What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Bishop2b5]

I personally believe that Thanksgiving should be it's own Holiday Season.

We should be putting up cutout turkeys made from hand tracings, and putting pilgrim hats on our bookshelves and fireplace mantles, and cornucopias in the center of every table and countertop, and every day should have a celebratory meal that prepares us for the impending Thanksgiving feast.

We should have Thanksgiving music on the radio, where we sing about falling into chemically-induced naps from tryptophan, or sitting in awkward silence after your mom and your uncle fight at the table about politics, or about how the Thanksgiving football games are actually kind of shitty.

Then, when we've appropriately celebrated our gluttony with Thanksgiving Day itself, AND ONLY THEN, should we remove the last of our Fall decorations to embrace the winter season.

After all, Christmas decorations are winter decorations, and NOVEMBER IS NOT WINTER.

This to the nth degree! I'm a Thanksgiving lover. It's my favorite holiday of the year. Christmas needs to keep its over-commercialized self completely out of sight until I wake up from my turkey and baked mac & cheese coma on Friday. I don't want to think about Christmas or see any Christmas decorations until Thanksgiving is over.

 

[ACamp1900]

Marrying my lovely wife has opened me up to the greatest of Thanksgiving traditions, tons of tons of this:

 

[IrishLion]

Marrying my lovely wife has opened me up to the greatest of Thanksgiving traditions, tons of tons of this:

Are those actual egg rolls of some sort, or the "Thanksgiving Leftovers" egg roll hack.

 

[ACamp1900]

Are those actual egg rolls of some sort, or the "Thanksgiving Leftovers" egg roll hack.

Filipino lumpia... kind of like their egg rolls but way better than 'egg rolls'... so freaking good.

 

[Ndaccountant]

Marrying my lovely wife has opened me up to the greatest of Thanksgiving traditions, tons of tons of this:

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After the steak and BJ discussion, thought this was going to turn into other innuendos, something like "November Tuesday turkey stuffing" or something like that. Maybe next time.

 

[ACamp1900]

I'm honestly surprised Steak and BJ Thursdays was such a shocking thing for most of you. I totally thought it was like a known thing.... guess not.

 

[ACamp1900]

...for real though lumpia is life.

 

[Ndaccountant]

I'm honestly surprised Steak and BJ Thursdays was such a shocking thing for most of you. I totally thought it was like a known thing.... guess not.

I personally got a kick out of the casualness in which it was conveyed. As for the situation itself, I am amused that it revolves around steak, for comedic sake.

 

[GowerND11]

...for real though lumpia is life.

So one of my high school friends married a guy (John) who is 2nd generation Filipino. They're living in NYC, and decide, with a child on the way, to move back to our hometown. For their son's birthday last year, his parents come up from Texas. John's mom makes lumpa for the party. I look at it, ask John what is it. He exclaims, "Dude, it's lumpia! You are going to love it. Make sure you dip it in the sauce." He was right. I think I ate about 40 of them...

 

[ACamp1900]

So one of my high school friends married a guy (John) who is 2nd generation Filipino. They're living in NYC, and decide, with a child on the way, to move back to our hometown. For their son's birthday last year, his parents come up from Texas. John's mom makes lumpa for the party. I look at it, ask John what is it. He exclaims, "Dude, it's lumpia! You are going to love it. Make sure you dip it in the sauce." He was right. I think I ate about 40 of them...

'They are like Filipino egg rolls' doesn't do them justice at all but if you've never had there is no other way to really describe them... they're so good, especially with that sauce. We have them often enough already but they are definitively a Thanksgiving staple in our family for sure.

 

[GowerND11]

'They are like Filipino egg rolls' doesn't do them justice at all but if you've never had there is no other way to really describe them... they're so good, especially with that sauce. We have them often enough already but they are definitively a Thanksgiving staple in our family for sure.

Agreed. They had a different texture, taste, etc. Everything about them was different, other than looking like miniature egg rolls.

 

[ACamp1900]

Lechon with that all purpose brown sauce they throw on meats is another Thanksgiving tradition with us... very good too. Replaced the age old honey ham years ago.

 

[ACamp1900]

Why can't they make a powdered doughnut that doesn't make you look like this afterwards:

 

[Irish#1]

Filipino lumpia... kind of like their egg rolls but way better than 'egg rolls'... so freaking good.

They're even better in the food thread.

 

[ACamp1900]

They're even better in the food thread.

Every thread is better as a food thread....

 

[Black Irish]

On Election Day, the candidates or political operatives who stand outside the polling place to get in that one last "Vote For Me!" plug bug the shite out of me. How many people are taking the time out to go vote, after being pummeled with political ads, text messages, spam calls, billboards, Facebook screeds from their unhinged & politically obsessed friends and still have no freaking idea who to vote for?! If a firm handshake and fake, used car salesman's smile is all it takes to win someone's vote then take that person's voting rights away from him and give it to someone more deserving. Like a convicted money launderer. I can't wait for the madness to be over.

