What Really Grinds Your Gears?

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Yes. And if you absolutely have to go to the gym together, go to separate areas and do different stuff. There's a couple in my complex that goes to the gym together, they do the same workout together, and they make out half the time. It's absurd.

would it be absurd if it was all those things less the making out?
 

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Like 99 percent of small dogs. We loved our Mackie girl bulldog but she passed away this fall… anyway my mom is having us dog sit for a few days and she has this super annoying poodle-mut thing that is like 3 thousand years old and damnit this thing won’t shut tf up,.. all night long, barking, whimpering, yelping scratching and now it’s morning and it still won’t stop. I swear these small breeds should just be collectively euthanized…

Rasputin thinks you will feel very bad when they eventually find Timmy dead in the well he fell in.
 
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solid second post - welcome to IE BAD LANDS may you find your non-catholic women along you life journey!
 

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We're look for a PC Support Help Desk technician. My guy who has responsibility for the position posted on Indeed and set up three interviews. One of the interviews was for today at 1:00. No show, no call, no message on Indeed. Send a text to them asking if they are coming and no reply. :banghead2:
 

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We're look for a PC Support Help Desk technician. My guy who has responsibility for the position posted on Indeed and set up three interviews. One of the interviews was for today at 1:00. No show, no call, no message on Indeed. Send a text to them asking if they are coming and no reply. :banghead2:

Would I be allowed to spend countless hours on IE in between "urgent" calls?
 

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These parents who let their kids go on their tablets non stop all meal long at a restaurant and the tablet is as full feckin blast. Dude, your kid throwing a fit can’t be more irritating than that bullshit tablet blaring as loud as it is. If your not gonna parent your kid at all at least get them some headphones!!!
 

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I've recently noticed an uptick in article titles that use phrases such as savage, brutal, devastating, shocking, stunning, and so on. 99% are nothing of the kind. It's a gross misuse of the words to use them to describe something that isn't even remotely close to being shocking or savage. I saw something recently about Paul McCartney getting savagely insulted. The story, though, was about a 20-something waitress who simply didn't recognize him. Savage? Give me a break. Another was about some sportscaster's brutally honest comment about Tom Brady. Turned out his comment was nothing more than him agreeing that Brady was the GOAT. Stop the madness with the overblown clickbait article titles.
 

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Sensationalism sells my friend. The downfall of society has been, and will continue to be, the power of social media and the internet. When clicks get you paid, the headline matters more than the substance of the article.
 

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Sensationalism sells my friend. The downfall of society has been, and will continue to be, the power of social media and the internet. When clicks get you paid, the headline matters more than the substance of the article.
Irishbounty28 predicts the internet will cause the end of the world and the destruction of all humanity! Savage!!! Click below for the shocking full story!
 

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You want to know what grinds Rasputin's gears?

Bean Sprout Barbie grinds Rasputin's gears. She shows up at Rasputin's favorite steak house and makes a loud scene because of the lack of vegan choices on the menu. Hey Beetroot, it's a STEAK house. It says "STEAK" right in the restaurant's name. What did you think was on the menu?

Tell you what. When your little vegan hotspot puts a Brontosaurus burger with a side of hoof on its menu for Rasputin, Rasputin will get behind your little protest movement. Until then, quietly walk your emaciated frame out the door and leave Rasputin to his feedbag.

More meat!

Rasputin out.
 

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Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Browner and Fry combat veteran
seen two world Cup finals and goats copulate

Has been to the penthouse
has been to the outhouse

grind my gears? Who, What?

Your humble Snowflake melter
 

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Do you lick the toads, or do you scrape their back and ingest the hallucinogens another way?
 

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Sitting in the turn lane waiting for traffic to clear. Light turns yellow and I wait for the cars to stop just to be sure. Lights red and I proceed. Out of nowhere comes some idiot that runs the red light big time. Hit my brakes in time that he missed me by a foot or two, but it was way to close.
 

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People that don't understand the concept of a zipper merge, and get mad at those that do.

There is a stop light about a quarter mile from my work on a local highway. The stop light is a merge point, because there is an exit from a major highway onto the local highway at the light, so three lanes have to quickly merge to two lanes. They force the two to merge at the stop light, that way the major highway traffic has a clear runway into the other lane another quarter mile down the road.

