What grinds your gears ?

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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby SJ_Sathanas on Wed May 16, 2012 8:48 pm

Been out on my cycle. Hit a pothole; done both tubes, maybe done my brand new sick OMG fast as fuc4 tyres, had to walk 7 miles home, can't be arsed with proper grammer or spelling I'm so pissed off. Cycling is the only thing I have right now that I even remotley enjoy and I can't go more than one or two days without something spoiling my rides.

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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby rtrgrl78 on Wed May 16, 2012 9:20 pm

rocky1980 wrote:Bad drives agian, this time a stupid women txting while driving she almost caused 2 crashes in under 10 seconds :(


Generally bad drivers of the both sexes texting and the most annoying obvious the lets wear our day glow white (or any colour available) ear phones whilst driving. I hope these people have some form of transport ram right into the back of them and so they might actually realise what's just happened, go through the windscreen to hammer home the lack of attention on their behalf. As I used to work with one guy, who used to always have his headphones in the car, he couldn't hear you from down the corridor, so what are the chances when he's driving..........also, he was rubbish at driving.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby QuantumCrayons on Wed May 16, 2012 11:10 pm

greenberet79 wrote:This is not news or real opinion!! Shoddy journalism. Churnalism.

It's the same as using someone's views on the street.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby thingonaspring on Thu May 17, 2012 7:23 am

QuantumCrayons wrote:
greenberet79 wrote:This is not news or real opinion!! Shoddy journalism. Churnalism.

It's the same as using someone's views on the street.


yeah but when you have reports that say "xxsexybexforuxx left a glowing poignant tribute on her website "luv ya babes ur in a beta place now innit. miss u 4eva xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
it's really not the same for me.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby Liamh1982 on Thu May 17, 2012 9:03 am

^ They could at least find out that person's real name (not difficult) and correct the spelling and grammar (REALLY not difficult). Never a good idea to print them verbatim, it just looks crass.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby che_don_john on Thu May 17, 2012 10:23 am

the_hawk wrote:Newspapers using people's Twitter feeds as "sources".

"One Twitter user stated '....'"
"A Tweeter commented that '..."

etc etc

They may as well be saying, "some drunken bellend was heard in the street ranting the following to nobody in particular...."

Agreed. Same goes for vox pop features on news programmes. Why would I want to hear what some passer by in the street has to say about the Greek bail-out or the new French president? I want to hear the views of experts, not those of people who know next to nothing on the topic.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby crusto on Thu May 17, 2012 1:55 pm

CIH wrote:Been out on my cycle. Hit a pothole; done both tubes, maybe done my brand new sick OMG fast as fuc4 tyres, had to walk 7 miles home, can't be arsed with proper grammer or spelling I'm so pissed off. Cycling is the only thing I have right now that I even remotley enjoy and I can't go more than one or two days without something spoiling my rides.

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That must have been some pothole! Are you sure it wasnt a crater?
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby Megamixer on Thu May 17, 2012 2:13 pm

che_don_john wrote:
the_hawk wrote:Newspapers using people's Twitter feeds as "sources".

"One Twitter user stated '....'"
"A Tweeter commented that '..."

etc etc

They may as well be saying, "some drunken bellend was heard in the street ranting the following to nobody in particular...."

Agreed. Same goes for vox pop features on news programmes. Why would I want to hear what some passer by in the street has to say about the Greek bail-out or the new French president? I want to hear the views of experts, not those of people who know next to nothing on the topic.


Yeah but sometimes even the experts chat a load of bull. I find it hard to trust the news because everything seems to be exaggerrated and over-exposed to make it sound worse than it really is. After all, you can only believe what they're telling you and with all the recent newspaper scandals, whose to say that TV news is 100% legit?
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby Antiriad2097 on Thu May 17, 2012 4:40 pm

Are you suggesting that experts <cough>Iain Lee<cough> would go on TV and offer misjudged opinions for money? ;)

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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby rocky1980 on Thu May 17, 2012 5:42 pm

God damm my ISP, I have an engineer visit on Tuesday they better fix the issue :(
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby crusto on Thu May 17, 2012 6:58 pm

Does Iain frequent this forum and converse with us mere mortals?
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby DPrinny on Thu May 17, 2012 7:15 pm

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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby Antiriad2097 on Thu May 17, 2012 9:37 pm

crusto wrote:Does Iain frequent this forum and converse with us mere mortals?

He has visited on occasion. Dunno if he lurks much.
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby Shinobi on Sun May 20, 2012 10:10 am

So much at the moment

People who's only contribution to this forum is sales threads to sell their overpriced stuff, to avoid Ebay fee's!!! Random niceness it's just degenerated into certain people hoovering eveything up..

That football match yesterday and all the censored stains in their Everton T Shirts running down the street shouting "WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYHHHHHH" when I asked them who Everton where playing they didn't know..

The braindeads who just drive around all night in their cars; causing maximum annoyance to everybody else by driving like complete stains! Seeing your 1.0 Saxo is struggling to get up the hill doing 20pmh, with some dickhead wearing a cap and tracksuit shaking the wheel like somehow its going to make the car go faster! When they go back down the hill the same retard has the seat right back acting like the G Force was holding them in their car as they where driving so fast!!
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Re: What grinds your gears ?

Postby MarkTheMorose on Sun May 20, 2012 12:55 pm

I suspect trolololo-uk, a zero-rated eBayer who joined today, and bid on three of my lots, could be about to grind my gears. Here's hoping it's not someone off the forums here... the headstone would read '1981-2012'.
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