You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[Muta]

You should have made his day and played into his sexist comments by asking where the kitchen appliance section was; barring that, the cleaning isle.

[Regular_John]

Pretentious artist/creative types that feel "great ideas" should be free from real world constraints like resources, logistics, or budget.

Case in point, the old Bank of Montreal building (that's been dormant for years) on 1st street is being turned into a gym/fitness centre. To me that sounds great, a beautiful old building remains standing, and actually gets some use in the modern age.

But nope, some folks label that as a "fail" because such a beautiful space is "too good" to be a gym. It would make a better art gallery/museum/school in there minds. And hey, maybe it would be a great space for something like that, but no one in the 7-8 years since A&B Sound closed has come up with the funding to put something like that in there, so it's a "fail" because they finally found a tenant?

Was it a "win" when it was empty? Or a music store? Hey I love music stores, but at the end of the day they sell disposable consumer junk, so was it a "fail" then as well?

We live in a world of constraints, and personally I'm much more of a fan of great ideas/projects that are completed with these constraints in place than theoretical "great" projects that are nothing more than naval gazing.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Bonded

People who tailgate in the right lane and make the slower drivers nervous.

Just makes for a bad situation and usually ends up slowing things down.

slower? as in less than the speed limit

[Hevishot]

3 pairs of identical jeans (Levi 501s) that have ripped in the identical spot in less than 2 weeks on each pair making it so my twig and berries are damn near exposed. Sick and tired of piss poor quality pants.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Hevishot

3 pairs of identical jeans (Levi 501s) that have ripped in the identical spot in less than 2 weeks on each pair making it so my twig and berries are damn near exposed. Sick and tired of piss poor quality pants.

Are you experiencing high volumes of wood?

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

slower? as in less than the speed limit

5 under to speed limit. Saw it twice this week on a three lane highway.

First time the slow driver moved left, slowing down the middle lane and the second time the slow driver just went even slower.

Maybe it's an American thing.

[19Yzerman19]

Originally Posted by Hevishot

3 pairs of identical jeans (Levi 501s) that have ripped in the identical spot in less than 2 weeks on each pair making it so my twig and berries are damn near exposed. Sick and tired of piss poor quality pants.

... So buy some actually good jeans? I have 5+ years on my oldest jeans.

[strombad]

Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19

... So buy some actually good jeans? I have 5+ years on my oldest jeans.

Whoa, what's wrong with Levi's??

[Shawnski]

Well that chicken dinner went through me so fast I think I must have used Shake And Flush.

[Acey]

I spun out on McKnight and got high centered on the median. No biggie. Got out to inspect the damage and TRIPPED on the curb. Somebody saw me on the ground and called 911, I don't know what they told them because I had 7 emergency vehicles come to save me from nothing tonight. End result is a $172 ticket for unreasonable speed.

Tonight, a good Samaritan RGMG.

[Johnny199r]

What RGMG is timeouts for sports, mainly football, basketball. They slow down the game so much. Why not let players actually think for themselves instead of having to draw up plays? I wish there were no timeouts in any pro sports.

[undercoverbrother]

Posters that continue to make accusations, yet when pressed can't produce any evidence to support their accusations.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Acey

I spun out on McKnight and got high centered on the median. No biggie. Got out to inspect the damage and TRIPPED on the curb. Somebody saw me on the ground and called 911, I don't know what they told them because I had 7 emergency vehicles come to save me from nothing tonight. End result is a $172 ticket for unreasonable speed.

Tonight, a good Samaritan RGMG.

Wait what? A cop can give you a ticket without having seen it?

[Acey]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Wait what? A cop can give you a ticket without having seen it?

Yeah they were like you had to have been going too fast coming around the corner for the conditions. This, in a FWD car with almost brand new winter tires on arguably the worst quality road in Calgary. I'll be fighting this without question.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Acey

Yeah they were like you had to have been going too fast coming around the corner for the conditions. This, in a FWD car with almost brand new winter tires on arguably the worst quality road in Calgary. I'll be fighting this without question.

Keep us posted on how the ticket fight goes.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Acey

Yeah they were like you had to have been going too fast coming around the corner for the conditions. This, in a FWD car with almost brand new winter tires on arguably the worst quality road in Calgary. I'll be fighting this without question.

At night court?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Acey

Yeah they were like you had to have been going too fast coming around the corner for the conditions. This, in a FWD car with almost brand new winter tires on arguably the worst quality road in Calgary. I'll be fighting this without question.

That's bull****, you shouldn't have to take a day off work and go through all that hassle.

I have huge respect for our Police, but honestly if I you were, I wouldn't play the polite angle at all when you go.



Seriously, just throw out the relevant questions to the judge in a "I know what I'm talking about" tone.

"Okay, so the first question I have is "What speed does the officer think I was traveling?".

"Is it true that there could have been black ice, that a car traveling a safe speed could be thrown off by?"

"Is it true that a car could easily end up in that position from a low speed spin out caused by a surprisingly bad patch of road?"



Make sure you make him answer your questions, and not just answer their questions the whole time, as there's a natural bias for the question answerer to sound more defensive and more wrong.

This all brought to you by the expertise of "Do you accept this fine as it stands? Yes, I do" flameswin.

[Acey]

Wouldn't be my first time going to the courthouse to talk to a first appearance prosecutor. The $172 isn't an issue, it's the demerits. Trying to keep those to a minimum as I'd prefer not to get suspended again.

With exams, not sure my court date will work out. Might postpone, but I've got to move to Edmonton quick here. Gotta weigh the hassle vs my other business.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Acey

Wouldn't be my first time going to the courthouse to talk to a first appearance prosecutor. The $172 isn't an issue, it's the demerits. Trying to keep those to a minimum as I'd prefer not to get suspended again.

With exams, not sure my court date will work out. Might postpone, but I've got to move to Edmonton quick here. Gotta weigh the hassle vs my other business.

Wait, with demerits? ****, I'm not even you and I'm pissed at this scenario. Unless there's more to the story, which you don't really seem like that type of poster, then this is pretty crappy on their part.

Show up, find a car high centered, charge driver with unsafe driving?

[Mr.Coffee]

Well before we all go getting pissy with the police in this scenario... Acey... were you speeding?

(you may not want to answer that haha). But really, how did you spin out then? Just random?