You know what really grinds my gears....

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

@DialgiX
Same here. My IE8 browser was pristine until I installed Adobe Acrobat.Now it has a fracking toolbar that I don't seem to use and I feel is contributing to my "IE8 is not responding" problem.
One thing that grinds my gears is a "not responding" program on my single core computer.

[SaturnReturn]

I'll add to that - having a quad core monster (work PC), where the only program that properly utilises the multiple cores is an old FORTRAN based bit of 1D CFD software (with a really dodgy front-end) from all the way back in the 70s. It's always annoying when I get non-responsive office-type programs, only to hit ctrl+alt+delete and find that only 25 % of my processing power is being used.:mad:

[KGB]

Kids shoving pretend money into the ps3 disc tray which has now fallen in and I can't get out just as I was about to trade it in for a slim. I'm going to kill him when he gets up. The little ****er!!!!!

[blackwiggle]

FEISAR
Adobe products are notorious for causing other programs "this program is not responding" problems, especially internet browsers.
It's usually caused by them automatically searching for updates, well Adobe says it's for updates, but those in the know say it's checking to see if it's pirated software, and that the way they have implemented this searching can and does conflict with any and all of the following, Both McAfee [especially] & Nortons security software, IE browsers security, Firefox add-on's [need to visit Firefox site to fix]

They are an absolute pain to uninstall as well, you usually find that you have to go to the Adobe website to get specific instructions on how to get rid of the bloody things, as windows "Add/Remove Software" won't get rid of them completely, and even then you'll PC won't be the same as they would of messed your registry up, which in turn stuffs everything else up to the point where your PC get really really slow at boot up especially.
Great products for the most part when working properly, but they can freeze up a PC and make it so slow that only a complete system reinstall will get things back.

[amplificated]

@ KGB
Any warranty the console had has surely passed - may as well go nuts figuring out how to get the pretend money out/hacking your console to bits.

As long as you can put it all back together again I imagine it should be fine and still tradeable.

Still, it has to suck when you have no intention of doing all that! :P

[DJ Techno]

Seeing people get emberrassed for being real dumb asses

trying to proof something to me on ebay a day ago. A seller trying to deny me a refund. On a movie. The beautician and the beast.

The item was claimed BY THE SELLER as new, like new.

No scratchs, scuff marks nothing.

ME THE BUYER RECIEVED A "Has scratchs, scuffs, and won't play worth a god damn!"

So i filed the case on ebay buyer protection.

Now the person running their mouth like a hateful kkk ( ku klux klan ) member trying to do a hate ralley.

What worse on grind my gears. They seem to have poking around on my facebook and myspace trying to know my life.

They call that stalking!

I call it dead meat if you want to go that far.

Its just a ****ing dvd.

All i asked is a refund or a replacement.

No. You want to run off and flame, give hate, and be nasty about it.

Im nasty too! When it comes to making love with a women tho...
But other than that.

My gears are grinding that whatever ebay says. Hey i get my money back. This hoe either takes back their shitty dvd or do something.

Cause i also got some new orders in from ebay for wipout 3, wipeout xl. What conditions the sellers said they were in?
The same words "like new" and a new one "good".
Ok wipeout xl is scratched the **** to hell, but it plays...
Doesn't mean i am satisfied
wipeout 3?
Extrememly shows how somebody used a cd cleaner/repair kit. Cause the whole disc is like somebody can't buff and wax and clean a floor with those tools n more.
But it plays.. It plays for now. But every music track on there won't even get pass the first 25 secs or counting beats of the every track.

Listen to a repeat of sashas xpander. Repeating the first 20 secs over and over and over.

You would go motha ****ing crazy!
But hell.

My grinding gears for now...

[KGB]

@ KGB
Any warranty the console had has surely passed - may as well go nuts figuring out how to get the pretend money out/hacking your console to bits.

As long as you can put it all back together again I imagine it should be fine and still tradeable.

Still, it has to suck when you have no intention of doing all that! :P

I managed to take the ps3 apart last night, I peeled the material back that is on the disc tray opening and got it out. I gave it a clean and seems to be running a bit smoother. I would of thought that by removing the sticker it may of reduced the price of any trade in offer. I might give them a ring later on and see.

[Nutcase:259]

Not getting job interviews. because i " dont have enough experience "

grumble grumble grumble

grinding my gears right now

think i might take my bass out on the street and start busking haha


PS KGB couldn't you just take it back anyway and hope no one notices? :lol
" i swear that money has always been in there..."

[DJ Techno]

what will grind my gears....


nutcase!

get off your ass and keep trying to get a job that is with your qualifications or that the years of education you spent to get the work.


unless you didn't spend some of the time getting experience. then don't just sit their with your guitar. and get the experience!

their must be some programs made to help you get experience and right it off as 5 years exp instead you really had a year.

and the only person in here. who has right to grumble like the scrooge and grinch.

is ME!

what will grind my gears more.

a person stops at something. like that someone up here. because of the words "no, sorry we can't see you here" and "thank you but we are looking for someone qualified"

never stop. its like getting rejected by a woman. than when u get rejected. you cry and feel sorry and bad. and don't go get another woman for more than 5 years. not months not even days.

[Harvai]

My ground gear with applying for a job is when you don't even hear back from the company. Not even a 'Sorry, you're not the right candidate' or what-have-you. Makes you wonder why you went to all that effort in the first place.

[Nutcase:259]

Dj Techno, i see a career in motivational speeking coming along:g
(yeah thats right i can predict the future haha )

Grinds my gears is ppl who smell. seriously, god made deodorant for a reason, its not like its expensive or anything. no excuses

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I'll tell you what is currently grinding my gears - my dentist.

I had to go for a check-up today, and he's such a miserable sod. It made it all the more worse when he told me in his gloomy voice that I needed to go back for a filling :blarg

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Another thing that grinds my gears:Horror films with implied gore that you see for almost the majority of the film which thoroughly disgust you.
Gore in 300 is not so disgusting.Strangely,I find it...funny
The film that I am talking about is The Human Centipede:First Sequence.
Click here if you want to know more about the film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede)
I recently got into a "sucky" life(stupid bullies,my class,mockery and stuff).I was introduced to this film by my 13 year old younger brother.I read that there would be a sequel titled"The Human Centipede II:Full Sequence",which would have 12 people in a centipede(Good Grief)
Because of my bro introducing to me this film.I feel like writing the script for "The Human Centipede III:Full Sequence 2.5",having a centipede with around 30 people and featuring almost everyone in my class except me,which is a good thing for me and a bad thing for the "featured" ones.
(Sorry I went off-topic)

[Mr Phlanj]

@DP i love the dentist, its the only time that i get pins and needles behinde my ears. that proably sounds strange :P


-my pc is pissing me off, im just going to throw it away. its old, its rubbish and it dosnt work >.<

[blackwiggle]

I think I have got a newly acquired ghost in my flat :eek:eek
I came home from my 3rd day at my new work last night and I find that my lounge room window was open, I hadn't been burgled.
I'm 6 floors up and there is no way anybody could of climbed in through it unless they repelled down the side of the building, and I know I didn't open it as it's been bloody freezing in Sydney.
Then I started playing wipeout online last night and I suddenly hear the sound of water running in the bathroom, so dropped my controller and I ran to check out what's happened and there's no tap on, nothing, go back to the game, race starts then the same happens again, still no tap running but this time the bathroom floor is wet, but unless the water was scooped out of the toilet or sink which was empty, there is nowhere from where the water could of come from.
It wasn't a leak from the flat above.

I've woken up this morning and both things have happened again during the night, and I'm the only one here.

Very strange and unnerving.

[mic-dk]

Who you gonna call?

sorry :p It sure sounds strange though...

[LOUDandPROUD]

...when my 60GB launch PS3 gets the YLOD, which finally happened today. Ugh. Screw sending it back to Sony for the $150 repair and 2-4 week turnaround time though. Instead, I'm going to send it to the folks at gophermods.com, who specialize in this type of thing and perform the YLOD repair for $69.99 with a 24-hour turnaround time and 60-day warranty. So, I should be back up and running soon!

[RedScar]

I'm pretty sure that everyone on the WOZ forum has now had a YLOD or something else fail with their ps3.

The DnBA Anthology which comes out on monday in the UK on sale
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=12;1;306;-1;202&sku=467282

Doesn't come out till Sept 21 and costs me 7 bucks (after conversion) more BEFORE tax here in canada
http://www.hmv.ca/Products/Detail/590663.aspx

I know I could do the digital dl, but I want a hardcopy

[LOUDandPROUD]

@ RedScar - Not sure what your point is, but this is the "what really grinds my gears" thread where folks can vent and my YLOD really ground my gears today...so, I was venting. I've purchased all of my Playstation consoles at launch (PS1, PS2 & PS3) and this is the first that's ever died, so this is a new experience for me. I also highly doubt that "everyone on the WOZ forum has now had a YLOD or something else fail with their PS3." We aren't talking about an XBOX here... :rolleyes:

[RedScar]

lol, I wasn't critizing, but it seems that nearly everyone here has made a "my ps3 is broke" thread it seems. I know mine has, it wasn't a YLOD but it was a BD player failure.

[LOUDandPROUD]

Oh ok lol, I see...well, at least I simply posted in this thread, instead of starting a new one, ha ha. It's all good. 8)

[mdhay]

Does the room you're in (or go in) suddenly get really cold, Blackwiggle?

[Whizawk]

- The goddamn mother***ing tiny stone that appears from nowhere and gets stuck in your shoe and makes you curse enough to make the devil cry.

Lol, this made me laugh for about 5 mins.

So true! I had one when I was in a school race, it was long-distance running and it was a sharp one too! Damn thing made me stop and take it out - lost my place in the race. :brickwall :blarg :bomb

[DJ Techno]

Today was the end of a kill me quickly pain in the mouth of my own.

What can get on your gears and nerves worst a tooth stabbing the nerve root inside
your mouth including an absess which not taken care of. Will or would kill u or damage
Certain parts of the body.

All the pain pills I took

Tylenol, tylenol 3, ibuprophen, hydrocodone, as much as 800mg of codone.

Nothing.
Nothing freain work.

So the tooth is pulled out. The absess being killed with antibiotics. And me still ****ing mad.

But alive.

[Kyonshi]

Hey Dj, i feel your pain man. Check this out.

When i was 10, i had this abscess under a molar and this lame-ass dentist decided it had to go anyway, right here right now. Being so young i didn't know that a tooth with an abscess can't be anesthetized. At that time, i told my mom she didn't had to be there in the dentist room anymore, so it happened while she wasn't there to object the surgery.

I faced the most horrible pain ever of course. I screamed my lungs out while the ****er was doing his thing, and my mom rushed in the room, all freaked up. The lame-ass dentist then told her in private that it was only a hard-ass tooth to remove, but everything was fine. She was pissed but said ok. We left.

Couple of days later, i remember taking a walk with my dad to a local restaurant on a very warm day. I dunno if the heat played some part in it, but at some point i felt i was about to pass out and i told my dad just before it really happened. I woke up in the restaurant's rest room, not knowing what the hell happened. My dad told me my lips and fingernails were blue when i fainted... We went to the hospital to have the doctor who checked me stating i had blood poisoning, due to the pus and bacterias flowing out of the wound in my mouth, infecting my body. I could have died, nothing less.

