What grinds your gears?
What's something that really annoys you? Tell us so that we can whinge in agreeance, or bask in the embarrassment that is your pet hate.

Im sick of people whinging about speed cameras being 'revenue raisers'. :idea: Stick to the bloody limit and you won't get booked.

Okay, there are the rare instances where the legitimacy of said cameras my be questioned. Yet every week I read articles or hear on the radio people (and reporters/commentators) whinging about cameras. Funny how noone complains about red light cameras, I guess we all understand that the 'red' light means stop - should we colour-code speed signs?:-k

There is one very effective and advantageous solution to the supposed 'revenue raising' conspiracy - slow the f*** down. Though I am disappointed that the revenue raised isnt invested in more speed cameras - maybe im just biased and have a grudge against those who have faster cars than me :P

:shock: practically an exact thread is on another forum I frequent. Spooky.

And after this morning (and the whole week actually).

CityRail.
Worst.Service.Ever.

You know what really grinds my gears...

The six month wait for A-league to kick-off again.

Tom Hicks and George Gilette.

When players in my fantasy team dont play matches even though they are perfectly fit.

PSP design, playing a game, you realise the screen has gone off because you accidently switched off the power button, you also realise you havent put your PSP into sleep mode, youve turned it off completely, and the last nail in the coffin is when you switch it back on to realise it didnt fucking autosave.

You know there is a lock function on the power button right?

How the hell do you accidentally hold that slide power button in the off position for a few seconds?

LOL.

The hold button doesnt do shit, means you cant press buttons while youre playing, which is alright on amutuer mode but not on world class.

How i manage to do it- the power switch, which is also the hold and the sleep switch, on the psp slim is on the side right under your hand, sometimes you just try to move your hand and it only takes 3 seconds to switch it off completely. Its really does grind my gears. Im not sure where the power button is on PSP fat, do you have one?

I don't know how you hold your PSP, but my hands never even come close to rubbing the power button slidy thing (and I have a fat PSP and its on the bottom right side)

Ah yeah, thats what the Hold button does. Meh, I never use it.

I have a PSP slim, and I never come close to sliding the power switch unintentionally. Maybe you should grip the PSP so hard :P

You now how the slim has nothing to hold onto. When i first got it my hands used to ache but now im deformed perfectly. It happens a fair bit and is frustrating. It doesnt happen on fattys becasue the switch is at the top thats what i thought. I put my hands flat on the side of the PSP cause i dont wanna drop it, you must hold your PSP more relaxed.

I think if i wrote down everything that "grinds my gears", i would crash the 442 server. But i will write them down everytime i think of a new one. Should start with an easy one in relation to marty's......

Indecisive drivers: When i make room for you to merge, MERGE!!!!! Dont fuck about hitting the accelerator and brake, just go. When you pull out from a side street or car park and im doing the speed limit, hit the bloody gas dammit. Dont come out and dordle up the road. The only excuse is if your in a shitty old car, which is only about 15% of the time. I spend enough time on the roads to know what your going to do before you do, so just do it. AAARRRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!

I feel a little better now

Oh yeah, people that pull out of side streets or driveways in front of you when there is NO ONE behind YOU!!!! and then proceed to plod along are the cause of road rage. If cars were expendable I would be near the top of the killboard.

youd be a road mod too.

people correcting your spelling mistakes, its a fucking forum not an essay or a resume, they think theyre so fucking smart yet they dont tell you to start sentences and names with caps. more than half the people that do it are hipocrits cause they do it themselves.

aragon

snipers lol smiley posts are up there

When people call Football Soccer, and they have some shitty reasoning like football players dive...

When people double/triple/quadruple/etc post.

thats not me i had 15 mins between the three and they were all seperate things each worthy of there own post.

