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Old Oct 24th 2013 | 1:59 am
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People who drink Timmies while going around the grocery store.
People who leave Timmies cups on grocery store shelves when finished.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 2:10 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

I'll tell you what doesn't grind gears and that's the CVT on my car. What does grind my gears though, is that I have no idea what the thing is doing at any given moment.

Top tip: don't rely on engine braking while descending Mount Washington if your car has a CVT.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 2:15 am
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
People who drink Timmies while going around the grocery store.
People who leave Timmies cups on grocery store shelves when finished.
Oh, the whole culture of leaving food and beverage containers laying around gets on my tits. The streets around us are littered with coffee cups, polystrene trays, whisky bottles (from the LCBO) and beer cans; it's socially acceptable, indeed usual, for people to finish dinner or a drink and then throw the container out of the window as they drive along. Now that it's hunting season the woods are also littered with bottles, sandwich and pita wrappers and burger packaging.

People are shit. Hunters more so.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 2:25 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
Oh, the whole culture of leaving food and beverage containers laying around gets on my tits. The streets around us are littered with coffee cups, polystrene trays, whisky bottles (from the LCBO) and beer cans; it's socially acceptable, indeed usual, for people to finish dinner or a drink and then throw the container out of the window as they drive along. Now that it's hunting season the woods are also littered with bottles, sandwich and pita wrappers and burger packaging.

People are shit. Hunters more so.
I could never understand this particular aspect of your posts, until I started to live outside of the city (I had never really noticed it while travelling around).

Now I completely agree with you. I am always amazed at how much garbage can be found in the ditch beside the road that borders our property. By far, beer bottles outnumber "other stuff". The kids collect them and claim the refund.

During the last spring clean up with the local 4H club, I believe my daughters' club obtained more than $100 in refunds from discarded cans/bottles. They only cleaned a 5 km stretch of the road and they clean the same stretch each year. Not good.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 2:51 am
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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
Three-clip ring binders. It's just wrong.
The absence of treasury tags..........
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 3:32 am
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Travel companies who advertise the price of a holiday or flight and put the taxes in small print.
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So the actual price is $495 and not $215.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 3:34 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
Travel companies who advertise the price of a holiday or flight and put the taxes in small print.
Save 73% on this vacation
Toronto to Santa Lucia (Camaguey)
Gran Club Santa Lucia

Wednesday, November 06, 2013 - 7 Days - All inclusive
Now
Reg $785
$215
+ taxes $280

So the actual price is $495 and not $215.
That applies to virtually everything you buy here... you think it's $x but it's $x plus tax.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 3:37 am
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Originally Posted by jimf
The absence of treasury tags..........
Treasury tags.....(always bloody hated them!)
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 3:44 am
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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
That applies to virtually everything you buy here... you think it's $x but it's $x plus tax.
Thats why I have always agreed with the VAT system of pricing. Price on the tag is the price you pay.
The travel industry has always been criticized for their advertising methods as its just not a simple add 17.5% or whatever the GST/PST/HST rate is in your Province.
Airline taxes to Cuba are $280, Cancun $350, Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) $398 and Jamaica around $390.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 3:50 am
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These days it seems you can't watch a video clip from a newsmedia website, without first watching a commercial beforehand. In the past you were able to skip the commercial after five seconds, but more and more, you are obligated to watch the whole thing.
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 4:19 am
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Poor clutch control
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 4:23 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Shard
These days it seems you can't watch a video clip from a newsmedia website, without first watching a commercial beforehand. In the past you were able to skip the commercial after five seconds, but more and more, you are obligated to watch the whole thing.
Oh no you're not, just find another news site.

And it's "obliged", not "obligated".
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 4:24 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
People who drink Timmies while going around the grocery store.
People who leave Timmies cups on grocery store shelves when finished.
That's one that seriously pisses me off as well - cant understand why people feel the need to leave an empty coffee cup in amongst the ketchup bottles .
Another one is when they pick up something from the freezer section , decide they don't want it anymore and then decide to leave a frozen pork tenderloin beside the choccy biscuits - lazy bastards
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 4:24 am
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Originally Posted by orly
Poor clutch control
In Canada? Do they even know what that is?
 
Old Oct 24th 2013 | 4:39 am
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