What Really Grinds My Gears

[JohnnyPsycho]

This topic was created for the sole purpose of allowing folks to vent their frustrations about all the little things that annoy the crap outta them, be it on the internet or in real life.

However, keep in mind that this is not an appropriate place to voice any hateful or derogatory speach. Sexism, racism, or any other -isms should not and will not be tolerated on these forums... unless it's really, really funny.

Also, please refrain from any direct attacks on fellow forum posters, as I would appreciate keeping the drama on the forums to a bare minimum.

It should also go without saying that nothing in this thread should ever be taken seriously. The tone of this thread should be kept as light, satyrical and comedic as possible. Rant if you feel a need to, but keep in mind these wise words: Opinions are like assholes... everyone's got one, and they all stink. (I'm not sure who first said it, but my sources say it was Confucius. Then again, my sources are drunk guys that wear humurous trucker hats, but I digress...)
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[JohnnyPsycho]

Anyway, to start us off...
You know what really grinds my gears? Internet arguments. I mean, who in their right mind thinks that they're accomplishing anything by typing furiously on the keyboard about whether or not Han Solo shot first, or whether MST3k was better with Joel or Mike? And don't even get me started on the countless "debates" I've had to suffer through between hardcore evolutionists and creationists... bringing up Intelligent Design in a conversation is just asking for a shit-storm, no matter what the forum. You could be on a message board about Ultimate Robot Fighting, and someone mentions I.D., and BOOM!, suddenly you're sifting through a flood of dumbass opinions, trying to find a semblance of sanity or safety. Like a wounded G.I. on the beaches of Normandy, trying to find his own arm that's been blown off by stray mortar fire, only in this case the "arm" you're looking for is a thread you made about your favorite "Ultimate Robot Fighting Champion" just before the Internet war started. Don't you think there would be a better forum for discussion for this than the Ultimate Robot Fighting message board, kiddies? Because I'm tired of looking for my arm, which has been buried under all your posts about how you're so much smarter than everyone else. If that were true, you wouldn't be jacking off to pictures of robots all day, would you? Or perhaps you're just jerking it to your own delirious sense of self-satisfaction...
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And that's what grinds my gears...
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[TheBashfulFeline]

My Turn..!
You know what really grinds my gears is, People you just can't argue with! Im not saying, like mentally challenged people, but like truely stubborn people who just wont say otherwise. For example, the extremist supports of either religions or even there own religons (Scientology), politicians (Supporters of Sarah Palin, I'm sorry if anyone here a supporter of either). I mean have they been babied or just I dunno!! I mean look at them and there efforts or words, it is down right batshit insane that they wont change!! And that's what really grinds my gears. Back to you Johnny.

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[Chaosengine]

Johnny... *looks at new thread* ... I LOVE YOU!!

Ya know what really grinds my gears?!?!

Food Trends!!!

A lot of companies stick the word "energy" on their food products these days cuz it's supposed to be a big selling point. How stupid. ALL food gives you ENERGY!! It's one of the reasons we eat... for ENERGY!! How redundant. It's like when they say "natural". No SHIT, of course it's natural!! What else could it be?? SUPER-natural?! Are there really ghostly granola bars flyin' around?! Those are the ones I want!!

Some food becomes "official". Like, the official food of the NBA or the PGA Tour. Who gives a FUCK?? Does that somehow make it taste better?? Not really. They just happened to be one of the lucky "Johns" that got to give their money to these athletic whores! The whore than promises to advertise the shit out of their food until the contract runs out. Big fukkin' deal. It says NOTHING about the quality of the product. Leave it off the packaging!

Finally, there's this whole "Green" attitude that's going around. This thing where companies are claiming to be enviromentally friendly to boost sales. What a load of squirrel shit!! Heavy industry equals pollution! There's no way around it!! I don't care how much Kellogg's claims they're planet-friendly! Just because 75% of the country is dumb enough to believe that shit doesn't mean it's okay!!

