Shit that annoys you

[MontuckyFried]

Yesterday, last day of 2020.....driving month old 2021 Tundra on highway coming home from skiing......big stone kicks up from dump truck up ahead...hits dead center of windshield leaves “bullet hole”....then precedes to crack out the entire width of windshield...

Oh well....figured it was a fitting end to the year.

Sunnuvabitch. Never fails whenever you have a brand new car. Oh, but the old beaters? Nothing ever seems to happen to them. Perplexing phenomenon.

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[char_]

Oregon’s bottle redemption program. I have a glass recycling container 15 ft away that gets picked up yet for some reason in order to get my 10 cents back I need to bag it up and take it to a specific location, then go to a kiosk to get my money back. Total waste of resources.

[MakersTeleMark]

Sunnuvabitch. Never fails whenever you have a brand new car. Oh, but the old beaters? Nothing ever seems to happen to them. Perplexing phenomenon.

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Bullshit. We just wait out a couple winters and budget it into the springtime.

[Ted Striker]

When I first moved to SD I lived in a condo tower downtown 2 blocks from the train tracks. Every night between 2-3am a big freight train would roll through blowing its horn. Between federal regs and the engineer unions contract there was a minimum and maximum number of horn blows permitted. With crossings every block downtown there were many complaints to the city, county, transit district, rail company, DOT, etc. This must have escalated at some point and pushed the wrong buttons because after that the engineers started blowing the horn the maximum number of times allowed at every crossing. It got to the point people downtown were so irate some locals tried to board the train one time to go after the engineer. We got a downtown quiet zone a few years after that. I still hear train horns occasionally way out here in OB/Pt Loma.

I missed this, but yeah, that's exactly what's happening here. In the late 00s the number of freight trains rolling through town increased from single digits to 14 per 24hr day due to an increase in coal shipments to China. People near the tracks were doubly pissed, because not only were these loud long heavy trains that shook buildings within a half-mile from the track, they left carcinogenic dust in their wakes.

Over the next decade there were similar fights involving the city, county, rail company, DOT, etc, and it did get better for a while, but then some idiots sabotaged a switch, and all bets are off. Now at 4 am, there's one engineer that just holds the horn on (with just tiny blips of off) all the way through town. Basically FUUUCCCKKKKYOUUUUUBELLINGHAM!!!!!!!!

[jm2e]

I fucking hate living near a train.


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[skaredshtles]

Bullshit. We just wait out a couple winters and budget it into the springtime.

This. It's a never-ending battle in Colorado.

[Danno]

Sunnuvabitch. Never fails whenever you have a brand new car. Oh, but the old beaters? Nothing ever seems to happen to them. Perplexing phenomenon.

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It happens to beaters too (ask me how I know). Usually about a month after you change out the windshield.

[Mustonen]

I fucking hate living near a train.


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Was looking at a house for sale the other day... train tracks 100 feet (if that) from the back yard privacy fence. Nice house, but priced at the top of the market. No way, I’m thinking.

[BC.]

It happens to beaters too (ask me how I know). Usually about a month after you change out the windshield.

It’s why I think I might just drive it cracked all winter and deal in the spring.....plus, the bullet/rock hole looks cool...gives it some street cred like Alonzos ride in “Training Day”.

[MontuckyFried]

It happens to beaters too (ask me how I know). Usually about a month after you change out the windshield.

Yeah, I guess that's true but perhaps less noticeable when the car's got rock chips and dings all over it. The pain is SO MUCH worse when it's a shiny, flawless brand new vehicle where every flaw sticks out like a sore thumb. When you see that rock chip flying in slow motion from ACROSS the highway so there was literally nothing you could have done to avoid it, I just cringe and it's as if I can physically feel the car's pain. Oof!

[skaredshtles]

It’s why I think I might just drive it cracked all winter and deal in the spring.....plus, the bullet/rock hole looks cool...gives it some street cred like Alonzos ride in “Training Day”.

If it's not in my field of vision, I'll leave it indefinitely... because eventually it'll get one that *is* in the field. Then replacement gets scheduled.

[Mustonen]

Divorce and sharing custody with a narcissistic, asshole ex are a constant source of annoyance. I go along to get along because her capacity to fight is endless and tedious:

- Christmas 2019, ex wife asks to have kids for a consecutive Christmas because of work schedule. Apparently she can get the week of Christmas off, but not New Year’s, because that’s common. Sure, I say.

- COVID. She withholds custody for 3 months because she’s a hypochondriac, I mean “immunocompromised”.

- Christmas 2020, doesn’t occur to me I wouldn’t have kids Christmas week. Well, apparently again, the week of Christmas is all she can get off. More bullshit. I tell her we’ll sort it out in court. She relents, sort of, to where I can have them Christmas night and morning, but she has them the week of and weekends before and after.