Today i got a fear of dentists, and i wait until its critical to go see one. I'm stupid i know, but it's hard to fight against something so dreadful that happened to me :( And this always grinds up my gear...

[mdhay]

Actually, I think it's unlawful practice to not use any anaesthetic without any good reason on somebody when they're so young, I had one of those about three years ago, I could have had it, went rambo style. :twisted The most hurtful thing is that I couldn't really eat for a few hours. :( I don't know how things are in Canada, but that would borderline child abuse without any anaesthetic.

[DJ Techno]

Hey Dj, i feel your pain man. Check this out.

When i was 10, i had this abscess under a molar and this lame-ass dentist decided it had to go anyway, right here right now. Being so young i didn't know that a tooth with an abscess can't be anesthetized. At that time, i told my mom she didn't had to be there in the dentist room anymore, so it happened while she wasn't there to object the surgery.

I faced the most horrible pain ever of course. I screamed my lungs out while the ****er was doing his thing, and my mom rushed in the room, all freaked up. The lame-ass dentist then told her in private that it was only a hard-ass tooth to remove, but everything was fine. She was pissed but said ok. We left.

Couple of days later, i remember taking a walk with my dad to a local restaurant on a very warm day. I dunno if the heat played some part in it, but at some point i felt i was about to pass out and i told my dad just before it really happened. I woke up in the restaurant's rest room, not knowing what the hell happened. My dad told me my lips and fingernails were blue when i fainted... We went to the hospital to have the doctor who checked me stating i had blood poisoning, due to the pus and bacterias flowing out of the wound in my mouth, infecting my body. I could have died, nothing less.

Today i got a fear of dentists, and i wait until its critical to go see one. I'm stupid i know, but it's hard to fight against something so dreadful that happened to me :( And this always grinds up my gear...

you want to beat that fear...

face the dentist on a clean and check routine. but also. get the info of that dentist years ago...

do what american do in America

We sue for medical practice that was untolerated.

you didn't have the yellow pus drained out of the hole. or may not have been prescribed antibiotics.

thats yo life. and yes

In America you sue or you come back to the dentist with a bat and break the office. not his face but abig message.

[Mr Phlanj]

do what american do in America

We sue
In America you sue or you come back to the dentist with a bat and break the office.

gotta love the good ol' US of A :beer

[stin]

What gets on my tits!!, my golf are going really well apart from my friggen putting but, even you think, I can putt and I`m not holing enough!:frown:

stevie:)

[DJ Techno]

gotta love the good ol' US of A :beer

Freedom

of

Speech


last night this racial,harrassing cop named Major Jonus, who runs south congaree police dept as assistant chief. came inside the gas station i hang out after work from the video store...

go figure this sounds like a Clerks movie scene ( convient store/gas station and a video store next to each other and the two clerks know each other )
any way!

he walks in and say's "Techno Long! haven't seen you since i last put you in jail"
Yeah hes a racial Dick!
but after that when me, laura the girl who works there and another person were talking about what is a crime somebody got inside jail for having sex inside their cell. This was two women having sex in their cell. They were caught.

So i said the best explanation and simpliest way of explaining the charge the two woman got that the jail and news paper reported it in.

"They were caught ****ing inside their room lol, yeah what kind of charge is that when caught doing that"

Then Jonus walk past me and ask what did i say.
and get this. his hands were on his hand cuffs, ready to lock me for nothing.

so i changed what i said. "they were caught having sexual intercourse"
I said Sexual Intercourse, what kind of wild stuff is that!

Jonus tells me "good, thats what i thought you said don't swear again"
I looked at him walking away, told Laura what the helll that stupid hating, fake ass marine, motha ****er said. Laura said "thats some bullshit! I curse all the hell i wont and even infront of him and he don't say nothing"

Freedom of Speech.

When ass holes like that cop try and harass you from saying whatever the hell you have to say. Try and make you be tempted to shoot them dead with their own gun. Because they want to mess with my rights and freedoms. And they can't do nothing about it unless I start the provacation, trouble etc. oh and guess what in south carolina you can **** all you want. But don't say **** you to a cop. Then it might put you in handcuffs.
How ****ing stupid is that!

****

[SaturnReturn]

Well DJ, that does sound crap. I'd say you did the sensible thing though - dude's probably not worth it.

What's grinding my gears right now is, having gone into my work email account to forward an email, finding out that my company will be having another round of redundancies. I think this is the 4th in 18 months or something (maybe 2 years), and this time there will be 600 redundancies of permanent staff, with no-one being exempt. Sucks!

I think this is all happening now because a job of ours just got axed. It was a massive job for a whole new development in the middle east, and about 500 staff were working on it, with another 500 offering support roles, I think. Something like that anyway. Now, the government in the client's has decided that they just don't want to do it any more, so all of a sudden a hell of a lot of people have no work. The whole job was controversial to start with, and now this. Seems like a case of putting far too many eggs in one basket, and now there's a massive gaping hole in the basket.

Well, fingers crossed I'm one of the ones that survives. This comes just as I was starting to enjoy the job a bit more - bad times.:(

[DJ Techno]

Mmmm
Hmmm.

Then I got to figure out also if that was u on Hr/Fury this evening before I went to work.
Racing.

Well I saw Dan (kyosin) oh well...

Your works networks system isn't as bad
When systems here in South Carolina. You couldn't get on the internet if u were Catholic and
You prayed and confessed all you want to the breast. The internet n networks were not working for a day n half. Not working for wi-fi, Ethernet, not even telephone lines.

I was torrenting n downloading like crazy when it happen.
Nothin I could do.
Except get out of Columbia hit Orangeburg or Newberry.

[Aeroracer]

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its driving me mad whats the point you wont blow up i just dont get it..:dizzy

[IndoorSnowStorm]

What really grinds my gears is when someone calls or texts me during an online race. I have my phone on vibrate, and its really distracting when it goes off in your pocket while you race. Then, when you call them back after the race, you can't say that you were playing WipEout, because a lot of people don't know what it is, and when you explain it to someone who doesn't game a lot, you sound like a nerd. :beer

[SaturnReturn]

Yeah, and then you have to explain you're not a nerd, just a geek, but they won't understand the difference, which just makes you look like a dork. It's an endless downward spiral.:g

[Aeroracer]

well with me i dont have that problem as i can multi task..i answer the phone and have a nice chitt chat whilst i play and maybe a cup of tea..:)

[IndoorSnowStorm]

Yeah, and then you have to explain you're not a nerd, just a geek, but they won't understand the difference, which just makes you look like a dork. It's an endless downward spiral.:g

Sadly, that's the truth. :P

[Nutcase:259]

well with me i dont have that problem as i can multi task

this is blatantly why they put autopilot in, for all the blokes :lol
so when i get autopilot i can neck back a cup of burning hot tea then stuff some hula hoops down my throat before it ends


{on topic} switching my internet connection from AOL to BT, MAC codes? routers? and call centers that make mistakes so transactions dont work!!!!

[MetaKraken]

I think I know what really grinds my gears (it's Zico related, but I already stopped trying to earn that trophy and decided to earn trophies from other games).

[Aeroracer]

it is annoying...

what grinds my gears is bad manners and having people take advantage of you in a kinda way which is not obvious but still real...

[blackwiggle]

Getting a LBP2 beta trial code [all 2.3G download] and then finding that when every time you try to quit it your console freezes, ending up with having to shut down via rear power switch.:turd

Also finding that setting up a "MOVE" pack is not as easy as advertised

[kanar]

ending up with having to shut down via rear power switch.:turd

Mate did you try to let your finger 5/10 secs on the power button? Should turn off your ps3 no matter the issue you're experiencing. I'm never shutting it down via rear power switch, even when experiencing a huge freeze. Is LB2 good btw?

Oh on topic, You know what really grinds my gears.... When I'm realizing wipeout HD didn't sell as much as MW2 or GTAIV :|. Stupid consumers. And when I'm seeing IGN all time PS3 top 25 games. No wipeout. Seriously. :frown:

[amplificated]

What grinds my gears?

The new, "improved", Dante from the freshly announced "DmC". Such a terrible design choice - it's a completely different character - they should have just made a new game entirely without the Devil May Cry association at all if this is the best that they could come up with. I know Dante was always flamboyant, but this kid is more hot topic wannabe than self styled badass.

Another weird thing is that in most of the screens I've seen, his head looks like a 90 year old's with a black toupee.

There was literally no need to redesign the character in the first place. I just don't get it. And making him a teen? He was probably 18-22 in DMC3 - the game he acquired devil trigger in - so there won't even be a staple gameplay element in the new game. I'm having a hard time believing this will be a real DMC game. It doesn't fit in the slightest.

[blackwiggle]

I could of given you[ Kanar] a spare LBP2 beta code I have/had , but I consider you too much of a friend to allow such a possible console breaking code to be sent to you.
I, as well as 2 other Beta Trialist are on the verge of deleting LBP2 Beta because of MAJOR system crashes.

Awesome game, but the BETA trials problems aren't worth the risk of console breakage IMHO

[SaturnReturn]

I have the day off today and ordered the PS Move yesterday thinking I'd have most of the day to set it up and enjoy it. Amazon told me I'd get it today with express delivery, but it still hadn't arrived yet. Not too happy about this, especially as the price has already reduced, which means I could have ordered it now, paid for Saturday delivery before 1 p.m., and avoided sitting around all afternoon waiting for it like a pleb, and it would only have cost me 20 pence extra.:bomb

[DJ Techno]

well... what will grind the gears.

i will attempt to do the avalon tournament from right inside my job at twilight video store! yes thats right.
tripboy
what grinds my gears will be that i was not able to match a time. cause the woman that was suppose to make a decient call to come back to work. did not come back to work.

yeah i am full time.
but did i say the time was right to be full time.

what will grind gears.

i play the tournament at work.
inside a video and game store. yes we rent and sale videos and games!
either bringing my flat screen tv again or putting it on the big 50plus inch tv tomorrow...

well. i will find out and guess what more...
will the races go fine?
hell no!
i got customers to deal with too!

[mdhay]

When you get taken to Liverpool as part of your graphics course and you aren't near Wavertree Indutrial. I need to have a go at Mick if he's there. :bomb

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

I recently got a ThinkPad X100e.It had a dual-core version.The Singapore online site said that the processor was an AMD Athlon Neo X2 Single Core.If I'm not wrong,the single core version is the Athlon Neo.Really hate the regional differences.
And getting just the dual-core motherboard(the processor is soldered onto the motherboard.Damn it)to upgrade the processor is going to be impossible...

[OBH]

You know what really grinds my gears....

...when the bank phones you to tell you you've been victim of a scam, and have been paying a direct debit of £14.99 a month since December 2008.....

I cant go two weeks without drama i swear. Good job I have a sense of humour..

[blackwiggle]

Don't you read your statements from the bank?
Do you have internet banking where you can see immediately what funds are going where and when?
Since 2008 and you never twigged it was a scam, [that you never received :eek anything for your 15 a month ]

I'd recommend getting internet banking for most people on the planet, if only to be able to check where statements are standing immediately, but when it comes to anything internet related you seem to be cursed.

