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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Thanks frisco and always wanted to be a stripper. I would be the first one that would be paid to keep my clothes on.

I have family and friends that is there for me and only have hope that tomorrow is a better day. In the mean time as I have a lot of free time. I offer my services to be a mod.:eek::p


So for now I am working on my pan handling skills and in need of a can:D
 
Dark Jedi said:
Go in to work and get my evaluation. Got a good eval and then the supervisor says works been slow and dont see it getting better so we have to lay you off. So yeah happened to day.
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DJ, man! I am sorry to hear that. I was hoping otherwise. The economy has been bad since early 2000's and finally catching up to effecting daily living.
 
oh its ok as I will be one of those dead beats that sucks off the system for awhile lol.
 
I hate video instruction manuals! Especially the ones that come with software. You can't bookmark, copy, or print only one section like a print manual, you have to search through the video if it doesn't have chapters! I can understand the cost of print, but dammit, a PDF is electronic! I'll print it myself.
 
I really, really hate slow drivers. I just want to ram my cars into theirs so that maybe they'll speed up or something.

I also hate Justin Bieber... I don't get why he's famous. He sounds like a whiny cat being strangled with copied Beatles' hair.
 
People who would rather save a burning animal shelter over a burning orphanage grind my gears... Seriously had this conversation with a coworker....... Gotta love crazy humane societies.......
 
Why the HELL does every freaking urinal I see have a disgusting, sticky puddle underneath it??!

Now I have to scrape my new shoes in wet grass to get all that piss off!

MEN ARE PIGS!!!
 
Wooow I am such a good mood right now that even getting stabbed by some complete strneger wouldn't even get me down right now I am laughing so hard! :)

lol nothing grinds my gears!

:D
 
  • The new law that allows you not to use your turn signal if your using your phone in your left hand.
  • The new that allows you to finish your conversation before proceeding through an intersection when you have the green light.
  • The new way to drive is faster when talking and slower when listening, in the passing lane on interstate.
 
Lost mail grinds my gears. I ordered a pizza costume off the internet last week that ended up being too small. I sent it back for a larger size and it got lost in the mail. Thanks a lot FedEx. Spent 20 bucks at a store for a Luigi costume and it was well worth it.
 
Pill commercials that try to convince the audience that even though a guy may have ED he's still a man because he can still use horses to get out of the mud or can fix his classic muscle car when it breaks down on the road. It's funny that in a society that defines a man by the abilities of his organ, we have a commercial that tries to portray men doing "manly" things even though they pop little blue pills. "OMG I CAN HAZ THOZE PILLZ TOO?"


Miller light's commercial line "Man up" is up there with the pill commercials (pun intended). Again marketers trying to define what it is to be a man. And to add insult to injury, they're trying to tell us that Miller LIGHT is what makes a man. Considering that piss water is practically water, I don't see it. I mean if was a beer as thick and bold as lets say Guinness beer that's one thing, Miller Light is just barely above a wine cooler IMO.


And finally what USED to grind my gears before I dumped cable is all those commercials that would advertise the same movie playing for the whole weekend as if it was some great benefit to the consumer. "THREE DAYS TO WATCH WEEKEND AT BERNIES! FRIDAY NIGHT, SATURDAY NIGHT, OR SUNDAY NIGHT!! CHOOSE WHICH DAY TO WATCH!!"
 
zuben el genub said:
@TxGoat

You must love the new Dr. Pepper 10 Cal. ad. Only 10 manly calories, not for women.
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I find that one a little humorous if outright silly. The ones that really get me are the Viagra commercials. The whole idea of tweaking your libido with a pill is one thing, but then the commercials that try to convince you that you're still a man even if you need a little pill to get it up. I guess that's what we get for living in a society that measures manhood by the size of our erections.
 
TxGoat said:
I guess that's what we get for living in a society that measures manhood by the size of our erections.
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Or the frequency of them. Those medications used to be focused on a condition that some people have wrt inability to arrive at and maintain sexual function. Now they seem to be telling men that they're supposed to be doing that all the time or they're just not real men.

They've been doing that to women for ages with makeup, lingerie, perfumes and hair coloring.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I feel that our man or womanhood has to do with things that don't cost anything at all, let alone pushed into our faces by Wall Street billionaire ad agencies.
 
