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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Unforgiven said:
In the US, the buyer makes an offer, the seller accepts the offer, and it is formalized in a purchase and sale agreement. Once that is executed there are prescribed penalties in the contract should either party back out or attempt to change the terms.
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The shortage is in more affordable housing. Older homes, smaller homes. The idiot developers here keep building bigger and bigger. I wouldn't want a large house. I don't like housework. Our house was built in the 70s and agents keep pestering us to sell and upgrade. That's why we are cell phone only. I hold the account, so I get pestered rather than the Vulcan. The OP5 has a built in call blocker.
 
At our old place (a little cape cod) I've had realtors flat out say that they could 20% over market value and sell it in a week. When we finally did sell it, we did it privately (with an attorney and not an agent) and sold it for less than the realtors wanted to list it for but took more money from settlement because we didn't have and commissions to pay. :D
 
I'm in the process of selling my father's house. He died many years ago but his will provided that his wife could live there as long as she liked. She is requiring assisted living now.. she's 96. She has moved out so it's time to sell. I'm taking an offer from a neighbor though it's below appraisal. No agents and no inspections as well as a quick closing seems attractive. I could sell it for more if I cared to market the dwelling and perhaps sit on the property and it's upkeep and expense for a while. By the time I have to factor in the capital gains from the time I inherited the property until now... selling for less is not a big deal. :) Besides, with an agent expense, his offer is not that far from a decent deal.
 
Irony of finding more and more reasons to be single, had to go throughout the worst pit of hell today, social secuirty officee, and they said "Hey man, we will give you 600% monthly fee if you lived until 1 billion years of age." Seriously I am still thinking the grim reaper has much more better things to do then, to off me.
 
Dear family,

Effective immediately, I will no longer be acting as your personal cellphone equipment and billing manager. I'm just plain done with all of you (except my own kid, of course).

Sure, I will help your son port his number to GV because he went out and got a new account/number so he could get that "free" iPhone X. No problem, just don't cancel his old line yet, it has to be active and he has to call me. It's been a whole week and he hasn't called, I've texted him and checked your account so we can get this done. OH? You called to have his line cancelled because he decided not to worry about it? Well, had you told me that I wouldn't have just undone that cancellation nor wondered why he never called me. Thanks. Done.

Your 10 year old messed your phone up again and you don't know how to fix it again? Sure, I'll figure it out but why the hell do you let her have it in the first place? You need that phone as your whole work and personal life is on it. You're welcome for fixing it, again, but friggin' stop letting her use it. Thanks. Done.

Remember all the times I told you to stop charging/plugging in all day long? Your battery won't die, 75% is not almost dead. Stay away from the charger, except at night, that's all you need. OH, you need a new phone now because the charger port is broken? Sure, I'll get right on that. Thanks. Done.

No, I don't know how to fix your iPhone. No, I have no idea what you did to it. Perhaps take it to an Apple store. You know, I have Android and hate your stupid Apple phone. Don't get curt with me over that. Thanks. Done.

Sincerely,
No longer a nice person
 
Potholes and cars with no spare wheel. So didn't see a pothole until the last second and since it was on a blind corner I couldn't go round it. I hit it at about 30mph and long story short it blew my tyre. Now if I had a spare it wouldn't have been too much of a problem but all my car came with was one of those tyre in a can fix kits. These only work on small punctures so I had to take a mile round trip carrying my wheel to get a new tyre. I suppose it could've been worse, it could've blown my rear tyre as well :D
 
Shotgun84 said:
Potholes and cars with no spare wheel. So didn't see a pothole until the last second and since it was on a blind corner I couldn't go round it. I hit it at about 30mph and long story short it blew my tyre. Now if I had a spare it wouldn't have been too much of a problem but all my car came with was one of those tyre in a can fix kits. These only work on small punctures so I had to take a mile round trip carrying my wheel to get a new tyre. I suppose it could've been worse, it could've blown my rear tyre as well :D
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No spare wheel? Join the club. What is it with car manufacturers that don't include this essential piece of kit as standard. And what moron buys the car, and doesn't get the optional extra spare wheel, instead of the tinted windows?!
I've been trying to source a spare wheel ever since I bought my car. Stealer wants at least £600 for this!
 
LV426 said:
No spare wheel? Join the club. What is it with car manufacturers that don't include this essential piece of kit as standard. And what moron buys the car, and doesn't get the optional extra spare wheel, instead of the tinted windows?!
I've been trying to source a spare wheel ever since I bought my car. Stealer wants at least £600 for this!
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Well this moron here lol. Not really an option for a second hand car though. I get what you mean though. If I was splashing out on a brand new car I'd definitely pay the insignificant extra for the spare wheel. I really don't get the point of the fix kits. Even if you just had a nail in your tyre once you've filled the tyre with the can you need a new one anyway as there's no way to repair it anymore. I guess they don't have the spare wheel as standard as manufactures are pressured into being as eco as possible and no spare wheel saves a bit of weight :thinking:
 
Shotgun84 said:
Well this moron here lol. Not really an option for a second hand car though. I get what you mean though. If I was splashing out on a brand new car I'd definitely pay the insignificant extra for the spare wheel. I really don't get the point of the fix kits. Even if you just had a nail in your tyre once you've filled the tyre with the can you need a new one anyway as there's no way to repair it anymore. I guess they don't have the spare wheel as standard as manufactures are pressured into being as eco as possible and no spare wheel saves a bit of weight :thinking:
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Wasn't meaning 2nd hand buyers. I did the same. You take whatever's available at the best deal. None of the cars I looked at had the spare wheel. But when you consider the stuff people put on their new cars, like auto-dimming rear view mirrors, and crap like that, you just think the money would be better spent on the spare wheel.
A bit naughty of manufacturers to make this an option, I suspect it's a cost saving exercise for them. It costs a *lot* more to fit it after market, than to get it as an optional extra on a new car, for some stupid reason. Probably clawing as much as possible out of the poor second hand car buyers. And yes, the puncture repair kit is about as useful as a piece of chewing gum. Tell you what, save the weight of that, and don't supply anything. We'll just call out the AA, or mobile tyre replacement guys.
Anyway, being eco is easy these days - you just fiddle the emissions tests don't you? :)
 
