What grinds your gears? - Page 72

On November 04 2012 16:48 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Someone back me up on this one.

Craigslist ads for cars (or I guess ebay ads and such too):

1) just because you spent $500 on a spoiler, $650 on a new transmission, $1,000 on lowering it 6 inches, and $60 on new blue headlights, does not mean you can add them directly to the KBB price of your vehicle. You can spend thousands of dollars on your '96 civic, it's still never going to be worth more than $3,500. Don't whine about how much you spent on it. A buyer should not bail you out on bad investments.

2) going on about how great your car is, and then at the very end of the ad, mentioning, "Oh, the block is out, you just have to put it back in, and it's good to go." Fucking bullshit, either drop the price that should be on a running car, or put the block in yourself. And why is the engine out at all? Could it be... it's a lemon???

And in the same breath, slipping in at the very end, "it just has a gasket problem/rod knock/blown gasket." Oh, so all it needs is a new fucking engine, or if I'm super lucky, an extensive costly rebuild? Sweet!

3) The ad looks great, the car looks great, so you call up the guy. Guess what? The title isn't signed! Or the title "hasn't come in the mail yet." Or "it's signed by the previous owner, you just have to fill in the date." There's either something very shady going on with the vehicle, or, you were too cheap to register the vehicle in your own name and pay sales taxes or tabs. Filing for loss of title is a huge inconvenience, it can take a long ass time. Not to mention if it turns out the car is stolen or salvaged... you're fucked.

It's upsetting because you can basically count on a good chunk of the population looking for an opportunity to fuck his fellow brother over. This is why the 99% will never rise.

On November 06 2012 23:45 PizzaParty wrote:
People like this.

On November 06 2012 23:52 wcLLg wrote:
When people don't put their commas and periods inside their quotation marks (e.g. ..."some retard". would type somehting liek this

On November 06 2012 23:45 PizzaParty wrote:
People like this.

On November 06 2012 08:57 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Don't forget people who don't think studying history is important.

AND

People who bitch about learning math. "That's what calculators are for!" "When am I ever going to use this? Can't I voluntarily not learn some elementary numerical logic?" "When am I ever going to solve for X lolol" One thing I'm observing more, as a former tutor and a grad, is not only are people resisting logic and any amount of work, but people are resenting math because it has some absolutes (please, no number theory stuff, I'm talking basic shit here). If you have this kind of equation, this is the only solution. To find the solution, you can use any or all of these steps. If you do this every time, in this pattern, you will always be able to find an answer (or prove no solution, whatever). So much of math until like proof based classes are all pattern, rules, and checklists, they require very little "outside the box" style analyses. There's little whiff of anti-intellectualism because they value crap like apple products, starbucks, social media, and whatever latest trends and products far above self improvement and knowledge. Good thing we're cutting more education spending and make college unaffordable for the have-nots. That'll do the trick.

*exhales*

On November 06 2012 23:51 iKill wrote:


WHAT THE FUCK

That's not grinding my gears, that's turning me into a fucking murderous beast of hate.

On November 07 2012 01:44 Nizaris wrote:
It grinds my gears because they don't have any reason to disagree. They only justification is because God says so. well that's not a justification at all. Using religion to further your political agenda shouldn't be allowed. It's why ppl blow themselves up, it is infuriating. Provide a rational argument, not some bullshit about what some1 supposedly said some 2000 years ago.

On November 07 2012 01:41 HotShizz wrote:


Oh for the love of... listen I am all for gay marriage or civil union or whatever you want to call it. Personally, I kind of think it's odd or abnormal (it is as it involves way less than 5% of the population) but I don't care what happens behind closed doors and i don't think it will lead to any degradation in the moral fabric of humanity. However, don't you see that you, who are so outraged and irate by people disagreeing, have in no way proved yourself a more enlightened or intelligent human than those kids in the photographs?

Look, I don't think there is a person in my entire continent, let alone my country, who would have 100% the same opinion as I do in all matters of state or personal morality, but I do recognize that they have the same right to disagree with me as I have to disagree with them. Being hateful over them being unlike you is putting yourself in the exact same situation as those kids who are trying to affect others' lives because they disagree with them. It's stupid. Why would you let yourself get worked up and hateful about people not thinking like you do? If you were brought up any differently, as those kids were, is it so unbelievable that you would not think dissimilarly? I mean at that age most people haven't really defined who they are. They are still an amorphous blob, shaped by their environment but with no real form or ideas of their own.

The easy explanation "I don't agree with gay marriage, so I am going to tell other people what they have to do with their lives" is equivalently stupid to "I don't agree with those people, so I fucking HATE THEM!"

tldr; please people, be more respectful when disagreeing with people. Don't get worked up or think they are stupid because they disagree with you. People are people everywhere and deserve to be treated as such.

On November 07 2012 01:47 jdseemoreglass wrote:
Comcast. Fuck you Comcast. You raise my bill over and over and over for 3 fucking years until I'm paying $145 for basic cable and broadband. And then,.... AND THEN! You can't even fucking provide consistent internet! My connection was out for around 10 hours yesterday. And you fuckers do all this because you know there is no alternative, it's a complete monopoly. I've looked for companies that can provide internet to my place to get rid of you bums, but they don't exist. Fuck you Comcast.

