You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[3mnkids]

Being asked everyday via email if I want a bigger penis.

I would hook up with you if you did...um...I...um...didn't mean to say that.   

Promises, promises.   

[Mr. DS]

People who ensure me "oh he won't hurt you" when their giant dog barks feverishly at me while showing it's teeth. 

[Flick James]

People who ensure me "oh he won't hurt you" when their giant dog barks feverishly at me while showing it's teeth. 

Oh I hate that too. I feel like I'm standing next to a ticking timebomb and some guy is telling me "Oh, don't worry, it's not going to go off for another two hours yet."

[Mr. DS]

Dr. Phil who is a self righteous hillbilly dipsh!t who hates on men so he can snag Oprah's target audience. Oh and shouldn't a doctor say more than "You gotta problem and need help" to someone with a problem that needs help?

[AndyC]

Here's one that I usually think of on Sundays. Not really a major peeve, but something that jumps out at me whenever I hear it. The hymns at church are full of really bad rhyming. Rhyming "lord" and "word" immediately springs to mind, but there are others. Sometimes, being the smartass that I am, and drowned out by everyone else, I will sing it so it rhymes. Besides the rhyming, there are little things like trying to make words like "heaven" and "given" into one syllable by sticking in an apostrophe, so they can fit on one note. You can't pronounce them as one syllable. All the apostrophe does is make them sound wierd as people awkwardly try to pronounce them as one syllable. This is especially true when you have to sing "heav'n" as one syllable for more than a beat. Just try singing a two-syllable word as one syllable while holding the note for four beats.

Heard the other really bad one this morning. "Love" and "move." I don't care how they're spelled, those words don't rhyme. Not even a slant rhyme. They're pronounced nothing alike.

Of course, I sang it so it rhymed. Loove.

[diamondwaspvenom]

I really don't like Rob Zombie. I respect his popularity to a degree, but to me, he's just an overrated metal musician and filmmaker (the latter I use loosely). His music is decent, but he's in no way one of the greatest songwriters (at least not to me) that metal magazines and his legions of douchebag fans claim he is. Most of all, I'm really tired of people endlessly praising those P.O.S. movies that Rob churns out. They're not triumphs in the horror genre, they're complete trash.

Don't get me started on his fans (not all, but roughly 90% of them.)

[AndyC]

Rob Zombie gave us Captain Spaulding. Other than that, he hasn't impressed me all that much.

[ulthar]

I did a search and did not see this brought up yet, but if  it has, I apologize.

People that "review" movies they have not seen Grind My Gears.

My most recent example comes from the comments section of the GODZILLA (1998) recap on The Agony Booth.

User "Damion" writes:

I'm tired of fan-wanking! Godzilla movies suck! This [1998 version] is the BEST Godzilla movie PERIOD (production values, acting, story, EVERYTHING).

...


I'm tired of people saying [GODZILLA 1998] is a WORSE movie than the others.

...


please, for the love of God, stop saying that [the Toho Godzilla films] are BETTER films! Because either you're deaf, blind, or overly-nostalgic...possibly all three - because, in all valid, non-Appeal to emotion arguments, they are NOT!

which prompted user "thegoon" to reply:

No. The first Godzilla movie is better directed, acted, and written than this movie..and I'm not even a fan of giant monster movies.

And then we get this gem from Mr. "Damion:"

I haven't seen the original, but that's the first I've heard those statements made about it. I gotta check it out then.

Oh. My. Word.

I usually avoid comments on most sites for this very reason...youtube, imdb (unless a thread looks REALLY interesting), etc...but I thought the comments for the GODZILLA 1998 recap might be funny.

Instead, I find this.  Arrrgh.  Doesn't that FACT nullify everything he said before?  What was the point...rag on movies you have not seen to defend one you did that everyone else is saying is worse than the original, just to be FOUND OUT you were full of crap all along?

[Mr. DS]

Working with large groups when it comes to planning events.  People tend to get carried away on ideas and the ones that talk to most usually have no execution skills.   They're the ones that say, "Oh we can do this and that blah blah blah" and when it comes time to set it up they are nowhere around. 

In my experience ideas go from simple and strong to a gigantic clusterf*ck of input which ends up messy in the end.  I prefer to work alone or with one other person.  Things oddly end up being better that way all the way through. 

[AndyC]

Working with large groups when it comes to planning events.  People tend to get carried away on ideas and the ones that talk to most usually have no execution skills.   They're the ones that say, "Oh we can do this and that blah blah blah" and when it comes time to set it up they are nowhere around. 

In my experience ideas go from simple and strong to a gigantic clusterf*ck of input which ends up messy in the end.  I prefer to work alone or with one other person.  Things oddly end up being better that way all the way through. 

Even on small committees, there are people who just never get out of the brainstorming stage. Always trying to add things and change things when the time for that is past, the plan is in place and they should be concentrating on making it happen. Sorry, but when the budget is set and people are rounding up volunteers, sponsors, equipment or whatever, that is not the time to be coming up with ideas. And if you have a committee full of people like that, you end up with lots and lots of ideas that never happen, and an event that's hastily cobbled together at the last minute. There's a time for planning and a time for implementation, and if you never finalize the plan and stick to it, you might as well not have one.

What is even more annoying is when somebody casually tosses out a new idea for something that is already being pulled together. Doesn't even occur to them that doing something different at that point would waste a bunch of effort by other people who are doing what they're supposed to be doing.

[indianasmith]

In the words of Despair.com . . .


"Meetings.  Because none of us is as dumb as all of us."

[Jack]

Working with large groups when it comes to planning events.  People tend to get carried away on ideas and the ones that talk to most usually have no execution skills.   They're the ones that say, "Oh we can do this and that blah blah blah" and when it comes time to set it up they are nowhere around. 

In my experience ideas go from simple and strong to a gigantic clusterf*ck of input which ends up messy in the end.  I prefer to work alone or with one other person.  Things oddly end up being better that way all the way through. 

I hear ya bro.  The people who have the most ideas during the planning stage are almost always the same ones who have no intention of contributing to the execution stage.  Of course you never find that out until they're conspicuously absent when the actual work needs to be done.

Just worthless busybodies who like to hear themselves talk.

[Newt]

The people who have the most ideas during the planning stage are almost always the same ones who have no intention of contributing to the execution stage.  Of course you never find that out until they're conspicuously absent when the actual work needs to be done.

Just worthless busybodies who like to hear themselves talk.

I'll take that a few steps further: they are also the ones who
1) complain the loudest when they feel let down (IE somebody else did not jump in to do it/make it happen for them),
2) give the most cutting negative criticism after the fact (they always know how it 'should' have been done, better),
and
3) are pushy about being the public face of success: the first to step up and take the handshakes and praise and picture-taking that comes after a successful undertaking (which they did not contribute any real effort to).  

[AndyC]

On the flipside, something I find really satisfying is when somebody joins a committee because they think they can do it better, and quickly figures out that their ideas are nothing new, just impractical.

[Mr. DS]

I'll add this too to the mix.  People who get up in arms if HEAVEN FORBID you don't ask for their input on planning an event.  I did an event at work once and we planned it between myself and one other person.  Certain people blew a fuse that I did not ask for their help and held a grudge weeks if not months later.  Get the hell over it!  The best part is we easily pulled off a successful event without a bunch of overblown nonsense that comes with a big committee.