You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[theblooblob]

haha! I agree with most of these!

What really grinds my gears: When you start on a zebra crossing and then someone drives straight through without even looking, using a mobile phone. Worse as we're near a school and kids have had some close calls. 

[Psycho Circus]

Ads on Spotify is really irritating me.

I resisted for a long time, but a couple of months ago I finally gave in - and now Spotify get $4.99 of my monies a month.

It is nice not having those ads, I must say.

They play the Lynx effect one constantly!!! 

[Jack]

Was playing a racing video game last night.  I won't bore you with the specifics, but I spent about 2 1/2 hours working my way through this one part, but then it was time to go to bed.  So I exited the game.  Oh nice, just lost 2 1/2 hours of progress because the effing thing doesn't save.  

Would be nice if they'd tell you that you have to start that series of races over from the beginning if you exit.  I would have stayed up another 20 minutes and finished it.  But no.

[Leah]

Ads on Spotify is really irritating me.

I resisted for a long time, but a couple of months ago I finally gave in - and now Spotify get $4.99 of my monies a month.

It is nice not having those ads, I must say.

They play the Lynx effect one constantly!!! 

I'm thinking of quitting Spotify.

[The Gravekeeper]

Was playing a racing video game last night.  I won't bore you with the specifics, but I spent about 2 1/2 hours working my way through this one part, but then it was time to go to bed.  So I exited the game.  Oh nice, just lost 2 1/2 hours of progress because the effing thing doesn't save.  

Would be nice if they'd tell you that you have to start that series of races over from the beginning if you exit.  I would have stayed up another 20 minutes and finished it.  But no.

Sounds a lot like the issue I was having with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood a while ago. I'd play through an hour or two of the game, I'd see the auto-save icon come up regularly, but when I came back to the game later, my save file was gone. This happened three times, and I later found out that it wasn't the disk or my XBox, but likely Ubisoft's servers. Because of that little screw-up, as soon as the AC series is done I'm not buying another game from them. There is just no excuse for the losing the progress of your players, so now I have my file saved on cloud, on the hard drive, and on a memory stick just in case.

[indianasmith]

The current trend here in TX - don't know if it is going around elsewhere or not - of hanging a pair of tennis balls in a cloth sack beneath the back of you pickup, to create the visual effect that it has testicles!  Apparently it's popular enough that somebody is now making them out of chrome, so that you can buy them and hang them there.

REALLY?


Did somebody wake up one morning and say "You know, I don't think our society is vulgar enough yet!  What can I do to lower the bar even further?"

[Flick James]

The current trend here in TX - don't know if it is going around elsewhere or not - of hanging a pair of tennis balls in a cloth sack beneath the back of you pickup, to create the visual effect that it has testicles!  Apparently it's popular enough that somebody is now making them out of chrome, so that you can buy them and hang them there.

REALLY?


Did somebody wake up one morning and say "You know, I don't think our society is vulgar enough yet!  What can I do to lower the bar even further?"

I've seen it. Pretty garden variety sophomic humor that might have been mildly amusing when the first guy did it, but just annoying and vacuous ever since.

[JaseSF]

Christian radicals, those sects who look down their nose at others, to me are the worst kind of human beings. They're quick to judge others and criticize anyone who dares to think differently than they do. It's like they get their rocks off being on some type of pedestal, in their mind only, looking down on all us so-called "sinners". Yeah, like you're so flamin' perfect.

[Cthulhu]

Christian radicals, those sects who look down their nose at others, to me are the worst kind of human beings. They're quick to judge others and criticize anyone who dares to think differently than they do. It's like they get their rocks off being on some type of pedestal, in their mind only, looking down on all us so-called "sinners". Yeah, like you're so flamin' perfect.

Yeah, but to be fair, the same thing could be said about every extremist, no matter what religion.
Just to be clear, I agree with you 100%, I just broadened the scope.

[indianasmith]

Every true Christian has to be, first and foremost, aware of his own sinfulness.  No one can be saved until they recognize how lost they truly are.  Anyone who uses Christianity as a prop for self-righteousness has very little awareness of what Christ actually taught.

[Newt]

REALLY?

Really.  They sell them at the TSC store.  They come in colours.  Red. Blue.  I'm almost ashamed to admit I briefly wondered if there was a message implied in the colours.  Decided not.

[Flick James]

REALLY?

Really.  They sell them at the TSC store.  They come in colours.  Red. Blue.  I'm almost ashamed to admit I briefly wondered if there was a message implied in the colours.  Decided not.

You decided that there was no implied message, or decided not to wonder about it? 

[bob]

I applied for an internship for a local newspaper last month. The cut off day for the position was Valentine's Day. The economy in my neck of the woods is pretty bad so I know that anyone who thinks that they're remotely qualified for the position put in for it. They still haven't got back to me yet, which doesn't bug me.

What really grinds my gears is that while haven't contacted me to let me know the status of the application, but they found the time to send me their deal of the day, which is a coupon for some local business, everyday since I first applied for a position with the paper when I graduated college in 2008.

[Doggett]

REALLY?

Really.  They sell them at the TSC store.  They come in colours.  Red. Blue.  I'm almost ashamed to admit I briefly wondered if there was a message implied in the colours.  Decided not.

You decided that there was no implied message, or decided not to wonder about it? 

I cant speak for Newt, but Im certainly wondering about it!

This is a whole new level of weird!

[AndyC]

This one is really bugging me. People who can't honour their business commitments, or at least explain why not.

I've been trying for a couple of months to rent out a vacant apartment. People come to look at it, bring other people to look at it, provide references and agree to rent it. One has even signed the f**king rental agreement. Then they go away, promising to return in a few days with the money so they can move in. And they are never heard from again. They do not return, they do not answer the phone or reply to email.

If it's a matter of coming up with first and last month's rent, I can be flexible about payment if they'd just ask.

Or did they just find something they liked better? I don't know. I'd like to know, so I'm not left in the awkward position of not being able to commit to other potential tenants for a couple of weeks, because I do take my commitments seriously.

It wouldn't even bother me so much if it didn't happen so damned frequently. The place has been vacant for months, in large part because of these irresponsible people who make a deal and then f**k off. I've tried making them sign something right away, and it doesn't matter to them. I've tried demanding an immediate deposit to hold the apartment for them, and nobody seems willing or able to come up with it. I had one who is getting her rent from a government agency, and even brought her caseworker to see the place, and still nobody seems to think I should be paid or at least told why not. Jeez, back out of the deal, but at least have the guts to call me up and tell me about it, so I'm not wasting any more time on you.

At this point, I'm ready to say f**k these people, and just agree to rent it to everybody who comes through, then give it to the first one who actually shows up with money. If somebody complains, to hell with them.