When anyone blurts out those now cliched words "We almost beat Italy, so we could have won the world cup!" One shot on goal, at the best goalie in the world does not constitute almost beating a team. We may have outplayed them attacking wise for the best part of the game, but not defensively. Get your facts right dickhead and dont make wild comments you read in the courier mail/sydney morning herald/the age or any other bullshit media outlet

People that can't spell and do not know the difference between their/there/they're and your/you're etc
(this is not exactly a shot at you mk, its just something that annoys me in general).

You know back in the day, it was only those of us that actually read books that were willingly exposed to spelling and grammar. But in this day and age everyone is on the Net and really should have no excuse. Instead we get these 1337 H4X0R5!!!!! teenagers that think its a damn sms.

I'm one of those people that feel if you cannot construct a proper sentence (especially since you are typing it and have time to proofread it before posting), then why the hell should I take your opinion seriously?

I guess I'm old school.

Non-footballers thinking that the offside rule is always the biggest talking point in our game, therefore kicking-off all conversations with; "So what about that dogged offside rule." Grinds my gears it does.

You've probably still got dial up erebus.:lol:

I can spell better than the average bear but i really dont think a forum is about spelling and grammar, espescially a football one.

I also hate that i use about 6 commas per sentence cause i cbf starting new sentences.

I hate it when you think you can get in a quick reply to the previous post but when you post yours someone beats you to it and now yours doesnt make sense to anyone but yourself.

I hate the people who think they never make mistakes on here then you alert them so they edit their previous post.

No, you're just not lazy.

I know several people at uni will type out essays only to get halfway down the first page and realise they've typed in shorthand, as if they're using SMS or MSN. Quite entertaining watching their reaction to you watching their reaction to their realisation of their own incompetence. :P


The reason I correct people is not only for my enjoyment and the discrete patronisation of other forumites, but because often the grammar is incorrect, and when grammar is incorrect - implications can be skewed; as they often are. And especially on a medium such as a forum, IMO you need to clearly convey your point or message, otherwise things can get messy. As has been the case with several of your 'more serious' postings mk.

Exactly.

Political correctness

People in the right hand lane who are not overtaking. It is an overtaking lane not a lane to sit just below the speed limit at for fucks sake!

When you have an itchy ass and the girl next to you on the train refuses to scratch it for you even though you ask nicely and offer to return the favour.

You only have to keep left on roads with a speed limit 80 or higher - but I feel your pain.

As I frequently use the F3, it shits me when people decide to overtake another vehicle whilst still in cruise control - overtaking at a relative speed of ~3km/h, which just clogs up the overtaking lane. How hard is it to just accelerate, overatke, then reduce your speed again...

When people sit with their phones on the train and have music blaring out of it. Buy some bloody earphones, they only like 20 dollars.

If your telling people about things on FFT should the people in question not create a new forum in Feedback?

Anyway, what grinds my gears?

When you go to backspace something and you hit the dash key.
When people say soccer,not football.
Liverpool supporters. :lol:
People who think the EPL is the best league in the world because four English teams were in the UEFA Champions League. If they have another reason, fine.
Rangers supporters.:lol:
And finally when people do not pick up their (look Erebus I can do it!) dog's 8-[ business.

When youre typing and the cursor skips back to some random point in the sentence.

When you accidently write in caps then realise you have to right it all again because their is no undo caps option.

When people say "thats pretty random" or finish off sentences with "but"

When you click to type something in a query field (like google) and start typing, then the PC decides it'll de-select the field, then you re-select the field and start tying and it does it again :evil:

Crackdown on illegal downloaders
Just had to be my ISP :roll: ](*,)

Uhh... not that I do such illegal activities 8-[

It'll never work in the long run. Within 2 weeks the entire internetz will shut down :lol: and all the ISPs will be out of business for cutting off all their customers.

Thats shit. I would get the death sentence for all the stuff i DL. Free music, movies, games and tv shows is the best thing since sliced bread. I probably wouldnt need the internet if it was taken down. Maybe you shouldnt get such an underground provider marty.

Well, i dont live at home anyway... :P Its my dad's ISP. He's gunna be so pissed :lol:

So you go home just to DL?