[icarasDragon]

You know what else grinded my gears?
Every time I to stop the camera and get back to editing mode in Wings 3D I have to press L... which also happens to be "Select by Edges" to accept the Camera Position... really screwed with selecting faces to bridge them in the making of my Goteki 45!
http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?p=181999#post181999

[Harvai]

What's grinding my gears right now is that the 2010 AFL Grand Final has ended in a draw. That means that everyone's got to pack up and come back next week and do it all again.
But what a bloody tense 5 minutes it was before the siren sounded, everybody watching it, wherever they were, would have been on the edge of their seats!

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Another thing that grinds mt gears:Taxi waiting times.
Why?It was quite late already(11pm) and I was going back home from a wedding dinner with my family. Taxis keep getting jacked by people.I was really relieved when we finally got a taxi and got home.

[Lance]

What's grinding my gears right now is that the 2010 AFL Grand Final has ended in a draw. That means that everyone's got to pack up and come back next week and do it all again.

Oh. Spoiler. Living in the U.S. on broadcast, I don't get to see the GF till Monday evening. Good thing it was a draw.

Now I get to see two GFs this year! I'm pulling for the Saints, as usual.
AFL is the best football on the planet. In my opinion.

[Harvai]

Sorry about that Lance, kinda ruined the suspense there didn't I? Still, hope the Saints can pull off a win, it seems now that it's the whole of Australia (and some parts of the world) vs Collingwood!

Also, Melbourne's been plunged into some sort of chaos following the draw. Everything from flights and accommodation, even to other events and peoples' holidays have been changed or even cancelled because of this. Any Melbournians with any ground gears over this? :D

[icarasDragon]

To tell you the truth I don't follow AFL, can't wait for the V8's and the Cricket though :P

[rdmx]

What I find hilarious is that Julia Gillard joked about a draw at a breakfast on the day of the final :P

[icarasDragon]

Lol maybe she's from the future :P
3 :P SMILES AT-THE-END-OF-A-POST IN A ROW!

[blackwiggle]

Next Sunday going to be torture for me.
1]AFL grand final replay
2]NRL Grand final
3]World road cycling world championship in Geelong where Cadel Evens is defending his title on home turf.

And what am I doing?
Going to a bloody wedding :brickwall

[Lance]

Oh, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Somebody owes you a lifetime favour.

[amplificated]

Unless you mean there's likely to be a replay of the AFL GF rematch on TV, isn't it being held on Saturday?


What I find hilarious is that Julia Gillard joked about a draw at a breakfast on the day of the final :P
It's funny; she probably said it specifically in order to not jinx things or have people blame her for whichever outcome :P

[Lance]

I got to see the first one on Monday night over here, but the network said they wouldn't be showing the second 'final' till the Wednesday after it's played. WTF?
They always show their weekly AFL featured game on Monday night. Till this one.

Anyway, the GF was a great game that I enjoyed watching even though I knew the outcome. I'm still going to really try not to know the end of the final final till I see it. :g

[blackwiggle]

They are saying that the AFL is going to change the rules for the AFL Grand Final so in future there will always be a result on the day.
Not sure if they will decide to play an extra quarter or first Golden goal in extra time.

[mic-dk]

Hey! We're grinding gears here. Take your favorite Mans Game outside! :p

Now on to the grinding.

The company I (still) work for fired 220 people tuesday. Its been exactly 13 months since the last time the axe came down that hard. Apparently that 125.000.000€ profit for the first 2 quarters isn't enough...

Fekkin greed! I guess the Gordon Gekko anno 2010 isn't pure fantasy :(

[OBH]

A maintenance engineer came to my flat yesterday to inspect a leak.

Apparently a pipe has burst in the flat upstairs, and water has got into my electric system.... making my flat technically classed as inhabitable, and I have to move..... greeeeeaaaaaaaat :|

[stin]

My knee is doing my head in!!!, after three different doctors (one in hospital today) and I must rest for another two weeks!!!!! but I already been off work for three weeks!!!

Well, I know, my boss will not be pleased from me!!:|

So, good news is, I`m doing a major clean up in my house to exercise my knee to improve strength. And one thing I`m trying to find for nearly five months!!!, that I cannot reveal!:(

stevie:)

[Nutcase:259]

got a letter today:

with great regret, were suspending the course your undertaking for 2011 at university


one paragraph? thats it? not even any Fu***** explanation????????????


now i have to start all over again. ****ing ridiculous. they'd already said it was all worked out!, and that the place was agreed? this is BS cant belive it

[SaturnReturn]

That's harsh. So they're just not doing it at all or they're replacing it with something else similar?

[Nutcase:259]

ive no idea. the woman im supposed to contact 'isnt there'. it doenst look like there doing a replacement so i have to find another course. suppose this allows me to do graphic design instead. but still its a bit annoying that yesterday i thought "got my place at uni" now its just like "oh by the way you dont have a place F*** you. goodbye"

[Aeroracer]

what grinds my gears today is....

political correctness...what a pile of rubbish..i will say what i want..when i want to who i want..political correctness offends me so how can political correctness be politically correct in that case..

cyber scum...people not being held accountable for their actions..happens so much in todays world where cowardly people can hide behind technology and remain faceless..example is x factor..cheryl cole/tweedy sent home a black girl and sicko's where posting on the web i hope she dies or gets cancer..i would love these people to be publicaly named and shamed..i wonder if they would still stick to their statement they said..ermm i dont think so..

eurostar..walkways are too narrow and people stick their legs out and i trip up and fall down...

[KGB]

KIDS!

They got me so wound up and flustered trying to get them to school this morning that I put two different New Balance trainers on - one purple, one grey. I hope no one noticed :paperbag

[mdhay]

When Counter-strike: Source's bots are too hard... on easy. :brickwall

[yeldar2097]

I thought they just stood around with no weps waiting to be rinsed on easy?

[mdhay]

Nope, at least not with me. Still, I have garrys mod stuff. :D

[Challenger #001]

When you get rule 34'd on The Smurfs. D:

[OBH]

when you plan a night with your girlfriend cos you wont see her for 3 days over her birthday, and she lets you down not once.... not twice.... but 3 times IN ONE NIGHT :bomb

Not happy.

[Aeroracer]

why did she let you down 3 times in a night ?

[OBH]

Who knows. She got a offer to go out on the piss with her mate. Instead of letting me know the plans had changed she kept texting me saying "ill be there in 10 x" Didnt show till 8am in a right state.

Now shes in Bristol till Saturday.

Hopefully I can calm down by then, I can be very unforgiving when Im let down....

[mdhay]

Thank you Cameron, you monumental arsehole. I needed my EMA, but NO! You have to keep a roof over the lazy unemployed alcoholic next door, don't you? :bomb

[SaturnReturn]

I hadn't even heard about this EMA issue but I just read about it. That's really harsh. :(

@OBH - Good luck with your lady. I hate it when people are unreliable like that. I also dislike how men seem to be portrayed as the unreliable ones when it comes to communication, but my experience has generally been the opposite.

[OBH]

Appreciated bud :)

Hope things go better for you too mdhay, that doesnt sound like happy fun times.

[mdhay]

it isn't, no; I've ranted enough on facebook, I won't do any further on here. :)

[Nutcase:259]

Whats he done to the EMA?
Was a lifesaver when i was there, now there gonna put up ma uni fees, i like how they screw the people who cant vote and so have no voice,


my 'Phone' is grinding my gears maily because it cuts off conversations, takes ages to load and has the battry life and useability of a small lemon. actually a small lemon would be more usefull as holding it up to my face would earn me confused looks from passers by allowing me to catch there eye to ask tgem if i could use tgeir phone instead :nod

dont buy the LG KS360. its trully trully awful

[Oryx Crake]

... it utterly disjoints them:

Someone mentioned early in the thread "people who think they have the universal truths" or something to that effect.
Whats worse though is when they dont just think they're always right but also dont seem to be able to understand that other people have different opinions.

and what really makes me blow my cap off is the phrase that usually follows: "How can you think that!?"

[MetaKraken]

When players in MW2 kill you everytime, which can get annoying :bomb.

[Aeroracer]

@Oryx Crake

so true..the net is full of a**eholes who dictate opinion as if its reality and bully you if you disagree even use those nerdy made up web words to try and beat you down.you usally find these type of people are epic faliures in life who no one listens too so they play god on the net and act like a keyboard warrior..so best advice is not to listen to them either on the net

but after saying this its just my view on it and not to be a hypocrite i may be wrong....but probally not :p

whats grinding my gears today....
my dog is deliberatly putting her tenis ball under the furniture so she cnt get it and crys for ever till i get it out for her..she does it just to get attention..its really annoying me tonight..shes such a rascal...

[SaturnReturn]

If she's after attention, can't you just stroke her or something? Isn't that what dogs are for?

Not ever having had a dog grinds my gears a little. My parents both had dogs when they were young. All my cousins have dogs, but I was never allowed one. To be fair I wouldn't get one now that I'm mature and responsible, because my garden's a bit too small for an Irish wolf hound :P and I wonder about the whole concept of keeping pets anyway, but I would have loved one when I was younger. :(

[Aeroracer]

My dog is not interested in affection.she only get affectionate at bedtime.during the day she only is interested in one thing and thats ball.

she has tennis ball fetish.you must throw the tenis ball and she fetches it back to you..its all she does for 14 hours a day..every day..even when she is ill..she should be a ball girl for wimbeldon..

so..if you dont play ball she uses techniques to make you play like deliberatley lose her ball and cries till you get it back for her then you play..but im wise to her now..

[Oryx Crake]

@jasmin-jade Ah yes the keyboard warriors of the land of internets, I tend to ignore most of them too though sometimes the things they say...

Though I find that amateur politicians and 15 year olds tend to hold similar points of view and those are harder to ignore when you run into them IRL so to speak :)

That dog seems to really love you though so at least theres that ;).

My cat used to do something similar, he'd run up to you and lay down on the floor right in front of your feet to get attention.
He'd do this 10 times if he had to... though if he didn't get the attention he wanted he could get testy, I take it your dog doesn't bite you if you ignore her?

[blackwiggle]

What grinds my gears is "Googling" Iconic UK Band Queen and having this brilliant performance ruined by it's easily dated "white", and very camp shorts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCrZfTkG1c&feature=related

[yeldar2097]

....during the day (nighttime for mine as well) she only is interested in one thing and thats ball.

she has tennis ball fetish.you must throw the tenis ball and she fetches it back to you..its all she does for 14 hours a day..every day..even when she is ill..she should be a ball girl for wimbeldon..

so..if you dont play ball she uses techniques to make you play like deliberatley lose her ball and cries till you get it back for her then you play..but im wise to her now..

Your dog and my dog should hook up. OBH will vouch for me.

What's grinding my gears is: 3hr online critical thinking exam, 28 hours of lectures/seminars per week, 5 hours of maths, 6 hours of electronics, my ex-gf who only became my ex because she got deported and disappeared just started talking to me again so I'm batshit confused about everything, run out of cigarettes, people (often couples) who think they rule to world and can look at you with disdain just because they have a child and are therefore 'better' than you....this list goes on.

