What grinds your gears?

[speedjunkie]

Ha ha, no...I guess not. I'm such a prick! I always equate my wife and I to the stuck up neighbors to the Griswold's on Lampoon's Christmas:lol:

LOL. That's the way I am too. I don't give out anything, I turn all my lights off for Halloween lol.

[erod550]

LOL. That's the way I am too. I don't give out anything, I turn all my lights off for Halloween lol.

Yep, same here. I don't want the dumb kids interrupting my Forza time.

While listening to post-game commentary in the car on the way home from the game, the commentators were saying Tebow was being thrown to the wolves. He got no blocking from the offensive line, and the offense spent very little time on the field so when the defense came out, they had virtually no real rest. Also, another comment was that to commit to Tebow as a starter, you need at least 1 full off-season to get people prepared and make necessary changes, which the Broncos obviously don't have. Our play calling staff sucks on top of it all, and they haven't been calling plays that are a good match for Tebow's offensive style.

Bahahaha. That brings up another one. Tebow apologists. Just face it, Tebow sucks. He was a good college quarterback but he doesn't have what it takes to make it in the NFL. If it was all the playcallers' and offensive line's fault, how do you explain that even when he has plenty of time to throw he can't hit his receivers most of the time. He's horribly inaccurate and tucks and runs far too often. Being a mobile quarterback is good in that you can avoid the defense to still make a throw. Not avoid the defense just so you can take off running. Sometimes taking off works out and gets you a first down, something the Broncos couldn't get otherwise, but most of time you're better off extending the play and looking for someone to throw the ball to.

I'm not saying it's all Tebow's fault. The whole team is garbage. But it cracks me up that people are STILL trying to defend Tebow and talk about how good he is and everyone else is bringing him down. He's played about 5 good minutes out of the last 120. The rest has been godawful.

[Huzer]

I don't mind trick or treat-ers. I did it as a kid, so I'm returning the favor. I'm not some grumpy old antisocial asshole like most people now, apparently. I just don't appreciate people trucking kids in from other neighborhoods.

[Learjet45]

I somewhat agree. I think that Tebow isn't a good match for the rest of our offensive line. I think that with more time and training he could be a great quarterback but only with more experience and a drastically different offensive line.

[alex_n/a]

this doesn't really get me mad but kinda makes me laugh. I have a awd truck. This means when it's snowing and the roads haven't been cleaned I lay down some tire tracks that others can use for their safety and don't have to struggle in their 2wd cars. So why the hell would anyone tailgate me for miles and then overtake me to just end up struggling to stay on the road. Some peoples stupididy surprises me. Btw I drive the appropriate speed. Not to slow or fast. I never push the cars past it's limit.

there are a lot of accidents in bad weather. This is 99% driver fault. You should never rear end a car unless you are too close or going to fast. People use the excuse that the weather is bad. But the weather has little to do with accidents. What causes people to hit curbs, poles, cars, ditches, spin out and all that fun stuff is just stupididy. Plain and simple. I can drive my rwd rx7 just fine in the snow. So if I can do it I'm sure any fwd and awd car can do it. Car has little to do with it too. Simply because the car does what you tell it to do not the other way around.

/rant

[christi]

Totally agree alex!

[Learjet45]

And to add to that Alex, even if people blame the bad weather, it's still their fault for rear ending you no matter what, so they are the ones that are gonna be screwed because of their own stupidity. As for the roads today, well I didn't drive on any truly bad roads. I went to lunch with my friend, but by then, all the snow was gone and roads were just wet.

[speedjunkie]

I can agree with you for the most part Alex. I will say that my 7 does not see snowy roads anymore.

Thanksgiving night of 08 it started snowing while I was at my boss' house east of town. I was going up a slight incline on my way home (not a whole lot of snow, but the roads were slick enough) and I just BARELY pushed on the gas pedal to give it a little more, and it started going sideways and I went into oncoming traffic. I went off their side of the road, barely getting across in time for a car that was coming, I stayed on it and got back on the road and white-knuckled it the rest of the way home haha. However, it is RWD with 295s on the rear and about 400hp at that time, so it's not the best idea haha. I had no idea it was supposed to snow though.

[GR-8]

Yep Tires also have a lot to do with it. By the time the snow comes around mine are always bald on the 8 and I never buy winter tires. I've been through a lot of tires for only 53k miles in the last 7.8 years. About a set a year. This last set lasted a good amount of time. Same rubber since I bought the rims from Dave (Chickenwafer) when was that fall of 2009? IDK how many miles he had them on for. Seems like I've been through a set a year since I've had the car.

