You know what grinds my gears? part II

Post » Sat May 28, 2011 7:14 am

To continue from my previous gear-grinding thing, English-speaking people pronouncing "anti" as "ant-eye" grinds my gears. >_<


It goes both ways........

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti
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suzan
 
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 11:18 pm

It goes both ways........

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti

You do realise that in there "ant-eye" is not one of the two pronunciations listed, right?

Also it's definitely not a noun.

Merriam-Webster Online svcks. :-/
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:09 pm

[censored] on xbox live.(AKA the majority of xbox live)

Me and some other people on the forum were playing Red Dead Redemption, and we were messing around in freeroam, and finally, we got a 6 person stagecoach, so we all got in, and what happens? some [censored] throws a stick of dynamite UNDER the stagecoach, and we all blow up and die..... and the stagecoach didn't make it either... lol.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 11:21 pm

Being bored.... :banghead:
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-When a girl on Facebook I'm really interested in unfriends me even though I've been nice to her, because her friends thought I was "creepy"...true story

Tim (aka the Slipperman)
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 6:02 am

Not being able to play any video games because my 360 got the red ring again. Thats 4 times, time to move on to the PS3 i guess
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:18 am

The end of the month. All hell breaks loose in my office. "Oh, noes!! This job didn't get done this month we need to go into panic mode to get it done on the LAST DAY OF THE MONTH!!!" Then whilst checking my email:

"Hey, this job also needs their fire hydrants tested. Can you do that while you are there?"

My reply, "Nope. Left the site. Sorry."

Hey, it isn't my problem someone dropped the ball on the account or that the system missed one call. Push it back a month. Its only fire hydrants. Plus, I already moved my schedule around to get one "emergency job" done because you dopes forgot to put it in this month.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:31 pm

When people call other people "sheep," even if I'm not the one being called it. It just makes the person saying it sound like such an arrogant [censored]. What's worse is when the person says something that essentially makes them a sheep, right before calling others a sheep. For example, a conspiracy theorist would say "You really believe the government doesn't lie to you? Stop being a sheep," when in actuality this person follows the every word of some other conspiracy nut out there who tells everyone "the truth." Combine that with the straw man argument they used (Of course the government lies, but that doesn't mean they're lizard men) and you get a very frustrating person.

Remember kids, if you want to sound like a [censored] almost instantly, call someone a sheep.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:34 pm

When people call other people "sheep," even if I'm not the one being called it. It just makes the person saying it sound like such an arrogant [censored]. What's worse is when the person says something that essentially makes them a sheep, right before calling others a sheep. For example, a conspiracy theorist would say "You really believe the government doesn't lie to you? Stop being a sheep," when in actuality this person follows the every word of some other conspiracy nut out there who tells everyone "the truth." Combine that with the straw man argument they used (Of course the government lies, but that doesn't mean they're lizard men) and you get a very frustrating person.

Remember kids, if you want to sound like a [censored] almost instantly, call someone a sheep.

Sheep! :P

Those little discs that are the size of a gamecube disc.... Seriously whose idea was that?
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 5:59 am

When I'm telling something important (or even just a story, i.e. not *really* important) to someone and they interrupt me to tell me I pronounced a word wrong when they know damn well what the hell I was talking about. (And no, I don't care to be corrected because people have trouble with my twang. They can all kiss my rebel dike)

(For example, previous poster mentioned people saying "Ant-eye" when pronouncing Anti... you know what they're saying regardless.)
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The Lost finale, nuff said :D
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 7:36 am

When I'm telling something important (or even just a story, i.e. not *really* important) to someone and they interrupt me to tell me I pronounced a word wrong when they know damn well what the hell I was talking about. (And no, I don't care to be corrected because people have trouble with my twang. They can all kiss my rebel dike)

(For example, previous poster mentioned people saying "Ant-eye" when pronouncing Anti... you know what they're saying regardless.)

I do that, and correct grammar mistakes like Good vs. Well, or Who vs. Whom. Makes me seem like such a better person than them.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:34 pm

I do that, and correct grammar mistakes like Good vs. Well, or Who vs. Whom. Makes me seem like such a better person than them.