Ok, end mini-rant. I think lack of WOHD TT is getting to me :cold

[OBH]

Haha, sounds exactly like your dog! :beer

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Another things that grinds my gears......:Watching certain things at the wrong time. And not being able to sleep well because of it.And then seeming deprived the next day.
I'm typing this just immediately after I did the above. I was just wanting to concentrate on one thing: Digimon. Guess what? I deviated by a million miles and ended up watching clips of Trauma Team. And as of post,I am in no mood to sleep. And I have choir practice in the morning tomorrow. Goodness Gracious. And it's not helping in that I need to fully concentrate tomorrow...

[OBH]

...
When Megavideo cuts you off 5 mins before the end of an episode of Breaking Bad. :paperbag

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

Haha, I know that feeling all too well, FEISAR. I should have gone to bed early last night, but instead I decided that playing speed lap on Pulse would be a better idea (after not bothering to play Pulse for ages due to laziness XD), and as a result, had to operate machinery today while fighting the urge to fall asleep. :lol
As long as you don't make a habit of it and don't do it when you have something very important the next day, it's not too bad though.

edit: Megavideo... yes, OBH. :bomb :D
I always try to remember to reset my router before loading a video on there, because it also resets my IP address and the limit for Megavideo. ;)

[Harvai]

When players in MW2 kill you everytime, which can get annoying :bomb.

Noob toobs? or Tac Knifes? God, I hope they fix some of this stuff for Black ops.
Modern Warfare 2 has a strange ability to both grind and lubricate my gears. (Is 'lubricating' the opposite of grinding? I think so)

Anyway, what's grinding my gears atm is Perth bus drivers. Half of them drive like they're behind the wheel of a 20-odd ton bus (i.e. smoothly and calmly) and the other half like to drive like they're Michael Schumacher...with a 20-odd ton bus.

[rdmx]

Rest assured harvai, the flak jacket perk in black ops will basically nullify tubes and explosives http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6R4DOxrFXo
There's also no equivilent of 'sonic boom' or 'danger close'

[OBH]

I'm fuming. Desperate to help my girlfriend with her problem at work but i don't know how.

She works at a Dry Cleaners -- Its just her, one other girl (a known theif), and her two bosses (who are also best friends, nasty pieces of work and big time slags, so yeah, classy women) so when a problem arises (ruined clothes etc), they insinuate that its Chelsea (my girlfriend) every time. They recently lost some contracts with hotels (the majority of their work) because of their incompetence yet said it was Chels.
More serious than that; Chelsea's purse recently went missing from the spot where she has always left it and their responce was "anything could have happened to it", as its a business "within friends" as it were she hasnt had her contract renewed, and we think that they've illegally put her wages down without telling her, and suspiciously she hasn't recieved her payslip in the last 3/4 months either. We went hunting for the old ones and realised their totally illegible and just don't add up.

With the current economy and such she cant just quit as finding another job could prove difficult.
All I can think of is insist they write her up a new contract because at the moment she doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Personally I hope she can find another job soon so I can bowl in there and tell them to sort their fu*king lives out. :bomb

.....

Think an arson charge would be worth it? :)

[mdhay]

No, if you lose your job, and sh emay as well not have one, what good will it do in the long run?

Unless you say that you wanted a bonfire there, so you set one, then was attacked by a racoon that took you home and gave you amnesia.. then say "I'm sorry, what?"

Might work. :P

[Aeroracer]

Your dog and my dog should hook up. OBH will vouch for me.

run out of cigarettes,

Yeldar you shouldnt be smoking you are too young for that. plus its bad for your health...

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=103&pictureid=1197

this is my dog.obviously it dosnt wear a wipeout helmet in real life.though she should do with all her running around after her tennis balls and th risk of banging her head..

whats grinding my gears today is..........

heavy traffic..way too many cars on the roads..imagine what itll be like in 20 years..:frown:

[SaturnReturn]

I can't imagine it being worse than my train today. I swear to god that 99% of people waiting for a train undergo some strange process of regression and become something with the mental capacity (and physical capabilities) of a weeble. :bomb Ask them to let you through and they won't budge. Offer them a bigger hint by gently nudging through a little and they'll just lean to one side a little bit. Why on earth can't they just get off the freakin' train and then get on again? It's not that hard!!!

[Nutcase:259]

OBH that sucks for her :( if shes not getting paychecks that add up thats basically like being jobless, and me thinks you should definatly get police involved and or get higher management involved if its like a chain of shops? it might have an area manager? ask them for CCTV footages and stuff, it mandatory for that isnt it?



what grinds my gears is....

i served 2 people today and they absolutely reeked of pi55, i mean what the hell????? i dont care if your old an bloody incontinent or what ever, jesus i mean seiously??

[Oryx Crake]

@nutcase: it is rather distressing when you cant get away from it too... I imagine especially since it was in some sort of service establishment(?) that it got on the other customers nerves to?

... what really grinds my gears today are floorball players who have no sense of fairplay, you dont push your ass in someones face, repeatadly especially not the goalie (me).

I mean I understand trying to block the goalie's view but actually trying to push your cheeks around someones face... disrespectful!:bomb

[blackwiggle]

I was just wondering what Floorball was as I've never heard of it before.
This guy looks pretty skillful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XUzhBxYV_Q

[Nutcase:259]

very distressing indeed! :lol he was in one of those mobility scooters and was blocking all means of escape. i just carried on but looked at the next customer and gave them a look as if to say FOR ****'s SAKE. cant belive there were 2 in the same day?? it was ment to be my day off too. Im never working fridays again! :lol seems all the wierdos, drunks, gypsies come out that day.


floor ball? thats a type of hockey isnt it? like field hockey but on a ice hockey rink like pitch layout minus the ice (sorry if thats grossly ignorant ;))

never nice to have another blokes ass in the face :lol

[Oryx Crake]

@blackwiggle: yeah he looks pretty skilled indeed, bit of a nerd for it though I'd say, I just play for fun, my class in uni has a team 20 minutes every saturday basically :)

@nutcase: urgh, you got one of those bosses who calls you at 8 in the morning saying something like "I know it's your day off and all but we really need you to come in by 9" too?

yeah your description is pretty accurate and not to worry about being ignorant it's a sport thats played... pretty much in scandinavia and finland so no worries there.

and no it's never nice to hav another blokes arse in your face like that :D

[Nutcase:259]

lol i dont mind working really, so long as im paid i dont give a monkeys :D

however if they rang me in the morning i would be annoyed. they aproached me the day before though so its alright

[omega329]

the general lack of PC gaming among teenagers.

[Aeroracer]

what about those ten million people who play those warcraft type games..

[mdhay]

Teenagers go outside. They do not. :g

[MetaKraken]

What grinded my gears is that one of my "friends" (not in this forum) threatened to ban me after I made a small mistake. Unbelievable...

[Aeroracer]

thats an abuse of powers..you gt people like that..cant handle a tiny bit of power..

[MetaKraken]

Aye so true, jasmin. Even if I made a tiny mistake all heck breaks loose and they start to turn their backs on me, I mean, even if I correct the mistakes, they suddenly lash out rude comments towards me :(.

[Nutcase:259]

They dont sound much like friends, more like tools
They have internet power to abuse, they must be really cool people, :lol

[amplificated]

So last week I heard Tool are playing in Melbourne and tickets go on sale the 8th (today)... I look up the stupid fan club I'm somehow a part of to see if I could get access to tickets early, but no luck, there's jack **** on the site and I call it a day thinking things wouldn't be too bad.

Find out today there actually were presales, I missed them completely, and when I got to the ticketmaster outlet at ~10am, the entire ****in' show is sold out.

**** that!

[OBH]

Unlucky mate. I've always wanted to see Tool.
Forgot mateys name now, but he's got a sick singing voice.

[stin]

I went to my work to hand over my sick line this morning and he told me I`m getting moved to maintenance work which I don`t want cos too much stress and loads of paperwork:frown:, I`m certainly not looking forward going back in two weeks time!!!

I`m already stressed and my wife is worried about me!!

Seriously pissed me off!

stevie:brickwall

[amplificated]

I saw Tool once back in 2002, and wanted to check them out again since it was one of the best shows I've seen. Didn't see them last time they were here, in '07. Would've been nice if I got in this time :(

And yeah, Maynard sure can sing, even if he has a stupid name! :P

[MetaKraken]

Once again, I was torked to see that whenever I come into a random chat room, the "owner" (counts as an admin) kicks me out for no reason (especially since I wanted to write down an apology letter) -_-".

As Nutcase and jasmin said, they do have the power to abuse the ban abilitiy, just to make them look cool.

[KGB]

Our newest member at the bottom of the forum page seems to have warped sense of humour :|.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Agreed with KGB. That's just plain wrong...

[icarasDragon]

It's when the post somebody's commenting about is just cut off on the last page :brickwall

[mdhay]

Bring the instaban.

[SaturnReturn]

Rob should be able to sort it out. I've done what I can so hopefully it'll be dealt with soon.

[blackwiggle]

I can only think of one or two persons tasteless, crass and a downright thoughtless enough of the feeling of others to try to start a new membership with a slight mis-pelling and basically impersonation of a recently departed member, and they also know he left us under such tragic circumstances which makes this action all the worse.:turd

[icarasDragon]

Wha........... ? did somebody post a "Mock Luri" group?
aaaaaaaaand ragequit:brickwall

[Challenger #001]

When your housemate tells you that we've got to pay a leftover payment from the previous owners of the house, and asks for £60 in total, only to then find a letter saying that it hasn't been paid and British Gas might start taking legal action against us. So I call him up and leave a message asking him what the F*** he's doing, and go and pay it myself.

Only for him to then call me back later calling me the bad guy for having sworn at him, and telling me I have no people skills. :brickwall

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

My gears get grinded by people who have no values and ethics. I think they have an anarchy within themselves. Backstabbing of friends,bullying,insensitivity(mis-spelling FML?).You name it. And being a negative person,other than my parents,relatives(younger brother excluded,strangely...) and teachers,and some nice people I've met online(on this forum and another Digimon forum),that is everyone else...
And my gears are currently very grinded by my annoying younger brother.And to make things worse,we're on holiday in China!!!

[SaturnReturn]

When you have a half-cousin that you've never met and no-one in your family ever talks about, and then all of a sudden you find out from your cousin (her half-sister) that this girl is on facebook, and in an instant there's this person in front of you who bears a definite resemblance to the wayward uncle you've not seen in a decade. Possibly the weirdest thing ever, and yet I just have to kind of shrug it off. Completely baffled by this.:? It's actually more the lack of communication in my family that grinds my gears. But still, it's pretty freaky.

[Oryx Crake]

@saturn thats a strange situation and on that note...

... what grinds my gears today is knowing that your grandparents refuse to tell you about an uncle you know you have but who was sent away in childhood and who you've never met, or even seen a picture ofe, hence you have an entire branch of cousines you dont even know the names of... also it grinds my gears that I cant get in touch with them for fear of angering grandma! the hell is she thinking I wont find out?!

[kanar]

I'm seriously pissed off by Sony and GT5. I've never seen that tbh, people having the game 15 days before release. There's already hundreds of copies out, can't believe it. And we the regular stupid sony fanboi have to wait til nov 24.

