What Grinds your Gears?

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Listen to shem guys. I don't think complaining about not getting Xbox's, or parents is really that big of a deal. Sure it's annoying, but it's easily gotten over with. There will be a lot worse problems coming in, be glad for what's happening now.
 
Lol this thread is just what grinds your gears. If that does than post it. What grinds my gears is waking up and seeing a spider on my ceiling. Or is that not good enough to post here?
 
shmogt
Lol this thread is just what grinds your gears. If that does than post it. What grinds my gears is waking up and seeing a spider on my ceiling. Or is that not good enough to post here?
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A universe full of factors determine a true What Grind Your Gears. But for me, as long as it's maddening/irritating for a period of time it's considered so. If it's a whining-based thing, rant it off to an inanimate object.
 
Crispy
Listen to shem guys. I don't think complaining about not getting Xbox's, or parents is really that big of a deal. Sure it's annoying, but it's easily gotten over with. There will be a lot worse problems coming in, be glad for what's happening now.
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Well sorry. :rolleyes: It was really eating at me at the moment so I posted. It's not that big of a deal I know. Also I never said anything about being worse off then others. I also had already said I'm fine with what I have.

shmogt
ol this thread is just what grinds your gears. If that does than post it. What grinds my gears is waking up and seeing a spider on my ceiling. Or is that not good enough to post here?
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This thread is now grinding my gears. 👎 Oh well.

Also the spider thing, that's happened to me so many times it's not even funny. Especially when I wake up at 2-4 AM.
 
One of my friends once was just about to go to sleep and looks up and sees a spider on his ceiling. He thinks to himself should I just turn off the light and sleep or should I kill it before. As he thinking for some reason the spider just drops from the ceiling into his bed lol. He said he looked for so long and had to shake out the sheets but couldn't find it and got zero sleep worrying about it. Too funny.
 
shmogt
One of my friends once was just about to go to sleep and looks up and sees a spider on his ceiling. He thinks to himself should I just turn off the light and sleep or should I kill it before. As he thinking for some reason the spider just drops from the ceiling into his bed lol. He said he looked for so long and had to shake out the sheets but couldn't find it and got zero sleep worrying about it. Too funny.
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I would do the same thing. If I see anything with wings in my room around when I'm getting ready for bed, it will keep me up for the longest time. Stupid paranoia and fear of bugs. :dunce: Good thing my house is relatively bug-free. :)
 
Car problems. Fuel pump failed on Thursday after a 290 mile drive to and back from a thanksgiving family gathering, replaced on Friday(three digit sum to pay for it), and today there was anti-freeze in the oil. Going to have to keep an eye on the car and figure something to do to fix it.
 
shem
Hearing you guys moan about being worse off than the others! Grinding my gears.

I was brought into this world as a child of two unqualified parents, surviving on what they did, sales mostly, living in counsel housing. Not that my parents, at least one of them, were unintelligent, they just never had a chance in life.

They served their time in poverty and made their way out. So did I.

I left school with minimum qualifications in everything other than science and math's. I spent a great deal of my college years being poor, supporting my partner and still getting an education.

I left London at 22, came to China, and every thing I've done since then has been all me. No degrees, no recommendations, no contacts required. Made it myself. All me.

So complaining about your parents is minor compared to the complaints you'll have once they are no longer in charge of you.
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My parents are like yours, borderline poverty but made their way out. We're now living fine through hard work. Now I'm happy that I have all of this. :D
 
The fact that my sleep patterns are like that of a New Zealander. I'm not tired at 11pm, then I fall asleep at 4am. It grinds my gears.
 
Son of b... My plan of stealing thanksgiving from the Americans and celebrating it anyway has be ruined. Turns out it was all a trick to get me excited for weeks now and my family was never planning to celebrate it.
 
I hate when you are focusing your camera on something and when it's perfect you accidentally bump your camera and it goes out of focus.
 
VANDENAL
The fact that my sleep patterns are like that of a New Zealander. I'm not tired at 11pm, then I fall asleep at 4am. It grinds my gears.
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Heeeeeey! We just stay up to ridiculous hours because that's when we're not being nagged at by people. Plus, I go to bed at 2 in the morning. Pfft. :p
 
What grinds my gears? My body. Let me explain. :irked:
When I was 7 I started playing tennis. I am now 18 and very, very broken. From the top down things that hurt or aren't doing what they should are my: neck, both shoulders, wrists, all of my back, my hips, my right knee, my left ankle.

