What Grinds your Gears?

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Grinding my gears now is Christmas is 5 days from now not counting today and there is no snow on the ground at all. It's about 35°f all week. Kind of takes away from the Christmas spirit.
 
Jai
We had some snow, but it all melted.
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Same here in Ireland, now we're just getting rain. :grumpy:
 
Jai
What Grinds my Gears, the new update taking 6 hours to install..
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Well if you stopped using up bandwidth by browsing GTPlanet then it might go a bit faster. :p
 
Jai
Bandwidth can affect speed? Whatever that is..
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God, I don't want to give a technology lesson now, but here goes. You are getting a certain speed of download, be it 10 MBS or whatever. That is going Into your router, which is then distributing around the house. Your PS3 is using that speed to download the update. However if everyone in your house then downloaded a movie on their laptops, then the router would distribute the 'internet' between all if you including the PS3, so you'd all get less, so everything would be slower. Got it?
 
My current gear grinder is the fact I need to go out in about 15 minutes and it's freezing outside. This is meant to be summer. Victoria's having a weather fail. :grumpy:
 
Brando-K
My current gear grinder is the fact I need to go out in about 15 minutes and it's freezing outside. This is meant to be summer. Victoria's having a weather fail. :grumpy:
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Yeah, seen that on the news - Sky news mainly interviewing lonely lifeguards on Bondi tbh. :lol: Pretty weird though.

Jai
What Grinds my Gears, the new update taking 6 hours to install..
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Wow, that's mad - sorry to hear it. You'll be pleased to know that mine installed in minutes. :D
 
My Global teacher made us do work that a lot of us couldn't finish, and didn't give us full credit at the end of class. :banghead:
 
elitedriver123
What kind of work?
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Read a packet of readings - about 5 short little excerpts, and answer about 4-5 questions about them for each of the 5 parts. And in groups.
 
Cowboys965
Read a packet of readings - about 5 short little excerpts, and answer about 4-5 questions about them for each of the 5 parts. And in groups.
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Does that mean I'm not the only one who doesn't like group work?

The fact that my school played "Last Christmas" over the PA sytem this morning. AAAARGGGH!
 
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beeblebrox237
Does that mean I'm not the only one who doesn't like group work?

The fact that my school played "Last Christmas" over the PA sytem this morning. AAAARGGGH!
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Sue your school for damaging your hearing...

God, I really hate rude people. Some guy in the car park today made a fuss over my mum pulling into a space as he was getting into his car. He was walking round to his car, saw us, and immediately made a sort of fed up face as if to say 'If you must' while he stood there with a face on. My mum then let him get into his car, but shouted at him after. The real gear grinder though, he was of the age that tend to moan about 'them rude, loud teenagers'... :crazy:
 
beeblebrox237
Does that mean I'm not the only one who doesn't like group work?

The fact that my school played "Last Christmas" over the PA sytem this morning. AAAARGGGH!
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Nope, I hate working in groups too. Why are you still at school? Shouldn't you have broken up for Christmas by now?
 
tombrooks97
Nope, I hate working in groups too. Why are you still at school? Shouldn't you have broken up for Christmas by now?
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Are you getting my luck where the teacher always puts you in a team full of people you hate or the least inteligent guys in the class.
 
mattythedog
Mine took about 5 minutes. Personally it's not that good and now if you don't have the track DLC you cannot drive on those tracks online. :mad: That's killed GT5 for me. Time to buy F1 2011 me thinks.
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WHAT!!!! I'm definitely never playing GT5 now. That has killed all reason to bother with it. That grinds my gears, PD, you lost a customer who was thinking about getting his own copy of GT5 when they got their own PS3. I've just decided against both purchases. I'll stick with PC sims thank you, where I don't have to pay to get more tracks, or cars.

PS: My download only took about 2 or 3 minutes. :odd: Why is everyone else's taking so long?
 
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madmike1986
You know what my Gears are being seriously
Ground hard by?

Pretty much all of the above is slow chat, it's not answering the question which is (seeing as a reminder seems relevant) WHAT GRINDS YOUR GEARS?

One line posts with no relevence to the thread subject are getting too much now, I know some of you are just set on upping your post count, so those who are please go and do it somewhere else (like the GT5 section) this thread is for Gear Grinding, not constant, irrelevant, pointless slow chat!

