What Grinds Your Gears?

<3 Bekisa

I so feel your pain. x_x Same people at my work!

I hate people that join draft mode in LoL... can't play anything but 1 position... and feed in that position anyways...

I hate kids. Well, not all kids. Well, backstory.

Yesterday evening around 7pm my dog Pixel went missing from my backyard. There are four directions she can break out from. Three put her in other peoples' yards and one puts her in the road. I checked yards first and she just so happened to be in the only other yard that had people in it at the time. I suspected that they had called, lured, or enticed her over because she had never shown interest in that yard before. I figured the parents hadn't been paying attention and the two kids had got her under the fence. But it certainly wasn't provable, so I decided not to be mad, collected my dog, and blocked the hole.

Then today when I went out, I noticed scraps of food, bread and such tossed into our yard. I talked toa different neighbor and it turns out that the two little kids have a habit of feeding other peoples' dogs their dinner scraps. Well no wonder my dog went over there, they are bloody feeding her! So now I'm mad because now I have to go inform these people of things that is none of their business to keep my dog safely in my own yard and tell them not to feed her. For one, she's on a diet from the vet because she's overweight and for two, when she eats human food she has an unfortunate habit of puking it back up onto my carpet. It makes her sick.

I had hoped that simply asking the kids not to feed my dogs would work, but the other neighbor had to start chaining her dog up outside the yard because those two brats continued to throw food scraps over the fence.

I hate children. And I hate parents who don't keep their children under control, and I hate that because of those parents' lack of discipline now I have to go parent their stupid kids to protect my dogs. Next time Pixel digs out we might not be so lucky as to find her in a neighbor's yard. We might instead find her a mess of blood and fur in the middle of the road because two unsupervised brats found it necessary to coax her into digging under a fence.

And is it just me, or is it pretty damn rude to feed someone else's dog without permission anyways? I hate kids!

Here's what you do.. Buy the kids all kinds of candy and sugary drinks and ice cream and cookies and all kinds of ***and wait for the parents to come to you and ask what the hell you think you're doing feeding their kids..

Then say something like "Oh, you don't like it when someone else feeds your family without your knowledge? Keep your kids from feeding my dog or I'll keep feeding your kids"

people!!!

Ha! I just got back from speaking with their father, I asked nicely and explained that it made my dog sick. He has assurred me that it won't happen again. If it does, I might steal this idea and take to buying the kids candy bars. Hopefully the parents would notice, understand, and keep their word. Well, hopefully they keep their word without me getting all sugary on them!

Gotta vent off some steam here. I've been torturing myself trying to get atma of the beyond for my mule and I've been having serious "murphy's law" bad luck for the past 3 days.

1st attempt: me WAR/SAM (RR,GH,SS, just got to 99, mediocre gear, all red procs except Ei) + mule WHM + BLM friend who also needs it and he already has T2 pop. (Note, subbing sam doesn't give cyclone or energy drain.. I didn't know this) We kill T2 once and get the upgrade. (Yay, this will be quick.) Pop the T3, red proc it in first WS with Freezebite (yay!)

So I switch to g.axe, meditate, stalwarts, champions, 2hr, sekkanoki > raging rush > again > skillchain etc, around 50% still terrorized from red proc. I pop a revitalizer, red proc wears, it uses Fission as expected. Quad. Continuum x 4, I survive, BLM diagas the babies and runs away and he dies. The babies despawn, he reraises, then I use TP wing > 2hr again > meditate > skillchain > get it to about 20% and it uses Fission again. Well I had no chance to do anything this time, no luck with evasion, berserk up so my defense is terrible... immediately dead from 4 quads. wipe > game over. Meh, just some bad luck with TP moves... no big deal, try again tomorrow.

Next night: me NIN/WAR, +whm mule + blm friend. NIN has a few less red procs but more survivability. Not taking any chances this time. Takes a few hours to upgrade abyssite. This time I'm using RR+GH+cloak and dagger (evasion) + 2 evasion katanas + too much evasion gear. I get lucky on red proc again, take it a bit more carefully this time, keeping shadows 3+ all the time, get it down to 10% and it finally uses fission. 4 quad continuums barely hurt me, 2 of them missed entirely.

