What Chocks Your Guff?
On the podcast, Brian talked about something that "chocks his guff" which I think means annoys him.
Let's embrace it. Our goal is simple: to make this a commonly used idiom (e.g., https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-idioms/).
So, what chocks your guff?
For me, it's when a basketball coach runs onto the floor during game play. Man, that really chocks my guff. I say, run him over!
I'd say these are probably most people's issues with trucks these days:
- Bright lights. I am blinded by everyone's lights now days, but trucks being higher usually hit eye level far more often and seem to have the brightest of the bright lights.
- Lack of vision: Trucks are so massive that they can't see most kids or even many people and small cars in front of them, making them dangerous to others
- When they back up into a spot over grass fine, over a sidewalk with large hitch on back, shrink sidewalk and kill shins
- Most don't use the bed for more than groceries or kids sports equipment so really not necessary
(I'm fine with people liking trucks. I admit they are nice to drive down the highway with the elevated position and long wheel base) but they don't appeal to me. I have 4 kids so need a 3 row vehicle (I have a Explorer sport which is mostly practical but less practical than a minivan, but I picked it for looks and a slight loss in practicality). I also like sports cars, which are mostly very impractical. Cars are expensive so you should enjoy it.
I have a Ram 1500 and can see most children... LOL. I think no matter what vehicle you have, being careful and considerate is the #1 goal. Inconsiderate drivers chock my guff.
Sorry… to clarify: the part I was specifically wondering about was the backing into spots annoyance. That seemed to be the particular ire raising aspect and I have literally no idea why (beyond what you said about taking up sidewalk).
This is what I was going to post. Drives me wild.
When that nimble kitten then leaves their empty cart IN the neighboring empty handicap spot I lose my shit.
Walking into Meijer with my then 5 year old, I saw someone do that. Speaking to the kiddo, but loud enough for them to hear I said “that’s a really bad boy and he should get a timeout for being rude.”
The Tigers offense
Drivers who don’t use their turn signals at all or wait until the last second and then turn them on. I try to tell myself that maybe they don’t know where they are going and it was a last minute decision but still.
In a neighboring state, which I will not (Mass) name out of (achussets) courtesy, using your directional is considered a sign of mental defect as it gives your opponent a competitive advantage. 😉
People that can't keep politics out of any conversation and Taylor Swift fans.
Absolutely, the politics stuff. Has anyone ever changed anyone’s mind about anything when it come to politics
My advice is to shake it off when it comes to Taylor Swift.
You do know that the fix was in so the Chiefs could win the Super Bowl and that Taylor Swift would be happy and endorse Biden!
/jk
Haters gonna hate hate hate...
Sleepers gonna sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep
That's what you whippersnappers have to look forward to when you get old.
I'm no swiftie, but you gotta throw some respect her way.
Politics, yes. Taylor? You Need to Calm Down.
People who ride their bicycles on the road instead of the sidewalk. I get that you don’t want to run into pedestrians, and I get that it’s legal, but I don’t want to run into an oncoming car while trying to avoid running into you. I think you hitting someone else with your bike is far less serious than me slamming into another car head on while I try to get just far enough out of the way to avoid hitting you.
Get on the fucking sidewalk where you belong.
Agreed!!! Only thing worse than that is the city of Ann Arbor giving up 1 lane on many downtown Ann Arbor roads and putting in 4, yes 4 fucking, stupid ass bike lanes on streets. This is not Florida, this is Michigan, and the "average" older person will not be getting on their bike to use these news fucking bike lanes.
Get off my road!
It's against the law where I live to bike on the sidewalk, thus as a bike commuter - I HAVE TO ride on the paved shoulder. Maybe you have different laws where you live...? Trust me, as a biker I'd rather ride on the sidewalk to get further away from deadly cars & drivers with a mad-on.
Idiot drivers. More specifically:
Drivers who don’t realize they have a 3000 lb car and then one brush with a bicyclist on their little bike often means death or serious injury.
Drivers who don’t know the laws and that bicyclists are not only required to be on the road but they get a full lane when you pass them just as if they are a car. (In states I’ve lived in) For their safety
Drivers who try to illegally pass a biker on a two lane road with a double yellow.
Drivers who illegally try to pass a bicyclist when they can’t see the opposite traffic and risk the bicyclist’s life to save a few seconds or minutes. (And in that split second decision there is no way you’re going head-on into a car when you can just kill the cyclist).
Drivers who always feel like they are in a hurry and are mad that everything seems to be in their way, including bicyclists, cars going the speed limit in the right hand lane, and pedestrians, when they drive but only end up gaining 30 seconds before they have to wait for all the other cars to catch up at the next stop or light.
The driver who decided he needed to pass a bicyclist on a windy, neighborhood, two lane road with blind turns, only to park around the next turn, thus risking the bikers’s life to save two seconds.
The large truck that came out of a construction site and ran me off a straight two lane road, with no traffic in either direction, with no paved shoulder and just a drop off the edge of the payment, with a stop light a quarter mile (2 min) ahead, and who could have passed me by switching lanes, but who instead conceded no space between his truck and the edge of payment. (I almost caught that fucker before the light changed and was ready to drag his ass out of the cab.)
Drivers who illegally roll through a stop sign when pedestrians are still in the crosswalk.
Seriously, I know a lot of bicyclists critically injured by idiot drivers in a hurry or who don’t follow the law.
