What REALLY grinds your gears?

You are 10 steps away from your bank's front door.

A woman coming from the opposite direction is 12 steps away from the front door.

The woman sees you and tries to beat you to the door.

You really dont care bc you were going to open the door for her anyway but it is fun to feel her feeling awkward as you stand directly behind her in line for the next few minutes.

You are 10 steps away from your bank's front door.

A woman coming from the opposite direction is 12 steps away from the front door.

The woman sees you and tries to beat you to the door.

You really dont care bc you were going to open the door for her anyway but it is fun to feel her feeling awkward as you stand directly behind her in line for the next few minutes.

I just had this happen at the post office today. Funny thing is they were slow and she just left after 20 minutes.

Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.
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Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.
Wow, that sounds like government efficiencies. Who would have thought. "It is old but still works so why replace it."

Wow, that sounds like government efficiencies. Who would have thought. "It is old but still works so why replace it."

well... sort of. the whole push for new bombers right now is because the old "still working ones" are actually really (really) expensive, since they break a lot and some of the parts aren't even made anymore, worn out A-frames, designs not made with maintenance in mind and all that. I could bore you with details, but... eh. generally stuff isn't just replaced for no reason though (f22/35 program excluded).

The large font that now seems prevalent on all sports websites (ESPN, FOX, CBS etc) It seems they have all copied each others format. Also anytime you
click on a game recap or even look up scores a video immediately starts up
with some loud blowhard screaming at you. I don't understand the point of
videos immediately running on all pages, annoying as hell to me. What is the purpose and they aren't selling anything.

The large font that now seems prevalent on all sports websites (ESPN, FOX, CBS etc) It seems they have all copied each others format. Also anytime you
click on a game recap or even look up scores a video immediately starts up
with some loud blowhard screaming at you. I don't understand the point of
videos immediately running on all pages, annoying as hell to me. What is the purpose and they aren't selling anything.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flashstopper/

This drive me insane too, ESPECIALLY when I'm at work and starts BLASTING.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/flashstopper/

This drive me insane too, ESPECIALLY when I'm at work and starts BLASTING.

Thanks, so far it works everywhere but ESPN. Even proactively setting it for ESPN and the videos still play when you open the page. I have satellite internet
where things don't work like they should on many websites, maybe that is the
problem.

Sorry do not watch ESPN that much. As really the network is untolerable over Chris Berman!

Thanks, so far it works everywhere but ESPN. Even proactively setting it for ESPN and the videos still play when you open the page. I have satellite internet
where things don't work like they should on many websites, maybe that is the
problem.

okay, couple things.

first on the player on any espn page: (ie)
Washington Redskins' Jay Gruden on Kirk Cousins: Have to have patience - Washington Redskins Blog - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/blog/washington-redskins/post/_/id/20178/redskins-coach-jay-gruden-on-kirk-cousins-we-have-to-have-patience)

in the lower right of the embedded video player there's an autoplay on/off thing, click it off, that should fix it without flashcontrol.


a second and completely separate option is in flashcontrol, go to settings, on the left side of the screen, go to blacklist, click on site and enter:
*player.ooyala.com*

and it'll totally kill all the videos on espn when flashcontrol is not disabled i believe. you could also enter:

*espn.go.com*

though that may or may not work as well.


hope that helps. again, easiest answer is just click autoplay off in the embedded video player.