What grinds your gears?

[CCS]

Originally Posted by crocos

They're probably still using 4:3 TVs...

Lulz. That shouldn't matter though. They should either be looking at their shit on a broadcast monitor which can switch between the ratios or they should be looking at it in a correctly shaped window on their computer... which still wouldn't preclude the need for having a broadcast monitor anyways. Don't even get me started on waveform/vectorscope monitors.

YEAH, GUESS WHO IS STILL AT WORK?!

[fidgit]

Originally Posted by ZoSo

Canned fruit from China.
/me checks Oak can labels more carefully.

A lot of Watties canned fruit is from China too.

People are only now discovering just how much of everything they buy is from China. Just because it's a Good Ol' Kiwi Brand doesn't mean shit these days.

Gear Grind: Kids that are going to be voting in their first election soon that think that voting National will change anything, because they've only been politically aware while Labour have been in power, and they think there's enough of a difference between the two big parties to make any noticeable difference for Average Joe. Plus they're strong believers of the Great Right Wing Lie: "There's room at the top they are telling you still".

[chiquelet]

Getting a prank call disguised as a collect call at 2am this morning. Fuck you asshole kids. Oh, and only getting 4 hours sleep with a big day ahead of me.

[?>Superman]

ahahah

[ZoSo]

Originally Posted by fidgit

A lot of Watties canned fruit is from China too.

People are only now discovering just how much of everything they buy is from China. Just because it's a Good Ol' Kiwi Brand doesn't mean shit these days.

Jesus tell me something I don't know. We buy from China?? Noooo!
Sorry, but it does mean shit. Oak for example are often on special and I weed through them getting the NZ version of the product. Do a side by side test and tell me they taste exactly the same. Then smell the empty cans afterwards and
tell me you're fine with eating out of it. I'm not.

[CCS]

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH IPOD AND ITUNES!! Thanks a FUCKING BUNDLE for going ahead and turning off the Manually Manage Music option and then deleting 3 of out 5gb of mp3s I had there! FUCK YOU STEVE JOBS, THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU HATEFUL CUNT!

[SpaceCowboy]

fuck you maori girl standing beside me at subway singing your head off (badly)
fuck you people who dont know how to merge onto a motorway safely and at speed
fuck you people who insist on driving 20km/h below the speed limit
fuck you fuck you fuck you

[DrTiTus]

Typical Aucklander~ motorway dramas causing stress.

Move cities cunt! Add 15 years to your life~

[Hazmat]

Originally Posted by CCS

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH IPOD AND ITUNES!! Thanks a FUCKING BUNDLE for going ahead and turning off the Manually Manage Music option and then deleting 3 of out 5gb of mp3s I had there! FUCK YOU STEVE JOBS, THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU HATEFUL CUNT!

Check your "My Documents" folder thoroughly. iTunes likely just moved them into folders based on Artist / Album.
I'm assuming that's what you mean and not that they disappeared off your iPod?

[CCS]

It would appear they have disappeared right off my ipod. There was 1gb free before, now there's 4gb free... so... yeah, thanks itunes :/

[Mickey]

Having to stop a netball game I was reffing to ask one guy to shut the fuck up grinds my gears. Your kid is ten and screaming at her that she is useless more than once is uncalled for you big fat pie eating fuck.

[Cereal Killar]

Nice continous cloud of blue smoke from the exhaust of my car. Oh, how I hate you car.

[crocos]

"Piece of shit car, I got a
I got a piece of shit car
my car's a fucking pile of shit
never gets me very far"...

[Torka]

People who think that knocking on someone's door and not getting a response means you can enter.

[SpaceCowboy]

Originally Posted by DrTiTus

Typical Aucklander~ motorway dramas causing stress.

Move cities cunt! Add 15 years to your life~

oh i intend to, just trying to save for some land at the moment.

[Cereal Killar]

Blue smoke has stopped now. Oil level remains above full but the plugs are fouled with a nice black soot. Suspect that the valve stems might be stuffed.

I suspect the search for a new car in the new future will grind my gears (as I can't justify spending any more repairing this car; just isn't worth the return when I sell it).

[Helious]

get a corolla bro

[p01s0n]

t-vis bro

bwaaaaaaaaorrrrrrrrrrrr

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by p01s0n

t-vis bro

T-VIS: Who said high flow is good?

[DrTiTus]

my power band past 4k revs says so

[Reformed_Quint]

Damn tvis and its torque smoothing bollox!

*Yay on forth attempt... damn tags

[cEvin]

car people

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Mickey

Having to stop a netball game I was reffing to ask one guy to shut the fuck up grinds my gears. Your kid is ten and screaming at her that she is useless more than once is uncalled for you big fat pie eating fuck.

you should have screamed at her even louder and told her she wasn't screaming loud enough.

[SpaceCowboy]

theres a difference between cheering for your chosen team, and a kid screaming nothing but vowels for 10 minutes on end at high pitch.

[Baal]

I'm tired of being told every year that I have to wash my dishes in the sink or turn my heater off or whatever because of power shortages.

