What Really Grinds My Gears
From codegorilla
Borrowed from an episode of Family Guy.
09:30, 20 April 2009 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Rear Fog lights. I wonder if they cause more accidents that they claim to prevent, think about it. When travelling in fog, what more important know that someone is braking in front of you, or knowing that there is someone in front of you. Most accidents happen when when someone stops or brakes suddenly, not the person behind them (maybe out of sight) has the difficult task of determining is the bright red lights up ahead are fog lights or brakes lights. In the case of the former it will be to late for them to stop, as the distance travelled whilst determining that they are getting closer to the person in front means an accident is almost inevitable. Brakes lights are used to indicate that the person in front is slowing down - this is very useful. Fog lights and brake lights are almost as intense as one another. Maybe a better change for fog lights would be to change them to flashing (ala the rain lights on the back of F1 cars) or to give them a different colour than brake lights.
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
10:13, 11 September 2008 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Those plastic security cases they put around DVD cases, the ones you see in supermarkets like Sainsburys, well the reason they annoy me is because of the white security tag that's inside the box (it contains the wires that set of the alarms at the doors), and where do they put this which sticker tags (about 3cm square), well of course its obvious - right over the description on the back of the DVD telling you what the film is about. Many a DVD I have though of buying I have subsequently put back as I was unable to read what it was about.
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
09:34, 14 July 2008 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Lazy man road re-surfacing. You know what I mean, where the councils are so cheap and lazy that all they do it lay some hot tar and chuck some stones on it and leave it up the Joe public to drive over them and embed them and clean it all away. Which leave Joe public with lots of stone chips on there car and tarmac and stones stuck in and on their tyres. And they expect everyone to travel at just 10mph over this "road surface", all it takes is another car going the other way doing more than 10mph for your car to be showered in stones. What happened to the gold old days where the road surfaced was actually redone completely, scrapping of the other surface with big machines and they laying the new road in equally big machines.
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
09:43, 8 July 2008 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Road work signs on the side of the road that tell you when and for how long work will take, you know, the ones where someone (obviously an idiot) write on the date and time in a Biro - a thin black line. How are you meant to read that when driving past at anything above 1mph - yes 1. You have to stop, get out and examine the sign. What's wrong with these idiots.
- Gordon Brown, and this government in general. Yesterday we had a report from Gordon Brown that we should stop wasting food as that's what drives prices higher at the supermarket. In simple supply and demand maybe - but he forgets the buying power argument. The more buying power (read cartel) a supermarket chain has the better they can drive the prices down, that why your local shop is way more expensive than a supermarket. If we buy less food then prices at the supermarket will go UP (they have less buying power, just like your local shop). What a simplistic view this government has on Life. It really winds me up when a government starts blaming its citizens/subjects for life the universe and everything else that goes tits up.
- Yes it us, the people - we are responsible for the increase in oil prices, the fact the government chooses to charge VAT (17.5%) on all fuel transactions means that the increase in oil prices means they get more VAT. You really want to do something about oil prices? Stop using petrol at all - everyone, for just one week. I bet the government might be a bit pissed off at its lost tax revenue then. Two years is a long time to wait for an unelected official who chooses to hit the poorest hardest to get out of government. That general election is going to be amazingly bad for Nu'Labour. It's just a shame that a glory hound such as David Cameron will win!
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
11:25, 18 June 2008 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Discovering that the world is not a sphere, The Flat Earth Society is brilliant, all this time I thought that the world was a sphere, having travelled some distance on it and seen what I thought was the curvature of the earth and today I discover I was wrong. I found this out by amusing myself reading about the hoax moon landing theories and was impressed by the claim from the Flat Earth people that the pictures show the earth as a sphere so it must be a hoax (see an oxymoron in practice).
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
10:43, 16 June 2008 (BST)
You know what really grinds my gears?
- Drivers who decide at the last minute to turn of the motor way and can't even be bothered to indicate, I don't mind that they were late changing lane, but the least they could do was have the common decency to actually indicate.
- Air-conditioned offices, or more to the point, offices that has air conditioning but for some unknown reason just doesn't work quite right. And then you have the people that think its too hot and open the windows (rendering the air conditioning effectively off) or those that have the power to control the temperature but decide just because they are happy then so should every one else be.
And that's what really grinds my gears today.