Here's an idea that food companies can try, honesty and integrity. Yeah, I know, it's a hard sell. Probably lead 'em to bankruptsy. I can dream though, can't I?
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[xivk]

What grinds me gears, how this thread is needed in so many places. @_@

But it works so eh. lol
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[Rune174]

You wanna know what really grinds my gears? Lack of ethical control over children.

People come up with the lamest excuses as parents when something goes wrong with their children, and accuse several external sources so they could dodge the bullet of being labeled as a bad parent. Video games turning kids violent when the ESRB clearly shows that some games are not suited for kids. McDonalds creating the turning point of childhood obesity when the parents themselves are buying them the food. And when they can't make a viable excuse, the parents turn on each other and say that it is the other's fault. Through all of this, children are not learning a thing. Don't even get me started on discipline. If parents actually did something to discipline their kids, we would'nt have gangs or have children learning to talk street. If it was up to me and I was a teacher, if a student acted out, young or old, they would get the paddle since the parents obviously don't give a damn. They should so bring back the old corporal punishment system back in the schools.
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[Chaosengine]

You know what grinds my gears?

Faith.

Everything I've ever had faith in has let me down. People, religion, politics and even family members. Hell, the only reason I'm not a virgin anymore was because of PITY!! Well isn't that a fine howdy-do! I trusted her that she actually cared and it was bullshit! Maybe I'm just more gullible than I'm aware of? Are people naturally driven to have no regard or respect for me? Now I don't have faith or trust in anything. I'm just waiting for the inevitable let down that I'm sure is coming. Always get picked last, never considered as anything other than a freakish weirdo, what's a guy to do? You remember that old adage, "Be Yourself?"

Well, it's BULLSHIT!!

You start getting angry about it and people look at you like you're crazy!! There is no right answer!! I'm startin' to understand why people throw themselves off bridges or swallow bullets...
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[goddess-ofthe-night]

You know what really grinds my gears?

People telling my religion is wrong! I never try to force MY religion to others. I have nothing against Catholics, Boedism, Islam etc etc.
But pardon me for studieng the bible with true aspects that have occured in ancient hystory that are ... INDEED recorded.

If it's my choice to believe in the ancient gods of egypt, so be it. IT'S MY CHOICE! And if they don't understand it, I really get ticked off!
Noone understands that my faith in MY religion keeps me going!
And that's what grinds my gears

Back to you...
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[lunerlancer]

To Chaosengine and Gotn, this is a rule of society if you don't act like or believe in the same things as "normal" people do you’re an outcast, which is good because you will be successful in life which NOBODY ELSE WANTS YOU TO DO. So they put you down so you don't rise above them. Just ignore it and try your best to succeed. You will make it on top.

Now onto something that grinds my gears

Have you ever tried to mind your own business and a drunken as!@#$% tries to pick a fight with you. Happens every day to me because I’m big. I try to walk away then I get hit across the head. I don't like to fight so I try not to but I end up in one anyways. People who are violent when drunk SHOULD NOT DRINK!!! I'm not violent when drunk, i'm happy go lucky kind of drunk.
That’s what grinds my gears drunk as!@#$%!

now, who's next?
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[Symphony]

You know what really grinds my gears? The limited time only burgers at McDonalds.

Just as I've found the perfect burger for the times when you've consumed a large amount of alcoholic beverages, they replace it with some other burger that's quite nasty in comparison.
The New York Supreme was perfect. Lots of cheese and bacon. It was so good. Then two weeks later you get the Arizona Grande, which is pure crap. I still can't believe how they went from such a good burger to something that tastes like roadkill.

There's also an episode of the Simpsons which perfectly illustrates this bullshit behaviour.
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[JohnnyPsycho]

@Symphony: Truly, I know your pain... I fell in love with the "Spicy Baconator" at Wendy's when they introduced it like a year ago, and when they discontinued it I was crushed. In a similar fashion, I anxiously await the day the McRib returns to Mickey-D's the same way some people await the second coming of Christ...

