What Grinds Your Gears Reloaded...Again

[iowatreat54]

The fact that I have not one person in my office to talk sports with without having to walk away after 2 minutes because I'm scared I'm going to call them a moron.

I just listened to two guys say that the Bulls should trade Noah + Boozer/Taj Gibson for Tim Duncan. I wasn't even involved in the conversation and I had to get up from my desk and walk away.

[eaglesalltheway]

You know what grinds my gears, you sit down for dinner, and it seems like every ***** that breathes decides NOW is a brilliant time to start talking about vomit. *****, I just started eating, I don't want to hear about that ****, let alone the detail in which you're going into. What happened to the classy broads? Ha

[Brent]

Originally Posted by iowatreat54

The fact that I have not one person in my office to talk sports with without having to walk away after 2 minutes because I'm scared I'm going to call them a moron.

I just listened to two guys say that the Bulls should trade Noah + Boozer/Taj Gibson for Tim Duncan. I wasn't even involved in the conversation and I had to get up from my desk and walk away.

I pretend to know nothing about sports at work.

[iowatreat54]

Originally Posted by Brent

I pretend to know nothing about sports at work.

That's pretty much what I have to do. Every once in a while someone makes such an idiotic or untruthful comment, that I need to say something. I usually regret it immediately afterwards.

Like the time my coworker tried to convince me that the Pirates almost made the World Series in the late 90s but lost to the Braves in 6 or 7 games in the NLCS. When I told him the Pirates haven't made the playoffs in like 20 years, and that he was probably thinking the early 90s, he maintained that it was like 97 or 98 that they had a good team. I'm just forced to accept the argument, and hope my silence prevents any further discussion.

[Raiderz4Life]

My coworkers piss me off all the time when they start talking about the Lakers....they're effing retards.

Only person I can talk to about any sport is the security guard and only about soccer lol

[Brent]

Originally Posted by iowatreat54

That's pretty much what I have to do. Every once in a while someone makes such an idiotic or untruthful comment, that I need to say something. I usually regret it immediately afterwards.

I have walked out of our lunch room numerous times to avoid having to listen to uneducated sports discussion. The worst, however, are the male students I teach. They just regurgitate ESPN.

[njx9]

the best thing about my job is putting in headphones when people talk about sports around me. what's funny is everyone thinks i hate sports now.

[CJSchneider]

Originally Posted by Brent

I have walked out of our lunch room numerous times to avoid having to listen to uneducated sports discussion. The worst, however, are the male students I teach. They just regurgitate ESPN.

I assure you it is worse at the MS level.

They are broken records who just spout profanities if you are not a fan of the same team they are.

[scottyboy]

what sucks is that I plan on being a basketball coach when I'm a teacher so I can't feign ignorance in sports.

[BeerBaron]

Rare gear grinding aversion.

There are a bunch of huge, flat screen TVs on the walls where I work. They're normally set to crap channels like Fox News, Fox News in HD, PCN And the local access channel that seriously shows nothing but town council meetings.

And these are pretty tightly controlled by our upper management...but it looks like someone set one of them to the Big 10 Network, and they're showing a replay of the Nebraska/Northwestern game. Sweet. There's no sound, but I don't recall who won this game so it's like watching a live game.

Sweet.

[iowatreat54]

Originally Posted by BeerBaron

Rare gear grinding aversion.

There are a bunch of huge, flat screen TVs on the walls where I work. They're normally set to crap channels like Fox News, Fox News in HD, PCN And the local access channel that seriously shows nothing but town council meetings.

And these are pretty tightly controlled by our upper management...but it looks like someone set one of them to the Big 10 Network, and they're showing a replay of the Nebraska/Northwestern game. Sweet. There's no sound, but I don't recall who won this game so it's like watching a live game.

Sweet.

I work in the treasury department for my company, and my boss has been trying to get a tv for his office so that he can "keep up on the market and foreign currencies." Of course, he already does this with a little thing called the internet. But he really wants to get a tv so that we can throw on March Madness while having "meetings."

Our office has one TV out in the reception area, and it's usually on like CNN or MSNBC. I generally don't have a problem with that, except every mouthbreather in the office will stop and watch a story about how some one got arrested or some one died. They then use that as an excuse to force current events conversations on people.

If there's a close 2nd place to ignorant people talking sports that grinds my gears, it's people pretending to be all knowledgable to current events by just watching 2 mins of a news clip and saying how it's the fault of the media, government, spaghetti monsters, etc.

[Babylon]

How it takes some minor obscure event to raise gas prices through the roof and then takes what seems like forever for them to come down.

[zachsaints52]

I hate trying to talk to my frat brothers about the NFL. I have one brother who understand football, but the rest scare me. They try to say that Drew Brees is a Top 10, not Top 5, and that Matt Ryan is Top 5.

[iowatreat54]

36 minutes before Bulls-Knicks and my cable is out...

[Rob S]

Reading textbooks grinds my gears. It grinds them a lot.

[TitanHope]

Talking to someone on the telephone. If I had one legit phobia, it's telephone conversations.

[CashmoneyDrew]

Originally Posted by TitanHope

Talking to someone on the telephone. If I had one legit phobia, it's telephone conversations.

Hey. You've called me before. Guess you're glad I wasn't around to answer.

[TitanHope]

Originally Posted by CashmoneyDrew

Hey. You've called me before. Guess you're glad I wasn't around to answer.

That was an emergency, though. Sacrifices must be made for forum mocks and fantasy drafts...AND FRIENDSHIP!

But if we're hanging out one day and you get took in a gang hit, which is surprisingly common in Murfreesboro and/or Chattanooga, and somebody has to call an ambulance... I hope that Siri lady (which is also what an Asian guy calls a female comedian) keeps cool under preshuh.

[njx9]

everyone talking on the phone while driving should be drawn and quartered.

[Jimmy]

Originally Posted by njx9

everyone talking on the phone while driving should be drawn and quartered.

this too

[njx9]

i don't see that as much in denver. though, i try to be fair to those people. i know it looks like i'm texting when i'm just hitting next song.

[DoughBoy]

Originally Posted by njx9

everyone talking on the phone while driving should be drawn and quartered.

I love you. I work part time at Chick-fil-a and I hate when people are on their phones while I am trying to deal with them in the drive-thru. Plus I have yet to meet a human that can drive for **** when multitasking.

[TitanHope]

Texting while driving isn't hard, anne frankly, I'm glad those teenagers died sending "lol."

[iowatreat54]

Originally Posted by iowatreat54

36 minutes before Bulls-Knicks and my cable is out...

Just wanted to let everyone know its like 2 hours later and I still don't have cable. When I call in, they have a generic message stating, "If you're hearing this, it means we've been notified of an outage in your area." Yea, well no ****, when's it back on? I finally talk to someone, and they won't tell me anything other than my cable is out. Any idea when it might come back on? Is it something that will take until tomorrow and I should stop getting my hopes up?

Originally Posted by TitanHope

Talking to someone on the telephone. If I had one legit phobia, it's telephone conversations.

Me too. At work, I let the voice mail pick it up like 50% of the time if I don't recognize the number, just so I can listen to it and determine if it's someone I have to talk to.

[BeerBaron]

The average person's language skills.

I sent an email to a user of one of my companies applications and in it, I used "per se."

They didn't know what "per se" was and thought it was some kind of function of the app.