BLM diagas and runs away, I wait til he raises and start to finish it off. It uses Fission again... I couldn't have fed it 100 TP... I didn't even have 100 TP yet... Whatever, I survive. I cure myself with mule just as protect and shell wear off and I ignore it. I diaga adds with my mule, NM starts casting Blizzaga III. I'm in the wrong FFXI window, can't switch to MDT set fast enough, no shell, eat a full Blizzaga 3 for ~1700. I barely survive and then immediately take one melee hit for 150 + added effect 100 ice damage, dead. Sure, I have capped evasion and about +150 evasion in gear and he has a hit rate of like 10% on me, but that 1 hit had to connect. Game over.

This one pissed me off the most because I could have played it much differently. I didn't cure myself to full, only to about 80%, didn't recast shell, didn't switch gear..

Day 3: A sane person would have given up by now, but now I'm obsessed. No BLM this time, just me dual-boxing. I upgrade abyssite, doesn't take all that long. I got every med I can get, full buffs, etc.. Proc red again, it was Jinpu. First TP move it uses is Vanity Drive.. it misses. Woo. Get it to about 40% before it uses another TP move... Fission. I'm ready for it. I use potion III, and get shadows back up before switching to mule. Casting spell diaga on adds. Suddenly: WHM's reraise effect wears off. OH COME ON! Try to get scroll of instant reraise from mog sack. Can't select it fast enough. Dead WHM.

I beg in LS for someone to come raise my mule, with my back turned to the NM, I don't dare feed it TP until I get help. Flux #4 please help... running out of potions, eating aga-IIIs waiting for help. Then Turul lands on my face. Ever feel like you're just being trolled by SE?

So, at this point, I'm mad bro. It's officially time for another break from FFXI, because it really grinds my gears.

When people don't flush the toilet!!

This is going to seem a little petty I think... but when you start up a video game and the title screen says "Press Start" but then you press "X" or "A" and the game starts anyway. Show some backbone games, you wanted me to press start, don't just settle for any old button, stand up for your beliefs!

What if the game is in another language and say for instance you're playing on an N64 and it says press "Z," but you can't read it and this is also your first time playing on an N64 so you don't know about the Z button, then what?

They will need to learn what/where that Z button is at some point and the title screen seems as good as anytime... If they can't make it past the title screen then it would probably be doing them a favor.

So there I was, sitting there innocently glancing through google pics of "short shag hair" because I was gathering up ideas for when I hack my mop off. I was right clicking and opening ones I like in new tabs, and I had 4 or 5 tabs opens. My husband was at work, my dogs were playing in the yard, I was peacefully alone in the house--

WHEN SUDDENLY!!

some guy started talking in my house! I jumped halfway out of my skin, I balled up my wee little fists and flipped around ready to start swinging, and then I realized that some douchebag shag hair website had started some highly unrelated celebrity gossip video.

Thanks for scaring six months off my lifespan or whatever over Katy Perry's fashion choices. I don't give a rip-roaring hoot what she wears. ._.

Liela, you're precious lol

I can't think of a better word to describe you

People who say they aren't going to comment on something but know that they are just by saying that...

People who say they aren't going to comment on something and then comment anyways...

Ingrown hairs.

People who think accelerating through the pedestrian crossing in a store parking lot is a good idea. Some turd-burger almost hit me this weekend while I was walking into a store. This was the second time. First time was with my nephew, and I about lost my ***.

Zah, pack heat.

Yeah... because opening fire in a store parking lot at an unarmed person is a good idea lol...

Unarmed? A car is a freakin weapon and a shield!

this, a car is a deadly weapon, self defense.

lol you guys are funny... unless the person is intentionally trying to injure you with the car... I think people frown upon shooting bad drivers lol... plus shooting in open areas with lots of people is never a good idea unless absolutley necassary... A guy traveling 40 mph or higher straight at you... you'd probably be better off getting out of the way...

/sigh

Pretty sure Jet was joking. :/

speeding up through a pedestrian crosswalk where the pedestrians have the right of way is intentionally trying to harm somebody...

and who said how exactly fast they were going...

and this:

As you can see he is not... lol... That's whats funny.

When I go to ffxiclopedia to get lowman info on Abyssea NMs that drop Empyrean Weapon ish hoping that I can kill on THF so I have some TH. Then that one special line shows up... It usually goes like this:

Me: -checks testimonials-
Abyssea Player: Easily soloed by 90 THF/NIN.
Me: Oh, that's awesome..I'm 99 now so it shouldn't be a problem :D!
Abyssea Player:NM was a complete joke.
Me: wow, really? I'll have the upgraded weapon in no time!
Abyssea Player:Popped brew and---


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e_e
Me: -x's out-

When packing heat, just make sure the gun is completely visible while crossing.