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08 Nov 10 - 08:27 PM (#3027190) Subject: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert I mean, like I'm tryin' to buy a box truck and so I go to Craigslist and folks advertise stuff as "runs great" and then you call on it and they tell you that it's been sittin' fir a couple years... (Well, Boberdz... It ran great the last time it ran great... Don't that count fir nuthin'???) No, it doesn't... Man, that get's this ol' hillbilly torqued... But other than the P-Vine hiding my pot from me and stupid wars that's about it... How 'bout ya'll??? I mean, I don't care if yer comatose there's got to be something that just get's you torqued... B~ |
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08 Nov 10 - 08:45 PM (#3027202) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Women gets me torqued. Ya can't trust 'em. Why, ya ask? Well, they steak ur smokes. Ya leave ur smokes on the table at the tavern, to go to the can, Ya ask a woman to watch 'em. Ya come back from the can and ur miss'n a smoke from ur package. Tis all the proof you need that you can't trust women. That's why, women gets me torqued. |
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08 Nov 10 - 08:48 PM (#3027204) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Severn Torquemada |
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08 Nov 10 - 08:50 PM (#3027207) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Not really torqued about it just now, but I had one interesting vehicle-shopping experience of my own a couple of weeks back. I crunched my little Ford Focus just enough to get it declared totalled, and wanted another one about like it to putt around with (We have a late model Fusion in my wife's name for serious travel). So one ad describes an '06 with only about 50k, super clean, private party selling only because he needed a bigger family vehicle. I drove about 60 miles to see it. Arrive at a house number, no one in sight. Guy rolls up with the car in a few minutes. Dealer plate. Paint looks immaculate. Interior looks immaculate. Felt good going around a few blocks at street speed. Looked it over a little more. The front fenders and door edges were so far out of line it was pitiful. They had hung new front tin on a piece of crap that had to have been knocked completely out of shape, and slapped on a new coat of paint. I wondered how many other "private seller" gems they had been trying to unload like that. |
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08 Nov 10 - 08:50 PM (#3027208) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor steak ur smokes. That sounds disgusting. |
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08 Nov 10 - 08:55 PM (#3027211) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T A few months ago I got a radar speeding ticket. I may have been speeding, but I don't think so. I tried to fight it in court, before a judge who had no sympathy with my case...that dis not surprise me. But, what did get me torqued is the cop testified and clearly lied. I was surprised by that. Just a reminder to Canadian catters...because winter is near...it is torques, not toqued. |
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08 Nov 10 - 09:06 PM (#3027223) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Rapparee One torque over the line, sweet Jesus, one torque over the line.... |
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08 Nov 10 - 09:50 PM (#3027249) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Man I hates it when cops lie, Ed-teee... Had one lie his butt off one time back in Wes Ginny 'cause I bothered to give him a "naughty naughty" finger wave when I encountered him driving wrecklessly on a back road where kids used to ride their bikes... Sumabich turned around and pulled me over and wrote me for not having my friggin' insurance card... Went to court and told what happened then he said that I flipped him off??? Should have... Cost me $25 plus $78 court charges... Liein' sack of.... But nevermind that... Never saw him back in our holler... Guess the word got out that I busted him in court... B~ |
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08 Nov 10 - 09:57 PM (#3027254) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag You ever work on an oil rig? Well, a 36" pipe wrench is what a sissy uses. Roughnecks use 48" "Rigid" pipe wrenches and just about everyone of them ('cept the new ones) the handle is bent. Now that's torque and the sissies and the 36's don't last too long on the rig. |
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08 Nov 10 - 10:18 PM (#3027262) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Take a pass on that, Slagster, but you do know that it's easier to bend a 36 inch "Rigid" than an 18 inch one... Especially when you put a 6 foot 2 inch galvanized pipe over the end of it... I used to rebuild air-cooled Volkswagen engines and had to put a 4 foot breaker bar on the end of my 3/4 inch drive torque wrench to get the 240 ft.lbs. needed on the flywheel gland nut... Yeah, that would get me torqued... Motor, too... B~ |
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08 Nov 10 - 10:44 PM (#3027271) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bee-dubya-ell Ya need a box truck? Newspapers are gettin' rid of 'em left and right. Everybody's readin' the paper online so they don't need as many cubes an' step-vans to get the handful of genuine paper papers they still sell distributed. They'll all fit in the trunk of a Mini Cooper. As for what really torques me... People who randomly hack up a block of cheddar cheese instead of slicing it neatly. That's it. I can forgive anything else, but don't fuck up my cheese. |
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08 Nov 10 - 10:56 PM (#3027283) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Little Hawk Winona Ryder gets me torqued. But in a good way, I mean. |
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08 Nov 10 - 10:57 PM (#3027285) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Mrrzy Not to mention misused apostrophes... |
