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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?
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going to work at 9pm
Thefoodman52
Android Expert
Those ass hat college kids who drive around at 60 miles an hour on a 45 road, and cut everyone off, swerving from lane to lane, just to make it to the red light first because they've overslept for their class, and everyone else's lives around them in their cars is less important than theirs and getting to class late.
Familyguy1
Android Enthusiast
People that DO NOT know what they are talking about, so they just insert a witty(read: stupid) thing to make them look like they are thinking about it. 
NYCHitman1
Gun for Hire
When people write "k" instead of "ok"
seventyriffic
Lurker
Ok....this is really random.....but i just put some shell gasoline in my car (2000 Xterra) instead of my usual Costco gasoline.....and it's causing my engine to knock
that sucks
that sucks
Life
/carry on
/carry on
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
Well, let us be fair. Blame the consumers for putting up with the inferior crap. At least in part. If we stopped buying, things would perhaps change. We wont so we get what we get.
You can still buy quality and when you make side by side comparisons of products from the Good Old Days with their modern equivelant, you will be sad.
I can speak about Vintage Bikes, Banjos, Fountain Pens, and other things and how the old compares to the new. If you want quality, either buy and restore the old, or pay for the new stuff made by quality manufacturers.
Everything has a quality counterpart. Quality is costly, and we wont generally purchase it.
I remember inexpensife steel and chrome car parts. Replaced by cheap plastic. Steel is better, but plastic is cheaper to make. That is an opinion only; i still love cast iron engines and lead body work.
I recently looked at a imported banjo. A true piece of 350.00 crap. Then I looked at a new Deering, a work of art. Deering can sell you a $60,000.00 instrument and i guarantee the quality is high.
Finally, companies need to be competitive so they have to cheapen up their products or costs will kill them in the marketplace.
Cheers and I'll shut the hell up.
Bob
How a teacher expects their students to do work when they can't FORGE their own lesson plans. Talk about reverse plagiarism... SHEESH!The teachers I had for JAVA and C++ were useless. The JAVA and C++3 teacher wouldn't provide any help when asked. I would go to him with questions about JAVA assignments and he would ask what I thought should be done? Well, I already tried what I THOUGHT, jackass, that's why I'm here.
My C++2 teacher was a Chinese woman who literally used another professor's syllabus/lesson plan. She even had the audacity to leave that teacher's name on all of the presentation materials. Talk about lazy.
I ended up failing JAVA because I couldn't get the projects done on time (I was taking C++3, senior project class where I did all of the development, and ASP.NET class). Thankfully the department head let me take a DB class at another school to count as a credit.
It's rather nice that Visual Studio does a lot of the menial tasks for me. I shouldn't have to hand-code control signatures or ASP.NET control markup.
By the way... It was kind of on the cool side today and I'm not looking forward to winter. Although, I cursed the heat during the depths of summer. The grass is always greener... right?
I'm so with you there. Looking forward to winter, that is until it actually gets here.....
harukasan73
Android Enthusiast
You know what bugs me? When I ask a question, and I state that a did a search on it, and someone basically calls me stupid, because they did a search too and found answers! I hate people that rub thier "brilliance" in your face. "Oh look at me! Im know something you dont ha ha that makes me better than you" Well I wont be impressed until you can hammer a 6 inch spike through a board with your penis! So there!
I feel your pain harukasan! Remember in the bottom right hand corner is
Back on topic now
I hate it when people are driven away from AF because of one or more users being an *ss. Not saying that is the case here because i have no knowledge of your specific rant
Come back now ya hear!
harukasan73
Android Enthusiast
I really hate it when people just assume that I can't drive a 6 inch spike through a board with my penis.
Well can you or not? lmao!
harukasan73
Android Enthusiast
Back on topic now
I hate it when people are driven away from AF because of one or more users being an *ss. Not saying that is the case here because i have no knowledge of your specific rant
Come back now ya hear!
