What Really Grinds Your Gears? II: The Reckoning

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

steering-wheel holders who don't use their turn signals.

people who wear colored contact lenses and try to tell you their obviously brightly ridiculous pupil/irises are real.

speed demons who demonically drive 83 mph in a ****ing parking lot!

trash truck operator who always leaves your bins laying on their sides in the street. grrrr.

 

[Marvellous Chester]

Hmm, British conservatives and American conservatives must be different. We have the Conservative party which I support and I do not feel anybody else can be trusted with the safety of my country.

What grinds my gears is having nothing to complain about. It grinds them most thoroughly.

 

[Eltu]

In America (from my impression during the 2 years I've lived there, anyway), I've gotten the impression that things are very polarized - most people see themselves as either strictly conservative or strictly liberal, which is very different from the political system in Sweden. People tend to lump ideas together into one of these two groups and dismiss everything "conservative" if they see themselves as liberal and vice versa.

Conservative ideas in America tend to focus on traditionalism, family values, and independence from the government, all for better and for worse. I think there's a few core ideas among American conservatism that are sound, but also many concepts that I personally much disagree with. As usual it seems like the healthiest approach is a good middle-ground.

I'm aware this is of course simplifying and generalizing very strongly (and ironic seeing as I'm practicing the polarization I'm complaining about!), but nonetheless this is the general impression I've had.

 

[Marvellous Chester]

Ah, well that makes sense. Things probably aren't quite as polarized here in the UK but when people talk about being conservatives, it is with regards to being a supporter of the Conservative party (the other main party being Labour).

I found something that grinds my gears anyway. I went to make a cup of coffee earlier and didn't shut the fridge properly after putting the milk back :/

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

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i sure hope i have a bottle of Jose Cuervo handy when end of civilization comes, lol



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[Marvellous Chester]

What grinds my gears is having to go to college when I would rather sit at my computer and contribute nonsense to the internet.

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

whoever did some hokey wiring in my house i just bought several months back, is grinding my gears. mix and match of different receptacles and switches caused me a headache, so i decided to do a Spring project and make them all the same. well, the wiring is different at pretty much every location and driving me cra-cra-crazzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

 

[Wind12]

windows 10, it is a cancer, period, hrh just because I move the cursor across the screen does not mean that I want to be pulled off the internet to look at all the ugly boxes with the "apps" inside them. Its like trying to navigate through honey. that and I broke my tablet, so as punishment I am sent to digital hell by using the family laptop which is powered by windows 10.

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

windows 10, it is a cancer, period, hrh just because I move the cursor across the screen does not mean that I want to be pulled off the internet to look at all the ugly boxes with the "apps" inside them. Its like trying to navigate through honey. that and I broke my tablet, so as punishment I am sent to digital hell by using the family laptop which is powered by windows 10.

i agree, windows 10 is a cancer, grrrrr. nothing but an entertainment magnet for apps and useless crap they want you to buy or pay fees for. ugh no thanks. i'm staying with windows 7 forever!

 

[Wind12]

Windows 10 is nasty, the laptop is nice though, but hopefully I can get my tablet back soon.

 

[iron_jones]

I actually don't mind Windows 10, aside from the start menu. I use a program that converts it back to the menu from Windows 7. Much easier to use.

 

[Eltu]

Personally I think Windows 10 is pretty great - unpolished and inconsistent UI aside, it's stable and functional and comparing to Windows 7 there's huge usability improvements (task manager, window management, using windows out of focus, better search, etc, etc.) - now just waiting for Redstone 3 and Neon which hopefully resolve the UX issues

 

[Na'vi a Kepekmì]

I'm sure not all the OS are fit for everyone. That's why Windows and other companies have a large offer.

 

[Eltu]

For sure - personally I also like Ubuntu, openSUSE and Fedora, though macOS is pretty nice too (mostly I don't like their program/window management, but otherwise pretty great).

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

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JC giving interviews now where he says wants to reboot the Terminator franchise and make another trilogy. what in the blue blazes are you smoking down there in the New Zealand?! we haven't got a single sequel to Avatar in 8 years and you want to do ANOTHER DAMN REBOOT????? please step away from the bong, sir.

 

[berryrabbit]

What grinds my gears is how people are bitching and moaning about the death of Taraka's three-month-old calf named Kyara at SeaWorld San Antonio, yet they are turning a deliberate blind eye to the three Southern Resident orca calves that died at less than one year old in 2016. The three calves were J55, an unnumbered calf, and Dipper (J54). You'd think people would be making a huge deal out of these three deaths since the Southern Residents are critically endangered, but they don't. They'd rather attack marine parks than save an iconic symbol of the Pacific Northwest. Animal rights groups have convinced them the only way to save orcas is to slam places that hold them. It's no wonder few people seem to care about the plight of the Southern Residents.

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

trump, please delete yourself and your stupid twitter account. act like a leader, you imposter-potus. k thanx bye.

 

[Wind12]

Everytime I turn on the news, the dumpster fire just gets worse, Captian Cheeto is def. Dangerously cheesy in so many ways.

 

[Na'vi a Kepekmì]

Personally I've unfollowed almost all the media pages, not for social justice or "fake news" or any activist reason, but because I'm tired of seeing politics on my timeline. People on the social media don't live one day without criticizing every single thing about Donald Trump, their local government, the hate groups or the liberals. There's no problem in having their opinion, but you'll find the next years very long if you just do that. There's a life to be lived out there, so even if you didn't state your opinion about the last executive order, it's not a problem. (Actually I think there's a cult that obliges the politicians and you to comment any big event correctly if you want to be appreciated.)

 

[Sight Unseen]

Unclear motives really grind my gears. I'm not very good at reading people. If you're going to do something bad, just tell me, "I'm going to do something bad to you."