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

15 days?! How the eff did they get them?
Grinding my gears is my younger brother. He is sick and he's trying to infect me! :bomb Need I bore you with more details as to how more irritating he can get?
BTW,anyone here with a younger sibling?

[kanar]

you can even buy it "legally" there http://www.fingerhut.com/productgroup.aspx?offergroupxid=139475&categoryxid=0&source=cart&hgc=0

never seen that before. 9 days before official release. 555 000 copies will be available in France for day 1, hope I'll get mine. Sony definitely needs to recruit normal human beings btw. Marketing policies since Ps3 release = total nonsense.

[Nutcase:259]

Have you seen the track list too??? 3 new decent world race circuits???
and about a dozen incarnations of the same circuit?
What about the real historic circuits. old hockenheim, old spa, Brooklands Aintree, Silverstone. or maybe some decent real street circuits

5 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmm wonder if il'l waste my money on a billion incarnations of the nordschleife and about 1000 cars most of which is made up by chronic japanese cars. like the Daihatsu Town Cube? & the Izuzu Mysterious utility wizard (seriously? look it up :lol)

Sadly ill probably buy it anyway :lol if only for the Ferrari's (there still in right? RIGHT??!)

ok nither of those japanes cars are in there but atleast we've got the Volvo S40 Estate!

[Oryx Crake]

Today my gears are grinded by people in charge who cant make a work plan worth a tug of a dead dogs genitals! my teachers have planned our courses so badly that not even the over achievers can get done on time!

This kind of stress just isn't good for me :blarg

[Nutcase:259]

Grinding my gears is my stupidity :lol

i turned up to work an hour early without realising
"what time do you start?"
"oh err 'bout 12"
"its 11 now"
"****"
*facepalm"

i also dropped 4 pints of milk. daymn that stuff went EVERYWHERE
i spent most of the day mildly dazed and confused as to my massive time balls up

oh dear, even now i still cant belive i didnt twig earlier.... :lol

[IndoorSnowStorm]

When friends say that they are gonna double date with you, but at the last moment they say that they can't, right when you had your hopes up. :cold

[Aeroracer]

what grinds my gears today is they still put england football games on the telly.

like anyone really can be asked watching lame rubbish like our national team and have to listen to the rubbish the commentators spurt our.watching it is like a broken stuck record.give me celebrity in the jungle any day over fabio (barney the dinosaur) capello and his team of best friend girlfriend banger drunks

[SaturnReturn]

(Quick tip for jasmin - there's more than one channel.:P)

Stupid rule of the day number one:
I'm required to work on a job in Toronto. My overall rate is less than half the rate of anyone else on the project because of our comparative low salaries in the UK. However, I work in (and from) an office in the middle of London, UK. My overhead rate is therefore high. Toronto's decision makers have a rule that no-one can work on their projects with an overhead greater than X %, while mine is X+30 % or so. So even though any one of us from the UK is ridiculously cheap compared to an employee of comparative grade in Toronto, and even though I'm literally the only person who can do this work now, because everyone else (from the UK) got sick of it and left, or was made redundant (from the US), I can't be mobilised for the job. How daft! Quite why the client has to know our overhead rate anyway is beyond me. Makes no sense.

Stupid rule of the day number two:
I was refused a take-away hot chocolate from the office cafe today, because apparently they can't do take-away drinks after 4pm. They can, however, do free drinks. To have the drink for free you simply have to drink from a proper much and sit at the cafe. If you takeaway, it costs £1. So even though they people that run the cafe would make money from simply pouring the hot chocolate into a paper cup instead, and even though I would take the drink away and carry on with my work, instead of wasting half the day in the cafe like some tartlets do, they won't let me do it, and without any actual reason at all. How daft!

It's no wonder the world is in a recession. Apparently people can't make money any more because some toolbar went and made up some daft rule that makes everything more costly and wasteful. OK, so the paper cup would be wasteful compared to a reusable mug, but I'm pretty sure the dishwasher being used for the few mugs at the end of the day wouldn't be much better.

[mdhay]

I suppose getting your own kettle is out of the question? :P

[SaturnReturn]

It's proper hot chocolate. No kettles involved. ;) I've wanted a kettle at work for a long time because our hot water comes from zip taps, and isn't actually boiling. But if I bring a kettle it would have to be electronically checked for health and safety. Someone would probably also complain it wasn't sustainable. Irony is that the zip taps spew water out far too quickly anyway, and despite not being hot enough for making good tea, it's hot enough to scold. It wastes heat too, because the water isn't hot enough, so the tea needs brewing longer, which means it gets cold quicker. So, I have to warm the mug up first with hot water, and then refill with fresh water it to make the tea. Essentially, I have to use two mugs of near-boiling water and risk a scolding instead of just using a freakin' kettle. Then there's the water you have to run off in the mornings because it tastes nasty when coming out of the tank first thing in the morning, for some reason, plus the wasted heat lost form the tank to the air. I'm sure a simple little kettle large enough for two cups would work out better as long as everyone were sensible. Given that we're all supposed to be intelligent engineers, it shouldn't be too hard. All I want is a tasty hot beverage and to get on with my work.:rolleyes: Incidentally, the zip taps broke at one point and we did have a kettle for a few days. It was glorious!

[Aeroracer]

@saturn.."gee never thought of that..must of had a blonde moment..":P

only jk ...no serously..


point i was making is that yes there are other channels so put it on a secondary channel not many people watch like christian tv or govenment channel more suitable for a team that much the population would rather forget existed.cos when its on the main channel they dont play the good programmes that should have been on hence why i was annoyed..

[mic-dk]

I can't quite decide wether it's funny or sad, Saturn. I'd like to extend a one month free membership of my exclusive "I hate all things Corporate" club. From now on there will be chocolate at the meetings, though only from a kettle for the time being.

Now, on to my gripe of the day. Snow.

First real snow here today. That means 4 months of driving no faster than 40km/h, making the daily commute last at least an hour each way.

it also means breaking your back trying to keep your sidewalk clear, only to have it destroyed by the incompetent fool - Mr Plow, that either tears up some of the sidewalk, or drives through your carefully shoveled piles, scatters them all over your newly cleared sidewalk and compacts them to big chunkc of ice.

<HomerSimpsonVoice>
I hate snow SO MUCH
</HomerSimpsonVoice>

[SaturnReturn]

Is it actually called Mr. Plow?

[mic-dk]

Unfortunately not :(

Actually it's just a couple of Very Big Tractors hired by the council from a farm just outside town. I suspect it's the farmers 12 year old son who does the wrecking...

[DJ Techno]

for anybody else who has a job in customer service or orders


tell your upper managements

not to send your job over seas to

damn bum **** egypt- that is and whether or not. i wont apologize for saying these countries that are getting the jobs of English speaking people. Straight English.

the whole country of India, Pakistan, some parts of Mexico, some parts of South East Asia,


I've gotten sick n pissed off from dealing with them, transfered to them, and speaking as clearly as i have to. for somebody to understand me.

Dell
Hewlett Packard
Microsoft
First Premier Bank -Master card
Tribute Master card

Blockbuster

What the **** is wrong with you companies.

pulling still to cheaper labor, but when it comes to English. English damn it. not one of the persons i talk to for support in customer service, sales, technical, and financial.

I am not routed to somebody till after being on hold for 30 mins to three hours.

thats right the lost time i had to await was with Ebay and Dell.

my best friend Amy works for Verizon Wireless Support. I could talk, get what i ask, done and im off the phone. without trying to repeat myself the sixth time. and not hear in the background

buda buda ouh buh dabe
which ever langue its from



and saturns right.

homers vehicle n snow job name was Mr. Plow

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

You have snow covering your walkways over there where there is winter,in Singapore,we have floods(occasionally).
And now it's wet season. I can't wait to get my school shoes wet on the way to and from school.Actually,it's not much of a big deal,but it does give trouble to some.

[yeldar2097]

Going home for the weekend and finding GT5 next to your PS3, sticking it into said PS3, then having to download an update for it and being told it will take over an hour when you know that at university it would only take around 2 minutes... :brickwall

[blackwiggle]

It would take over an hour because the PSN has slowed to a crawl due to so many people doing the same thing.
It took me over an hour to download DLC for Enslaved 2 days ago as every man and his dog was playing GT5.
We might have the same situation occur when LBP2 comes out.

[mdhay]

Haha, like when HD came out. XD

[yeldar2097]

HA! No, it's because my broadband is slower than dial-up -_-

...Your house suffering from a power-outage whilst you're trying to re-kindle the spark between yourself and a certain black box made by Sony.
Subsequently asking your parents what's going on and getting the reply "Yeah the circuit-breakers trip around 5x a day, it's been like this for about a month. You just need to flip them back every time the power goes."

A MONTH?! GET A MAN WITH A TOOLBOX TO COME DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN!

:bomb :brickwall

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Something must be wrong with the circuitry in your house Yeldar. Perhaps OBH can help?(Didn't he take a course in electrician work or something similar?)
So the PS3 keeps getting turned on and off repeatedly?That's bad.

[yeldar2097]

It's all sorted now. The other half of the house still has power so I'm using 24m worth of extension cables to hook up my rig ^_^

[yeldar2097]

Gears....grinding.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2EMjLZwzbw)

:g

[Oryx Crake]

you know that ps3 is seriously messing with you man, threaten it with an axe and maybe it will see reason...

... today however ny gears are grinded by stupid bugs in videogames, just to take an example that I think will be easily recognized here: the final straight on talons junction (R) on WOHD: if you happen to touch the walls at just the right spot here you get catapulted into the air (on phantom way above the stands) loosing you sometimes up to 5 seconds on your otherwise acceptable race time. I'm sure there are many more but, to the point, when these things happen my gears are grinded... grinded indeed.

[icarasDragon]

Poor Yeldar, what sucks even worse that there's insult to injury, Gran Turismo 5 is stuck in there and it is nearing the end of the life-span of and the PS3 Phats out there! :(

Altough, if you are brave enough and don't have a warranty anymore you can find a few videos on Youtube on opening the PS3, getting the disc out of the tray, and possibly solving your YLOD (Which could be the that the CPU's slipped a bit from the heat) :bomb
Also, a early Merry Christmas! :xtree
Yeldar's new pressie could possibly be a PS3 Slim maybe? ;)

[stin]

Now, I`m starting to get seriously pissed off right now!!!!, at first, this morning after severe snow, one of a car actually blocked one way and now there is another car who actually blocked my driveway and I can`t get out tomorrow morning for work!!!

It`s fukin shite!

stevie:|

[Mr Phlanj]

why dont guys i work with have good aim when going for a piss.....and why cant they lift the seat if they have such rubbish aim >.<

[mdhay]

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101121154132/callofduty/images/c/cf/Perk_steady_aim_256_pro.png

Seems like they need it. :g

[Mr Phlanj]

HA!

you made my day mate :beer

[SaturnReturn]

I wonder the same at my work too. Also see some nasty stuff when you share toilets with so many people. Based on the things I've seen, I imagine quite a few people have fibre deficiency.

[MegaGeeza22]

Women who flirt when they have a man/husband at home... and then when you dont flirt back they take it personally?

