What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[THGhost]

Sending a complaint to admins/mods regarding harassment from another user is apparently just ignored on most forums. What's up with that?

Originally Posted by shuriken

So my grandma just passed a few ours ago. Not the best news for my pops to hear on father's day. Not sure if its a gear grind or what. Just feel sad.

That really sucks. Sorry for your loss.

[D Piddy 1982]

What grinds my gears? When the forum becomes toxic. It’s almost political at the moment, and it was the same in the build-up the 2014 movie. You have “Far Right” and “Far Left” clashing. Neither will acknowledge the others opinion, or better yet discuss it in a non-patronising way.

Unfortunately the 2 sides choose to try and resolve their differences in the most horrible of ways. Because of this I would estimate a large majority of “silent” forum members (like me) have now been affected by the BS that has gone down in certain forum areas.

This is just not fair on everyone else. I nearly commented a couple of times in the last 2 weeks about how after a few days of inactivity you have to sift through page upon page upon page of bickering just to see if any pics or relevant info have been posted. So, so frustrating.

I’m sorry…I am genuinely so sorry to have to bring up this very sore subject, but I was enraged today to see that everything has been shut down because of a bunch of cretins who can’t debate with each other.

Everyone knows who the perpetrators are on BOTH SIDES. Kick em all out for a month rather than sitting on the fence and shutting an entire forum down. Grow some balls and kick out offenders from both sides. Instead of punishing the innocent bystanders!

Gears well and truly grinded.

p.s. the forum is and CAN be such a great place. Like someone else said, you just gotta stay out of certain areas…but then why should we be restricted in this way? Gahhhhhh!!

p.p.s Please…I pray to God…don’t start a slanging match on this thread about THAT movie…I just wanted to get the above off my chest. Peace!

[turtlefanforever]

Originally Posted by THGhost

Sending a complaint to admins/mods regarding harassment from another user is apparently just ignored on most forums. What's up with that?.

I don't know about that either. It's pretty stupid but it's the way it is.

[Gunpowder]

Originally Posted by D Piddy 1982

What grinds my gears? When the forum becomes toxic. It’s almost political at the moment, and it was the same in the build-up the 2014 movie. You have “Far Right” and “Far Left” clashing. Neither will acknowledge the others opinion, or better yet discuss it in a non-patronising way.

Unfortunately the 2 sides choose to try and resolve their differences in the most horrible of ways. Because of this I would estimate a large majority of “silent” forum members (like me) have now been affected by the BS that has gone down in certain forum areas.

This is just not fair on everyone else. I nearly commented a couple of times in the last 2 weeks about how after a few days of inactivity you have to sift through page upon page upon page of bickering just to see if any pics or relevant info have been posted. So, so frustrating.

I’m sorry…I am genuinely so sorry to have to bring up this very sore subject, but I was enraged today to see that everything has been shut down because of a bunch of cretins who can’t debate with each other.

Everyone knows who the perpetrators are on BOTH SIDES. Kick em all out for a month rather than sitting on the fence and shutting an entire forum down. Grow some balls and kick out offenders from both sides. Instead of punishing the innocent bystanders!

Gears well and truly grinded.

p.s. the forum is and CAN be such a great place. Like someone else said, you just gotta stay out of certain areas…but then why should we be restricted in this way? Gahhhhhh!!

p.p.s Please…I pray to God…don’t start a slanging match on this thread about THAT movie…I just wanted to get the above off my chest. Peace!

Yeah, I can agree with this. I've just been steering clear of certain threads/sections altogether these past few days because of it; it's not even entertaining anymore.

[plastroncafe]

There is no accounting for taste, and as such there is no "debate" when the topic of discussion is:

I like/Don't like this thing!

People keep insisting that you CAN convince someone to Like A Thing they don't like, but I've only ever seen the opposite work as a successful argument.

In short, it's not the topic that's the problem, it's the level of butthurt coming from the margins that's doing it.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

And here we go...

