Grinding gears.

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Picklepower

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What, to use the Family Guy term, "Grinds Your Gears" at the moment?

For me right now. Youtube "Ranters" Now there are two types of ranters, and both are bad, there are "commentaries" in which a poorly recorded nerdy voice complains, or sometimes A logs, over another users video, the ranter is represented by a still image of a cartoon character, usually from an anime, and the "ranter" is never as interesting or charismatic as he thinks he is, EVER. The second type of ranter would be the Vlogs? I think that's the correct name, where a person will make vids complaining about whatever stupid celebrity shit is going on that week, and of course remind you to RATE AND SUBSCRIBE!!!! as if you have forgotten that those are things you can do on Youtube.

Another thing that grinds my gears are the TMZ types who OBSESS over Miley Cyrus and Beiber, the people who obsessively hate them to me are literally no different the fans who obsess over them, because both groups never shut the fuck up. If you don't like their music, than just don't listen to it, same thing I would say to someone who hates violent horror movies, if your offended by those then just don't watch them, or dont let your kids watch them, and move on with your life. Plus there are actual bad guys in the world right now, like the North Korean government, the Al Shabbab group etc. who gives a fuck if Beiber gets a speeding ticket or if Cyrus, *gasp* takes off her clothes?
 
People who do not turn their cell phone or device volume off when on public transit.
 
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Idiot Co-workers telling me they're smart.
Nerds and smart aren't the same thing, I don't care how much Dr. Who you watch, you're an idiot.
 
Pikonic said:
Idiot Co-workers telling me they're smart.
Nerds and smart aren't the same thing, I don't care how much Dr. Who you watch, you're an idiot.
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No, nerds are smart. You're thinking of dorks who watch too much TV, and TV is the bane of the nerd's existence as it's not homework or a chemistry set.
 
Thanks for the clarification Hunter. I guess the other beef I have "nerd" related is girls who play the whole "I'm nerdy so all of you nerds want to sleep with me" bit.
 
Seth McFarline grinds my gears. Three Two (one got cancelled, wonder why) shows about the. same. damn. thing.
 
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Deciding how to start a story. My first approach started in media res. The opening line was my character unzipping a body bag with a dead bandit king and reflecting on what drove him to murder the king. I was inspired by one of my favorite authors, whose first page throws the reader into the middle of the story without writing down to them. There's so many avenues I could take to improve the opening that it's mindboggling; I'm running through the pros and cons of each method.
 
Tactical-gear nuts/survivalists who are ridiculously out of shape. You might as well just buy that stuff and hand it to the first physically fit person you see, because that's who's probably going to wind up with it anyway if shit really does hit the fan. All the sweetest gear on planet earth isn't going to save you if you can't sprint 25 yards without keeling over.
 
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People who just want to be victims.
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Do you mean people who want sympathy 24/7 or people who play the victim card to avoid fault?
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You know, good examples being Wizards, Love-shys and Chris. It's always someone else's fault.
 
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I could have sworn we had a thread on pet peeves, but I guess not.

It takes a lot to actually get on my bad side. I joke around a lot, but for me to say, "fuck it, you're not worth my time," you have to be an exceptional shitlord.
 
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One thing that annoyed me this week was when I was at the gym, someone was using an exercise bike and her two friends were sitting on the chest press and lat pulldown watching her. It irked me, and I hoped they weren't sitting on them when I wanted to use them, which fortunately they weren't.
 
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It still kinda irks me that Bieber is still being mentioned. I thought he was replaced by One Direction or whatever mainstream pop culture crap that I don't bother following.

And basically, atheists. No, I'm an atheist myself. I mean the neckbearded, spergy, Redditor kind of atheist. My brother is becoming one and the religious fights he has with my mom are getting a bit annoying to listen to.
 
Customers that bring a lot of shit up to the register, only to say "I won't buying this, this, and this", pointing to half the shit they brought up. Seriously, there's no excuse for not planning ahead. And don't pull the whole "I can't remember the prices" bullshit, everything's a FUCKING dollar! I don't have the time to put all that stuff away. With Christmas and Thanksgiving coming up I barely have any time to leave my register for whatever reason.
 
At first glance, I thought this was about people who drove stick.

Now that i know that this topic's not about that. I can safely see that what really gets to me is how people don't seem to stop at crosswalks.

See, I have to take the bus to get to and from work (too cheap to buy a car, plus I could use the exercise). But what I get, and often I may add, are people who just get way too close to the crossing. Sometimes not even realizing that there's people that need it. I've personally been nearly run over on at least three separate occasions.
 
It's difficult to describe without visuals but I hate it when I'm in the parking lot (which by the way is narrow) and there's a mini traffic jam because someone's trying to claim a spot. Even though that spot has someone loading his/her groceries and looks like they'll be there for a while. For Christ's sakes, there's more spaces ON THE OTHER SIDE. JUST. GO.
 
It's kinda hard to know what grinds my gears but trying to remember, I'd guess it would be people who rant about a religion like Christianity just because someone like Ariel Castro went to church and also kidnapped three women and held them as slaves or complaining about the Bible saying you can't eat pork. I can understand if it's something legitimate but complain about the religion telling you not to eat swine or crab? That tells me someone is being spergy just because it says you can't eat a certain animal. It's not like you need a pig to have bacon. Same goes for a monster following the same religion a righteous person would follow. I guess one other thing that grinds my gears are smug people who commit atrocities simply because they think they are "righteous warriors" despite the fact that they are either jerks at best or abhorrent, repulsive people at worst. With that said, one of the things that grinds my gears. Have to remember what else grinds them.
 
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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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