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Computer viruses. Though I think I've managed to get rid of it with some tech savvy know-how. :g

And before you ask, no I haven't been on any dodgy sites. ;)

[icarasDragon]

What type of viruses DP?
and what anti-virus did you use? (or anti-malware or anti-wares)
grinds my gears a bit too

[Dark_Phantom_89]

It was a Trojan which had infected one of the main drivers that the system needs to remain stable upon start-up. Everytime I logged on a bunch of pop-ups would appear and the Anti-Virus would go crazy. It'd be fine for 2 minutes then go to the blue screen and crash.

So I had to re-boot the computer in Safe Mode which effectively runs the computer with the bare minimum resources that it needs. Because everything else was disabled, the virus couldn't activate so I was able to do a System Restore and effectively go back in time with the computer to before the virus came along.

After that, I was able to log on normally but there were still a few issues and I could tell that the virus was still there. So I proceeded to run the Anti-Virus (McAfee) however it kept turning itself off everytime I tried to run it (the virus was probably doing that.)

So I checked for any updates with the Anti-Virus and installed the new one. This allowed the scanner to stay on and let it do its business. I ran a complete full scan of the computer and 4 hours later the virus was gone. Let's hope that's the end of it and I don't get any more nasty surprises.

[yeldar2097]

Give it a run through with Malwarebytes', finds everything that you never knew you had, then kills it :nod

DP "Dodgy web history" 89 :g

[Challenger #001]

Ugh, I had that same problem with McAfee always crashing and not finding the virus. It got better after I installed AVG and sprayed my computer heavily with that, but it forever ran slow until it got stolen in Brittany.

[Dan Locke]

If antivirus software doesn't work, you can always take the plunge and just edit the registry manually. That's assuming that you know exactly what you're doing, though.

[Harvai]

Ugh, I had that same problem with McAfee always crashing and not finding the virus. It got better after I installed AVG and sprayed my computer heavily with that, but it forever ran slow until it got stolen in Brittany.

That's why I gave Norton the flick. It would sit there and hog all of my system resources basically bringing the thing to a crawl. "You don't need to use your computer, you'd probably run into more viruses that way! By the way, I'm just going to scan now, don't try and stop me, because you can't!"

@ Dan Locke - Deleting System32 is always a good start!

[blackwiggle]

I ditch Nortons for McAfee.
Problems occurring with McAfee [rare for me] are usually related to using FIREFOX with add-on's.
Their was one a while back that I had that had exactly the same problem as you mention, it was a free Adobe Add-on but cause crashes due to a conflict between OS/McAfee/Firefox, had to restore from Safe mode as well.

[Oryx Crake]

...Teachers who describe small failings as the great cataclysm of the ages, as if the chasm you have landed yourself in is the gates to limbo wherein there is no redemption or salvation!

A lacking analysis of an article is not the end of ends and it helps absolutely no one when teachers describe it as an abomination and not as what it is: a small error, that can be rectified quite easily with some guidence.

[SaturnReturn]

My Dad was getting annoyed the other day because McAfee basically took an entire day to do a scan. Dunno why he bothers with it when the free stuff works so well.


Give it a run through with Malwarebytes', finds everything that you never knew you had, then kills it :nod


I got this result:

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0

I expected at least something to come up. I'm obviously doing the internet all wrong.:P Never had any virus problems myself. Have tried a few different softwares and now use Comodo internet security.

[Nutcase:259]

when my Windows XP pc got viruses or something on it i just stuck the vista CD in it to change the OS LOL in the hope it magically goes away. that is the extent of my computer knowledge :g
that was about 2 years ago? and probably why attempting to do anything on there is nye on impossible :g

[Aeroracer]

whats grinding my gears today is.....

the animals ...opps i meant students who thought because uni grants are going up could justfy attacking the furture king of england in his car throwing paint up it and breaking a window..as well as urinating on churchhills monument and hanging from flags on the centaph.and generally being vandals.im ashamed of these vile peasant scum.

as they were students ,i say bring back the cane and give them all a good thrashing in public on their backsides make em cry and make them clean up their filth, then send them to bed.

no one has a right to act like scum like these poor excuses for society did.there are other ways to get there view across.

shame on them all.

[Mr Phlanj]

they do think that it got out of hand because of people (who are not uni students) turned up just to cause trouble, but still its no reason for the students to make it worse by joining in.

i dont think they should raise the cost tho, why should only the rich get edugated.

[KGB]

.im ashamed of these vile peasant scum.



Not quite peasants (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3271873/Student-riots-Cenotaph-yob-is-son-of-Pink-Floyd-star-Dave-Gilmour.html)

"Teacher! Leave them kids (school fees) alone" :guitar

[SaturnReturn]

I no-one else equally annoyed by the tactics used by the police and the way the media portrays things?? It's always difficult to know what the true story is but I can't help but feel like this whole 'kettling' thing is probably one of the main causes of a lot of this trouble. There always seems to be a bad element at these things, i.e. people ready to start trouble and something like kettling just gives them an excuse to do just that. I could understand if it were just used to direct a protest in a certain direction, but just blocking people in and forcing them to stay there is only going to make those people result to force themselves.

Also, it seems a bit hypocritical for society in general to condemn Gilmour's actions. People revel in their drunking/drug-fuelled antics all the time in this country, as if it's somehow a positive thing, and often far worse than this. But some guy swings on a flag while too off his head to realise it's significance, whether on drugs or just adrenalin, and everyone condemns it in an instant, when the chances are that a decent proportion of them have done equally ridiculous things.

People also swallow the media's guff with things like this. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence will realise that most of the trouble will be a result of thugs, but journalists sell more papers if they can paint a negative picture of the country's youth and blame a specific part of society for it. So they still refer to anyone causing trouble as a student, when those who are true students and actually want to learn, will more than likely be the sensible ones who just want to have a say. Not to mention that fact that no-one has reported anything about what the fees rise means in real times. There are no accounts of what the cost of a typical course at universities at various levels are estimated to actually cost. All I see is £9,000 per year. So of course, everyone will see that and realise they can't afford it, but will there be cheaper options? Can't even say because no-one has tried to tell us.

Also, why shouldn't anyone march, even if they do have enough money to pay the fees? Plenty of people will have already been to uni but can still protest if they want. The worst thing about all this is that those worst affected didn't even have any say about it in the election. This whole thing screws over young people, who've been led to believe that an education is the only/best way for them to get a shot at a decent life, and then told they don't deserve it, all because of the crap decisions that the generation before them has made in the name of greed, after receiving their own education for next-to-nothing in comparison.

I guess the only thing this proves is that a vote for the Lib-Dems really is a wasted vote. What a shame.

[Nutcase:259]

whats grinding my gears today is.....

the animals ...opps i meant students


I say shame on the SCUM spineless lib dems and the ******* conservative upper class tossers who needlessly raise fees yet spend BILLIONS making a happyness index. makes me soooo ******* angry, bring on the protests.
:rock
yess sat i had no say in this sodding vote and now I get the crap for the government and bankers mistakes, scapegoated just like immigrants are in the headlines of facist conservative news

lost my vote...

[Aeroracer]

regardless of the failings of the govenment.i do not know enough to make a real oppinion on if their policys are good/bad.i do understand that they have to make cuts cos we have no money left thanks to last govenment but i am sure they could have made cuts elsewhere rather than damage englands future by decresing the amount of potential students.


but its dosnt give anyone the right to do what some of these protesters have done from what ive seen in the papers and on tv.i stand by what i say they are scum and a disgrace and i hope all those responsible are punished:nod

[KGB]

I say shame on the SCUM spineless lib dems and the ******* conservative upper class tossers who needlessly raise fees yet spend BILLIONS making a happyness index. makes me soooo ******* angry, bring on the protests.
:rock
yess sat i had no say in this sodding vote and now I get the crap for the government and bankers mistakes, scapegoated just like immigrants are in the headlines of facist conservative news

lost my vote...

Totally agree :+

If students can't protest then who can, it's what they are there for. Apathy should only be for the old.

[Aeroracer]

nothing wrong with protests.its pissing over national monumnets, graffiti and attacking members of the royal family and hanging off the canataph thats the problem.harly helps decent students cause imo

[Nutcase:259]

peaceful protests don't work though. its essentially saying "just walk over me, all we can do is hold hands and light candles" i cant really think of a peaceful protest that has actually achieved anything.

P.S. no one cares when animal rights protesters go bananas and start throwing chairs about do they? and they lead whole campaigns of abuse against individuals


also why raise the fee's when everyone wines that qualifications are worth nothing anymore? if anything by that logic they should be lowered

[KGB]

It's exactly the total disregard to what some people think we should hold dear that makes the country great.

It's nothing to do with the fact they are students, they're just young, idealistic, pissed-up kids with an axe to grind. It's what youth is meant to do and has done through the age - piss on the past because we are the future.

Anyway we will have payed for the future King of England's car, so we can trash it if we choose.

[Aeroracer]

peacefull protests dont work really..your right there nutcase.but voilent protests work even worse.as they ensure fees will go up and individuals are held accountable and punished for there actions and all students are painted in a dim picture by the media..
the actions of some this week cannot be justified at all they are unaaceptable in the eyes of all normal decent people.

as for student fee going up.i do feel the govenment could get the money elsewhere rather than increasing fees.

@kgb..your talking crap we have no right to smash up the future kings car.

[Nutcase:259]

there isnt really anywhere they can make cuts that wont piss people off. i just find it annoying that we had no say, which allows them to do as they please as theres no way of stopping them



oh and i thought old big ears wasn't even gonna be king? :lol

[Aeroracer]

yes it is annoying..everything is going up..like vat and fee and taxes and life is getting harder and harder..

i think big ears wont be king i think it may go straight to william.not sure how it would work though..

[KGB]

Don't think you can speak for all normal, decent people Jasmin, I would class myself as such and totally agree with their actions.

We have every right to smash the ***King car up , we pay for him to ride in the thing.

[Nutcase:259]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors ( thats how they'll solve it ;) )

id class myself as relatively normal :lol and i agree. its just pro tory government newspapers that twist it into the protesters being classed as scum. scare storys sell more papers. true. if i lived in London and they turned my backyard into a bomb site then id be pissed off, but there doing it for a reason, these people need to look at the government for answers

with all the cuts. i imagine by the end of next year it wont just be student's protesting. a mass grinding of the publics gears is the only way stuff will get actually done in a protest

[Aeroracer]

im not gonna argue with you kgb1971.

if you think its fine and acceptable urinating up national monuments and vandalism and graffiti and violence , hanging off the cenataph and attacking the royal family who have nothing to do with student fees and acting like animals ..so be it..its your oppinion.

i said what grinds my gears and i still 100% stand by it.
@nutcase..lol paper scissors stone to decide the next king..sounds about right or maybe best of 3 in tiddly winks.

[Dan Locke]

When the bimbo behind the counter at Starbucks insists on pronouncing "espresso" as if it contains an X.

