What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Irishbounty28]

People that chat on equipment in the gym forever between sets, when there are others waiting to use said piece of equipment.

 

[Bishop2b5]

I hate when it when I'm approaching a construction zone and there are signs everywhere telling people that a lane is ending and to merge, most of the people do so gradually so that everyone can keep rolling along at a steady speed, but a handful of jackwads decide they're too special to merge and wait in line like everyone else, so they just stay in the ending lane, speed up and run to the front of the line past everyone else, and then barge their way in at the front, causing everyone behind them to have to stop. I want to drag them out of their car and ask them how they'd feel if they'd waited in line at the movie theater for 20 minutes, then someone else decided they were so special that they shouldn't have to wait and just walked to the front of the line and elbowed their way in, then say, "Well, that's what you just did." I don't normally have road rage about anything, but that seriously chaps my butt and makes me want to take a tire iron to someone... or at least to their car!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I hate when it when I'm approaching a construction zone and there are signs everywhere telling people that a lane is ending and to merge, most of the people do so gradually so that everyone can keep rolling along at a steady speed, but a handful of jackwads decide they're too special to merge and wait in line like everyone else, so they just stay in the ending lane, speed up and run to the front of the line past everyone else, and then barge their way in at the front, causing everyone behind them to have to stop. I want to drag them out of their car and ask them how they'd feel if they'd waited in line at the movie theater for 20 minutes, then someone else decided they were so special that they shouldn't have to wait and just walked to the front of the line and elbowed their way in, then say, "Well, that's what you just did." I don't normally have road rage about anything, but that seriously chaps my butt and makes me want to take a tire iron to someone... or at least to their car!

It pisses me off too, Bishop, but I recently learned that late merging is actually the most efficient way to reduce backup, and it's required by law in some countries:

In traffic engineering, the late merge or zipper method is a convention for merging traffic into a reduced number of lanes. Drivers in merging lanes are expected to use both lanes to advance to the lane reduction point and merge at that location, alternating turns.

The late merge method contrasts with the early merge method. A related scheme is the dynamic late merge.

The late merge method has not been found to increase throughput (throughput is the number of vehicles that pass through a point in a given period of time). However, it considerably reduces queue ("backup") length (because drivers use the ending lane until its end) and reduces speed differences between the two lanes, increasing safety.

Governments hold campaigns to promote the late merge method because irritation, aggression and feelings of insecurity easily occur while "zipping". Often because drivers who change lanes too early, don't like to see other drivers continue until the end of the drop-away lane. Even though this late merging is the behavior all drivers should show. In countries like Austria and Germany, a driver must actually use the late merge by law, where a traffic sign so indicates.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

How Directv makes the Sunday ticket package an "all or nothing" package. I can't watch every team play on Sunday, I just want to watch MY team, damnit!
Why can't they offer a single team package!?...................package!

 

[IrishinTN]

How Directv makes the Sunday ticket package an "all or nothing" package. I can't watch every team play on Sunday, I just want to watch MY team, damnit!
Why can't they offer a single team package!?...................package!

I have wanted this for years! Same with NHL and MLB! They need to get their crap together.

 

[Black Irish]

When functioning alcoholic bar regulars keep telling you the same lame jokes and dull stories over and over while you are watching the clock and dying to close up and go home.

 

[Eddie.Smith Irish]

Guntersville, Ala., post office shut down by package leaking K-Y gel

Screw everything else.... That chick has a "Happy Trail". She more hairy than my dog. Holy Cripes.

 

[NDinFL]

How Directv makes the Sunday ticket package an "all or nothing" package. I can't watch every team play on Sunday, I just want to watch MY team, damnit!
Why can't they offer a single team package!?...................package!

The title of your name!

Ahhhhhhh

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Unrealistic expectations for this season.

 

[Irish#1]

Semi drivers who decide to block both lanes when two lanes are going to merge. First they are breaking the law and second they just make the traffic back up even more.

