What Grinds your Gears?

[W3H5]

So my PS3 is still running from 8pm last night, it's now 10:30am here and the bloody thing has crashed with the update at 1%. So I tried to turn it off and the control, despite being fully charged, is not responding nor is the power button on the machine.

I really don't want shut off the PS3 because last time I did that I almost lost everything, and that was just a few days ago after a power cut.

Mega p!ssed off that I'm not going to have a chance until after Xmas to get the update.

On top of that announcement I'm also suffering from a nasty flu which is making my colleagues back away slowly and was up all last night with food poisoning after eating BBQ for dinner.

 

[Cowboys965]

 

[rb26x]

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

The thing is I work out as much as possible every day in gym, but I think I might just jog on our treadmill because of how cold it is.

 

[Cowboys965]

The thing is I work out as much as possible every day in gym, but I think I might just jog on our treadmill because of how cold it is.

Oh, are you eating junk?

 

[Patrick]

I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow. Have to get 2 fillings and on order to make my mouth numb she has to put a needle in my gums.

 

[F1 fan]

Don't worry. The injections don't really hurt. Just a short, sharp pain. It's not very pleasant, but it doesn't really hurt. Besides, the alternative is a lot worse. 👍

 

[Patrick]

I know it doesn't hurt. This will be my second time so I know what to expect. Like you said, it's just not pleasant.

 

[jagdrag77]

Don't worry. The injections don't really hurt. Just a short, sharp pain. It's not very pleasant, but it doesn't really hurt. Besides, the alternative is a lot worse. 👍

^^ Very true. Also, getting injections in your face for scarred acne hurts like hell!!

On topic, having to find out that I have to work on Boxing Day is a downer, but atleast the pay is good.

 

[jagdrag77]

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.

Your whole post described me when I was younger, going on to 20 now. But I really feel for ya mate, I know what's it like to be a loner. To not have a care in the world sometimes, a habit your forced into. A rut you get stuck in. Cliche sounding aside, life does get better, in time. If you ever want to talk, I'm here for ya mate, as I'm sure a lot of other people are. Take it easy

Another little gear grinder is spilling some juice on my new jeans, this always happens to me

 

[ParkourVeyron]

On topic, having to find out that I have to work on Boxing Day is a downer, but atleast the pay is good.

Wasn't Boxing Day created so that the people that had to work on Christmas could have a Christmas? (the day after of course) It seems that using it as a 2nd holiday defeats it's whole purpose. But I may be wrong, I'm American.

 

[F1 fan]

^^ Very true. Also, getting injections in your face for scarred acne hurts like hell!!

Luckily, I've never had that problem, but I do have a near invisible red scar on the tip of my nose. Years ago, I had the mother of all spots on my nose. After a few days, I got fed up and picked it like crazy. I now have a permanent scar on my nose to go along with many others.

What does grind my gears is the NHS. When I was 16, after an accident, I damn near lost a finger. Since the op, it has functioned well. The gear grinder is the fact that I was told that all feeling would come back in approximately 6 weeks. Now, eight years later, it still hasn't fully came back. I would go to the doctor to see about another operation, but it still functions well enough. I'm a guitar player of professional standard. I wouldn't want to risk that in order to regain the feeling, but it's still a major nuisance. I have full feeling at the base of the finger, all the way up one side and all around the finger tip, but I still can't straighten the finger.

Luckily, I have found ways to work around this, but I'm still annoyed at the NHS. At least I can still play guitar though. I am left handed, but play guitar right handed. For a few months after the accident, I was considering switching to playing left handed, but ultimately decided against it.

Ever since then, I have outright refused to do anything that could put my hands in danger. I also walk down the stairs with my hands in my pockets at all times.

 

[jagdrag77]

Wasn't Boxing Day created so that the people that had to work on Christmas could have a Christmas? (the day after of course) It seems that using it as a 2nd holiday defeats it's whole purpose. But I may be wrong, I'm American.

I don't really know. All I know is that it's a public holiday, but I'm cool with it now.

Another gear grinder is not really knowing the history of Boxing Day.