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08 Nov 10 - 11:08 PM (#3027290) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Yeah. Its' really irritatin' to see them misuse'd apostrophe's all over. Drives me bananas. - Chongo |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:24 AM (#3027316) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Ah, dogonnit' Bob'ert! Ya busted me! yu'p! That's why them sucker's is all ben't outt'a shape. You haf'ta put a ten foot cheater on it ta' do any good! That stem stock is t'uff st'uff. I don' know whar' all these here 'posterfee's is coming from but muh' com'pewter seems infect'd with 'em. |
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09 Nov 10 - 02:57 AM (#3027337) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: akenaton Seems to be rather a lot of testosterone flowing around this thead? |
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09 Nov 10 - 03:48 AM (#3027352) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Ah, get bent! |
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09 Nov 10 - 04:13 AM (#3027362) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas Some decades ago I was in charge of a "remote location high altitude mobility test" on a prototype 8x8 truck on the ski slope at Flagstaff AZ, and the driver accidentally hooked one of the independent suspension axles on a tree stump and ripped the lower control arm clean off. After some negotiations and maneuvers, the mfr sent us a new control arm and a new lower ball joint that "just screwed in it." Well the hole in the control arm didn't have any threads in it, and the threads on the ball joint looked kinda funny, but they told us "it's a self tapping thread, just screw it in." The "hex" on the ball joint was about 4 5/8 inches across the flats, but the railroad shop at the Navajo Depot came up with a wrench to fit it. We put the control arm in a vise with about 11' wide jaws, bolted to a 5 ft x 20 ft bench with solid 4" thick wooden top and figured that would hold it down. With a cheater about 8 ft long, and four husky enlisted volunteers on the wrench, we got it about half way in before the bench moved a couple of feet. So we sat the sargeant on the other end of the bench, and after about 6 hours of grunts & groans we got the screw screwed to where it looked "good enough." 'Course by then none of was seein' much of anything too clearly. When we got back to home base at Yuma I collared the "rep" and asked him what the torque spec for that installation was. He made a call to the factory and came back with "They don't have a spec. They have a machine that screws it in." After some additional expressions of my "need to know" along with some backing by a couple of the herniated enlistees, he called again and came back with "They say the machine can run up to 3,600 Ft Lb, but they usually stop at about 2,400 FT LB - if it looks like it's seated pretty good. I was so over-torqued I sent one of the boys with a "token" sufficient for a couple or three rounds for the crew at the EM club. The mfr could'a John |
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09 Nov 10 - 04:18 AM (#3027366) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,FierceCravin'Bob The seemingly overabundance of morons. They are everywhere, illiterate nitwits - plus they think they are brilliant. I am talking about those under 40, not all but most have not read a book, they have no humor, and the world revolves around their sex organs... |
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09 Nov 10 - 05:44 AM (#3027418) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: John MacKenzie I knew a guy, who named his boat 'Shy Torque' |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:13 AM (#3027438) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T I always get torques when I get charged $5 for the remote TV control when stay'in at a roadside motel. I know, they will give it back when I check out. But, why won't they trust me? It frequently happens when I stay at the Bates Motel chain. |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:15 AM (#3027440) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,kendall Aspen Dental. Their ads clearly say, initial exam is free. Sure, then when you decide their work is too expensive you get a bill for that free exam. |
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09 Nov 10 - 06:55 AM (#3027476) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas A current TV (and radio and newpaper) ad that torques me is by Waste Management, one of the largest nationwide trash collection corporations. They provide franchised trash service in my area. They have resisted any kind of recycling plan in this area for years, but finally "relented" and came up with a wonderful deal: "Get your trash collection for only Nine Dollars per month." In the fine print (or at lower volume in media versions) they explain that "we'll give you coupons based on the amount of recyclables you put in the bin, and when you subtract the value of the coupons you've only paid nine dollars per month." Reality: 1. You pay the regular $39 per month. 2. The businesses that are supposed to "redeem" the coupons pay Waste Management to hand them out. 3. NONE OF THE COUPONS are for anything the majority of people are going to want. 4. EVERY COUPON that I've seen is for a "discount" and requires you to buy something else - or in some cases to sign up for something you're obligated to buy later - in order to redeem it. A look at their "coupons" when they announced the program led me to the conclusion that in order to redeem enough coupons to reach the "face value" of $30 per month you would have to spend an additional $280 plus the $39 trash fee, each and every month. (We have a very low rate of participation in recycling here, and it isn't even because very many people here know how to spell FRAWD.) John |
