What Grinds Your Gears?

Yes. University is free here in Sweden.

We pay like 30% in taxes (30-33% I think, depends on where you live)

Edit: I think it varies depending on how much you make >_> If you're interested you can google translate these pages: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatt
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatt_i_Sverige

I'm not really that good at taxes >_>

Whether the kid is racist or not, his behavior was unacceptable and it's his parents' job to straighten him out. It sounds like they are doing a bang-up job of going into complete denial about it, which means the kid probably will get no punishment at home, which means he'll grow up to be a blistering wart on the backside of humanity. :/ I hate parents who do that to their kids.

I'm sorry, I DO tend to overuse them.

They're my way of using, um, "dramatic pauses" I guess you could say.

Woot. I think I just made it through a whole post without using one!

I agree 100%

The whole thing makes me super mad, and super sad at the same time.

I really just kinda wanna go punch the parents in the noses but, of course, that wouldn't be very productive, so I'm stifling the urge...lol

Maybe the parents are racist and are secretly high five-ing* their kid at home for doing what he did.
Kinda like those movies where the dad gets the kid or dog to lift up skirts of women they walk by.
Scolding them in front of the person and then getting them ice cream or a treat for doing it.

People that skillup in town.

Ragequitters in Gears3 (particularly Horde mode) have really earned my ire lately.

Also, people who attempt to ram a Brumak with the Silverback I just dropped twelve G's on. I swear that happens every time I Play on Sandbar Horde.

traffic and rubber neckers at plain fender benders. :|

reading incomplete sentences because it really is

People that cough without putting a damn hand in front of their mouth, or turn at least the other way. It's so disgusting to bump in people in the street that just cough in your face with no respect at all.

brats and rats.

When I get outlotted on something I want, by like 3... That really grinds my gears

1. Tourists who stand on the left hand side of the escalator at the tube station.

2. People on the tube that think it's nice to get close and stick their perm in my face.

3. People who queue jump when waiting for a delayed tube.

4. People who randomly stop/change direction on a busy street, when you're walking behind them.

5. The leaflet/charity people outside Kings Cross station.

6. TFL website not being up-to-date regarding delays/suspensions.

7. The Docklands Light Railway.

Sneezing with a mouth full of food.

Leaves and leaf blowers. :|

Carbonated drinks without enough syrup.

Drinks not using real sugar anymore! Using this crappy fake sweetener and all that

(I miss my old school Pepsi!)

Makes it feel like your eyeballs are about to pop out.

Being stuck in the office during lunch, and why do people see crappy, greasy pizza as a lunch staple. Bleh!

When people take everything you say as a personal dig at them.

For example, my teeth are rotting out of my head because for a few years I had an unfortunate attraction to soda and there wasn't enough tooth-brushing in the world that could save them. So my dentist has me on a nightly medicine that's supposed to help grow back enamel. (I didn't have enough enamel to begin with because as a kid I ate oranges all the time and sucked on lemons. Literally would pop a slice of lemon in my mouth and suck on it until all the fleshy part was gone, then spit out the rind and pop another lemon slice in.)

So I'm whining to my stepmother that the enamel-growing medicine kinda hurts, and she goes off on how she did her best raising me and she swears she made sure she took good care of my teeth and took me to the dentist all the time and no one should blame her because I have no enamel. Like really? I never said anything about any of it being her fault. In fact, I distinctly told her it was because I drank too much soda after I moved out of her house. >.> Mothers be crazy!

I use to eat lemons the same way and people would look at me like I was crazy. There were actually periods in my life where I'd go through up to 5 or 6 a day.

My teeth were also a lost cause. I don't even have them anymore.

Because greasy pizza is wonderful. I just recently started getting pizza here at the office. I alsways go and pick it up though.

Well as long as the record shows it wasn't HER fault and she was the best mother in the universe, then we can move on to something more important that doesnt have anythng to do with you...

Sweet lord do know I know alot of these people

Also, When I was your age we chewed on branches to clean our teeth!

Man you guys are really young too... I used to drink a ton of pop and I've yet to get a cavity. I did just get a route canal but I was told that's because I suffered some kind of trauma to my face.

Mine are starting to feel like a lost cause. :/ I brush, floss, and medicate them every single day and I still get new cavities (even not drinking soda or eating lemons anymore.) And it doesn't help that going to the dentist makes me sick. For the last 3-4 times that I've gone, one shot of numbing medicine isn't enough. I can still feel them drilling. So they have to give me a double shot of numbers, and then I stay numb for 6 or 8 hours, and have a hard time eating during that time because I've chewed on the inside of my cheek before while numb and that's really painful. I really, really don't want dentures. I'm only 25! But if there was a way to get a full set of porcelain teeth or something permanently set in my gums, I'd so do it.

Doctors(staying in theme).