What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[Mew]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Stay where you are. An angry mob armed with pitchforks and torches in en route to your position as we speak.

Hey, hey, now? Isn't that a bit extreme? The figure is worth crap! It's not like I stole Scratch....oops. I might have... but I needed the 300 bucks he goes for!

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by MewMeow

Hey, hey, now? Isn't that a bit extreme? The figure is worth crap! It's not like I stole Scratch....oops. I might have... but I needed the 300 bucks he goes for!

It is too late. There is no forgiveness for your crime: you have wronged a fellow TMNT fan.

It will be quick and painless, a much kinder fate than bemoaning a lost action figure.

[SophieDem]

What gets o my nerves... finding every fanfiction I think is good is either not finished or is on hiatus for unknown reason. I find a good story and bumm! it's not finished, girl. In your face!

[Mew]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

It is too late. There is no forgiveness for your crime: you have wronged a fellow TMNT fan.

It will be quick and painless, a much kinder fate than bemoaning a lost action figure.

But I actually didn't steal Scratch from him! I sliped him in my pocket at a yard sale. I put 50 cents on the table for it, but a little kid stole it and bought a Pokémon card!

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by Busadara

What gets o my nerves... finding every fanfiction I think is good is either not finished or is on hiatus for unknown reason. I find a good story and bumm! it's not finished, girl. In your face!

Yeah, I know how that feels, but I'm usually understanding because RL does get in the way and sometimes people can't finish their stuff.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Yeah, I know how that feels, but I'm usually understanding because RL does get in the way and sometimes people can't finish their stuff.

I have to side with Busadara... not just fanfic, but online audio drama (a good portion of which is fanfic). So many audio drama series, consumed by podfade. Damn I hate that. Ruined pretty much every good series I know of.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I'm with Bubbly on this one. I've got several that I'd LOVE to finish, but they either got stuck in a rough spot, or I just can't figure out where to go with them, so they're on hold until inspiration comes. I know it sucks for readers, but writing isn't some magical process that is always easy. Sometimes we have to FORCE the words to come- and sometimes, they don't come even when we try..... And there's, y'know, other stuff to deal with, too.

[BubblyShell22]

Yes, exactly. I, too, have a lot of stories that are on the backburner right now, but I can't finish them until inspiration strikes. I'm working on one story right now and am focusing on that until I can get to my other ones. Sometimes that just happens and it's best for people to remain patient. Believe me, I understand where you guys are coming from, but you can't just condemn writers for leaving their stuff unfinished because they could have a valid reason why they can't get it done.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Yes, exactly. I, too, have a lot of stories that are on the backburner right now, but I can't finish them until inspiration strikes. I'm working on one story right now and am focusing on that until I can get to my other ones. Sometimes that just happens and it's best for people to remain patient. Believe me, I understand where you guys are coming from, but you can't just condemn writers for leaving their stuff unfinished because they could have a valid reason why they can't get it done.

No no, I think a lot of us fully understand why things are left undone. Doesn't make us any happier about it, though.

[IndigoErth]

If I was actually to share anything I write, people would prob hate me then... lol (Or it might not be good enough for them to care anyhow. lol) The little I dabble in here and there just tends to spring up from my own daydreams. What gets written down, lengthened, and elaborated on will either exist like an excerpt to an otherwise nonexistent story, or may be added to something existing and I eventually fill in the spaces between when I'm inspired for a piece that connects them.

It's a haphazard method , but it works for me, esp since I typically only do it for my own enjoyment. If any got shared it would be bits and pieces or not until I one day realize it's complete; but I'm not sure any really ever could be.

[ProactiveMan]

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!

http://i.imgur.com/qH54PwX.jpg?1

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

I didn't know women's pants didn't come in various lengths. You guys need to start flipping cars in the street or something, because lady's apparel makes very little sense. Although men's pants do come in lengths, most places only carry regular fit, and the definition of 'tall' changes from brand to brand. I'm wearing some 'tall leg' pants now and they barely cover my ankles, but my dress trousers bunch up on-top of my shoes.

