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

[sun]

I hate "combined" words (is there a term for this?).

ie, frenemies, freecycle, guestimate, etc. Pretty much guaranteed to make you sound like an idiot.

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by sun

I hate "combined" words (is there a term for this?).

ie, frenemies, freecycle, guestimate, etc. Pretty much guaranteed to make you sound like an idiot.

Portmanteau is the word you're looking for. That's my good deed for the day.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by fotze

They have been saying he's a beauty back in the 80's?

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I can't remember that not being apart of hockey. Seems like a Don Cherry thing that's been around for a while.

I think it started with Bob and Doug Mckenzie "Beauty Eh!"

That would have been late 70's, early 80's

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by sun

I hate "combined" words (is there a term for this?).

ie, frenemies, freecycle, guestimate, etc. Pretty much guaranteed to make you sound like an idiot.

I think the worst is people that think they sound clever when they describe something as "Horawful"

[bradster57]

Originally Posted by sun

I hate "combined" words (is there a term for this?).

ie, frenemies, freecycle, guestimate, etc. Pretty much guaranteed to make you sound like an idiot.

Staycation really GMG.

And when people see an emotional video and say "that gets me right in the feels." Ugh. Maybe I'm getting old.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by strombad

You know what RGMG? Tech snobs.

You know who I'm talking about, the "well this is better" or, "you should've bought this."

Damn, my iPhone battery sucks lately, "Oh well you should've bought a Samsung, they're a lot better for blah blah blah blah" Yeah neato bro, cool story.

iPhone/Android, Playstation/Xbox, Mac/Windows, whatever. Everyone has to be an expert over what's better and why. How about, if you want to spend a pile of money on a tiny piece of technology, you just pick whatever you like and let everyone else do the exact same thing. Oh your Samsung has interchangeable batteries? Sweet, life must be pure bliss for you. Keep living the dream.

Which Iphone? Because changing the battery yourself is pretty easy

[strombad]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

Which Iphone? Because changing the battery yourself is pretty easy

5, but if I need to access the back then no can do. I smashed the glass on the back all to hell so I glued a dope looking wood cover on the back, thus, the actual back will never see the light of day.

My Phone is pretty much just hanging on for the ride at this point.

[Mr.Coffee]

when there is a nice video or something touching and people write "damn onions".

Holy hell. STFU. I despise that line.

[Yasa]

I was driving on a highway, when a truck ahead of me threw a cup of shelled sunflower seeds out his window and showered my car. What the ####!?

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by Yasa

I was driving on a highway, when a truck ahead of me threw a cup of shelled sunflower seeds out his window and showered my car. What the ####!?

Was Big Bird driving that truck?

[sun]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

when there is a nice video or something touching and people write "damn onions".

Holy hell. STFU. I despise that line.

I will piggyback on this one and add:

"I just spit my drink on my keyboard"
"You owe me a new keyboard"
etc

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by sun

I will piggyback on this one and add:

"I just spit my drink on my keyboard"
"You owe me a new keyboard"
etc

Be sure to add "literally" in there for full gear grinder points.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

An old gear grinder shows up again. The new guy who parks beside me in the apartment complex parkade has dinged my doors two days in a row now. It pisses me off how oblivious or inconsiderate people are.

Time to write a polite letter, since I have never seen the person and don't know who they are.

Turns out it's a woman, wrote her a note and she replied it wasn't her. A couple weeks later a big dent shows up.

Fast forward to today, car is keyed. Coincidence? I think not. What a crap way to start the morning, pretty annoyed.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by fotze

You should set her car on fire then amputate her feet. You want to escalate, I know how to escalate.

Should it be in that order though? I feel like if I amputate her feet first, she won't be able to stop me from setting her car on fire.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Should it be in that order though? I feel like if I amputate her feet first, she won't be able to stop me from setting her car on fire.

But if you start the fire first, you can cauterize the stumps on the hood of the car.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

But if you start the fire first, you can cauterize the stumps on the hood of the car.

Like a hood ornament?

[Regular_John]

The amount of "ZOMG LOOK AT ALL THIS SNOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRINGS!" photos on social media this morning. Yes, it's the first day and spring, and yes, there's snow falling from the sky. No, we don't need 1,000 photos of it.

[ken0042]

Maybe too late now, but what about using a dash cam aimed her way?

[Brannigans Law]

I have a rewards eraser that basically works so that if you spend 0-150 dollars you always have to use 150 dollars of value of rewards miles, 150-300 300 dollars value used, and 600+ is dollar for dollars. So if you buy anything under 600 dollars you want to get as close as possible to the highest mark or your throwing away miles.

Couple days ago I booked a flight for me and my GF to go to Nova Scotia this summer. I booked the flight there on AC, return on WJ. Both single transactions with both seats together. Westjet charged me as a single transaction and I erased the full amount dollar for dollar as it was over 600.

Air Canada charged me 2 seperate transactions of 415 dollars instead of 1 for 830, screwing me out of the chance to erase it at full dollar value. So I called them asked for it to be billed out correctly as a single transaction, as I didn't book the seats separately. The woman I got on the line was the most obtuse jackhole I've ever spoken to in my life. Oh and this is after 2 hours of waiting for a callback because the 1st callback disconnected me when I got a call saying an agent was ready for me.

Conversation:

Me: So hey I have just 1 transaction with you but it's showing as 2 on the pending transactions.
Woman: Yes sir because you bought two tickets.
Me: Can you confirm though it was just a single transaction? I bought them together (explained my rewards plight).
Woman: OH yes it was a single purchase sir but you bought two tickets.
Me: But I made 1 single purchase.
Woman: Correct.
Me: So why are you charging me twice?
Woman: We aren't.
Me: But there's two pending transactions.
Woman: Because you bought two tickets (in an annoyed tone).

This went on for 10 minutes before I asked for a supervisor. She told me "No, not for this".

Needless to say I wont be using Air Canada again, ever.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Maybe too late now, but what about using a dash cam aimed her way?

How do those work? Do they have their own battery, or do they run off the car battery?