Small things in life that gravel your ass

[Bwana]

What are some things in life that are really not that big of a deal in the big picture, but just piss you off?

My example of the day:

The dogs were barking at something today out in the alley, so I went outside to find out what the hell was going on. Some Slippery Larry contractor was back there unloading a bunch of shit into my city garbage container.

Me: Hey there strokestick, are you my new neighbor or something?

Slippery Larry: No

Me: Yeah, I knew that, then why are you dumping your crap out into my garbage container? I have plans to clean out the garage and am going to need the space.

Slippery Larry: I don't know.

Me: Do you live in a house, do YOU have a garbage container?

Slippery Larry: Yes, but it's full, so I'm dumping it in here.

Me: No, no you're not, try the city dump. Don't let me ever catch you back here pulling the bullshit again, or we are going to have a big problem.

At that point, he high tailed it out of there.

Like I said, it wasn't like the guy was back there trying to break into my shop, but it rubbed me the wrong way.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Spider2YBanana

The original character was white, the original actor was white, and he had a British accent and sang like a brit.

Casting a black man totally takes me out of the production, sorry.

Let's watch Roots with Keanu Reeves as Kunta Kinte. It'll work because of the good storyline, right?

[Rain Man]

I thought Mickey Rooney did a brilliant job of capturing the nuances of Japanese-American culture in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by loochy

I, for one, always found casting in movies like that to be stupid.

The king for me is The Ten Commandments. You really expect me to believe that those are Egyptians? rofl.

[Iowanian]

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

This used to be a big problem in the 90's. I didn't know it still was. I used to wrestle a kid from St. Louis who was actually from somewhere in Illinois. He went to Chamanade On a "scholarship"

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I'll tell you something that gravels my ass.

High schools that recruit kids for athletics.

Stay in your district, play with the kids you grow up with....and if you happen to have 3-4 state champ caliber kids move into your district for wrestling, or girls from 3-4 states on your basketball team....there is a * next to your championship in my view.

In very rare cases, it makes sense for a kid's family to move to a different district. I have a cousin that has a son who is a very talented WR (he's being recruited by Baylor, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia), but the coach of the high school team when he was a freshman ran a single wing offense and there was zero talent at QB. His dad started talking to other coaches at other schools in the area and they found a school with a great QB that was the same age with a coach that runs a pass heavy offense. They moved to that district and it was definitely better for my cousin's sons future.

[Baby Lee]

This was a small thing, but it chapped my ass slightly. It's a tad political, but so small as not throw things in a tizzy.

Neil Cavuto had someone on talking about the protests who said many protestors were paid by Soros. OK, this is a questionable/debatable claim.

But Cavuto's immediate reaction was 'I must interject that, if some were, it was not very many.'

How on earth is this a journalistic statement? It's both purposefully vague, and couched in terms of authoritative fact.

If you dispute how many people, if any, were paid, say that. Don't sit in the guise of a journalist and say 'according to my knowledge and insight, it 'probably wasn't very many' You have no data to either evidence your claim or rebut the claim of the guest on way or another, so don't phrase it as a declarative statement.

It's not even about the veracity of the assertion that crowds contained people who were paid. It's the flip dismissal of 'probably not very many' clearly without any analysis on which to predicate it passed off as fact.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

In very rare cases, it makes sense for a kid's family to move to a different district. I have a cousin that has a son who is a very talented WR (he's being recruited by Baylor, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia), but the coach of the high school team when he was a freshman ran a single wing offense and there was zero talent at QB. His dad started talking to other coaches at other schools in the area and they found a school with a great QB that was the same age with a coach that runs a pass heavy offense. They moved to that district and it was definitely better for my cousin's sons future.

They have to know that it's a rare case, though.

I lived in a rural area growing up, and school transfers were unheard of. We had one kid who did it because he or his dad (I think it was his dad) was convinced that he had a future in football. It was a big to-do getting him switched into our school system, and I think the dad even bought some land in our district to do it. Then the kid shows up and he had no future in football at all. Granted, our football coach was an idiot, but I don't think this kid even started on our 2-8 rural football team.

Whoa - I looked this kid up because I haven't thought about him in years, and the case was even written up in Sports Illustrated for some reason: http://www.si.com/vault/1981/05/18/825642/scorecard. Search for "Rolla".

I had a couple of details wrong. I guess he left the district instead of coming in, and he was trying to redraw the district boundaries around his current land. Maybe it was a good idea to get away from our idiot football coach.

[In58men]

Oh here's a ****ing good one, how about hitting a gigantic boulder of ****ing death on your way to work? I lost two ****ing tires and two rims. After spending $685 I am checking out. **** you Tuesday!!!!






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[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Oh here's a ****ing good one, how about hitting a gigantic boulder of ****ing death on your way to work? I lost two ****ing tires and two rims. After spending $685 I am checking out. **** you Tuesday!!!!






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How does one hit a boulder?

[In58men]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

How does one hit a boulder?

The way this road is ****ing sucks, you can't swerve to miss shit. 4 other people hit it as well, another guys lost his tire. We received emails about it this morning, but I don't check emails until I'm at the office.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

How does one hit a boulder?

1.) get in vehicle
2.) point vehicle at boulder
3.) depress accelerator
4.) keep vehicle pointed at boulder until impact with boulder

* brakes should be used at no point during steps 3 or 4

[In58men]

Originally Posted by loochy

1.) get in vehicle
2.) point vehicle at boulder
3.) depress accelerator
4.) keep vehicle pointed at boulder until impact with boulder

* brakes should be used at no point during steps 3 or 4

Go **** yourself

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

The way this road is ****ing sucks, you can't swerve to miss shit. 4 other people hit it as well, another guys lost his tire. We received emails about it this morning, but I don't check emails until I'm at the office.

Wow! So this boulder is in the road, it is a known driving hazard, its been there long enough for your company to send out an email warning people about it, and yet the authorities aren't there to direct traffic and remove the hazard?

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Go **** yourself

That's step 5