I've never considered acupuncture, but I'll keep it in mind. My mother was once qualified to do acupuncture interestingly enough. Anyway, I had a couple of physio appointments and my back is moving again. They beat the shiznit out of me and taped me up for a few days which seems to have worked. Feels like I woke up in a cement mixer though.

[pennydreadful]

Proactive, I'm one molotov cocktail from raging against the machine even on a good day. But if anything were going to tip me over the edge, it'd be these bedamned skinny jeans. Talk about the fashion trend that wouldn't die!

[IndigoErth]

Over here there's lengths, but there isn't any rhyme or reason to it, no number to indicate anything. SOME brands may come in regular, tall, and short, but of course still varies by band.

The guys sizes on the other hand... yeah, the easy numbers that actually mean something, like a size 32x34 for waist and inseam. I guess we can't have that kind of sizing because big numbers will scare us...

[D Piddy 1982]

Originally Posted by Bry

Hey, I'll take the other side on this one. I used to be a semi-frequent borrower, and though I had every intention to get what I borrowed back quickly, it'd almost never happen and I'd have the thing forever. I always felt like a total jerk, so now I almost never ask to borrow anything because I know myself and my schedule well enough to realize what'll happen.

But... what happens now is people will offer (or insist!) on lending me things they think I'll enjoy or they want to hook me on, even though I try to dissuade them and repeatedly make damn sure they know I'm gonna have it a long time and warn them they might want to just hang on to it for the time being. But I usually end up with something sitting on the shelf I have to keep reminding myself I've "borrowed" and constantly feel bad for not having time to read/watch/play.

Exactly this! I always look after stuff I'm lent, but never get round to watching/listening/reading it etc.

But yeah, lending people stuff...generally a bad idea (I never did see the XBOX360 wireless adaptor and DiRT game I lent to my Ex-GF brother again...)

[BubblyShell22]

That it's going to rain again today and now going to rain on Saturday when I see my BF. So horrible! I was hoping we'd have a sunny day.

[CaliperCat]

Of all the rotten luck...

My roommate has a pretty sizeable flat screen tv (although it's on a stand). I was using it tonight while I was washing dishes, and didn't have it up particularly loud. Suddenly, something popped, and now the tv sound is staticky.

I'm guessing a speaker in the tv blew. Of course, this has to happen at a time when my roommate is out of town (I have permission to use the tv), and won't be back until tomorrow. So now I have the pleasure of telling her that her tv's busted something when she comes back. Understandably, she'll be ticked off about it, and I feel like living with her for the rest of the summer will be awkward and uncomfortable.

*sigh*

[Mew]

Originally Posted by CaliperCat

Of all the rotten luck...

My roommate has a pretty sizeable flat screen tv (although it's on a stand). I was using it tonight while I was washing dishes, and didn't have it up particularly loud. Suddenly, something popped, and now the tv sound is staticky.

I'm guessing a speaker in the tv blew. Of course, this has to happen at a time when my roommate is out of town (I have permission to use the tv), and won't be back until tomorrow. So now I have the pleasure of telling her that her tv's busted something when she comes back. Understandably, she'll be ticked off about it, and I feel like living with her for the rest of the summer will be awkward and uncomfortable.

*sigh*

Someone's gonna be mad. Be prepared for rage, so hide important personal items, (Like Your first baby spoon, and that old childhood teddy bear..or anything personal)
The more you know!

[CaliperCat]

Well, I changed the channel, and now it seems to have stopped fuzzing. *throws hands in the air* Thank you, technology, for giving me a heart attack.

[Mew]

I have a Toy Story VHS that does that. The audio gets fuzzy, and sometimes the audio channel just cuts out.

[Leo656]

So I kind of punched the dude I was wrestling a little too hard, and now he's got a shiner and my wrist is kind of acting weird. Bummer.