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After all the heated arguments on everything from technology and social media to work and the economy, who could've predicted that baby boomers and the younger generations would find something in common?
But last month, X (formerly known as Twitter) user Girl Fieri (@realgirl_fieri) asked all the non-boomers on the platform to share their most boomer-esque complaints, and the replies immediately started pouring in.
Image credits: realgirl_fieri
So we decided that taking a look at the submissions would be a nice change of pace to the never-ending discourse on intergenerational differences. Or, in this case, similarities!
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#1
Bored something 2 years ago
And the contrast between show audio volume compared to advertising audio volume. Having your ad loud will not make me buy your product. It will p**s me off and make me avoid you.
David 2 years ago
Too bad movies are not like the better modern video games where under audio settings you have different volume sliders for Master, Music, Dialog, Sound Effects.
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
That's a brilliant idea! I really think streaming sites should implement that!
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ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
You know, I'll try this with Tenet. I couldn't hear one sentence in that movie. Thanks fish!
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David Paterson 2 years ago
And can we please broadcast TV with two sound tracks - dialogue and background so that we can adjust the volumes independently.
Stefano 2 years ago
If you watch something on a normal tv or anything without a 5.1 surround system, you need to "change language" by selecting the same actual language but without 5.1. It's an audio track problem. 5.1 audio tracks send voices to the central speaker, but when there is none, this is split between the available ones (usually two) overlapped with everything else, basically just messing with the mixing.
Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
I came looking for this or adding this if it wasn't there. But it's still ridiculous that 5.1 is too often the standard setting although rarely anyone has a surround system. I'm glad we have a smart TV that automatically adjusts the audio so I don't have to constantly change tracks. Also sometimes they don't bother adding the normal track and 5.1 is the only track available. If you don't have a TV able to autodjust to clear voice, you will not hear the dialogue properly. It is so annoying.
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Skinny Pig 2 years ago
That's my biggest pet peeve nowadays- at least I can use subtitles and turn the volume down, but if I can't see what's going on there's nothing I can do!
Load More Replies... Featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Just tried watching a movie like this. You could not hear the dialogue over any background noise. I turned it off after about 10 minutes. I thought maybe it would get better over time but, it didn't. We should be able to down vote movies like this and explain why.
Ropre 2 years ago
Yes....I agree but I also can't stand how dark some scenes are in movies and shows. I literally can't tell what's going on sometimes. Don't the directors realize the scenes are too dark???
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
This grinds my gears, too. I think it's just a thing nowadays - make it dark and moody. 🙄
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just a random panda 2 years ago
this is so true! I'm a teenager and I have a lot of these complaints
Rosemary Molloy 2 years ago
And I'll be 87 in two weeks and yes, I'm with you, teenager.
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BC 2 years ago
AAAAARRRROOOOOO!!!! I’m just loving that us Gen Xers are being ignored yet again. We’re running/ruining most of the governments, currencies and housing markets, but huzzah! Blame it on the boomers!
Graham_Illegal 2 years ago
Maybe the problem is not age but class related? 🤨
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Pamela Blue 2 years ago
I agree with this totally. These complaints are "ageless" - for everyone.
SuperChicken 2 years ago
When and how did this even start? A genuine and curious question. Reason being, it seems that it just exploded and many are calling other people, "boomer," because of something that was said or done.
Usually, baby boomers are perceived in quite negative ways. Or as Lawrence R. Samuel, Ph.D, who is the founder of AmeriCulture, a consultancy dedicated to translating the emerging cultural landscape into business opportunities, said, they are often seen as dinner guests who’ve eaten and drank pretty much everything set out on the table, leaving only scraps for those who came later to the party.
"Generational hostility is nothing new," Samuel wrote. "There is in fact a long history in America of a younger generation differentiating and distancing itself from their parents’ generation. (It actually goes back to the 18th century.)"
"As a people, we are very much interested in making our own mark, blazing our own trail, and doing things our own way. From this respect, it was inevitable that Gen Xers would set themselves off from baby boomers as a cohort and attempt to carve out their collective identity. The same was and remains true for millennials and Gen Z," he explained.
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ƒιѕн 2 years ago
But then how will you get targeted ads for what kind of bread to buy?
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Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
At 13 I really wish that I had more old technology, the stuff that doesn't need the internet but stuff that works logically and can be fixed logically- if my mobile phone breaks I would have no clue how to fix it but if a record player wasn't making any noise I would know what to do
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
How will you ever know that you need a pickle on average? !! Boomer?? ok as if I have to add it /s
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Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
Don't you love a good old switch that goes -Kachunk!!!!
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Will Cable 2 years ago
WIFI washing machine, to let you know the cycle has finished......Like I'm going to stop having my meal out or cut short a shopping trip to rush home empty the load...FFS
Steve Hall 2 years ago
I can barely stand to talk to people, I am not talking to an appliance.
TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
I'm a middle-aged millennial and the only "smart" thing in my home is the TV. It's one too much but oh well.
