You know what really grinds my gears?

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Funny enough, I'm trying to figure out my own way to prevent stuff like this.

Best option I've thought of is getting a wiffle ball or practice ball and having a long string knotted through one hole. Ball goes over, just pull it back (or at least close enough to get back yourself).

Regardless if you never talk to your neighbours or you have a good relationship, you still don't wanna just randomly go in their yard, or feel awkward having to ask.

Honestly, in my childhood home, it really didn't seem like a "problem." I was off-angle enough from any of their inside viewing, and I was there and back since it was always just over the fence and not midway through it. I think they gardened, but that was pretty much it. I didn't want to disturb the peace, especially since so many balls went over. It was mostly tennis balls since my friend and I basically played "baseball" in my backyard. Hard to explain actually, since you had to see the configuration and how they barely made their way over there (or again were accessible in their side yards and such).

Anyway, speaking more about backyards, no story is better than this one. We just snuck past the ten year anniversary of this last month, in fact:

I am ruined.

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Anyway, speaking more about backyards, no story is better than this one. We just snuck past the ten year anniversary of this last month, in fact:

I am ruined.

Ah yes, that was a classic.

As for people going in yards, my mom always got mad because some neighbor kids would frequently cut through her back yard, though I think they've since moved away. At the house I grew up in our issue was people letting their dogs pee in our front yard, the front 2 feet or so of our yard was always so dead dogs peeing in it. I had a basketball hoop in our driveway and my ball would sometimes go over the fence that separated our properties for most of the length of the driveway and after I asked a couple times, the neighbor said I could go get it whenever I needed to without asking. There were also hedges that were on their side of the property and eventually he just let them grow obscenely tall (maybe close to 8 feet tall) so eventually it became pretty much impossible for my ball to go over. And this wasn't even just at the back of the driveway where my hoop was, but the entire length up to the street though they weren't nearly as high closer to the street. My mom hated it though because it made it harder to trim our side of the hedges and it also made it hard for her to see if there were cars coming up the street when she tried to pull out of the driveway. My mom sold that house 14 1/2 years ago but I just looked at Google street view and the last image was dataed 11/2020 and they are still really high.
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Another thing that grinds my gears ... Resealable bags that refuse to reseal.

[Jolly Roger]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

MLB playoffs.

I mean...what manner of wankage is this?

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

As bad as the roughing-the-passer calls were this week, there was a non-DPI call in the Falcons-Bucs game right before that in my opinion was almost as egregious as the one in the Rams-Saints playoff game. Yep, I said it.

What grinds my gears is that literally nobody gives a flying **** about it. They only see what was most recent. Just like the Rams-Saints non-DPI coming after the fact that Payton/Brees for some stupid reason decided to throw the ball instead of run it.

MLB playoffs.

I mean...what manner of wankage is this?

I couldn't catch the M's game live, so I wanted to watch MLB.TV replay.

Sadly, my eye caught the fact that the game went 6.5 hours. Being in Seattle, there wouldn't be a rain delay of any sort, so I knew it was going to be like an 18-inning affair. Why should I bother watching the first seventeen or so?

I don't know why I can't hide that time slider from possibly popping up on me. It literally spoils it, just like a movie with a fake ending but you're aware because you know there is still 20 minutes left of runtime.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

My sister in law is staying with us and I think she eats 10% of what she puts on her plate. Last time she was here we ordered a detroit style pizza that is cut into hefty slices. One XL pizza is 8 slices and I usually eat 1 because they are so big. She took two and threw 3/4 of the other one away. For meals this time around I've been "nice" and served up the plates and intentionally made them all 1/2 portions.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

My sister in law is staying with us and I think she eats 10% of what she puts on her plate. Last time she was here we ordered a detroit style pizza that is cut into hefty slices. One XL pizza is 8 slices and I usually eat 1 because they are so big. She took two and threw 3/4 of the other one away. For meals this time around I've been "nice" and served up the plates and intentionally made them all 1/2 portions.