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09 Nov 10 - 07:12 AM (#3027483) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy What get's me torqued are the newscasters who give out all the doom and gloom news warnings about what 'could' happen with certain drugs, cancer threatening foods, mobile phone usage, wind turbines, pylons, anti-depressants, energy drinks you name it. Information is a good thing but as far as I am concerned if it is 'could' it's not a fact. Anything like that should be shown as a documentary programme but only as speculation until there is proof that it is actual fact instead of driving us out in the morning full of doom and gloom with things that might not necessarily be so. It can be confusing when told coffee is bad for you and then the following week it has been decided that coffee is good for the heart, give us a break. |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:23 AM (#3027583) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Our credit union provides decent service so far as anything that really matters, but keeps comming up with incidental stuff that's pitiful. We took out a home improvement loan a few years back, and they gave us a steak knife set. Never even unwrapped it until a couple of months ago. You could say it wasn't of the highest quality; you could say it consisted of a very rough block of wood that looked like it had been dipped in the varnish, with so-called knives that weren't really even usable. Absolute bottom-of-the-barrel Chinese crap. Our account statements regularly come with "bargain" offers for assorted gadgets that are commonly available for substantially less. |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:35 AM (#3027594) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Rapparee The spin put on the so-called "news" gets me torqued. Quite dizzy, in fact. For example, a modified AP lead would read something like this: A one-car crash on Smith Road last evening around 10 p.m. killed the driver. Two of children were flung free of the vehicle and are being treated at St. Euthanasia Hospital. You've got the who, what, where, and when in the the first paragraph. It should go on: The car skidded out of control on the icy road surface, flipped over twice, and came apart when it landed in a field. Police believe that the driver was distracted by the children in the backseat. Now you've got the why and how and can go on to flesh out the details. But the news today, wanting to put a more human face to things (I guess), would write it something like this: Two injured children weep for their deceased aunt after the car in which they were riding went out of control and landed in a field. The crash happened on Smith Road, long notorious for its icy conditions and well known for the lack of county maintenance. Police do not think alcohol was involved. |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:46 AM (#3027602) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Adverts for slimming products aimed directly at women immediately after the Christmas holiday. Are men immune to too much Christmas pud? |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:48 AM (#3027604) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: John MacKenzie I hope not Patsy :) |
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09 Nov 10 - 11:25 AM (#3027632) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor Apparently they are immune to such ads. Advertisers do know how to spend their dough. |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:18 PM (#3027662) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: jacqui.c Today - the tiny brain in the big car who blocked traffic moving away from the lights by sitting, waiting to do a left turn in spite of the clear sign saying no left turn and the quite obvious left turn lane a few yards further on. My car horn got a lot of exercise this morning! Idiot women who get all fluttery and giggly at the slightest bit of humour from a man and who disapprove of any woman who dares to show the least sign of feminism. 'Jobsworths' like the one who, in spite of our giving written instructions that my daughter can deal with my financial affairs, insists that she can't sort out a problem for me and that the only way to deal with this is for me to make a (free) call to the UK. |
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09 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM (#3027678) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Amos Patsy: Men don't believe there's such a thing as too much pud, regardless of the season. A |
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09 Nov 10 - 03:33 PM (#3027810) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Gurney Over-protective programs. I was in a Jaguar that the driver had parked with the tyres 'curbed.' The bloody thing wouldn't let him drive away! "The transmission is overloaded." He said it had happened before, too. The mechanic just pulled it away from the curb/kerb with a trolley-jack and away we went. |
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09 Nov 10 - 04:19 PM (#3027856) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T This tourques me |
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09 Nov 10 - 07:34 PM (#3028014) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall Animals in cages does it to me. Condemned without trial. |
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09 Nov 10 - 08:00 PM (#3028024) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert But, at least, the poor feller has cigarettes... |
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09 Nov 10 - 09:04 PM (#3028056) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D Me? I got a long list of torques... One is the 99 syndrome. Do those offering steak for 8.99 per pound REALLY think we won't realize that almost $9? Or that a vehicle for $29,999 is sorta close to $30,000? I have considered refusing to buy something unless they charge me that extra 1 cent! more later |