#4
Cecilia Herrera 2 years ago
Agree. When I pay for something at a cash register, and I am asked for my email address, etc., I say "no thank you." I have received very weird looks from the cashier. I can't be only person to say, "No," can I ? I will not give out that information just so I can pay for something.
JelliTate 2 years ago
I had a person actually TELL me that they couldn’t take my cash if they didn’t have my email and phone number! Been about 10 years but still, no.
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PattyK 2 years ago
Why do businesses need an app when they already have a web site? What does the app do that the web site can’t?
deejak 2 years ago
Read the TOS of the app and you have the answer. Basically, so they can get your data from your phone.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
Buying some earphones, paint, makeup, clothes shouldn't involve having to spell out my email address. I just want to pay and go.
Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart 2 years ago
This one is so true. Took my kid to the zoo and had to download an app to pay for the parking because an actual physical machine to stick my card in is too much to expect these days.
Anni 2 years ago
And having apps for everything. I don’t want an app to call a plumber thanks.
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
So you have to carry around a virtual Yellow pages of the things that you have already used but what about the things you may need... grrr
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
That's usually a scam anyway, it means the company can donate to charity and get it deducted from taxes.
Libstak 2 years ago
Yes, they get the deduction for your charity dollars. Donate direct and claim against your own taxes.
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Ba-Na-Na 2 years ago
Especially when the store can donate themselves and use it as a tax write off …. W*lmert!
Jill Rhodry 2 years ago
But that's exactly what they're doing with your donation - it's 'given' in the company's name and they get the deduction.
Load More Replies... Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
I went to a charity shop to buy a ring and the woman at the counter asked me if I would like to donate some more money, I politely declined but she looked at me as if I had just stolen from the shop
SuperChicken 2 years ago
What? Isn't buying from a charity shop already a way of donating? Unless, someone is pocketing it.
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"In the US, it’s a common misconception that donating at checkout stands results in a tax deduction for the company. They can’t do this without committing fraud. They have to record that money on their books as money held for charity." source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/16a1ise/if_i_donate_to_the_charity_at_checkout_am_i_just/?rdt=55648 They are literally just collecting money for charity.
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Absolutely HATE that (Looking at you Caseys) The other day I was asked if I wanted to round up for charity and I asked the clerk if they wanted to round down instead.
Oleander 2 years ago
Be nice to the staff. They're just doing their job and probably hate asking more than you hate being asked. A simple "not this time" will allow you to keep your 43 cents and the clerk to keep their dignity.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
I am surviving on social security. The corporate grocery chain is who should be donating to charities.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Thank you! Too many of these businesses never take into account that some of us are on a fixed income. We have to budget every cent in order not to run out of money before the end of the month. I'll choose paying my electric bill over donating to the local animal shelter any day.
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Lara Verne 2 years ago
I get it, just pease, don't be rude if cashier ask you if you want to donate to charity. I work as cashier and I have to ask every single customer if they want to donate. Thousands times a day. it's maddening.
However, as we can see from these posts, common ground isn't that hard to find.
In fact, Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy at King’s and formerly Head of Public Affairs at Ipsos, argued in his book 'Generations' that cohorts are not as important as most think and that the vast majority of issues and attitudes do not map neatly onto the definitions we have (which themselves are somewhat arbitrary, especially on a global scale).
He suggests that most of the polarizing issues facing the world today split the generations as well, and that the overarching societal shift towards more liberal attitudes on things like gay marriage, female employment, etc. are the result of opinions shifting across all generational groups over the last 30-40 years and are not the byproduct of a sudden influx of liberal youngsters into the voting booths.
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
A while ago I said something about sitting outside looking at the stars, and was called ableist (because some people can't get outside to do that). Like, i'm sorry about that and all, but we're at the point now where people really CAN'T say just ordinary mundane stuff without being called out.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
That's ridiculous! Whoever said that to you needs a hobby.
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Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
I'm a boomer who approves wholeheartedly of political correctness and wokeness (back in the olden days we called it consciousness raising). Its just being kind, polite and listening to people. The fact that some people (mostly the ones not directly affected by the issue) take it in the wrong direction is not a good reason for me to ditch the whole idea.
Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
Sadly nowadays people treat everything they personally don't like as a major offense. I won't ever diminish suffering. But honestly, if you are offended by bathroom signs depicting a hen and a rooster, then that's a you problem. It's not offensive and it's not claiming that people are chickens or whatever strange complaints you might have. I had a coworker getting offended because I spoke of our guys from tech team A. Spoiler alert, the members of Tech team A are all male! They are four guys. We are a small company, everyone knows who they are and we all know that this particular team is all male despite the company overall having more women than men. It's the only team in the whole company that has all male staff. I'm not going to adress them as guys and gals or keep my adress gender neutral when I know there are only four men on that team. That's ridiculous. I also hate that you cannot dislike movies, any movie, no matter why, without being questioned on why you don't like it with the passive accusation that it's because the actress has a certain entnicity or it has too many women or it has LGBTQ themes. No matter how bland and bad the movie/show is and how many plot holes it has.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I have a large upright freezer in my garage and when I find good sales on meat, I stock up and vacuum seal everything. Same goes fot frozen vegetables. My neighbor walked by while I was putting food away and asked me if I was a whacko survivalist. Dude......I have a family that likes to eat.
