After stepping outside to have a cig at my office i was trying to talk to an associate of mine but was constantly interupted by the sound of low bass tones coming from high schoolers and the ghetto alike. So i thought i'd hear from some other diy's on what grinds their gears. so hear goes.. this what Grinds my Gears..





You know what really grinds my gears is when the influence from gets you to rattle your trunk because you want to evryone else to hear your crappy rap. its gotten so bad that i cant even step outside without hearing "FLOOM< FLOOM<" in the backround.
And that is what grinds my gears.

LOL.

I have one of those car stereo systems. It's never cranked up in residential areas, because 1) I hate that, too, and 2) I want to at least have a chance to keep it. Oh yeah, I also despise rap 'music'.

My pet peeve is the misuse of the words "there" "they're" and "their"

There: A place that isn't here. eg. "I found parts for my projector there."

They're: A shortened form of they are. eg. "They're good people to buy projector parts from."

Their: Belonging to them. eg. "Their projector parts are good quality."

Feet and inches (sorry guys I work with this all day not mm)

Feet = '
Inches = "

example.. I have a 15.4' lcd screen WOW
My projector is throwing an 8" image (now that sucks)

My pet peeve is the interchange of 'fewer' and 'less.' Like in the grocery store: "10 items or less" is way wrong. %sigh%

If what you are talking about is quantitative, i.e. countable, then 'fewer' should be used: I have fewer spare fresnels than he.
If it is not quantitative, i.e. abstract, then 'less' should be used: I have less patience than he.

(and yes, my mother was an English major)

Always reminds me of Spinal Tap and their model of Stonehenge!

wow, I really thought twice about typing anything in reply to this.

My biggest pet peeve is people who fill in with the sound "uhmmmm" or "ahhhhhh"

Yes..uhmmmmmm.I do agree with that Statement. I .....ahhhhhhh...seem to recall hearing....uhmmmmmmm....many people ...uhmmmmm.....doing ...ah...uhm...that.

Drives me...uhmmmm...nuts.

Really? How come?

I am not trying to pick an argument, I am just curious as to your thoughts. I have learned long ago that formal written language is very different from everyday spoken language. It mostly gets my goat when billboards or newsprint make this mistake, but for some reason I am also bothered when TV/Radio personalities say this incorrectly. In speaking with my neighbors and friends, I tend to ignore it.

[Edit]
(Oh, and I am far from accurate in many other areas; spelling being one of my worst)

so what grinds peoples gears is text huh? I got a lot of people i know who share the same peeves. You guys should meet my grandma and my school teachers. Im sure you'll really hit off.

I know the guy who maintains this page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5229/p_.htm

Fits right in here.

LOL this made me laugh. True very true.

What gets me is:
Got
I've got
or the ever classic - Aint got no
or don't got any
haven't got
etc

And I agree with the thundering base from some car 5 cars behind me drowning out my radio.

biggest of all is when someone who cant ( or wont) do something they tell everyone else they cant as well.

Here's a nightmare story about bad grammar.

Years ago I worked on a design document for the Los Angeles Justice System. It was about 500 pages of well written text. The review team, on the client's side, only made few design changes, but they made about 1000 grammatical changes (they basically "ghettoized" it). Now I'm not one to criticize another persons grammar (a rocks and glass houses thing), but what they did was painful. Word usage problems, incomplete sentences, dangling participles, spelling mistakes, you name it, and it was there. In the end we had to make the changes or they wouldn’t pay for it.

The real sadness is that my name is on that document for all to see. It is a testament to the fact that every man has a price, including me.

Now that really ground my gears!

Thats because the public at large probaly could read it, it would be like reading a foreign language.
There is a comedian who touched on this subject
here

And THAT is what grinds his gears

edited with better link

I type as I think, so most of the time it comes out in a poorly punctuated ramble. I was going to reply about how odd your peave was but I didn't want my reply to be dissected and microscoped. I personally like to see poorly written signs.