[Optional additional reading]Start with the easy bits. My wrists crack like hell and hurt most of the time, no doubt this is due to the 11 years of tennis. I went over on my ankle a couple of years back playing basketball and it has hurt ever since - I've tried strengthening it but when I do, it hurts too much so I gave up and now just wear a big ass ankle brace when I do any sport. I hurt my knee at work and apparently it's my cartilage that's done, this is to be confirmed at the hospital in a couple of weeks but it's not feeling promising.

As for the other stuff... My legs are different lengths, which has thrown out my hips which has made them pretty sore most of the time. This in turn probably started off my dodgy back as it was my lower back that started to hurt first. As tennis involves a lot of twisting and bending I doubt that helped at all... Onto my neck - no idea how it got this bad but I'll blame tennis again. Saw a physio about it yesterday who said it's in horrendous shape. All the muscles are really tight on the left side, including my trapezius which is unfortunate as the trapezius is massively linked with the shoulder and it continues down a lot of your upper back. This is the reason my left shoulder is really tight, hunched up and fairly sore all the time and it's the reason for why my upper back is ruined. The upper back pain and the lower back pain meet in the middle to create my back of horror. [/optional additional reading]

My back is slowly getting better with the massages I'm getting. Knee will be like this for ages. Can't see my ankle improving without a lot of work from me. Neck could potentially be improved by my massages. I've got painkillers for my knee from the doctor but they only work for an hour and a half then I can't take them for another 3 and a half hours so they're next to useless.

I'm just sick of being in constant pain. I can't remember the last time I didn't have pain. I was coping with the whole back pain deal but doing my knee in has tipped me over the edge. I used to still be able to go running, still play tennis, everything but it just hurt a bit. Now exercise has been taken away from me completely - even cycling and swimming hurt a fair amount - and I'm close to snapping. In the last month or 2 I've gained the first weight since I stopped growing (could be a good thing as I'm a skinny wee 🤬 but it's still not making me feel much better!).
The only thing stopping me from having a complete meltdown are a pretty good group of mates + a girl, some retail therapy and the music I love. I'm very close to being in a dark, dark place mentally but thankfully the aforementioned stuff is keeping me happy for the most part. 👍

Sorry about that, but I'm a bit gone after hearing how bad my neck is so I needed to vent. This seemed like the place to do it. :p

Tl;dr : Body very broken, close to not being very happy, saved from Emoism by stuff.

Cheers for reading if you did.
Allyn
 
Worries of the possibility of a miserable future. I'm most likely going to spend the majority of my life being monitored by hippies. The only food available will be seeds and grass and oil will be too expensive for regular use.
 
Aldo
What grinds my gears? My body. Let me explain. :irked:
When I was 7 I started playing tennis. I am now 18 and very, very broken. From the top down things that hurt or aren't doing what they should are my: neck, both shoulders, wrists, all of my back, my hips, my right knee, my left ankle.

[Optional additional reading]Start with the easy bits. My wrists crack like hell and hurt most of the time, no doubt this is due to the 11 years of tennis. I went over on my ankle a couple of years back playing basketball and it has hurt ever since - I've tried strengthening it but when I do, it hurts too much so I gave up and now just wear a big ass ankle brace when I do any sport. I hurt my knee at work and apparently it's my cartilage that's done, this is to be confirmed at the hospital in a couple of weeks but it's not feeling promising.

As for the other stuff... My legs are different lengths, which has thrown out my hips which has made them pretty sore most of the time. This in turn probably started off my dodgy back as it was my lower back that started to hurt first. As tennis involves a lot of twisting and bending I doubt that helped at all... Onto my neck - no idea how it got this bad but I'll blame tennis again. Saw a physio about it yesterday who said it's in horrendous shape. All the muscles are really tight on the left side, including my trapezius which is unfortunate as the trapezius is massively linked with the shoulder and it continues down a lot of your upper back. This is the reason my left shoulder is really tight, hunched up and fairly sore all the time and it's the reason for why my upper back is ruined. The upper back pain and the lower back pain meet in the middle to create my back of horror. [/optional additional reading]

My back is slowly getting better with the massages I'm getting. Knee will be like this for ages. Can't see my ankle improving without a lot of work from me. Neck could potentially be improved by my massages. I've got painkillers for my knee from the doctor but they only work for an hour and a half then I can't take them for another 3 and a half hours so they're next to useless.

I'm just sick of being in constant pain. I can't remember the last time I didn't have pain. I was coping with the whole back pain deal but doing my knee in has tipped me over the edge. I used to still be able to go running, still play tennis, everything but it just hurt a bit. Now exercise has been taken away from me completely - even cycling and swimming hurt a fair amount - and I'm close to snapping. In the last month or 2 I've gained the first weight since I stopped growing (could be a good thing as I'm a skinny wee 🤬 but it's still not making me feel much better!).
The only thing stopping me from having a complete meltdown are a pretty good group of mates + a girl, some retail therapy and the music I love. I'm very close to being in a dark, dark place mentally but thankfully the aforementioned stuff is keeping me happy for the most part. 👍

Sorry about that, but I'm a bit gone after hearing how bad my neck is so I needed to vent. This seemed like the place to do it. :p

Tl;dr : Body very broken, close to not being very happy, saved from Emoism by stuff.

