Things that grind my gears!

[marv75]

Cheap razors! I mean I am not paying through the nose for a 20 blade razor, but at the same time a 2 bladed one makes me look like I have been trying to kill myself

The Government - Can they possibly make just about anything you want to do any harder? Could they care less about us and our economic problems? Would they take a pay cut (Congress,judges,etc.) to help anyone out?
Nice stimulus package that seemed to only benefit banks while they want to take my house? And of course all these politicians have some kind of stake money-wise in banks and of course Credit Card companies. Don't tell me they don't. Maybe not every single one but enough.

Cutting mental health budgets...Hmmmm...let's see how many more people will flip out and murder,rape,abduct,torture and God knows what before they say hey "I think there might be a link between the two.".

Just a few things that really grind my gears...(Oh I'm a famous star - time to go to a posh rehab! :))




Marv.

 

[mrschultz]

I'm with you on the stimulus crap, the projects that were supposed to put people to work are just starting to pop up on the highways and bridges now. And all of the money approved for projects that would actually help average people is a drop in the bucket compared to what the banks got.

Have to wonder if we will ever find out where the first trillion dollars disappeared to. In all the interviews I've seen or read they say we would be much worse off if that money had not been spent, but none of the people in charge will say anything about where it went. So all of us that pay taxes payed several hundred bucks into a black hole. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy stuff or wild theories but this just smells of massive cover up. A few people given power to spend hundreds of billions with no accounting or oversight whatsoever, the first bill approving the first batch of cash was actually written that way... It wasn't until the second round of bail outs that they started trying to figure out ways of getting the money back when things got better, but that first round is just gone.

Maybe they just don't have the balls to say that first trillion bucks was used to make corrections, just pushed numbers around to stabilize things without anyone actually getting it, but it sure smells like a cover up and a bunch of ultra rich people got away with something.

 

[marv75]

Another thing that grinds my gears...can supermodels get any skinnier and actually be alive?
People over 64 can't get the H1N1 vaccine in Ohio. I know why, the government thinks they have some immunity from the last outbreak...you'd have to be pretty old it was like 1918. So kill the seniors, keep the illegals comin' on over and sucking down our tax dollars. Boom! Cross the border have a kid and he's automatically a citizen and our responsibility. Try the reverse and getting into Mexico.
Is it me or is Sarah Palin a flake? She's certainly coming off that way with that book and all...Her run for President even hypothetically? I'm scared enough of what we have going on now.
One more thing that kills me. Cell phone TV ads. MY God, they're coming out with a new one everyday! It's a phone people!! Like I'm gonna have to just have the latest Palm Pixie or Blackberry 2, then it'll be 3 and 4...Too many idiots are texting while driving that's even less safe than talking. Seriously way too many ads. I told my 17 year old son - GET A JOB!
If you want the latest crap you're gonna pay for it...I have to pay $500.00 a month for his schooling....and what really grind the ol' gears is when he says he doesn't have anything or everyone else has one...yea, sure.
And remember everyone the Aliens are out there and who knows what kind of mood they're in! :)
Is there some language where government translates into hypocrisy or apathy?




- Marv - Conspiracy Hunter.

 

[sleepy]

How about...it's Friday and the time is anytime before 3 P.M....but it's Friday, so the government employees, the doctors, the representatives, the customer service agents, hey, they've all gone home for the weekend.

 

[elton]

Adverts ..... all of them! I just about record everything I want to watch and speed through the ads. They really pee me off.

Global warming crap ..... dear god, old news or what. And when it gets colder that GW also. FFS the peeps who made this up are getting rich. Carbon trading lectures from knobheads like Bono. Shit, man the guys raking in millions, pays no taxes and has the audacity to preach to us.

Then the knobhead holds a concert in Berlin to celebrate the 'wall' coming down and then puts up his own wall around the concert to keep everyone except invited guests out. Bah Humbug.

Merry Christmas everyone - there are houses around here that are already lit up!!!!!!

Just my 2cents worth. :)

 

[elton]

Oh, and I forgot to mention our Human Rights acts that mean we can't deport illegal immigrants, rapists and murderers because they will have a tough life back home. Bollocks to the lot of 'em.

And dopey bastards that take a yacht on a world trip, sail so close to the most perilous pirated waters on the planet, then expect everyone to jump through a hoop to pay a ransom to rescue them from their Somali kidnappers! WTF were they thinking about other than me, me, me! Christ you have 50,000 tonne tankers dreading to pass through there and they think they can do it in a 50foot yacht. Ye shall reap what ye sow.