Anyway, on to business... Do you know what else grinds my gears? Manual transmissions (literally, in fact!). I mean, hasn't the modern tradition been to discard obsolete technology for new innovation? It happened to my 8-bit NES back in the day, it happened to my cassette tape player, it certainly happened to my landline once I started using cellphones. So why the hell do they still make something as archaic as stick-shift cars? Having to use both my foot and my hand to shift gears is positively primitive... Is it because there's still a bunch of dusty old car enthusiasts out there who can't do away with "the good ol' days" of driving? I'm sure these are the same fuckers who pine for the days of "whites only" bathrooms and no suffrage rights for women.

Seriously, the automatic transmission is such an enormous improvement. Just shift into "D" (for goddamn "Drive", can't get much simpler than that) press down on the gas pedal and, would you look at that, it fucking moves! No gauging when to release the goddamn clutch, no worrying about accidentally skipping 3rd gear into 5th, no worrying about accidentally rolling backwards when you're stopped on a hill. And don't give me that bullshit about how manual trannies give you better gas mileage... Hybrid cars get something like 70-gajillion miles on a single gallon, and they don't make hybrid cars with manual transmissions. You know why? Because manual transmissions are fucking Stone Age technology.

So my message to car-makers and car-drivers who still insist on manual transmissions is this: evolve or get left the fuck behind! If your car doesn't still have an 8-track player and hand-operated windshield wipers, it has no reason to still have a stick-shift.

And that's what's (currently) grinding my gears...
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[Chaosengine]

Ya know what Grinds My Gears?!

XBOX -Live!!

Ya can't play any games without some brain damaged kid spewing the most racist, homophobic garbage you'll hear outside of a Klan meeting! These brats aren't even old enough to know ANYTHING about the words they're using!!

No game is safe, seriously! Even UNO of all games!! UNO!!!!! If you feel it neccesary to call people your playing a game of Uno with, "fags" and "jews", maybe you're too fucked up to be playing AT ALL!!!

When did racism become okay in America? What about the civil rights struggles that marred our society so many years ago? People clashing in the streets, notable figures being gunned down, all for the sake of weakening this shit and all it takes is the widespread use of the internet and suddenly we go back 50 or 60 years!! This is BULLSHIT!!

If it's not okay for ME to smoke a cigarette in a BAR or call someone an asshole in a public library, why should these little mutants be getting off without a hitch? Don't give me that Freedom of Speech crap, either! These little cocks don't give two shits about freedom. Their parents have been feedin' 'em nuthin' but Ridilin and useless structure since they were two and now they have deep repressed hate issues.

No wonder gamers in other countries hate playing games with Americans. From their perspective, we're just a bunch of ignorant, racist morons!! I can't argue that result cuz it's so damn prevalent!!

Let's go from Freedom of Speech to RESPONSIBILITY of Speech!!

It's BULLSHIT!!!
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[Tadelesh]

I'm tempted to comment about everyone's rants, but I'll just add this, which matches with both Johnny's first rant and slightly with Chaos's: We Didn't Start the Flame War

Ok. I could rant about a whole load of stuff, but I'll just go with what's currently grinding my gears - call centres.

So, depending on the company you're calling, you might get a "Press 1 for.. press 2 for.. etc." message, and/or get put on hold; both of which are very annoying.

Let's start with "press this number". Now, I can understand why they do this, but I just want to talk to someone about a problem I'm having. I don't want to press half a dozen buttons before doing so, and it's especially irksome when the option you want is at the end of the list! Can you imagine if emergency services had this? "If you need an ambulance, press 1. If you need the police, press 2. If you need the fire service, press 3." -presses 2- "You have chosen the police. If you are reporting a burglary, press 1. If you have seen a murder, press 2," and so on. You get the picture?

Just a short one on being put on hold. I'm sure everyone's experienced this at one time or another. They give you cheesy music (though if you're lucky, you might get chart-toppers - I have once), and a recorded message that is often along the line of "Your call is very important to us, we will be with you shortly." Oh yes, my call is so important to you that I'm stuck here listening to someone warble instead of talking to someone.

