What grinds your gears?

[gbruin]

The fact that girls are so unpredictable and I'll never understand how their minds work.

Good. Once you accept that and just do your honest best and don't expect anything in return, you're on exactly the right path.

[zazthespaz]

......and now I've got COVID.

That sucks man, hope it's not too bad. Take the time to relax as much as possible as long as you've got to quarantine!

[Crumbso]

Cheers guys. I'm surviving. I'm still too ill and positive to go to the Devin Townsend gig tonight

I've had that booked for months.

[SHEAKENBAKEN]

Having to deal with credit card fraud for the 2nd time in 1 year.

[gbruin]

The NHL Department of "Player Safety" is the biggest joke in professional sports. Parros needs to be unemployed yesterday. Their behavior seriously calls into question the legitimacy of the sport. F those guys.

[Dan Dando]

Car adverts that show cars on completely empty roads should be banned. False advertising

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[zazthespaz]

Car adverts that show cars on completely empty roads should be banned. False advertising

The ds would probably be more effective if they showed someone sitting in traffic playing games on the touch screen

[Addicted To Pain]

Finals.

[zazthespaz]

Electricity plan sellers in retail stores. There's a company in my Walmart that sets themselves up in a high traffic area and they grab me 50% of the time (today I was behind some clothes racks trying to avoid them and they came over to me!). I've told them I'm not interested but they find a way to spin my words and pull out their clipboards and show me how they can write dollar signs on a whiteboard. (literally what they do) What really irritates me though is they say "Your electricity company typically sends you an email with your bill, why don't you pull out your phone so we can look?" No. Eat poop.

[Dan Dando]

Electricity plan sellers in retail stores. There's a company in my Walmart that sets themselves up in a high traffic area and they grab me 50% of the time (today I was behind some clothes racks trying to avoid them and they came over to me!). I've told them I'm not interested but they find a way to spin my words and pull out their clipboards and show me how they can write dollar signs on a whiteboard. (literally what they do) What really irritates me though is they say "Your electricity company typically sends you an email with your bill, why don't you pull out your phone so we can look?" No. Eat poop.

You need to start faking telephone conversations

[zazthespaz]

Electricity plan sellers in retail stores. There's a company in my Walmart that sets themselves up in a high traffic area and they grab me 50% of the time (today I was behind some clothes racks trying to avoid them and they came over to me!). I've told them I'm not interested but they find a way to spin my words and pull out their clipboards and show me how they can write dollar signs on a whiteboard. (literally what they do) What really irritates me though is they say "Your electricity company typically sends you an email with your bill, why don't you pull out your phone so we can look?" No. Eat poop.

You need to start faking telephone conversations

I keep telling myself I should tell them I'm already a customer but for some reason that never comes to mind when I'm there Maybe I'll default to the phone conversations instead

[TenaciousBe]

Electricity plan sellers in retail stores. There's a company in my Walmart that sets themselves up in a high traffic area and they grab me 50% of the time (today I was behind some clothes racks trying to avoid them and they came over to me!). I've told them I'm not interested but they find a way to spin my words and pull out their clipboards and show me how they can write dollar signs on a whiteboard. (literally what they do) What really irritates me though is they say "Your electricity company typically sends you an email with your bill, why don't you pull out your phone so we can look?" No. Eat poop.

This.... this is a thing? Isn't that considered soliciting and/or loitering? Or is it sanctioned by Walmart somehow? I'm so confused about how this is legal or allowed.

[zazthespaz]

Electricity plan sellers in retail stores. There's a company in my Walmart that sets themselves up in a high traffic area and they grab me 50% of the time (today I was behind some clothes racks trying to avoid them and they came over to me!). I've told them I'm not interested but they find a way to spin my words and pull out their clipboards and show me how they can write dollar signs on a whiteboard. (literally what they do) What really irritates me though is they say "Your electricity company typically sends you an email with your bill, why don't you pull out your phone so we can look?" No. Eat poop.

This.... this is a thing? Isn't that considered soliciting and/or loitering? Or is it sanctioned by Walmart somehow? I'm so confused about how this is legal or allowed.

They're there frequently enough and obviously enough that I assume they've been given permission by Walmart to set up shop, so to speak. It's not some corporate shadow op

New gripe: People who leave reviews on Google for apartments when all they did was tour the place. "Rafael gave a great tour, give him a raise! 5 stars!" F off, you're skewing the data that's actually important. I don't look at Google reviews for apartments to see how great of a tour I can get, I look at the reviews to see what living there is going to be like. It's easy to weed them out, but I don't get the logic behind people doing that (aside from employees trying to improve their scores probably). That's like going to a restaurant and leaving a 5 star review only because the host smiled and said both hello and goodbye. Great, but how was the food?

[cheesedip1]

@Zaz

I agree with you. It’s the same for idiots that leave 5 out of 5 star reviews on the 2003 cat in the hat movie on RT as a joke. They put stuff like: “This movie is the best ever! When the cat said “it’s catting time! I clapped!”.

Idiots! Stop ruining the data! If those dumb idiots want to post dishonest movie reviews/comments like that just go to YouTube. Stop skewing the RT review data.

Also another thing that bothers me is the stupid term butt rock. It’s just some dumb slang word that ppl came up with that means a song sucks or is generic or you don’t like it.

It’s dumb. Just say that you think the song sucks like a normal person.

[TenaciousBe]

12 year old girl hormones. I thought the sitcom trope of the teenage girl who gets set off and screams bloody murder over the smallest thing was a joke.

It's no joke, y'all. Send help.

[Crumbso]

12 year old girl hormones. I thought the sitcom trope of the teenage girl who gets set off and screams bloody murder over the smallest thing was a joke.

It's no joke, y'all. Send help.

Batten down the hatches until she's 18! This teenage ride doesn't stop for anyone.

[gbruin]

^^^ Truth.

It's a lot like driving a crappy jeep road through the Rocky Mountains - you need to keep your eyes tight to the road for all the boulders and ruts and edges and dropoffs, but don't forget to stop and take in the amazing scenery that's out there too. One can get so caught up looking forward to the end of teenage years that you forget to enjoy the good and exciting times (new schools, friends, prom, dates, events, driving, etc) along the way. Just know that's it's normal, support your daughter (and Lisa and yourself) the best you can, and know that this is a part of the road unlike any other. And it goes by a lot faster than you think.

And cocktails when everyone else has gone to bed. Those help too.

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