You know what really grinds my gears?

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

All Buick commercials

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Some open box items really don't have anything wrong, it just depends on the people selling it and how honest they'd be when selling. Some can lie for a sale, others do the opposite. I got my tablet years back for at least 25% off because it was open box. They threw in a Bluetooth keyboard as a bonus. The guy said that it was fine, nothing was wrong except just having boxed opened up slightly. So I got a brand new tablet + keyboard for 25% the cost of just the tablet.

I've also seen customers try creating deals. They'd open a box, know the store will eventually discount it, and come back days later to buy that very box.

Back to the 'grind my gears' part of the thread :
I've been really sick my entire vacation. Probably the worst illness I've ever had. The final day of it, I'm feeling better. So it now feels like I missed/wasted 2 whole weeks of what was supposed to be fun.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

All Buick commercials

How about Chevy? They're sitting around claiming they have real people and not actors in their commercials, yet they have people mic'ed up who never should have been to begin with if it was real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-PCe-f2Y0

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This has persisted for well over a year. I'm not saying people don't lie on TV, but really couldn't they have done the same commercial without the blatant lie?

[WaitTilNextYear]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Those car commercials are pretty dumb. I always wonder where they get the dummies to seem all surprised and persuadable (or to actually give a crap about a particular make of car). There's literally no incentive to do it if not a paid actor or unless you really, really want to be on TV for like 4 seconds.

[SmashMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Those car commercials are pretty dumb. I always wonder where they get the dummies to seem all surprised and persuadable (or to actually give a crap about a particular make of car). There's literally no incentive to do it if not a paid actor or unless you really, really want to be on TV for like 4 seconds.

Host: "It's a Chevy!"

*curtain reveal*

Totally real person:

Spoiler

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

All Buick commercials

except the one with Marisa Miller.

[Jeffrey Smith]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Golden Globe Awards Show...ugh!


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[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

All Buick commercials

Least the one with that old lady going "That's what I told him!" in a weird voice isn't on anymore.

[TripleCrown9]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Ordering food online, and when you sign in to pay, it changes the store where the order is being placed.

Happened to me twice in the past week. Last week, I ordered a pizza at the place down the street, signed in and submitted my order. When I checked the e-mail, the order was placed at the store I apparently saved as my closest location, which is now all the way across town.

Same thing with my Taco Bell order this morning. Got there, my order wasn't in the system, checked the e-mail, it's the Taco Bell way on the other side of town.

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Golden Globe Awards Show...ugh!


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This might as well be all awards shows from the ESPYs to Oscars Emmys and Grammys.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When people throw out the “How can you not enjoy watching the best teams in the sport play each other every year? Is that the point of watching Sports” card whenever people mention they have fatigue from watching the same teams play every year.

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Typing a post in the OT thread reminded me of one. When you go to a buffet and the buffet items aren't labeled. Might not be much of a problem for people with normal vision and smell, but I'm visually impaired and also have virtually no sense of smell so unless it's something really obvious, I don't know what the buffet selections are unless they're labeled.

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

This might as well be all awards shows from the ESPYs to Oscars Emmys and Grammys.

It completely and totally baffles me that anyone wants to spend 1 second of their time watching any awards show at all. Ever. You're telling me you want to sit around and watch a bunch of vacuous idiots verbally fellate each other for 3 and half hours? You're better off beating yourself about the head with a tack hammer for that same duration of time. You wouldn't get any dumber.

When people throw out the “How can you not enjoy watching the best teams in the sport play each other every year? Is that the point of watching Sports” card whenever people mention they have fatigue from watching the same teams play every year.

Totally agree with this. I feel like people who say this either don't have a good concept of how sports fandom works, or are fans of one of the teams involved.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It completely and totally baffles me that anyone wants to spend 1 second of their time watching any awards show at all. Ever. You're telling me you want to sit around and watch a bunch of vacuous idiots verbally fellate each other for 3 and half hours? You're better off beating yourself about the head with a tack hammer for that same duration of time. You wouldn't get any dumber.

you are a human thesaurus and I love it

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I like the awards shows. I don't like how they use their acceptance speeches as a moment for them to speak about their values and beliefs though... unless that's what their film or character role was actually regarding and their part was an influence on exactly that.