Karl 2 years ago
I think there’s a generation who can’t handle the notion that people think differently to them and that it’s OK to disagree. I also think that with all the measures (esp. in education) to ensure everywhere is a “safe space” and that their worldview can never be challenged by other ideas lest it causes “pain” ensures a feeling of constant fragility and victimhood. More dangerously, it means they are ill-equipped to handle all the daily challenges life throws at us as, outside their bubble, there are multiple differing views, perspectives and behaviours that don’t align with theirs. Instead of viewing these things as inherently bad and to be cancelled, the skill of logical argument should be applied to ascertain whether a viewpoint holds water or if rational scrutiny makes it falls down like a house of cards. Perhaps they know this and don’t wish to be challenged on their views - however misguided or illogical?
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
I don’t think it’s a generation, per se, but an intellectual level, not to mention an education level. The people who see the answers to everything strictly in black and white and simple reductionist answers, and don’t understand all the shades of gray, as well as other colors, that make up the full context—-which is what gives a greater and deeper understanding—-of an issue, and can help prevent it constantly recurring in the future. They’re the same people who fall for every lie told them by snake oil salespeople on every level, from used car salespeople all the way up to politicians, and even people who should never have been president of a single porta-potty, much less an entire large country. They’re the same kind of people who embraced and blindly bought into communism and nazism, and blindly followed dictators and fascists, to the doom of their countries, and often themselves as well. These are not critical thinkers, or long term thinkers. They have no big picture plan or endgame, so cannot lay out a timeline for getting there. Even when they realize they have back the wrong, evil horse, instead of admitting their mistake and working to reverse the damage done, they just double down on their loyalty to that wrong and evil horse, even if they will suffer greatly for that loyalty. Too stupid and stubborn and blind to realize their folly. Sad.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago
I hate, loathe, despise and abhor political correctness. Even the euphemisms of euphemisms have their own euphemisms now. And when the political correctness becomes full of literal lies then it gets too much to bear.
BrownTabby 2 years ago (edited)
Says the website that got offended by an article saying “some women don’t want to watch this one movie”.
Jessica Winkelmann Reyes 2 years ago
Absolutely sick to death of "micro aggressions" seriously, your life is so good, you have to look for unintended insults to get your knickers in a wad about.... sheesh.
#7
Helena 2 years ago
So dark. You can't see what's going on. It is either explosions that suddenly try to break the tv speakers, or so quiet you have to watch with captions.
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
The reason why is so dumb too. Before, during linear TV days, there was very strict regulations of how audio and video were to be broadcast. It had to be visible and audible on every set, to every consumer. When streaming took over, TV makers got "cinematic" liberties so you got to do series that feel more like movies. However, that meant they got to use the headroom in audio and video like it was to be viewed in a cinema. Like it's the assumption everyone has a home cinema system they watch Netflix on. However, simultaneously with streaming, more people than ever just watch things on their laptops, tablets or phones. So it is the opposite of a cinema experience. So actually movies and series would need normalized audio etc. more than ever, but instead it is pushed to have as much range in light and sound as possible. So you get inaudible dialog, explosions that makes the cats climb the walls, dark scenes you gotta squint to have any idea what is going on and so on. Hope it passes soon
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
I'm deaf so need the subtitles on, when I watch with friends/ family, they realise how much more they get in some shows as they're subconsciously reading the subtitles too. Some scenes are so dark that I have to rely on the subtitles to understand what is happening
TooTrue 2 years ago
I'm hard of hearing and have the subtitles on, the other day I found my ears like a bat husband with them on when I wasn't there because he can't understand what they're saying either!
Load More Replies... Ima Manimal 2 years ago (edited)
Also- VERY loud commercials. They’re still doing it. was smart TVs, I wish they had a setting where you could automatically mute all commercials.
VikingAbroad 2 years ago (edited)
Museums, too. I don't need mood lights in a museum. I'm not there for the ambience, I'm there to see those things on the exhibit. Turn on the lights, please! And stop exhibiting dead people. They should be buried! Just because they have been in a bog for a millenia or two doesn't make them museum pieces. They are still humans.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Some exhibits may need low light to preserve the items being shown—-which is what museums are supposed to do—-as light that’s too bright may damage, or even destroy, them. Same goes for keeping and showing parts of sunken ships in water. If they were dried out, they’d turn to dust. If you don’t like the low light, suggest the museum have a copy made of the item being exhibited, so people can see it in brighter light.
Load More Replies... Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
When the script calls for whispering, you're not doing the audience any favors. Let's try "stage whispering".
VioletHunter 2 years ago
I saw a post about this a while ago that explained in technical detail that the light work in films has really gotten very bad in the last 2 to 3 decades. It's a genuine decrease in skill and quality.