I feel like tires should have lasted more than 7,500 miles.

Oh, back on topic...... yeah it's always the drivers fault. Especially if they don't have the tires for it. Bald tires won't get you anywhere. I know.

[chickenwafer]

I think the tires only had about 2000 mile on them IIRC when I sold them to you, Jimmy.

I know of a few people with RX-8's that throw on snow tires in the winter and love the car. The car is light and extremely neutral and balanced so it handles quite well in the white stuff, with the proper tires!

Also, the rotary produces less low-end torque than most of its piston counterparts, meaning it's easier to get going without spinning tire if you have proper throttle modulation (and proper tires!). The RX-8 also had a great stability control system and awesome ABS.

I've noticed a lot of time, all-wheel drive cars give novice/uneducated drivers a false sense of security that they can bomb down the roads at any speed they want in any condition and they're safe. This is obviously 100% incorrect so they cause accidents and drive like asshats tail gating people who are driving proper for the conditions. I experienced this first hand when car pooling with a car worker who has an 07 Audi A4 Quattro with bald ### 'el-cheapo' Chinese tires NOT make for snow. He locked up the tires and slid more than I did in my FWD Protege with 2-season Falken's, all because his AWD car is not equipped with the proper tires AND he doesn't know who to drive in the snow.

I had a 4x4 lifted F350 for two winters in Colorado, which was amazing in the snow, but no amount of 4x4 or off-road tires will save you on ice (save for studded ice tires but who drives around on those all winter?). But I still drove smartly, usually 5-8mph under the posted speed limit in adverse conditions, and never tail gated or pressured the people in the slow lane in their RWD or FWD cars to go faster or "get out of my way".

My only other caveat to this is the annoying ### old people or terrified driver going 15mph holding up 20 cars and actually making a bad situation worse. If you're that bad at driving in snow get the #### off the road or move to a place where it doesn't snow so you don't put other people's lives in jeopardy. Driving that slow forces other people to pass you creating more danger.

/end rant

[erod550]

I can agree with you for the most part Alex. I will say that my 7 does not see snowy roads anymore.

Thanksgiving night of 08 it started snowing while I was at my boss' house east of town. I was going up a slight incline on my way home (not a whole lot of snow, but the roads were slick enough) and I just BARELY pushed on the gas pedal to give it a little more, and it started going sideways and I went into oncoming traffic. I went off their side of the road, barely getting across in time for a car that was coming, I stayed on it and got back on the road and white-knuckled it the rest of the way home haha. However, it is RWD with 295s on the rear and about 400hp at that time, so it's not the best idea haha. I had no idea it was supposed to snow though.

I got caught in an unexpected snowstorm in the Mustang on SuperBowl Sunday last winter. Well it wasn't completely unexpected, but it was just flurries that weren't supposed to stick, and my PZeros, while summer tires, had been fine for normal, non-aggressive driving even down into the -10 range, and I had just gotten the car so I of course wanted to drive it.

Well, the snow stuck, and the roads got icy while I was at someone's house watching the SuperBowl. Almost didn't make it out of their neighborhood. Couldn't even make it up the slightest grade. Had to eventually get a running start at the hill and barely made it. Then white-knuckled it the rest of the way home. Luckily Powers wasn't bad yet, but I was still freaked out and now the Mustang stays in the garage if there's even a hint of snow coming.

(save for studded ice tires but who drives around on those all winter?).

As soon as I get around to putting them on, my Miata will be on studded ice tires until April or May. I drove on them most of last winter too. Didn't buy them until midway through winter after I slid off I-25 on the all-seasons.

[kingtut]

I'm not some grumpy old antisocial asshole like most people now, apparently.

I can't help but feel as though you're referring to yours truly...

[christi]

Customer's who except me to know that one part of AK and another part of AK is Long Distance... and by me not knowing this, because I obivously have to remember all of our 50 states.. I'm a dipshit and needed to speak to my supervisor, lol. I LOVE people today!

[erod550]

I can't help but feel as though you're referring to yours truly...

Could be me too. I don't think I'm old, but grumpy antisocial asshole sounds about right.

[kingtut]

Could be me too. I don't think I'm old, but grumpy antisocial asshole sounds about right.

You're old too:lol:

(I think we're about the same age)