Same here. it seems to have turned into what grammer grinds peoples gears and not anything and evrything else you could think to bitch about.

You know what really grinds my gear?

-People who ask pointless questions...
ex: Me: Babe, I need to stop and get gas...Her: Why are you out?
(basically all the "Here's your sign" type questions)

-Drivers need to learn to enter highway at highway speeds
Don't think you can merge into 80MPH traffic by cruising at 35mph. All you are doing is having EVERYONE else slow down to accommodate your stupidity

-Drivers that don't use turn signals
(I think with Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc. a turn signal is a $4,000 option, b/c none of them use it)

-People who don't control their kids!
(I don't like waiting at the DMV, having your kid running around, crawling under my seat, and standing inches from my face looking at me while he/she picks her nose.)

-People who dress up their 1989 Honda Accord with whale tail, multicolor body kit, fart can exhaust, and cut springs and call their car "a sports/race car".

-"Poor planning on your part, does not make a emergency upon mine"
(nuff said)

-And lastly... Lumen Lab! Yes I said Lumen Lab.
(Hours of time viewing this website instead of tending to gf, or working, only to get hair brained ideas to drain my bank account further! )


....And that is what grinds my gear...Tom?

Probably sums it up.

'Rice boys' used to bug me more, but I've decided that it really has nothing to do with me. I like to make my car faster. I'll concentrate first on making it be faster, instead of making it look faster, but really. In daily use that guy with the Civic DX with the cut springs, huge spoiler and fart can exhaust is driving at the same speed limit that I am. I can shrug and get on with my day.

The one I posted first was something that applies mostly to Internet.

This is one that applies to daily life. Rude cell phone use.

Not just while driving. That's bad enough, but it's at the point where I can't go anywhere without someone yammering away on their cell phone.

The worst (for me) is when I'm in line somewhere, like trying to order food, and the person right behind be is yakking away loudly, oblivious to the world.

Next is clerks at the stores. It's just plain rude to be talking on their cell phones while they're supposed to be doing their job. (It's an indication of the local economy, however that they don't get fired for it.)

Next worst is movies. Not the actual TALKING, because that at least generally doesn't happen (Though I suspect that this is more because the theaters are too lound than any consideration on their part.) Texting. Maybe I wouldn't care if the LCD screens weren't lit up all over the theater, but since they are, it just bugs me.

You know what really grinds my gears? Fat smug yuppies at the office. You know all their gonna do when you talk to them is find a way to make you feel like your less then them because their life sucks. You walk down down the halls to your office and see one of them with their hands in thier pocket waering an expensive looking suit covering thier tweedle dee bellies, and when you reach that awkward (think of gretting) stage when your about 6 feet away. They first give you an A-hole glare and then look straight forward like your not worth their acknowledgement. I guess i dont like being degraded by people i would bully in high school. It makes me want call there x wives up, and help trash there shiny convertibles even though im a man


"PINK BELLY" "PINK BELLY"!!

Not to be a dick, seriously I'm here merely to offer something that may or may not have occurred to you: This screams out to me as a self image issue. 100%

Now it could be on their parts or on ours, however the point remains. They most likely are relying on some perceived status as a crutch for their self image, and try to "lord" that over people who they think really give a rats ass.

the question is - why do you care what they think? Realize that they act like this because their self image is based on that illusion.

The next time you encounter this, just smile knowing that they thrive off the feeling you just described. If you smile and joyfully say hello it drive them absolutely bonkers.

I do the same thing to mild road rage sufferers. On the odd occasion I’ve made mistakes while driving, not seeing someone and accidentally cut them off or they don’t see me but still hurl abuse at me. I smile and wave as though I have just saw a long lost friend. The effect is two fold, it’s not the response they where expecting and leaves me feeling happy instead of feeling bad over there anger.

DJ

What grinds my gears?

Forgetting to hit the clutch...

nyuk nyuk. THank you thank you I'll be here all week...

