What Grinds Your Gears?

[lo_res_man]

I have created this thread so people who feel really bummed or pissed about something can rant about it, without having to create a whole new thread. Those threads can really clutter up the forum, especially when they get locked.
Here is an opener,

Empowered,
A good word, but overused, and used inappropriately in my opinion. Now I am not against anyone’s rights, but it really ticks me off that if a woman does something sexy, and feels good about it, she is empowered, but if a guy is turned on by it, he is a chauvinist pig. So you feel good about been sexy, good for you, that's a good thing. But what’s with the double standard?
I don't think of woman as objects, even when I am supremely attracted to one. Do men write love poems to their fridge’s? Do  we write a balled of the day the toaster broke?  Now those things are objects. What do you people think, am I chauvinist pig, or might I have something here? you tell me.

[Raggit]

I'm not quite sure what you were talking about with the women being sexy empowered thing.

Could you put it another way?


I think there've been a couple other threads like this, but they got locked if I remember correctly.Ã,  Maybe this one will avoid that fate.

[LimpingFish]

Ooh, the reasons why women "get away with" what men would be punished for. A sticky subject, and one this fish has learned is not to be taken lightly. Not with women present, that's for sure.

My peeve:

Why I buy a "new" PC or console game, why can't I get one that is precisely that? Not one that's had it's innards removed from it's box, bound in an elastic band, and shoved in a drawer behind a counter? That's not new! It has finger prints and Snicker crumbs all over it!

[ManicMatt]

Leave this to me Limping one, I run a gameshop!

Because if you leave the boxes out with it's innards, people will help themselves without paying for it.

Now if I have more than one new copy of a game I shall make sure that only one copy is emptied, and then sell the sealed ones first.

But my store tends to only have one of each... then we just re-order.

I know what you mean though, I love to have a nice sealed copy. (And working in a gameshop, I can!    )

[lo_res_man]

Ooh, the reasons why women "get away with" what men would be punished for. A sticky subject, and one this fish has learned is not to be taken lightly. Not with women present, that's for sure.

Yes this is a thorny issue, and yes it tough to discuss around woman, but i think it's important that we do, otherwise how can wqe reach some kind of understanding? Any woman in the forum like to say their say?

[Erenan]

Wow. I guess I've been buying everything online for so long that I never noticed game stores doing that with new games.

I remember my dad buying me C64 games from Toys R Us when I was a kid, and they simply had these ticket slips that you'd bring to the counter, and upon receiving your payment they would hand you the sealed box with the game inside.

Re: Chauvinism...

Is it actually considered chauvinistic now to be aroused by a woman doing something sexy? In my understanding, most women probably want to know that they have this effect on men. What they don't like is when men show it in stupid or rude ways, such as hooting, hollering, whistling, etc. As long as you maintain a certain degree of respectability and intelligence about it, there's almost always no problem.

Am I misunderstanding what you mean, though?

[Andail]

I don't think men are generally being called chauvinist pigs for being turned on by female sexiness, so stop stigmatizing yourself.
In any normal intimate situation, being turned on is equally important for both parts. I think you might refer to men who can't handle their arousal in a decent mature manner, or who are still stuck in some sort of patriarchal world order and can't treat their women respectfully.

Edit: Yep, Erenan said it.

[LimpingFish]

Leave this to me Limping one, I run a gameshop!

Because if you leave the boxes out with it's innards, people will help themselves without paying for it.

Now if I have more than one new copy of a game I shall make sure that only one copy is emptied, and then sell the sealed ones first.

Yes! Now that's the way it should be done. I understand if only one copy comes in, but GAME has, like, two dozen of a title out on the shelf and each is hollow! At least they could keep a few sealed. Argos seems to be the only retail outlet where you're guaranteed a sealed game. But their range is so crappy.

Oh well.