After all that, though, is when you're actually talking to the person on the other end. Why is it that I always seem to be talking to someone foreign with an extremely strong accent that I can't understand? I always have to ask them to repeat what they just said, even if all they did was ask for my name! Or there's some other reason for them being unintelligible, such as the fast-talker: "HellohowcanIhelpyoutoday? CanItakeyournameandaccountnumberplease?"

Then we come to something that I've experienced several times during the past couple months - not just in call centres, but also in other lines of support (such as emailed technical support). I tell them my problem, they either tell me a solution that doesn't work, or can't give me a solution at all! I'll give a couple of recent examples.

I'm moving home soon, and need to transfer my landline phone and broadband internet (provided by the same company) to my new address. So I call them up, and guess what? They don't seem to be able to find my new address in their database, and ask me to call back next week, "Hopefully the database will be updated by then." WTF?

I recently (I say recently, it took them about two months in the end before a resolution) discovered that all of my games that I had bought from a website no longer worked on my computer. So I logged a ticket with their support. However, you could only select one game that you were having a problem with.
They kept giving me the same solution, over and over, to resolve this problem. Then they offered to replace the game in question, to which my response was to remind them (I had previously mentioned it several times) that the problem is with all of their games, not just one. Eventually, they gave me a refund on that one game (it was the first one I noticed the problem with), as they were unable to repeat the error, so could give me no more solutions, but were unable to refund any of the previous games.

So, yeah, basically, what really grinds my gears is people in technical support. I just so happen to be in technical support myself: I can only hope I don't cause as much frustration in my customers as I've had with other companies.
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[Chaosengine]

I'm takin' a big risk on this one, so hear me out...

You Know What REALLY Grinds My Gears?!?!

P.E.T.A. and GreenPeace!!


Name some organizations that have contributed to society and to the world in general.

The Salvation Army
The Red Cross
Goodwill Industries
Toys for Tots

To name a few. We don't have to do research to know these groups are helping people. What about PETA and Green Peace? Are they helping anyone or ANYTHING for that matter? I can't think of anything.

What does come to mind when I think of these groups? Media Stunts, protests, propaganda and sensationalism. Do those things help? At all? NO, they DON'T!!

Groups like that are just a bunch of self-serving hypocrits that enjoy telling everybody else what to do and how to live their lives. I can't think of anything positive that these assholes have done. Throwing red paint on people and threatening to kill Ted Nugent's children does not count as POSITIVE!

When crazy fundamentalists come into your country and destroy government buildings it's an act of war, right? When the A.L.F., which has VERY close ties to PETA, burns down an animal testing facility or an animal shelter, isn't THAT the SAME THING?!?!

Neo-Nazis and militant facists seek to undermine U.S. corporations and the U.S. government. Isn't that essentially what Green Peace is out to do? Don't let that tree-hugger image they've cultivated fool you! Listen VERY CAREFULLY to their messages and intentions. It's all VERY clear!

So what point am I getting across here? I'll tell ya.

Regardless of wether you agree or don't, joining organizations that utilize the kind of tactics used by these two groups is pointless. If you wanna help the community and your enviroment, there are a lot of better ways to do it.

Organize a local clean up effort, form a neighborhood watch for animal abuse and get to know your local ASPCA affiliates as well as animal control. Volunteer at your local veterinarian or animal adoption center or tour a landfill site. There are so many things that a person can do to actually help in these areas that doesn't involve PETA or Green Peace. Don't try to fool people into thinking that you care, when your REAL intentions are to abolish guilt and hate on your neighbors. Being full of shit doesn't help ANYONE!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Caroline]

((Um... wow, that's a lot of bitter, angry, people here on the forum...

But... you know what grinds my gears? Vulgarity.

I mean, seriously, there are what... 400,000+ words in the english language alone? Get out a dictionary or thesarus for crying-out-loud, and use a different word to curse someone. I mean, read Shakespeare to get some ideas on how to really belittle someone. Why say something as crass, lowbrow, pedestrian, and pendantic as, "Fuck you", when you could say something waaaaaaaaaaaay more agrivating like, "Look, you blind, mutant, degenerate, whelp, I currently lack the patience to properly explain to your addled brain why you are about to get the everloving snot pummeled out of you; however, be assured such an action will be swift, decisive, and leave you huddled on the floor crying for your mother!"

