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5 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

When someone summons you and then edits it with nvm, a real gear grinder...

Leave the comment up you coward. 

You're one to talk... Anyway, was really the question about doggo and me simply being too lazy to look for the thread, only to see it afterwards. 

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On 6/11/2023 at 3:03 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

What “grinds my gears”?  Shit like this make me want to go “Begby” on people…

 

I think I told you, @Ser Scot A Ellison, the story about walking behind two Americans in the Toronto airport, years and years ago. We banned smoking in public spaces years before you guys did, and these two dudes were saying to each other, “I can’t wait to get out of this effing country, you can’t effing smoke effing anywhere!”

I still laugh when I think about them!

An oldie but a goodie grinds my gears still - people who don’t use their turn signal when driving. I know I’m occasionally guilty of that as well so I try to restrain myself, but good grief, they don’t make turn signals in BMWs, Mercedes, any kind of giant SUV, pretty well any kind of very expensive vehicle. Amazing!

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21 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

Oh, do you remember when people smoked in elevators? Elevators, ffs!

I remember airplanes. Flying PanAm from Germany to the States and we had to pass through the smoking section :rofl:

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I mentioned a few times my father being a heavy smoker for his entire adult life (well, he started at 13, so a bit longer actually). So my tolerance for smokers is relatively high. Back then there even were smoker sections with tables in restaurant, guess where we dined...

Only place, I truely can't stand smokers is in a car. I remember one time, when I was really just wee child, this combination of new car smell (that disgusting smell of plastic and glue and stuff, I will never understand how people can like that smell) paired with his cigarettes really gave me nausea.

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4 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

Oh, do you remember when people smoked in elevators? Elevators, ffs!

 

4 hours ago, Madame deVenoge said:

I remember airplanes. Flying PanAm from Germany to the States and we had to pass through the smoking section :rofl:

Glad I'm young enough to have missed this. But I was old enough to be on flights at a young age that still had ashtrays. 

3 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Only place, I truely can't stand smokers is in a car. 

Now we're talking. My dad was a chain smoker and during these months we'd go up to the cabin numerous times. Nice 3-4 hour drive and he was puffing away and when it was raining he'd hot box the car with that shit. 

Safe to say I'd always get pissed when someone would light up in any of my cars without asking*. Thankfully that hasn't happened in a long time. 

*Well, there were a few exceptions, pretty women can make me agree to far more annoying things than that. But I haven't dated a smoker (not including pot) in a very long time. Probably not since college. 

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I'm so old I've smoked on commercial airplanes, and Greyhound buses and many cars.  Also smoked in restaurants, bars, casinos, everywhere. Transitioning from smoking everywhere to smoking nowhere wasn't that hard for me because I really wanted to quit and did finally in the early '90s.  Not having public places to smoke in helped me out and now would never go back to the old way.  

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12 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

Facebook has become unusable due to the amount of pages popping up that I have no interest in.

I get almost literally no feed from my friends now. What's the point? 

Facebook knows your friends are ass

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19 hours ago, Madame deVenoge said:

I remember airplanes. Flying PanAm from Germany to the States and we had to pass through the smoking section :rofl:

I did 4 years of Marching Band in High School.  One of the “Band Moms” was an inveterate chain smoker… she smoked on the buses, she smoked in the buildings we were in, she smoked on the sidelines during our competitions.  She smoked everywhere.

We got to go to London for a week my Senior year to march in the New Year’s Day parade.  I was right behind her on the plane over… she smoked the whole fucking time.  

I really, really, really, really, really, really, hate smoking.

:shocked:

 

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