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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

My connection's not running so slow now, except for this site. Is it normal for the site to be so slow at this time of day that I can look at four threads in another forum and make posts in another three all whilst waiting for one page here to load?
 
trying pinging the site to see your latency with the site. If you are running windows open command prompt and type

ping www.androidforums.com

my guess is that you are just experiencing a high latency with this site if you can load other sites just fine.
 
I knew about pinging but it's so many years since I'd actually done it I'd forgotten how. Didn't bother googling to find out either as I figured it wasn't going to make pages load any quicker...
 
Mikestony said:
Dripping gasoline on your cars paint after fueling.
No matter how careful I am when I pull the nozzle out, it happens:banghead:
Trivial, I know. :rolleyes:
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My rant is at the actually delivery system of gas. Every time I'm done filling up a couple drops fall to the ground when I hang up the pump... which may seem trivial, but if you multiply that by every person that gets gas, at every pump, every day... then it actually equates to a huge waste

http://smartassopium.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/wasting-gasoline-by-the-drop-literally/
 
Finding 150 year old mine shafts that arent shown on any geological surveys, whilst excavating for a road project. Now I've got a 4' diameter mine shaft exposed with at least 2' of water in it. WTH am I supposed to do with an uncharted mine shaft under a roadway? What am I supposed to do with the thousands of gallons of mine water?

I can haz a beer...or two...

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Granite1 said:
Finding 150 year old mine shafts that arent shown on any geological surveys, whilst excavating for a road project. Now I've got a 4' diameter mine shaft exposed with at least 2' of water in it. WTH am I supposed to do with an uncharted mine shaft under a roadway? What am I supposed to do with the thousands of gallons of mine water?

I can haz a beer...or two...
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You mean undocumented landmarks are a problem? I have deeds dealing with land delimited by a shared outhouse that probably rotted away in 1750. Never mind the one's about the corner of the lot that is a pile of stones known by the heirs of some dude that has been dead for 200 years.

I deal with stuff that predates not only the USA, but goes back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Town Charter was from some Earl in England, is rumored to be held in some library in New York. We had to do an eminent domain on a town owned parcel to create a deed book and page in order to sell a town owned parcel as we could not trace back to the 1600's for the original land grant.
 
Unforgiven said:
You mean undocumented landmarks are a problem? I have deeds dealing with land delimited by a shared outhouse that probably rotted away in 1750. Never mind the one's about the corner of the lot that is a pile of stones known by the heirs of some dude that has been dead for 200 years.

I deal with stuff that predates not only the USA, but goes back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Town Charter was from some Earl in England, is rumored to be held in some library in New York. We had to do an eminent domain on a town owned parcel to create a deed book and page in order to sell a town owned parcel as we could not trace back to the 1600's for the original land grant.
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1600s, eh? How quaint ;)

My brother's last house was 400 years old .. when Shakespeare was born. His bedroom door (to be fair, it looked like a garden gate that was well past it's sell by date) had been dated as over 1,000 years old*

The village I live in was already long established when William the Conquerer had the survey of his new realm taken and the details written in the Domesday book in 1086.



* he also swore it had magnetic floor. A special sort of magnetism that worked on cotton: as soon as any girl walked in, her knickers hit the floor :D
 
SiempreTuna said:
1600s, eh? How quaint ;)

My brother's last house was 400 years old .. when Shakespeare was born. His bedroom door (to be fair, it looked like a garden gate that was well past it's sell by date) had been dated as over 1,000 years old*

The village I live in was already long established when William the Conquerer had the survey of his new realm taken and the details written in the Domesday book in 1086.



* he also swore it had magnetic floor. A special sort of magnetism that worked on cotton: as soon as any girl walked in, her knickers hit the floor :D
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Living in a country that was only settled/invaded by westerners two hundred and thirty years ago, the idea of your culture's local history going back that far is sort of mind boggling. I love watching 'Time Team' and programs of that ilk (well, I did when I was into watching the idiot box) and still have many of the programs stored on HDD for watching occasionally.
 
I hate the fact that these days houses don't seem to be built to last. The current trend in Sydney is to buy, bulldoze and build again. They're putting up 'Mcmansions', two storey monstrosities that take up most of the building block. Horrible. We used to spend a lot of time out in the yard as children. Today's kids don't seem to want to play outside much, or their parents don't encourage them to...
 
general eclect said:
Living in a country that was only settled/invaded by westerners two hundred and thirty years ago, the idea of your culture's local history going back that far is sort of mind boggling. I love watching 'Time Team' and programs of that ilk (well, I did when I was into watching the idiot box) and still have many of the programs stored on HDD for watching occasionally.
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I feel exactly the same when I compare us to the Chinese, Egyptians, Iraqis, Greeks and Romans etc: we, too are relative newcomers to this whole civilisation thing :)

general eclect said:
I hate the fact that these days houses don't seem to be built to last
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To be fair: most of what was built in the past disappeared pretty quickly, too. And a lot of it probably wasn't missed :)

general eclect said:
The current trend in Sydney is to buy, bulldoze and build again. They're putting up 'Mcmansions', two storey monstrosities that take up most of the building block. Horrible.
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At least they're big. The UK has the smallest average house size in the whole of Europe. If you only included housing built in the last 30 years, the difference would be even worse. Friends visiting from Belgium and Spain and other places find it absolutely hilarious how much we pay for so little.

