Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=over the mountain;1105110]i feel torn saying this ...

The "blacklivesmatter" protesters are starting to grind my gears.

Back on Nov 25, they shut down downtown Baltimore during evening rush hour. It took me about 2 hours to go 5 miles.

Yesterday, they apparently decided to hold a rally. They didnt say their route until right before rush hour traffic and then proceeded to close down major downtown intersections.

So yesterday it took me only an hour to cut across downtown.

I support the idea of "blacklivesmatter", i do believe police disproportionately target black men and also have a heightened sense of fear around black men which leads to unequal treatment.

Why cant they plan a huge march on a saturday or sunday? i would join, my family would join. It would get positive press instead of negative.

[B]Intentionally blocking traffic to make life miserable for hundred of thousands of people is the opposite way to get people to be receptive to your message.
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I know there have been a zillion organized marchs in the past and other less obstructive attempts have been made for a century now ... .. .


but this is .. inconvenient for me? im a jerk[/quote]

you hit the nail on the head especially the bolded part. If you want to encourage the masses to join your cause, don't make life miserable for them, they'll only look at you derisively.

Protests should be about getting a message across, not about being a squeaky wheel.

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Know what I really can't stand? Packaging that's hard to open. On Christmas morning I needed a knife, a really big knife, a pair of scissors, and a pair of wire cutters. Just to open up toys and shit for the kids.

Frustration free packaging will now be a big reason why I decide to purchase a product.

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How, why the hell does one piss all over the top of the urinal?

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1105677]How, why the hell does one piss all over the top of the urinal?[/quote]

urinal?

how about this.

this morning I walk a block down to 7-11 for milk and ice. As i am walking back, there is a guy 100 feet ahead walking in the same direction. His body actions are kinda odd.

As I get closer, there is a trail of piss bc this asshole decided to whip out his dick and piss as he walked.

im done with my current barrio. people spit, piss, shit and litter everywhere. come warmer weather, people will be throwing up everywhere as well. every time you park you have to make sure you dont step on dead rat carcass that has been pancaked by passing cars. you then get to watch this rat carcass deteriorate for the next 3 months until one morning the rat carcass is disintegrated. only to be replaced by a fresh dead and pancaked rat carcass to observe for the next 3 months. there is a dead pancaked rat carcass approx every 3rd parking spot, so watch out! this morning for the first time i saw a lil itty bitty baby dead rat carcass freshly pancaked with still fresh red blood coming out of its lil itty bitty dead head. i wonder if a dead baby rat carcass takes the required 3 months to disintegrate? i will keep you posted.

pretty sure me and the lady are separating in a few months as well ..

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^ delightful

my exit ramp from the freeway to the surface street, there are 2 lanes on the exit ramp.
left lane = left turn and and straight only
right lane = right turn only

about 95% of the cars want to make the right turn, so the right lane is always juiced. i also always turn right, but i always see assholes fly in the left lane and make an illegal right turn in the intersection.

because of this i make my right turns here EXTREMELY wide, anticipating. so it finally happened, i was making my wide right turn and some nutjob flies in from my left side.
i hold my horn down and slam on my brakes to avoid hitting him. he slams on his brakes and looks at me like i'm crazy (as he is facing the wrong direction, in the wrong lane, in the middle of the intersection).

then he went to the drive-thru at del taco...

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also, i was visiting back home in md last week, i forgot about those speeding cameras.

let me just say that if they had those things when i was a teen driver, my friends and i would have robin hooded every single one of them for ourselves, as well as every other motorist.

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[quote=over the mountain;1105942]urinal?

how about this.

this morning I walk a block down to 7-11 for milk and ice. As i am walking back, there is a guy 100 feet ahead walking in the same direction. His body actions are kinda odd.

