What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Fbolt]

Fat kids who sit in front of their TV all day instead of playing outside.

This whole "bully" epidemic; learn to fight you pussies! Kids have always been picked on but are so coddled these days that it's become some huge issue. Someone's picking on you? Punch 'em in the ****ing mouth!

I guess what it boils down to is that I hate this latest crop of kids/teens. They're lazy and ungrateful pussies.

Sounds like you don't have any kids. Seriously, you want your kids to be fighting all the time? I teach mine to not fight UNLESS it comes down to protecting yourself/sibling/friend. Bullies are always going to be there-stopping it is like searching for world peace. Not gonna happen. At least that's my opinion.

My issue-Out here peeps of a certain ethnicity have a tendency to walk across the entire sidewalk. As in 5 across. The thought out here is that if they don't make eye contact, they don't have to recognize you and move. Very disturbing at the beginning but as I adapted I find myself doing the old "high school" shoulder throw. My wife runs and many times people just continue to hog the walkway-haha, she always returns with a tale of running over some unsuspecting person. Somewhat amusing.

Also, the old Chinese "hawk and spit" routine gets old real quick.

As a rule though-it's people I don't like. I can see that I'll be that cantankerous old man who is never satisfied with anything anyone else does. I may need to readjust.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Sounds like you don't have any kids. Seriously, you want your kids to be fighting all the time? I teach mine to not fight UNLESS it comes down to protecting yourself/sibling/friend. Bullies are always going to be there-stopping it is like searching for world peace. Not gonna happen. At least that's my opinion.

My issue-Out here peeps of a certain ethnicity have a tendency to walk across the entire sidewalk. As in 5 across. The thought out here is that if they don't make eye contact, they don't have to recognize you and move. Very disturbing at the beginning but as I adapted I find myself doing the old "high school" shoulder throw. My wife runs and many times people just continue to hog the walkway-haha, she always returns with a tale of running over some unsuspecting person. Somewhat amusing.

Also, the old Chinese "hawk and spit" routine gets old real quick.

As a rule though-it's people I don't like. I can see that I'll be that cantankerous old man who is never satisfied with anything anyone else does. I may need to readjust.

Yeah, I would kind of like my kids to be smarter than the idiots.

My oldest, who is 32 soon, got in four fights as a kid that I know of; three were protecting his kid brother, who didn't really need much protection as it turns out, and one was because he got tired of a gang, known as the Nazi N***er Haters, who didn't like the way he looked kept threatening him, harassing him and his friends. On the day that was enough and it involved a female friend of his, he walked into the biggest, overtly toughest member of this gang's classroom, before the teacher got into the room, walked up to him, didn't say a word and hammered him. Now my son could palm a basketball in 7th grade. His hand was almost as wide as mine and his fingers were noticeably longer. That gave him a ham-hock for a hand, and he just plastered this kid. Don't know that the kid was even able to defend himself. No one in the class said a word. A day later the Dean of Men, an AP that was the head varsity football coach, walked up behind him and asked him what happened to so-and-so. My son said he must have fallen. That AP said, "That's what I thought, make sure he doesn't fall again!"

Today, my youngest kids in the same school district have so many anti-bullying mechanisms in place, that there is literally no reason for their to be a fight anywhere, any time. I know it is not this way everywhere, but this is an area things have changed positively in the last twenty years.

 

[JT_IRISH]

The offseason...

 

[In Lou I Trust]

I have a 6 month old. You're right, bullies have been around forever and will continue to be around but kids these days don't stick up for themselves. It has nothing to do with fighting all the time but if you continue to let yourself be a target bullies will continue to pick on you.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I have a 6 month old. You're right, bullies have been around forever and will continue to be around but kids these days don't stick up for themselves. It has nothing to do with fighting all the time but if you continue to let yourself be a target bullies will continue to pick on you.

I can relate to that. In my family of origin I would routinely get the shiit kicked out of my by over competitive siblings. Hell, talk about over competitive, my mom used to compete with us, and kick the stuffings out of us, too, I might add! LOL

 

[NDohio]

My newest is when I pull up to the drive thru window after ordering at that stupid speaker and the worker says "How are you that'll be twelve sixty five" all in one quick sentence.

Do not ask me how I am if you are not going to give me time to answer. If you care how I am, let me answer. If you do not care how I am, don't ask. It really is OK if you just take my money and give me my food in a polite way.