OOOHHH!!! Yeah, that one's fuckign shitting me up the wall at the moment too...and it's all people under the age of 20 jsut about, so it's just whatever's the flavour of the month, it's shit music. I'm so damn tired of hearing the plain white T's and FOB with John Mayer.

Trent Reznor will be rather annoyed:P Internet will be stuffed when they start cutting people off for taht, there'll be nobody left but corporates.

I dont go home to download, I download when i go home. But I dont really download music anyway - im into Aussie hip hop so I support the scene by buying their music. JB HiFi ftw! Though I am pissed at the writer's strike in the US, since House wont be back till end of April.

yeah that grinds my gears too, all the good shows like prison break and stuff stopped at half way through a season.

It really annoys me when my mates break up with their girlfriend's, and think it's the end of the Universe. Seriously, it's one girl, I'm sure there are plenty other's out there. But really, they whinge to you non-stop for like, months on end. And then they wanna suss out whoever the new boyfriend is and whatever. Argh.

Jealousy's a curse.

Ok, first off, I have a girlfriend.
Secondly, you, of all people, shouldn't be posting about that. Have you even spoken to a girl in your life?
Thirdly, whatever, he should just get over it, it's not a big deal.

Your the one that sounded like youd never had a girl in your life not me, you sounded like a heartless pig.

Secondly yeah i have, idiot.

Thirdly if we took yours away it wouldnt make a difference right, how bout you tell her that.

What the hell are you on about?

xTwat wrote something piggish.

Because your full of compassion too arent you??

Yerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

"Your the one that..." Whatever man, just f* off. It's called "Grinding Gears", you say what annoys you, and at the moment, what I posted is, and your just stirring shit. Just f* off, stop starting useless shit.

Don't tell me you got girl germs from it?

Dude, you don't even know the situation, so why are you trying to comment on it?


Typical mk0825 stuff, just trying to rip apart anything I say. :roll:

I think we clash. You pull apart my comments as much i pull apart yours.

New rule, in grinding gears you cant comment on someone elses grind negativley.

Count me in too, especially if it's POS music like Soulja Boy or Rihanna.

What else pisses me off? :-k

mk0825, Premier John Brumby, baskers, my English teacher, PC crashing mid-way through essay, annoying popups, lonely Yr 7 kids wanting to be your friend, Price of food, Sepp Blatter, The Biggest Loser, Yank vocabulary, Sydney FC, Anthony Mundine talking up walkovers, news reporter Mal Walden (his tone drives me up the wall), Big Brother (TV Show), the list goes on...

Take that shit elsewhere.
If you dont bother to save multiple copies then, ha ha.
Got empathy?
Pfft, mummy and daddy buy your groceries - what/how do you care??
Agreed. :P
No, just Anthony Mundine :P Though I like him as an athlete.
Cant grind your gears if its not on anymore!

Something I always do :)
It's still annoying even when you've got it saved


Yes... kinda. Try standing next to your mate's 12 y.o. brother and listen to them talking about Dragonball Z and DotA all day. :roll:


I was talking about high canteen and take away food prices.


Decent fighter, I just wish he'd stop fighting nobodies and his 'brothers'.


\:d/

5 minutes after I made that post, there was a blackout... Karma >.<

If you call low battery karma.:-k :)

PCs not laptops, Isaac.

Blokes that sell-out the boys' so they make themselves look good in front of the ladies, but in actual fact, the ladies aren't even that good.

:lol: \:d/

Probably because youre the only sober one?? :lol:

...somebody's got to do the rounds home.

My parents are failures and live off my Youth Allowance, I care about the price of groceries.

Anthony Mundine fullstop, the guy's a fuckhead.

Your canteen probably has nothing on the one where I used to go...fucking $4.10 for a fucking bottle of pepsi max.

Mine's $3.00 for a bottle ATM, it's gone up $1.00 in about a year and a half. I wouldn't be surprised to see it reach $4.00+ by the time I leave.