 

[sleepy]

Is Bono really from Ireland?
It's like Led Zeppelin. In the late 1960's the Zep was living in Los Angeles playing gigs at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Even The Beatles had a house in L.A. in 1966, while later, John and Yoko were living on Mulholland Drive in L.A. in the 70's. I know because we shared a road one day.

So, are these folks like Bono only making spot appearances in The Isles?

 

[elton]

Well he's certainly not paying any taxes in the Isles and thats a fact.

 

[marv75]

Posers - People on TV or in real life that pretend to be something they're not. (Sometimes maybe that's for the best?) We've all met people like this. Be yourself for God's sakes!
Universal Health Care - Do you think that it will really ever get passed? And it probably would make things worse if it did....Insurance companies and Laboratories already run our lives...now they want to say what you can take medication wise (Whether it'll help you or not!)
Geico Car Insurance and Progressive Ads - Can't stand the Lizard and the money bundle with eyes and the overly perky lady and how many times a day they air the ads.

And yes these things really grind my gears!! :)

 

[mrschultz]

Geico Car Insurance and Progressive Ads - Can't stand the Lizard and the money bundle with eyes and the overly perky lady and how many times a day they air the ads.

I like the gecko and the cave men, but can't stand the stack of money ones.

How about those free credit report ones? Man do I HATE those.

 

[sleepy]

What? No 30 minute paid programming 'for enlarging that certain part of the male anatomy'.
Aw common.

...you know, I haven't watched t.v. in over a year. Is that ad still running?
Please. Less purine and less uric acid and less phosphates and less cialis and less viagra,
thank you.

 

[marv75]

YES! All those ads for Levitra and Viagra really tear me up...If you have an actual physical problem that's one thing but now women take it too! This society is too sex obsessed - TV, Movies (I swear Bert and Ernie are gay and so is Spongebob and Patrick)
I mean personally I have nothing against the gay community your choice is your choice, right? Nothing's PC anymore either is it?
And one more time a creditor calls me for my ex-wife's bills...I will freak...I actually pretend to be a guy named Rahjim and talk in an Indian voice right back at them...they call from overseas and that's where a lot of our various jobs have gone - That pisses me off it's past Grinding my Gears!
All the drug commercials grind me too...what they want your liver to go 20 years before it should? Sickos!
As for enlarging the penis...hey I need that Sleepy! :) But I hate women...so who cares. I'm not gay I'm just bitter...
Went to the Psychiatrist he gave me pills to sleep (Restoril) it's a benzodiazepiene...or however you spell it well it's 3:30 a.m. and I am still typing...they're gonna send me to a sleep clinic...better put me under and I am not wearing any mask if I have sleep apnea or whatever...Come on haven't we progressed beyond that? Isn't there a magical pill?
Miley Cyrus - No talent and Hannah Montana is retarded...she poses sexy and people get outraged. Grinds the gears...
We should really worry about Fort Hood and letting Muslims into our armed forces...Grinds my gears that there were signs of this tragedy before it happened...I'm not against normal Muslims just the extremists and the one calling me for money....and guess what that REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS! :) Yeah and I can't stand the rich who profit off the middle-class...soon there won't be one it'll just be poor and poorer!

 

[mrschultz]

Miley Cyrus - No talent and Hannah Montana is retarded...she poses sexy and people get outraged. Grinds the gears...

That's an odd one to toss in there... Seems to me if you were not in her demographic it would be easy to ignore her. I'm assuming your not a girl between 2 and 16. Unless you live with people in her demographic and are forced to listen....

There's a song in the movie that shows she might have a good singing voice, might have a voice with some range. If she worked at it she could probably turn out to be a real singer instead of the monotone or whiny crap that all the new singers seem to have the last 5 to 10 years. Although there was a signer on Colbert last week that had a great voice, but she does more jazz type style than rock. I guess I've been waiting a while for another Pat Benatar to come along.... I don't know why girls that have a good voice don't go into rock.

 

[sleepy]

...and are forced to listen....leep:

People who live in the upstairs apartment above you and behave like break dancing bowling balls @ 200 Lbs. each on their floor/your ceiling.

 

[marv75]

Yes Sleepy that is quite annoying! :)
Insomnia - It sucks and TEARS my GEARS I am still up at 5:35 a.m. ESDT...Even the pills won't put me down...
Women who are dress like men...beware some can look quite attractive and then you find a little surprise...Get surgery and go all the way!
And for now that is KILLING my GEARS! (That's why I don't go to bars anymore! :))

 

[marv75]

I'm up still!
People who believe the holocaust never happened in the ME...THAT really grinds my gears and I'm not Jewish. I mean the camps, the gas chambers, etc...millions of Jews suffered terribly and died...Truly Hitler was one of the Ant-Christ's...who knows whose the next? :)

 

[elton]

As with Sleepy and noisy neighbours, I'd say hotel guests that are just plain noisy and display no consideration to other guests. Children that are allowed to run wild in stores without redress from their parent, plain pisses me off.

