What grinds your gears ?

[shiftytigger]

if they are taking action to prove a point and get someone to admit they were legally right or wrong then they probably don't need the money. Meaning that the principle fought for and won was not motivated by the need for financial gain. therefore any 'damages' awarded are irrelevant to the victory. its their victory,their winnings I care neither way - simply noting that it could have been an option.

[shiftytigger]

What grinds my gears - City Link.

Anyone who claims to be a 'logistics' company but fails to communicate to the customer that their 'next day' service ACTUALLY means when they can be bothered. Have had heated exchange with them twice already - now being at the end of the second day I have waited in for collection.

If (more likely when) this fails today I will have to resort to *shudder* Royal Mail.

[psj3809]

its their victory,their winnings I care neither way - simply noting that it could have been an option.

Some of them might do that. Thing is they cant win, if they give a chunk to charity and make it public then people will think 'yeah yeah look at him getting brownie points, no doubt got a new film coming out or something', i'm sure a few will give donations. If they dont create a fuss about giving donations then people will think 'tight g!t, should give it to charity' etc !

Look at Jeremy Beadle, no one knew how much he had actually raised/given to charity till after he died because he didnt create a huge fuss about it when he was doing it

[DreamcastRIP]

its their victory,their winnings I care neither way - simply noting that it could have been an option.

Some of them might do that. Thing is they cant win, if they give a chunk to charity and make it public then people will think 'yeah yeah look at him getting brownie points, no doubt got a new film coming out or something', i'm sure a few will give donations. If they dont create a fuss about giving donations then people will think 'tight g!t, should give it to charity' etc !

It is precisely that kind of mentality you've mentioned which so utterly depresses me about living in the UK these days. It seems the people of this country are ever more keen to spout their hate filled opinions in the judgement of others. Whether it's people gossiping in person or internet keyboard warriors these types just can't wait to make spiteful, petty and often misguided negative remarks about others. It truly makes me sick.

[sscott]

I've wondered whether these posts will still be in cyberspace long after we're all dead? I was born, I lived, hated and died. What grinds my gears, the absolute blink of an eye of our existance before our demise. And to think, I had a decent day at work overall.

[pratty]

What grinds my gears, the absolute blink of an eye of our existance before our demise. And to think, I had a decent day at work overall.

Indeed. I often grind my gears when I think about time I feel I've wasted I've wasted, especially as it's my own fault.

The uncertainty of of what happens to our soul when we die doesn't help. On the one hand you have the possibility that our single life is all the conscious experience we'll have, and so life and every second of it is precious. But equally a single life is but a drop in an endless ocean so what does it matter, perhaps life shouldn't be taken so seriously (I mean what you do with it, not the preservation of it)? I guess it's about finding a balance.

Maybe when we die our soul will continue and maybe even be reborn, and so in that sense there is no death. But even if that's the case, our attachment to ourselves (and loved ones), combined with the uncertantly of our deaths and the relative shortness of our lives, does seem quite cruel.

[SJ_Sathanas]

I've wondered whether these posts will still be in cyberspace long after we're all dead? I was born, I lived, hated and died. What grinds my gears, the absolute blink of an eye of our existance before our demise. And to think, I had a decent day at work overall.

Ha, I've often found myself contemplating the effect of ones actions and how it's deminished over time. Even the every best or the very worst of people, I'm talking the Einsteins, the Hitlers, etc, given enough time nobody will care what they did, even if it takes 100s of years. So what chance has an ordinary dude got ?

I've had a reasonable day at work too. Wouldn't go as far as to say a good day...

[QuantumCrayons]

What grinds my gears currently is how damned tired I am all the time. No matter what time I sleep and wake at, I'm always exhausted by around 6pm, making evening meetings end in me falling asleep on people.

[greenberet79]

I remember an astronaut saying that when he was on the Moon he put his hand up and blocked out the Earth - everything we knew, everything anyone had ever achieved, all the people and animals that had lived since the planet was created - he blocked it all out with the palm of his hand.

If the Earth disappeared overnight, nobody would miss it. The history of mankind wouldn't have mattered a jot.

Makes you think. The front page headline of The Sun (I saw it in the shop, would never buy it) yesterday was GIRL EATS 5000 WASHING UP SPONGES.

People have got their priorities all wrong if that's the biggest story they wanted to run.

[greenberet79]

Ha, I've often found myself contemplating the effect of ones actions and how it's deminished over time. Even the every best or the very worst of people, I'm talking the Einsteins, the Hitlers, etc, given enough time nobody will care what they did, even if it takes 100s of years. So what chance has an ordinary dude got ?

Likewise, nobody ever learns from the past. Mankind is doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. An evolutionary leap is needed (a visit from another race / warp drive / real AI) if we're to make anything of ourselves.

On a brighter note, I'm off to buy Tatsunoko V Capcom at lunch!

[shiftytigger]

Wise choice - a reasonable addition to a sadly lacking genre on the Wii.

[rtrgrl78]

People talking and particularly loudly at the cinema, I'm encountering this more and a more even if I go to an afternoon sitting. I don't get why people pay more to see a film then talk to their friend. Or like what I found today, if you're bored lets get a get a large chocolate wrapping paper and screw it up loudly and if you really want to be rude, put your feet up on the seats facing, not like anyone is going to sit there, this is a trend as well on the bus, sprawl out with your feet on the seats opposite. How people are becoming rude and ignorant is beyond me, I would point towards cut backs, with the cinema you used to have an usher come round, throw people out for that, with the transport you had conductors who would not tolerate it. People, I'm noticing are becoming very selfish, very ignorant and inconsiderate of others.

Public Transport, buses what winds me up about these apart from Monday to Friday with a shocking service by any willing private company. You have the Sunday Service, which putting it politely you are lucky if it turns up let alone any where near the time on the time table. There is one bus service right near where I live which is known for 30 minutes late on a Sunday, I can see the people waiting and waiting. And when I've needed to go out, you notice it. Today, I've noticed these two particular things have got right up my nose

[Ferret Oxide]

People have become very selfish. I think part of that is because whenever someone acts like a total tw@t, there's always somebody around to cry "look at it from his perspective!" I even saw an article in the Guardian defending the mother of "Baby P", saying it wasn't her fault that she tortured and killed her child.

As long as there are apologists for people who do wrong, no matter how serious the act, there will be people who decide that the basic laws and cultural norms of society do not apply to them.

[JetSetWilly]

People have become very selfish. I think part of that is because whenever someone acts like a total tw@t, there's always somebody around to cry "look at it from his perspective!" I even saw an article in the Guardian defending the mother of "Baby P", saying it wasn't her fault that she tortured and killed her child.

As long as there are apologists for people who do wrong, no matter how serious the act, there will be people who decide that the basic laws and cultural norms of society do not apply to them.

That grinds my gears, these sodding so-called 'do gooders'. What good do they actually do? None. Bugger all, thats what. It's people like that who would let off a mass murderer, saying 'what about HIS human rights?'. I'm sorry, but imho, he lost HIS human rights when he took a life ( for example). So, if it wasn't Baby P's mothers fault she killed her child, who's was it? Mrs. Jenkins living two streets away? Wait, maybe it was Neil Armstrong, because he went to the moon. I wish these p*icks would f*ck back off up their own arseholes some times (sorry for the anger. This sort of thing really does annoy me!).

[Sel Feena]

This guy

There's an interesting discussion to be had regarding the meaning of words, and whether they can change over time (and who has the right to instigate that change), but this pillock just blurts out ultra-offensive bile equating gay marriage to the legalisation of slavery. F*%k sake.