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09 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM (#3028062) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Yeah, Bill, that one has me baffled.... |
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09 Nov 10 - 10:48 PM (#3028074) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: katlaughing JohninKS, reading your saga it took me a minute to realise "mfr" meant manufacturer and NOT motherfucker!**bg** In that instance perhaps they were interchangeable? LOL! |
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10 Nov 10 - 04:14 AM (#3028141) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: JohnInKansas kat - I didn't think of interchangeability, but I probably would have put some sort of emphasis to suggest it if I had. I like the way you think. John |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:40 AM (#3028187) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Putting up Christmas lights up and finding a bulb out, eben after you tested them all earlier really torques me. |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:42 AM (#3028215) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Havin' to take the sumabichin' Christmas tree down torques me... I mean, it's always so much fun puttin' it up and decoratin' it and drenkin' a little shine-spike eggnog and things smell wonderful and then come 'round the middle of March the tree is brown and ya' got needles all over the house and the cats have knocked down most of the ornaments and ya' can't find the boxes that they came outtra and yer afraid ya' mighta burned 'um up and, and... That's what I call the post-Xmas torquin'... B:~( |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:57 AM (#3028225) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Ya park in a far empty space in a parking lot, because you dont want other cars near you for some reason. You come back and there are cars next to you. Ta go to a restraunt, or coffee shop and find a quiet spot, far away from people. Someone comes and sits next to ya. What's up with that? It real torquer. |
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10 Nov 10 - 08:02 AM (#3028228) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Ya go out to eat with friends. Ya order fish and chips. Everyone gets their food but you. Ya ask the server where ur food is. She says, Oops, we gave it to another customer by mistake,we will have to put another order on. Ya look over and someone is eat'in Ur fish. Ur food comes when everyone is ready to leave. torque worthy, or not? |
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10 Nov 10 - 08:07 AM (#3028232) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Not being able to access all links here because of a 'firewall' that includes crosswords for goodness sakes!!! Reason? Enjoyment for Pete's sake! |
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10 Nov 10 - 09:24 AM (#3028275) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall That godamn Canadian pharmacy selling cheap viagra. Ads are bad enough but when they popup and cover what I'm trying to do, that torques me! |
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10 Nov 10 - 10:22 AM (#3028305) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Midchuck Our local paper just made its web page pay-only. I can't really complain about that - they're in business to make a buck. But you can still log in for free if you're a subscriber. I have bought that paper every day that I was home for well over 40 years, but I'm not a subscriber; I get it from the local store next to the post office. So I would have to pay. BUT I can get the world and national news from any number of web pages, mostly Google news. I can get the Vermont statewide news from the Burlington paper's, or the TV stations', web pages. What I need our local paper for now, is the local area news (about 1 page of the paper), the local classifieds, particularly yard sale ads (more and more of which are on Craigslist as time goes on), and the obituaries, to make sure I'm not in there. For this I pay a dollar a day, day in and day out. And they want me to pay more for web access. They're going down. It's just a matter of time. Peter |
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10 Nov 10 - 11:18 AM (#3028339) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D I am retired and receive Social Security. For the 2nd year in a row, there was no cost of living increase, as they say prices have remained relatively 'stable'. Now last night I went to the store and noted two more items where the price was the same, but the quantity had been reduced! THAT, to me, is an increase. I KNOW that sale prices (reduced prices in ads) have gotten 'less reduced' and generally fewer, and that more & more products have raised their prices in order to offer 'sale prices' that are as high as the former standard prices. So...what torques ME is the sneakiness and deceit. All the while, stores are spending millions to 'remodel' in a manner calculated to look as gaudy and tawdry as Walmart and K-Mart. |
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10 Nov 10 - 11:32 AM (#3028351) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude My name, I mean in this computerized world I guess it is too much to ask for the old Irish apostrophe in the O. Ya see in programming that means start of a string ... but needle heads don't bother with such things as that, They figure any Irishman doesn't need his ' after the O ... no sireee ... nor the French folks with there thingies in their names ... no lets not program to handle that ... It is a simple parse but NO ... All my official documents .. yup leave it out ... or simply add three N's to my name like they did on my drivers license and I could not use it to get on an airplane cause my name has two n's not three so the spelling wasn't exact ... needle head TSA wouldn't accept it ... Gave the needle head my conceal carry gun permit with the correct spelling ... yup got me a body search but they had to accept it |
