What Grinds your Gears?

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Annoying people with mics online... And people who ram you and ruin your cars nice paintjob.
 
axletramp
Surely the law of averages means that sooner or later you'll live somewhere where there's been a death. Especially if you live in an old people's home...
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Well my house is 110 years old this year, so it's a fair bet someone had sidled off this mortal coil at some point in here. Hopefully it was whoever put a good thick later of white gloss on all the fireplaces...
 
ScouserInExile
Well my house is 110 years old this year, so it's a fair bet someone had sidled off this mortal coil at some point in here. Hopefully it was whoever put a good thick later of white gloss on all the fireplaces...
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Holy damn, your house is 110 years old? Wow! Here in the desert, 20+ years is considered old, courtesy of tons and tons of new construction.
 
Useless school projects. Why do I need to research a toy for a Business Tech class? At least Hot Wheel cars are easy to research :lol:
 
ilikewaffles11
Useless school projects. Why do I need to research a toy for a Business Tech class? At least Hot Wheel cars are easy to research :lol:
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Sounds like fun to me :dopey:


What's grinding my gears today is the practice standardized writing test we took at school this morning. The testing session lasted only for 45 minutes, and I used each one to the last second. I planned as my English teacher recommends, and build off from there. I ended up covering both front and back pages, and used up all of the lines. The prompt was something that was pretty tough to insert a couple of anecdotes (it's about your future career), so I started off with a short explanation and a couple of examples, and hopefully the test graders accept this structure. The conclusion was tough too, as I had only 2-3 lines for it. So I avoided a line break and went straight to indenting, and tried to utilize my highest vocabulary during the time w/o extending off the page, and I did pretty well maintaining that. Unfortunately it was the worst part of the essay but I guess that's what conclusions only need to have: Just a re-stated thesis statement, right? And so why this is grinding my gears is because it will be speculated by a number of magnet schools in my county, and be part of my application if I'm interested in joining next year, which I so planning to do. So I'm pretty nervous of how the score will look like :scared:

I'm not sure if any other county, state, country, etc., does similar testing but according to district representatives, it is a requirement for higher learning around the nation.
 
When you're told there are no due dates for assignments by your teacher, then he says assignment is due tomorrow. Then you get yelled at because the teacher says that he is 'always right'. Lying 🤬. He doesn't even teach us!
 
VANDENAL
When you're told there are no due dates for assignments by your teacher, then he says assignment is due tomorrow. Then you get yelled at because the teacher says that he is 'always right'. Lying 🤬. He doesn't even teach us!
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True that. My biology teacher assigns something, and we never go over it, so when I leave a question blank because I don't understand, and I forget about, not only do I learn nothing, but two weeks later when we finally have to turn it in it isn't done.

Also grinding my gears today is having a stupid substitute in geometry which I can't learn sh-...stuff from.

And writing song lyrics is very frustrating, because they look good when I write them, but the next day they seem horrid.
 
My English teacher. She's Bosnian but it seems like she can barely speak English. Well, she has an accent. :rolleyes: and everything I hand in always gets a 75 because it's not good enough I guess. :( so my grade right now is like 75-80 and when I checked my progress report it's a bunch of 75s. :(

And we got a book today that alot of people I know have said that, it sucks.
 
Yeah, and that teacher hates me. My other 2 teachers love me. I have a 96% in Accounting, an 80% in International Business, a 93% in Information Tech. In communications I have less than 60% I think.
 
Speaking of assignments... another gear grinder.

In English class we were given a project where we must research our dream job/career. Tell everything about it, what it is, what you have to do, why do you want this job/career. Then the worst part, you have to have an interview of someone who has that job! W. T. F. How is anyone going to pull that off? :grumpy:
 
Dooglers8
Holy damn, your house is 110 years old? Wow! Here in the desert, 20+ years is considered old, courtesy of tons and tons of new construction.
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It's sufficiently old that the title deeds (the bit of paper that say who items the place, if this it's something unique to the uk) are hand written. Not even done on a typewriter, worm with a fountain pen.

And judging by the number of leaks, our still had the original roof. The gutters are still cast iron as well, none of your aluminium or plastic here!
 