 

[MNIrishman]

How some of our fans on other forums are just absolute cucks. "Michigan is better than we are. We'd lose if we played today." And that bastard on his knees for Stanford on the Cardboard. We're Notre fucking Dame, dammit. Show some pride.

 

[Rack Em]

How some of our fans on other forums are just absolute cucks. "Michigan is better than we are. We'd lose if we played today." And that bastard on his knees for Stanford on the Cardboard. We're Notre fucking Dame, dammit. Show some pride.

 

[NDRock]

How some of our fans on other forums are just absolute cucks. "Michigan is better than we are. We'd lose if we played today." And that bastard on his knees for Stanford on the Cardboard. We're Notre fucking Dame, dammit. Show some pride.

Honestly, don't understand the need to hang out on other teams boards all the time. I guess I get the two Bama fans that are here as they are able to put together complete sentences. Probably frustrating for them to post on a Bama board. I assume most Bama boards have fonts that looks like crayons or just emojis to pick from. "Me happy, Bama good, Go buy new tires for my home".

 

[GowerND11]

How some of our fans on other forums are just absolute cucks. "Michigan is better than we are. We'd lose if we played today." And that bastard on his knees for Stanford on the Cardboard. We're Notre fucking Dame, dammit. Show some pride.

Agreed. That asshat on the Cardboard is a damn eunuch. If you want to go on another team's board and have open discussions about the teams, and whatnot, go right ahead. Be cordial and enjoy your time there if you want. But don't bow down to the other team acting the ND is really just bad and you aren't even worthy of their board. GTFO.

 

[ACamp1900]

I stay away... only a couple groups on Facebook and that’s bad enough

 

[Irish#1]

Having to change the time of a business flight only to be told, you have to book a new reservation and eat the cost of the first one. Thinking I'll be smart, I look into buying just a one way and keeping my original ticket using the original return flight. I'm told if I don't use the original flight out, my return flight is automatically canceled. No wonder airlines have terrible reputations.

 

[Irish#1]

After dutifully removing my shoes, emptying my pockets to pass through security, I get to my gate only to find my flight is delayed. Ugh!

 

[GowerND11]

When a car is pulled off to the shoulder on the highway with it's four-ways on (hazards for you non-PA folk), and other cars do not get over into the passing lane when there is plenty of room. The guy is changing his tire, and your driving by going 70 buzzing him.

 

[ACamp1900]

When a person acts annoyed because you kept contacting them asking for confirmation of an appointment that has never once been confirmed on their end. I have a pretty important off site appointment tomorrow and have called the other end numerous times and left numerous messages trying to confirm this thing. I finally get the PoC on the phone and they are noticeably annoyed with my persistence and stated very rudely how they received my 'numerous messages' and have had everything ready to go for days now.... Bitch, ONE CALL BACK was all it would have taken from your offices to confirm this thing so I wouldn't have to worry about taking time off work to drive half way across the valley for nothing. Return a damned phone call!

 

[MNIrishman]

Having to change the time of a business flight only to be told, you have to book a new reservation and eat the cost of the first one. Thinking I'll be smart, I look into buying just a one way and keeping my original ticket using the original return flight. I'm told if I don't use the original flight out, my return flight is automatically canceled. No wonder airlines have terrible reputations.

This is just the worst and should be illegal. I paid for it and whether or not I choose to use part of it should have no bearing on whether I choose to use the other part.

 

[ACamp1900]

IDK if grinding my gears really fits but def an odd curiosity.... do people (usually females) actually think those aps that contort your face and make you look like a some half alienoid or that puts puppy ears on your head and sparkles in your eyes is cool and or pretty?? It's disturbing and moronic... but some people do it constantly like it's the greatest thing ever... I'm clearly missing something.

 

[Bishop2b5]

A young woman (mid-20's?) pulled out RIGHT in front of me today and I had to lock it up and dodge her. I blew my horn at her so she decided to flip me off as if I'm the ass in this situation. If she'd just given me the "Oops, my bad. Sorry" wave I'd have been fine (we've all done something stupid while driving), but her attitude was, "Screw you for blowing your horn and not liking that I nearly wrecked us both."

 

[NDRock]

When a car is pulled off to the shoulder on the highway with it's four-ways on (hazards for you non-PA folk), and other cars do not get over into the passing lane when there is plenty of room. The guy is changing his tire, and your driving by going 70 buzzing him.

Yeah, it's the same way driving an emergency vehicle. People don't move over, it's like they've never seen lights and sirens behind them. Weird part is older folks are generally the worst. I would think they would have more experience as they have been driving longer.

 

[Irish YJ]

people who bag on the US and have zero clue about global conditions. recently a person (think young, TDS, a year or so out of college) was criticizing everything US, and asked why we couldn't be more stable like the Europeans. I ask the person if they knew what Brexit was, if they knew Macron had a sub 30% approval, Germany was a mess and Merkel was on her way out, and that Italy and Greece were financial wrecks. The response..., "well what about Ireland" lol...