What grinds your gears?

[Thorum]

[Arundel]

Why did the English, when they occupied India, call the people of India negroes? I have seen them referred to like that many times. I know they are very dark skinned, but negroes?

[Arundel]

For those of you not getting the Family Guy reference of the title, I mean pet hates.
What are the little things that really peeve you?
A few of mine:

1. The peel off tops that they now have under the caps of plastic milk bottles. They never used to be there and we all survived fine, why have them now? All they manage to do is flick milk in my face every time I peel them off.


Right, come on everyone, what grinds your gears?

Soda bottle lids, unscrewable

What makes me mad are the screw on tops on plastic soda bottles. I can not get them unscrewed without a kitchen tool. My husband who is a normal strong man, can't hardly get them off either. He unscrews them for me before we put them in the refrigerator.

[Maelstrom]

Why did the English, when they occupied India, call the people of India negroes? I have seen them referred to like that many times. I know they are very dark skinned, but negroes?

The term negro refers to skin colour alone, hence why the term was used.

[Arundel]

Oversized boxes:
I don't know whether they are doing this in other countries or not. Here in America, where postage is high, they put tiny little items I order in huge boxes. I will see a huge box sitting on my porch, delivered by UPS, and find out it is only a book. They do this all the time, and they really put a lot of filler in it. I order quite often since I live in a rural area, and it has gotten to be a joke with me and my husband, about what little thing is going to be contained in that huge box. I thought we were trying to recycle, and so forth.
So what are they thinking about?

[Frigga]

How Jackson ruined Lord Of The Rings with his un-Tolkein additions such as the whole Faramir story, the Arwen addition that never was in the book, how his wargs looked like hyenas, and making Gimli a comic character.

GRRRRRR...................





How could I have forgotten the travesty of The Lord Of The Rings! All of the above I agree with. I can even expand!

The list of Miscast Idiots:
Liv Tyler as Arwen. Puh-lease!!
Orlando Bloom as Legolas. Give me a bloody break!!
Most of the Elves, with the exception of Galadriel, and Elrond.

Storylines that were added for ridiculous Hollywood reasons:
*Arwen's fate being tied to the Ring. Whatever
*Aragorn not already having the shards of Narsil with him, and the sword being reforged before he even left. Spare me.
*Aragorn being a relutanct hero. He knew what had to be done. This isn't the twenty first century where the name of the game is "dilly-dally". For shame.
*Aragorn being thrown over the edge of the cliff in the flight to Helm's Deep, to accentuate the Eowyn love triangle. Totally unnecessary.
*Elrond coming to Aragorn with Narsil reforged just before the passage through the Paths of the Dead. Retarded Hollywood plot fix!
*The stupid first ten minutes of The Return of the King being devoted to Gollum's story of him first getting the Ring. Unneccessary! That was ten minutes or more that they could have used to put in some of the pertinent parts of the story.
*Treebeard not knowing about what Saruman was doing to the forest, and the result of the Entmoot being that they were going to sit out the war. Crap! Treebeard had known for a long time, and was angry, and the whole purpose of the Moot was so that Treebeard could convince the rest of the tree shepherds to do something about it.
*Merry and Pippin having to trick Treebeard to challenge Saruman. It was probably to bolster their parts, but if Jacko had followed the original storyline, he wouldn't have felt the need to bolster their diminished roles.
*Frodo and Sam being taken to Gondor. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!!! The whole point of Faramir letting them go, was to demostrate that he was a much better man then Boromir, and was able to see the deeper picture.

Things that Jacko left out that were Awesome!
*The Dunedain! Aragorn had kin up in the Northern Wastes. They accompanied Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas through the Paths of the Dead. They were very important.
*The whole Tom Bombadil sequence, but I understand leaving that out.
*The Scouring of the Shire!!!! ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON OR WHAT!!!!!! What, did Saruman just cower away like a whipped dog? No! He took over the Shire! He raped it, and paved it over. Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin had to kick some ass when they got home, and they did it all themselves. That was very important.
*Grima Wormtongue killing Saruman after they were beaten. Come on man!

Things that Jacko did badly:
*The whole Shelob incident. Instead of having it at the end of the second movie, like it should have been, it's at the beginning of the third. What, is the beginning of the third movie just too boring or something? The way Tolkien wrote it, you were left with a cliffhanger with Frodo being taken into the Orc fortress, and Sam doesn't know how he's going to rescue him. Suspense man! Come on!
*Most of the scenes with Arwen. Come on, there are much more beautiful brunettes in Hollywood then Liv Tyler!
*Overdoing the Arwen scenes, and basically overshadowing Eowyn's role. Eowyn does one of the most important things in the whole War of the Ring, by killing the Lord Nazgul. That was big! And she almost died from the encounter! That was terrible of Jacko to do that.

I haven't watched the movies in a while, precisely because for the reasons I've listed above. As you can tell, I'm overly touchy on the subject. My apologies to anyone who loves the movies. I'm a purist when it comes to film adaptations of books I love.

[Treffie]

I absolutely hate people that roll their eyes and can't keep their thoughts off their faces (especially when social etiquette demands 'keep it to yourself')

Just like this?

[SuuT]

One thing that has recently been "grinding my gears" is when white military people who are stationed in Hawaii adopt Hawaiian speech patterns. Every once in a while I'll bump into someone I knew in basic training or AIT (someone who I know is not from Hawaii) who will greet me by saying "How's it, brah," (trans. how are you today). They'll toss in words like aloha (hello), mahalo (thank you), keiki (child-ren), and ohana (family). I just want to grab them by the shoulders, shake them and yell "YOU'RE NOT HAWAIIAN, YOU RETARD! STOP SPEAKING PIDGIN!"

I didn't really understand what you meant until, last evening, I was forced to sit through an episode of "DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER" (don't ask...) on the A&E channel. Although I've been to the big island and Oahu on vacation, I never bothered to listen to anything but the ocean and "here's your drink, sir", so I suppose I've never noticed it.

But yeah, this kind of assimilated enunciation/pronunciation/word borrowing from drastically different kultures and languages in general has something just really irritating about it. Across the board.

[Æmeric]

The fact that lowbrow trashy programming like "Dog the Bounty Hunter" is aired on channels like A&E or Bravo. They belong on E!, MTV or Spike. With the literally hundreds of satellite/cable channels that profess to specialized to a particular group &/or niche, certain types of programming shouldn't overlap on the same channel. I also hate so called reality shows. And Ryan Seacrest.

[Birka]

I'm a purist when it comes to film adaptations of books I love.

I do agree with all of your criticisms of the Lord of the Rings. But what movies do you think did stay pure to the book or story?

One movie that I think did not stickily follow the novel, but seemed to get the feeling of the theme in my opinion is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) novel by Key Kesey and 1975 film with Jack Nicholson.

I can't think of too many others, might be a good thread idea.