The stupid idiots that jack up their 3 dollar cars and put the HUGE stagecoach rims on it. I saw one of these that had to cut his wheel opening bigger so his wheels would scrub when he turned. He still had to make a 3 point turn just to turn left at a stop sign. Not to mention that they can't make a turn at more than 5mph or they will flip over like a dead turtle.

yeah this car trend has me completely baffled

I can see why some poeple would want to "accessorise" their vehicles, but to the point where the demand to have something shiny and "ballar" looking instead of a well running car has a billion Lil g's putting Plastic spinny wheel covers on their not so souped up 80's tauruses and civics. It makes me think that they want people to think they have millions hiding under their screwdriver ignitions.

Dude, that car rocks. I mean; how easy is it to change the oil in that bad boy ?!

Ya know what really grinds my gears?

When a driver is in the left turn lane and drives out so far that he can't see the light so it turns red above him and he has to make a panic turn when traffic comes toward him from either side.....I seem to get behind this jackass once a week.

I always wondered who in the hell that was behind me all the time!!!

Edit: What a relief. I was just trying to shake my tail.

Crappy cars with sound systems so loud I don't here them in my house. I feel them.

Mortorcycles that feel the need to gun it when the corner light turns green. Hey, the speed limit is 30. Where are you going in such a hurry?
to the next light at the end of the block?

I can't here my fricken TV & i'm 3 houses from the corner.


People on their cell phones not paying attention that almost cause an accident then yell at me as if it's my fault they can't talk & drive at the same time.

Where in the design book does it say that Motorcycles HAVE to be loud?

Could you repeat that SJ? I couldn't hear you.

It's in the Harley Davidson manual, page 26.

I can understand not wanting to "waste" power to a restrictive exhaust system. Really, I can. Personally, though I spent (way too much) money to get a nice quiet exhaust system. Okay, it's not so quiet at 6,000 RPM at wide open throttle, but driving around town, particularly when I'm in a residential area, it's less noisy than a lot of STOCK exhaust systems around me.

I can also see some appeal in doing appearance modifications. I've seen some really nice looking cars, though I shake my head at the "race car" Hondas that are still econo-boxes under the hood. Hey, a Civic is a great car. I wish I had that kind of fuel economy. You can even make one into a very fast car, but I just don't get making it LOOK that fast when it isn't. Then again, I spend my time driving my car, not looking at it. I like it to look good, but more in a "form following function" manner.

I can totally understand wanting to have a good sound system. I like my music, and I spend enough time in my car to make it worth having a good sounding stereo. I don't, however, think that the world needs to listen to my music. I don't crank it up in residential areas, that's not my thing. Mostly what I want from my system is nice, clear sound. The bass should be enough for the song that's playing, but only for the people inside the car.

As for drivers... I dislike bad drivers, but y'know, I've made mistakes, too. Sometimes someone can be a perfectly good driver, and they just have an off moment. No sense in getting high blood pressure over it.

Yes, but I feel there is a difference between "simple mistake" and utter stupidity. Ok yes I (and everyone else) has had a long day on a empty road, and merge with just a simple quick look into the side mirror, and ended up creeping into the other lane just to find out someone is there. Oops, oh well.... life goes on....


How-ever! I would say the #1 cause of traffic is the people who but into line in traffic.

Ok I sit in about an hour of stand-still traffic everyday (45min driving 1.5 miles, 15min driving 8 miles...all major highways).

Now I can understand if this is your first, maybe second time driving this road, you forgot your exit. Ok thats fine.

But when there is a line, barely moving in the right most lane waiting for an off ramp and it's backed up for a mile... Dont, please dont drive all the way up to the front, stop in the middle of the highway with your blinker on, waiting to cut into line b/c you feel your too good to wait in line like everyone else.