I'm sorry I have to go on about it, but unless it changes I believe I can lock the thread, which I would rather do than see it keep deminishing into a chat thread.

Am I over-reacting? I don't know, but I have asked repeated times and nothing changes, so please sort it out.

Thank you.
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What's grinding my gears is my purpose in life. I have lots I want to do when I'm older. But how is that going to be enjoyable if you have no one to tell it to? No one there to experience it with you? Similar to Jai, I'm a loner, and I never wanted to be one in the first place. I try my hardest to make friends but it never happens right. I try to be open to people, try to help. But when I do no one cares. On Thanksgiving Break I planned to hang out with some friends. But apparently they have better people to hang out with. And that's not when this questioning came to be. It lasted since Kindergarten. Whenever I try to explain what I'm feeling, no one understands nor wants to listen. Some do, but they just forget. Some doesn't even bother and just talk to someone else who has the same feeling and completely forgets about me. I do have some friends, but mostly all of them does not bother with me. No one did not want to put down the time and effort to help me.


And after so many years of this, it just becomes... a habit. It no longer bothers me. Instead I just ignore it. Yet it always haunt my mind. Sometimes I would be happy, sometimes sad because of this "habit." But I always recover. Maybe that was why. Maybe because at times I would be happy most of a week, and only sad a couple of days. No one really spots it. Or maybe because that it doesn't bother me anymore, there isn't much point of someone helping me. Perhaps it is a mental disability. I dunno. Whatever it is or maybe is, the entire problem just became a habit. And I'm sure of it that it will haunt me for the rest of my life. And that takes me to my gear grinder: my purpose in this world.

Fortunately some people around my age do suffer the same or worse. However they never became empathetic to me, yet to others who suffers the same as well.


I'm also surprised that I'm not suicidal yet.
 
Another one about my own family. This time my brother, just generally being himself, the royal clot he is. Yesterday I was fighting urges to not actually punch his smug face. If he died right now all I would do is laugh happily and spit on his grave. I have generally hated him 80% of my life. The other 20% is the little while he wasn't a complete arse. I remember at the start of the year when he came back from surgeory. He was a little woodywaaadaa. And he was watching Father Ted, and he was actually nice for the one day the drugs still had a slight effect. I wish I had that for a brother, not the arsehole that I have to see everyday.

I wouldn't mind his arseholyness if he had a reason for it. I mean, I never do anything horrible to him, I mind my own business, but Captain Fat-head continues to be an arse.
 
Skython
Another one about my own family. This time my brother, just generally being himself, the royal clot he is. Yesterday I was fighting urges to not actually punch his smug face. If he died right now all I would do is laugh happily and spit on his grave. I have generally hated him 80% of my life. The other 20% is the little while he wasn't a complete arse. I remember at the start of the year when he came back from surgeory. He was a little woodywaaadaa. And he was watching Father Ted, and he was actually nice for the one day the drugs still had a slight effect. I wish I had that for a brother, not the arsehole that I have to see everyday.

I wouldn't mind his arseholyness if he had a reason for it. I mean, I never do anything horrible to him, I mind my own business, but Captain Fat-head continues to be an arse.
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What does he do to earn arse-status?
 
elitedriver123
What's grinding my gears is my purpose in life. I have lots I want to do when I'm older. But how is that going to be enjoyable if you have no one to tell it to? No one there to experience it with you? Similar to Jai, I'm a loner, and I never wanted to be one in the first place. I try my hardest to make friends but it never happens right. I try to be open to people, try to help. But when I do no one cares. On Thanksgiving Break I planned to hang out with some friends. But apparently they have better people to hang out with. And that's not when this questioning came to be. It lasted since Kindergarten. Whenever I try to explain what I'm feeling, no one understands nor wants to listen. Some do, but they just forget. Some doesn't even bother and just talk to someone else who has the same feeling and completely forgets about me. I do have some friends, but mostly all of them does not bother with me. No one did not want to put down the time and effort to help me.


And after so many years of this, it just becomes... a habit. It no longer bothers me. Instead I just ignore it. Yet it always haunt my mind. Sometimes I would be happy, sometimes sad because of this "habit." But I always recover. Maybe that was why. Maybe because at times I would be happy most of a week, and only sad a couple of days. No one really spots it. Or maybe because that it doesn't bother me anymore, there isn't much point of someone helping me. Perhaps it is a mental disability. I dunno. Whatever it is or maybe is, the entire problem just became a habit. And I'm sure of it that it will haunt me for the rest of my life. And that takes me to my gear grinder: my purpose in this world.