(Googles)

 

[Krog]

Another little gear grinder is spilling some juice on my new jeans, this always happens to me

Have you ever noticed that guys always spill right onto their crotch? Why does that happen?

My gear grinder is my body in winter. I have chapped lips, crimson dry burning skin, a constant headache, and what feels like a sleep sore all over my body.

 

[Lissa]

What's grinding my gears is young people in this thread talking about suicide.

My kid brother killed himself in 2001. He wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend. It still hurts, I still miss him, and I would give anything to have him back.

 

[mattythedog]

What's grinding my gears is young people in this thread talking about suicide.

My kid brother killed himself in 2001. He wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend. It still hurts, I still miss him, and I would give anything to have him back.

Sorry to hear that.

 

[W3H5]

What's grinding my gears is young people in this thread talking about suicide.

I'm glad I've dodged this thread for a while if that's been the case. I'd have a few things to say to those people talking about such things.

It's one thing complaining about mothers, finances and traffic and what not, but come on people, life isn't that bad.

 

[Skython]

What does he do to earn arse-status?

He's trying to act like a parent, so he can get out of being accused of eating all the yoghurt, or opening the second pack of ham when one was already opened. Just simple things, and when I get annoyed at him he starts speaking to me as if I'm a dog that's pissed on the floor. And then tries to argue that clot can't be used as an insult, when it can be. Throughout ages 1-10 he's generally picked on me. Fine for brotherly rivalry, even though I didn't want it. I've been beaten up for watching him play Playstation when he couldn't beat the game. And he mocks every single thing that anyone does that he wouldn't approve of. Like writing music better than him, he tries to find any note that "he could have done it better." He's purposely broken my stuff before and if I was to accidentally damage something of his I get bashed.

 

[MadMike'86]

Luckily, I've never had that problem, but I do have a near invisible red scar on the tip of my nose. Years ago, I had the mother of all spots on my nose. After a few days, I got fed up and picked it like crazy. I now have a permanent scar on my nose to go along with many others.

What does grind my gears is the NHS. When I was 16, after an accident, I damn near lost a finger. Since the op, it has functioned well. The gear grinder is the fact that I was told that all feeling would come back in approximately 6 weeks. Now, eight years later, it still hasn't fully came back. I would go to the doctor to see about another operation, but it still functions well enough. I'm a guitar player of professional standard. I wouldn't want to risk that in order to regain the feeling, but it's still a major nuisance. I have full feeling at the base of the finger, all the way up one side and all around the finger tip, but I still can't straighten the finger.

Luckily, I have found ways to work around this, but I'm still annoyed at the NHS. At least I can still play guitar though. I am left handed, but play guitar right handed. For a few months after the accident, I was considering switching to playing left handed, but ultimately decided against it.

Ever since then, I have outright refused to do anything that could put my hands in danger. I also walk down the stairs with my hands in my pockets at all times.

I had the same thing happen, Lacerated my right index finger down to the bone, cut clean through the Tendon, had to spend 3 days in hospital to fix it and then go to physio to get the finger to bend closed again....I'm guessing you damaged a Tendon and possibly Nerve?

I also play Bass, I play to a pretty high standard, and being a bass I pick with my fingers, my right index finger being the lead finger. This meant while it was healing I had to learn to pick with my middle and ring fingers, the bonus being now I can pick with 3 fingers (Like the bassist from Iron maiden) which means triplets and such don't require me using a pick.

What's grinding my gears is young people in this thread talking about suicide.

My kid brother killed himself in 2001. He wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend. It still hurts, I still miss him, and I would give anything to have him back.

Damn, I'm very sorry to hear that.

On topic, Todays Gear Grinder is the cat taking a dump behind my sofa despite being outside right up until I went to bed last night, he must have been outside holding it in so he could crap in the warm

 

[Skython]

I've spent ages in qualifying at Spa on GT Legends, and suddenly, I take pole. I'm so happy. I go past the pit exit and see the lights are red. I go back into the pits to find I crossed the line too late and my lap didn't include. I now have to start in 8th. Oh well, my trustee Cortina will guide me through.

 

[axletramp]

It's not f:censored: 'red sauce' it's KETCHUP!!!!

Coffee shop heathens...

