What Grinds your Gears?

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@Trivran: If you see how my family does things, you'd want homework. Its better than doing laundry, washing dishes and/or vacuuming.
 
My latest gear grinders:

- People who make walkthroughs, yet can't speak the language the walkthrough is written in correctly.
- People who think abusing pixel hunting in escape games is the funniest 🤬 ever. Seriously, there's nothing more annoying that having to click a specific sector in an image to change the view.
- People who are, at best, useless. They can't get the simplest of things done right.



I seriously hope I haven't misspelled any word.
 
Mr. S
358825 seconds until I get my hands on F1 2011 - that's it.

#firstworldproblems
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To follow up on this: it grinds my gears that neither of the 5 stores I went to had F1 2011 in stock already...not even when I offered them something in return. Poor customer service! :D
 
:S It doesn't come out till tomorrow for the USA and the 23rd in the UK, how do you expect them to have it in store?!
 
trivran
:S It doesn't come out till tomorrow for the USA and the 23rd in the UK, how do you expect them to have it in store?!
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I got a lot of games early over the course of the years, so it's always worth asking if it's in stock a few days before the actual release date. ;)
 
ScouserInExile
No really, I worked with him when I worked for a small games developer about 10 years ago. Still friends with him now. He's called Dave.
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F1 2010 credits, how many Daves (or Davids) are there:

David Larsson, David Tapley, David Worswick, David Burke, Dave Taylor - Programmers

David Bishop, David Wixon - QA Technician

David Khan - QA Online Technician

Dave Moore - Mix Engineer

David Percival - Technical Director

David Khaw - Environmental Art Group Lead

David Alcock - Creative Services

David Croft - English Cast

Dave Sullivan - Audio Designer (do we have a winner?)

I would suggest standard "ludicrous claim" procedure: photo of you and Dave (showing driver license or other ID to avoid fakes) :)




...God, I have too much time on my hands. Not that it grinds my gears.
 
So there were riots near here recently. I regularly have to visit some people for work in the middle of where it happened (one of their wondows either got a BB fired from a catapult through it, or someone actually shot a window). The scrotes who did the rioting set fire to some stuff on the main road, meaning there are jalf a dozen patches where the surface is really messed up - full of holes, jagged, not pleasant to drive over.

There is no sign of this being fixed anytime soon.

The speed-camera right next to these messed up bits of road, however, is back up and running fine (pun intended).

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I would suggest standard "ludicrous claim" procedure: photo of you and Dave (showing driver license or other ID to avoid fakes) :)

...God, I have too much time on my hands. Not that it grinds my gears.
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Best I could probably do is a pic from my Facebook page. But that would just be weird, imo.
 
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Just thought of another. In p.e lessons when you end up with the worst player in the year on your team -.- . I ended up throwing a football at someone because he was as good in defence as a chocolate fireguard :lol:
 
Watermelon

Hate the crap. A wet, red, black thing infested plumped ball of hell..

You spent ages busting your fat fingers trying to slice the damn thing, and when you do, the knife leaves the vomit green crust, and slashes through the wet hell, usually at the speed to give you a spasm...

They you take the bite, don't bother scrubbing dat' floor before you eat, you'll just get blood red sweaty melon all over it.. Then there is those vile, black raisin things inside it that break your melon soaked teeth, little black flea balls think it's fine to camp out inside a melon..

:boggled:
 
Today I went on a 2 hour bus journey and due to the bus being terribly busy at the particular time I was forced to sit next to this really fat gothic guy.
He was wearing headphones but the volume was turned up do loud that I had to listen to this really heavy metal gothic death 🤬 that he played over half of the whole journey.
The worst part though was not all the noise pollution the guy was making, it was that his body mass was gradually invading my space! The seats on the bus was very thin and parts of his fat were everywhere. His whole arm covered my arm-rest and I had little leg room.

Well, I suppose im grateful that I actually got a seat in the first place unlike some.
 
Seedless watermelon. /drama
I think it has more to do with you not fully knowing how to use a knife, and less to do with that wonderful fruit of the gods.
 
