What Grinds your Gears?

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Fantasy football commissioners that take their "job" way to seriously.

Frankly though, the guy is a 🤬 at work so why would I expect anything different in a fantasy league that is supposed to be for fun.:rolleyes:
 
When there are a million stereos for sale, but none of them fit my requirements. I just want one that plays cds, has radio and has a usb dock for an MP3 Player.
 
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Putting my phone on silent and forgetting to switch it back to normal. Then, after a few hours I've had missed phone calls from multiple people. Arg!!!
 
TankAss95
Putting my phone on silent and forgetting to switch it back to normal. Then, after a few hours I've had missed phone calls from multiple people. Arg!!!
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I hate it when I do that and then leave it somewhere and I can't call it to find it because it is on silent.
 
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Putting my phone on silent and forgetting to switch it back to normal. Then, after a few hours I've had missed phone calls from multiple people. Arg!!!
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All the time, here.




And kind of related, when I get to work I turn my phone to airplane mode(cuts off the signal entirely) to preserve the :censored:y batter(another gear grinder), sometimes I forget to turn it off until the end of the day. So I get flooded with messages and updates that all show the same time stamp.:grumpy:
 
shem
That has to be the most unacceptable post in this whole thread.
(Maybe apart from my :whimsiclenonsmilysmilies: )

Seriously, life is of your own doing. If life grinds you gears then it's your fault for not changing your own fortune.

Never mind the fact that your post lacks any explanation as to why life grinds your gears....

You want sympathy? You won't find any here.

Your sincerely.........Mr Grumpy.
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Okay. The 15 page paper on a four month long research project my science teacher assigned.
 
DG_Silva
If you can afford it, take a look at the Bose Wave system. http://www.bose.co.uk/GB/en/home-and-personal-audio/wave-systems/ Sure, it's pricey, but you'd never need another stereo again...
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Woooow, pricey. The only reason I need a stereo is because some one else broke mine. I can live on one $100 stereo forever. :p Which is all I need right now, a cheap one. But these seem like very good stereos, someday I'll get one of these. They seem very good. :cheers:
 
DG_Silva
If you can afford it, take a look at the Bose Wave system. http://www.bose.co.uk/GB/en/home-and-personal-audio/wave-systems/ Sure, it's pricey, but you'd never need another stereo again...
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Skython11
Woooow, pricey. The only reason I need a stereo is because some one else broke mine. I can live on one $100 stereo forever. :p Which is all I need right now, a cheap one. But these seem like very good stereos, someday I'll get one of these. They seem very good. :cheers:
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If you want something superb on a budget I would recommend a gently used Pioneer component from the past 5-15 years. They vary in price depending on how much stereo you're looking for, but they still outperform a lot of what's available today. I swear by the Pioneer brand and can vouch for how reliable they are and how good they sounds. Ebay, Kijiji, or pawn/thrift shops are really good places to look. Can't speak for how good the Bose is or isn't, but just thought I'd throw my two cents in!

I've had multiple Pioneer pieces in the past, and they've all been superb. 👍
 
My phone. My old one which I had for a little over a year gave up after all the dropping it had, so I'm using a cingular flip phone (with antenna) for a backup. There's a few problems with this: There is no speaker phone, and that's a big deal for me. There's no camera or video recording, so all the funny/cool videos I had are irrelevant. Now, though, I dropped it while it was open (damn thing is so small) and the screen is broken. So now, I can't see any missed calls, contacts are in my ipod (about 3), and when I'm somewhere loud, I don't know who's calling to see if I'm in an appropriate area or not. I looked on AT&T's website, and since I have until may until an upgrade is possible, all phones are the prices they'd be without a 2-year contract, the cheapest being a talk and text slider for $160. The only other option I have is to find someone in school that has an old AT&T phone (tons of kids) who is reliable enough to bring it in like they say (nobody so far). My fault yes, but kind of frustrating.
 
Coupole of things:
people who assume that sticking their indicator on for 2 seconds entitles them to change lanes and I will just move out their way.

my wife moaning about things that it would take less effort to resove than to maon about. A fine example yesterday was her moaning for a good couple of minutes about the kitchen table needing wiping down, while being stood next to a cleaning cloth.

People in this thread whining about school. Seriously, it's the easiest time of your life and it's not actually that important - you can get qualifications later in life and that person who's annoying you will you will be out of your life completely in no time - enjoy it while you have bassically no responsibilities at all.
 
ScouserInExile
People in this thread whining about school. Seriously, it's the easiest time of your life and it's not actually that important - you can get qualifications later in life and that person who's annoying you will you will be out of your life completely in no time - enjoy it while you have bassically no responsibilities at all.
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I just have a week of school left, and yes it's probably the easiest time of our life. We don't have to think a lot about money, foods, paying bills because all of those are basically under our parents surveillance.

The problems I'm having are the teachers that are hypocrite, not understanding our everyday life, out of control school activities and putting a whole lot of pressure on students. Other than that, I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to hate school. Perhaps the teachers should be more understanding rather than act depends on what they thought is good and can make their work easy while it contradicts to what we're experiencing.