The only people that take any notice are old (from the generation where being public spirited actually existed), and are quite likely to turn off their heaters and die.

[SpaceCowboy]

yea, how dare they try to instill in you any regard to energy conservation, energy is your right after all!

[Baal]

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboy

yea, how dare they try to instill in you any regard to energy conservation, energy is your right after all!

Right on!

[Reformed_Quint]

Half of SH11 doesn't exist according to my GIS maps.

I guess Paihia really is a hole

Fuck.

Fuck.

Fuck.

This grinds my gears.

[crocos]

... though it makes the rest of us laugh.

[Markh]

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboy

yea, how dare they try to instill in you any regard to energy conservation, energy is your right after all!

Fuck energy conservation - they can just get busy building a nuclear power plant.

What grinds my gears are the stupid Greenpeace cunts that oppose nuclear power - they put a lot of effort into opposing it while coal and gas power plants pour out a huge amount of Carbon Dioxide. This whole "we prefer solar and wind" shit is annoying - there is no way that is feasible (generating enough power from solar or wind) in the near future. I say cut their power off to leave enough for me!

[Whiplash]

Originally Posted by Markh

What grinds my gears are the stupid Greenpeace cunts that oppose nuclear power - they put a lot of effort into opposing it while coal and gas power plants pour out a huge amount of Carbon Dioxide. This whole "we prefer solar and wind" shit is annoying - there is no way that is feasible (generating enough power from solar or wind) in the near future. I say cut their power off to leave enough for me!

QFT

Originally Posted by Whiplash

Hippies grind my gears.

[Asriel]

Originally Posted by Markh

Fuck energy conservation - they can just get busy building a nuclear power plant.

What grinds my gears are the stupid Greenpeace cunts that oppose nuclear power - they put a lot of effort into opposing it while coal and gas power plants pour out a huge amount of Carbon Dioxide. This whole "we prefer solar and wind" shit is annoying - there is no way that is feasible (generating enough power from solar or wind) in the near future. I say cut their power off to leave enough for me!

Go geothermal power! Drill down to hot rock, insert water, use steam to turn turbine, hey presto electricity. Different to what is in use in the Taupo area, as the fracturing and water injection is man made, but could still be used in that area.

Not having any where in NZ tectonically stable enough for nuclear power station grinds my gears.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Baal

I'm tired of being told every year that I have to wash my dishes in the sink or turn my heater off or whatever because of power shortages.

The only people that take any notice are old (from the generation where being public spirited actually existed), and are quite likely to turn off their heaters and die.

funny, i was about to post this earlier today but realised my lunch break was quickly coming to and end. i'll post what i was gonna say anyway:

the inevitable propaganda in our media to save power, when most of us already are. i expect with higher living costs these days many families are already running as economic as possible.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Asriel

Not having any where in NZ tectonically stable enough for nuclear power station grinds my gears.

add to that the inability of the grid to support a nuclear plant - including a backup solution should the plant need to be taken offline, and other issues such as the know-how of actually having a plant here.

[JP]

Originally Posted by Asriel

Go geothermal power
Not having any where in NZ tectonically stable enough for nuclear power station grinds my gears.

No, it's the hippies fault. Goddam those hippies. Lord knows they deserve the amount of hate they get compared to those poor developers who'd basically scrap anything for a buck. So hippies are extreme, you need it to balance out the amount of money on the other side.

[StN]

"Don't turn off Camalco, you'll ruin the economy of Southland!"

Fair point.

"Don't build a wind turbine farm in Otago, you'll ruin the vista!"

Make up your mind...

[zeekiorage]

At home we are already using as less electricity as possible. Don't have a dryer or heated towel rail. Got energy saving bulbs everywhere. It's not the best but house is fairly new, so it has good insulation. Only using oil column heaters when needed in the evening. Stopped Folding@Home a few months back, so computer stays off when not in use.

I guess I will be taking shorter showers and using the heater even less in the months to come.

What I want to know is, apart from running TV ads, what the government and industry are doing long term to solve this problem. Also people need to change their attitude towards major energy projects.

[Asriel]

Originally Posted by StN

"Don't turn off Camalco, you'll ruin the economy of Southland!"

Fair point.

"Don't build a wind turbine farm in Otago, you'll ruin the vista!"

Make up your mind...

Haha yeah, so true. AFAIK camalco employees bugger all people and as a whole doesn't contribute that much to NZ, yet takes up ~10% (or greater, I can't remember) of NZ's power.

Madmax: True true. I hear that there is a world wide shortage of skilled nuclear plant workers.

Ocean wave turbine in the Kaipara?

[SpaceCowboy]

i think youll find that greenpeace and hippies (myself included) generally dont have a problem with nuclear anymore for those exact reasons. its much cleaner than coal/gas, and waste can now be contained fairly well (unlike in the past, when it was dumped).

reading doesnt hurt.

[?>Superman]

Greenpeace isn't anti-nuclear no more?
http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...paigns/nuclear

Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants.

LOL