Damn GIF won't work. You guys know what I'm saying. Joker, "here we go"... yeah, that.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

Don't forget grey, and then there's pin stripes in different widths! I can never find pants that are long enough, and places that cater for tall people seem to assume that they are also obese, so I buy them on-line - which as you intimated, is a risk. I can get good dress pants from a local place, but casual stuff is a pain. Gotta buy shoes on-line too, as most lines seem to stop at size 12, and I wear a 15.

My grind today is my back. It's been giving me trouble again over the past few weeks, and today it's really bad. It's higher up than normal too, so I'm wondering if it's actually my neck that's stuffed, and the back is just referred pain. Probably have to see the physio again = poorhouse.

That's another weird thing about pants - with men's, you have options with the length... and with women's, you don't. It's really bizarre! I don't think of myself as particularly short, but I tried on a pair of women's skinnies out of pure desperation and there was at least 4 extra inches of material below my ankles - I felt like an Oompa Loompa!



Sorry to hear about your back - do you think acupuncture might help?

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

And I hear you on the jeans. I despise low rise ones and don't know why the things have ever been invented as they are the bane of my existence. Skinny jeans aren't too bad unless it's that time of the month and I'm so bloated I can hardly button them up.

I never had a beef with skinny jeans until they started being the only option. I think whether you can rock them or not is highly dependent upon your personal style - and I'm just not comfortable in really tight or low-cut clothing.

Also, not for nothing, but the material on skinny jeans is like, ridonkulously thin - and it's winter over here. I want pants that are going to keep me warm! I've noticed this is a recurring thing with women's clothing - the material is always super-thin, and I'm at a complete loss to understand why. Is it so we have to buy more stuff to keep warm? Is it a cunning scheme to milk us for more money by making us by a thin camisole, a thin tshirt and a thin cardigan... rather than just one shirt made of decent material?

I mean, I get why they refuse to put pockets big enough to fit anything more than a chapstick on our pants (if at all - don't even get me started on faux pockets: that sh*t is just cruel) - obviously a ploy to make people buy handbags, but yeesh.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

http://imgur.com/gallery/wrd33Ik.jpg

And here we go...

Damn GIF won't work. You guys know what I'm saying. Joker, "here we go"... yeah, that.

The Imgur link doesn't lead anywhere.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

That's another weird thing about pants - with men's, you have options with the length... and with women's, you don't. It's really bizarre! I don't think of myself as particularly short, but I tried on a pair of women's skinnies out of pure desperation and there was at least 4 extra inches of material below my ankles - I felt like an Oompa Loompa!

Agree. I hate that women's sizes are a single number that pretty much means zilch because it varies by manufacturer. I think we're expected to want to have to go get everything tailored all the time. Never done so, don't care to.

I've tried on pants before that fit nice... but then the pant leg extended down my foot all the way to the toes. Why do I need 9" of excess material?? And my legs are not at all short. >.> In more recent years... in one pair I bought, the only pair in my size was labeled "short"...the length was perfect. Um.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

That's why I always end up in the juniors or "petite" section, when I buy womens clothes at all. Usually, I just go straight for the boys department, and get what I need there.

Which reminds me, I HATE shopping for shorts even more than pants. Because I can never find anything that either doesn't make me look ten, or is just too darn tight and short. I'm not friggin Daisy Duke, and don't want to dress like a prostitute. So I find a pair of decent-fitting pants and cut the legs to suit me,then roll them up a bit so they dont fray so much. It works.

[Leo656]

Sorry shuriken.

I buy Wranglers that last ten years, so I never have to deal with the jeans-shopping nonsense. I even only buy two pairs, one waist size, so I never get fat. My "favorite" pair is actually creeping up on the 15-year mark. Think they were $20 at K-Mart. I also rock skinny jeans, so that's right up my alley.

Update on the shoulder: Mostly-fixed, and it was actually that one of my cervical vertebrae was way out of joint from a match I had a few months ago, and it was pinching a nerve that ran all the way down my shoulder and right arm. My neck always pops in and out - whiplash is a fact of life when you wrestle, and frankly, whenever I turn my head it sounds like broken glass in a plastic bag, so I rarely notice unless it's REALLY bad - but I did sleep on my right side for a long time last Sunday/Monday, and that made it flare up. One little pop fixes everything, though. I gotta go in the rest of the week, but at least it wasn't as bad as I feared. I swore I felt a hole in my trapezius, but it was just inflamed.