Frisco said:
Or the frequency of them. Those medications used to be focused on a condition that some people have wrt inability to arrive at and maintain sexual function. Now they seem to be telling men that they're supposed to be doing that all the time or they're just not real men.

They've been doing that to women for ages with makeup, lingerie, perfumes and hair coloring.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I feel that our man or womanhood has to do with things that don't cost anything at all, let alone pushed into our faces by Wall Street billionaire ad agencies.
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Definitely, especially the whole, "You have to drink this, eat this, do this in order to be recognized as a "man/woman/trend setter" in our society". To some extent it provides comic relief for me, but sadly we have a growing group of young impressionable minds that take these ads at face value. I have to admit that I've been guilty of falling for the hype.

I remember a certain pair of David Robinson Nike Air Force pump shoes that I was convinced would allow me to be a better basketball player. One hundred and fifty dollars later I had a pair of "moon boots" that had dual-chamber air pockets (one for the arch and one for the ankle IIRC). After about 6 months I wound up giving the shoes away to my younger brother.


I read on the news a few weeks ago that the UK is banning some makeup ad that shows an obvious photo shop of some model (Julia Roberts I believe) that pretends to demonstrate how effective their anti-wrinkle cream is, when in fact it's the photoshop that helps get rid of the wrinkles. I wish our law makers were so bold.
 
I've always argued with commercials - pet remark is usually BULLSHIT. I learned to get around a lot of it by making or doing things my way. I can sew - so whatever fashion dictates is never worn or made.

There were two books put out in the early 60s. One was The Status Seekers, and the other, The Hidden Persuaders. Both by Vance Packard. If you read those books, you always thought before believing any BS.

I can't be pigeonholed in demographics which suits me just fine.
 
People who don't get the concept of using a blinker....Come to a complete stop where there's no turning lane, and THEN flip their blinkers....No you IDIOT, you SIGNAL to the people around you that you're ABOUT TO MAKE A TURN, AND THEN YOU STOP/SLOW DOWN to make the turn....
 
TxGoat said:
People who don't get the concept of using a blinker....Come to a complete stop where there's no turning lane, and THEN flip their blinkers....No you IDIOT, you SIGNAL to the people around you that you're ABOUT TO MAKE A TURN, AND THEN YOU STOP/SLOW DOWN to make the turn....
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How about people who don't use a blinker at all. Makes me want to ram into them so hard.
 
TxGoat said:
People who don't get the concept of using a blinker....Come to a complete stop where there's no turning lane, and THEN flip their blinkers....No you IDIOT, you SIGNAL to the people around you that you're ABOUT TO MAKE A TURN, AND THEN YOU STOP/SLOW DOWN to make the turn....
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You can add the people that turn on their blinkers and really slow down well (2 blocks worth) before the stop sign. Especially if there are other side roads or parking lots to turn into.
 
Mada said:
How about people who don't use a blinker at all. Makes me want to ram into them so hard.
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"Yeah! I HATE it when that happens!"..[..said in a scratchy raspy voice!...]

zuben el genub said:
You can add the people that turn on their blinkers and really slow down well (2 blocks worth) before the stop sign. Especially if there are other side roads or parking lots to turn into.
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Yeah!....and add to THAT: youre speeding up because some gooon's all up in your tail-pipe (heh heh)...then they speed around in front of you......only to slowdown to turn in the next right turn......what thu...?
 
Yea, really annoys me especially in the mornings because if I'm late for school, its a Saturday detention and they don't take any excuses like "a wreck, traffic backed up" or all that so I never have time to deal with Sunday drivers or people-who-don't-realize-they-have-a-blinker.
My commute is already ~35 40 minutes one way.
 
Rico ANDROID said:
Yeah!....and add to THAT: youre speeding up because some gooon's all up in your tail-pipe (heh heh)
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Thats when I show them how good my brakes are. You should see a person when you lock it up on the interstate because they are so close you cant even see the lights from their headlights. I did that to a rustang and lets just say he wont be doing that again for a long time. Wife said your going to get a ticket doing that crap. I looked at her and said didn't you see that dog run out in front of us? :p
 
^ Must admit that that is something I've always wanted to do. I slow down for tailgaters when traffic doesn't allow them to pass. I have no problem adding 1 minute to my commute to piss off bad drivers :)

And in regards to the dr. pepper 10 commercials, I just love them. Be manly. Watch this cheesy action movie. Dr. Pepper 10, no women. We are men. Very silly, quite entertaining.
 
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