[SaturnReturn]

That's not just bimbos, it's a worldwide phenomena. It's obviously called expresso because we can drink it so quickly. :P

Kind of in two minds about the car thing. I don't think they were right to do that, because, although the public paid for the car, that only means the public will be paying for the damage. So they're basically smashing up my car - cheeky beggars.:P Plus, the cars wasn't empty. I think at the point where you attack individuals that's too far. However, I haven't seen how that window was smashed. I saw the paint on the car in the video, which I have no issue with. I read Camilla may have been poked with a stick, or that someone may have touched her through the window. Terrible really, as I expect the stick totally didn't match her outfit and being touched by a commoner probably devalues her diamond necklace immensely. But nothing as to how the window was smashed. In the video I saw the reporter mentioned the noise of the smashed window as the car drove through, but I couldn't actually see any damage, except in a still photo later, which might not even have been the same car for all I know. Anyway, the whole thing is far from one sided. The government have gone too far on this, it would seem, and so did the police. Since when is a shield and a massive baton a measured and proportionate response to someone shouting? All in all I think it's a terrible shame. Despite extreme actions, nothing good has come of it. All that's left is damaged property, a further damaged image of the country's students and youth, of politics and the police, and probably a fear for many that they won't even want to go near a protest in the future. I think the only winners are those who own the newspapers. All this bad news and a royal wedding to bore us with. Lucky them.

[Aeroracer]

papers only seem to get off on bad news and like to stir up anger of the public..

you had the muslim poppy burners then the fifa scam and now the yob students and inbetween those was x factor scandals..not to mention all the bad international news..tbo i cant think of a positive newpaper story of late..
is it maybe that.........

good new is boring...?

[MegaGeeza22]

The Royal family!! They are german, i have nothing against germans by the way! any england patriot who supports the monarchy are not a true patriot... I think of my mom when england football sing the national anthem! (my old queen)
People who moan about the weather!! "i hope we have a hot summer" and when the heat comes "its to hot, i hope we get a cold winter" Then the cold comes "its too cold" aaargh! make your bloody mind up! I love the cold because you can cosy up and get warm! in the heat i cannot cool down!
- oh and top wipeout pilots who quit wen they get sent to the back of the pack or get eliminated! saw losers! "oh it was my internet connection" yeah right... it was those rockets i fired up your backside!

[DJ Techno]

That's not just bimbos, it's a worldwide phenomena. It's obviously called expresso because we can drink it so quickly. :P

Kind of in two minds about the car thing. I don't think they were right to do that, because, although the public paid for the car, that only means the public will be paying for the damage. So they're basically smashing up my car - cheeky beggars.:P Plus, the cars wasn't empty. I think at the point where you attack individuals that's too far. However, I haven't seen how that window was smashed. I saw the paint on the car in the video, which I have no issue with. I read Camilla may have been poked with a stick, or that someone may have touched her through the window. Terrible really, as I expect the stick totally didn't match her outfit and being touched by a commoner probably devalues her diamond necklace immensely. But nothing as to how the window was smashed. In the video I saw the reporter mentioned the noise of the smashed window as the car drove through, but I couldn't actually see any damage, except in a still photo later, which might not even have been the same car for all I know. Anyway, the whole thing is far from one sided. The government have gone too far on this, it would seem, and so did the police. Since when is a shield and a massive baton a measured and proportionate response to someone shouting? All in all I think it's a terrible shame. Despite extreme actions, nothing good has come of it. All that's left is damaged property, a further damaged image of the country's students and youth, of politics and the police, and probably a fear for many that they won't even want to go near a protest in the future. I think the only winners are those who own the newspapers. All this bad news and a royal wedding to bore us with. Lucky them.


look up the history of riots in the united states..

you want just the use of baton and shields, to rubber bullets, tear gas, and national guard!.

when the military is called in to restore order. a lot of people start strapping up their own weapons.. if possble. but here

u should like Rodney King riot in south central la to most of los angelus, ca

u should like the detroit riots of the 50 to 60s, im not getting ti right, but im just telling you.

and the unknown number of riots that happend after the end of a college and professional sports game of football, maybe lacross ( give me a damn break for that sport ), soccor ( wow) basketball.

and the riots sometimes that happen in new orleans during or after mardie gra

[mdhay]

When you try and carry more stuff on Stalker by editing the game files but instead screw up the game so you have to install it again. :(

[Rennfisch]

The colleague, who has the shift after me, came 40(!) minutes late to work. The reason: Because it's chrismas, she was drinking champagne at the other department, in which she is normaly working!

I was very upset about this person! :evil

[Flint Fandango]

The miserable behaviour of my boss at the company christmas party.
Throughout the year, I work diligently and hard for his prosperity...
But what do I get, instead of a appropriate "thank you"?
I just got a flippant: "You ought to visit a tanning salon".

He should get a prize, for being the personification of social incompetence! :clap

[SaturnReturn]

Where I work we have a Christmas party in a hotel somewhere, which is black tie and a fancy dinner etc. Then we have a more relaxed Christmas lunch in on another day. I never go to the Christmas party but always to the lunch. They used to do these spoof awards, which were fun. But now they do those at the party. Last year all that happened at the lunch was a short "Happy Christmas" speech from our group leader. This year though, no-one said anything at all. It's a real non-event. To have everyone sitting there together and no-one to bring any kind of focus to the whole thing is such an anti-climax.:(

[mdhay]

I have gotten rid of Stalker and am re-installing for the umpteenth time. I can't stand getting to Red Forest, just barely surviving the radiation then getting headshotted from a mile off by some brainwashed tit in a watch tower only to have the game crash when I try and load my save. :bomb

[SaturnReturn]

Being awake while the rest of the world is asleep really does my head in. This always happens to me when not working, i.e. forcing myself out of bed in the morning and into bed at night. I just get into these crazy sleeping patterns and end up nocturnal. It's so weird, and also very lonely.:frown:

[MyNameIsBom]

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[Dark_Phantom_89]

Get HD - no cheating there online only pure skills. :nod

[SaturnReturn]

Seems as if that's even debatable recently, but it's at least way way better.

[MyNameIsBom]

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[Challenger #001]

When you get messages like these after winning a race.

[Nutcase:259]

your thorat eh? :lol

he's probably a pasty faced nerdy boy who doesn't have the arm strength to cut through a human wind pipe.


isnt there a report function now?

[Dan Locke]

I just hate it when things happen that irritate me. Really grinds my gears.

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

What really grind my gears???
Those damn cheating mother f^(kers who cheat online on wipeout pulse. And the they make a room name saying "Bom has No skills" are you f***ing with me?! Those hackers are people with NO SKILLS.

Grr *sigh* I feel better now since I took the anger out (^~^)

How come I never encountered any of these legendary hackers I keep reading about in any of the 5000+ online races I had on Pulse? I'd love to actually catch somebody cheating and then find them on some forum and annoy them. :D

btw, can you reveal their usernames for my/others' amusement?

[Medusa]

I encountered hackers while playing Pulse and certainly didn't play it online as much as you do, MrSmadSmartAlex. It's rather poor form to claim they don't exist...especially since a couple of those hackers have even shown up here and bragged about their "clan". Losers exist. It's annoying. The end. Bom will eventually move on from Pulse, I'm sure, or switch to passworded games with friends only.
What grinds my gears...I don't know, I haven't got any gears left as they've all ground off a long time ago I think. Maybe.

[SaturnReturn]

You should switch to a belt drive. Less efficient, but no gears to grind and easier to fix and get going again when all worn out.

[Dan Locke]

I've always preferred sprockets and chains, myself.

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

Medusa, I wasn't trying to offend anybody (sorry if I did) or deny that Pulse has had hackers ruining the game, but I think that that must have been something that was around before I got the game. Maybe they came back or something (I haven't played in a few months), but I was online so much in 2009 and much of 2010 that I'm sure I'd have seen at least one if they were still about. What I have seen often though, is players accused of cheating just for being fast (including in the "Online Meetings, Pulse" thread, minutes after the post in this thread), and I've been accused of it too before. It could be considered quite insulting, especially after you've put hundreds of hours into learning the game. But rather than get my gears ground over it, I just don't take it too seriously. And I did ask Bom who they were, in case it actually was some random hacker, rather than a legit player who I'd know.

[Colonel]

I'm particularly pissed off at the moment. I took my only controller round my mates house on NYE and now it's disappeared. He's looked everywhere and I know I didn't bring it back here. It also had a keyboard attached to it and Gran Turismo was with it too, so I've lost £100 worth of stuff and I can't play the PS3, or watch any films.

Absolutely gutted. And I'm skint so I can't afford a replacement controller. :frown:

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

I think I'm thankful that there are no forum games on this forum,or else I may have gone insane.
LARGE numbers of people are teaming up against me.
Why? I hate it when LARGE amounts of people are teaming up against you. And the people teaming up against you are your friends. They are willing to discard values/friends for gain.
I guess this is the real %$@&ing world. I think I should maintain my cynicism. And I'm going on 15. I really wonder if I should cry out loud or laugh out loud(like a villain)

[SaturnReturn]

If someone's willing to 'discard' you for some gain for themselves then they probably weren't a friend in the first place. Better off without them. When it comes to friendships I'm starting to think maybe we just have to not expect to much from people and try to remember the reason we're friends with them in the first place so that we don't end up 'discarding' them for small things before they get a chance to show more good things about themselves. Just a(nother) random thought there.

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

I think I'm carrying over my cynicism from last year. I've been backstabbed a lot. And I really feel that most are just my "friends" to sap out what I have,leaving me to die when I run out(like parasites).

[Harvai]

When you get messages like these after winning a race.

Hah, you should see my XBL reputation! Currently, 75% of people who gave me a rating said that I was 'unsporting'. I don't play in an unsporting manner in any shape of the word, I just think the little kids that make up most of Xbox Live got upset that they were beaten by somebody.

This also grinds my gears. Why do people feel the need to criticise people who play video games better than they do? Why not, you know, get better at said game?

[SaturnReturn]

@ FEISAR - the point is that anyone like that is not your friend. It seems that perhaps these are just people who you happen to be around, possibly due to school? I'm guessing at this so forgive me if I'm wrong. Maybe you should try some new things and to meet some new people. You have lots of time to make friends. I don't have many IRL, partly because I have been so cynical, sarcastic, and generally lacking faith in people. If this forum shows you anything then hopefully it is that there are people who share interests with you. You have time to potentially meet similar people around you and eventually develop a close group of friends. This would be far more beneficial than a large group of people who you constantly have to sacrifice a part of yourself to get along with. It won't happen straight away, but perhaps it's something to aim for rather than regretting the situation you are in now. A lesson I'm only just starting to learn myself, at almost twice your age.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

When you get messages like these after winning a race.

That person isn't exactly getting off to a good start with his PS3 is he? Obviously someone who is caught up in the excitement of his new PS3 and hasn't calmed down yet (hence the "2011" in his name.)

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

I thought it was usually the year of somebody's birth that they put on the end of their PSN ID. That guy was certainly behaving appropriately for that to be the case. :D

[Nutcase:259]

If a baby was able to form death threats and sentences a day before its year of birth then fair play a talking baby! , i would be highly impressed, tut tut. all these youths growing up so fast with their hoodies and gang violence, :g wouldn't have happened in my day :P

*I Mean death threats are bad obviously but if a 0year old did it you'd be like "Whoah WTF?"

