What Grinds your Gears?

[F1 fan]

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Actually, my profile picture got quite a few likes and comments... Then again, my profile picture is me with my girlfriend at Niagara falls...

What grinds my gears? Game updates. I just got broadband installed today. Thought I'd turn on GT5. What's that, 11 updates to install.

Now, it's 3:30am. The download has been going a few hours. I'm upto 53% and on number ten of eleven.

Looks like the ps3 will be getting left on overnight.

 

[Downhill Dino]

How did you manage to pass over 11 updates?

 

[deadcell96]

Well she both of those women make me sandwiches! (no joke)

And whoever posted about the clutch (sorry I have terrible short term memory), not many of the kids in my school know what that is. Then again, a lot have never heard of gumby and think thrash is the same as death metal and screamo and consider most metal like sabbath or electric wizard rock. Also, where did you get that avatar?

Well, that's America for you, where three pedals and a little manual labor is unheard of. About the avatar,I got it off of pixelcarworld.com then edited it in paint for the arrangement.

 

[F1 fan]

How did you manage to pass over 11 updates?

Well, I went to Toronto for 6 months. I bought GT5 on release but had no internet connection at home. Then I lived in Toronto and had a great connection. But had left my ps3 at home.

Just got internet installed at home today. Long story short, this is the first time I've had GT5 and an internet connection in the same place.

 

[shmogt]

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Lol get boobs and you will get that many likes too

 

[Patrick]

Trying to save up almost $400 USD for a Fanatec, but Christmas is coming up. Then there's girls. Also Shift 2 it makes me angry.

 

[W3H5]

People who are totally unaware of their surroundings....

and people who don't know about common courtesy. Glad my parents showed me a lot when I was little, I'm making sure my kids will do the same.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

I think that has to be top on my list of grinders and seeing as today is young for me and nothing major, so far, has P'd me off I'm going to have to use your rant, AOS, to illustrate my further rage at this........phenomenon.

 

[AOS-]

Oh boy, Chicken dinner! I should rant here more often...which I will do right now:

"When eBay sellers don't respond to your e-mails within 1-2 business days like eBay says...."

It's happened twice where a seller doesn't respond to my first mail.... really makes their buyers concerned whether or not you're jipping them or not... especially when it's almost too good to be true for them to be selling certain things.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Winner winner chicken dinner.

I think that has to be top on my list of grinders and seeing as today is young for me and nothing major, so far, has P'd me off I'm going to have to use your rant, AOS, to illustrate my further rage at this........phenomenon.

Definately one that tops many people's list, I have to leave a parking lot full of them during the mad rush out of school, there's a jr high and a high school that get out at exactly the same time and they feed into a one lane road! And most of them are either blatantly selfish or just have tunnel vision. I feel safer at 100 mph in a legends car 3 inches apart than being in that parking lot

 

[W3H5]

Everyone in Chongqing is oblivious to anyone or anything else. It's like they live in their own little bubbles and along with being absent minded they are so inconsiderate.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Everyone in Chongqing is oblivious to anyone or anything else. It's like they live in their own little bubbles and along with being absent minded they are so inconsiderate.

I have a feeling that's becoming normal averywhere, I have seen people who have been driving for 30 years drive more idiotically than some 16 yr olds

 

[mattythedog]

I hate that^. Im quite tall, so I can walk through the school corridors with ease. If there's an older boy, I move, because it's polite and I've always done that. But I hate it when a bloody year 7 kid decides to be rediculously aggressive and tries to push through a Crowd of year 9's. What does he think we'll do, just move? I never move for them, so he gets pushed backwards and eventually decides to go around.

 

[Schwartz]

My mom seems to get worse every time she drives. It gets all jerky and jolty. I can even predict when she will make a mistake. Its quite wierd actually.

 

[Brando-K]

My mom seems to get worse every time she drives. It gets all jerky and jolty. I can even predict when she will make a mistake. Its quite wierd actually.

The same thing has happened to my mum. After I got my licence she became a worse driver. I'm not sure if it's because when I was on my L's I drove her around so much, if it's because of the horror of my early driving and now she's traumatized or because I point out her faults when she drives.
I know she hates it when I tell her she's driving wrong but I can't help it, after telling me to do things a certain way she doesn't do it herself.

The point I was trying to get to was she drives worse when I criticise her.

 

[Schwartz]

The same thing has happened to my mum. After I got my licence she became a worse driver. I'm not sure if it's because when I was on my L's I drove her around so much, if it's because of the horror of my early driving and now she's traumatized or because I point out her faults when she drives.
I know she hates it when I tell her she's driving wrong but I can't help it, after telling me to do things a certain way she doesn't do it herself.

The point I was trying to get to was she drives worse when I criticise her.

Lol. My mom rages hard when she drives, not at other people but she is just mad in general. This mostly happens in unfamiliar areas to her. Especially when she makes a wrong turn, which happens often. She seems to focus on the GPS (or Sat-nav or whatever you call it) too much, and she ends up yelling at me when I tell her where to go but she also gets pissed off when I don't "help her out." Its a lose lose situation for me.

 

[Submerged]

I know she hates it when I tell her she's driving wrong but I can't help it, after telling me to do things a certain way she doesn't do it herself.

The point I was trying to get to was she drives worse when I criticise her.

Then don't criticise her at all when you are the passenger. It does add a lot of stress to the driver if you have someone who points out every single flaw of your driving. This would start to make you extremely cautious and not at all smooth.