It's so bad! rt.66 is 4 lanes wide (3 open, 1 HOV). The far right lane is waiting in line (about 1/2 mile) for the exit. The lane left of that is stopped, waiting to cut into line (1/4mile). The next left lane to that is almost stopped, waiting to cut into the line thats waiting to cut into line. If we all just got into line together, the road wouldnt clog up, slowing traffic for miles upstream of traffic.


Come on people, use your head! Be courteous for other drivers. It's all about the greater good!

Unfortunately this will never happen, because the prevailing mentality is "theres a short cut to everything" and it actually quite the opposite. I used to drive in traffic like this in Tokyo and in Honolulu everyday to and from base. I could walk there faster.

Tailgating - I know, everyone is in a rush sometimes, but people tailgate me all the time(and yes, I am already going 5-10mph OVER the speed limit)!

My solution? Flash the brake lights, if they don't get the hint, I slow down!

What grinds my gears is when I am tailgating someone and they flash their brake lights and then slowdown.

I mean come on, I obviously know I am tailgating......

When its dusk and somebody is doing this to me I like to turn my parking lights on for a quick second and keep on cruising

this reminds me, and easy solution ( baring law enforcement because they frown on the following) auxiliary off road lights and 130w 3 pointing forwards 2 pointing back.... the back too are ona toggle and alos a handy dandy push button sold that truck but I used it for

Gind me gears is people tailgating, and at night with thier high beams on in case perhaps I want to read while driving. Those lights solved both problems.

You know what grinds my gears? When I don't use the clutch.

A perfect 10.0 for brilliant usage!!! BRAVO!!!!

People that gun it to pull out in front of you in order to get out of their driveway or a parking lot when there are no cars behind you.
What?
You couldn't wait 30 secs. for me to drive by?
You had to be on the road RIGHT NOW! ?

Word "G"

A little off topic but LOLOLOL.

Rap Cat!

I live in southeast Texas and for some reason many people of Mexican heritage believe it is perfectly acceptable to blast tejano music from their house at a volume which will adequately blanket a 5 mile radius. If all you hear is "tss tss tss, tss tss tss, tss tss tss, tss tss tss", which is the trademark sound of any tejano song known to man, you must be on the 5 mile marker.

tailgaters make me furious and I usually don't tap the brakes but just start slowing down until they whip around me. Although one soccer mom in a big SUV was way up on me one day chatting on her cell phone. I got tired of it and hit the brakes, watching her whip forward/backward in her seat as she slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting me. miraculously she was no longer in such a hurry and backed off.

people who blast their music are dumb, especially when they get out at the gas station and open both doors with the car running and radio blasting. I wish I had some sort of EMP gun that would fry their precious stereo.

people who don't indicate when they are turning on the road also irritate me..I usually indicate for them..hoping they see me...they probably never do..I really have serious issues with other people when I get on the road and I don't know how to fix them.

What grinds my gears?

People who dismiss an entire genre of music (i.e. rap) based on what they see on TV or hear coming out of teenager's cars. You have crappy new rock songs you hear on MTV and the radio, you have classic rock, you have underground and indie rock, you have political rock songs, etc. The same thing is true of rap music.

And that, as well as various other ignorant stereotypes, is what grinds my gears.

I deal with that crap every day. The far right hand lane merges onto the interstate, it's double lined, AKA no merge and everyone waits till the last second to avoid the traffic line and cuts over.

I actually got rear ended last month because someone cut in and the guy in front wasn't paying attention, slammed his brakes. I hit mine, and the girl behind me ran into me at about 15 or 20 mph.

You know what REAlly grinds my gears? Is when lazy wait in front of the automatic doors in front of Target instaed of just opening a damn door themselves. It pisses me off so much i am having trouble writing this. Not just either but laziness in general. I have actually seen people walk onto an escalator that doesnt work and then double back because because its not working instaed of just F-ing walking down the damn stairs. Smack-Schmack people!

Hey, I said that like 10 days ago!!

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Maybe you don't actually exist. Maybe you're a ghost in the nether regions waiting to cross over. You just think you are posting stuff here.....Ooooohhhh.