Cheers for reading if you did.
Allyn
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It sounds to me like you have kypothic posture. Is your chest relatively muscular while back kind of curves forward? Even just the slightest. You can get better it's all about stretching the tight muscles and strengthening the loose ones. Upper traps sore means the back isn't pulling back like it should and rear delts are probably non existent. It starts from the hips being tilted forward a little causing your abs to weaken and lower back to take all the pressure. If one trap is bigger than the other it means the hip flexor on the opposite side is too tight and needs to be stretched more. I had/have these problems too if you pm me I can send you some vids about how to correct it. Stop doing all sports tho it's only going to make it worse.
 
shmogt
It sounds to me like you have kypothic posture. Is your chest relatively muscular while back kind of curves forward? Even just the slightest. You can get better it's all about stretching the tight muscles and strengthening the loose ones. Upper traps sore means the back isn't pulling back like it should and rear delts are probably non existent. It starts from the hips being tilted forward a little causing your abs to weaken and lower back to take all the pressure. If one trap is bigger than the other it means the hip flexor on the opposite side is too tight and needs to be stretched more. I had/have these problems too if you pm me I can send you some vids about how to correct it. Stop doing all sports tho it's only going to make it worse.
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Just read up on this online and I don't think it is that. Obviously I can't rule it out completely but I don't really hunch forward like that, my shoulders are just lopsided. I do stretch quite a bit and have been doing core strength work for my back.
I had a period of about 2 months last year of not doing any sport to see if it would help my back, but it did nothing. :p Now I've been forced out of sport by my knee which will probably be well into next year by the time I can run on it again but at least it will give everything a rest.
Cheers dude. 👍
 
What grinds my gears today is people quoting other people and quoting the WHOLE quote and making the page longer then it needs to be, and cutting myself shaving today too. The stinging just won't go away!
 
SolidS2k
The cars I want not popping up in the UCD..its grinding my gears a bit!
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If it's anything not overly expensive name them and I'll give them to you, no trade, depending on the car I could maybe get it in my UCD or if I have it just give it to you.
 
rb26x
If it's anything not overly expensive name them and I'll give them to you, no trade, depending on the car I could maybe get it in my UCD or if I have it just give it to you.
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Unfortunately it's most of the LMP cars...lol. A bit over your budget lol. Thanks for the offer though :)
 
SolidS2k
Unfortunately it's most of the LMP cars...lol. A bit over your budget lol. Thanks for the offer though :)
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You calling me poor?! Ok though, sure thing.
 
Lady puts her basket of merchandise on the countertop


says she isn't going to take half of the stuff.
 
My anger. I used to be able to control it, but now I over-react about some of the smallest things. It feels like I don't control myself anymore, its like I'm the passenger and no ones in the driver's seat of the car, and the car is going the wrong way on the Autobahn, and I can't stop the pending damage about to occur. Can someone explain what the heck this is?
 
^I've seemed to get that too.

Just recently I was talking about how a neighboring city has very strict animal policies. I'm a dog lover you see, and there was a case were someone's dog chased a duck, someone complained, and there's a possibility it could be put down. I started feeling that, if that was me, I would say no. This anger started boiling in me, like I was in a fight with someone I really hated, it felt like a sudden burst of strength, I could tell because after it was over I felt shaky and weak. It kinda scared me, and that's what happens recently when ever something makes me angry, and I mean truly raging angry. It scares me with the strength burst, because what if I get into a fight, will I be able to control myself, or will I do undoable damage?
 
Crispy
^I've seemed to get that too.

Just recently I was talking about how a neighboring city has very strict animal policies. I'm a dog lover you see, and there was a case were someone's dog chased a duck, someone complained, and there's a possibility it could be put down. I started feeling that, if that was me, I would say no. This anger started boiling in me, like I was in a fight with someone I really hated, it felt like a sudden burst of strength, I could tell because after it was over I felt shaky and weak. It kinda scared me, and that's what happens recently when ever something makes me angry, and I mean truly raging angry. It scares me with the strength burst, because what if I get into a fight, will I be able to control myself, or will I do undoable damage?
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That's ridiculous, put down for a duck?! What is wrong with people?
 
I think that misread is proof that I need some sleep. My final post of the night. Ever-changing technology grinds my gears. You could get the best phone, but next week its junk compared to the newest one.
 
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