[Darkdrium777]

I could care less...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHH

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

Hahaha! That one's been making me all "!!!??!!?!!!!" recently too, Darkdrium. It's everywhere! It's even worse than apostrophes for plural, "then" instead of "than", "should of", etc.! :bomb

[Dan Locke]

Don't forget "one of the only"!

[Oryx Crake]

@ the three previous posters

I'd like to ask you for a bit of lenience with us non-native speakers in this case. we mostly learn phrases like that from movies and chatting online. Both of which (see this is another example I dont know if this phrase really works but have heard it used before) are places where grammar and proper spelling (or wording) are secondary to getting a message across.

So please dont be too annoyed at us for making these mistakes

Oh but you can be as annoyed as you like about native-speakers making them, or at least I cant speak in their defence, or would know how to defend it.

[Flint Fandango]

Oryx is right, it is actually more difficult for people whose native language is not English. I have learned English in school, but that was years ago ... and many special terms or expressions are unknown to me at all.
I read a lot of english literature, but before I signed up in the zone, I simply had a lack of practice. Therefore, I beseech you, be lenient with us. :redface:
The interesting - especially in Germany - is, that a lot of anglicisms are embedded in our vernacular. A lot of people in our country even prefer to swear in english! It sounds pretty cool for them, and they´ve learned it almost from movies, I guess. Furthermore, there are many terms here that are used only in english. A tribute to a wonderful language!

Therefore, it grinds my gears, that I´m not as good in english as I could be!

[Nutcase:259]

When you use words like 'beseech', 'anglicisms' & 'vernacular' i don't think you have anything to worry about language wise Flint ;)


lol one of the only, i guess it makes sense but it wouldn't work in the song :g

"I AMMMMMMMMMMMMM THE ONE OF THE ONLY!"

[MrSmadSmartAlex]

@Oryx and Flint
Your English is very good though; better than most native speakers. ;)
It seems that people who learn English as a second language usually make an effort to learn it properly (Darkdrium speaks French as his first language, I think). It's nearly always people who speak English as their first language that do these things (which encourages others to do them too), which is why it can be irritating! :lol

But yes, getting a message across is most important.

edit: Nutcase, it's that "one of the only" should be "one of the few" (simplest way to correct it), so don't worry, the song can remain intact! :D
I consider it a very minor error, but it's not technically correct to say it.

[Darkdrium777]

I posted that because I go to a game forum where technically it should be only US-Americans (and Canadians) posting there and they all say "I could care less" when in fact it's "I couldn't care less" that they mean. They all do! It annoys me to no end because I want to reply to each and every single one of them that they just said they care a bit about whatever they actually don't care about!

Anywho is another one that drives me up the walls. I'm guessing most of you have heard of "hotforwords" on Youtube. Yes, it's most likely that her fans don't watch her because she's a self proclaimed linguist. But ok, let's say she is a linguist. She said anywho?!? ****!

[Oryx Crake]

Thank you mr Alex :) I do know that I make mistakes though especially with idiomatic expressions (cant speak for flint on this one obviously) and well all I'm saying really, and this goes to darkdrium too, is: Remember that if you see these mistakes on here it could be because, for some of us it's a problem of just not ever having known whats the right way to say these things as we have never been exposed to the language in that everyday setting (even if I do agree that "could care less" sounds bloody stupid when you consider what the words actually mean) not the way you guys have.

As for that other forum darkdrium they are native speakers in a sense, so be as harsh as you like, I certainly wont defend their right to violate their own language out of ignorance.

[SaturnReturn]

I like "annywho". I'm always having to hold back on that one because I use "anyway" a lot, when preparing to sign off. In general I think language doesn't annoy people if someone makes a mistake, but it does if people are using it wrongly while thinking it's correct, especially if it makes no sense, i.e. the "could care less" thing.

Public transport is grinding my gears again. Back at work for only two days and it's failed twice already. Yesterday I waited ages for a tube. Today the tubes were fine and the trains were screwed up. It's always one of the other. :rolleyes:

[Darkdrium777]

Disassemble PS3.

Find out midway through that you need precision screwdrivers to open the blu-Ray drive to get the disc out.

Got precision screwdrivers in a Christmas cracker a few weeks ago.












Forgot them at the location where the family reunion took place.

Rage.

Again.

[Darkdrium777]

More on that:

Buy all-threads, nuts and washers to make a support for the reflowing process (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D86snH4ADpg). They're all supposed to be the same size.

They're not.

Continuing tomorrow.

I have to admit that overall this experience is quite pleasant though. I mean, sure it sucks that YLOD happens but it's kind of cool to open that baby up and try and save it (backup, hard-drive already formatted.)

[SaturnReturn]

I'm so annoyed that I can't find my camera cable anywhere. A while ago I took all my USB cables and put them in one place. Now I can't find the camera one at all. It's a proprietary USB cable that also acts as the charger cable and not having it makes my camera unusable. It's doing my head in. I've checked every single draw. I've drastically tidied my room. I now have almost two completely empty draw as a result of what I've thrown out and yet I still can't find the bugger. Gaaaaaah! This is what trying to be organised gets me.:bomb

Good luck with the fix DD777.

[Darkdrium777]

Yeah, hopefully the new PS3s don't have the same problem because I think I'll get one of those after I've done the back up, relegating the old one to secondary usage or no usage at all.
Sure, PS2 compatibility is nice, but I've almost never used it.

[Darkdrium777]

So I found out yesterday why some of the all threads didn't work.
The ones that work are made in USA. The ones that do not work are made in China.

[Rant about stuff made in China, like my PS3]

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

[Rant about Social Media and how it would not benefit some]

Er... I think gl on9 and gl off9 more fun...
@gay ur onli carrying the teachers lampa last yr other than tat euu were crying at how euu were humuliated in ur sense that we saud abt euu sucker=.=
If you want to know what GL is,it's better you not. It's some Hokkien term and I don't speak Hokkien.
Good luck trying to descipher what the ****/eff he was trying to say. I posted something that he would not be able to see:
I'll pretend I did not see that,RETAINEE!

If you don't know what I'm called in the topmost quote,I'm labeled gay. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. I wish I could stuff him into an R-9W Wise Man (http://rtype.wikia.com/wiki/R-9W_Wise_Man).It's draining on the pilot mentally,and the pilot has to be dragged/pulled out. Good luck to him if I was the one to extract him from that R Series craft.

[SaturnReturn]

Ok, I'm not gonna say this reeeeeeeeeeally grinds my gears, but just a little:

When you make tea, and then get distracted, and have to heat it up in the microwave. It's just not the same post-nuking.:(

[Mr Phlanj]

lol i had to do that with my cupper today :g

[MegaGeeza22]

People who spit... especially the ones who cough up big flem wads and gob it onto a ledge or leave it hangin on something, like a shop door handle haha! my friends were Sick.
If my brew went cold i wouldn't re-heat it.. re-heating milk is bad for your gut, i wont go into detail lol. make a new one or open a window :lol

[Mr Phlanj]

i spit alot but its short and done with and i at least turn away from people when i do it.
with the re-heating milk thing surely the milk,coffie & sugar:water ratio is so great it wouldnt make a diffrence?? im no sciencetist but hey it still tastes the same :D

[MegaGeeza22]

You could be right about the milk thing, but id rather make a fresh one...
Why do you spit? i used to when i was a kid. i can understand footballers doing it because there mouths turn all gloopy.
I couldn't see Stevie G or Becks gobbing on the street lol. but it must be a habbit for you, i suppose its better than picking your nose and chowing down on it :blarg

[Aeroracer]

spitting is disgusting. i view all people that spit in public as sub animal garbage... i think its still illegal as well in uk.

footballers spitting on pitch is disgusting too but most are just yobs anyway when you see all the intershagging and drink binges.with an exception of a few.

if its too vile to swallow does anyone really want to see it touch it or walk in it either...use a tissue or join a zoo if you want to spit..:p

[Nutcase:259]

Theres no need to spit at all, its not like you have an excess of 'spit' that you need to get rid of? were not camels and don't have foot and mouth so there's no excuse. not just yobs either, i saw some little old man with a walking stick coming out the pub the other day, you know looked harmless enough, then he just started snorting and spitting all over the place WTF?!?!?!

& whats wrong with microwaving milk? i thought i saw once that there was some perfect recipe to make tea that involved microwaving the milk first, (possibly i might have just imagined this :P)

[Aeroracer]

lol....+rep to nutcase
oldman must of been a senile geriatric yobo

[MetaKraken]

What grinds my gears is that I have an insane amounts of homework I got from college. It's driving me crazy! :brickwall

[Medusa]

When I wake up for the third day with a throbbing headache and swollen glands and sore throat and go out in the morning darkness only to find that my tire is flat, and then instead of being wise and going back in to bed I walk to work in the -32 Celsius windy weather thereby getting (minor) frostbite on my legs because I no longer own ski pants and then upon getting to work I find that my schedule for the day has been changed without even letting me know! and then once I finally finish my miserable 8 hours of sinus cold misery (did I mention misery) I get the tire guy to come put air in my tire and he drives off expecting me to follow but I only get three car lengths before my car slides off the tracks into the foot or so of snow and is completely stuck so I spend half an hour digging my car out (thankfully the air in the tire lasted so long) before I even get it to the shop! SERIOUSLY, ALL IN ONE DAY??? That, ladies and gentlemen, that is the sort of day that REALLY GRINDS MY REMAINING GEARS.
At least, at the end of this hellish day, there was a beautiful sunset. Oh, and I haven't been notified of any funerals today (yet) so it certainly could have been worse.

[MegaGeeza22]

MetaKraken, Homework may seem like a chore, but its the key to your future!!
Theres nothing wrong with microwaving milk.. its Re-heating thats bad! reheating any dairy product will give u loose stools haha! So get a mug of nice cold milk, heat it up and then leave it on the side for an hour.. then reheat and enjoy!! Thats why most babies always sick white and fill there nappies and constantly cry! because parents constantly reheat the milk in luke warm water and over feed them with bacteria ridden milk leaving them with stomach-ache all night... no sleep for mommy.
Spitting is bad but there is 1 good use for it :p But for sports people spitting is a must, your mouth gets so gloopy you cant swallow it! it just comes back up and that leads to constant swallowing which leads to a sore flemmy cough. But in sport there should be a spit bucket like in boxing...
Medusa, remember things could be worse... lol, dont hit me :lol

[Aeroracer]

sports people having to spit out of nessasity is wrong

no one in martail arts comps spit..cos they would get the crap kicked out of them if they did..they just swallow instead.

dont see much on an olympic running track either

dont see spitting at the royal ballet either or a dance show and that very physically exerting..

@medusa..ouch thats sounds cold..you need a dumb ass bf to do those tire changes for you and get the heating on so you are warm when u get up..they can be trained to do those things you know..i got a book on how to train bf's

[MegaGeeza22]

Thats because in other sports they only work in short bursts... i see it all the time in mma and track & field events but its been diluted, literally! they have there water bottle and rinse there mouths out... footballers do this too but they have to wait until half time or when an injury occurs! spitting would of been banned other wise.
But i agree that its disgusting and il leave it as that, dont spit unless your prepared to sit in somebody else's.