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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Okay...so my short rant for today...

Is it just me or is anyone else getting Sick and Tired of the pop up ads for YouTube Red!

I just watched highlights of a baseball game on YouTube and the stupid YouTube Red ad popped up...then I watched two other videos, and you guessed it...the crappie YouTube Red ad popped up again...'recommending' that I upgrade to YouTube Red.

Screw You! I absolutely refuse to pay for a subscription to something that is basically free!
 
If you want to watch baseball highlights - all teams- get MLB scoreboard. It's in Play Store and should be free. No ads.
MLB has rules on ads. They don't show national, and only what the announcers use at the opening of an inning, which is just basically timing with the first pitch of inning.

It's the ads themselves. They have areas they serve, and you can't get the products in other parts of the country. Even the national companies vary offers by territory. They have no clue as to where MLB will stream the games. The Vulcan is a Pittsburgh fan, and I like San Fran. We live in CO.

I saw an ad for a Subway sandwich on local TV. Not available in Springs. Denver only.
 
Hyundai Elantra
rap
Honda Civic
Chevrolet Camaro
Belly Fat
Male pattern baldness
rap
Politicians
Blown head gaskets
Seth Rogen
Kevin Hart
New "star wars"
rap
 
Don't tell you've got three different vehicles with blown head gaskets.

Personally, I liked both my Camaro and my Civic... for different reasons, but I had no real quarrels with them while I owned them.
 
shalemail said:
You ever have one of those days at work where you just want to close out of your computer, turn off your lights and just walk out. Not speak to anyone, not explain yourself just get the "f" out? I am having that day. It sucks being responsible. :mad:
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Had one classmate who did that in medschool. Not in class though. Studying for finals. I think it was second year IIRC. Just turned over her table and books in a f this shit I'm quitting way. Went back home ti her province soon after.
 
What grinds my gears is tweakers. My town is full of them. I hate these f****** losers. All they do all day every day is bum around, asking for money and cigarettes. They are violent thieves, and I have to constantly watch back when I'm taking around in this town. I've been attacked, I've had my life threatened more times than I care to count, and I've had so many things stolen from me it's ridiculous. Bikes, phones, even a dog. Meth users can give up the drug and come back, change themselves. My boss is a year clean after 12 years addict. But 98% of the tweakers in this town don't even try, have no desire to work or be productive. They are no longer human in my eyes, as long as they are doing meth.
 
Why do people assume that wires never go bad?

I've got no overhead lights in the trailer, and I will have to wait until I get home so I can disassemble things in order to get to the one bad splice that is causing the problem...
 
CrimsonToker said:
What grinds my gears is tweakers. My town is full of them. I hate these f****** losers. All they do all day every day is bum around, asking for money and cigarettes. They are violent thieves, and I have to constantly watch back when I'm taking around in this town. I've been attacked, I've had my life threatened more times than I care to count, and I've had so many things stolen from me it's ridiculous. Bikes, phones, even a dog. Meth users can give up the drug and come back, change themselves. My boss is a year clean after 12 years addict. But 98% of the tweakers in this town don't even try, have no desire to work or be productive. They are no longer human in my eyes, as long as they are doing meth.
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Meth and crack almost seem quaint compared to the epidemic of heroin junkies we have around here these days...:mad:
People nodding out with a needle stuck in their arm and kids in the back seat is a common occurrence. It's disgusting. They have the cops carrying Narcan around with them to bring these zombies back to life. I hate to say it, because I know a tiny minority of them can actually beat the addiction, but some part of me wants to just let natural selection take its course.:(
 
Gmash said:
I hate to say it, because I know a tiny minority of them can actually beat the addiction, but some part of me wants to just let natural selection take its course.:(
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Addiction is a disease and anyone with a disease deserves a fighting chance. That's the right way to think and I try really hard to think that. I've known drug addicts and alcoholics who have successfully kicked their habit and some that never will. I live in a great area and nice 'hood (and count my lucky stars for that) so don't see/deal with much of that on a daily basis. I come from a long line of alcoholics, I kid about my bourbon and scotch but I really don't drink much and when I do it's one measured shot that I sip at and it's a treat. I am too scared about where it could go because I find I like it a little too much. I don't want to be like "those people" so must work hard not to but can understand how they got there.
 
Clementine_3 said:
Addiction is a disease and anyone with a disease deserves a fighting chance. That's the right way to think and I try really hard to think that. I've known drug addicts and alcoholics who have successfully kicked their habit and some that never will. I live in a great area and nice 'hood (and count my lucky stars for that) so don't see/deal with much of that on a daily basis. I come from a long line of alcoholics, I kid about my bourbon and scotch but I really don't drink much and when I do it's one measured shot that I sip at and it's a treat. I am too scared about where it could go because I find I like it a little too much. I don't want to be like "those people" so must work hard not to but can understand how they got there.
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I know what you're saying, and I do agree with you really. I've done my fair share of partying in my day, and I still like to drink beer, but this heroin thing is a whole different problem than anything I've seen before. It's so destructive to everyone and everything. I'm really just speaking from frustration when I watch the news and the same people OD over and over, just to be brought back from the brink of death to do it all over again. I don't know what the solution is, but something needs to be done. I would say mandatory rehab, but there's no way this state would come up with the money for that, and it probably doesn't work if it's forced anyway.
 
Addiction, like most everything in life is complicated. It's definitely a disease, and there is also a definite choice / behavior component to it. I have a terribly addictive personality, and am completely confident I would LOVE heroin. So I don't go there, period. But there are times I'm curious, and it leads me to have great sympathy for those who get trapped. Limited sympathy.

