What grinds your gears?

[Bent]

Slow taxi drivers. There seem to be quite a few in Singapore.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by flic

Auckland doesn't have a proper motorway either

Of course we have proper motorways. They're so proper and so good that everbody wants to use them all at once!

[Mario]

I'm going to repeat myself here, but... fuck!

Every damn time I go to a movie in Auckland, I swear more people take it upon themselves to talk through the whole damn thing.

No, young sir, shaking your Tangy Fruits or Snifters during moments of silence is not funny. No, I don't need out loud commentary coming at me from 3 different directions, much less in multiple languages. No, the plot isn't that complicated that you have to ask your boyfriend whats happening every five seconds. No, underage kids up front drinking beers, you can't handle as much alcohol as you think, and you shouldn't need to move seats ten times during the movie. No, you were wrong, Mr I Know Everything That Is Going To Happen Before It Happens sitting behind me, that wasn't a sabre tooth tiger about to jump out.

Fuck.

Let me watch my crappy movies in peace, Auckland. Just once.

[Lightspeed]

You need to change the theatre you go to.

[IoriDyson]

you must have a mean as home system... just wait for the DVD... thats what i do

[Mario]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

You need to change the theatre you go to.

I think I'll just stop bothering to go to the movies when I'm up in Auckland.

[CCS]

Mario, are you going to theatres in South Auckland or something?


Okay, not that most of that shit doesn't happen at every other theatre. Especially foreign people talking during the movie. Newsflash, foreign imbeciles: just because you're talking in a foreign language it doesn't mean that I can't hear you!!

[[Malks] Pixie]

Falling down the stairs this morning and still dragging my ass into work - only to go home cause I'm too sore. Fucking shoes with no grip, cat playing dodgems on the stairs and no hand rail on the right hand side. Now I have a bruise running from my knee to the top of my hip and my ankle is swollen up.

Day off sick on a Monday of a short week is not a good look.

Pixie

[dead goon]

if you've got a huge bruise like that, i'm sure they're going to understand.

[flic]

But he'd have to take his pants off to show it to them

[CCS]

I think he'd enjoy that. But then, he could always wear shorts.

[Gentl e]

Originally Posted by [Malks] Pixie

*snip* Fucking shoes with no grip, cat playing dodgems on the stairs and no hand rail on the right hand side...

Pixie

A 'perfect storm' one could say.

[doppelgänger of someone]

Free to air TV.

Because it is so CRAP (including the news, nay ESPECIALLY the news) it is driving its mealtickets (i.e. people with spending power) to pay-tv and torrents in droves.

Local productions just aren't very good. Reality series SUCK (There is only so much stupid behaviour one can stomach). Even Shortland Street is a pale reflection to their Aussie soap counterparts. The major problem is those actors just aren't PRETTY ENOUGH. In a celebrity culture looks are EVERYTHING, melodrama works ONLY IF it is heaped on beautiful people. Harsh but true.

[StN]

Whatever has died somewhere in this office - and the associated smell.

FFS - people think it was me!

[CCS]

Are you sure you haven't been storing your farts in a desk drawer and now it's overflowing and leaking farts into the air?

[StN]

Well, yeah, but I only saved Brussell Sprout ones - these are more rancid death farts.

[caffiend]

You have to go and mention Rancid Death Farts. Now cEvin won't be able to listen to their 60 kbit/s MP3s since you've uttered their name and instantly rendered them 'above ground'.

(Great pogo music BTW)

[Simon K]

That the piece of shit flower growing fuckstain killing cats willy nilly in Ashurst(just shown on Campbell live) doesn't die a horrible death himself...or maybe just be burned over 90% of his body while his flower business gets torched. *Edit* Maybe a little less than 90% so he will survive but in great pain.

There ya go PETA or some other radical students. That'll give you something to do tonight.

[dead goon]

Originally Posted by caffiend

60 kbit/s MP3s

A psssh. More like 320 kbit

[crocos]

Originally Posted by dead goon

A psssh. More like 320 kbit

The entire 4 hour lead track is only 320 kb in site? Damn that's some crazy compression!

[Solvent]

Weak.

[leadinjector]

what grinds my gears is that while i am now 21, in the best shape of my life, and can work an 8 hour morning shift, get smashed, and be out til 6am the next day having fun with people, most of my old high school friends are getting to the stage where they sit around at home and play fucking puzzles or watch coro st or something (and complain about how tired they are after they finish their 8 hour slog of pushing some paper around on a desk)

and then if they do come out, its til 12:30, then they have a domestic with the gf, complain about how their feet hurt, and go home. dammit, why did i have to have such nerdy friends in high school.

[StN]

Originally Posted by StN

Whatever has died somewhere in this office - and the associated smell.

FFS - people think it was me!

Yeah - so I moved a laptop bag and found the mouse. Still floppy, and unmaggoty, so a recent kill. Only in the act of tweezering it into a skip did I realise I should have taken pics...

