You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[Psycho Circus]

I recently joined Facebook, and one of my old High School buddies is on there.  He is constantly posting an absolute barrage of political and historical posts that are contradictory and many of them flat out untrue - most recently, he said that Union Cavalry came through south Texas after the Civil War and hung 55 Southerners who would not swear allegiance to the Union - in fact, it was CONFEDERATE Cavalry that lynched 55 Unionists, including women and children, for refusing to swear allegiance to the Confederacy.  He has very strong opinions about a variety of topics that he has zero knowledge of, and you guys know me - I simply can't walk away from that sort of thing!  But the incredible flood of ignorance and prejudice is overwhelming at times!

Probably best just to block his posts from your news feed.

[Jim H]

I have an online class where the syllabus only lists a vague outline of each assignment and due dates.  I did the reading three days before my second assignment was due, then the next day checked the details of the assignment and found out it actually had two due dates earlier in the week that were not mentioned in the syllabus.  Which, essentially, I can't even do at all as they required feedback from the other students.  

Yeah, I should have been more thorough and checked sooner (I certainly will from now on).  But still, a syllabus that doesn't correctly list all the due dates for class work and doesn't provide full descriptions of the work required grinds my gears quite a bit.  

Modify to add: People who introduce themselves by mentioning their children.  Not to say people who go "Hi, I'm X, I do Y, and I have two kids", that's fine, but rather the people who define themselves entirely by their children or spouse, "Hi, my kids and husband love fishing!  As for me, there's nothing to say!".  I dunno, just that some people are apparently so dull bugs me.

[bob]

I vented a while ago about the barrage of advertisements for the election in Wisconsin two weeks ago. Well it's still bugging me in that  for some stupid reason people still have excessively large signs in their large supporting their candidates. It's been 14 days. Take your signs out put them in the trash where they belong.

[AndyC]

I vented a while ago about the barrage of advertisements for the election in Wisconsin two weeks ago. Well it's still bugging me in that  for some stupid reason people still have excessively large signs in their large supporting their candidates. It's been 14 days. Take your signs out put them in the trash where they belong.

Election signs in general annoy me. I think they've become one of those things candidates do just because it's what you do. And because everyone else is doing it.

I don't mind lawn signs in principle (as long as they get taken down the day after the election), but around here, it seems most election signs don't even go on private property. They're all in ditches and on boulevards and rights of way. And not just one per candidate - a bunch. What does that even accomplish, besides shoving names in front of our faces? If you vote for somebody because you saw their name on a bunch of signs, you probably shouldn't be voting.

Lawn signs, while they aren't much better, are at least an expression of support by someone. If you trust your neighbour's judgment, it can at least tell you who to seriously consider, and you can ask him about his choice. A ditch full of multiple signs for every candidate really doesn't tell you a whole lot.

[ulthar]

You guys would really like one particular billboard...not a yard sign...still up for Governor's election that has passed.

The election was in the 1980's.

[Jim H]

You guys would really like one particular billboard...not a yard sign...still up for Governor's election that has passed.

The election was in the 1980's.

Yeah....  I saw a dirty beaten up truck with Ross Perot for president sticker on it.  I thought that was kind of awesome actually.

[Venomx73]

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

YouTube videos with ADS!

[Leah]

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

YouTube videos with ADS!

I got AdBlock Plus, but i still see the pics next to the video!

[Venomx73]

Oh for Firefox...

I use Maxthon 3.
It's my favorite browser though. I've used it many years. I never used Firefox, Chrome... etc.

[indianasmith]

EBAY!!!!
I had 26 Indian Artifact Auctions listed tonight, none of them overpriced and many of them seriously marked down, and sold a grand total of FOUR!  I really needed extra money this week, too!

[AndyC]

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

YouTube videos with ADS!

I got AdBlock Plus, but i still see the pics next to the video!

Yousable TubeFix for Greasemonkey. Lets you remove any sections of the page, shut off ads, annotations and other annoying stuff, prevent videos from autoplaying when loaded, and so on.


Along with that, I use two other Firefox add-ons. YouTube Ratings Preview puts the like/dislike bar on search results and hides the worst videos. YouTube Comment Snob can be set to hide comments with no capitals, comments that are all caps and comments that exceed a maximum number of spelling mistakes.

Altogether, it makes YouTube much less annoying.

[Venomx73]

I wish I could use that with Maxthon... ? Looks like it's just for Firefox and Chrome no?

[AndyC]

I wish I could use that with Maxthon... ? Looks like it's just for Firefox and Chrome no?

Greasemonkey works on a number of browsers, but I don't think it's available for Maxthon. Unless there is a different add-on that will run the same scripts.

[indianasmith]

People who take their political or political positions so far left or right that they make everyone on their side sound like a bunch of kooks.  Comparing Bush or Obama to Hitler and Stalin . . . I mean, come on?  REALLY?

[Psycho Circus]

People who take their political or political positions so far left or right that they make everyone on their side sound like a bunch of kooks.  Comparing Bush or Obama to Hitler and Stalin . . . I mean, come on?  REALLY?

You must really grind your own gears then...