Vulgarity means you've lost the arguement, and are just trying to go for the shock factor of the swear word. Honestly, you all should get your foul mouths washed out with soap, and then be forced to have a tongue depressor push down on your tongue for fourty-five minutes. I can't believe some of you actually kiss your mother with a mouth that spews just acrid filth and obscene language.

...and that's what grinds my gears. Back to you, Ted.))

[JohnnyPsycho]

Hee hee... if you though our swearing's bad, you should see this, from the recent British film In the Loop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTHiReUNo4&feature=player_embedded
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[lunerlancer]

Ok this is EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE to anyone so please don't blame me.

I had sad this to someone on Xbox live because he was swearing and calling me a cracker. So I said to him "I'll take your first born child, slice it open, take out it's kidney's, shove them back down it's throat, hang him by a meat hook on your porch and watch the flies pick at its skull. Then I’ll take a baseball bat with rusty razors sticking out of it and place it where it's not meant to venture, then take the rotting corpse of your child and shove it right back up there and sew you back shut"

See not one curse word but HIGHLY OFFENIVE. And after I finished saying that and I hear "*smash* you motherf!@#$%, you made me break my TV, f!@# you *click*". Then of course I start laughing and I couldn’t breath it was SO funny
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[TheBashfulFeline]

^ Aww... dang-it I wish you'd recorded it and then put it on youtube. It's always fun to test those little scumbuckets.

Another topic that really Grinds my Gears, is Ego-maniacs.
Similar to my first post here, I just can't justify why anyone in there right mind has this wall in there minds that they are so 'high and mighty'. Just the other day on this other discussion, the belligerent, possibly intellegent person, said:"In other words: calm the fuck down, man. Someone is just envious methinks."

He was saying this in retaliation of someone commenting about a community the guy thinks he started (I call Bullshi- on that), then me and the 'someone told him in an intellectual response we aren't envious, we're just amazing how someone with this personality or ego, loves for it to be stroked like its there erection in there pants. ARGH, its almost exactly like what I was talking about, in a way 'blind faith".

Cases like this, or even the people who use there ego like its cash. Thats even worse... They bend pretty much peoples will to there liking, and get babied through there work, classwork, or anything, and don't realize what happens when they get the hard facts. ITS LOGIC, use your effing mind and wrap your dismal mind around the fact "EVERYONE ISNT PERFECT". And thats what really Grinds my Gears.

Back to you.
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[Chaosengine]

Ya know what Grinds My Gears??

Road Construction!

They always choose the WORST time of the year, the WORST time of the day and the WORST section of town to start their little destruction project! Which means, I gotta drive through a little maze to get to work! Is this a science experiment? Am I supposed to find the cheese?! It's HORRIBLE!!

The worst part is, I didn't see ANYTHING wrong with the street days before they started!! What happened?! A gas explosion? Godzilla?! Or are these guys just tryin' to spend their allotment of the budget before the next fiscal year? Ya know, so they can ask for more next year!

I hate pullin' up next to these guys and havin' to make eye contact. They always look at ya like they're gonna KILL YA! What did I do? I'm not the one usin' a back-hoe to dig for pirate gold or whatever the hell yer doin'!! Do this shit at night, when fewer people are drivin'!! It seems like over half the guys on these sites aren't doin anything! Two guys are doin' all the work and SIX guys are supervisin'!! I realize I know squat about road work, but at least PRETEND to be busy, I have to at my job!!

In short... It SUCKS!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[Chaosengine]

Ya Know what Really Grinds My Gears??

Michael Bay!!

The Douchebag Director has ruined The Transformers and every movie he has ever directed. The man has no soul. The fact that he created Bad Boys and later a sequel is proof that Hollywood has died on the inside. He even ruins movies he produces!!