That's the only reason (to me, that is) why people do it. With that being typed, pompous people grind my gears.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 11:11 pm

When people call other people "sheep," even if I'm not the one being called it. It just makes the person saying it sound like such an arrogant [censored]. What's worse is when the person says something that essentially makes them a sheep, right before calling others a sheep. For example, a conspiracy theorist would say "You really believe the government doesn't lie to you? Stop being a sheep," when in actuality this person follows the every word of some other conspiracy nut out there who tells everyone "the truth." Combine that with the straw man argument they used (Of course the government lies, but that doesn't mean they're lizard men) and you get a very frustrating person.

Remember kids, if you want to sound like a [censored] almost instantly, call someone a sheep.

But what if they believe their own crazy made up conspiracy?

Then technically they aren't sheep because they came up with it on their own
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 8:39 am

My old ass oil burner. Here I'm thinking I'm doing a good thing by servicing it. Putting a smaller nozzle in it readjusting the air, putting a new flue pipe in a new barometric damper. Then the (Swear Word) pump goes ahead and springs a leak, the damn gasket went bad. I replace the gasket now the (Another Swear Word) won't even fire up. This thing is pissing me off. I need one more winter out of this thing, I can't afford to replace it now.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 9:54 am


And getting things stuck in my zipper.



Erm...


...sitting on...'oneself'. I did it a couple of days ago when I went for a bike ride, almost fell off the damn thing <_<


People who think there so clever then use bad grammar.
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Roy Harris
 
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:08 pm

Erm...


...sitting on...'oneself'. I did it a couple of days ago when I went for a bike ride, almost fell off the damn thing <_<

True that. Or just injuring your manlyhood while biking. I did that a couple of days ago while biking to school, and it's like...I can't slow down, I'm going to SCHOOL. Hurt like hell, though. Not a good biking day.

People who think there so clever then use bad grammar.


I c wat u did their
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 2:16 am

When I'm telling something important (or even just a story, i.e. not *really* important) to someone and they interrupt me to tell me I pronounced a word wrong when they know damn well what the hell I was talking about. (And no, I don't care to be corrected because people have trouble with my twang. They can all kiss my rebel dike)

(For example, previous poster mentioned people saying "Ant-eye" when pronouncing Anti... you know what they're saying regardless.)

I don't interrupt people in the middle of their sentences to correct their grammar and/or pronunciation mistakes, nor do I in fact correct them when they're done talking because it's pointless - if they haven't learned that in school I have no hope of correcting them and it will only make me look and sound like a dike - but that doesn't mean that I shouldn't be (nor that I'm not) irritated when people do say things like "ant-eye" for "anti". It irks me to no end, but I manage to control myself and prevent myself from punching the person in the face. :P
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 4:50 am

Bad grammar.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 5:26 am

And getting things stuck in my zipper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek3XKF2GcjE


On topic: People who say something racist and try to pass it off as an accident. FFS, show some restraint.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 9:16 pm

I've still got hundreds more, let's have a few;

Loading times. There is nothing that can ruin a game quite as much as extreme loading times, except maybe for crappy voicework. Thief 3 was in my book very enjoyable, and I would have loved to finish it, hadn't it been for the insane load times. Mass Effect 2 had it, but there's a dual-core fix you can do to reduce them substantially, so I'll forgive that one.

People who think the number of megabytes of RAM on a GPU decides how good it is, or people who think the same thing about the clock frequency on a CPU. Let me tell you numbnuts something; component development doesn't consist of a big clock with a dial that you turn up slightly every two months, there are more things than just one single digit that impacts that performance of a component!

People who nag at me for drinking alcohol more often than once a month. If I start chugging tequila once every thirty minutes, be slightly worried, but if I drink one beer every friday, it doesn't make me a [censored] alcoholic!
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:34 pm

"People who quote themselves in the third person." Levi stated.
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 2:35 am

When I hear someone talk about something they know nothing about as if they know everything about it.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:11 pm

Adjh#$!BaG!#*sta!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FML

I cant get the 360 controller (via USB) to work on the PS3. :brokencomputer: :cry: :nuke: :flame: :swear: :banghead: :facepalm:
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 11:58 pm

I also dislike potted plants.


Me too. I water, water and water them and the f-er's still die! :swear: Now I'm phasing out live plants as obsolete in this day and age and am introducing plastic plants
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