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10 Nov 10 - 11:43 AM (#3028359) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Did I mention needle head neighbors! Like the guy next door that I let drive over my back property when he was putting an addition on his house. Tried to help needle head- he turned around and tried to claim "adverse possession" Lost bigtime!, after I had a survey done, turns out I owned also one third of his front yard! yup he lost that one also! He now has a postage stamp for his junk cars all stack up. Can barely get out of his own driveway .. why ... cause he is a needle head that pissed me off, and all I did was be kinda and help him . karma is a beautiful thing isn't it |
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10 Nov 10 - 11:48 AM (#3028362) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude and don't get me started on JELL-O What the HELL is that all about anyway ... with or without the FRUIT all stuff up inside of it !! |
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10 Nov 10 - 01:44 PM (#3028453) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Anything that has "As Seen On TV" on it. Condoms that are much too small. It's hard to get the large ones anymore. |
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10 Nov 10 - 01:47 PM (#3028456) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Those annoying emails promoting penis reductions. |
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10 Nov 10 - 02:04 PM (#3028477) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T A fellow tries to open a God free post, and whatdaya know. God takes it over. It just torques me too tight, it does. |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:02 PM (#3028551) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,kendall Instead of complaining I just put on my tee shirt that says I'm grumpy, don make it worse." |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:13 PM (#3028565) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: gnu Ed T... "It's hard to get the large ones anymore." Hahahahahaaaaheeeheheheheheee |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:36 PM (#3028600) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T An oldie, but goodie: Does size matter in india? |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:38 PM (#3028603) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor People on the Mudcat butting into arguments argumentatively telling other people how they should argue. |
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10 Nov 10 - 03:43 PM (#3028611) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T There is even a size chart. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4357276/condom-size-chart |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:03 PM (#3028679) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: gnu ED T... from the link... "The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms." Ahhhhh... that don't matter a whit. Ask any womam. It ain't about length. The same goes for condoms. BTW... I found them way too tight when I was a lad. But that's a good thing. And I never discussed this at length with any of the girls I went with. Never even came up. |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:09 PM (#3028685) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Thanks for mentioning God, EdT. That allows me to ....Blah, blah, blah! I think the stautes of limitation have run out so I will tell this on myself. When I was quite a bit younger I took my family to Disneyland, Anaheim CA. and parked for quick egress at the end of a diagonal slot, that is, with the nose of the car leading onto the exit lane. At the end of the long grueling day I loaded the kids and the wife in, started the engine and just as I was beginning to pull onto the road when an empty tour bus parked right in fornt of me, boxing me in. I jumped out and told the driver the situation. He didn't care. He didn't have the time to just pull up a few feet and let me out. He just kept on walking away. I had no idea how long he would be or when He'd be back. Real thoughtful fellow. I was torqued! It took me about ten minutes but I finally managed to jockey my was out of that tight spot. I wonder how long it took him to get the bus tire changed? |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:43 PM (#3028719) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T "Thanks for mentioning God" Shhh! Be Quiet! They haven't found this one yet. |
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10 Nov 10 - 05:45 PM (#3028723) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T the quiet thread Shhh! |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:00 PM (#3028740) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Plastic, anything plastic. I bought a candy bar ... a candy bar, I had to use sissors to open the dang thing ... why all the plastic ... everything is plastic. I hear tell they even make womenz with plastic boobs now ... go figure |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:03 PM (#3028746) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Styrofoam packing, (for example, Styrofoam peanuts) that get's all over the floor when you get the item packed in it. |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:19 PM (#3028759) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Just so I don't break up the mudcat God tradition on every thread "God said he doesn't like plastic either" Soy ... what is soy about, soy milk, soy hamburgers ... what is a soy anyway ... where's the beef, where's the cow ... soy ... |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:37 PM (#3028777) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D "...that get's all over the floor" unnecessary apostrophes... ☺ |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:42 PM (#3028791) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Thanks:) |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:48 PM (#3028799) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Bill Priceless LOL |
