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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 13:55:31 GMT
You know what really grinds me gears?
Timothy the 'Ghost Train' - purely because... it makes no sense. Sorry, but I have to get this off my chest. A Grey Engine with the No. 0, who happens to be an E2. Three things wrong with that.
1. There's no livery I'm familiar with that's just grey, and I mean grey boiler, grey sidetanks, grey smokebox, grey funnel, grey everything - it suits 'Puffa' from TUGS, but it doesn't suite this 'Timothy' 2. No. 0? Not possible, not even on a real engine. '01' might be acceptable, but not just '0' - that's just lazy. 3. He's an E2 - do I even need to say more?
What I don't get is, why are so many people obsessed with him? I know it's like asking 'How do trainboy54's videos get millions of hits?', but why so much fanart & fan-fiction? The story logically makes no sense from what little I've heard of it and the main gist of it is... Timothy was just a so-called 'Creepypasta' - I don't even believe in this kind of stuff. Yet so many people make it seem like the TV Crew were going to add Timothy as a sub-plot to 'Ghost Train' but didn't because it would be too dark. No, they didn't add it because Wilbert Awdry himself didn't write ANYTHING about any engine called 'Timothy' - it's the sort of thing that would make him turn in his grave (and I think he's done enough of that).
So, in conclusion, I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with Timothy. As I said, I don't even believe in Creepypasta. I believe in it as much as I believed the world would end a few days ago because of the Super-Blood-Moon. Yet I don't see any other Creepypasta's being expanded upon, not that I read hardly any of them anyway!
And that is what really grinds my gears - back to you Tom.
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Post by Grimstock on Jan 9, 2016 10:53:29 GMT
I usually try to avoid posting in this thread, simply because I don't like to burden other people with my First World whining, but sometimes, ya just gotta vent. Here goes...
D'ya know what really grinds my gears?
1. People who flood the comments section of any given YouTube video (usually something underground) with, "______ BROUGHT ME HERE LOL!". Look, guys, I appreciate that someone or something introduced you to something that otherwise wouldn't be on your radar, but no one thinks you're cool when you seek attention and type the same bland non-comment over and over again.
2. People who echo the opinions of popular internet critics. Perhaps I'm just being petty, since I'm not fond of most internet reviewers in general aside from the RedLetterMedia guys and maybe someone else I'm missing (I hear the Cinema Snob is good), but I resent being told by the Internet at large that I have to suddenly hate something just because someone popular hates it. It's okay if you disliked, say, "Ren Seeks Help" (the only episode from the adults-only Ren & Stimpy revival I'll defend), but you'd better have a good reason for it that isn't, "MR. ENTER SAYS IT SUCKS, AND HIS WORD IS LAW."
3. This one sort of ties in with my second point, but it's irritating enough for me to list it separately: people who think they're being clever by flooding the comments section of any Thomas-related artwork on DA with that stupid, stupid "SPARKLE, SPARKLE, SPARKLE" meme, even on Thomas pictures that have nothing to do with Thomas and the Magic Railroad aside from the fact that they feature Thomas. Enough already. It wasn't funny four years ago, and it's not suddenly funny now. It's the internet equivalent of shouting, "FREEBIRD!" at a concert. (Now, I know how Bill Hicks felt!)
And that's what grinds my gears. Diane?
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Post by Chris on Jan 9, 2016 16:21:08 GMT
1. People who flood the comments section of any given YouTube video (usually something underground) with, "______ BROUGHT ME HERE LOL!". Look, guys, I appreciate that someone or something introduced you to something that otherwise wouldn't be on your radar, but no one thinks you're cool when you seek attention and type the same bland non-comment over and over again. I hear you. I'm the same with "This was my childhood" or "This remake has ruined my childhood" type comments. Even seeing people spouting "Da feelz!!!" is getting old now.
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Post by Gundam288 on Jan 10, 2016 1:04:08 GMT
2. No. 0? Not possible, not even on a real engine. '01' might be acceptable, but not just '0' - that's just lazy.
Actually, there is a locomotive numbered 0.
A Black Hawthorn 0-4-0ST, one of the oldest locomotives preserved in China.