 

[Daniel]

On topic, Todays Gear Grinder is the cat taking a dump behind my sofa despite being outside right up until I went to bed last night, he must have been outside holding it in so he could crap in the warm

Really? Our cat too a dump in the lounge sometime last night. The cat door must've been locked.. or my cat's really getting old/lazy

 

[mattythedog]

Our internet is down again. 👎 Ive had to buy another internet pack for my phone and my dad is trying all sorts of random stuff to try and fix it. And the bank I went to to open my account had no bank managers, they were all away. So tomorrow we have to go to another branch to see a bank manager who isnt on holiday.

 

[E28]

Our internet is down again. 👎 Ive had to buy another internet pack for my phone and my dad is trying all sorts of random stuff to try and fix it. And the bank I went to to open my account had no bank managers, they were all away. So tomorrow we have to go to another branch to see a bank manager who isnt on holiday.

My Internet is grinding my gears actually. I barely get 1mb/s most the time. I should be getting 6mb/s, or so BT claim...

 

[mattythedog]

My Internet is grinding my gears actually. I barely get 1mb/s most the time. I should be getting 6mb/s, or so BT claim...

Sky say we should be getting 15 mb/s, but realistically we only get 10 mb/s. But at the moment we have no internet. My dad reckons the wiring is dodgey, but this stuff is past my area of expertise.

 

[E28]

Sky say we should be getting 15 mb/s, but realistically we only get 10 mb/s. But at the moment we have no internet. My dad reckons the wiring is dodgey, but this stuff is past my area of expertise.

10mb/s! Holy 🤬. That's unimaginably fast to me.

 

[mattythedog]

10mb/s! Holy 🤬. That's unimaginably fast to me.

Its a good speed. But Virgin are saying that if they lay these new Fibre-Optic cables then you will get 100 mb/s! That would be insane!

 

[Cowboys965]

Don't worry. The injections don't really hurt. Just a short, sharp pain. It's not very pleasant, but it doesn't really hurt. Besides, the alternative is a lot worse. 👍

But if you're getting a tooth pulled, that needle they stick in the roof of your mouth,

 

[Submerged]

My Internet is grinding my gears actually. I barely get 1mb/s most the time. I should be getting 6mb/s, or so BT claim...

Its "up to" 6mb/s. So it wouldn't actually be 6mb/s that you are guaranteed to get. More likely (depending on distance from exchange) around 2 to 5mb/s.

 

[ell470]

Its a good speed. But Virgin are saying that if they lay these new Fibre-Optic cables then you will get 100 mb/s! That would be insane!

There's a big difference between Megabytes & Megabit. I have a 100 Megabit/s connection that gives me a download speed somewhere around 10 Megabytes/s. Enough to make my Harddrive complain about overload & strangle the speed.

Anyway, my Gear Grinder today is my worst enemy, My brain. I'm so damn sick of my brain obsessing over small totally unnecessary things that shouldn't bother me. I mean, they wouldn't probably bother anyone else. Even those days that are completely super, my retarded annoying brain finds something to start obsessing over & ultimately leaves me there with a feeling of sadness/failure/emptiness etc.

One thing is that I pretty much regret everything I've ever said & done. That's not a nice feeling to carry around...

 

[ilikewaffles11]

My brother really pisses me off. He's gotta be the most idiotic and annoying person I know. NO common sense at all. He acts like a two year old and I can't even leave my 🤬 contact solution bottle sitting around without occasionally finding it with a hole poked in it or my rubber bands for my braes full of holes. Also, he purposefully tries to get me angry when I play video games, which I don't even know why I let him use my PS3, by either listening to horrible rap/ deathmetal, using tech decks (Yes, he's 16 and plays with tech decks), or by just not shutting the 🤬 up. I seriously can't even play GT5 anymore if anybody's home and NOT just sit and do laps on the ring without somebody bugging me. Though when he 🤬 with my PS3 last time (I had told him many times if he does he can't use it) he gets mad at ME and I pretty much told him to grow the 🤬 up and what does he do? If you didn't see my previous post about this particular situation he hit me in the face wit a laptop. Yep, a laptop.