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10 Nov 10 - 06:56 PM (#3028803) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T When you go to someones house, and the bathroom smells very bad, like someone just torqued a moonfish. |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:14 PM (#3028817) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Cat Litter boxes!! |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:15 PM (#3028819) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude How about going to vending machine, pay for a bag of chips ... and press the button only to watch it get stuck halfway down so you are out your money and your chips ... |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:22 PM (#3028825) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Small Fonts on plastic credit cards or auto club cards, especially the phone numbers. Letters rather than numbers in listed phone numbers, Like 555-fish |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:50 PM (#3028842) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D Ah, yes Ed...bathrooms. Single women who keep a spotless house..EXCEPT for under the rim & the toilet seat.....because they never raise it! I have been startled a few times. |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:57 PM (#3028851) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude And how hot does a cup of coffee have to be anyway. Buy a cup when you are on the road, can't drink it for 100 miles ... burn your mouth off |
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10 Nov 10 - 07:59 PM (#3028854) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude and those newfangled hot air hand dryers in the mens room, what was wrong with paper towels, you stand there rubbing you hands waiting fer em to dry only to wipe em dry on your pants |
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10 Nov 10 - 08:02 PM (#3028856) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall People who can't pronounce simple words such as: Nuclear Antarctica Orangutan Particularly |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:42 AM (#3029238) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude I am suprised more people didn't run with this thread, it could be very funny with the wit people here have |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:58 AM (#3029287) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Quotes from Torque (2004) "You got loud pipes, but you ain't sayin' nothing!" "What is it about driving cars that makes you all such assholes?" "It's amazing what you can do when you have no choice". |
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11 Nov 10 - 10:19 AM (#3029301) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy People who see everything from way back then through rose tinted glasses and can't accept that not everything was perfect and hunky dory. I am thinking ringworm, rickets, wife beaters, inequality, slavery, child labour, the workhouse to name a few. |
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11 Nov 10 - 12:30 PM (#3029454) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jim Dixon Whenever a new loaf of bread is brought into the house, my wife starts eating from it immediately, ignoring the fact that there are 2 or 3 slices left of the old loaf. Once when cleaning out the refrigerator, I found five bread bags, each with 2 or 3 slices in them, all pushed to the back of the shelf where I couldn't see them, all dried out or moldy. I hate that. When I visit someone's house, and I need to pee, and they have one of those fabric covers on the toilet seat lid, and maybe another fabric cover surrounding the tank, and they are both so bulky that when I lift the lid, it won't stay up by itself, so I have to stand there and hold the lid up with one hand while I do my business with the other hand. Now, I'm so tall, that in order to keep my hand on the lid, I have to bend over slightly, which puts me off my aim. Or else I have to move around to the side of the toilet, if there's room, and try to hold the toilet seat up with my knee, which is also awkward and puts me off my aim. Or else I risk having the lid fall down while I'm in mid-stream. When the local TV station uses a "teaser" to get you to watch their news. At around 9pm you hear "A common food additive may have already given your kids cancer. Tune in at 10 to find out what it is." Aargh! In the same number of words, they could have told me what it is. When the national networks announce their program times, giving only the time on the east and west coasts, as if no one lived in the central or mountain time zones. When I pass by a newsstand, and a magazine catches my eye with an interesting blurb on the front cover. I won't buy a magazine unless I'm fairly sure the content lives up to the promise, so I pick it up and try to find the corresponding article. The blurb on the cover doesn't give the page number, so I have to find it in the table of contents first. But the table of contents isn't on page 2 or 3; it's hidden behind several pages of advertising. So I find the table of contents, and scan the titles of the articles, but nothing quite matches what is on the cover. It is like solving a word puzzle to try to figure out which article corresponds to which blurb. So I have to keep flipping back and forth from the cover to the table of contents, matching titles and figuring out by process of elimination which article must be the one that the blurb refers to. So now I know the page number, and I go in search of the article itself. But even this is hard to do because most of the pages don't have numbers! Page numbers would spoil their lovely advertising layouts! So I finally find the article, and it turns out that the topic isn't quite what I thought it would be, or else it's only half a page long, not worth the price of the magazine. That's why I almost never buy magazines off the rack. |