What grinds my gears, today? As succinctly as I can.....:rolleyes:

I drive a 20 year old, 4- cylinder pickup truck. It serves me perfectly well, and very little of my ego is wrapped up in it. I am as car crazy as anyone you will meet, and for many years I was in a privileged position of driving an astonishingly wide variety of the most desirable and high performance machines imaginable. At the end of the day, I'm just a guy, in a car. And so are you, get over yourself.

When you are behind me, and the light at the intersection turns green..........Even if I were to bury the throttle and side step the clutch, row through the gears like a mad man, while hard up against the rev limiter.......You would still be much, much faster than me. I think you knew that when you bought your (Mustang? Corvette? Camaro? insert name of overblown, off the rack, who cares production car, available to anyone with a modest amount of money here.)
I'm happy you are happy with your purchase, and I'm sure I would enjoy that car as well. But if so much of your self image is wrapped up in being "Mr. fast guy" that you bought the appropriate machine to prove it, why does it seem to come as a surprise to you, that others are mechanically limited, inferior to you? It was your goal to be superior in the first place, mission accomplished........The rest of us donkeys couldn't get out of your highness' way fast enough to suit you, even if we cared to. Occasionally, I will of necessity depress the clutch, and select the next higher gear ratio. When I do, my velocity will not decrease, but my rate of acceleration will be reduced for a brief moment, please forgive me. But if in the course of 100 yards, the distance between my rear bumper and your front, cycles between 2 and 50 feet, a dozen times, you might want to rethink what you are doing, who you are trying to impress, and whether or not it is working.
Setting yourself up in a position of sure victory, and then reveling in that glory......one possible definition of a jerk off.

That's right, its a rant about literal gears, grinding my gears! :mad: ;)
 
basic 101 user said:
That's right, its a rant about literal gears, grinding my gears! :mad: ;)
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I think we could have a whole thread dedicated to motoring gear grinds, and yes we've all had that jerk glued to our rear bumpers. It's a pain. I've often thought that inappropriate speed has no place on public roads. If you want to thrash a car, then go to a racing circuit.
I don't have a reasonably quick car any more, because I would want to use that speed. So I drive a modest 1.4L Ford. It gets me from A to B.
 
Gmash said:
I'm really just speaking from frustration when I watch the news and the same people OD over and over, just to be brought back from the brink of death to do it all over again. I don't know what the solution is, but something needs to be done.
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I actually took a bit out of my response before I posted it, I was agreeing with the whole natural selection statement made. Not agreeing, just that I sometimes felt the same way and that that really bothered me, feeling that way.

I don't know what the answer is or what should be done but the opioid crisis is out of control. You can't force someone to clean up, if they aren't ready they aren't ready (and even if they are ready they sometimes fail). I suppose saving them and hoping for the best is all that can be done right now. Ugh.

I also had a bit about them not wanting to be part of society or getting a job in response to @CrimsonToker's post, took that out too. But...they can't, they just can't. It's not that they don't want to (mostly), it's that they no longer can. And that brings up the welfare way of life which is why I didn't post it! Another ugh.
 
But what is grinding my gears today is my CC company. They sent me a new card/number because "your card may have been part of a compromise at an undisclosed merchant". What merchant? If you tell me that then I'll be sure to keep a better eye on my statement because I may use that merchant a lot. And, maybe I'll not go back if it's one I don't use a lot.

I'm really glad they are on top of things but now have to spend the day updating all my bills and accounts that the card is linked to. No big deal but the card was recently reissued with a new expiration date so I just played this update game.
 
basic 101 user said:
Addiction, like most everything in life is complicated. It's definitely a disease, and there is also a definite choice / behavior component to it. I have a terribly addictive personality, and am completely confident I would LOVE heroin. So I don't go there, period. But there are times I'm curious, and it leads me to have great sympathy for those who get trapped. Limited sympathy.

What grinds my gears, today? As succinctly as I can.....:rolleyes:

I drive a 20 year old, 4- cylinder pickup truck. It serves me perfectly well, and very little of my ego is wrapped up in it. I am as car crazy as anyone you will meet, and for many years I was in a privileged position of driving an astonishingly wide variety of the most desirable and high performance machines imaginable. At the end of the day, I'm just a guy, in a car. And so are you, get over yourself.

When you are behind me, and the light at the intersection turns green..........Even if I were to bury the throttle and side step the clutch, row through the gears like a mad man, while hard up against the rev limiter.......You would still be much, much faster than me. I think you knew that when you bought your (Mustang? Corvette? Camaro? insert name of overblown, off the rack, who cares production car, available to anyone with a modest amount of money here.)
I'm happy you are happy with your purchase, and I'm sure I would enjoy that car as well. But if so much of your self image is wrapped up in being "Mr. fast guy" that you bought the appropriate machine to prove it, why does it seem to come as a surprise to you, that others are mechanically limited, inferior to you? It was your goal to be superior in the first place, mission accomplished........The rest of us donkeys couldn't get out of your highness' way fast enough to suit you, even if we cared to. Occasionally, I will of necessity depress the clutch, and select the next higher gear ratio. When I do, my velocity will not decrease, but my rate of acceleration will be reduced for a brief moment, please forgive me. But if in the course of 100 yards, the distance between my rear bumper and your front, cycles between 2 and 50 feet, a dozen times, you might want to rethink what you are doing, who you are trying to impress, and whether or not it is working.
Setting yourself up in a position of sure victory, and then reveling in that glory......one possible definition of a jerk off.

That's right, its a rant about literal gears, grinding my gears! :mad: ;)
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That doesn't apply to the idiot who is sitting there futzing with phone or texting. Move your butt so others can get through the light.

I also drive an older pickup. I don't like the newer stuff. Never was impressed by speed since we had curvy roads that the muscle cars couldn't handle above the speed limit. I prefer a well handling car and not the newer ones, either.
 
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