Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[recman]

[grr666]

Talking of fingers. Grinding my gears today is the belief that my dog may have broken my left thumb. The incident was
at the start of last week, the dog was out running in the woods and a cyclist was coming toward us, she gets a bit excited
by pushbikes and has been known to chase them. She was actually behind me having a sniff when the cyclist appeared
and immediately set off of an intercept course. As she ran by me I tried to grab her collar to allow the cyclist clear passage
and I heard a snapping sound and felt extreme pain. Felt like my thumb bent right back. I was afraid to look at it as I imagined
it would be a thumbnail touching wrist type of thing. That's what you get trying to stop a six stone running dog with one finger.
Thumb bruised and swelled up by next day and a week later the difference in size is still noticeable and it still hurts if I
put any stress on it. Looks like I'm off to minor injuries clinic next week for an xray. Must have slept on it funny because its
giving me gyp today.
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[hellkat]

So what is life like with only one opposable thumb?
Can you still pick things up with the broken one?
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[grr666]

Still moves, the second joint down from the thumb tip is the one that got bent right back. But if I bump it against something
it hurts like bejeezus. Could possibly be a sprain but I'd have thought after a week it wouldn't still be as sore and swollen
as it is. I usually heal pretty quickly. What with it being my left hand it's not hugely inconvenient although that is my
lead hand when I walk the dog. It's quite normal to still be able to move a broken thumb apparently so I'll go and get
it checked out, don't want another sudden lunge to make it 10 times worse when I have bozo on the lead. It's squirrel season.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

[AshWebster]

FB / Instagram adverts

Mine are full of gambling and casino adverts...

As someone with addictive tendencies who has self excluded from most sites in the past I cant even find a way to get rid of them. even clicking block or reporting doesnt flag up them all and i cant filter out the gambling adverts...

I know companies must sell advertising in order to make profit but surely they should let me filter out the ones which are gonna cause me problems..

Not blaming them for this weekends huge losses but they definitely dont help. First time I have played roulette in years and I am sure that having subliminal or not so subliminal adverts constantly in my face has had some impact on my choices. What started off as £10 for fun ended in much worse. Going to have to be a hermit this month.

Oh well lesson learned for another few years at least....
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[grr666]

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[Chinaboy]

Its been bugging me for a while and I just thought i could vent here and maybe get a sympathetic ear.

So lifts.. up, down, get in, get out, what could be simpler? Well to many, I am sure you have no problems at all. I am living in China right now, and stay in hotels, the lifts can be quite busy sometimes, but the hotel I am living in right now is not busy. I stay on the 5th floor and breakfast is on the 2nd. Now this has happened to me several times over the last couple of weeks and its just about peeing me off. I get in the lift, select 2nd floor door shuts and I'm going down. The door opens on the 2nd floor, and this Chinese guy barges his way in before I get the chance to get out. (its only a small lift and i have to step right back) the doors then start to close, so I have to quickly stick my arm in the door opening as they are closing, to open the doors again. For me, this man has no manners and in my book, the correct etiquette for lifts says 'let the people out first before getting in'.
So now, my daily lift routine sees me select the floor and stand with my nose to the door as i go down to breakfast in the morning. If this tw-t wants to push in again, I am going push him back. He doesn't even say good morning or ni-hau. Some people are so rude. Maybe I should arm myself with sharpened chop-sticks.

Anyone else have opinions on lift etiquette?

[Suntan Sid]

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[Chinaboy]

Sid,

Hmm... now that is a point well worth pondering..great suggestion

mpd,

You are spot on. Another dirty habit they have, specially Chinese, Chinese people, is hocking up a huge lugie, and gobbing it out. It can be anywhere, the street, out the car, in a shop, almost everywhere. Mostly men, but the women are not ashamed to do it too.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[AshWebster]

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[recman]

Here we go again...

[AshWebster]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Dark horse and rider suddenly appearing amongst the traffic congestion in town at 6:30 on a dark, drizzly evening kind of coalesced the, "What is wrong with people?" vibe of the day.

[pepperami]

My gears are being ground by complete and utter fecking boredom.
I’m on standby for work, so I can’t really go anywhere or start some activity/project.
The weathers starting to close in and I’ve been fecking nowhere on my bike this year

Lack of money means outings/trips are not happening.
So much for the grand plan I had at the beginning of the year

The sum total of my excitement this year has been a local bike show, “oh whoope do!”

Bored bored bored bored fugging bored!
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