#8
Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
I use a phrase and then a sequence of numbers. (Like how old I was in a certain year or something similar) Then when one password expires I just use the next number in the sequence. That way I can always at least guess if I can't remember which specific version I chose. :)
#9
David 2 years ago
I've never been to place with a QR menu that couldn't give you a paper menu if you asked. More places went to QR during covid and also to cheap copy paper menus. If they hand you the paper they toss it out if you leave it. If you use a QR menu there is no waste. I don't personally like looking at the menu on my phone screen but I get why many places implemented them.
Alexandra 2 years ago
Toss it out? Don't you guys separate and recycle your waste? Paper can be recycled, you know. Aside from that, having a QR code for guests to order is just bad hospitality. It screams "just order and don't bother me".
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
Anything requiring a cellphone, imo, is classist. Even the bus stops have taken away the route maps and schedules and put up QR codes. There are a lot of homeless people and poor people in the city who don't have cellphones.
Featherytoad 2 years ago
Yeah, I have a flip phone. Companies need to realize that not everyone wants or needs a smart phone.
Load More Replies... Cecilia Herrera 2 years ago
If a restaurant does not have a physical menu, I will leave. I see no reason to link my phone to a business so, just so I can read their menu.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I thought it was just a webpage you where sent to?
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Arrien 2 years ago
Same here..I would have to bring a tablet just to read the menu...no thanks
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Jeff White 2 years ago
This is, BY FAR, my most Boomeresque comment. And I am a Boomer, so I should know.
Karl 2 years ago (edited)
A pub near us made it mandatory to download and order via their app - otherwise the drinks were more expensive if you paid by card (which they would only do very reluctantly). As an older non smartphone owner I told them it was a pretty discriminatory policy both age wise and economically (not everyone has the money for a smartphone or even a bank account) and it meant they wouldn’t have my custom in future. I mustn’t have been the only one as they were losing so much custom that they’ve reinstated card and cash payments plus physical menus.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Any business that assumes everyone owns a smartphone. My eyesight is not good enough to use one. And the touch screens do not respond to my fingers.
The idea that the generations have way more in common than has been widely assumed is also supported by Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Monitor data.
Looking at how the different generations prioritize different criteria for judging whether sectors and brands are trustworthy, we can see a huge amount of common ground between the generations and little real division.
#10
Barry Meyer 2 years ago (edited)
Agreed. If you need headlights brighter than a cop then you don't need to be driving in the dark.
Spittnimage 2 years ago
AND they have brights when the dims already blind you.
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Beth H 2 years ago
I always think people have their high beams on and nope it's just their regular lights. They are ridiculously bright white and blinding anymore.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Seriously! It's those super bright white ones that make it seem like their high beams are on all the time. I can only imagine what their actual brights look like!
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C L 2 years ago
Especially the new high-intensity discharge or xenon gas bulbs. I have glaucoma and astigmatism snd they are actually painful.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
I frequently have to slow down because I'm blinded by other drivers
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
For real! My dad has a newer car and the lights are so bright white they practically burn my retinas out when I look at them. Even from outside - he drove up while I was sitting at my desk inside the house and they STILL blinded me!
Sally Signup 2 years ago
I can't stand the tall pickup trucks with those glaring white lights. They zoom up behind me in the dark and blind me with the light reflecting in my side mirrors.
Ash 2 years ago
Yes. They're literally working on regulations for this right now because it's become such a problem!
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
Local petrol station is pushing their app super hard. "Pay on the app! Get the app! You can pay on the app!". Yeah, or I can go inside and pay there, without giving you my details.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
I...am a dinosaur. It's hard. Go in, pay what you think the amount will be, pump fuel, go back in for the $1.00 you were unable to cram into the tank. On the plus side, the hose kicking off the first time a dime away from what you paid...victory!
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
I do as much as is possible via browser on mobile but they make ut deliberately hard.
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
if theres an app to park your car, that kinda implies enough people suck at it that an app was needed.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I refuse to use them. You know how much space those things take up on your phone?
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C L 2 years ago
My worst was when I went buy an SD card at Best Buy, there was no sales staff to help me find the right aisle and when I finally found it myself the first thing the check out asked was how much did I want to tip. Since I helped myself I'll just keep the tip thanks!
FeelingFrisky 2 years ago
I am overwhelmed by the new tipping culture. It was bad enough to begin with, but over the past couple of years it's unbelievable. And if I don't tip it makes me feel guilty. I went to buy a donut the other day and they wanted a tip. Everything I do people want tipped.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Pay workers a living wage! Again, for those in the back: PAY WORKERS A LIVING WAGE!!! Then you don't have to worry about tipping.
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Bear Hall 2 years ago
Pay enough to every one to be able to live on without being homeless and/or hungry at the end of the day. It's ridiculous in the richest economy ever people need the benevolence of their slightly better of peers to live with dignity.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
Yes, but this isn't going to happen, so it's on us to fend off the tipping culture.