It isn't about expecting people to act to their full potential and getting mad about it. It's about being an absolute prick in delivering that message. One could say "I'm really disappointed in the way you handled that, I thought better of you," and deliver a very impactful message that might actually inspire someone to do better with themselves. The message above serves as nothing but a way for some jerk to vent, typically will not be received well (or with anything but disgust and resentment), and will serve nearly no purpose in changing future outcomes.

I'll agree that most people are overly sensitive: I think you should be able to flat out tell people when they fucked up, and how to do the job better next time. Like, in my line of work, if someone overlooks a very simple process, and escalates it to the next support level, I should be able to say that behavior is unacceptable, and they need to shape up. The only reason that should make someone mad is because they got caught being a lazy shit stain and got called out on it: they should be mad at themselves. But there's still a line that has to be drawn somewhere, and taking your anger out on someone because they made a mistake, in such an overt manner is almost never the best way to handle a situation (granted, if someone is repeatedly doing the same thing, and other methods are not working, maybe it could be beneficial... or maybe that person needs to be thought of as less/fired in a work scenario).

Also, agreed with whoever said they dislike when people speak in memes. I have some friends that talk like that. "I gives no fucks," or "I can has," or "I has xyz." Stupid. I'd actually expand that to say that it's a mild irritation when people bring the internet culture into pop culture at all. I think it's because I was part of it when it was all really starting to bloom, and these people are just riding the waves of popularity, and in some sense I feel like they're stealing from us. It's like when your favorite band sells out to make some crappy music for a couple of albums, and everyone loves them and is a bigger fan of them than you are. The internet used to feel like a secretive club to me, where inside jokes came about very rarely, and meeting someone who knew what you were talking about was kind of exciting... now, ever asshole on the planet knows what a lolcat is, and they tell me about it as I haven't seen this stuff since its inception, practically. I guess it's just a part of me that felt like there was a real sense of community and belonging, and everyone being in on it has kind of killed that feeling for me.

On November 07 2012 01:41 HotShizz wrote:


Oh for the love of... listen I am all for gay marriage or civil union or whatever you want to call it. Personally, I kind of think it's odd or abnormal (it is as it involves way less than 5% of the population) but I don't care what happens behind closed doors and i don't think it will lead to any degradation in the moral fabric of humanity. However, don't you see that you, who are so outraged and irate by people disagreeing, have in no way proved yourself a more enlightened or intelligent human than those kids in the photographs?

Look, I don't think there is a person in my entire continent, let alone my country, who would have 100% the same opinion as I do in all matters of state or personal morality, but I do recognize that they have the same right to disagree with me as I have to disagree with them. Being hateful over them being unlike you is putting yourself in the exact same situation as those kids who are trying to affect others' lives because they disagree with them. It's stupid. Why would you let yourself get worked up and hateful about people not thinking like you do? If you were brought up any differently, as those kids were, is it so unbelievable that you would not think dissimilarly? I mean at that age most people haven't really defined who they are. They are still an amorphous blob, shaped by their environment but with no real form or ideas of their own.

The easy explanation "I don't agree with gay marriage, so I am going to tell other people what they have to do with their lives" is equivalently stupid to "I don't agree with those people, so I fucking HATE THEM!"

tldr; please people, be more respectful when disagreeing with people. Don't get worked up or think they are stupid because they disagree with you. People are people everywhere and deserve to be treated as such.



See, but that's kind of my point. These kids are just spouting off what they have been taught. I would think if God had told man to love his neighbor or whatever and leave the judging of the eternal soul to Him, then it would be a better way to deal with people to try to explain that. God may not condone that behavior, if that is what you believe, but isn't it His place and not yours to define that? Oughtn't we love and treat all equally and not try to rule for Him?

And that may or may not work to get people to look at the issue in a new light, but whatever the result, I wish people were more open to talking through issues and less quick to shit on each other for being different, weather sexually, racially, or religiously.

On November 07 2012 08:41 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
So in Washington State, there's a gay marriage bill/initiative/whatever up for vote. I HATE election week because everyone just gets catty and argues. So at work, here I am outside, breaking. Then comes up 4 other people. Three of them immediately start arguing about gay marriage. I told everyone, sternly, to drop it, right now. They did. I can't even repeat things I've heard, because they're so infuriating. From both sides. And pass or fail, I will probably have to listen to more arguing for at least another week. If we all strongly disagree, and we just want to be right and obviously have no interest in being open to other opinions, then we all have nothing to talk about. Keep it out of the workplace.

On November 07 2012 09:16 TrickyGilligan wrote:


I have extremely strong political views. Just not between the hours of 9 and 5.

Don't understand people who feel otherwise. Even if we're in the same party, we're not going to agree on everything. Why even bring it up? There's no reason to add yet another reason to dislike the people you're forced to spend 8 hours a day with.