Its a difficult thing to do, not pointing out the flaws in her driving when she was doing it to you, but there is a difference. She has far more years of driving than you ever had. So she would have more experience and knowledge of knowing what is ok to do and what isn't with regards to other drivers and how to drive the car safety (within some reason) near other people.

I used to point out the flaws in my mother's driving after I passed my test, then I realised it was futile and pointless. Now, I keep it to myself and just watch the scenery go by....



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Everyone in Chongqing is oblivious to anyone or anything else. It's like they live in their own little bubbles and along with being absent minded they are so inconsiderate.

To be fair, I've just came from London yesterday and while walking around in Oxford Street, that was still the case there. It seems that when there are a huge amount of people in a limited space, you will get some people who will just follow the crowd and not actually use their brain to leave space for other people.

Although it does depend what time you are out and about I guess....

 

[Submerged]

d/l

 

[Submerged]

d/l

 

[Brando-K]

@Submerged, I know I need to stop telling my mum how to drive. It just makes me wonder how she can make it through traffic when she drives far differently than she tells me to drive. Even with all her experience it makes it hard to believe it's safe to be in the car with her.
Guess I will just need to trust her, as a kid I was in only 1 crash with her.
I think I'm a control freak.
Thinking about it I've realized it's probably all part of an elaborate scam to make me drive her around everywhere.

 

[Ross]

I hate that^. Im quite tall, so I can walk through the school corridors with ease. If there's an older boy, I move, because it's polite and I've always done that. But I hate it when a bloody year 7 kid decides to be rediculously aggressive and tries to push through a Crowd of year 9's. What does he think we'll do, just move? I never move for them, so he gets pushed backwards and eventually decides to go around.

This happens quite a lot in my school too as I am in the same year as you and it's usually the brothers of Year 11's who think they're badman and just try to push through a bunch of me and my friends. It's quite funny when they try to get through and you're just ignoring them

 

[DK]

I had that same problem with my old Sony Ericsson. It was a pain. The ones that came with the phone didn't last long. Shortly after, a friend gave me another pair. After vowing to look after them, they didn't last very long.

Gave up after that.

My phone is a Sony Ericsson. From now on, I'll only buy phones that don't need a special adaptor to plug in your earphones.

 

[E28]

I hate that^. Im quite tall, so I can walk through the school corridors with ease. If there's an older boy, I move, because it's polite and I've always done that. But I hate it when a bloody year 7 kid decides to be rediculously aggressive and tries to push through a Crowd of year 9's. What does he think we'll do, just move? I never move for them, so he gets pushed backwards and eventually decides to go around.

You are just like me. There's one door in our school which is exit only, but all the little Yr7s go through it. I either push them all out, or shut the door, leaving them outside due to there being no handle on that side.

 

[mattythedog]

This happens quite a lot in my school too as I am in the same year as you and it's usually the brothers of Year 11's who think they're badman and just try to push through a bunch of me and my friends. It's quite funny when they try to get through and you're just ignoring them

You are just like me. There's one door in our school which is exit only, but all the little Yr7s go through it. I either push them all out, or shut the door, leaving them outside due to thre being no handle on that side.

Sounds just like my school.

 

[AOS-]

Everyone in Chongqing is oblivious to anyone or anything else. It's like they live in their own little bubbles and along with being absent minded they are so inconsiderate.

Can't blame older folks as they're generally like that (not so much because they want to, it's just that their senses aren't as sharp as younger folks)..

with middle-aged people though, I expect them to know better...

kids, I don't expect them to know but I expect them to know the appropriate action should someone ask them to step aside or make room for others to pass. Like this one time I was I putting merchandise away at work. I was walking down an aisle that was narrow and a little boy pushed his shopping cart down the aisle until there was room for him to push it aside to let me through. I didn't say "excuse me" or anything but he knew what to do. His parents didn't even tell him to do it either. How amazing is that?

 

[itsbenjibrand]

Sounds just like my school.

Our school is full of Grade 9 and 10 midgets, and a few tall people. I (being a tall person) am a minority in this place.

 

[F1 fan]

What really annoys me is that I got broadband yesterday, turned my ps3 on, put GT5 in and was besieged by updates. 11 in fact. It took hours. Then I remembered the "free x2010 for all if Vettel is champion".

He is champion, but I think I'm too late to claim my free x2010. So annoying. Don't have a wheel, and I gave up on that X1 challenge long ago. Guess I'll just have to go without an x2010 then.

 

[Schwartz]

What really annoys me is that I got broadband yesterday, turned my ps3 on, put GT5 in and was besieged by updates. 11 in fact. It took hours. Then I remembered the "free x2010 for all if Vettel is champion".

He is champion, but I think I'm too late to claim my free x2010. So annoying. Don't have a wheel, and I gave up on that X1 challenge long ago. Guess I'll just have to go without an x2010 then.

Get to level 35 B-spec and you get a free X2010

 

[F1 fan]

My B-spec level is "0". Can't be bothered with it.

 

[Downhill Dino]

My B-spec level is "0". Can't be bothered with it.

Make one and set it up online, get a lot of people on your friend's list to do some Remote Races. 👍

 

[F1 fan]

Make one and set it up online, get a lot of people on your friend's list to do some Remote Races. 👍

I just signed up to PSN. Therefore, I only have two psn friends. B spec is too much of a bore to bother with, and I (stupidly) didn't sign up for an unlimited deal, so I don't want to waste bandwidth on something I don't care for.