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Post by Rexeljet on Jan 13, 2016 20:51:46 GMT
2. People who echo the opinions of popular internet critics. Perhaps I'm just being petty, since I'm not fond of most internet reviewers in general aside from the RedLetterMedia guys and maybe someone else I'm missing (I hear the Cinema Snob is good), but I resent being told by the Internet at large that I have to suddenly hate something just because someone popular hates it. It's okay if you disliked, say, "Ren Seeks Help" (the only episode from the adults-only Ren & Stimpy revival I'll defend), but you'd better have a good reason for it that isn't, "MR. ENTER SAYS IT SUCKS, AND HIS WORD IS LAW." This. I've noticed it especially with the Angry Video Game Nerd and his videos. If, say, Mark from Classic Game Room does a positive review on a game that The Nerd has already covered, you can guarantee that 50-75% of the comments on the video will be "But this game is meant to be rubbish, AVGN said so!" or words to that effect. It even applies to games that AVGN barely even looked at, or ones that he would later go on to say weren't actually that bad. It's particularly rich when you consider that AVGN is supposed to be a comedy series rather than a journalistic review series. (As for Mr. Enter, I imagine that he's the main reason why people keep raging about Breadwinners and Teen Titans Go in 2016. I could probably dedicate a whole gear-grind to him, but I'll refrain from doing that for now). 1. There's no livery I'm familiar with that's just grey, and I mean grey boiler, grey sidetanks, grey smokebox, grey funnel, grey everything - it suits 'Puffa' from TUGS, but it doesn't suite this 'Timothy' I know that various British railway companies adopted grey during the first world war for economy reasons and kept it afterwards- the GER and SE&CR spring to mind. Considering Timothy is supposed to be the first engine on the NWR (which was opened around 1914-15), the grey could actually be considered prototypical. Of course, you won't find me defending anything else about Timothy, and I don't suppose the "writer" of the crappypasta had researched railway liveries from WWI prior to spewing out his little story.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 13:39:38 GMT
Ta very much for the comments everyone! But now I've got something bigger to get off my chest: You know what really grinds my gears? The InternetYeah, I said it. Why? In tradition of Sharon Miller, I'll give it three strikes: 1. A good half of the internet is stuff I don't understand... I mean, all those memes just saying 'Oh Shrek is best anime' or 'Look at what the Illuminati is hiding from us!!!!!!!11!' and those 'Dank Memes'. I'll admit, when my friends at College started showing a few video's to me, it gave me a chuckle. Now look: they're as overused as Timothy the bloomin' Ghost Train. And speaking of which: 2. Most of the internet is ridiculous - I mean, have you even read a Creepypasta? Sometimes it's just laughable to do so - because it's so not true! Have you ever noticed that most of them are just based off of pop-culture and indeed kid's shows like Thomas? I mean, saying that 'I found this in a car boot sale and then i contacted the people who made it' Hang on, how could you? They've been out of business for a few years now... "DO NOT INTERUP mE. Anyway and then they said it accidently got made and then broadcast. And and even though I destroy ed the disc after i watch it, here have dis evidence." An MS Paint or GoAnimate video does not count as evidence, no matter how similar it is to "What I saw". Most of the time, you just read a Creepypasta (or Spinpasta or what ever the hell you want to call it) and the sensible part of your brain just says' "No, their talking about a show for children. Why the hell would the producers make something like this?" Which brings me onto: 3. Nearly all of the internet is just spam - yes, spam! Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, LOVELY SPAM! WONDERFUL SPAM! When it all boils down, Creeypastas, 4chan, TV Tropes to a slightly lesser extent (not really the writing techniques, just a good half of the theories I've read on there), Dank Memes, nearly half of most speculation over images someone's likely just drummed up in Photoshop and of course... YouTube. The endless sea of spam comments, "Thomas with Playdoh, Surprise Eggs & other characters" videos, endless clones of users and videos, and... the Original Characters & Stories... You know what? No, I've ranted enough. The Internet is just rubbish for half of the time & I've spoken at lengths of it over the past year. I've had enough, and wish these users would just stop writing things like Timothy or Sonic.exe and making rubbish videos with MS Paint & toys, and go back to World of Warcraft or somewhere I'm not likely to be - the only real morals you can get from this are: A. Just learn to live with them - trust me, you will. I'll lose interest rather quickly if something just goes "And here's a reproduction of it... in Paint!" B. YOLO doesn't stand for "You only live online" - it stands for 'You only live once' - Do what these users never do: go outside and see the world. Get off the internet & watch some good TV. Not just 'Family Guy', but something like 'Thunderbirds'. Read books, build model railways, go on a nice day out to a Museum or Heritage Railway, meet up with your old mates for a nice night out at Pizza Hut and once you've done all that, you can come back to the internet and be sensible on it. Make a video of something awesome you built in Minecraft or a Train Simulator Scenario - show your model train collection and your layout - do a nice piece of artwork depicting a real-life landscape or a scene from a good book - or make a really incredible stop-motion Lego film. Then you'll have my full attention. And that's what really grinds my gears...
