What Grinds Your Gears?!19739
 I'm a McNugget guzzler.
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 I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo Why would anyone take a picture of a backing board in a Mylar? |
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I'm a McNugget guzzler.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Because they are coco Nuts! Badump bump. |
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 I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson Maybe it's stuck to the back cover. |
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 -Our Odin-Rest in Peace |
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo Those pictures will haunt me in my dreams!!!! Why????!!!! |
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 I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers).Splotches is gettin old! |
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| If I started to write, it'd be the length of a book. I don't even know where to begin. Suffice to say this hobby is not what it was; nor many of the individuals who are now involved. Which is why I'm kinda done with it. Sorta like new music. Everything gets slabbed now and sold off. My gears have been grinded to the bare sheet metal |
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| Automated soap dispensers with no soap. Edit: this includes automated faucets that are not functional! |
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| Also, I utilize public transportation on a regular basis to avoid the nightmares of driving and I will say the torture of witnessing your scheduled bus/train leaving just before you get to the stop is delicious. #maximumpain | ||
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 Beaten by boat oars
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| People who describe their slabs as freshly graded like slabs can be picked right off the vine. Flippers/profiteers. People who always say a life emergency came up and now they always have to sell that one book they hoped to keep forever yet happens to be the hottest book at the time. Don't buy comics if your financial situation is that dire. The Irish. I'm sure I'll think of more. |
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| Inadequate lubrication. | ||
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I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers). Splotches is gettin old! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by HAmistoso Yikes! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 That's what she said... |
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I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley I wasn't aware I'm that annoying. |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| The fact that the following phrases are no longer popular: "your goose is cooked" "heavens to Betsy" "poppycock" "hop the fence" |
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 Masculinity takes a holiday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 This relates to a philosophical thought I've had in my head all day. Seems there is kind of a bell curve to our appreciation for change to the current status quo. When we are new to a something, a city or job or hobby, we seem to have much more appreciation for the change that is occurring. In fact, we may be active participants in that change. But the change has no stopping point. eventually it passes the high point of the bell curve and becomes a negative that disrupts our status quo. Maybe that's the point where it is best to move on...a new city, new job or new hobby. Start fresh someplace where everything is new to us and we can, for a time, appreciate both the status quo and the coming changes. I moved a year ago to a new and growing community. In general, the newcomers are much more excited about the ongoing changes than those who have been here for decades. But I imagine there was a time when the old-timers were excited about a new grocery store, restaurant or gas station. |
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I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers). Splotches is gettin old! |
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| My philosophical thought I grapple with often is when I ask myself am I disgruntled because of change and it being outside of my status quo OR does the change actually just now "stink". Ex: I watched some band on the TODAY show the other day. I think Twice was their name? And with a semi open mind I asked myself are they musically better (however one would define better) than any of the classic bands or soloists in the last 60 years? And how? I'm still trying to answer 3 days later. All I could come up with is they were all much more attractive than say ... Iggy Pop. They moved real well on stage too. I guess those count "musically". |
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 Keep your $6.87 bro... not even saving tax with that.
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| When you watch an item on eBay and the seller finally sends an incredibly generous 1.8% lower offer to 47 watchers to make the auction more attractive. Keep your $6.87 bro... not even saving tax with that. (FYI all the numbers in this example are made up) I know, I know, first world problems. |
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC I use all but the last one. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 Consider all the garbage music of past eras that faded into oblivion. We now selectively remember the “survivors” - the good, great and epic. We forget the garbage (or most of it). That said, there IS more garbage put out today than ever and it IS more amplified by virtue of the power balance shift further along the spectrum towards image over substance. But there IS ALSO tons of great music being made today. Some of it on par with the best of the past. |
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Masculinity takes a holiday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 Maybe it's that the medium has expanded to more than just an audio enjoyment? When you and I were growing up there were 4 TV channels and there wasn't much of a visual component to music other than the album cover and going to a concert. I compare it to the modern variant and mail-in signing component of the comic industry. It's not for me, but it is an expansion of the industry. Doesn't necessarily crowd out my part of the industry. Although I don't understand the value others put on these things, it doesn't really reduce the value of the things that I collect. I'm kind of fascinated by that small percentage of people who can embrace and ride with change all the way through. Like the rare old-time collector who also loves modern variant covers. Or the rare old-time rocker who enjoys K-Pop. |
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| Image vs substance - always a tension there. I’d argue more channels today for mass acceptance (monetization) of image, with less effort. This means the balance has shifted. But more channels to consume too. Plenty of creative people still out creating - so quality still exists and even more paths to discover it. Just more sorting through the crap to get there. |
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I'm a McNugget guzzler.
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| I’m simple I guess. I accept the fact that I like what I like. | ||
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Masculinity takes a holiday.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave I think that's the part that grinds gears. |
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Keep your $6.87 bro... not even saving tax with that.
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| When your Android TV takes 38 minutes to update. (again, mostly made up numbers... only because it was way longer than that) |
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Masculinity takes a holiday.
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| When you're picking someone up at the airport and the flight gets delayed from 8 pm to 10 pm. Then from 10 pm to 12:15 am. And you won't get home until 1:30 am and you have to work the next day. | ||
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 I award you no points!
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| The person at a Comic Con who is ahead of you at the line to drop off submissions. He has a dolly with plastic totes and he’s getting all of them graded. While I stand behind him trying to submit 2 books. | ||
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 I AM... THE Bat-Manuel
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| Here's my best "Canadian asking American to ship to Canada" story Like most ebay auctions based in the US, a particular US seller didn't list if he is willing to ship to Canada or not, so I reached to him and asked (95% of the time, they are willing) The seller got back to me and said, "I don't like shipping over seas". I sent a two word reply "We're attached" It's a running joke here in Canada that Americans are bad at geography, but this particular case had an extra "WOW" factor in that he lived in a state that BORDERED with Canada. |
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC I might also add one of my other favorites: Well, he tore up Jack and killed Betty. |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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Quote:Originally Posted by stanley_1883 Could be worse, some chatty Cathy could get the artist talking for a good ten minutes instead. |
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| When people feel the world owes them something. | ||
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