What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Jester

Working 40+ hours a week, often on shifts where I have to work with people who make me wanna pull all of my hair out, only to have the money I make vanish before I even notice. Just when you think you've kinda made it through...here comes another week of barely making it.

Doesn't help that my health insurance (which I really only carry for my wife. I'm fairly healthy....all things considered.) is nearly 1/4 of my check. I'm pretty sure I could take that money (or even a little less, to be honest), put it in a special bank account that I use only for health issue, and be better off.

Thus, why I do not and will never have any kids. God Bless Ya brother. I'm sure you're great at it. But everything you're describing is stuff I already deal with or have dealt with and sure wouldn't appreciate having to do it for Anyone Besides Myself. Minus the health insurance stuff, I don't deal with that. I don't get paid in solid gold bars, I get a check every two weeks like a normal person, so I have no health insurance.

Gear Grinds, let me see... hmmmmm... I'm gonna say "Waiting to be Paid". I was supposed to have received a check between Friday and today and it hasn't arrived. I was really counting on it, so that's a pain in the ass, especially with the holiday week. If it's not here tomorrow I'm gonna have to call somebody about it.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Thus, why I do not and will never have any kids. God Bless Ya brother. I'm sure you're great at it. But everything you're describing is stuff I already deal with or have dealt with and sure wouldn't appreciate having to do it for Anyone Besides Myself. Minus the health insurance stuff, I don't deal with that. I don't get paid in solid gold bars, I get a check every two weeks like a normal person, so I have no health insurance. .

You know what's funny....having a SECOND kid might actually help us in some ways. How screwed up is that!?

[Netkeeper]

Originally Posted by Jephael

Looks like the War on Christmas is starting up again. I was checking my mom's e-mail to see if she got anything important from her job and this christian group she got subscribed to sent an e-mail whining about PetSmart using the term "holiday". WHO F**KING CARES?! I used to really look forward to this time of year, but now it brings up nothing but stress because I dunno whether I should say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" out of fear of offending somebody.

You're coming off as a little over-dramatic here.

I agree that Happy Holidays is probably the better phrase to use in most instances -- it rolls off the tongue better, and nobody in their right mind should be offended by it. As Bubbly said, there are multiple holidays it could be referring to [and as a kid, I honestly always thought the phrase was lumping Christmas and New Year's together so I didn't understand why it was a controversial phrase to begin with].

[Jester]

It's a similar controversy with "X-mas". Only bent out of shape people care. I had a professor in college who told us not to get on a high horse about it, because the X is simply an abbreviation, because in Biblical Greek Christ starts with an X. "They aren't 'Xing Christ out of Christmas' it's just an abbreviation."

And before we get to far down the rabbit hole, being unable to sleep at home and being bone tired at work is grinding my gears something fierce.

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by Jester

It's a similar controversy with "X-mas". Only bent out of shape people care. I had a professor in college who told us not to get on a high horse about it, because the X is simply an abbreviation, because in Biblical Greek Christ starts with an X. "They aren't 'Xing Christ out of Christmas' it's just an abbreviation.

Yeah. The connecting P X symbol. I heard and read about it in my Art Appreciation class. I need to look up again. As for your professor explaining and sharing that bit of insight, that is actually pretty slick.

[blindturtle02]

Originally Posted by DarkFell

Yeah. The connecting P X symbol. I heard and read about it in my Art Appreciation class. I need to look up again. As for your professor explaining and sharing that bit of insight, that is actually pretty slick.

Slick indeed. I think I was in the same class with Jester when our prof mentioned the x. Totally forgot about it in the midst of all the holiday hubbub. At least I think it happened around the holidays.

Amazon instant video not uploading the latest TMNT episode yet pretty much grinds my gears today. Other than that, I'm peachy. Oh hang on! The fact that my fiancee's dad puts nuts in every single holiday dessert is a tiny gear grinder. To me, they are and always have been tasteless, but I do like them in a few. I really miss chocolate cake with no nuts. If I make one, they'll probably eat most of it, but I have to satiate the inner chocolate monster. Then he can go to sleep until Christmas for all I care. Well, maybe.

[plastroncafe]

http://usaopoly.com/blog/your-sneak-...rtles-monopoly

Today's Gear Grind is that of all the Fred Wolf characters to choose as tokens USAopoly chose Casey over April.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

http://usaopoly.com/blog/your-sneak-...rtles-monopoly

Today's Gear Grind is that of all the Fred Wolf characters to choose as tokens USAopoly chose Casey over April.

But he was so popular in the Fred Wolf show, like he was in whole six episodes.

Best character to make as an essential game piece...

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

But he was so popular in the Fred Wolf show, like he was in whole six episodes.

Best character to make as an essential game piece...

I'm certain this has nothing what so ever to do with April being a chick.
It's just a coincidence.

[Candy Kappa]

Nono, not at all.


But she still have cooties.

[Leo656]

Well, let's be honest... in the in-game universe, are they trying to FIGHT Shredder and Co. or get captured by them?

I just know if I were playing, *I* wouldn't try and take on the Technodrome with a broad who was once completely incapacitated by a bad guy by having her feet tickled.

On a serious note, though, thanks for posting that, because apparently my wife is getting it for me for Christmas.

[plastroncafe]

But but but...I thought the whole point of April was that she wasn't a damsel in distress! That she was an empowered female character integral to the plot and not just a token!

MY WORLD IS SHATTERED!
...
or something.

(snark aside: You're welcome! It's an adorable bit of geekery.)

[Leo656]

I'unno about all that. I just know that before seeing that episode as a kid, I didn't know tying up a chick and tickling her feet could be a sexual thing, and somehow, after seeing that episode, I Knew.

Thank You, 1980s Cartoon Shows, and all your wildly inappropriate subtext hidden between horrendous puns and sight gags.

[snake]

When you run something over in your head and it comes out wrong when you say it. My cousin thought I told her she should die, when it was supposed to come out way differently.

[Leo656]

I just found another silver hair. F*ck me.

[Powder]

I've had some greys for like 2 years & I only just turned 24 yesterday. F*ck it.

[plastroncafe]

This is why I started dying my hair bright red.

[Candy Kappa]

I'm just loosing my hair... Moon on mothers side and widow's peaks on my dad's... Yay.

I hate having it short, but after being in a restaurant'so toilet where all the walls and floor was all mirrors, I saw keeping my hair was a loosing battle.

[BubblyShell22]

I've had gray hairs since I was twenty, and I don't care one bit. It's just a bunch of dead cells sprouting out of your heads, guys. Please try to calm down.

[Slade]

Being ignored...