You must have read my conversation with another member that did not understand my problem, lol Im afraid I went overboard with my response, but geez I just dont like it when someone makes me feel like I'm stupid because I ask a question... I was told growing up, there are no stupid questions, and I guess because I am a mom, I get used to answering all kinds of questions from my 5 kids with much more patience than you can imagine... try explaining to your 9 year old what a mouth orgasm or a condom is because she heard her older brother talk about them. *eyes roll*
So I suppose I hope for everyone to answer questions with the same patience I give my kids, lol
Another pet peeve.... I hate when people dont put the grocery carts they used back! They are attracted to my truck, and that just burns my bottom!
jayjay1122
Android Expert
An oldie but goody that just popped back into my head because I traveled for work this week:
People who approach the airport security checkpoints that are not prepared and why always get into the line behind them!!!
You should not be sent back to the "machine" 4 times because you forgot to take off your belt, then your shoes, then your phone, then your ????
People who approach the airport security checkpoints that are not prepared and why always get into the line behind them!!!
You should not be sent back to the "machine" 4 times because you forgot to take off your belt, then your shoes, then your phone, then your ????
eyebeam
Extreme Android User
Well, I honestly haven't tried it, but I'd have to guess that I could not.
Maybe when I was younger... Back on topic, I don't understand why, if someone knows where a helpful thread, they'll post to tell someone to look for it, but they can't be bothered to take the time to post a link to it. The search here leaves a lot to be desired, IMO. I've searched for a thread that I know the exact name of, and still had trouble finding it. For instance, on the 3rd page of results, bellow a slew of threads that have nothing to do with my search.
On the other hand, I've also seen many examples of someone posting something that is already being discussed just a few threads bellow and is clearly addressed in the thread title. I have a lot less empathy for such laziness.
harukasan73
Android Enthusiast
I have a new rant, argh and this one really ticks me off something fierce! When my boys are playing Modern Warfare 2, and whenever my boys kills someone, the stupid F-***** respond by questioning my kids sexuality, by calling them gay, F*ggots, and they tell them they are going to kick thier *sses, or whatever... then my 4 year old walks by, hears this crap, and starts calling everything gay which really ticks me off, because Im trying to teach my kids tolerance, and years of hard work goes down the drain with these dumb pecker faces' comments. So I have to get on the mic, and cuss them out, and come up with some very clever new swear words and put these arse ***** in thier place. I cant stand that game! its the same thing over and over again, people cussing, people dying doodoodoodoodoodoo pow pow pow pewpewpew, *insert heavy breathing here*, frag frag frag, nuke, nuke, nuke, oh look I got the crap shot out of me, and Im going to yell and complain because I think Im so awesome no one should shoot me, oh and all of a sudden I am healed and respawned!!! wow this must be like real life! Cool! Oh how super, I can play a game that takes no brains at all, and its the same thing over and over and over, cool repetition makes life so exciting, how full of awesomness am I?!!! Oh and Im so uneducated all I know how to do is swear, and piss and moan about the campers, and the boosters, wah wah wah.... oh, play a game that uses actual thoughts? ha! I couldnt possibly because I enjoy it when perfect strangers call me F*ggots and mother F'ers all day long!
gingergirl
Well-Known Member
I love to drive... it's a passion... BUT... if I can't see your front end in my rear-view.... well... the gears in my head start to GRIND... big, big time
Thornfullessrose
Android Expert
whats grinding my gears right now is that tide commercial where the mom lies about wearing the daughter's shirt then at that she wasn't responsible enough to put her daughter's shirt back but left it at the bottom of her dirty clothes hamper with a huge stain on it. WHAT A ROLE MODEL SHE IS TO HER DAUGHTER!
harukasan73
Android Enthusiast
I just posted like 4 comments on FB today, and not one single friend has said anything to me... hmmmmm.... what do I have to do? post a nudey video on there?! lol
eyebeam
Extreme Android User
Might work... But my wife says (I'm not on FB) posting a funny cat video works every time.