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Alexandra Nara 2 years ago
it makes me angry ,when someones wage depends this much on tips - even more if the company suggest the amount. pay proper wages so everyone can live,even if there are days without customers. it's the risk of the companies not of the employee. And also charity work,that makes any social system staying alive,while politics buying bigger yachts and starting wars so,this is a boomer thing: ranting about general issues in the comment section - I find myself out
Tai Dallen 2 years ago
The problem is generally serving staff don't want to be paid a "proper wage" because they make more off tips than being paid a fair wage. Even restaurants that have tried it end up going back to tipping because that's what the wait staff want. Even more so now that so many places expect a 50% min tip. Doing self check out at a store and they ask me if I want to tip. I just checked myself out, I'll tip myself.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Tips are "part of the deal" only for people who conduct independent money transactions: waitstaff, haircutters, taxis, etc. In those instances, if you don't tip, you are a thief. Tips are legally built into their pay structure. I'll give tips as thanks for a few other jobs (cleaning staff, food deliveries, AAA repairmen, etc.), especially when they go beyond the requirements of their job or when they've had to work for me under adverse conditions. That's my choice. Like hell I'll feel obligated to tip a cashier for selling me a candy bar.
Pamela Blue 2 years ago
I consider actually ASKING for a tip is the height of hubris and bad manners. A tip is an offering from the customer. To actually ask for one leaves me gobsmacked and I will simply not give anything at that point.
SuperChicken 2 years ago
There's this wine/coffee house in Berlin by the Alexanderplatz area, when after we asked for the bill, they said (not asked if we could) to leave them a tip. We never went back there again.
Candid Panda 2 years ago
Yes agreed, however what most are talking about is not being served by a waiter but waiting in line and just purchasing something like a beverage or coffee - then being asked by a prompt on the register if you'd like to leave a 20%, 25% or 35% tip. That's a helz to the no!
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emma sexton 2 years ago
I went to a donut shop earlier today, I went to a machine where you could order it yourself, and it asked FOR A TIP. THE MACHINE ASKED FOR A TIP.
Yes, there is some variance in the strength of feeling that different generations have for different criteria; baby boomers, for example, are far more likely to prioritize reliability and openness/transparency than younger generations, while Gen Z and millennials rate more of the lesser priority issues more highly such as value sharing, intent and the importance of leadership.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I've been against electronics controlling the place I live since I heard the words "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
Flora Porter 2 years ago
'Smart' really just means 'you give us more data so we and our "partners" can figure out more ways to get money from you'.
Pamela Blue 2 years ago
Agreed. Unless Alexa can go pour my wine for me and bring it to me, or cook dinner, then I have no use for it. Just what DO people use that stuff for?
María Hermida 2 years ago
Turn on/off the lights, the music, the alarms, open and close blinds... Stuff like that
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FloralDangerNoodle 2 years ago
I love ours and use them all the time, for music, alarms, reminders, shopping lists, etc.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Apparently, a lot of people don't want Alexa in their home: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/amazon-lays-off-alexa-employees-as-2010s-voice-assistant-boom-gives-way-to-ai/
Jaybird3939 2 years ago
I have a friend that's very cautious of everything she puts on the internet, as we all should be. However, she has Alexa control everything in her home. I don't get it.
Kerri Russ 2 years ago
I LOVE my Alexa and wouldn't give it up for the world! That's how I find out the weather every day!! ;-)
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David 2 years ago
The one in my lap right now for my PC - yes - physical. For my phone - touch screen is fine.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
For the touch screen phone, why the heck don't they let me customise it? Get rid of the darn emoji button. Show the symbols I want. Allow me to bring up the keyboard or suppress it when I want. Include a backspace key. Fix the autocorrect to give it a vocab big enough. Change the size so it doesn't fill too much of the screen when the phone is rotated. And put the letters in alphabetical order.
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Alan Gale 2 years ago
Touchscreens in cars! I want to be able to get the heater to blow on my feet without having to touch a screen a dozen times!
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
They are also a traffic hasard, because you cannot easily find where to touch without looking so you take your eyes off the road
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I was looking for a potential laptop replacement and noticed that there are so many models that are touchscreen now. Absolutely no thank you. I put up with it on my smartphone, but there's no way I want one on my laptop. I don't even like touchpads. Mouse for life, here! 😉
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago (edited)
I don't have the fanciest motor skills. Writing on a touchscreen for me is like 60% having to go back and fix a mistake, and/or edit the comment a million times
SuperChicken 2 years ago
Yes, most definitely. I miss my Blackberry, or as we also call it, Crackberry 🤪
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Azolane 2 years ago
I do that sometimes. A lady next to me was shouting about her vacation in Sweden, so I called a friend and started sharing everything she was saying, in an overly excited voice. She left very quickly.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Stand next to the phone user and loudly say "Put down that damn phone, and come back to bed!" The gender of the phone user is really irrelevant.
Karl 2 years ago
It’s the strange phenomenon of people walking about holding and addressing their phones like it’s a slice of toast.
