You know what really grinds my gears?

[KSUowls]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

According to somebody who I trust with this information, the MPAA rating system is merely a suggestion anyway, and it is up to the theaters to decide whether or not they want to sell R-rated movie tickets to < 17-year-olds. In other words, it wouldn't be illegal if they did so, unless the theater's manager decided it was against their policy to do so and decided to take action on their own employee for allowing it.

That being said, I think as long as they're covered, they're good. I still remember in the year 2001 (I was 13 at the time), this was my exact exchange with the ticketer:

"Can we get two tickets for Thir13een Ghosts?"
"Uh sorry, have to be 17 or accompanied by an adult."
"Ok... can we get tickets to Zoolander then?"
"Sure, [insert cost here]."

Literally, the guy probably understood we were just going to sneak in to see Thir13een Ghosts anyway. But according to what he did, he sold PG-13 tickets to 13-year-olds, so he's all good in his boss's eyes.

So I really don't think they care for any reason other than job security.

It's job security for sure. I don't know if it works the same as with video games, but if you fail an ESRB audit (selling a mature rating game to someone under the age of 17) then you will be fired. So, I don't blame the employees at all.

It's the public pressure that created these standards such that some curse words or a little bit of violence on screen means you have to meet an age requirement that annoys me.


I have some similar stories to that zoolander one when I was younger, but without the success.

The first Underworld movie came out when I was I think 16. Went to the theaters with my dad and a friend. My dad bought the tickets, but he was going to go see something else that was playing at the same time. We got through the ticket counter, then my buddy and I were about to step into our auditorium when an employee who was sweeping the halls or something she saw us and rushed at us and asked for our IDs. Something similar happened a year or 2 earlier with the first Resident Evil movie, and someone stopped me at some point after the ticket was purchased.

I also have a story about actually being 17 and trying to buy one of the PS2 SOCOM games at Best Buy. The worker said I was too young to buy it (she had to be corrected by someone else). Maybe I just have bad luck.

Just reminded of one other story - The first Scary Movie came out when I was 13. Went to see it with my dad and brother. I went to the bathroom alone like half way through the movie, and when I tried to come back the employee who saw my ticket made me go inside and show that I was there with an adult.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Yeah I have too many stories of what I have been able to "get away with" versus not. For example, when I was maybe 52" tall and couldn't ride the 54" height minimum for roller coasters... unless I wore my cowboy boots that I had for a talent show and wore jeans over them to hide them, adding those couple of inches.

Also, my dad owned a video store and sold it to another company, but I still got to rent things for free (movies, games, the works). I couldn't rent the majority of R-rated films after I got away once with renting How High, but for whatever reason one employee talked another into allowing me to rent The Matrix because its R-rating isn't quite as severe or whatever.

Now, completely unrelated to all of this, my little sister walked in on me watching Fight Club. That wouldn't be a problem, except she walked in right at the trippy sex scene with Marla and Tyler. It seemed like I had to scream "Get out!" as if she caught me watching a porno haha.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Now, completely unrelated to all of this, my little sister walked in on me watching Fight Club. That wouldn't be a problem, except she walked in right at the trippy sex scene with Marla and Tyler. It seemed like I had to scream "Get out!" as if she caught me watching a porno haha.

I hate to be that guy, but we don't talk about Fight Club outside of Fight Club.
I mean, its the first freaking rule.

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

'Accept cookies' popups on websites, especially the ones that make the website unresponsive until you accept or don't accept.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

'Accept cookies' popups on websites, especially the ones that make the website unresponsive until you accept or don't accept.

Unresponsive or just takes up half the screen. It's either accept or manage your preferences (in order to reject) which makes it annoying.

I never save cookies on my devices, often just use incognito too, so it gets annoying always getting prompted.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Video popup ads with X's that don't work when you click them. Some of these sites play by their own set of rules.

[Master Live 013]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Ha, I remember one friend in our group who looked older being the designated buyer for R movies tickets. Turns out Saw 2 wasn't all that


For games, it was my mother. I remember pacing at the Electronic Boutique store while she picked up GTA: Double Pack for me, thought I was going to get caught

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I remember when I was technically 17+ with my cousin trying to celebrate bday stuff at Showbiz Pizza (yep I'm that old), they wouldn't let me in because I was 17 and I argued for 5 minutes that the second after I hit 17 I'm now over 17, to no avail


irony is we ended up going to see Fight Club instead

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I remember when I was technically 17+ with my cousin trying to celebrate bday stuff at Showbiz Pizza (yep I'm that old), they wouldn't let me in because I was 17 and I argued for 5 minutes that the second after I hit 17 I'm now over 17, to no avail


irony is we ended up going to see Fight Club instead

I'm not sure I understand...you have to be over or under 17 to get into Showbiz? That place is filled with nothing but 8-9 year olds running around eating crappy pizza. What was the dispute?

[steelerfan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm not sure I understand...you have to be over or under 17 to get into Showbiz? That place is filled with nothing but 8-9 year olds running around eating crappy pizza. What was the dispute?

I'd assume a minor has to be accompanied by an adult. Otherwise, they'd have a bunch of junior high kids hanging out there and overrunning the place.

