the guy with the camera trying to organize them - and occasionally whining at them to STAND STILL.

I'm glad that seems to have become rarer as people have gotten used to shooting video, but people still do it, along with another evil from the days of analog tape. Video that is one long, monotonous shot of people doing something that probably would have lent itself to a few still photos. Does anyone want to watch an erratically panning ten-minute video record of kids throwing snowballs, jumping through a sprinkler or kicking a ball around?

Makes me yearn for the days of 8mm. In the days of film, whether moving or still, you learned to make better use of a limited amount of stock.

[AndyC]

Oh, you know people's kids questioning my gender, complete strangers calling me names when I'm trying to catch my bus after busting my balls at work.

Just heard a story on the radio that made me think of you, Circus, and thought it might give you a laugh. The story goes that Joe Pyne, the original obnoxious talk radio host, was interviewing Frank Zappa. Pyne, by the way, was missing one leg below the knee. Pyne reputedly told Zappa "I guess your long hair makes you a woman," to which Zappa shot back "I guess your wooden leg makes you a table."

[bob]

When you have painters coming over to touch up the outside of your house and they come over excesssively early and wake you up while setting up ladder and what not. This happened to me this morning at 6:30. 

[Vik]

My inability to be productive when just remotely tired.

[Trekkie313]

Drive-Thru's, why are they getting my orders so damn wrong lately?

[Doggett]

The weather.