What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Irish Insanity]

What service does he use?

I'm not sure actually. He's not what you would consider on the 'up and up.' Lol.

 

[Irish#1]

When calling a help desk

1. Be ready to reboot your computer even after you did it three times already. Please give no sass back. It's standard.

2. If there is a verification process to be done for changing a password...no sass please just give it.

3. Shut it...and listen. Do what they tell you to do...

4. Read 3.

1. Unless you want them to go into the BIOS, when the customer tells you they have already rebooted multiple times, skip Step 1 and proceed to Step 2.

 

[Black Irish]

People who don't know Metro Rail escalator protocol around here. If you want to stand there and ride, you stand to the right. The left side is like a passing lane; it's for people who want to walk up or down the escalator. Last night a group of people are standing spread all over the down escalator. I come up, say "excuse me," and continue hustling down the escalator. I can hear them bitching behind me "what's the hurry, we're all gonna get there at the same time." And this is a long escalator ride. I get to the platform just as the train is rolling in. I don't think the people who were whining about me passing them made the train. Hey, if you want to wait 18 minutes for the next train because you don't want to move your ass, fine. But don't bitch about people who've got some hustle in their step and don't like to waste time.

 

[wizards8507]

I'm picking up my wife at the train station.

Train stations.

 

[Booslum31]

People who look down at their phones while in line to get on a plane. They try to inch ahead of you as they are pretending to be preoccupied w their phones when it's unclear where exactly the line is and won't look up or look you in the eye.

 

[ACamp1900]

I'm picking up my wife at the train station.

Train stations.

I've never traveled by train... and have only been in one train station... the Victorville CA one and that one has a just fantastic Soul Food joint in it... so train stations have treated me fairly well....

 

[IrishSteelhead]

ESPN spending an entire day talking about Lebron pulling sleeves on his jersey.

 

[JughedJones]

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Fuck you.

I hate this in so many ways.

First: She really doesn't understand that insurance companies might raise your rates if you wrap your new car into a tree within the first five minutes of owning it?

Second: This insurance company is really telling people that they won't raise your rates if you wrap your car around a tree within the first five minutes of owning it?

FUCK YOU!

 

[Irish#1]

Those pesky trees that keep their leaves after most of the other trees have given up the fight and have dropped theirs. It'd be nice to rake no more than once or twice.

 

[JughedJones]

The fact that when you buy a hard drive, it's never the amount of space that's advertised.

Minimum required specs to run a video game are never enough.

As soon as you buy a new video card, it's obsolete in a month.

 

[Irish YJ]

The fact that when you buy a hard drive, it's never the amount of space that's advertised.

Minimum required specs to run a video game are never enough.

Physically it is, just not logically after it is formatted. DDR is what really irritates me. Actually the OS is the villain here not recognizing all available RAM.

 

[JughedJones]

Physically it is, just not logically after it is formatted. DDR is what really irritates me. Actually the OS is the villain here not recognizing all available RAM.

People explaining it logically grinds my gears too.

(I understand 'logically' in the context you used it, please understand mine.)

 

[Irish YJ]

People explaining it logically grinds my gears too.

(I understand 'logically' in the context you used it, please understand mine.)

Nobody understands me. That really grinds my gears.

 

[JughedJones]

Nobody understands me. That really grinds my gears.

now i'm pissed.

 

[Irish#1]

The fact that when you buy a hard drive, it's never the amount of space that's advertised.

Minimum required specs to run a video game are never enough.

As soon as you buy a new video card, it's obsolete in a month.

It's really very simple. Whatever size you want, but a HD twice the size.

 

[wizards8507]

Those pesky trees that keep their leaves after most of the other trees have given up the fight and have dropped theirs. It'd be nice to rake no more than once or twice.

Raking is for suckas.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

Those pesky trees that keep their leaves after most of the other trees have given up the fight and have dropped theirs. It'd be nice to rake no more than once or twice.

Neighbor's trees that hang over my fence to fill my gutters and my yard.

Also, cleaning gutters. Worst ever.

 

[dshans]

Raking is for suckas.

Looks like it's time to chop more wood for the winter that's a'comming.

 

[nvirish]

Bathroom attendants. I can wash my hands and dry them just fine by myself.

 

[ACamp1900]

ESPN spending an entire day talking about Lebron pulling sleeves on his jersey.

I hate the colder months in terms of sports talk radio... I can't believe enough people give a shit about silly ass basketball to validate all the time they spend on it...

 

[Black Irish]

Getting carded when I buy a six pack, even though I have grey whiskers in my beard. I'm not a woman, I don't get flattered by the gratuitous carding when I'm obviously well over 21.

 

[ACamp1900]

Getting carded when I buy a six pack, even though I have grey whiskers in my beard. I'm not a woman, I don't get flattered by the gratuitous carding when I'm obviously well over 21.