 

[Rhode Irish]

As a kid, I didn't have to deal much with bullying. I was twice a "new kid," but I was athletic and outgoing and confident, so it didnt take long for me to assimilate. Bullying did cause me to get in some fights, though. I made a habit of stepping in on behalf of kids who were being picked on, sometimes by friends of mine, and a couple times that led me into physical altercation.

The thing about bullying is that the kids most able to "stand up for themselves" are the least likely to be picked on. The kids that get picked on are the quiet, small and socially isolated. Maybe you wouldn't choose to be that way, but they likely didn't either. Why is it OK to pick on kids who are defenseless, primarily BECAUSE they are defenseless? There are a lot of behaviors that have gone on forever, but that doesn't make them right. Racism has gone on forever, as have rape and fraud and corruption. Does that mean we should accept these things?

There is, of course, a difference between "bullying" and busting balls, and I'm the last person ever to suggest we try to curb busting balls. But if the subject of the ball busting is physically or socially incapable of returning the favor, its bullying. If the objective is to torture a kid rather than socialize him, its bullying. There isn't a place for that, and its hard for me to imagine what kind of person would think there is.

 

[NDohio]

Overzealous parents at youth sporting events. These people are unbelievable.

Youth sports could be an entire thread.

 

[RallySonsOfND]

When professors don't email you that a class is cancelled and instead just have a sign on the door.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

When professors don't email you that a class is cancelled and instead just have a sign on the door.

What about when they don't even do that and you have to invoke the fifteen minute rule?

 

[Cackalacky]

This gets me so angry when I see this.

 

[PANDFAN]

MY EX WIFE!!!! NUFF SAID

 

[AKRowdy]

Great minds

Not just tOSU but the whole B1G conference!! I can't stand that conference! They think they are the best thing since sliced bread!!

 

[arrowryan]

Fat kids who sit in front of their TV all day instead of playing outside.

This whole "bully" epidemic; learn to fight you pussies! Kids have always been picked on but are so coddled these days that it's become some huge issue. Someone's picking on you? Punch 'em in the ****ing mouth!

I guess what it boils down to is that I hate this latest crop of kids/teens. They're lazy and ungrateful pussies.

I'm hurt. That was harsh

 

[Whiskeyjack]

People who don't use cruise control on interstate highways.

They always sit in the passing lane (another pet peeve) and slowly fall behind the flow of traffic. This forces me to pass on them on the right, but without fail, they end up passing me (going like 20 mph over the limit now) within 5-10 minutes. Rinse and repeat for several hundred miles.

Pick a speed, set your cruise control, and stay out of the passing lane unless you're, ya know, passing someone going slower than your chosen speed. Drivers who feel compelled to pass everyone in front of them, regardless of speed, are terrible.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Dude in his mid 30's last night on the treadmill last night at the gym. had to have poured half a bottle of tommy hilfiger colonge on himself before he started his brisk "walk."

I don't care if this is your best chance at talking to a woman. Don't friggin wear cologne to the gym, especially on a treadmill.

 

[PANDFAN]

Dude in his mid 30's last night on the treadmill last night at the gym. had to have poured half a bottle of tommy hilfiger colonge on himself before he started his brisk "walk."

I don't care if this is your best chance at talking to a woman. Don't friggin wear cologne to the gym, especially on a treadmill.

now the opposite happened to me last night....i wish this guy that kept lifting by me had cologne on because he smelled soooo damn bad of body odor...i had to keep moving it was that bad

 

[arrowryan]

Girls that flirt with you the whole night but then you get nothing out of it.

 

[Cackalacky]

Originally Posted by In Lou I Trust

I guess what it boils down to is that I hate this latest crop of kids/teens. They're lazy and ungrateful pussies.

I'm hurt. That was harsh

We had ungrateful pussies in my time too. They went on to be billionaire internet technology moguls. Don't take it too hard. Its quite possibly a compliment.

 

[koonja]

People who don't use cruise control on interstate highways.

They always sit in the passing lane (another pet peeve) and slowly fall behind the flow of traffic. This forces me to pass on them on the right, but without fail, they end up passing me (going like 20 mph over the limit now) within 5-10 minutes. Rinse and repeat for several hundred miles.

Pick a speed, set your cruise control, and stay out of the passing lane unless you're, ya know, passing someone going slower than your chosen speed. Drivers who feel compelled to pass everyone in front of them, regardless of speed, are terrible.