Fortunately some people around my age do suffer the same or worse. However they never became empathetic to me, yet to others who suffers the same as well.


I'm also surprised that I'm not suicidal yet.
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I feel the same as you. I've never had any really close friends, and no I have no social life at all because my parents try to control every aspect of my life. So, this is where I vent and feel better and have a tiny bit of a life. But yeah, I feel depressed about my life. I don't care about much at all.
 
What's grinding my gears is how it seems as though I'm drifting away from my friends. Every time I'm in a good mood I'll try to talk to my friend and he'll listen but halfway through he'll just start talking to someone else. Also we don't talk as much as we used to. We usually were always hanging out last year and now it seems as though we're never hanging out in school. I think it might be in part that I outgrew my immaturity for the most part. Some of the stuff he says sounds like the random immature crap we talked about two years ago and last year I started outgrowing it towards the end of the year.
 
elitedriver123
And after so many years of this, it just becomes... a habit. It no longer bothers me. Instead I just ignore it. Yet it always haunt my mind. Sometimes I would be happy, sometimes sad because of this "habit." But I always recover. Maybe that was why. Maybe because at times I would be happy most of a week, and only sad a couple of days. No one really spots it. Or maybe because that it doesn't bother me anymore, there isn't much point of someone helping me. Perhaps it is a mental disability. I dunno. Whatever it is or maybe is, the entire problem just became a habit. And I'm sure of it that it will haunt me for the rest of my life. And that takes me to my gear grinder: my purpose in this world.

Fortunately some people around my age do suffer the same or worse. However they never became empathetic to me, yet to others who suffers the same as well.


I'm also surprised that I'm not suicidal yet.
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I have the same problem, though I taught myself to not care, and to just enjoy being a loner, and really I don't care about anyone or what they think anymore. Try to just think for yourself. I was suicidal for a short time, but I just thought of how there is no way to know if you're going to make a difference if you don't live, and being that I'm 15, the chances of me having a large impact on anyone are low anyway.

@Skython, reminds me of my sister. If you don't care then don't worry about it.

@waffles, look above.

I hate my life for no good reason. I think I just let all the little things get to me, and I become the most stressed out person I know. All this cold has been keeping me indoors and I can't do that. I love to go out, hike, bike, anything! My parents are both 55, so none of that happens with them, so it's usually by myself or if I can find a friend that is interested, with them. Not to hang out either, just to go out. Now that I'm inside every day all the days are blended together, and I see no difference from one day to the next. The stress is just killing me, I get angry over nothing, I feel tired when all I do is sit around. I should be happy, almost 6 months with the first girl I really cared for, Christmas and New Year's, getting together with relatives, but no. I still feel like 🤬! I don't know what to do with my time..
 
Not getting the FT-86 II Concept '11 even though I bought all of the DLC as the bundle. I understand why I don't get it because they got less money, and I absolutely hate Toyota, but I want another car.
 
rb26x
I have the same problem, though I taught myself to not care, and to just enjoy being a loner, and really I don't care about anyone or what they think anymore. Try to just think for yourself. I was suicidal for a short time, but I just thought of how there is no way to know if you're going to make a difference if you don't live, and being that I'm 15, the chances of me having a large impact on anyone are low anyway.

@Skython, reminds me of my sister. If you don't care then don't worry about it.

@waffles, look above.

I hate my life for no good reason. I think I just let all the little things get to me, and I become the most stressed out person I know. All this cold has been keeping me indoors and I can't do that. I love to go out, hike, bike, anything! My parents are both 55, so none of that happens with them, so it's usually by myself or if I can find a friend that is interested, with them. Not to hang out either, just to go out. Now that I'm inside every day all the days are blended together, and I see no difference from one day to the next. The stress is just killing me, I get angry over nothing, I feel tired when all I do is sit around. I should be happy, almost 6 months with the first girl I really cared for, Christmas and New Year's, getting together with relatives, but no. I still feel like 🤬! I don't know what to do with my time..
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If you're tired from doing nothing, that's means you must not exercise much, go for runs, exercise bike, workout, you may feel better too I think, and have more energy I think as well. :)

Same for GTA
 
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