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Post by ThomasandMatt on Jan 20, 2016 22:34:46 GMT
Ta very much for the comments everyone! But now I've got something bigger to get off my chest: You know what really grinds my gears? The InternetYeah, I said it. Why? In tradition of Sharon Miller, I'll give it three strikes: 1. A good half of the internet is stuff I don't understand... I mean, all those memes just saying 'Oh Shrek is best anime' or 'Look at what the Illuminati is hiding from us!!!!!!!11!' and those 'Dank Memes'. I'll admit, when my friends at College started showing a few video's to me, it gave me a chuckle. Now look: they're as overused as Timothy the bloomin' Ghost Train. And speaking of which: 2. Most of the internet is ridiculous - I mean, have you even read a Creepypasta? Sometimes it's just laughable to do so - because it's so not true! Have you ever noticed that most of them are just based off of pop-culture and indeed kid's shows like Thomas? I mean, saying that 'I found this in a car boot sale and then i contacted the people who made it' Hang on, how could you? They've been out of business for a few years now... "DO NOT INTERUP mE. Anyway and then they said it accidently got made and then broadcast. And and even though I destroy ed the disc after i watch it, here have dis evidence." An MS Paint or GoAnimate video does not count as evidence, no matter how similar it is to "What I saw". Most of the time, you just read a Creepypasta (or Spinpasta or what ever the hell you want to call it) and the sensible part of your brain just says' "No, their talking about a show for children. Why the hell would the producers make something like this?" Which brings me onto: 3. Nearly all of the internet is just spam - yes, spam! Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, LOVELY SPAM! WONDERFUL SPAM! When it all boils down, Creeypastas, 4chan, TV Tropes to a slightly lesser extent (not really the writing techniques, just a good half of the theories I've read on there), Dank Memes, nearly half of most speculation over images someone's likely just drummed up in Photoshop and of course... YouTube. The endless sea of spam comments, "Thomas with Playdoh, Surprise Eggs & other characters" videos, endless clones of users and videos, and... the Original Characters & Stories... You know what? No, I've ranted enough. The Internet is just rubbish for half of the time & I've spoken at lengths of it over the past year. I've had enough, and wish these users would just stop writing things like Timothy or Sonic.exe and making rubbish videos with MS Paint & toys, and go back to World of Warcraft or somewhere I'm not likely to be - the only real morals you can get from this are: A. Just learn to live with them - trust me, you will. I'll lose interest rather quickly if something just goes "And here's a reproduction of it... in Paint!" B. YOLO doesn't stand for "You only live online" - it stands for 'You only live once' - Do what these users never do: go outside and see the world. Get off the internet & watch some good TV. Not just 'Family Guy', but something like 'Thunderbirds'. Read books, build model railways, go on a nice day out to a Museum or Heritage Railway, meet up with your old mates for a nice night out at Pizza Hut and once you've done all that, you can come back to the internet and be sensible on it. Make a video of something awesome you built in Minecraft or a Train Simulator Scenario - show your model train collection and your layout - do a nice piece of artwork depicting a real-life landscape or a scene from a good book - or make a really incredible stop-motion Lego film. Then you'll have my full attention. And that's what really grinds my gears... Amen to that! There are so many things on this list that I agree with, I just don't know where to start! You made a great observation over what YouTube, 4chan, pretty much the whole Internet has become over the course of a decade and a half. I would gladly do what you suggested in your post, and I hope that everyone else in this bloody world would do the same.
