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Something that just bugs me.

GypsyR

GypsyR

just some guy
"Hold my beer".

No. It's just wrong. In the context it's usually used in it should be "Lemme slam this beer real quick and...".
"Hold it" nothing. Would you really even want it back from your buddy's hot sweaty hand after jumping the garden shed with your RV? And anyway he more than likely set it down somewhere and lost it. Accidently drank it. Spilled it. Handed it to someone else, etc. If he's your BEST buddy. probably put a dead spider or cat turd in it.

So I think we oughta stop with the beer holding. Slam that thing like a real American and go do stupid stuff. With a belch.

Yes, crap like this just pops into my head sometimes.
 
No no no! You got it wrong. The person who says "Hold my beer" knowingly put a dead spider or cat turd in it, and expects his buddy to drink it while he's doing something useful.
 
Have you seen this Ariana Grande person? All I know about her is that she sings stuff I don't listen to. That's fine. But every so often I see a picture of her in my news feed because of whatever social thing and it bugs me, Because....well. In every single picture of her I've seen it looks like she has a clothespin on her c...on her...ummm, extra special little lady parts. I mean even when she's smiling. Seriously, search up a picture of this person and tell me I'm wrong.
 
I don't really know what she sings, but Google a couple of pictures of her and tell me I'm wrong.
 
Moved this peeve up a notch from just bugging me.
Daughter bought a new car and found on the way home the "lane departure warning" feature buzzed her seat the last mile home. We have very narrow country roads around here. As soon as she got home she called me saying "How do I turn this shit off?" (Literally) I don't blame her, annoying.

So today I'm driving a truck down our semi-rural five lane highway. Busy during rush hours, traffic pretty sparse other than that. So I'm cruising along in the slow lane and see a fella walking on the side of the road. His back to me, not so good. No sidewalks out here and where he was walking in the road to stay out of the knee-high grass/weeds. Can't blame him for that, with the morning dew it would have soaked him. Room for both of us but as a courtesy I figured I'd ease over to give him a little extra room. especially as he couldn't see me coming. Truck said "OH NO! Riding on the white lines! I am am steering us back into our lane. " SHIT! Had to fight the wheel over. Jesus. Terminator truck. Way to prioritize. A human life? Nah, who cares, gotta keep it between those lines no matter what. NOT impressed. Had I known it was going to do such a thing (not my truck) I would have just changed lanes.

I would totally turn that crap off too. I couldn't count how many times over the years I've had to dodge a tire tread, board, deer carcass, etc on the side of the road. After a super quick mirror check to make sure I had room to do so but I also normally drive with an eye already on who is on the road with me.
 
I rent a lot of vehicles when travelling for work. Not all lane guidance systems are created equal. Even by the same manufacturer. The good ones seem to be able to sense whether the driver is really just drifting out of place or if they are intentionally crossing a line. To my feel, the resistive forces are not always equal. The more abrupt the steering over the line the less the system fights you.
Overall, these systems are NEEDED today. Too many dumbasses looking down at their phones/dash screens than keeping eyes on the road.
 
Seems the thought process (yeah like these idiot drivers can have intelligent thoughts) is that my car will protect me. Whether it be looking at their phone while driving safely at 50mph in a 70 zone or speeding at 80 around a 35mph curve and losing it. My car will protect me with airbags, crush zones and safety glass. Not a thought to physics.
 
Safeway has a sale this week on peanut butter--99 cents for the 16.3 ounce jar. Of course, all they have is what's on the shelf and they sold it all in less than half a day. But they've got dozens of jars of the reduced fat version that no one wants. My guess is they had the screaming deal to try to blow out their glut of what people DON'T want and are reluctant to buy even at 99 cents.:mad:

I've asked before, "why do you have tons of this but none of that?" Their answer was something along the lines of "oh, we have to take a certain number of this to get what we want of that."
 
crustycurmudgeon said:
I've asked before, "why do you have tons of this but none of that?" Their answer was something along the lines of "oh, we have to take a certain number of this to get what we want of that."
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I about believe it. I favor some breakfast bars that have peanut butter in them. Some alternatives are almond butter, "cocoa"(sort of), and coconut butter. Most of the time when I go to stock up there's a big gap in the peanut butter version space with maybe a box or two at the back where the other flavors are overflowing the shelf. (The coconut ones might even have dust on the boxes.) I've been buying the things for years so after a while I can't help but notice. The peanut butter ones are not just MY favorite, they seem to be the most popular. Stock is almost always low and even sometimes out. So why the hell are they pushing the other versions so hard? What? In Sam's Club they'll have a pallet of that almond butter flavor and no other. How do I know what their best flavor is and they don't? Or that's the way it seems. I hope there's information I am just missing or unaware of and the people marketing this stuff aren't really that stupid.

But....there's been a running cynical joke in our family that I started decades ago.
Wife: "Why don't they have those chips any more? They were really good."
Me: "Well obviously they found out we liked them and stopped selling them."
About the tenth time the identical thing happens it's kind of hard not to wonder. I could make a list of things the wife and I used to buy EVERY time we went to get groceries that suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again.
 
Not something I yell. I came home from work one day to spot a yellow abandoned Tonka truck on the front sidewalk. I immediately thought "Cool! Someone's been playing trucks!" Opposed to a couple of decades ago when I might have grumbled about the darn kids leaving their stuff all over.

But anyway, I was led to believe this forum was populated mostly by grumpy old guys. Was I misled? You guys really don't have a peeve or two to gripe about?
 
I'm a student of history. And what you are experiencing is as old as time. Its change that we don't like. When we're younger we accept it more. But as we age we aren't as accommodating. I have fun with the phrase "Back in my day".
"What's wrong with paper maps?"
" no I don't have it on my phone. Write it on this piece of paper. Got a pen?"
And on and on..

Its change.
 
Slow left lane drivers, slow drivers, drivers in general, store lane blockers(cart on one side, them standing there looking at two identical almond butter bars on the other side), people on their phone talking so loud everyone in the restaurant/store/etc. can hear, people on their phone driving out of their lane into mine, people on their phone driving, phones, people, loose aggressive dogs, people who don’t control loose aggressive dogs, people, etc.

I could go on…
 
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