You know what really grinds my gears?

[RockinDaMike]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I should have been more specific I guess. I'm talking about people who act like they are about to turn their life around because they started making a few laps around the park every day.

Also, there's a distinct difference between hiking and just walkin around a park and a mall. Of course walking is considered a big deal for anyone with any complications/disabilities or someone who may be older.

I'm just thinking about how little I would get out of walking at the age of 25 with no medical conditions preventing me from even a light jog.

Oh well, it's just a gear grinder of mine.

I know you weren't trying to point anyone personally but I lost 100 pounds because the first day I started, I walked a few laps around my neighborhood. So yeah its possible people can switch their life around with just starting with that. Walking is the greatest exercise ever because its so easy and can be done everyday without rest. I've actually met a number of people who lost great amount of weight just walking and eating right.

You're probably pointing at healthy people but hey, just walking everyday for an hour is a big step from the normal American. I have a cousin with a grandma that is 94 years old and smoked everyday of her life since she was in her 20's and the only thing i figured how she lived so long is that she walked at least 5 miles a day.

[Feared]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Agree that at least by taking brisk walks they are at least doing something. Sometimes you have to start somewhere, (for people that are extremely overweight) and maybe doing walks is all they can handle because their endurance for cardio is so poor. They can always work their way up in intensity, and more advanced forms of exercise. Now for people that are already fairly healthy, maybe it's just a way they can think they are exercising, honestly a lot of females I know are in their late twenties, early thirties and they don't work out at all and they still look great. They pretty much eat whatever they want to, but I assume they don't over indulge. (Now just because they look good doesn't mean they are in physical shape they would probably get winded doing a mild jog around a track)


Also this reminds me of a woman I used to work with, she was in her late twenties.. really nice lady. However she was very over weight.. she would always talk about how she was going to start, a "Life changing" work out regimen; and it was always "Oh I'm going to start next week, or I'll wait until tomorrow to start, next week I'm going to start working with a personal trainer." Meanwhile I'd always see her in the break room with McDonald's bags, and various other High Calorie fast foods from around the area where we worked. In the year I worked with her I don't think she ever started her workout plan.

So yeah starting out and doing something is better than nothing at all. Even if your workout, is other people's warm ups. Some advice I got a while ago is don't focus on besting others, just focus on beating yesterday's version of you.

[NDAlum]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm so sick and tired of the "If this game had competition it would be so much better..." rhetoric that plagues this board. It's beating a dead horse to the max...

[Knight165]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm so sick and tired of the "If this game had competition it would be so much better..." rhetoric that plagues this board. It's beating a dead horse to the max...

Brother......this phrase if put into a post should result into a permanent banning and banishment to BogeyLand.
As if the devs that are working 60 plus hours a week and more than that close to launch are looking at some other game and saying..."uh-oh....we better step it up!"

M.K,
Knight165

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

DHS trying to screw me again. Just keeps happening over and over, they can't get anything right. Trying to reduce my food benefits by about 80% because of a change in my shelter expenses or income. Neither has changed. So frustrating. Also, they didn't send a return envelope and if I want to contest I need to mail them within 10 days of their mailing date, which is up tomorrow. They even added "you have no right to contest". This is bull****

A week and a half later and STILL no response from DHS, this is ridiculous, my rep has called at least 5 times, they never pick up and never return messages. I tried to log into the DHS website tonight just in case by some miracle they fixed the situation without telling us, then I could at least message my rep and say forget it they corrected it. But no, I can't even log in now. I wrote down my ID & pw, why isn't it working now? They won't even let me log into the site now? Can't contact them by phone or through their own site... This doesn't bode well for a paranoid man with panic disorder, it's like they're doing this intentionally. Banging my head against the wall would accomplish more than contacting them, which is probably what they're pulling for. Why does it have to be so difficult?

<== me doing what they want me to do

update: there's no conspiracy, no conspiracy at all

[VTPack919]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Brother......this phrase if put into a post should result into a permanent banning and banishment to BogeyLand.
As if the devs that are working 60 plus hours a week and more than that close to launch are looking at some other game and saying..."uh-oh....we better step it up!"

M.K,
Knight165

It certainly doesn't hurt. Competition drives many things which can help improve a game. I agree it is like beating a dead horse a lot of the time, but it isn't wrong.


Competition is good for consumers, in almost everything.

[NDAlum]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Is competition good? In the business world (video games included) of course it's a positive.

Competition is good for CONSUMERS because we get a choice. By no means does it mean the product will be better just simply due to the existence of competition.

The player models are a bit iffy
- Well if we had competition this wouldn't happen...

We really need some new ball physics
- Hey brah if there was competition you'd see it improve

The lighting is a bit off here
- We really need some competition so these devs can stop being so lazy about this stuff

That's the issue

[NDAlum]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Dealing with health insurance

I suffered a shoulder injury that required surgery. Health insurance says it's X-amount of $'s out of pocket MAXIMUM.