Me and my friend once posted a formal letter to the school principal about problems that we're having and guess what happened in the end. We were acused for not obeying what they have done and not respecting their work. I'm sorry, that really contradicted what we have written in the letter. School management itself also giving us hard times dealing with our everyday activities.

From that, it made me thought of this. Starting from a couple of years ago, teachers now have a much higher salary at MYR4500 compared to my mother at MYR3500 who actually has an even better job. Perhaps they're being in a comfort zone and they can do whatever they like. I've been schooling for 14 years and back in the early 2000s, teachers weren't like this.
 
My grandmother's little dog.


Most annoying little 🤬 I've ever been around. Damn stupid too; they challenge my dogs, which at the smallest is 10 times his size in mass, to the biggest that's 20 times his size in mass. When a little 5lbs thing challenges my dog for food, and my dog is able to wrap his entire mouth around it's head without even trying, it's a pretty good sign that the little dog is some whole new kind of stupid. The little thing is lucky my dogs were raised well, because if they weren't those jaws would have closed, and it probably would've happened days ago. For a 100lbs dog mine is more gentle than most, he usually just backs off when a smaller dog tries to take his food, and he did many times in the days since her dogs have been here. I mean, I've never seen a dog with this kind of restraint, let alone one this big. He just doesn't like to fight, but I guess he just got fed up and pinned the little one to the ground for a few seconds before letting him go.(Which, by the way, only after I'd made sure my grandmother's dog was still intact, had me laughing hard. It's fun to see something that big display it's power.)

And that was another gear grinder, seeing my big ass dog constantly give in to this little thing. I mean, it was just annoying seeing that my dog, despite being able to make it stop, would just let this thing walk up, push him out of the way, and start eating his food.

Anyway, he's also terrified of me despite me never having done anything to him, maybe he can sense my hatred, I don't know. The only way for me to get him to go outside is to strategically close off doors as I walk behind him. Luckily her other dog likes me and listens, and when I'm out of sight the black one pretty much never leaves her side, so just calling the one usually gets them both inside.

And the grey one, she's not dumb, but she's loud and annoying, so she grinds my gears, just within tolerable levels.



Note: I don't hate all little dogs, just most of the ones I've seen.
 
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How people are incapable of finding things in a store is still beyond me....

Man's looking for a Lenses cleaning kit, they just so happen to be in the same aisle with food and pet stuff. I sent him down this aisle and I figured he'd be smart enough to understand that what he's looking for CLEARLY isn't where the pet section is, but nooooo he's looking high and low through the of toys and biscuits, going "Where is it?!"....
 
AOS-
How people are incapable of finding things in a store is still beyond me...
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EDIT: Derp. Misread something.




But that reminds me of another gear grinder, the organization of the things in the store I work at.


It just makes no sense. When I'm returning something to the shelves it's likely not going to be in the aisle it should be. Once I get in the right area I usually spot it right away though.

A certain set of spoons? Not in the "Kitchen Gadgets" aisle, but on a little display in the candy aisle.

10" skillet? Kitchen Gadgets aisle? No, dairy aisle.


I spent 5 minutes searching the toy isle for some little castle Duplo blocks thing that had to be returned. After I gave up and asked, I was told it was in the hardware/office supplies isle. Next to the dog food....of course, what was I thinking.


And people look at me like I'm stupid for not checking the Hardware aisle for bag of Lay's chips.:banghead:
 
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How people are incapable of finding things in a store is still beyond me....

Man's looking for a Lenses cleaning kit, they just so happen to be in the same aisle with food and pet stuff. I sent him down this aisle and I figured he'd be smart enough to understand that what he's looking for CLEARLY isn't where the pet section is, but nooooo he's looking high and low through the of toys and biscuits, going "Where is it?!"....
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That sucks.

The fact that I can't find a store that is hiring grinds my gears.
 
VANDENAL
That sucks.

The fact that I can't find a store that is hiring grinds my gears.
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Being unemployed can be a real gear grinder, but, something will turn up eventually.
 
rb26x
Relevant to my problems with school right now. I do most of my homework in school the day it is due. :scared:
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I had a dumbass math teacher that would read out the answers then check to see if we had done our homework. My friend and I sat two meters from her desk, and write down the answers as she read them out every day for a year. Then she would go round all the desks and check our notebooks.
 
What Grinds my Gears is parting ways with my beloved Alfa Romeo....


One of many sacrifices for my imminant little one!
 
My physics teacher is grinding my gears. Cant remember if I've grumbled about him before or not but if so he's not getting any better! He's supposed to be teaching us AS Level mechanics so we need a good teacher but all i'm learning is how to pass an AS level in Dr Physics teacher studies, he just tells us his life story every lesson. :grumpy: I need an A in this to be a lawyer.
 
I had a teacher who did that too! I want to actually learn for once and your telling me your life story? Luckily, through all those 3 years I've had him, I'm finally out of that school. Well, this ended about 2 years ago.
 
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