LV426 said:
Wasn't meaning 2nd hand buyers. I did the same. You take whatever's available at the best deal. None of the cars I looked at had the spare wheel. But when you consider the stuff people put on their new cars, like auto-dimming rear view mirrors, and crap like that, you just think the money would be better spent on the spare wheel.
A bit naughty of manufacturers to make this an option, I suspect it's a cost saving exercise for them. It costs a *lot* more to fit it after market, than to get it as an optional extra on a new car, for some stupid reason. Probably clawing as much as possible out of the poor second hand car buyers. And yes, the puncture repair kit is about as useful as a piece of chewing gum. Tell you what, save the weight of that, and don't supply anything. We'll just call out the AA, or mobile tyre replacement guys.
Anyway, being eco is easy these days - you just fiddle the emissions tests don't you? :)
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Don't worry, I know you didn't mean us second hand buyers. I wish it was that easy to fiddle the emissions test for me. I had all sorts of problems getting through that when my cat went. A decent cat would've cost over a grand so I had to put a £100 one on which was likely to last a couple hundred miles. Put a £100 de cat pipe on after until next MOT day. Oh wait maybe I did fiddle the emissions test :eek:
 
Stateside they are required to include what we call a "donut." It is a temporary tire, only rated to go 50 miles and 50 MPH. It has a little rim and a little tire.
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What about runners, and cyclists who tear around residential areas at breakneck speed. Yeah, I understand you need to run fast to train, I'm a runner myself. But don't you think running at top speed on a footpath, around a blind corner is a little reckless? Would you say this isn't really an appropriate place to be doing your speed training? Anybody with half an ounce of consideration would do this on a fairly open, straight road, with plenty of visibility.
Case in point, the Mrs was out walking the dog the other night, and a fool runner almost wiped her and the dog out. Now aside from the injury to the poor pedestrians, there's a high possibility that the runner himself would get injured, and possibly not be able to train for a while. I know how annoying that is.
So let's apply a bit of common sense eh?
 
LV426 said:
What about runners, and cyclists who tear around residential areas at breakneck speed. Yeah, I understand you need to run fast to train, I'm a runner myself. But don't you think running at top speed on a footpath, around a blind corner is a little reckless? Would you say this isn't really an appropriate place to be doing your speed training? Anybody with half an ounce of consideration would do this on a fairly open, straight road, with plenty of visibility.
Case in point, the Mrs was out walking the dog the other night, and a fool runner almost wiped her and the dog out. Now aside from the injury to the poor pedestrians, there's a high possibility that the runner himself would get injured, and possibly not be able to train for a while. I know how annoying that is.
So let's apply a bit of common sense eh?
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They are "entitled".
We walk on a popular nature trail that is wide enough for a car. There are usually mothers who have one child in a stroller, another toddler walking beside the stroller and 2 dogs on leashes. I'm waiting for a collision as the bikers come through full blast. The riders also don't seem to recognize white canes.
 
zuben el genub said:
They are "entitled".
We walk on a popular nature trail that is wide enough for a car. There are usually mothers who have one child in a stroller, another toddler walking beside the stroller and 2 dogs on leashes. I'm waiting for a collision as the bikers come through full blast. The riders also don't seem to recognize white canes.
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Bikes are easy to deal with. All you need is a well timed stick through the spokes. :)
 
Every time I go to the local dump with some rubbish I get disheartened. It brings home just how poor a job of waste management the human race is doing.
I try my best to separate the metal, plastic, wood (etc) and put it in the relevant skips, but I still see an awful lot of crap going in the "general" waste skip. What happens to this stuff? Landfill?
You know, I bet future generations will look at this and say "What?! You mean they just dug big holes and put all this junk in here for us to sort out. How bloody lazy is that?!!"
<sigh>
 
That moment when one of your friends says don't let the dog bring in grass or his wife will be pissed off. We managed to clear up most of it when the inevitable happened. The last bit I picked up I got a bite from a rottweiler and then got kicked out for making him bark. At least the rottweiler was sympathetic and apologized :mad:
 
LV426 said:
Every time I go to the local dump with some rubbish I get disheartened. It brings home just how poor a job of waste management the human race is doing.
I try my best to separate the metal, plastic, wood (etc) and put it in the relevant skips, but I still see an awful lot of crap going in the "general" waste skip. What happens to this stuff? Landfill?
You know, I bet future generations will look at this and say "What?! You mean they just dug big holes and put all this junk in here for us to sort out. How bloody lazy is that?!!"
<sigh>
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I get what you mean. I always try but I won't lie to you, sometimes I'm a bit lazy when it comes to recycling. One recycling bin for four flats here :thinking: I suppose as long as Elon Musk keeps doing what he's doing then worst case we can send it to Mars to meet us there :)
 
dontpanicbobby said:
People who just quit smoking who keep saying "You really should quit smoking" like you think smoking is a good thing and not an addiction.
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It's hard, trust me I tried, succeeded and failed within a month a few times. Vape instead mate. Can't guarantee it's better but it can't be worse ;)
 
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