Ours was a slower increase, but back in year 7, you could get it for $1.80, which was pretty much the wholesale price. Why, in five years they felt the need to increase their profit on a 600ml bottle of Pepsi with half the ingredients missing so drastically is beyond me. It's gone up waaaaay more than inflation.

Err, kids are inflating faster than inflation...

^LOL

Good Friday appeals make me cringe, they beg for money too much. They come out with all these stories of kids being sick like they all fell ill just before they went on air, they couldnt give a flying toss any other days, its a big publicity activity for channel 7 and its pretty twisted.

Kate alexa, OMg, what a fugly dog, thinks shes hot but shes fugly, wouldnt touch her with a ten foot pole, id fucking hit her over her slutty, dog head with it.

Only you could make a comment about inflatable kids:roll:

That would have more weight to it if they didn't raise 12mil and if all the funds raised form advertising didn't also get donated.

She's only famous coz of her daddy. Being Michael Gudinski's daughter got her everywhere.

I can't believe people are complaining about "Dandy in the Underworld"...they all need to get a fucking life.

Only you would spin it out of context - you sick puppy. :P

LOL, only he would know more about it than you...

Well, it is rumoured that I know a lot about inflatable things.... but kids?? No way. [-x

Do you love it when they call you "Big Poppa?"

Dont get it listen here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAdMpk9BQo

I wasn't the one making a comment about inflatable minors.

Inflatable things? not really. You should know about inflating stuff, with your inflated ego and all...

Firstly i thought you were calling him fat afro but then he thought of it even more twistedededly.

Some form of Syntax there would probably help taht make sense, but anyway...yeah, no...I didn't just read that as a fat jibe...perhaps taht's just me having a dirty mind....but then, you know what they say about people having a dirty mind..."dirty mind, warm heart" ;)

"Dirty mind, Dirty hands"

So hard getting that chocolate sauce off...

Don't you just hate it when you spend 5 mins typing something out only to bump the 'Back' button on your ergonomic keyboard? (On my keyboard the back and forward buttons are below the spacebar)

And we wondered why they made you a mod..."ergonomic keyboard" says it all...

Yeah, having broadband helps too.

I didnt want to get banned. ;)

The local library has broadband...that's hardly a selling point.

Who says I do? It's just if I don't say it, nobody else will...:P

I hate people like AFL fans who immediately dissmiss "Soccer" as being Football because apparently its a poofter sport.
I hate telling people that it is the world game and the AFL is played and supported in one country so how can most of the world be poofters.
Oh and that Kate Alexa comment is spot on she is a dog

My mates cal it "soccer" just to shit me, but now they get stuff thrown at them and I've just about got them trained.

my gripe from this week is self-centered superficial tarts that always seem to be on my train that can't so much as utter a sentence without using the words "like", "totally", "um" or "you know?"

Oh yeah...and fuckign CONNEX :evil: I was stuck in the rain in the storm for THREE FUCKING HOURS on tuesday :evil:

Foxtel still doesnt work, if i miss the arsenal liverpool match tommorow night, god help foxtel, ill get one of their technicians out here and string them up then slice their nuts of and sew them to their chin.

Woe be to you, the person with no foxtel when there are still people who don't even have power...
That's quite an unusual fantasy fetish you have there...you must have been beaten as a child.

Dont you have power? Dumb ass question, you're on your computer. I could have backed out of this but im no aragon.

No, now you look like amfc or jared ](*,) :P
No, I have power, but people just around the block still dont' have it back today and probably won't get it til monday.

Foxtel is back on, must have got my message. Just in time, 30mins from kick off, also the two FA cup ties are on, first up pompey v wba right now.

we had better win. Oh how we had better win.

I'm posting in the original wgmg thread. How cool am I?

This seems to be the original thread, but in the interest of only having one I'll go with the more popular one, and lock this one:

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=13954&p=1545