What Grinds your Gears?

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I've started... Well, I've written the title. :lol: The more I look at it, the harder it seems to be. :grumpy:
 
There is this company that calls me every single day. I only answered it once, I have no clue what they're on about, but its really annoying.
 
People who don't kill IMG or YOUTUBE tags when quoting people.

I sometimes wish people who quoted large images get a warning/infraction.
 
race'emhard
There is this company that calls me every single day. I only answered it once, I have no clue what they're on about, but its really annoying.

Answer and freak the 🤬 out on them, my father taught me that at work. :p
 
A reverse prank call? I like that idea, maybe I'll record it and put it up on Youtube or something.
 
Put the phone next to the computer speaker after you answer it, and use an Al Pacino Soundboard in order to respond to them. Hilarity insues (hopefully).
 
Today really sucks. I was hoping to get a longboard from my old friend for $50, then ride it to get a haircut and ride home. It is worth much more, so it's a good deal, and I need a haircut. Well, last night my mother informed me that family is coming over today, very extended family that I haven't seen since I was a toddler. This will not only be awkward, but they are coming over around 4:00, which is when I was supposed to leave to get this longboard. That means waiting until next week sometime, when it will probably drop down to the 30 and 20-degree range once again.

Also, something else happened today, but this will be a long rant, probably, so be warned!

Ok, so before I get started, there needs to be some background information, which I will explain: A few months ago, around September-ish, my girlfriend's depression was really bad, and she decided to be careless when she got sore one night and almost overdosed on OTC painkillers. She told her dad about it before she would've passed out, and it ended up being fine. She knows it had a deep impact on me, and being that most other kids didn't want to talk about it because they wanted to avoid the subject, she took it as me and her dad being the only ones who cared. Later on, a couple months later, her friend did the same, although more for attention. (She is a dumb typical female) Everything ended up fine from that. Now, today, that same friend was texting my girlfriend about her brother who overdosed on 20, yes 20, sleeping pills today. This really annoyed my girlfriend, as she thinks it's her fault for giving her sister, and therefore her brother, this idea. She kept telling her to take him to the hospital, her friend is 18 and can drive. But instead, she waited until her parents got home. About 2 and a half hours after taking them, he was given vomit-inducing drugs to get it all up, but they still didn't take him to the hospital, at which point my girlfriend turned her phone off so she didn't hear any more about it. Now that killed any possibility of a good mood for me, and certainly her today. She was already in a bad mood from calling me crying last night, at what seemed caused by depression. But after hearing that, she wasn't talking, seemed incredibly sad, and that worries me, because I know she does self-harm things to vent. It killed my mood since I'm worried about her doing stuff to herself and because it just reminded me vividly of the day she did that, she came to school late because she went to the hospital early in the morning, and it's a memory I sadly won't ever forget. It's been a terrible day, and now I have to put up with relatives I haven't seen and trying to act all happy for them, when I should be on the phone with my girlfriend to keep her occupied with something. I feel like this day is just going to get worse.. :worried: [/end rant]
 
The GT5 online A-Spec Seasonal #2 released The 16th. The Madrid race. I got 2nd but can't win! Can't even get close!
 
Ok now there's another problem with today:
I finally after two and a half weeks got a call from the amusement park after re-applying to have another interview with the same manager, and I told her I am not 100% when I can have one, since I don't know my mom's work schedule. She said I could call back, and reschedule if Monday at 4:30 didn't work. I said sure. Sure enough, I went to ask my mom and she works Monday after I get home from school. My dad will be on a business trip in Chicago, and my sister seems to not exist, she's always busy with work or school. So I go to call the same number back, and it's the general park number. I followed the automated message to get to HR, and when it goes to HR a message appears saying they are closed until January 3rd. January 3rd! I left a message, and still have heard no reply. This is a problem, because the offices close in about a half-hour, and I need to reschedule my interview. :banghead:
 
Emirates cabin baggage policies grind my gears. I want to take my guitar with me to Japan, but they won't allow it onboard. A guy on the gibson guitar forum suggests "upgrade to business class" as the dimensions of my guitar would be allowed in business class. Great idea right? Until I find out that the price of a business class flight is three times that of an economy flight. :ouch:

Seriously emirates, why can't you have a "pay an extra hundred quid and carry your pride and joy onboard" option?
 
When some stupid car alarm goes off and causes a dog to start barking... :grumpy:
 
Modern Warfare 3. It is such a terrible game. I sat there and literally thought out what strategies would work, what perks would work best for when I earn them and which ones I start with and how I would play. All that goes out the window when some idiot with an SMG runs in the vicinity. If it didn't sell for so much the game would be in itty bitty pieces, not out of anger just because I really wanna break it in half.

Oh and cats are pretty derpy creatures Jai, it's like they're bi-polar.
 
I'm not sure I mentioned it already but my teeth removal was postponed to tomorrow. when I heard the news beforehand I was pretty grumpy, because I wanna get it over with plus the braces. Though since now it's just tomorrow, wish me luck 👍
 
Tony Abbott grinds my gears. He's the Australian federal opposition leader, and in a country full of self-important politicians, he's the most self-important of the lot.

Two days ago, Abbott and the Prime Minister were at an Australia Day function when they came under fire from a group of protestors. It made headlines around the world as the Australian Federal Police had to evacuate them straight away as the protests got violent. A few hours later, the protestors caught up with them again after a government aide unwittingly leaked their location to the protestors (he apparently told a union leader who told the protestors). Abbott is now demanding that the government have the AFP investigate how a senior aide could have given away the details of their location and potentially put them in danger. That's all well and good - he has a right to know how the actions of one person put him in danger. But there's a catch that he's failing to mention:

Abott was the one who set the protestors off in the first place.

The protestors didn't just start protesting. They were angry and upset in response to an event - and that event was some of Abbott's comments which suggested the Aboriginal tent embassy was no longer relevant and should be torn down. So here he is, demanding that the government be called into account for what happened when he's the one who created the whole mess. Any federal police investigation would likely come back with "this whole thing could have been avoided if you weren't a ****, Tony".

He's the one who dug himself into this mess. The more-challenging question for the AFP would be why didn't they leave him behind so that he could get himself back out? it's the least he deserves.
 
This part of my country is grinding my gears now:

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^ WHO IS THAT DUDE!!!

Somehow picking up the habit of saying the letter h as haytch instead of aytch grinds my gears. :p I noticed when I pointed out to someone that the car they can see isn't a Holden, it's an HSV.
 
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