Grinding gears.

JarlaxleBaenre said:
c-no, you have no idea how many times I've seen that trope used in a DnD game for the guy playing le edgy assassin.
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Which one? The sperg or the smug snake? Because both of them do grind my gears, especially with horrible excuses to back up said actions and/or beliefs.
 
JarlaxleBaenre said:
The "righteous warrior" trope. Usually leads to the weepy assassin and a load of angst.
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Makes me wonder if there is a assassin that doesn't have angst in a DnD game (Never played the tabletop, just some of vidya games). Also wonder if they could make a character that isn't some overused one(unless they use it for the purpose of satire).
 
I work in a call centre and my gears get grinded/gridden by people who moan about their battery about to die so they try to hurry me. If you choose to call me on a phone which is pretty much a handheld computer and has a battery-life shorter than a goldfishes memory span then fuck you I'm not going to hurry for you. *Starts to type one handed just to be awkward to the dick/bitch on the phone.
 
When people forget to turn their directional off when driving and continue for MILES with it on. It makes me rage so hard because no one else can legitimately surmise when that person is going to change lanes or if they're going to at all. (I have to drive on many parkways to get to work and see this shit way too much.)
Also when other customers in line try to argue a point with cashiers/customer service, and make that smug-ass face to other customers trying to rally support for their cause. When you do this, I'm going to look at you like you're an asshole because you didn't read the sale correctly and now you're trying to tell everyone how confusing the advert is. You're arguing for like, a DOLLAR, stop it.
 
Roommates who have shouting matches on the phone just outside the door, making you feel trapped inside the room.
 
When you're trying to back into a parking space and some asshat pulls right up to your fucking bumper and just stops there. Bonus points if they start honking and yelling when you put it into reverse.
 
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Every commercial for everything these days has to have this lame, forced, "quirky" humor. :briefs:
 
When people assume that if you're single that you must be lonely and desperate for someone. As if you can't be legitimately single and happy.
 
People who turn up at your work 5 minutes before you close and expect service. Especially when they say
Well you're still open aren't you ?
 
Foulmouth said:
People who turn up at your work 5 minutes before you close and expect service. Especially when they say
Well you're still open aren't you ?
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I got that all the time at my old job. I worked at a Taco Bell, and you'd always get some jackass wanting to sit down and eat.

Thankfully, most of my managers were cool with me inconveniencing customers who stayed past closing time. I'd just start mopping and making a lot of noise, or wiping down tables around them, or just leaning on the mop and watching them from across the room, if they didn't get the hint.
 
You know another thing that really grinds my gears?

Reactionary alarmists. The people who scream that we have Satanic cults operating out of preschools, that Obama is a secret Kenyan Muslim lizard man who wants nothing more to take away our guns and thus prepare us for an inevitable invasion by the Chinese, and that video games are going to turn us all into sociopaths. Ironically, these are the same people who aren't alarmed by things that they should be worry about--the fuel crisis, global warming, the loss of privacy in many sectors, and human rights violations in Syria and North Korea.

I also have a strong dislike for fundies. You know, the belief that you can pray the gay away, and that scientists--people who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of knowledge and make careers tracking observable and recordable phenomena--are somehow a group of uneducated clowns because they release papers on little proven facts like "plate tectonics" or "evolution" or "the Big Bang" instead of subscribing to their own ideology. And what makes it even more infuriating is that their are scientists who are also religious--they just don't go out of their way to disown fact at the expense of theology.
 
There is one thing that grinds my gears. Ever live with someone and they eat the snack food that belonged to you or you wanted to eat later? I had that happen me. I just wish not all of them were eaten. Then again I gotta lay off the chips and cookies but still, its irritating when someone eats your food.
 
People with bad grammar. I'll forgive typos and whatnot, but if you write/type like a third grader, I'm going to grind my teeth when I read your stuff. Especially people who mix up were/where/we're, they're/their/there, or its/it's.
 
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Foulmouth said:
People who turn up at your work 5 minutes before you close and expect service. Especially when they say
Well you're still open aren't you ?
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I had that happen at work the other day. We were just about to close up after I rang up the last two customers, two middle aged women. They took their time, slowly looking at the impulse grid near my register, wondering if they should get anything from it. Then right as they were about to put their stuff on the belt, they decide to look at our soda. When they needed to pay up, they just talked and talked to eachother, taking their sweet time yet again. By then my boss and I were fuming on the inside. Right as they were almost out the door, one of them asked if they could use our bathroom to blow their noses. My boss, the saint he is, flat out told them no.

I talked to him about it later, and he told me it was because they were probably going to steal something. I asked him why he thought that, and he said:

"Because she looks like a crackhead!"

I love my boss, I really do. :lol:
 
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Josie Long struggling her way through improv.
 
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