Flora Porter 2 years ago
I blame the parents. To me, this is a sign the person hasn't been taught basic good manners.
Mammie 2 years ago
Exactly. I talk on speaker phone a lot. AT HOME! I'd never dream of doing it in public. And if I'm in line or at the checkout, forget it. I'm not even gonna be on the phone at all.
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Zenozenobee 2 years ago
Last wednesday, I was waiting for my daughter inside the sport centre where she has her judo lesson. A 40+ woman was talking in her phone so loud that everyone heard that her young one still believed in Santa and that they asked the neighboor to costume himself so that the little one would feel the Magic of the night. In France, there is no school for kids on wednesday so of course, the place was filled with kids still believing in Santa. The lady was offened when a father called her out.
Giraffy Window 2 years ago (edited)
Have you seen how big and flat phones are now? They're not designed to be held to your ear any more! It's really hard to hear what the other person is saying, it feels gross to put your face against the touch screen of a thing that's been everywhere in public that your hands have been. Plus, mine gets super hot if I talk for more than 30 minutes... Plus all that in-ear and headset tech and only half of it does a decent job making phone calls easy to hear for both parties. So yes, public speakerphine chats are annoying to hear, but maybe there's room to cut a small bit of slack too?
Terran 2 years ago
Then text them or call them somewhere not public, please!
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I like that idea. There have been so many time out in public when I have wanted to grab some loud a*****e’s phone and stomp on it to shut them the f**k up! I would happily throw it out a window, over a bridge, into a sewer, overboard on a ship, you name it, just to have some peace and quiet! They DO make things called earbuds and headphones so you can enjoy your music or YouRpTube videos and NOT bother everyone around you—-you are NOT sharing it, you are ONLY bugging TF out of everyone else.
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
Wow... sad.. I hope no one next to you ever has to pee badly or anything at all that doesnt fit into you immediate sphere of reality to yourself
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Chilli 2 years ago
DID YOU KNOW, THAT THE GRASS IS GREEN? FOLLOW FOR MORE UNBELIEVEABLE FACTS THAT'LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
CanadianDimes 2 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of something I saw last year in which a young woman (late teens or very early 20s) “discovered” an amazing hack to avoid paying for expensive bottles of water past airport security. Bring an empty bottle with you 🤦🏻♀️
MadMonkey 2 years ago
To just make that worse, a lot of airport websites say this. "Bring an empty bottle and fill it up at a water fountain after you have cleared security." Sometimes I wonder how any teenager survives past 18.
Load More Replies... Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I loved my HS Social Studies teacher, he was a Bataan Death March survivor and prisoner throughout the war. He didn't mind sharing his stories with us kids as he said it was cathartic for him to share.
Mark 2 years ago
Oh WOW, SS must have been amazing. Was your teacher in the US or international?
Load More Replies... Jake Banana 2 years ago
Amazingly, terrifyingly, we had a recent president who didn't seem to understand basic 6th grade American history. He would constantly begin speeches/press conferences with, "Did you know that..." and every single literate American would go, "Of course we know that. Everyone knows that!"
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
So much of the “fun facts” are things that have been taught since third grade yet people act like they’ve never heard of those things
Giraffy Window 2 years ago
Welllll given how much information is now banned from being taught in a lot of US states... I mean that IS governmental suppression of information. Give them a decade and there will be whole grown adults completely astonished about how babies are made...
Sheba's Mum 2 years ago (edited)
Or the " I had to watch this x amount of times to see it" when there was nothing exceptional/ exciting to see anyway
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Judy Reynolds 2 years ago
Yes, I talk to everyone. I was a cashier for about 10 years, and the habit of making a bit of conversation with everyone has carried over into the rest of my life.
comfort the lame 2 years ago
Same here. I feel rude not chit-chating for a second if the person seems up for it. Made me good at quick small talk. You can cover surprisingly a lot in about 2 minutes
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
I'm an introvert (technically and ambivert) and I'm totally fine making conversation with strangers in the store or wherever. Because I know I'll likely never see them again. :) It's the people I have to maintain actual relationships with that exhaust me socially.
June 2 years ago
I've never thought of it this way, but it makes sense. Introvert and autistic here, and I can absolutely make small talk with strangers, and the cost is not even that high.
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Alina Mihai 2 years ago
I'm sorry but no. I will answer when someone says hello, but I'm not interested in having conversations with strangers in public. As an introvert, it makes me extremely uncomfortable. Also, don't gesture for me to take my headphones out just so you can tell me some random cringey rubbish
Data1001 2 years ago
We introverts are terribly misunderstood -- I've seen people call us rude for not wanting to exchange small talk with strangers. They just don't get it.
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whiterabbit 2 years ago
So you're that annoying person next to me on a plane that insists on mindless smalltalk when I just want to read my book or try to nap.
CM 2 years ago
In the US in the south it's still very much a thing. When I first moved here (Texas) it felt strange and now I love it!! When we travel I miss the friendliness and ransom convos a lot.