[ManicMatt]

It is more than likely that GAME would receive dummy sleeves for the big titles, in which case they could put out fake boxes on the shelves. For Final Fantasy XII at our Wigston branch (20 copies of the game), I used the sleeves to make six dummy boxes to put on the shelf. But of course, GAME just don't give a shit.

[Tuomas]

Pissed off? I think I can list a couple of things.

I'm pissed off about the fact, that all we have on telly is American soap operas, boring shows and series that are more and more alike. The fact that we have show's like OC to which our youth adapts and starts behaving like them, dressing up like them and getting plastic surgeries like them. The fact that the foreign culture we're introduced to is not the real kind but the one only existant in the studios of hollywood. The fact that we lack shows from all around the world, like der Alte, which is German, and excellent, like Emmerdale, which is British, and crap. The fact that we do not aknowledge any other culture than that of Hollywood, which is the most artificial one. And we adapt that to our tv too. And having read through essays and short stories by the youth of our time, we take that into our thinking too , our imagination is where superstars are, not here in our motherland, or here in reality.

I'm pissed of by the fact that still a huge number of people do not fin global warming a problem that should or could be fought. That people do not realise that a 4 degree change in the average temperature can lead to natural catastrophes beyond imagination, not just nice warm weather with less expenses to warming houses. That greedy people don't agree to cut back on polluting or on using energy because that would mean they'd lose money. And that people are not aware, that if we managed to drop our energy consumption by 20% or transferred it to reproducing sources like solar power, we'll still have to keep cutting back for 100 years before we'll reach the level we begun at. That people like the French government are showing empty actions on behalf of this, such as turning off the lightbulbs from The Eifel tower for 5 minutes in the middle of the night while it takes energy worth 15 minutes to turn them back on even though no-one would be there to see it happen because it's in the middle of the night.

I'm pissed off by religious people trying to convert me to religion. I made my choise, and I do not find it a strength that you have something to believe in. I find it self decieving, and that is the last thing I'd find giving me strength. I find those people close to schitzophrenic or with divided personalities, thinking some deity is watching over them without any proof and then yelling at me for blasphemy while they themselves do what I do, but confess in bloody churches. And the people who decided that my children should be brought up to know christianity even though I value bible as much as I value Silmarillion, thought the latter is more interesting. But I don't see people gibing that to me as the ultimate solution to everything that happens, just because no-one has yet come up with a reason why to do that. And I can't help but despise people on tv yelling how great He is or how he made it all possible. Some say at least they have something to believe in, but what's that really worth if you put all your faith on something that's only defineable in a dogmatic way.

I'm generally pissed off, now that I think of it. I'm pissed off at my friends who can't listen to anything but heavy metal, and everything else is bad, and they claim to be serious about it, but they won't even get into a local heavy metal bar because they don't dress creditably enough. I'm pissed off one of my ex-friends who was with me at my other friends party and came between me and this nice girl when we we're having a good time only because he knew her from before, and started talking bad about me while I was gone for a while, trying to get into the girl's pants. And I'm pissed of his self-centered life, and the shit music he makes and the shit jokes he tells and his ugly girlfriend, which didn't stop him from doing anything. And I'm pissed off my other friend who as long as I was i touch with him pretended to be my friend, but afterwards has kept a distance and frankly I haven't called him either because he's stupid.

I'm pissed off at my university which is full of self-centered idiots who want nothing to do with the outer world and think of themselves as superior beings while they're really the scum of the population with all their stupid pointless traditions that they think impress other people. And I'm sick of Finnish people who are generally stupid as are most people when it comes to politics. When these idiots should vote for people that do stuff for them, they go voting for the nice prime minister guy who is from the redneck party, and still managed to make an agreement after which our farmers pay the costs of farmers in countries such as France and Great Britain, but he's a nice guy, even though he just divorced his wife, cheated on her, and now was hiding his ex from public because was ashamed of her. All you really need to do to be the prime minister of this country is to talk in a sissy voice that the grannies like.