 

[marv75]

That would definitely grind my gears and what else? Teen-agers that only have cuss words in their vocabulary!
A weird question - Do you think the only way to solve racial problems is through inter-racial marriages or just being educated. It's just skin pigmentation. I have been attracted to black women and other racial groups...(I'll take what I can get! :))
But the thing that GRINDS my GEARS is total ignorance and racism....prejudice or whatever you wanna call it...It doesn't make any sense to judge the outside if you don't know the inside...ya know what I mean?
Black Friday - too many people and I had no money...that GRINDS it alright! :)
For some reason Noah doesn't want me talking holocaust and stuff...he said it was political/religious...but I repect his authority...he locked my thread things that rip me up....Oh well.
I just want to have conversation not everything is pinball in the world...too bad it isn't! :)








Marv.

 

[marv75]

Remember Doom 3...back in the day I bought it...and Best Buy said I could run it well....guess what the misleading specs were on the box....1,5 ghz CPU (I used to have a 2.0) 64MB Video Card (That's just false advertising) and like 384MB if ram...I jad 1.4 gigs if ram and a x200 128MB card...Guess what years later they said D3 was the 1st card to require a 512MB card...even with everthing tweaked and shyt-off and at 800x600 I could only get an erratic FR in the low 20s and lower when you had particles going on...So ID lied and so did BB...bastards!
PLayed it and the expansion at 480p on the old XBOX and everything looked better and had a good framerate even if only in 480p....LYING to me just GRINDS MY GEARS...BB did that to sell a computer and a game. I never has a real chance to begin with....Of course now-a-days Terminator Salvation recommends a Quaf Core running at 2.8 ghz...it's not even a good game...
As for D3 F'it...it wasn't that good anyways and neither was Quake 4..
Now Rage and Doom 4 should have promise they'll ne released across the PC,360 and PS3 and with that new idtech5 engine they can use virtual textures and go wild with drtail without it hitting your CPU or was it the VC...Needless to say ni mire OC games for me...even with a new computer I'll try a demo if there's one or download it...:)

 

[marv75]

Grind my GEARS...I got into an accident on Aug.7yh right? Well I wrapped it up in pre-trial this week...Beforehand I got charged with Hit 'n' Skip (Had a panic attack), Ov#1 (For taking my prescription medicine when I was supposed too and freakin' lane straddling...SO the OV#1 got dropped and the lane crap and I got charged with hit 'n skip...When you have a panic attack adrenalin rushes through both sides of your chest and you think you're having a heart attack....you can hyper-ventilate as well...good thing I didn't or I would have lost feeling in my arms and legs,etc...while driving...
Point is I got a $505 fine and 1 year reporting to a bitch of a probation officer.....This was my 1st ever offense and I'm 37...
The government GRINDS my F'ing GEARS! I got 90 days to pay $405.00///Merry Christmas to you too, while you set terrorists free and rapists and murderers...That really just OILS and GRINDS my GEARS to the fullest extent! :) It's all about money....the fine was 250 bucks & they charged another $255 in court costs when my lawyer said it would be $100...go figure. Haveb't hasd a ticket in 17 tears and that grinds my gears!!

 

[elton]

On holiday in 2005 and driving over the Sierra Nevada mountains and I came across an over zealous cop. Didn't book the car in front, or behind, of me but singled me out. I'd say it was a reasonably fair because I was speeding but hell, why single me out!!!! Bastard caught me with a $215 fine that the Madera County court wouldn't accept over the phone and I ended up paying with a bankers draft after I returned home. That cost me a further $80 for the currency conversion. WTF - bastard.

Another grinder is region codes on DVD's - they really piss me off!

 

[sleepy]

Do they still use region codes on video games?
That used to grind my gears on Sega Genesis/SNES when the blood and other "objectionable content" was available in the Japanese version, but not for the U.S. release, and then, with region lockout, if you managed to get your hands on the Japanese version, you still couldn't play it unless you had an import console.

 

[elton]

Not sure about games Sleepy but they are used on DVD's and of course you can only change the region code on DVD readers only a limited number of times.

 

[sleepy]

Does anyone know what happened to "The Last Ride" thread over at vpforums.org ?

 

[sleepy]

Update: It appears "The Last Ride" thread at vpforums.org was *cough* moved to the
*cough* "Supporting Members Forum".

It must be a Union Grievance! :)