The "know what really grinds my gears?" thread

[Kestra]

Music snobs.

This one bothers me quite a bit as well. I pretty much stopped discussing music with people so I wouldn't get so agitated.

 

[trekkerguy]

Music snobs.

This one bothers me quite a bit as well. I pretty much stopped discussing music with people so I wouldn't get so agitated.

It's extremely hard to discuss matters that are subjective to opinion.
I like to debate at times, but sometimes it's easier to just accept you may not agree.

 

[Captain X]

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.

Spray them with bear mace.

 

[CaptainStoner]

Music snobs.

This one bothers me quite a bit as well. I pretty much stopped discussing music with people so I wouldn't get so agitated.

The worst ones are the musicians themselves. We take "snob" to a Klingon level.
Ahh but one who at least admits one's snobbery can step outside of it, and allow oneself to be schooled in previously unknown realms of funkitude.
I have always found that when one has a sharp negative reaction to a type of music (not so much any one artist, but it can also be so), there is usually something in that music that the person needs.

 

[JimCasy]

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.

So is it just chicks who use that excuse that you have a problem with, and not guys?

Also, thanks for insinuating that fat girls can't be hot. That's awesome to hear. Glad my boyfriend doesn't think that way.

 

[hellsgate]

• Morons whom (the second I start mopping anywhere in the store at work,) INSIST they suddenly need to be right there in front of my mop getting whatever's caught the Moron's eye in that aisle (when the food in the bins will still be there after I'm done a few seconds later, Ok Butt-Monkeys?) & I'm then allowed to go to lunch. There's no-one standing there as I'm walking over to get started, but as soon as the mop gets out of the bucket & into the wringer.....WHAM!!! The flock of fuck-wads descend.
  
  GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY. Then, after I'm done mopping, you can go crazy & spend all fucking day browsing for the PERFECT sweet bell pepper, if you fucking want!! The mop will NOT change the quantity or quality of the food you're looking for. The mop's on the FLOOR, Fuck-Wads!! The food will be uttterly unchanged from the experience of me being there. Do not side step around me, the wet floor sign & my bucket. It's there for a reason. Step back & fucking wait for two god-damn seconds, Ok? Thank You. *gets down off my soapbox & takes it with me.*
  
  Oh, & One More Thing....
  
• Idiots that think a shipping / receiving dock is a public handicap access & immediately get an attitude on, right in front of the "EMPLOYEES ONLY" sign as I'm pointing it out to them.

 

[jamestyler]

I got the Clerks syndrome when I worked in security, essentially as a mall cop. The customers annoyed me. All of them.

From the repeat offenders who were barred arguing that they could come in whenever they wanted, only for me to explain in great detail that barred meant 'stay the fuck out', to the 'nice' elder customers who would be deeply offended when you weren't available to chat as you were in the middle of throwing someone out, or restraining someone for the police.

Store managers were the worst as they could never get it int their heads I wasn't responsible for their individual store security. The worst case of one was a manager who put in a formal complaint against me for not acting when she spotted someone in her shop, she saw him shop lifting, she followed him out, watched him leave the building... and then told me what happened.

And steroids... not so much the drug, but that whenever I get into shape people assume I'm using them. Obviously spending all my spare time in the gym wasn't good enough reason...

...though because I'm still not in peak condition, it's often assumed I don't work out at all. Which can be infuriating.

 

[Deckerd]

People who say 'lay' when they mean 'lie'.

Bob Dylan take note.

 

[Philo]

^

If only because it gives me an opportunity to use this quote...

"Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music! They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't."

 

[Rÿcher]

fat chicks can be so hot!

Toccara Jones

Mia Tyler

Me, my wife and her best friend.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

^ well at least we know what 'grinds your gears' ! You look happy, good on you!

I thought the 'English equivilant to 'grinds your gears' was 'gets your goat' so I had to look it up! Ok I'm bored... From US origin but best epymology - ...the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. Love it!

 

[hellsgate]

Rycher: Here, here! I second that motion!!! There ain't nothin' wrong with a curvy lady. Christ, I won't touch the scary skinny ones for fear of breaking something as soon as I get on top of them. *shudders* To the "petite" girls ---- (ahem) EAT SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My idea of the perfect future wife. "Exotic Performer" Ms. Brandy Talore. Proportionate & curvy.