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[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I remember when I was technically 17+ with my cousin trying to celebrate bday stuff at Showbiz Pizza (yep I'm that old), they wouldn't let me in because I was 17 and I argued for 5 minutes that the second after I hit 17 I'm now over 17, to no avail


irony is we ended up going to see Fight Club instead

My opinion is most everyone is 9 months older than their actual birthday. Arbitrarily picking a random number and saying you have to be *this* age to do something is asinine. Like for instance, saying you have to be at least 36 years old to be president is stupid. Age is just a number because there are 80 year old people with 80 years of lifetime experiences that still aren't qualified to actually be president. Same for being 21 to drink, there are 40 year old people who shouldn't be allowed to drink.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

in south korea, if you're born dec 31, you're two years old a day later

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When I have no less than 75 tabs open from umpteen different windows, and sound (be it music, an ad, a live breaking news pop-up, etc.) starts playing from ONE of them, and I can't figure out which one it is.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When people share "hacks/tips" for something that just ruins it for others.

For instance, let's say you're on vacation and there's a nice hidden gem of a location that most don't know about and it's not busy. Then someone blabs online about this "hidden gem" they found and now everyone knows so it's no longer hidden or not crowded.

Or one thing I saw in the news recently. Someone found a "loophole" in the transit system transfers that allows you to go from certain places to other places while not paying extra fares (its legal). Why come out about that? Now everyone's gonna do it or the transit company is gonna fix that loophole.

I've also found a loophole which gets me free transfers but I'm never sharing that with anyone and doesn't seem like anyone else has ever discovered it.

Even at my work, people found a loophole in the clock in machines about how it rounds up/down at certain times so everyone does it (show up 5 mins late to work and leave 5 mins early and it still counts it as a full 8 hours). Managers all know that trick too, but everyone has an unwritten agreement to make sure payroll and higher up's don't know about it. Another one is "if you're late, dont clock in and just say you forgot". If you do it a lot they'll catch on, but if you're late once in a while you can do that and still get paid the full day without anyone knowing you're late. Similarly with leaving early. I've left before 3pm so many times and said I forgot to clock out and just get paid till end of day anyways.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When people share "hacks/tips" for something that just ruins it for others.

For instance, let's say you're on vacation and there's a nice hidden gem of a location that most don't know about and it's not busy. Then someone blabs online about this "hidden gem" they found and now everyone knows so it's no longer hidden or not crowded.

Or one thing I saw in the news recently. Someone found a "loophole" in the transit system transfers that allows you to go from certain places to other places while not paying extra fares (its legal). Why come out about that? Now everyone's gonna do it or the transit company is gonna fix that loophole.

I've also found a loophole which gets me free transfers but I'm never sharing that with anyone and doesn't seem like anyone else has ever discovered it.

Even at my work, people found a loophole in the clock in machines about how it rounds up/down at certain times so everyone does it (show up 5 mins late to work and leave 5 mins early and it still counts it as a full 8 hours). Managers all know that trick too, but everyone has an unwritten agreement to make sure payroll and higher up's don't know about it. Another one is "if you're late, dont clock in and just say you forgot". If you do it a lot they'll catch on, but if you're late once in a while you can do that and still get paid the full day without anyone knowing you're late. Similarly with leaving early. I've left before 3pm so many times and said I forgot to clock out and just get paid till end of day anyways.

Speaking of which, I think I "ruined" something for others once (in a weird way, I'll explain).

I would get e-mails from some site... I forget the name, Coupon Cabin maybe? Anyway, it would be something where you could get like $100 gift cards from Amazon or something of the sort, but you had to be the first to click on the deal right when it becomes active. I tried for a couple of weeks to be one to claim it, but always to be beat. It's one of those instantaneous things where you either luck out or you don't, so you're rapid-fire clicking the seconds before it becomes active and hope for the best.

Anyway, so I thought of something: I'll find software that turbo-clicks for my mouse when I hold down my click. I downloaded something and I was able to generate "1000 clicks per second," or something of the sort. So I tried that the next opportunity on the gift card offering. Apparently I clicked so much that if you get it, a pop-up window comes on the screen, and I got hundreds of them flying at the same time. There were so many that it pretty much crashed my computer, and I had to restart it. Since I never got to get into a part to enter my information, I basically probably stole all of the claims and then some.

They likely caught wind of the matter that one person was able to auto-generate and steal all of the claims, so they changed up their infrastructure the very next day. When I tried the same thing next time, if you click before the offer becomes active, a dialogue box appears that you have to "OK" and close out before clicking again, and it's in a different spot on the screen. It basically prevented somebody from doing what I did.

I'm not going to say I ruined it for everybody, but I absolutely changed it so nobody could do what I did anymore, and it changed the pre-time clicking game of it all.


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Now, something unrelated to that, I love as a teacher when I forget to stamp/collect something, and then near the end of the period there is that one student that says: "Are you still going to collect this thing?" I go: "Oh yes, thanks for reminding me! Everyone, turn in blah blah assignment." Everyone else ends up ragging on that one student. It's hilarious! Heaven forbid they responsibly did the assignment and want to be acknowledged for it, shame on the rest for not getting it done.