Totally agree, although I must admit, I do not have cruise control. I have a baseline model, 200 Chevy Aveo. It's a cheap car but I can't believe a 2005 doesn't have cruise. I make sure to stay in the right lane as soon as I pass, however, because I know how annoying that is. Not having cruise sucks. You find yourself going 5-10 above and below what you want to be doing, which has resulted in a recent speeding ticket for me.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

now the opposite happened to me last night....i wish this guy that kept lifting by me had cologne on because he smelled soooo damn bad of body odor...i had to keep moving it was that bad

I've been on that end, too. Sounds like a shower and some deodorant would fix that haha

 

[kmoose]

Yes!

I went to the Coyotes/Ducks game a couple nights ago and I was in line for a beer as the national anthem started playing. The entire staff, from the guys working the fryers to the ushers, stopped working and walked to the tv monitors and took their hats off and sang the anthem. It was really awesome.

On the opposite side of the spectrum:

I went to a friend of mine's bar, to watch the Steelers/Packers Super Bowl. He lives in a somewhat backwards, redneck, small mountain town in Colorado. The bar was pretty crowded, and the pregame festivities were winding down in preparation for the game. America the Beautiful was being sung by some singer or another, at the stadium. The bar was pretty loud, and some dude stood up on a table right next to me and screamed at the top of his lungs, "SHUT UP DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, A$$HOLES! SHOW SOME RESPECT!" The place quieted down very quickly, and stayed that way for the rest of the song. As soon as the song was over, I leaned over to the guy and very quietly said to him, "America the Beautiful is NOT the National Anthem." The look on his face was priceless.

 

[tadman95]

Healthy people popping up someone else's Handicap placard in their car then making a healthy gate to the door.

Battery powered shopping carts being used by "healthy" overweight people because they are too lazy to get off their *** and walk and shop.

People wearing their pajamas to shop.

Fat people wearing spandex. Uncovered.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Totally agree, although I must admit, I do not have cruise control. I have a baseline model, 200 Chevy Aveo. It's a cheap car but I can't believe a 2005 doesn't have cruise. I make sure to stay in the right lane as soon as I pass, however, because I know how annoying that is. Not having cruise sucks. You find yourself going 5-10 above and below what you want to be doing, which has resulted in a recent speeding ticket for me.

That's fine, at least regarding highway etiquette. If you only use the left lane for passing and keep your speed within about 5-10 mph of your target, you won't be pissing anyone off.

 

[arrowryan]

The morning after a party when people tweet or put on facebook how drunk or high they got. No one gives a ****

 

[ACamp1900]

Cars have blinkers for a reason people... freakin use them.

 

[koonja]

Michigan fans.

 

[dshans]

With regard to driving on the highway, many years ago I heard a cute bit of advice with a built-in pun that stays with me to this day: "Drive Right, Pass Left."

I never use cruise control after dark on a long drive. The last thing I (or other drivers) need is for me to fall asleep while the car barrels along at 70 to 75. Watching the speedometer and making constant adjustments gives me something to do and helps keep me alert and awake. Too many adjustments in too short a time and it's time to stop for coffee or find a Holiday Inn.

Here in the Northland I get pissed when those with four wheel drive assume that it gives them a hall pass on the laws of physics. Weaving in and out, cutting off others at a less than safe distance when it's slick and snowing heavily; all while kicking up slush that coats the windshields of others "blinding" them briefly.

I admit to a bit of schadenfreude when I see these a-holes off the road and in a ditch – all alone and with no one injured.

 

[PANDFAN]

-people sticking up their middle fingers in pictures like they're some badass
-thugs or wanna be thugs
-people who leave an empty role of tp in bathroom
-people that go in and out of jail

my list could go on for days!!!

 

[koonja]

With regard to driving on the highway, many years ago I heard a cute bit of advice with a built-in pun that stays with me to this day: "Drive Right, Pass Left."

I never use cruise control after dark on a long drive. The last thing I (or other drivers) need is for me to fall asleep while the car barrels along at 70 to 75. Watching the speedometer and making constant adjustments gives me something to do and helps keep me alert and awake. Too many adjustments in too short a time and it's time to stop for coffee or find a Holiday Inn.

Here in the Northland I get pissed when those with four wheel drive assume that it gives them a hall pass on the laws of physics. Weaving in and out, cutting off others at a less than safe distance when it's slick and snowing heavily; all while kicking up slush that coats the windshields of others "blinding" them briefly.

I admit to a bit of schadenfreude when I see these a-holes off the road and in a ditch – all alone and with no one injured.

No way you drive that fast, even on the interstate. Be honest, you're in the 60-65 range, lol.