So that's nice.

[BubblyShell22]

What grinds my gears: That new TMNT episodes are on hiatus until August. WTF? I can't take these breaks anymore! I'm gonna go mad. I swear I will.

[Metalwolf]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Agree. I hate that women's sizes are a single number that pretty much means zilch because it varies by manufacturer. I think we're expected to want to have to go get everything tailored all the time. Never done so, don't care to.

They call that 'vanity sizing.' It's to make you feel like you can wear a size 4 even though you are actually a size 10.

@Penny- I'm guessing the thin material is a manufacturers' perception that women are dainty creatures that don't get rough with their clothes and don't like heavy materials, even though these thin materials tend to rip easily and make you have to toss them out quite often. It's why I buy men's shirts, the men's stuff won't rip if I have a fall and they tend to have far more cooler designs (like skeleton angels and tribal patterns.)

[IndigoErth]

Mhm... Wondering if I didn't get a memo and the film is in theaters again since the show disappeared for a while when that happened. (Expect it again next year I guess.)


Maybe good scheduling is too much effort. I think it may work like this:

Scheduling people stand over big laminated calender for the coming month.
They use poker-like chips to help lay out the schedule.
Each show has it's own color chips.
A show like TMNT has a few chips, approximately five.
Average number of chips for newer shows is about 100
Most moderately popular older shows have about 50.
Spongebob has about 5000 chips.
Schedulers throw chips at calender.
Spongebob chips are thrown first.
Annoying or newer shows they push are thrown second.
The rest of the chips for remaining shows, such as TMNT, fill in remaining spaces on the calender, if any. Sometimes no space is available so better luck next month.

Originally Posted by Metalwolf

They call that 'vanity sizing.' It's to make you feel like you can wear a size 4 even though you are actually a size 10.

True. But, darn them, I'm a size 6 and like being a 6! I wouldn't even want to be a 4. lol

Not sure about some brands though, there's those that in particular run rather small, so either they're idiots about sizes or they use an approach that doesn't make sense. American Living for one (a Ralph Lauren brand my old job carried) ran so frigging small. Own a shirt or two from that brand, both larges. For most everything else I usually wear a medium, or small on occasion. That brand's pant sizes weren't any better

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Metalwolf

It's why I buy men's shirts, the men's stuff won't rip if I have a fall and they tend to have far more cooler designs (like skeleton angels and tribal patterns.)

Amen to this - I'm doing a mental review of what's in my closet as we speak and I can say that of my many, many button-downs, tshirts and singlets, the overwhelming majority are men's.

Even women's flannel is absurdly thin compared to men's. You could almost understand it with summer clothing, but in winter - do they think we don't get cold or something? Dangit-all, you expect us to shave off our insulating layer of body hair and not have layers of warm blubber like the noble and gentle manatee - give us some goddamn warm clothes already! We're freezing!!!

Times like this I wish I could sew - that way I could make my own damned pants and avoid the whole sordid business of navigating absurd fashion trends.

[IndigoErth]

Storm knocked the power out for a few.. Nature, I do not appreciate my computer being so rudely shut off, thank you very much.

Also, 'twas a creepy one. I love a good storm, but that one not to be trusted...

[Powder]

An as of now 26 hour migraine that worsens with time.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Storm knocked the power out for a few.. Nature, I do not appreciate my computer being so rudely shut off, thank you very much.

Also, 'twas a creepy one. I love a good storm, but that one not to be trusted...

That's why I'm glad I started using a laptop. They're battery powered, so you can keep working just so long as you've got a reliable Wifi signal.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, but the power is knocked out, your router is likely to be unpowered too, so... no dice, unless you leech someone else's connection

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by Mayhem

Yeah, but the power is knocked out, your router is likely to be unpowered too, so... no dice, unless you leech someone else's connection

Isn't there anything you can do with your computer that doesn't require internet connection?