 

[Booslum31]

People looking at their cell phones while cutting ahead of you at the gate getting on a plane.

 

[Rack Em]

Women who talk.

 

[dshans]

OK, I'll play along.

Putz's who post ... myself included.

 

[Irish Insanity]

Reading a thread about a great burger after I get done eating one from Wendy's

 

[Black Irish]

People who eat hot dogs or burgers without the bun. Man up and eat some carbs.

 

[Cackalacky]

Sandy vaginas

 

[Wild Bill]

Sandy vaginas

They're the worst.

 

[Irish#1]

Buying a can of chocolate covered pecans only to find that the pecan inside is just a little crumb and the chocolate is as artificial as it gets.

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

I hate when I get a combo meal and they barely fill up the little bag with fries.

 

[ACamp1900]

Fast Food Mexican joints that claim to be authentic...

 

[Irish YJ]

Republicans and Democrats, that is all.

 

[blueNDgold44]

Bandwagon hockey fans who don't even know what icing is

 

[ACamp1900]

I was at a Ducks game the year after they won the cup... I forget who exactly but someone for the Ducks scores on a break away and this guy near me tells his lady, " Oh, what a goal! That was a hat trick... Beautiful hat trick... Did you see that?!? Awesome play, total hat trick..."


It was the first goal of the game.

 

[greyhammer90]

I was at a Ducks game the year after they won the cup... I forget who exactly but someone for the Ducks scores on a break away and this guy near me tells his lady, " Oh, what a goal! That was a hat trick... Beautiful hat trick... Did you see that?!? Awesome play, total hat trick..."


It was the first goal of the game.

I'm not the worlds biggest hockey fan by any means, but that just makes me want to kick that guys *ss.

 

[Irish YJ]

 

[Black Irish]

Bandwagon hockey fans who don't even know what icing is

I didn't know that the awesome stuff on top of cake had anything to do with hockey. Well, you learn something new every day.

 

[Kanye West]

I was at a Ducks game the year after they won the cup... I forget who exactly but someone for the Ducks scores on a break away and this guy near me tells his lady, " Oh, what a goal! That was a hat trick... Beautiful hat trick... Did you see that?!? Awesome play, total hat trick..."


It was the first goal of the game.

I like people that say that the first line should play the entire game, and claim to be die hards. Actually all "diehards" that know nothing suck.

 

[Emcee77]

Bandwagon hockey fans who don't even know what icing is

Seriously. I mean, they look like jackasses, and I get tired of explaining it. Bandwagon fans, do everyone a favor and use Wikipedia next time you don't know a basic rule of the game, instead of asking me.

ACamp's thing is way worse though.

 

[NDohio]

I was at a Ducks game the year after they won the cup... I forget who exactly but someone for the Ducks scores on a break away and this guy near me tells his lady, " Oh, what a goal! That was a hat trick... Beautiful hat trick... Did you see that?!? Awesome play, total hat trick..."


It was the first goal of the game.

Did the guy throw his hat on the ice? That would have been classic.

 

[ACamp1900]

Living in the 'economic cesspool' that is California,... the bandwagon thing KILLS me... ran into a buddy from high school this past weekend at a BBQ... dude has ALWAYS been a Yankee fan(of corse they were constantly winning during this time)... during our catchup session this guy dropped a 'we' with the Dodgers... I called him out and he claimed to have never at any point been a Yankee fan... ugh

the USC (during the Bush era mostly) thing was the worst though... I can't count how many times I'd go to a bar with my ND gear and have some idiot start talking **** and claim to be a 'life-long SC fan"... I'd usually ask them who their QB was before Lienart (really easy freaking Q for a lifer) or who was their coach before Petey... ALMOST every f'in time... crickets...

It's not the bandwagon jumping that rubs me wrong, it's the fact that most bandwagoners seem to insist on talking **** while claiming to be lifers... to me, you have to earn a right to talk trash... yep.

there's my gear grinding... BS bandwagon fans who talk smack then disappear once said bandwagon team falls back to earth...