The movie Horseman, starring Dennis Quaid, had an awesome opening scene. An old man and his dog, traveling through a frozen wilderness, happen upon a silver serving tray resting on a snow covered pond. Under the silver lid, is a pile of bloody, human teeth. What a way to start a murder mystery! However, once I saw the ending, I was moved to rage and disgust!! Instead of having a brilliant, monsterous, sociopathic killer to teach us a new way to fear, the villian turns out to be ... SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Quaid's own teen-aged son!! A kid who is SO upset that his mother died, that he kills people, films it and puts it on the INTERNET to teach people a lesson for not caring!!!! What kind of fuck-tarded, emo-shit is THIS?!?! When I saw Bay's name on the producers list, I knew who to blame!!

I can't stand the man and I refuse to pay a DIME to see any of his movies!!

ASS!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[xivk]

Dam chaos, your really making use of this thread. o_o
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[kommy]

His gears, they are ground. Like a fine powder I'd use as a mechanical lubricant.


You know what grinds my gears? 'Human Resources' people. Why would anyone ask them to hire new people? They don't even know what they're looking for. And they just ignore over 80% of all applicants anyway. Hell, they probably forget that's even part of their job, since they're too busy ignoring payroll and trying to fob off their work on insurance companies, temp agencies, other company workers who actually do something useful, and accounting. The only time I've seen them is when they're making some inane presentation of how we shouldn't sue the employer and why we shouldn't 'Bad Touch' each other. Like we're a damned kindergarten or high school dropout wage slaves. We're goddamned college educated scientific professionals that do more math in our heads in the last week than you've done in your life, lady. Just because you spent your college days getting boozed up, gang banged in frat houses, and sleeping through your pathetic business degree classes doesn't mean all of us did that.

And I have to beg these professional sycophants for employment... Gah!
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[Chaosengine]

Alright America, *BANG BANG* Listen up cuz I ain't gonna say this twice!!

Ya Know What Really Grinds My Gears?!

Ignorant Americans!!

First, I'm an American. Have been since birth. I'm whitey, gray-boy the white devil, so don't think I'm not qualified to say shit, cuz you FAIL! Our economy and health care system got this way because of one BIG cause. No, it's not terrorists. No, it's not "the gays". No, it's not our president.

It's YOU!!! That's right, YOU!! Americans who spend money on things they don't need with money they don't have!! You built up a line of credit debt that would make Cthulhu say, "DAMN!!". Houses and cars and jacuzzis and plastic surgery, all without a whim for the effect it would have. ASSSSS!!! Same thing with health care!! I WORK in the health care industry and my guess is that HALF of the fuckers I deal with actually NEED the pills they swallow. Americans have been trained to run off to the doc any time they get a tickle on their pickle or a rumbly in thier tumbly. It's HORSESHIT!!

A few months back, Fizer (a major drug company) got hammered with some of the BIGGEST fines the industry has ever seen! WHY??? They were providing "incentives" to doctors to push them to prescribe THEIR products over their competitors to YOU! On your insurance, regardless of how OVERPRICED they were!!

Wanting to put a bullet into a black guy in a suit isn't an answer. It only shows how back-water and ignorant our country REALLY is. You want your country to improve? Grow some balls, start living within your means and please... GET A FUCKIN' USEFUL IMMUNE SYSTEM!!!

Buying hybrid cars, recycling newspapers and outlawing smoking do NOT qualify as acceptable solutions. The government is one BIG bailout!! What do you think all those programs are for? Welfare, food stamps, disability, unemployment, social security, are you folks missing something? ALL of those programs are designed to bail US out!! From EVERYTHING!! Know the country you live in!! If corporate assholes mis-spend the money they are given, thats a HUMAN issue, not a political one!! Greed, avarice, selfishness and irresponsibility are all symptoms of a bigger problem.

ONLY YOU CAN FIX AMERICA!!
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The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[JohnnyPsycho]

You know what really grinds my gears? College sports fans!

