The "know what really grinds my gears?" thread

[FordSVT]

Do you know what really chaps my hide?

Racial generalizations based purely on casual observations and preconceived notions.

I noticed you used "R"'s instead of "L"s. Good job my Asian friend.


Things that grind my gears....

Morbidly obese people who slowly walk four abreast and take up the entire right of way in a shopping centre.

People walking in front of me in dense crowds that STOP unexpectedly in the middle of the hallway and cause me to bump into them. The pedestrian equivalent of slamming on your breaks in heavy traffic to get into the lane beside you.

Large groups of people who think that the best place to stand around chatting is in the only entrance to the store I want to go into.

People who stand in fast food lines for ten minutes and begin to decide what they want to order once they get to the cashier. (I HATE THIS)

I've spent too much time in malls lately.

 

[Captain X]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

I was pedaling as fast as I could...

 

[Finn]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

You know what really grinds my gears? Cliched phrases, and whining.

Hey, if the shoe fits...

Boy, that really burns my goat.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

My car sucks at this without burning up serious amounts of gas. I've got to slam pedal to the metal (Well... cheap carpet) just to keep barely up with everyone.

I don't mind quite as much now that gas is dirt cheap compared to where it was at the start of the year.

 

[CookieMonster]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

My car sucks at this without burning up serious amounts of gas. I've got to slam pedal to the metal (Well... cheap carpet) just to keep barely up with everyone.

I don't mind quite as much now that gas is dirt cheap compared to where it was at the start of the year.

I have a similar problem, but I just pop it down into second and I can get up hill.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Do you know what really chaps my hide?

Racial generalizations based purely on casual observations and preconceived notions.

I noticed you used "R"'s instead of "L"s. Good job my Asian friend.

You, too.

Now be a good boy, and go eat your "fried lice," will you?

Please?

Oh, pretty please???

Off to your room now when you are done.


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I've spent too much time in malls lately.

Would that be regular malls, or one of your "beer and hockey malls" next to the trailer parks where you hang "aboat?"

 

[trekkerguy]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

You guys must be drivin Yodas and Honduhs.

Love my American Plastic. I'm usually passing people uphill and am only at 1500RPMS.



What really grinds my Gears? Those damned Locust...

 

[NCC1701]

People who can't drive up a hill without slowing down.

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

My car sucks at this without burning up serious amounts of gas. I've got to slam pedal to the metal (Well... cheap carpet) just to keep barely up with everyone.

I don't mind quite as much now that gas is dirt cheap compared to where it was at the start of the year.

Get a manual, gearing down to fourth or even third helps

 

[TheSeeker]

I haven't read through the whole thread so forgive me if this has been posted already, but what really grinds my gears is when people literally translate "I ♥ NY" or some other similar statement to "I heart New York".

Do people not get that it's supposed to be "I love New York"? When did this literal translation of the heart symbol start happening anyway?

 

[trekkerguy]

That's not really fair. Some cars aren't good at going up. My first car (which was in a good shape and was considered latter model when I got it) wasn't good at going up big hills even when I was flooring it.

My car sucks at this without burning up serious amounts of gas. I've got to slam pedal to the metal (Well... cheap carpet) just to keep barely up with everyone.

I don't mind quite as much now that gas is dirt cheap compared to where it was at the start of the year.

Get a manual, gearing down to fourth or even third helps

I have an Auto and still shift it...

There's an "I"(Incline/Intermediate?) and "L"(Low) gears for a reason, this being one of them.
I usually only use it for launching though, like I said my lil 4 banger climbs just fine at low RPM...
guess that's what Torque is for.

 

[Captain X]

Gearing down to third limits me to about 40 MPH, going uphill or otherwise.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I haven't read through the whole thread so forgive me if this has been posted already, but what really grinds my gears is when people literally translate "I ♥ NY" or some other similar statement to "I heart New York".

Do people not get that it's supposed to be "I love New York"? When did this literal translation of the heart symbol start happening anyway?

It was those dang hipsters!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol)

 

[Hermiod]

It was those dang hipsters!

Philo!!!!!

 

[Lookingglassman]

1. People who wear blinders when it comes to their political party. I cant stand people who will defend the most stupid thing their candidate does just because they are in the same party. I'm a dem and I voted for Obama, but if he starts screwing up I aint going to make excuses for him like republicans do for that idiot Bush.

2. Old people who drive slow in the left hand lane.

3. People who stop in the middle of an aisle and talk to their friends, thus blocking the whole aisle.

4. Fat chicks who use excuses such as "I have a thyroid problem" in order to justify their fatness. Well I aint had a working thyroid since 1994, but I always managed to keep my weight down by exercise and eating right. If a fat chick was on a deserted island with no food and a thyroid problem, I doubt she would stay fat very long.

5. People who think Anna Nicole Smith was hot. She was fat and ugly.

6. Hannah Montana- only famous because of her crappy daddy.

7. People who think Heath Ledger was all that. He was a good actor, but not that great. He dont deserve an Oscar for being the joker.

8. The Beatles - they plain suck.

9. Bands that the lead singer has a high voice and sounds like a whiny chick like the American Rejects guy.

10. People who try to be politically correct.

11. Russians

12. Gangbangers who think they are "soldiers" Send these little retards to war since they wanna be "soldiers" and see how long they last throwing up gang signs to a terrorist. Or better yet, let the US Army loose in their neighborhoods and see how well they "soldier" against a M1A2 Abrams putting a sabot round through their forehead from 2000 meters away.

 

[Pingfah]

Is that all? I'm sure you hate a lot more things than that.

 

[Rÿcher]

8. The Beatles - they plain suck.

Now them's fightin' words mister

Just because McCartney [and Wings'], Ringo Starr and George Harrison's solo careers were dismal failures doesn't mean the Beatles as a whole sucked.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Supermarket whinges;
People who don't know how to drive a trolley - they pull it, or push it sideways.Will someone put handprints on the handle to help them please!
Those that pay for items worth £2.50 with a card.
Parents who let their kids put items through on the self checkout 'for fun' when you are jumping from foot to foot with just a loaf of bread, ham and cheese and the right money behind them. I was halfway through 'self checking out' today when a kid came and jumped on the 'out' scales thus throwing the whole transaction into chaos. It was only when I said with an evil grin 'Oh you've come up on the screen now - jump in the bag I've paid for you' that she made a quick getaway. And supermarket assistants who come to the aid of the flashing red light and when you say you were trying to buy a child they don't find it funny)
I do apologise in advance to parents who try to make shopping fun but when all you want is a cheese and ham sandwich..... I do have a child, he is at boarding school. He went of his own accord

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Things that grind my gears:

Music snobs.

People who can't separate fiction from reality.

People who don't get the difference between lose and loose.

Tight underwear.

 

[thestrangequark]

Street harassment/catcalls/grabbing/following -- all that nonsense that afflicts me daily -- is at the top of the list. Then comes people who are nasty for no reason. Other than those I try to not let the little things get to me.