For me, it's when I have my kids with me and am checking out at a store that knows me well enough and the checker still asks... Hello, im here every week, you specifically have carded me several times in the last six months, i have teenage children standing right next to me, and a graying beard... Are you freakin serious?

 

[wizards8507]

I hate the colder months in terms of sports talk radio... I can't believe enough people give a shit about silly ass basketball to validate all the time they spend on it...

Basketball has a huge urban following.

Interesting aside: The way television ratings are measured is kind of interesting. Early ratings (such as overnights) are measured only in select markets, generally the biggest city/urban markets. They use those measurements to make a projection about the overall rating for the rest of the country. Most things are pretty proportional, but basketball ratings always end up getting adjusted down from their overnight rating to their final rating because the viewership is highly concentrated in cities. NASCAR, golf, and college football go the opposite direction.

Getting carded when I buy a six pack, even though I have grey whiskers in my beard. I'm not a woman, I don't get flattered by the gratuitous carding when I'm obviously well over 21.

That's pretty funny. I never get carded when I buy alcohol but I laughed out loud when the girl at GameStop carded me for buying an "M" video game the other night. The age for that isn't even 21, it's 17.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

For me, it's when I have my kids with me and am checking out at a store that knows me well enough and the checker still asks... Hello, im here every week, you specifically have carded me several times in the last six months, i have teenage children standing right next to me, and a graying beard... Are you freakin serious?

I was at a chilis in the ft. Myers, FL airport and watched a bartender who may have been 22 turn down a 60 year old man who's wallet was in his luggage that didn't make it to FL.

Dude lost his luggage and now couldn't get a beer.

Prick bartender received no tip from me.
I dont give a shit about company policy, you serve the old guy a beer!

 

[Irish#1]

I was at a chilis in the ft. Myers, FL airport and watched a bartender who may have been 22 turn down a 60 year old man who's wallet was in his luggage that didn't make it to FL.

Dude lost his luggage and now couldn't get a beer.

Prick bartender received no tip from me.
I dont give a shit about company policy, you serve the old guy a beer!

Did you offer to buy him a beer?

 

[Irish#1]

Getting carded when I buy a six pack, even though I have grey whiskers in my beard. I'm not a woman, I don't get flattered by the gratuitous carding when I'm obviously well over 21.

For me, it's when I have my kids with me and am checking out at a store that knows me well enough and the checker still asks... Hello, im here every week, you specifically have carded me several times in the last six months, i have teenage children standing right next to me, and a graying beard... Are you freakin serious?

I don't know about the liquor stores but the grocery stores in Indiana require it because the system requires them to enter a date to validate the sale.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I don't know about the liquor stores but the grocery stores in Indiana require it because the system requires them to enter a date to validate the sale.

It's a judgment call down here. If a bartender knows that TABC is nearby, or if it's an area that frequently gets hit by secret shoppers, you're getting carded.

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[Andy in Sactown]

The fact that when you buy a hard drive, it's never the amount of space that's advertised.

It's actually the hard drive companies getting away with some marketing murder. Some time in the way-back-when days, the marketing fucks started calling 1000 bytes a megabyte; which any first year computer science student will tell you is bullshit (it's powers of 2 people, a MB is 1024 bytes). A slight of hand so they can sell you a "80 GB" drive, but once formated (which does not change the size one fucking bit-- litterally, bit) winds up being 74 GB. Problem with that little maneuver is it scales over time. That brand new 2TB drive from Amazon? 1.8TB (90% of advertised).. why? BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING 1.8TB. People not realizing this shit has been going on for almost 20 years and still bitching about it like it's some great fucking revelation? Really grinds my gears.

People explaining it logically grinds my gears too.

(I understand 'logically' in the context you used it, please understand mine.)

Well, fuck me.

The amount of space lost to file systems relative to formating is negligible. Always has been. It's the marketing that fucks this up. You think NTFS needed 200GB to handle the other 1.8TB? Blaming formating is a cop out. It's like saying, "oh, it says 2 on the box and I formatted and it's only 1.8. Must have formatted away 200GB (which never fucking existed)." Fuck.

Physically it is, just not logically after it is formatted. DDR is what really irritates me. Actually the OS is the villain here not recognizing all available RAM.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Outside of 32-bit Operating Systems not being able to address more than 3.5GB of RAM (address space/numbers game) you totally lost me there. That's kind of an antiquated problemo.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Did you offer to buy him a beer?

He had cash, he just didn't have his ID.

 

[tadman95]

I hate the colder months in terms of sports talk radio... I can't believe enough people give a shit about silly ass basketball to validate all the time they spend on it...

Basketball is what they play waiting for football.