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Post by cirno on Feb 3, 2016 22:09:51 GMT
You know what really grinds my gears? RedLetterMedia fanatics. Their opinions are no more fact than anyone else's. They're not better than anyone else. Their word on the Star Wars prequels isn't law. And that's what really grinds my gears.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 20:00:25 GMT
I should make my own thread for these... however, before I begin this one, I should state that because this one is delving into Religious Aspects & my own personal opinion, it's under Spoiler Tags. If anyone feel's offended by what they read, don't hesitate to let me know & I'll delete this post. I'm not aiming for the offensive here, I'm purely writing this to get if off my chest. So: SpoilerYou know what really grinds my gears?
People saying that the End of the World is coming in 2012 2015 2016
Remember last year when it was said that the Super Blood Moon signified a meteorite hitting Earth & the Second Coming of Jesus? Well there was a meteorite, but it just flew past us. Plus, Jesus didn't come back either. All is well, right? *sigh* Well, we're barely into the New Year and already the nutters are coming back out to say the end is nigh. You know, as someone of Christian Faith (my Mum being a Vicar, whilst my Dad & I serve with her one Sunday per month) I keep wondering what I can take seriously from the world around me & what I can't. Let's look at some of the reasons 2016 is the new 2012 shall we?
Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ
So, the Bible says something about a 'tall black man' coming to power & destroying the world on in June. Few contradictions: A. Saying Obama is the Son of Satan is like saying he's as black as the Ace of Spades in my eyes, and B. If you were the Anti-Christ, why be so specific about when you destroyed the world? There was one episode of American Dad! where Jeff & Hayley adopted a son who turned out to be the Son of Satan & was freely trying to destroy Stan before he destroyed him. Why wait when you can just use Common Sense?
The North & South Pole's are about to shift
Well, NASA (who I'm pretty sure are hiding nothing from us, like the Illu-meme-ati) shows that the Magnetic Poles do move about because of the way the Earth rotates. However, the guy apparently "working for Nasa" who put this foward says at the end of his theory that we should all unite against religion and what not. So yeah, no Common Sense..
Nibiru/Planet X/whatever-the-smeg-you-want-to-call-it will destroy Earth
That's not how a planetary object behaves. And before you say "We can't see it because it's behind the Sun!", to be fair, in a world of modern technology I'm sure anyone with Common Sense would tell us if anything were coming for us... which, as we know, there isn't.
An asteroid will hit Earth in May, war will erupt between the USA and China/Russia and CERN's Hadron Collider will create a black hole swallowing us all by October
Didn't you hear me say that there's nothing heading for Earth? Also, tensions between the United States, China & Russia seem fairly stable at this point, & CERN has activated the Large Hadron Collider many times since it was built & has it created a black hole? No, because CERN has said that if it did, it'd be too small to do any damage. So small in fact that it would just disintegrate. And again, why so specific with the date? Common Sense right there...
The Bible says Jesus is coming back
Firstly, the Bible says a lot of things. You don't have to take it all seriously... especially if it's misprinted, because then you could turn into a 7th Day Advent Hoppist (which means you'll spend the rest of your days hopping). Secondly, if the Bible does say that a lot must happen before the Second Coming of Christ, a lot that would take years. And thirdly, anyone can just take something that's said in the Bible & claim it spells the end of days including, of all people...
...him! Remember the Simpsons Episode Thank God it's Doomsday? In said-episode, Homer predicts from the number of Disciples at the Last Supper when the world will end. And he was wrong... Homer Simpson isn't the first guy you'd think of if you thought of Common Sense, is he?
You may notice that for each of these theories I've been bringing in a good ol' dose of Common Sense. Because Common Sense is what's keeping the builders constructing the stadium & the athletes training for the Brazil 2016 Olympics. Common Sense is what's preparing the Great Western Mainline for the electric trains that will arrive in a few years time. Common Sense would've prevented the dockyard fire in Munitions. And Common Sense is what's making the Writing Team & Animators finish work on The Great Race & starting work on Series 20.