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
As a Gen Z, I don’t think this is weird, I love to talk to people I see and learn about their day, it helps me realize that everybody I see comes from somewhere and has a story and I just think that it’s so interesting :D although a lot of people’s social skills have been destroyed by COVID (including mine) and so I think that’s why this is happening :(
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David 2 years ago
Low priority for me. You can buy USB external DVD players for under $30, some under $20. My current desktop PC didn't come with a player so I just bought one for the few times I needed it.
JK 2 years ago
Think that's the point of the comment, that we shouldnt have to buy an external one, when they used to come with an optical drive as standard
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
My work computer has one and it's SO damn heavy. I hate having to travel with it. And then I always accidentally bump the open button while I'm working and the stupid little thing shoots out when I don't want it to. :)
Diolla 2 years ago
@Upstaged, it's just trying to offer you a space to hold your cup. You know, Miscrosoft always wants to "help".
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
What?! Good grief. Not every file is meant to be "Air Drop" only! Also, where will I plug in the USB connector for my blue-tooth wireless mouse? I don't want to use a track-pad. Apparently, I am never replacing my current laptop.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
My previous school used to give us CD’s every year containing videos from the year and they would only work in laptops but the issue was that you don’t find such laptops these days. A lot of memories had to be given back to the school
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I had to get an external disk reader for that. Now, I need to get a blue ray one. I replaced my previous issue with a mountain of additional gadgets. But well, at least I can switch them out. I couldn't put a new Blu Ray Player into a laptop
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I have a laptop with a dvd player, I don’t use it, but my brothers sometimes do
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AP 2 years ago
Free? Yes, but with ads. Hence: free streaming = basic cable.
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Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Jarrrrharrr matey, there's always a free alternative to streaming and cable TV! If you don't care about lewd advertisements at all outer corners of your vision, that is
Duuuuuuude 2 years ago
I like replacing cable with streaming services. Cable had gotten ridiculously expensive, and why the hell they needed my social security number to open an account is beyond me. Were they making deposits into my social security account? I doubt it.
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
...what do you think cable is? its a subscription to many streaming services.... channels. 44 streaming services is four channels, which even for TV, is very restrictive.
Vinniegret 2 years ago
As soon as people started canceling cable and selected only what they wanted to see, the media moguls got together to plan how to back to squeezing as much money as possible from viewers. When I first got cable (and I was VERY late to do that), I asked if I could just get the channels I would watch, like a custom plan for me. They explained that they COULDN'T do that. Well, they are doing it now because THEY want to.
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I find it annoying that it takes so many clicks to get to what I want to watch. I long for the days when just a click of a button on the remote allowed you to easily toggle between two channels.
If we turn our attention to looking at how the different generations judge the trustworthiness of different industry sectors and institutions, again, we see that the usual narrative of younger generations being less trusting isn't the case at all.
The older generations trust most sectors less than millennials or Gen Z.
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Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
But the world must know how awesome my music is.
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Leigh 2 years ago
I'm constantly hearing street racing and loud car radios at all hours of the night! Never get a break.
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I sympathize. I deal with the same things in my neighborhood. Argh!
Load More Replies... Sonja 2 years ago
I don't mind the occasional party for birthdays or something like that. I don't even mind music or laughing or talking. What I do mind is heavy bass after a certain time. I have earplugs that are really good to block noises, but there is no way of blocking bass vibrations. Turn down that damned bass! At least after a certain time.
Elio 2 years ago
I hate heavy bass so much. I don't mind talking or even not to loud TV or music but the bass sucks.
Load More Replies... Tiffany sanders 2 years ago
Some of us work the graveyard shift and would love if yall would be quiet during the day
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
We have street racing every night and loud bass sometimes, but I (Gen x) have neighbors (millennials) who constantly have outdoor "gatherings." it's all chill, right? Except they're talking and cackling as loudly as they can until 3-5 in the morning. It's probably my issue, not theirs.
Tess 2 years ago
Did they do the same throughout the covid lockdowns too?
Load More Replies... Elio 2 years ago
I honestly kind of like the white noise from it, as long as the loud beep is turned off when the cycle ends. But I get that it can be annoying to others.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Loud music and TV volume late at night in apartment buildings where you know damned well the walls are paper thin! You are NOT sharing your music with everybody else, you are just keeping people awake who just might have to get up early to go to work in the morning, FFS! Besides, if I am having friends over, I invited them for food and conversation. The last thing I want to do is drown out their voices with loud music, and force them to yell and only hear part of what’s being said!
Uncle Schmickle 2 years ago
I have no idea how to interpret the above ? Can someone please translate it into plain English ?
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
actually, just STFU all the time. keep quiet. dont do anything loud ever.
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Petra 2 years ago
Personally, I refuse to buy a phone that doesn't have a headphone jack. It's that important to me.
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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Folks mean when in public, shared spaces. It’s rude AF to make other people listen to your music or conversations.