Drivers who drive in a hurry but save zero time. Never drive in a hurry.
Now do I sound like my Guff is Chocked!?
It’s less safe to ride a bike on the sidewalk.
As a cyclist who's been hit by a car (in a bike lane, with flashing lights, etc.), my only regret is that I have but one down vote to give.
It’s amazingly surprising and unfortunate how often this happens.
It's amazing how you typed up all that and said nothing correct.
I get annoyed by people walking in the street. I live in a small town with city streets and nice sidewalks, and constantly have to avoid people walking 3 wide with cars parked on the street and "runners" who need to run in the street. I get charged hundreds of dollars to fix each cement sidewalk square. Use them!
Being the only team ever to win a Championship and have the Head Coach walk for another job.
Clicked on this to say exactly this.
Oh, and a lot of the drivers in Metro Detroit.
Howard Schnellenberger and Johnny Majors both left for different jobs immediately after winning a national championship, so Michigan has company.
Also, John McKay and Nick Saban both left jobs for the NFL only a year after winning it all.
Jimmy Johnson also only one year removed and coming off a #2 AP finish.
What really chocks my guff is when people say “natty” unless they are referring to Natural Light beer or a Bob Marley record.
I will religiously abstain as Festivus is not for another 8 months smdh
People who say things like "chocks my guff" really raise my hackles, first and foremost.
In all seriousness, however, one thing that does annoy me quite a bit would be people whose emotional sustenance is derived from the art of shitting on others. People who get upset when you critique and break down their ideas into their constituent parts so that they can, in fact, be discussed annoy me too.
We can still Shit on Ohioans who Root for Ohio State and Shit in Coolers though right?
I heard a story on the radio a few months back about the rise of relentless positivity in the U.S. I wish I could find it again. The core concept was that in our culture you’re not allowed to say anything negative to anyone, or you’re the AH. As a parent of teenagers, who enjoy putting each other down, I sort of agree with this sentiment. We don’t need any more negativity in this world. The point of the radio story was that it has negative consequences on people’s mental health and you can never tell when someone is genuinely being positive. (I may have inferred the latter point.)
But to your point, breaking down people’s points in to component parts is often seen as being negative. You have to tell people that their ideas are great and then have them break them down for you. When they get to the point where they realize the flaw, that you already saw, it is their realization and not yours. I’m really bad at doing this and hate how much time it takes, but it seems to be the way to do it.
I know [Japan] and some other countries have a concept of saving face. I think the U.S. has a similar thing here, but it isn’t well defined.
Michigan coaches going to rival schools. I mean a jobs a job but you have to know how that will be received right?
I dunno. Gattis to Miami worked out pretty well.
What also grinds my gears is what happened to the Red Wings once that advertising patch was added on their jerseys. Also, that AC/DC and The Pretty Reckless are touring together but not coming to Detroit or Cleveland
Not much. I can shake most stuff off.
Guff chocking has always bothered me, even in past lives.
people who refer to chocolate as "chokky".
I've never heard this but I might resort to violence.
Axions. Those little buggers refuse to be discovered and solve like major massive issues with our understanding of the entire Universe.
If they exist. If they don’t… nevermind.
People who don’t understand how a zipper merge works and therefore assume YOU are the a-hole when you stay in the lane that is going to close until it is about to close and then try to merge over.
Seconded....Zipper merge is the way, but people have to understand what's happening, plus, you know, put their ego aside for 0.05 seconds to make it happen. See my earlier comment.
Indeed. If I go to hell then I’ll probably have to drive a never ending zipper merge on my way to work.
Indeed. This. And what chocks my guff is the people who think it’s their job to force the merge a mile before the merge point (without realizing that they, themselves, are just backing traffic up further).
Sounds like NJ drivers.
Oh yah, NJ drivers
Senior year, engineering job fair, so all of my friends who graduated last year and moved across the country are back in Ann Arbor to recruit. A bunch of us meet up at Ashley's. After the fourth person complained about the drivers in their city, my friend Nate observed one of the great truths of our time:
When you move to a new city -- regardless of the city -- the first thing you learn is that nobody there knows how to drive.
My apologies to NJ people but I won’t be conceding this point.
There are a lot of unhappy people in NJ who want to spread their unhappiness to others when out in public.
When I moved to NJ from out West, it seemed absolutely no one had heard of a zipper merge in NJ. Where I came from it was the norm.
There are also the 200 year old jug handles required to make a left. Just about anyone is angry when getting off a jug handle.
I was only in NJ for a few years but when I moved to my next city one state over, a taxi driver stopped in the middle of traffic congestion and waved me over in front of him when I was stuck behind a delivery truck. I felt like I moved to heaven. Since you can eliminate NY, it should be easy to guess where that was
Zipper merge is great in theory but completely impossible in practice because it only takes 1 person on their phone to ruin the whole thing. And way more than 1 person in any given traffic cluster is staring at their phone.
The new trend of expecting tips for everything.
And related to that, being handed a credit card machine by the server with a suggested tip of 30% (or more) preselected so that I have to change it to something else right in front of them.
Haha, I was with my 20 year old daughter at a bakery and the tip came up on the screen and before I could give a 15% tip, she said out loud, in front of the cashier, "No, no more of this tipping people who work at cash registers." Uh, wanna get away?