I get people have different eating habits and appetites but it always makes me feel bad if I see someone only nibbling at their plate when served. Especially since dinner in my family is usually the big meal and family meal of the day.




On an unrelated gear grinder, cars with loud mufflers/exhausts, especially racing ones. Live across from a decently busy street, have heard people cruising at least 60-70mph waking me up.

[jasontoddwhitt]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

My sister in law is staying with us and I think she eats 10% of what she puts on her plate. Last time she was here we ordered a detroit style pizza that is cut into hefty slices. One XL pizza is 8 slices and I usually eat 1 because they are so big. She took two and threw 3/4 of the other one away. For meals this time around I've been "nice" and served up the plates and intentionally made them all 1/2 portions.

My ex was the world's worst...especially if we went out for dinner.

Order up a whole bunch of food...then maybe eat a quarter of it. Though it was hilarious one time we went out with her parents to a Japanese steakhouse and her father literally told the chef "whatever you are planning to give her, just give her half of it."

I nearly choked on my sushi.

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Journal articles that have a ridiculous number of supplemental files. Some of these articles will have 10+ separate files of some combination of pdf. xlsx. and .docx that each with only a single figure/table that could have easily been combined into 1 or 2 files. I don't know if the authors choose to do that or the journals make them do that, but it's just asinine either way.

[steelerfan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Nonsensical fake hype like "National Tight End Day".

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[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Nonsensical fake hype like "National Tight End Day".

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It's basically fake content for the media to fill time/space and have made up conversations about nothing. Which is like red meat for them.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Nonsensical fake hype like "National Tight End Day".

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It's basically fake content for the media to fill time/space and have made up conversations about nothing. Which is like red meat for them.

I like when PTI does this, it's old and tired, but I know it's coming, like a Uranus joke, or a Florida man joke, then they start the show.

It's like "today is national cheese day", and by the end of the show Wilbon is saying everyone should be in jail

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

That's why at times I try avoiding watching promos, unless in a TV shows case, it airs during the show itself (like after the final scene).

So many times it'll show something that as a fan, you're looking out for certain things instantly and will notice key details in the promo.

You watch those? See, I avoid those all the time. I bet I already posted it as a gear-grinder once. I already know I'm going to watch the next episode, so why spoil it for me?

Heck, I'm already up in arms in the "Previously on..." segments at the beginning of an episode, but not for why you think. Yes, it's true that I don't like they undermine my memory as an audience member that I can't recall what happened the week before or play catch-up quickly, but even more so it's actually because they only bring up previous elements that will be pertinent for the upcoming episode. Sometimes they'll recall a moment that is seven episodes back, which I get we might need a re-reminder of, but now I know that: "Oh great, this is going to be important this time, isn't it?" It would be better if it was just an "In case you missed last week's episode..." segment, personally.

Following up this post as I'm watching a show that does this.

As little of a fan as I am about the "Previously on..." stuff, I am even less so when it's one of the actors voicing it. It takes me out of the element that these are characters in their own world. It almost feels Bravo aftershow-ish, like you're clued into them watching it in post or something. It's one reason I sometimes stay away from behind the scenes/making of featurettes for shows and movies, so I can stay lost in the world that that show is in.

Now, if it's some random voiceover narrator, then I'm back to my previous qualm with it but it doesn't add that next gear-grinding nugget.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Pushy door to door sales people. Especially coming by the morning after a hurricane hit to try to sell me solar panels for my house. I don't need that ****.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Search engines should filter predictive fill entries for movies, shows, games, etc. that would include spoilers. If you type it yourself, great. If not, just because it's a popular search doesn't mean it should show up. After all, when I type boo- for "books" I don't see it suggesting that I wanted to type "boobs." It should just be smarter about it or the folks at Google et. al should be more aware of it, at least for a limited time.

If I'm just trying to type a movie title to look up showtimes, runtime, etc., I shouldn't have to actively look away from my screen to make sure it doesn't say something like "_______ death" as well, you know?

[SmashMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

when I type boo- for "books" I don't see it suggesting that I wanted to type "boobs." It should just be smarter about it

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