For this example let's say I'm $100 away from the maximum I can pay for the injury and I keep getting a bill for $300.

It's been two months and still no fix and it is still processing.

FWIW the $ is much bigger that's just an example

Unfortunately I have more to add in this vent session...

Monday: I call health insurance and ask for an update with the claim. I keep getting bills and they have yet to process the claim. Lady was polite and said she would put an "escalator" on it to help speed up things. I gave her my account information to call the hospital that keeps sending me the bill. She puts me on hold and says she will call them and let them know to not send me bills and that the insurance company needs more time to correctly process the claim.

*They processed my claim as out of network when it was in-network*

Tuesday: I get a call from a number and think it's the insurance company. I answer and I get an automated message telling me to call the number back.

Spoiler

I call it back and no answer so I leave a message to request another call back...

Wednesday: The number calls back and I'm confused at first. Not sure if it's the health insurance company or the hospital as I could've not been paying too much attention. The guy asks me what I need and I tell him I'm returning a call from the number.

I am halfway confused about what he wants at first as I know my claim is getting reprocessed by health ins co and I try to let him know my situation. Then he does it...he raises his voice and says "Now here's the deal you owe X amount of dollars" in a condescending doesn't give a damn about my reasoning tone.

Spoiler

I then matched his attitude and was more rude to him than I've ever been. He set it off. Turns out the health insurance lady from Monday didn't talk to anybody...and if she did they didn't make a note on the account. So it looks like I didn't take action. They don't do their part and it's viewed as if I'm not doing mine.

The final straw was when he asked me if I was on medicare.

His lack of professionalism was not taken well and I might call back to file a complaint.

There's no excuse for him to have that tone right off the bat in a customer service career.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Multitasking with one of those tasks being using a cellphone.

Like when you see those stupid people on the street who have 99% of their focus on their phone and 1% focused to their surroundings. Never bothering they're about to walk right into someone,cross a street without looking or stuff like that.

Or what's becoming more common, tv shows promoting social media/app usage DURING the shows. I've tried that myself but I find it so distracting. I can't ever manage to do something like watch TV and tweet about the show on my phone. Or watch a sports game,and use the second screen stuff on my phone to watch stuff at diff angles.

Just recently I was messaging someone on my phone while watching TV(I rarely ever use phone when watching tv),and before I knew it,I looked up and had no idea what was going on on the TV cause I was so occupied with messaging on my phone. But some people can manage to do that for every show they watch and apparently not miss anything on TV?

[redsox4evur]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Multitasking with one of those tasks being using a cellphone.

Like when you see those stupid people on the street who have 99% of their focus on their phone and 1% focused to their surroundings. Never bothering they're about to walk right into someone,cross a street without looking or stuff like that.

Or what's becoming more common, tv shows promoting social media/app usage DURING the shows. I've tried that myself but I find it so distracting. I can't ever manage to do something like watch TV and tweet about the show on my phone. Or watch a sports game,and use the second screen stuff on my phone to watch stuff at diff angles.

Just recently I was messaging someone on my phone while watching TV(I rarely ever use phone when watching tv),and before I knew it,I looked up and had no idea what was going on on the TV cause I was so occupied with messaging on my phone. But some people can manage to do that for every show they watch and apparently not miss anything on TV?

Welcome to the world of DVR/TiVo.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I didn't mean it like that. I meant they're somehow able to multitask like that where they are able to keep track of what's going on when watching TV,while also using their phone at the same time. Meaning there's no need to pause or rewind a show to see what they missed,they're able to do both(use phone and watch tv) simultaneously.

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

NDAlum's fun customer service story

Hahah, I bet you there is no "escalator". Call centers bull**** so hard.

I had a similar customer service issue where we called probably close to 10 times on different occasions and it was never resolved via phone. The problem is you get a different clown each time, and one person puts you on hold and another picks up. Repeat. It was exhausting getting the runaround so many times or having their automated system hang up on you before we could even talk to a person. By the time you did your nerves were shot and the CSR was gonna get blasted. Especially after so many attempts.

I actually got my issue resolved by contacting them via Twitter if you can believe that. It was Comcast, so they're a massive company and more available on that platform, but I was completely shocked.

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Hahah, I bet you there is no "escalator". Call centers bull**** so hard.

You would lose that bet.

[dickey1331]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I didn't mean it like that. I meant they're somehow able to multitask like that where they are able to keep track of what's going on when watching TV,while also using their phone at the same time. Meaning there's no need to pause or rewind a show to see what they missed,they're able to do both(use phone and watch tv) simultaneously.

I do that all the time. I can multitask with the best of them.

[jeremym480]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When you're going to dinner at a friends house and someone is running late which holds up dinner. I mean, I get it if they're running 10-15 minutes late, let's wait on them to eat. However, if someone is running over an hour late is it really rude to go ahead and eat without them?