[ChaosWulf]

"Spreadable" butter that isn't.

[flic]

people who sniff continuously instead of just blowing their nose.

[chiquelet]

That the cost of living has risen dramatically in the past 6 months (actually the last 12, but who's keeping count?) yet the Working For Families payments aren't being increased at all for anybody for the upcoming new financial year.

Oh and family members who quit their jobs, do cash in hand work instead, yet claim every single benefit available to them as they're "unemployed." And then other family members who think that's ok because the person in question isn't your stereotypical "bludger," even though it's their taxes supporting them. And other family members who live in a state house that they're not entitled to (it "belongs" to another family member who subsequently moved out but never notified HNZ) yet they're all working and are perfectly capable of paying market rents. So families languish on the waiting list because of selfish cunts like that. And I'm in a situation where all I can do is bitch because they're "family" so I can't dob them in. And then WFF won't give me more money to take into account the higher cost of living and I'm going around in circles bah!

[TnT]

Originally Posted by flic

people who sniff continuously instead of just blowing their nose.

Seconded.

[chiquelet]

Originally Posted by flic

people who sniff continuously instead of just blowing their nose.

Especially in an exam. And you're sitting 2 rows behind them.

[lektronimo]

Alt TV and how it 90% of the time doesn't display band name/title at the end of the video!

[Torka]

Forgetting to bring a handkerchief to an exam when you've got a runny nose.

[Asriel]

Originally Posted by chiquelet

Especially in an exam. And you're sitting 2 rows behind them.

A friend of mine was a sniffer in an exam and someone got the examiner to give her a box of tissues.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Mario

I'm going to repeat myself here, but... fuck!

Every damn time I go to a movie in Auckland, I swear more people take it upon themselves to talk through the whole damn thing.

No, young sir, shaking your Tangy Fruits or Snifters during moments of silence is not funny. No, I don't need out loud commentary coming at me from 3 different directions, much less in multiple languages. No, the plot isn't that complicated that you have to ask your boyfriend whats happening every five seconds. No, underage kids up front drinking beers, you can't handle as much alcohol as you think, and you shouldn't need to move seats ten times during the movie. No, you were wrong, Mr I Know Everything That Is Going To Happen Before It Happens sitting behind me, that wasn't a sabre tooth tiger about to jump out.

Fuck.

Let me watch my crappy movies in peace, Auckland. Just once.

security usually deals to that sort here in palmy. not that it stops teenagers from NEEDING to check their phone again and again and again ...

to the kids at the last movie i went to: just what the hell is so important that the four of you need to keep checking your phones every 5 minutes?

[CCS]

And what was their response? "Fuck off, old cunt?"

[Simon K]

Relief driver calling me to say the car had been backed into by some old fruitbat.

[MadMax]

what grinds my gears? stupid stories like this:

Hedgehog gets police escort
By DAVE BURGESS - The Dominion Post | Monday, 17 March 2008

Why did the hedgehog cross the road? Because police stopped traffic to prevent it from being squashed.

Palmerston North police were faced with a prickly problem during a drink-drive blitz on Milson Line on Friday night when a hedgehog tried to cross their checkpoint.

Traffic was stopped and the animal was escorted across the road.

"His reason for crossing the road was not ascertained and he was not breath-tested," Senior Sergeant Brett Calkin said.

About 80 drivers were stopped and breath-tested at the checkpoint, with four found to be over the limit.

They included a 42-year-old woman who was almost three times the legal breath-alcohol limit, despite telling police she had had only two drinks.

but wait, there's more!!!

Hedgehog help
Manawatu Standard | Monday, 17 March 2008

Police manning a drink-driving checkpoint in Palmerston North at the weekend apprehended a hedgehog found steering an erratic course across the road.

"The traffic was stopped and the hedgehog was safely escorted across the road," Senior Sergeant Brett Calkin said.

"His reason for wanting to cross the road was not ascertained and he was not breath tested."

Not so for the human travellers, a "disappointing" number of whom failed the test.

[MadMax]

"His reason for crossing the road was not ascertained and he was not breath-tested,"
"His reason for wanting to cross the road was not ascertained and he was not breath tested."

and i thought they didn't edit quotes

[Jin]

A asian woman who came to talk to me who didnt speak one word of english at 4:59pm last friday as I was about to walk out of work to go on the southern motorway to Tauranga in peak traffic..

She ground my gears - with passion

[MadMax]

^ do you speak asian?

[Ab]

Apps that take focus when I'm working on something else.

LOAD IN THE FUCKING BACKGROUND YOU FUCKS.

[MadMax]

oh that's a bitch. has caused many embarrassments with people getting flicked between irc sex and girlfriend icq/msn conversations... if those screen shots are to be believed.

i hate it when after something takes focus and you return to the window you were originally on the other program takes focus again with a dialog box

having my webbrowser and email client windows each sized for cascade vertically on a wide screen display helps