I live in a college town with a Big Ten school, and every fall, on days when there's a home football game going on, our street traffic becomes absolutely insane. It's not like my town is a sprawling metropolis, I barely even consider it a "city" most of the time, yet somehow on a few short Saturdays in between September and December we become inundated with enough alumni, current students, and just plain sports fanatics to nearly double the population. Every available parking lot within a ten-mile radius of the stadium will be crowded with these varying levels of scum, all tailgating and making the air reek with alcohol, burnt hotdogs, and misspent tuition money.

And don't even think you'll be able to start a pleasant, intelligent conversation with any random stranger you happen to meet on one of these hellish days... if you happen to be one of the few people who doesn't give a shit about sports and/or the local school's team, you will still only ever encounter people asking you about the score or who you're cheering for to win. If you're one of those unlucky bastards who works during one of these home-games, be prepared to also do at least twice as much work as you usually do since it's likely at least a few of your co-workers has suddenly come down with a rare 24-hour flu bug, whose only cure is copious amounts of beer and nachos. Then expect them to call in sick again the next day, because they're either too hungover to work or they were too stupid to pack anything warmer than a plastic rain poncho while they sat outside on the coldest, rainiest day of the year.

I have no problem with sports or sports fans in general... I'm just tired of finding empty beer cans and fresh tire ruts in my lawn. And that's what grinds my gears...
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[Samuel Blackwing]

Y'know what really grinds my gears? People who enter into serious descussions/debates and have no clue what they're talking about.
Example - "Oh, Obama is such a horrible president!" "What the hell are you on about?" "Oh, you know, he wants to change healthcare." "And?" "Well, the news sa-" "No. Stop right there. Stop listening to media bullshit that's funded by the oposition, and do some actual research for once in your godforsaken life. Don't make me start swearing at you in eldritch languages."

[Samuel Blackwing]

Secondary pet peeve- The character limit on my PSP.

Tertiary peeve - People who think that having a learning disability makes me stupid. I'm Dysgraphic, meaning that my spelling and handwriting sucks. However, I'm fully capable of out-thinking any of the morons who are pushing for me to be placed in a remedial English class at my college, just because I'm Dysgraphic and got a GED instead of wasting my time in highschool.

[Chaosengine]

My new addiction as of late is a little thing called, DFO. Dungeon Fighters Online is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up that plays like an MMO. It brings me back to the Arcade Days when games like Golden Axe and Final Fight were the shit. So, that brings me to...

Ya Know What REALLY Grinds My Gears?!?!

The FATIGUE BAR!!

Every character has a fatigue bar of 156. For every dungeon room you explore, you lose one fatigue point. That might sound like alot, but when you really start playing, you drain that thing pretty fuckin' quick. It all comes back at 6:00 A.M. the next day (9:00 A.M. for me) but why should we have to wait AT ALL??? WoW players don't have to put up with this shit!! I'm right at the verge of my class change and have a lot of grinding to do, but I can't cuz my FATIGUE BAR IS EMPTY!!! It's BULLSHIT!!!

Don't give me that shit about server space either, the game belongs to Nexon, the Maple Story people, so they've got the space, believe me!! Give us time to play the fuckin' game and maybe we'll spend some REAL money at the cash shop, which I HAVE!!!

ASSHOLES!!!
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"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster.
The bars are temples, but the pearls ain't free...
You'll find a god in every golden cloister,
And if you're lucky then the god's a she..."

[AlainDaishar]

I got two things that really grind my gears.

Drunk kids, who on wednesday nights, at 2am, decide to walk into your house and sit down and start watching tv. All while they have no clue where they are, and they definitely don't know you.

The other thing is a midterm in an 8am class. why 8am class was ever invented, is beyond me
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[cheesecaked]

"Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside."

"If you're a girl under the age of 12, and your high on Marijuana... don't ride your bike."
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How dare they use casment window designs,
it's so last century ಠ_ರೃ
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"I'm gonna miss all the things we'll never do.
I just can't believe you left me here alone,
How in this world can I make it on my own?"