As I get closer, there is a trail of piss bc this asshole decided to whip out his dick and piss as he walked.

im done with my current barrio. people spit, piss, shit and litter everywhere. come warmer weather, people will be throwing up everywhere as well. every time you park you have to make sure you dont step on dead rat carcass that has been pancaked by passing cars. you then get to watch this rat carcass deteriorate for the next 3 months until one morning the rat carcass is disintegrated. only to be replaced by a fresh dead and pancaked rat carcass to observe for the next 3 months. there is a dead pancaked rat carcass approx every 3rd parking spot, so watch out! this morning for the first time i saw a lil itty bitty baby dead rat carcass freshly pancaked with still fresh red blood coming out of its lil itty bitty dead head. i wonder if a dead baby rat carcass takes the required 3 months to disintegrate? i will keep you posted.

pretty sure me and the lady are separating in a few months as well ..[/quote]

Baltimore...i like that little harbor area and that bar area, but other than that, its seems so ghetto. Where not giving a f*ck levels are crossed quite easily and often.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=over the mountain;1105942]urinal?

how about this.

this morning I walk a block down to 7-11 for milk and ice. As i am walking back, there is a guy 100 feet ahead walking in the same direction. His body actions are kinda odd.

As I get closer, there is a trail of piss bc this asshole decided to whip out his dick and piss as he walked.

im done with my current barrio. people spit, piss, shit and litter everywhere. come warmer weather, people will be throwing up everywhere as well. every time you park you have to make sure you dont step on dead rat carcass that has been pancaked by passing cars. you then get to watch this rat carcass deteriorate for the next 3 months until one morning the rat carcass is disintegrated. only to be replaced by a fresh dead and pancaked rat carcass to observe for the next 3 months. there is a dead pancaked rat carcass approx every 3rd parking spot, so watch out! this morning for the first time i saw a lil itty bitty baby dead rat carcass freshly pancaked with still fresh red blood coming out of its lil itty bitty dead head. i wonder if a dead baby rat carcass takes the required 3 months to disintegrate? i will keep you posted.

pretty sure me and the lady are separating in a few months as well ..[/quote]

WOW! where do you live?

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[quote=jamf;1105951]WOW! where do you live?[/quote]

Sounds like Bubs' neighborhood

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[quote=jamf;1105951]WOW! where do you live?[/quote]

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^^^ heres a link for the google street view. s broadway and lombard/baltimore st. i live right across from all those cigarette smoking people standing out in front of the powell recovery center. they are actually really good at keeping the noise down.

i kid you not .. last week i walked out to my car to go work and there was half a strip of undercooked bacon placed on my roof.

an undercooked half strip of effing bacon. wtf is that. did some bird carrying it in its beak drop it mid flight? can a sparrow with tail wind in its favor even carry the weight of a half strip of bacon?

mind boggling.

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OTM I see a great dive bar

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[quote=Chico23231;1105958]OTM I see a great dive bar[/quote]

arizona tapas? i will def watch the paq v mayweather fight there.

lol it is straight latino. reminds me of bars in tijuana's zona norte district (red light). Really loud music, flashing lights, disco balls.

me and the lady walked in there once and someone brought us a bowl of ceviche.

even though it says "tapas", they do not serve food.

we did not eat the ceviche. (okay, i took a few bites, i pride myself on eating anything and didnt want the place to feel bad - spoiled americans are too good for the free food they gave us while i know the guys around us were hungry). it felt weird, like we were getting this royal treatment from a place that is poor. we were the only people offered ceviche. it made me feel bad.

i do see these hot looking ladies in red skirts walking in and out of there. but i dont think it is prostitution, they may just be bartenders.

give it 15 years and this block will be gentrified and really expensive to live.

i was told this block is where native americans used to live way back in the day when they used to build the huge steel bridges in NY. i dont know why they would live in Balt but work in NY.

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[QUOTE=Chico23231;1105953]Sounds like Bubs' neighborhood[/QUOTE]


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Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1105677]How, why the hell does one piss all over the top of the urinal?[/quote]
No joke, a buddy of mine can do this. Not sure how but I've seen it too many times where someone is standing at the urinal and he'd duck into a stall and all of a sudden, dude at the urinal is bitching because his head is wet. If I knew he was using the John, I always waited for him to finish.

Re: What REALLY grinds your gears?
 

[quote=Chico23231;1105953]Sounds like Bubs' neighborhood[/quote]

AHAHAH I was thinking that!
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