Jai
Watermelon

Hate the crap. A wet, red, black thing infested plumped ball of hell..

You spent ages busting your fat fingers trying to slice the damn thing, and when you do, the knife leaves the vomit green crust, and slashes through the wet hell, usually at the speed to give you a spasm...

They you take the bite, don't bother scrubbing dat' floor before you eat, you'll just get blood red sweaty melon all over it.. Then there is those vile, black raisin things inside it that break your melon soaked teeth, little black flea balls think it's fine to camp out inside a melon..

:boggled:
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Jesus man, you just extended the process of cutting and, in my opinion, enjoying a watermelon into a short story. :sick:
 
TankAss95
Today I went on a 2 hour bus journey and due to the bus being terribly busy at the particular time I was forced to sit next to this really fat gothic guy.
He was wearing headphones but the volume was turned up do loud that I had to listen to this really heavy metal gothic death 🤬 that he played over half of the whole journey.
The worst part though was not all the noise pollution the guy was making, it was that his body mass was gradually invading my space! The seats on the bus was very thin and parts of his fat were everywhere. His whole arm covered my arm-rest and I had little leg room.

Well, I suppose im grateful that I actually got a seat in the first place unlike some.
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Your avatar picture made this 90% more fun to read.
 
What Grinds my Gears?

Going beck to work today after 4 days camping in North Wales, with the sunday being a 50KM MTB Marathon....now I got holiday blues :(
 
Blackbird.
Jesus man, you just extended the process of cutting and, in my opinion, enjoying a watermelon into a short story. :sick:
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There actually is a short story called 'The Taste of Watermelon' :lol:
(Basic storyline here)

 
@Daniel: link won't open, says 404 Error. Faulty links, sleeplessness, and the boredom associated with being up at 2:40 am grinds my gears.
 
When your shoes always nick the next step while climbing the stairs causing you to trip... esp. in public.
 
Controversial one but this retro fad is a load of bollocks.

Metal gear HD.
ICO.
Resi 4.

And all the other cash cows there planning.

End rant.
 
R1600Turbo
Being ignored.
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Sounds like you need to work on you communication skills.I used to have that problem too. You just need to do as I did and try to gain confidence. It'd not easy but if you put in the effort you'll get there. 👍 Remember though, there's a line between being uninteresting, interesting and annoying. Don't forget though that there are alot of 🤬 in this world but that's just life, don't take no notice on what other people think of you.
 
Spagetti69
Controversial one but this retro fad is a load of bollocks.

Metal gear HD.
ICO.
Resi 4.

And all the other cash cows there planning.

End rant.
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As for me, being sick. I hate calling in sick at work, to the point that I usually end up going, anyways... But today's horrible. Haven't felt that bad in years.

Feels like my whole body is exhausted to the point of just not giving a damn anymore, I'm throwing up every ten minutes, got a headache and can't even sleep due to needing to visit the bathroom on a regular basis.

And all of that started after eating Chinese food for lunch yesterday. Hell, I'm even thinking of food poisoning! I suppose the dog they caught and tried to pass as pork hat rabies or some other serious sickness.:yuck:
 
This isn't really a gear grinder as it's more amusing than annoying. It does however make me question the logic of those involved.

As you know/ can see I live in China. People here are fond of car decals in the style used by their Japanese cousins. The difference is the Japanese actually use them properly.

Here's what I mean; today I saw a '10 Chana MPV type thing with some cool Anime decals on the side. One side looked cool, on the other the decals we upside down. It's not as is it's an easy mistake to make.
The same car had decals of Sparco, HKS, Sumo and other tuning houses and brands although the car had clearly never seen the slightest bit of modification. The best part was the last decal on the door which was the Picasso logo from a Renault Scenic. :lol:

I see this often. Honda Fits with Rally Art stickers, Nissans with TRD sticker and a whole host of other misplaced decals. Like I said, not a real gear grinder but something that baffles me a lot.
 
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