These days, it seems fashionable for someone to come up and try to write the next Da Vinci Code. Plus if we add all these theories together, they'll just start contradicting each other. And anyone who'll try to tell you NASA is lying and the Illuminati is right clearly has no interest in living life & way too much time on their hand's that their wasting for anyone daft enough to listen to them. I may be a Christian, but I'm not one who spends all their spare time reading the Bible & is willing to defend it whatever the cost. Nor am I one who says Jesus will return to destroy the world, but one who says "He will come in glory to judge the living and the dead". I'm one who accepts the fact that the biggest threat to society is not some made up cow-dung - it may be war, might be disease, it could very well be Global Warming and flooding... unless we run out of oil & petrol first.
I'm not trying to offend anyone here at all, as it's not in my nature, but if you are one who's trying to convince humanity the world is ending, I have one thing to say. Do you hear that? It's the sound of no-one listening... OK, some people might. But that's because we live in a world that's not just lacking peace or more fossil fuels or cure's for diseases. We live in a world that's full of people who watch the X-Factor, treat Justin Bieber like he's a God and ship Thomas with Twilight Sparkle. It's a world without Common Sense.
YouTube Gamer & Vlogger Nerd³, as much as he doesn't follow any religion, once said that it's alright to believe in what you want to believe in. But once you start using what you believe in as a reason to try and change the world, and aren't afraid to walk along the line between what's considered offensive & what isn't, that's not really alright now is it?
And that's what really grinds my gears. Let's go live to Ollie Williams with the Black-U-Weather forecast. Ollie?
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Post by Nicholas on Feb 4, 2016 21:49:39 GMT
Although I'm not attempting nor inviting any dismissal of your religious beliefs, for me Common Sense, although it can be sometimes tricky to pinpoint it's exact meaning from circumstance to circumstance, goes hand in hand with logic, as well as many other things, over religion. Anything that qualifies as a logical fallacy is, arguably, although not necessarily, likely to be an untrue, unfair or invalid conclusion, and as such, in my view, not 'common sense'. Well, NASA (who I'm pretty sure are hiding nothing from us, like the Illu-meme-ati) shows that the Magnetic Poles do move about because of the way the Earth rotates. However, the guy apparently "working for Nasa" who put this foward says at the end of his theory that we should all unite against religion and what not. So yeah, no Common Sense... I'm unsure if you're dismissing this person's theory regarding the geomagnetic polarity reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles, (which I believe is fairly widely accepted in science and there is evidence to support,) chiefly because of his stance on religion, which may possibly qualify as an abusive ad hominem logical fallacy. It is a measurable, physical phenomenon that the North Magnetic Pole and South Magnetic Pole do appear to move around the planet and are not fixed. Nibiru/Planet X/whatever-the-smeg-you-want-to-call-it will destroy Earth That's not how a planetary object behaves. And before you say "We can't see it because it's behind the Sun!", to be fair, in a world of modern technology I'm sure anyone with Common Sense would tell us if anything were coming for us... which, as we know, there isn't. This statement falls prey to the argument from silence informal fallacy, by assuming one thing is not true due to there being no evidence to the contrary. However, I suspect the statement that another planet will collide with the Earth is itself guilty of a fair few logical fallacies and conclusions based on assumption. An asteroid will hit Earth in May, war will erupt between the USA and China/Russia and CERN's Hadron Collider will create a black hole swallowing us all by October Didn't you hear me say that there's nothing heading for Earth? Also, tensions between the United States, China & Russia seem fairly stable at this point, & CERN has activated the Large Hadron Collider many times since it was built & has it created a black hole? No, because CERN has said that if it did, it'd be too small to do any damage. So small in fact that it would just disintegrate. And again, why so specific with the date? Common Sense right there... I'm fairly certain myself that evidence through observation can allow us to conclude that this simply isn't how black holes form. Conventionally, it would involve a super-dense mass that, as such, has a gravitational field of considerable magnitude, and has been left behind from a collapsed star. With regards to asteroid or meteorite strikes, although I would have to check, I believe that the US and other observatory bodies have the funding to map objects out in space in only a portion of the entire sky, but not all of it. I suspect we'd be aware of a celestial object from any direction once it was close enough, but that we're not constantly looking out in every direction. Obviously, that doesn't mean we can conclude anything will strike the Earth, (which again would be an argument from silence informal fallacy) but, at the same time, we shouldn't be complacent in ruling it out as a possibility. It's a world without Common Sense. Haha, trust me; if you want to lose faith in swathes