Yet for some reason, Brits have this absurd idea that high house prices are good. Which they are if you're a banker, builder or realtor. For everyone else they mean you pay a fortune to spend your life in a hovel. Where's the sense in that?

(This is the rant thread, right? :D)

general eclect said:
We used to spend a lot of time out in the yard as children. Today's kids don't seem to want to play outside much, or their parents don't encourage them to...
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Same here. We used to leave the house first thing and only come back for meals. You'd probably be arrested if you let your kids do that these days. I feel sorry for the kids.

The irony is that, despite what the shock jock press would have you believe, the world's actually a lot safer place for kids than it was back when I was a kid.
 
That trend of large houses will die out in a couple of years - got started here as everyone "wanted" a home theater with the largest TV screen they could find.

BTW - don't even mention that the huge TV room would work as a craft room. I sew and could use the space. I have friends that play with electronic components or do models, and they could use the space. The answer you get is you are supposed to only use the space for a home theater as the designer intended.

I've since seen articles that everyone has too much of their own space and it's fracturing families. Once stuff like this turns up, change is at least on the minds of some of the idiots.

Our house was built in the mid 70s. That designer had his head you-know-where, and nothing has changed since.
 
zuben el genub said:
That trend of large houses will die out in a couple of years - got started here as everyone "wanted" a home theater with the largest TV screen they could find.

BTW - don't even mention that the huge TV room would work as a craft room. I sew and could use the space. I have friends that play with electronic components or do models, and they could use the space. The answer you get is you are supposed to only use the space for a home theater as the designer intended.

I've since seen articles that everyone has too much of their own space and it's fracturing families. Once stuff like this turns up, change is at least on the minds of some of the idiots.

Our house was built in the mid 70s. That designer had his head you-know-where, and nothing has changed since.
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I have 8 people living in a 3BR 2BA 1400sq house... it is a bit too cozy for my liking.
 
Dngrsone said:
I have 8 people living in a 3BR 2BA 1400sq house... it is a bit too cozy for my liking.
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That does sound just a tad tight! :eek:

Mind you, with 8 people, twice that could still be tight ;)

Apparently, the average size of a new-built 3 bed house in the UK is 88m2 (947 square feet). Which is apparently under the govt. recommended size. You have to wonder how they get planning permission.

I'll stop there - don't want this getting tossed over the wall into politics ;)
 
huh said:
Maybe I didn't make it so clear in my rant but ..I was ranting about my birthday
coming up.. :rolleyes: It's not till Wednesday...However, I will happily and gratefully accept the Birthday wishes..Thank you very Much!!



PS..I'm feeling better about it now too..Think it's just especially hard for me for certain reasons and I hissy fit and get scared about it sometimes but..I realize that It's who you are on the inside that counts and I have a lot to be grateful for and to look forward to and...I won't babble on



oh yeah...plus.. also I got carded for my ID at dinner when I was with friends for a " girls night out" Saturday night...

..and then later .. a much younger bartender tried to hit on me ..so...;):p:D


anyway..

Thank you for the birthday luv:)
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Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!
 
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Well, April 11th was my 32nd Birthday. My girl forgot my B-day. Isn't historically the man who forgets? We have been together almost 2 years now and she has never got me even a Christmas or birthday present, but I haven't missed 1 of either for her. The first birthday and Christmas I can understand cause she wasn't working and had no $$. Hmmmmm..........

Not even a cake or made me breakfast (Which I consider as a present) She can't live without me, but at the same time doesn't appreciate either. I guess that's what I get for dating a woman who is 8 years younger. Tee hee
 
general eclect said:
I'd rather have cuddles then make love...
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I see what you did there... :rolleyes:

I've lost too much time acting as a taxi for a supposed adult because she can't get up when she is supposed to. Instead of driving two people to college one time, I get to make two separate trips. :mad:

And then, then IRS doesn't like my eFile submittal... I might have to mail my form in. :banghead:
 
Levi0187 said:
Well, April 11th was my 32nd Birthday. My girl forgot my B-day. Isn't historically the man who forgets? We have been together almost 2 years now and she has never got me even a Christmas or birthday present, but I haven't missed 1 of either for her. The first birthday and Christmas I can understand cause she wasn't working and had no $$. Hmmmmm..........

Not even a cake or made me breakfast (Which I consider as a present) She can't live without me, but at the same time doesn't appreciate either. I guess that's what I get for dating a woman who is 8 years younger. Tee hee
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Sounds like someone is due for an upgrade. :D
 
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