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11 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM (#3029470) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jack the Sailor Teasers and blurbs suck! |
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11 Nov 10 - 12:52 PM (#3029476) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Amen to the fancy-junk-on-toilet-seats thing. I've had at least an occasion or so when the damn thing stayed up just long enough for me to turn on the hose, and then slammed down. The local supermarket just "refined" the process of self-checking out groceries and paying by check. Now you have to scan stuff out, take the check to a clerk, get it processed, receive the check back, then return to the checkout line and sign on an electronic pad. If the scanner can process and accept all the rest of the information on the check, it can process and accept your signature just as easily as the electronic pad can. On the other hand, it's been noted that the elecronic pad will generally accept any scribble whatever as a signature, which makes going back to sign on it (while the next customer waits for the whole process) meaningless. |
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11 Nov 10 - 12:55 PM (#3029479) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude My roommate in college and i would play practical jokes all the time. Well he was like clock work, would wake up in the morning head to the shower but before hand always went to the first stall to do his business. The toilet seats were all white at that time. I went in before him and covered the toilet seat with white elmers glue ... Yup he plopped down on it ... LOL ... figured I would glue him to the seat for a bit. |
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11 Nov 10 - 01:12 PM (#3029505) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: frogprince Your a sadist, Dan; it's a good thing you didn't decide to use contact cement. |
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11 Nov 10 - 03:51 PM (#3029688) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag OD! We're half way there! |
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11 Nov 10 - 07:48 PM (#3029878) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert That was you, oldster??? |
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11 Nov 10 - 07:56 PM (#3029886) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T What really torques me is anyone who changes the spelling of their name, to make it sound the same as it did before. :) |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:05 PM (#3029893) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude yea he got kinda torqued with me afterwords LOL |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:07 PM (#3029896) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: SINSULL A lot of anger here. Breathe in breathe out. Savor those pollutants... |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:14 PM (#3029901) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude I had this first date in college with a certified beauty queen, A blue eyed blond haired knockout. Spent a ton of time gettin all gussied up. My roommate right before I left coated the black phone with a thick layer of black shoe polish, ya know that stuff that is really greasy and ya buff off afterwords. He went to another room and called me and I answered the phone. Not knowing it, I went on my first date with her with a big black ear !! LOL ... hence I glued him to to toilet ... got me kinda torqued ... she never did go out with me again ... |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:19 PM (#3029908) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Thanksgiving torquey? |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:19 PM (#3029909) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude be quiet Sins or I will card ya !!! :-) |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:26 PM (#3029913) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude I tell ya, that skunk that nailed me last summer torqued me up pretty good.. I was gonna gun him down until Lizzie gave me the guilt trip. But if I ever see him again I am going to drop my drawers and pee on his leg and see how he likes it ... dang rodent !! |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:38 PM (#3029927) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Those wo speak with a torqued tongue. |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:42 PM (#3029932) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bill D So Dan...that blonde in college was a torque wench? |
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11 Nov 10 - 08:44 PM (#3029934) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Bill Sadly I didn't get that far to find out ... for some reason she didn't care for black eared country boys I guess LOL |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:21 PM (#3029955) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude dog crap really torques me up also.. I got a huge fenced in back yard. The wiener dogs can go out and run play do their thing. I keep it very clean .. well I also had a small brown carpet outside near the back door when you come in that way. I properly named the carpet "the magical shit disappearing rug" cause that little hairy wiener dog that has an acre of fenced in land to do her business would at times, crap on it and you could absolutely not see it until you stepped on it . Boy that would get me torqued ... carpet is gone for good. Go figure |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:30 PM (#3029956) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag So, OD, You were the original Black-eared Pees (on a skunk)? |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:31 PM (#3029957) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Tom correct ! |
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11 Nov 10 - 09:49 PM (#3029969) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude thats it I am gonna change my name now ... just to torque off the TSA agents gonna put my apostrophe in it ... o'lddude yup |