of the general public having common sense, in my experience, an occupation in the retail or hospitality industries might be inadvisable for you. I should make my own thread for these... however, before I begin this one, I should state that because this one is delving into Religious Aspects & my own personal opinion, it's under Spoiler Tags. Just as an aside, we've had threads based around Religion, and I believe, Political beliefs on SiF before. Although it was before I became a Moderator, I believe there were occasions where conversation could get heated and did turn more towards a debate than members simply disclosing their religion. It's something that the Staff team have given a fair amount of mulling over in the past, but I think, while touching upon religion is not taboo on the forums, the conclusion generally would be that we wouldn't be looking to reattempt having such threads.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 22:39:35 GMT
Thanks for the advice Nicholas - to be fair, I was saying that the man's theory was bogus because the video in which he explains it ends on his idea of abolishing religion and all coming together and to be fair, that was one of the signs that he wasn't being entire truthful and that I shouldn't take him seriously. I remember Jeremy Clarkson actually wrote an article about the idea of the poles shifting - he did what most don't do though, end it on a positive note. Like one news article I saw about way's the world may apparently end this year mentioned that Ghostbusters II predicted the world would end on Valentines Day this year. Aw man, just a day after my hometown's model railway show... ^_^ However, one reason I wrote that article was purely to try & stop me worrying about the end. Because when I first heard of these theories a few days ago, I was a bit scared... I even was unsure about going on Google in case I got temptation to look it up. However, I did a bit of research & it reminded me not to take things like this seriously. By the way, I understand the idea of a job in retail or a hospital - my Mum recently started work in my local Hospital on occasions & nearly blew a fuse doing all the Online Training. At least it's not a job in a Call Centre;
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Post by GTPS2 on Feb 26, 2016 15:55:29 GMT
You know what really grins my gears?
That every PC that coast $300 - $500 can't run Trainz Simulator 2009 at 30 FPS. Are we ever gonna get a powerful Laptop PC, or Desktop PC that are at the prices I've mentioned, and is build for PC Games such as Trainz?
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Post by douglas on Feb 26, 2016 16:49:17 GMT
YKWGMG? These Wooden Railway "characters" who don't appear in the show or Railway Series. Pure $$$ cows.
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Post by GTPS2 on Mar 17, 2016 1:43:24 GMT
You know what really grins my gears?
Donald Trump and his supporters.
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Post by SamThePannierTank on Mar 26, 2016 11:01:50 GMT
I know I've posted on this thread a few times before but, screw it, I love to rant Do you know what really grinds my gears? TrespassersNow if anyone here has any experience on a railway, or even if you don't, you will know how infuriating trespassers can be on the railway. Not only do they put themselves in danger because "#Rebel" but they risk delaying and cancelling trains for up to 9 hours afterwards. This causes inconvenience and annoyance for passengers, since now, their entire evenings been ruined, and all because of some messed up "Rebel" who decided he didn't want to use the designated walking route. Take a look at this video shot at Dawlish. While it's true we don't really know what was happening before this video was shot, we can safely assume that they were on railway property, when there was a designated footbridge directly above them. What annoys me about this video is that some of the comments were completely brain-dead children saying things like "What's so stupid about that?" or "They weren't in any danger" REALLY? ?? Does it matter where they were? What matters is that they were on railway property and could've potentially been turned into human mush. So for anyone out there who thinks it's somehow 'cool' to trespass on the railway, let me put it this way. It's not funny, it's not clever, it's not bad@$$, it's not being a rebel, it's not going to make people respect you. All it's going to do is either make yourself look like you've fallen to the mental stability of a cartoon character, or kill you. Despite the number of people who get hit by trains every year, you STILL get the teenager who thinks he's a bad@$$ rebel because he's jumping across the tracks. Excuse for asking but do any of these so-called humans actually know what a train is? That's nearly 200 tons of steel travelling at over 100mph... What goes through your mind that makes you think "I can outrun this thing" You can't. So stop....... Just Bl^^dy stop! (Panting) And that is what grinds my gears
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Post by Chris on Apr 9, 2016 11:55:28 GMT
Some word/phrase usage in modern English that grinds my gears:
1. "So I bought this a couple days ago." I think you'll find you missed an "of" in there. Dropping it just comes across as really lazy. 2. Describing something as super fun/awesome/cool. Super's alright but really overused, I feel. There are so many other "intensifiers" that could be substituted - amazingly, exceptionally, incredibly, particularly etc.