So naturally, everyone coming from my direction should split into the two lanes at the stop light when it's red, then zipper-merge when it turns green. This keeps the flow moving, and everyone gets to start rolling at the same time as they take turns merging while moving, and avoids the snake-style, stop-and-go delay that a single lane provides when each individual car has to wait on the one in front of it.

I will usually pick the right lane, along with everyone else that works in our little business park area, because it gets you through faster if the cars in the left lane know that you are supposed to merge. But every day, there is someone in the left lane that is mad at people in the right lane for 'skipping' the line, as if it's an issue of morality and waiting in the miserable stop-and-go line with everyone else is the right thing to do.

And look, I get the idea of sharing in collective misery! I'm a Notre Dame football fan! But we don't NEED to share in this collective misery! Instead of getting aggressive and boxing me out when it's supposed to be my turn, and forcing me into the traffic dividers, or forcing the car behind you to deal with letting me in... just merge normally! I promise I'm not trying to line jump. I'm trying to use the traffic flow in the logically intended way. You shouldn't be throwing your hands up in the rearview or gesturing aggressively at me because I know how this works.



(Do I sound too pretentious about traffic flow?)
 

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People that don't understand the concept of a zipper merge, and get mad at those that do.

There is a stop light about a quarter mile from my work on a local highway. The stop light is a merge point, because there is an exit from a major highway onto the local highway at the light, so three lanes have to quickly merge to two lanes. They force the two to merge at the stop light, that way the major highway traffic has a clear runway into the other lane another quarter mile down the road.

So naturally, everyone coming from my direction should split into the two lanes at the stop light when it's red, then zipper-merge when it turns green. This keeps the flow moving, and everyone gets to start rolling at the same time as they take turns merging while moving, and avoids the snake-style, stop-and-go delay that a single lane provides when each individual car has to wait on the one in front of it.

I will usually pick the right lane, along with everyone else that works in our little business park area, because it gets you through faster if the cars in the left lane know that you are supposed to merge. But every day, there is someone in the left lane that is mad at people in the right lane for 'skipping' the line, as if it's an issue of morality and waiting in the miserable stop-and-go line with everyone else is the right thing to do.

And look, I get the idea of sharing in collective misery! I'm a Notre Dame football fan! But we don't NEED to share in this collective misery! Instead of getting aggressive and boxing me out when it's supposed to be my turn, and forcing me into the traffic dividers, or forcing the car behind you to deal with letting me in... just merge normally! I promise I'm not trying to line jump. I'm trying to use the traffic flow in the logically intended way. You shouldn't be throwing your hands up in the rearview or gesturing aggressively at me because I know how this works.



(Do I sound too pretentious about traffic flow?)
just drink your coffee and do your job dude gosh
 

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just drink your coffee and do your job dude gosh
Ironically, I'm drinking my large iced coffee from Dunkin' while at work, waiting on a collision damage estimate to upload to my management system... I guess I should be happy that people don't know how to merge, and would rather wreck their cars in fits of road rage instead.
 

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Lying ass liar. If everyone is waiting their turn in the left lane and you’re flying past forty cars to ‘zip’ in then you’re an asshole,… lol
I'm an asshole getting home 15 minutes earlier than the bozos who don't understand basic traffic principles, waiting on two or three extra stoplight cycles for no reason.

ZIPPER MERGE.

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irish lion just cruising town wrecklessly every day for job security
 

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I'm an asshole getting home 15 minutes earlier than the bozos who don't understand basic traffic principles, waiting on two or three extra stoplight cycles for no reason.

ZIPPER MERGE.

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Lol if you’re literally the only person on the road doing it then yeah,… lol
 

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Lol if you’re literally the only person on the road doing it then yeah,… lol
I’m not though! Most people get it, because they’re familiar with the highway and how the lanes collapse, but there’s always the one guy that ignores the established merge pattern and cuts you off or rides you into the reflectors when it’s your turn, even when he sees that everyone else is taking turns
 

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I’m not though! Most people get it, because they’re familiar with the highway and how the lanes collapse, but there’s always the one guy that ignores the established merge pattern and cuts you off or rides you into the reflectors when it’s your turn, even when he sees that everyone else is taking turns
If both lanes are full then yeah, one at a time,… if the left lane is stopped and the right lane has like four cars going full speed until it’s time to cut in those in the right lane deserve death
 
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