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

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

It RGMG when people say ''my grandmother skates better then x player". Um, no should couldn't. If she somehow manages to not fall on the ice and break her hip, one check and she will be paralysed for life. I know it's just a figure of speech, but it's the most terrible example to use.

This sounds like a Spock or Data bit from Star Trek.

Personally, I hate when they say a guy has a cannon from the point. Like, uh, no, he has a hockey stick. Even if he got a cannon out there it would probably crack the ice with being so heavy, and in the time it took to light the fuse and have the cannon go off the defense would be all over him. Geez.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by ken0042

The problem with that- do many people use GPS on a regular basis in town? For example, I live in the deep SE and my last photo radar ticket was in the NW. I was driving on 16th ave, on my way to Deerfoot. Even though I don't live up there, I wouldn't have needed a map or directions.

It's not a driving direction GPS, the radar detector has GPS tracking that alerts it to intersections with red light cameras. The GPS is part of the suite of detection tools the radar detectors use now.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

It's not a driving direction GPS, the radar detector has GPS tracking that alerts it to intersections with red light cameras. The GPS is part of the suite of detection tools the radar detectors use now.

I had an iphone app that did this also.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I literally missed the joke of reference.

good recovery

[CampbellsTransgressions]

Northmount/Shaganappi/52nd is a pretty confusing set of intersections if you've never driven them and have no GPS. Personally I just look up my destination on Google maps and remember roads.

[OutOfTheCube]

It grinds my gears that the city has done to Northland Drive in front of Northland Mall. What is even going on with the lanes there anymore?

[undercoverbrother]

Complainers WGMG

[Rubicant]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Complainers WGMG

That should just about finish this thread.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Complainers WGMG

Nonsensical acronyms figuratively GMG.

[Eastern Girl]

People that milk illnesses or injuries or whatnot.

We have a woman at work that twisted her ankle. She came in to work and is in a wheel chair. She is passing work off to other people left, right and center, because she can't get around to do it herself, because of the wheel chair. She leaves around 2-2:30pm every day because it just hurts so much that she can't focus. She had all of yesterday off because of a doctor's appt. She is apparently now on a crusade to change our wheel chair accessible bathroom, because it's too difficult for her to use. It's just so ridiculous.

She is driving everyone crazy.

[Tyler]

How nearly every woman in my office who has a child under 5 years old now "works from home" 2 or 3 times a week.

Let's call a spade a spade. For the most part in 2014, "Telecommuting" is really just subsidizing home care for people while they watch Teletubbies and sit around in their PJ's answering emails every couple of hours

[normtwofinger]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

You can also buy a radar detector with GPS that has the locations flagged. My colleague has one and it would definitely help in areas of the city you aren't familiar with.

Waze

[4X4]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Complainers WGMG

People who pronounce 'R's as 'W's RGMG.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

People that milk illnesses or injuries or whatnot.

We have a woman at work that twisted her ankle. She came in to work and is in a wheel chair. She is passing work off to other people left, right and center, because she can't get around to do it herself, because of the wheel chair. She leaves around 2-2:30pm every day because it just hurts so much that she can't focus. She had all of yesterday off because of a doctor's appt. She is apparently now on a crusade to change our wheel chair accessible bathroom, because it's too difficult for her to use. It's just so ridiculous.

She is driving everyone crazy.

I finished the last several kilometres of a marathon on a severely twisted ankle. She needs to gut it out, if it even bothers her.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I finished the last several kilometres of a marathon on a severely twisted ankle. She needs to gut it out, if it even bothers her.

This.

I've had employees pass kidney stones in the bathroom and get back to work, cut off the tip of their finger and return to work an hour later, and myself working with one wrist broken and tendinitis in the other. No it's not some macho 'look how tough I am' thing. Unless you're in a hospital bed, I expect you at work and I won't tolerate complaining.

Tell her to gut it out and stfu. If it's really so hard for her to work, she should take vacation or sick time.

[Eastern Girl]

Yeah, oddly enough, we just recently had a guy with a kidney stone. I forced him to go to the emergency room, because his breathing was short and he was pale. He got in my car and within 10 minutes, he had passed out. I had to argue with him to get him to go to the hospital. And when we got there, I think he got some meds or something and wanted to go back. He hated that I had made him go to the hospital. That's legit.

I had my knee in a full leg cast after surgery and I continued on on crutches.

It's funny how quickly people stopped caring about her twisted ankle, and it really is just twisted. There's some very slight bruising and nothing else. When she first came in with the wheelchair, people were offering to wheel her around and do things for her. No one is offering now. She milked it too much.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Complainers WGMG

“Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.” ― Lou Holtz

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by 4X4

People who pronounce 'R's as 'W's RGMG.

Weally rhy?

[Regular_John]

I separated my shoulder last year on the company ski trip, couldn't hold/use a mouse in my right hand. I damn well worked through it with a sling. Moved the mouse to my left hand and got my work done.

/cool story bro.

[Regulator75]

Companies that manufacture food products (sauces and what not) then fail to provide an extra little tab to pull the seal off cleanly.

Drives me f'ing nuts.