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Post by douglas on Apr 10, 2016 2:43:48 GMT
I don't know what the slang over there is like, Chris, but Americans in general have beaten the word "epic" to death in describing something as really good and/or exciting. Also, the "like" [whatever grammar thing it is] that started out as a Southern California rich kid conversational hiccup is now so widespread that it's practically a substitute for "um" or "uh" in conversation halts. Those two words are some of many, many things actively making Americans dumber overall, I'm sure of it.
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Post by Maxine on Apr 10, 2016 4:13:33 GMT
You know what really grinds my gears? Insufficient lubrication. *crickets chirping* I'm sorry, I know that joke has been made a thousand times over, but I couldn't resist once I remembered it. But seriously, there is something on my mind that I feel the need to vent about. Like jjlr's post from before, it's talking about religion (and also, LGBT rights, which I realize may not be everyone's cup of tea, so if it's not, please just skip right on past this post and move along), so I'm gonna spoiler it. I am so freaking sick of all these anti-LGBT "religious freedom" bills that keep popping up left and right around the United States. For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, these are proposed laws (some of them are actually passed) allowing businesses to deny services to someone who happens to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, on the grounds of religious freedom, saying it violates a "sincerely held belief". Personally, I think it's complete boiler sludge, to use a more family-friendly term. It's just so frustrating to see people misusing the term "religious freedom" to justify their discrimination against people they refuse to understand. The religious freedom guaranteed in the U.S. Bill of Rights means that anyone is free to practice the religion they follow, or no religion at all. It isn't a license to discriminate, as a lot of these people seem to believe. And don't even get me started on North Carolina's blatantly anti-transgender bathroom policy. It's sickening.
I mean, it is totally fine for people to have their beliefs, but the moment they start telling me what to believe or that I have to behave in a certain way in order to conform to their belief system, which I don't subscribe to, then we've got a problem. I'm an atheist living in a family of Christians. I don't view them any differently for their beliefs, and they treat me in kind. Why is this so hard for so many people? I just don't get this mentality that some people have of "my beliefs are better than your beliefs so my beliefs set the rules." I just don't know. At this point I've typed the word "belief" so much it doesn't even register as a word anymore, so I'm gonna stop. And that, ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereupon, is what grinds my gears. Also, I'm not fond of Ted Cruz or Donald Trump. That is all.
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douglas
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Post by douglas on Apr 10, 2016 4:21:39 GMT
On that note:
Political campaigns beginning a completely unreasonable amount of time before elections piss me off. Our presidential elections are in November of this year, and the campaigns started even before Thanksgiving.
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Maxine
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Post by Maxine on Apr 10, 2016 4:37:30 GMT
On that note: Political campaigns beginning a completely unreasonable amount of time before elections piss me off. Our presidential elections are in November of this year, and the campaigns started even before Thanksgiving. Not to mention the fact that normally somewhat reputable news sources like CNN talk about almost nothing but, making it seem like there's nothing else going on in the world half the time. Speaking of CNN and their coverage of this campaign cycle, the sheer amount of airtime they give to Donald Trump is ridiculous. Someone (I forget who) did the math and figured out that they gave his campaign something like 23 times more airtime than Bernie Sanders in 2015. Talk about free publicity. It's absurd.
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