ScouserInExile
Well my house is 110 years old this year, so it's a fair bet someone had sidled off this mortal coil at some point in here. Hopefully it was whoever put a good thick later of white gloss on all the fireplaces...
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:lol: Don't you love the over use of gloss paint. It comes off like sheet metal... eventually!
 
VANDENAL
When you're told there are no due dates for assignments by your teacher, then he says assignment is due tomorrow. Then you get yelled at because the teacher says that he is 'always right'. Lying 🤬. He doesn't even teach us!
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Believe me. 85% of teachers believe that they are ALWAYS right.
 
When teachers give out homework regardless of whether we have assignments to do or not *sigh*
 
Speaking of teachers...

...what grinds my gears? When teachers abuse their power over the kids. At my school almost everyone of them does it! I'm talking about, how when they accuse you of doing something wrong, you can't defend yourself, even if you know FOR A FACT, that your innocent.

I was pulled up at lunch, they accused me of saying **** in the hallway to lunch, which I certainly did not! I tried to tell them, but no matter what, they never listened to me. After they would stop talking, I would try and give them my side, yet they would just interrupt me. Eventually I said, "No, both of you are wrong, I'm right, and your wrongly accusing me, so if you don't mind, I'd like to eat my lunch." Of course that got me in more trouble, but I eventually proved I was right. All that could have been done to save us from that mess is if they would just listen! We do it for them, they should do it for us once in a while!
 
granturismite
Christmas 🤬 in November. It's bleeding November, why, oh why is Christmas stuff flying everywhere? grrrrrrr....
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I feel the exact same way. I'm getting desensitized to it before it's even here, which makes it so that the decorations aren't as enjoyable when they get here. I saw lights, yes, you heard me, CHRISTMAS LIGHTS last night! What's wrong with people? When did Thanksgiving die?
 
ParkourVeyron
I feel the exact same way. I'm getting desensitized to it before it's even here, which makes it so that the decorations aren't as enjoyable when they get here. I saw lights, yes, you heard me, CHRISTMAS LIGHTS last night! What's wrong with people? When did Thanksgiving die?
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Well in Canada its somewhat understandable, as Thanksgiving and Halloween are both in October, after which the next holiday is Christmas.

We used to keep our Christmas lights up all year round :lol:, that would probably make you go insane. :lol:
 
ParkourVeyron
I feel the exact same way. I'm getting desensitized to it before it's even here, which makes it so that the decorations aren't as enjoyable when they get here. I saw lights, yes, you heard me, CHRISTMAS LIGHTS last night! What's wrong with people? When did Thanksgiving die?
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Over here in the UK it's really bad. Christmas advertisements were appearing around 3 weeks ago both on the TV and in the street.

Keeping my religious beliefs out of it, I still think Christmas is too commercialised. I'm not sure how others feel but it's just all about money everywhere nowadays. :(
 
VANDENAL
We used to keep our Christmas lights up all year round :lol:, that would probably make you go insane. :lol:
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I'd shoot myself.
TankAss95
Over here in the UK it's really bad. Christmas advertisements were appearing around 3 weeks ago both on the TV and in the street.
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Wow, over here they only started putting small displays up in super stores. (Walmart) They started showing commercials November 1st.
 
Thank God I dodge all the Xmas crap over here. I have to put up with the Spring Festival nonsense though, but that usually includes fireworks being allowed in the city, and me buying a load of them to shoot off of my balcony. Fun times.
 
ParkourVeyron
I'd shoot myself.

Wow, over here they only started putting small displays up in super stores. (Walmart) They started showing commercials November 1st.
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There's a radio-station in Detroit that plays Christmas songs non-stop from November 1st to the end of December 31st. I considered calling the FCC to shut it down.
 
shem
Thank God I dodge all the Xmas crap over here. I have to put up with the Spring Festival nonsense though, but that usually includes fireworks being allowed in the city, and me buying a load of them to shoot off of my balcony. Fun times.
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Wow, you get to shoot fireworks of your balcony? In Virginia we're not allowed to shoot off fireworks, we only buy the little fountains. But 30% of our neighbors don't give a crap about that law, and they usually put on a good show.
VANDENAL
There's a radio-station in Detroit that plays Christmas songs non-stop from November 1st to the end of December 31st. I considered calling the FCC to shut it down.
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We have something like that here, but I don't think they've started yet.
 
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