And I'm pissed off at all the grannies in this God forsaken country because they're taking our tax money. They claim, that when they were working they paid all their pension from their salary. Well the thing is, once they were born, after the WW2, they've been causing problems to their parents who had to raise an extreme amount of kids, the biggest amount ever, almost half of our people are born '40-'50. So during the regression of '90 they set a law by which every worker pays 40% o their tax to pension, and from that 40% 75% goes to the old people, only because while they were young they did nothing but had fun. Now we have to suffer for them, and still they claim they don't get enough. they claim they paid for their own, but they don't realise that they themselves set the law only after they were starting to get retired. Giving birth won't do because one can't stay home as a mother when one has to pay pension to half the nation, so we're down on birthrate. And the cruisers are full of these people, they buy cottages from Spain, come to Finland only to get the money, my grandparents, both sides drive brand new cars and still complain, while my mother tries to feed 3 children and an ill husband with them ripping her off.

I'm bored of being pissed off for now, I'll add a lot of things tomorrow

[Erenan]

Man, I hope typing all that made you feel better rather than getting you all riled up.

[Tuomas]

It actually did (see the smiley). I sincerely recommend that to all of you, this thread is the greatest!

[Da_Elf]

im too content a person to be pissed off at anything at the moment

[ManicMatt]

I'm too content a person to be pissed off at anything at the moment

This really pisses me off! 

[R4L]

I'm too content a person to be pissed off at anything at the moment

This really pisses me off! 

Him being pissed off pisses me off!!!! 

[MillsJROSS]

I don't like the fact that when I go to a restaurant, I have to give a tip to my waiter/waitress. I'm not stingy in this area, generally I give 20% or more, I simple think that the cost of waitresses should be accounted for in the cost of food. I worked in a grocery store for five years, which was constantly full, and I could work just as much as any waiter/waitress and they'd pull just as much money as me in a night as I'd get in a week (part-time work). I dealt with a lot more people, and a hell of a lot more money, and yet my wages were significantly less. However, I still managed to work as hard as I could, without having to be offered tips. It's not that I don't respect my servers, my sister was a server and I've heard many horror stories from her, but it's not like customers at grocery stores are all lovey dovey, they're not.

There are arguments to the other side. They don't make a consistent paycheck, some days being better than others. They get bad customers who don't tip nearly what they should. If there is something wrong with the cooks, the server is more often blamed by the customer. It's not an easy job. I just don't like it.

I also don't like how people have begun to assume that people have to tip on taxes. I argued with my roommate who is a server, and told him that the tip is a percentage of the food, not the money you give the government. His argument was that because of inflation, that a percentage on the taxes was called for. Which didn't make sense because he's taking a percentage of the cost of something, if there is inflation, than the cost of the food will go up, and he'll end up, essentially, getting more money.

I also don't like that the prices for alcoholic drinks aren't always on the menu. But I can at least understand the reasons for it.

-MillsJROSS

[Postmodern_Boy]

they won't even get into a local heavy metal bar because they don't dress creditably enough.

wait a second, since when do people have to dress a certain way to get into a heavy metal bar?  I have never been to a metal or punk bar that had a strict dress code.

[vict0r]

My ps3 piss me off these days. Or my router might. I would know if I could just locate the friggin' problem! All I want is to play online, but the piece of shit won't let me!!

[esper]

@ MillsJ & PMBoy: I understand that point. My pal told me about a Fullmetal Alchemist hoodie he saw at a really cheap price, and I aksed him where he got it. When he said "Hot Topic," my response was, "Oh, I can't go in there. I like a lot of their merchandise, but I feel uncomfortable going into a place full of hardcore goths dressed like Bill Gates."

[Postmodern_Boy]

I feel uncomfortable going into a place full of hardcore goths dressed like Bill Gates."

hardcore goth...........Bill Gates

Yeah I see what your saying, the idea makes me uncomfortable also.