(Topic title is Family Guy-speak for 'It really irritates me when...')
...when you are building an inpromptu character from scratch, and you are nearly done and you accidently close the browser, losing everything because you didn't write it up first offline.
On a similar note....
... when you are excited to read an RP reply and you start writing up a great post in the reply box and you submit but your computer has lost wifi connection. You re-establish connection but the back button gives you a blank reply box.
That is a couple of things that 'grinds my gears'. And yes, they are due to my own laxness.
One from outside the world wide web...
... whenthe first car at the light of a right turn (or left turn in non UK countries) doesn't pay attention and sits there after the light is green. Pull your finger out and go already! You are limiting we poor schmucks that are behind you an opportunity to get through this signal.
So... what 'Grinds Youy Gears'???
...when you are building an inpromptu character from scratch, and you are nearly done and you accidently close the browser, losing everything because you didn't write it up first offline.
On a similar note....
... when you are excited to read an RP reply and you start writing up a great post in the reply box and you submit but your computer has lost wifi connection. You re-establish connection but the back button gives you a blank reply box.
That is a couple of things that 'grinds my gears'. And yes, they are due to my own laxness.
One from outside the world wide web...
... whenthe first car at the light of a right turn (or left turn in non UK countries) doesn't pay attention and sits there after the light is green. Pull your finger out and go already! You are limiting we poor schmucks that are behind you an opportunity to get through this signal.
So... what 'Grinds Youy Gears'???
Family Guy. THAT'S where it's from. I was trying to remember and I kept thinking Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or something.
It really grinds my gears when car salesmen try to get you to agree to a deal by saying it's the best possible deal and then as you're walking out they find an even better possible deal. Car salemen grind my gears in general. Salesmen in general, actually.
It really grinds my gears when science doesn't know the answers to everything that I think it should know the answers to, so I research something for hours only to end up with answer "nobody really knows why," or "experts disagree."
It really grinds my gears when...people misunderstand the intentions of what I'm saying. Like, when an actual statement like "you're so pretty," gets taken sarcastically, or a statement like "do you know where the remote is" gets taken as "you're not organized enough"...which is not what I was saying at all..lol.
It really grinds my gears when...someone or something is so beautiful that I cannot express it in words and therefore the person will never know how beautiful I think they are (or the thing will go not-fully described), and that's why I kind of want telepathy to exist. But then again, what would writers do then? Hmmm. It sure is a beautiful process trying to come up with the words to describe that beauty, though. And when someone gets it...really gets it? Magic.
It really grinds my gears when I have a lot of energy and no outlet but the outlet I find is so awesome that it's addictive...but that's just life.
It really grinds my gears when people don't realize that nerds rule the world!
It really grinds my gears when car salesmen try to get you to agree to a deal by saying it's the best possible deal and then as you're walking out they find an even better possible deal. Car salemen grind my gears in general. Salesmen in general, actually.
It really grinds my gears when science doesn't know the answers to everything that I think it should know the answers to, so I research something for hours only to end up with answer "nobody really knows why," or "experts disagree."
It really grinds my gears when...people misunderstand the intentions of what I'm saying. Like, when an actual statement like "you're so pretty," gets taken sarcastically, or a statement like "do you know where the remote is" gets taken as "you're not organized enough"...which is not what I was saying at all..lol.
It really grinds my gears when...someone or something is so beautiful that I cannot express it in words and therefore the person will never know how beautiful I think they are (or the thing will go not-fully described), and that's why I kind of want telepathy to exist. But then again, what would writers do then? Hmmm. It sure is a beautiful process trying to come up with the words to describe that beauty, though. And when someone gets it...really gets it? Magic.
It really grinds my gears when I have a lot of energy and no outlet but the outlet I find is so awesome that it's addictive...but that's just life.
It really grinds my gears when people don't realize that nerds rule the world!
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