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12 Nov 10 - 02:57 AM (#3030071) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag l'ol'ing in the "fo'c'sle"! |
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12 Nov 10 - 05:13 AM (#3030131) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: GUEST,Patsy Sticking all the money saving bargains out of my reach in stores or supermarkets, that's size discrimination that is, is there such a thing as sizism? Even more embarrassing asking an assistant to help reach for items, makes me feel about 10. |
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12 Nov 10 - 08:34 AM (#3030230) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Slag Well, Patsy, I'm just about tempted to ask you the question. But i DO know how you feel from the other direction. I get asked a lot to reach that item on the top shelf. |
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12 Nov 10 - 09:04 AM (#3030252) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Here is an idea, pretend ya gotta an inner ear problem and just knock the shelf down ... oops .. sorry .. hey there is the soup I needed ! |
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12 Nov 10 - 09:16 AM (#3030259) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude And did I mention Kenny G, Why????? Why???? from elevators to hospitals ... Why ????? shoot me now Lord |
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12 Nov 10 - 01:01 PM (#3030465) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Jim Dixon Speaking of names with an apostrophe in them— I have a similar problem. My father was also named Jim Dixon. (Well, James, to be exact.) That makes me "James Dixon, Jr." The trouble is, computers and the people who program them and enter data into them don't know what to do with "Jr." Sometimes they add it onto my last name. This makes it appear to the computer that "Dixon, Jr." is a different last name than "Dixon." Or they might add it onto my first name. Some more sophisticated databases actually have a separate field called a "suffix," for holding things like "Jr." or "III" or "M.D."—but that doesn't mean that the people who use those databases know how to use them in any uniform or predictable way. Also, they might or might not know how to use punctuation with "Jr", and the computer might use or ignore punctuation. There's no telling where my name might appear in an alphabetized list: Disney, WaltAny of those names in boldface might be me. Many's the time I've been told, "Sorry, we don't have that name in our files," when actually they did have it; they just weren't looking in the right place. After I realized how much confusion the "Jr." was causing, I tried to drop it from all my official records. But that was difficult, too. Some bureaucrats have refused to change my name in their records; some have promised me they would change it, and then failed to do so; some have apparently deleted the "Jr." and then had it mysteriously reappear at a later date; some tried to delete the "Jr." and ended up deleting my whole file. I get duplicate copies of some junk mail, one with, and one without, the "Jr." My advice to parents is: Don't name your kid after his father. If you insist on giving a kid the same first name as his father, at least give him a different middle name. If you insist on giving him the same first and middle names, at least don't put the word "Jr." on his birth certificate. It isn't needed. The government will use your social security numbers to tell you apart. Banks will use account numbers, etc. If you have the misfortune to already be named after your father, don't tell anyone. When you open a bank account, when you register to vote, when you apply for a driver's license, etc., never write the word "Jr." on your application. It isn't needed. The fact that you have the same name as your father is of no more importance than if you happen to have the same name as some stranger in another part of town. I wish someone had told me this earlier. |
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12 Nov 10 - 07:45 PM (#3030764) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: kendall I was named 36 years after my Father. |
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12 Nov 10 - 08:29 PM (#3030790) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude LOL and what did he call ya Captain |
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12 Nov 10 - 08:52 PM (#3030808) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Bobert Well, I just watched LH's video and it ain't fair... He's got all that dark hair... I mean, we're both the same age but mine went gray in my early 30's and been thinnin' out the last 10 years... Even my gray pony tail looks like a dime store clip-on... Grrrrrrrr... Frosts my willie burger, fir sure!!! B~ |
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13 Nov 10 - 11:42 AM (#3031096) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: olddude Hell I turned at 18, I was one of the white hairs by my late 20's ... Now I will take any hair ... sheetfir as you say ... gimme purple I will take it ... gimme orange or green ... now I gots shiney ... that is what I gots ... two ways to wear my hair (hats on or hats off) |
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13 Nov 10 - 11:57 AM (#3031102) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: Ed T Some have dark hair, some light, and some white. Alas, there are many no hair at all. |
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14 Nov 10 - 01:45 AM (#3031589) Subject: RE: BS: What get's you torqued??? From: MGM·Lion What gets me torqued? Why, the incorrect & otiose use of the apostrophe before the final `s` of plurals or 3rd-person-singulars, that's what [used here correctly to indicate missing letter!] Want an example? Just look above at the thread title! Luvyaz·all justa·same! ~MthePEDANT~ |