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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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ShirtlessBob said:
If I lived in an apartment, I could do that. Instead, I live in a residential neighborhood, and most of the noise comes from the wanna be thugs who pass by in their cars. The people who have no space for groceries in their trunk because there's a giant woofer in there.

And cops are generally reluctant to do anything in this neighborhood anyway.
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It sounds like you have many, many reasons to find a new place to live.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
If I lived in an apartment, I could do that. Instead, I live in a residential neighborhood, and most of the noise comes from the wanna be thugs who pass by in their cars. The people who have no space for groceries in their trunk because there's a giant woofer in there.

And cops are generally reluctant to do anything in this neighborhood anyway.
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For a minute there, I forgot what city you actually lived in, and thought you had moved to the south side of Chicago.... :eek:

Didn't realize it got that bad over where you are. It's been years since I've been through there to see family.
 
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aparch said:
For a minute there, I forgot what city you actually lived in, and thought you had moved to the south side of Chicago.... :eek:

Didn't realize it got that bad over where you are. It's been years since I've been through there to see family.
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A few years ago, one of the thugs dropped a heavy rock on my mom's car's windshield. Their justification? We (my dad and I) tried to prevent them from stealing our picnic table. Last year, someone was gunned down right across the street.

So yes, my dad and I are moving to an entirely different neighborhood.
 
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My company has relegated us to using IE9 for various reasons. Because of that, half the sites I visit seem compelled to tell me that my browser is out of date. Do they think that I don't know that? Why do they insist on tell me with a giant banner that flashes across my screen? If some media of other feature doesn't load, tell me in the media/feature box.
 
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St. Clown said:
My company has relegated us to using IE9 for various reasons. Because of that, half the sites I visit seem compelled to tell me that my browser is out of date. Do they think that I don't know that? Why do they insist on tell me with a giant banner that flashes across my screen? If some media of other feature doesn't load, tell me in the media/feature box.
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IE9? You lucky ba*stard. We're still on 8.
 
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JFC, my dad does not have a filter. He decided to share with a friend of his my mental condition. As far as I'm concerned, my bipolar and depression are for me to discuss at my leisure. It's not his decision.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
JFC, my dad does not have a filter. He decided to share with a friend of his my mental condition. As far as I'm concerned, my bipolar and depression are for me to discuss at my leisure. It's not his decision.
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SOmetimes I feel the urge to reach thru the intertubes and do bodily harm to your dad. Just sayin

I have joined the ranks of disenfranchised Board viewers. My laptop has decided to convert to the mobile version. I can't subscribe to threads, if I post it unsubscribes me. yaddah, yaddah. So desperate I am on my netbook to get my Board fix. Board replied to email and has someone looking into it. If you are having probs you may want to contact them so they have an idea of what is going on.
 
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Going to a website and clicking on a link from its homepage to another page within that same site only to have the site tell me when the link does not work that I've either entered in a bad address or they've moved the page. If they moved the page, why wouldn't they update their own link at the same time? If they've removed the page entirely, why not simply delete the link too? Sloppy and lazy, and it's not a backwaters type of site where this just happened causing me to come here.
 
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leswp1 said:
SOmetimes I feel the urge to reach thru the intertubes and do bodily harm to your dad. Just sayin

I have joined the ranks of disenfranchised Board viewers. My laptop has decided to convert to the mobile version. I can't subscribe to threads, if I post it unsubscribes me. yaddah, yaddah. So desperate I am on my netbook to get my Board fix. Board replied to email and has someone looking into it. If you are having probs you may want to contact them so they have an idea of what is going on.
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I learned this week that posting in a thread subscribes but REPLYING and quoting a specific post unsubscribes you.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I learned this week that posting in a thread subscribes but REPLYING and quoting a specific post unsubscribes you.
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See rep thread if you are having issues with Board thinking you are on a mobile device. I (my brilliant brother) found a fix. So far I can post, see everything etc. Won't work if you are on a mobile device, I don't think.
 
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my work morale is about -5826 on a scale of 1 to 10 in the past few weeks. I cannot even begin to enumerate the number of things that grind my gears. luckily things tend to change around here quickly. hopefully that continues.
 
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The Seaway Run grinds my gears. You would think for a half-marathon, they would have water and Gatorade available at every aid station. They did not. On top of that, when I visited the post-race refreshment table, they were out of food. All I wanted was a banana and I couldn't even get that.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
The Seaway Run grinds my gears. You would think for a half-marathon, they would have water and Gatorade available at every aid station. They did not. On top of that, when I visited the post-race refreshment table, they were out of food. All I wanted was a banana and I couldn't even get that.
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Contacted race organizers with my concerns. For next year, they're going to fix the problem.
 
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Not sure if this story is behind their paywall or available to the public, today's Wall St. Journal has an article about dealing with other people's rude behavior:

Experts use the term "social allergens" to describe behaviors or habits that drive others nuts. Some of these actions begin to annoy us soon after we meet someone. Others get to us slowly and surely over time.

As with a lot of allergies, it's the repetition that gets to us. "The first time you are seated next to a co-worker who is loudly snapping bubble gum, you don't care," says Michael Cunningham, a psychologist and professor of communication at the University of Louisville. "After three weeks, you are praying they'll choke on it."

According to Dr. Cunningham, who has studied the phenomenon for more than 15 years, social allergens can be grouped into four main types, depending on whether the behavior is intentional or not, and whether directed personally at an individual or not.

The first grouping is uncouth habits. They are unintentional and they aren't directed personally. They include noisily chewing gum or talking loudly into a phone in a crowded public space. "The person isn't really thinking of you, even though the behavior has implications for you," Dr. Cunningham says.

The second category is egocentric actions, he says. These behaviors aren't necessarily intentional, but they are directed personally at you. There's the friend who keeps you on the phone for 45 minutes after you said you can only talk for five, or the family member who never orders dessert at a restaurant but eats all of yours (you know who you are). This person still isn't thinking about you, but the behavior affects you specifically.

The third category, norm violations, encompasses offensive behaviors that are intentional but impersonal. Examples include smoking right outside the front door, talking in a theater during the show or texting while driving.

The fourth, and most irritating, social-allergen group includes actions that are both intentional and directed personally, Dr. Cunningham says. It may be an imperious command ("Bring me some coffee, will you?") instead of a request for a favor. Often, it is a backhanded complaint or criticism: "Are you really going to eat that?" or "You bought a car? I thought you were saving for college." The person may not have meant to make you feel bad, but you do.

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There tend to be more social allergens at work, because our relationships there are involuntary, Dr. Cunningham says.
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