- I expected I’d have them the week of new year’s, but she insists that they be with her NYE. Sure, I guess. Reasonable enough.

- Turns out, she got them fast food for NYE, left them at home, and went to a NYE party.

You shake your head and mutter and move on, because what else do you do?

But it’s annoying.

[BC.]

Yeah, I guess that's true but perhaps less noticeable when the car's got rock chips and dings all over it. The pain is SO MUCH worse when it's a shiny, flawless brand new vehicle where every flaw sticks out like a sore thumb. When you see that rock chip flying in slow motion from ACROSS the highway so there was literally nothing you could have done to avoid it, I just cringe and it's as if I can physically feel the car's pain. Oof!

^^^This...exactly...saw it coming right at me...lol.

[MakersTeleMark]

Divorce and sharing custody with a narcissistic, asshole ex are a constant source of annoyance. I go along to get along because her capacity to fight is endless and tedious:

- Christmas 2019, ex wife asks to have kids for a consecutive Christmas because of work schedule. Apparently she can get the week of Christmas off, but not New Year’s, because that’s common. Sure, I say.

- COVID. She withholds custody for 3 months because she’s a hypochondriac, I mean “immunocompromised”.

- Christmas 2020, doesn’t occur to me I wouldn’t have kids Christmas week. Well, apparently again, the week of Christmas is all she can get off. More bullshit. I tell her we’ll sort it out in court. She relents, sort of, to where I can have them Christmas night and morning, but she has them the week of and weekends before and after.

- I expected I’d have them the week of new year’s, but she insists that they be with her NYE. Sure, I guess. Reasonable enough.

- Turns out, she got them fast food for NYE, left them at home, and went to a NYE party.

You shake your head and mutter and move on, because what else do you do?

But it’s annoying.

Have a rock solid parenting plan would be a good start.

[riser4]

They were the only lectures everyone showed up for--they were mostly films of people doing various kinds of sex. Internet porn hadn't been invented. I think the idea was to make it easier to talk to patients about sex. Didn't do me any good--they didn't have any movies of guys sticking foreign objects up their ass for me to have to remove.

You have strange hobbies.

[Rideski]

How does an immunocompromised hypochondriac go to a new year’s party?
I’m thinking that was code for hanging out with old goat.

[Mustonen]

How does an immunocompromised hypochondriac go to a new year’s party?
I’m thinking that was code for hanging out with old goat.

Right? It’s everything together that breaks my brain.

Ok fine, you’re worried about the pandemic so want to aggressively minimize vectors of exposure by violating the custody order, I guess I can get my head to that space. Wait, you absolutely need them for the NYE holiday but then ditch them with a bucket of fast food to go to a fucking party during a pandemic? 🤯

[old goat]

You have strange hobbies.

We always take xrays--not for any medical reason but makes for a more interesting case presentation.

[PB]

We always take xrays--not for any medical reason but makes for a more interesting case presentation.

I KNEW it! The nurse just smiled and shook her head when I demanded to know why they needed ....... oh wait ...... when my friend demanded.

[skiballs]

Potentially good movies that are ruined by the that stupid narrator voice.


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[powdrhound]

Potentially good movies that are ruined by the that stupid narrator voice.

Should have used Sam Elliott?

[PB]

Nah; Truman Capote or Mike Tyson.

[Flyoverland Captive]

Oregon’s bottle redemption program. I have a glass recycling container 15 ft away that gets picked up yet for some reason in order to get my 10 cents back I need to bag it up and take it to a specific location, then go to a kiosk to get my money back. Total waste of resources.

Use BottleDrop. Drop off a bag, they take 10% off the deposit to process it. The money goes into your account, which you then redeem at Fred Meyer, who gives you a 20% premium. You actually make money. Yeah, they won’t pick it up, but you gotta go get groceries anyway, so just drop them when you’re in town.

[Mustonen]

The Blister review site annoys me. While I maintain that they insidiously and effectively killed the review culture here at TGR, I finally caved to the paywall because..... the review culture at TGR was killed and there aren’t a lot of good user-based reviews out there. And they DO do a good job, generally. Well put together site and all that.

Anyways... if I’m paying $60 a year for a review site, it feels like they can keep up with the fucking questions in the comments.

[johnnyg82]

The Blister review site annoys me. While I maintain that they insidiously and effectively killed the review culture here at TGR, I finally caved to the paywall because..... the review culture at TGR was killed and there aren’t a lot of good user-based reviews out there. And they DO do a good job, generally. Well put together site and all that.

Anyways... if I’m paying $60 a year for a review site, it feels like they can keep up with the fucking questions in the comments.

If you’re a paying member, you can just email them questions