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BrownTabby 2 years ago
I had an iPhone 8 until the battery completely died earlier this year. Apple sabotaged the battery after the first year, but a powerbank is much cheaper than a new phone, so suck it, Tim Cook
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Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I buy second hand refurbished phones on Ebay and just swap the sim card. My home office computer is an old steam powered HP.
Miki 2 years ago (edited)
I am not sure what this person is trying to say. I am changing phone once every ~5 years so I will buy newest top shelf phone. If simebody is doing it every year the sure I agree.
SM 2 years ago (edited)
I agree. I would have to have that person really describe what they are talking about. If you take them literally then the answer is "No, the very first smart phone created isn't equal to the one made today. They have vastly different memory and processors which depending on what you want to do on the phone is going to matter." On the other hand, if all they mean is that you don't have to buy a new device every time a new version of it comes out, well yeah, that is dumb.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
I still have an iPhone XR. Works fine for my needs. However, even though they were given the slap on the wrist for it, I know damned well one day soon Apple will be underhandedly throttling it to kill the battery and force me to buy a newer model—-and don’t go touting your other brand phone to me, because if Apple’s doing it, you can bet the others do it too. They’re just better at hiding it than Apple used to be, and haven’t been caught yet. ALSO, how about the size of cellphones these days? I have small hands, nd the last phones that didn’t hurt my hand to hold were the iPhone 4 and 5. After that, they started growing to the point they’re almost iPads. Who TF is designing this oversized s**t?
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Got the phone I'm posting on in 2018, my husband keeps telling me, "maybe it's time you had a new one". Why? There's nothing wrong with this one.
Ima Manimal 2 years ago
I love my iPhone 6 until a friend of mine accidentally dropped it in the swimming pool. Now I hope my 13 lasts at least five years.
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Phillip Moderow 2 years ago
Yes, they have. And incredibly oblivious to what's going on around them. Does an elderly person need help opening a heavy door ? Oblivious. Did you notice that person looking for their car ? Could care less. Did it occur to you that someone might be behind you while walking through a door ? Eh, not my problem. People today SUCK !
Sonja 2 years ago
Also the I don't like it so it shouldn't exist mentality as well as the I like it so the alternatives are obsolete mentally you can also see right here in the chat when people don't complain about something existing, but becoming the only option. Like someone complains that stores decide to be no cash and people jump to cry out they prefer paying by card. That's totally fine, no one said you shouldn't, it's still annoying that the choices get removed for those who'd prefer not to.
Load More Replies... Dingooo 2 years ago
I blame the orange painted clown. He set an example of acting like a swine and too many people couldn't wait to do the same.
Petra 2 years ago
This problem existed looooong before Trump was president. Like, decades before. It's been like a snowball rolling downhill: it start small and nobody cares because it was a small problem, but it's gotten exponentially bigger as time goes on and it might even be too big to stop at this point.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
People with rude hatred behavior used to suppress that behavior somewhat in public as societies leaders had some level of decorum and class. Then Donald Trump comes along and basically creates a public new example where being a decent person is not ever considered. And voicing in public all of one's hatred and intolerance becomes normalized. It is all about me, me ,me.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
And the pandemic made it worse. It isolated people and brought out the worst in everyone.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
That is simply not true. Some have but I would say a minority. As an old age pensioner I often need a hand, and mostly I get it even without asking. But as people are not mind readers I ask, if I need any help.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Big truck drivers used to be more courteous - now they will pull out in front of you to do a ,5 mph pass of another truck. (got a shock the other day, though - truck started to do this, saw me coming up, pulled back in )
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
This is the natural progression of the toxic individualism that we’ve been headed towards for decades: it’s all about me, me, me.
Phillip Moderow 2 years ago
I agree and believe that "me me me" started in the 60's or 70's went mom went back to work leaving their latchkey children behind to fend for themselves. Why ? Because they wanted more stuff and bought into those Gloria Steinem philosophies that have proven so damaging to an entire generation. You know, THAT Gloria Steinem who did a Jane Fonda when she, too, went to North Korea.
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Baby boomers and Gen X are less likely to trust financial services, energy, oil & gas, banking, social media companies, and consumer-packaged goods than those younger than them, with more significant differences between the elder and younger generations in each case.
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Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I'm retired so I make all my appointments around midday so working folks can have the early morning or late afternoon spots.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Ah, I'm still working and my dentist is nearer to my office than my home, so I favour a lunchtime appointment. But I applaud your thoughtfulness
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Annabelle 2 years ago
I can imagine the inconvenience, but your dentist probably also has a family and children he/she wants to bring to bed in the evening. Personally I think the problem is that most of us can’t to personal errands because our job demand us to be present all the time. This is vastly different from the period when my parents grew up. I would rather change that culture than asking my dentist to cater to my needs.
Kobe (she) 2 years ago
Well, dentists have a life too. And work office hours like most of us and want to go home at the end of the day too. Same for banks, doctors, post offices, etc...And in the end... they have the same problem. A doctor can not go to a dentist after work either. So all off them have to go see each other during work hours aswell....
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Problem is, a lot of us workers are only allotted a couple days off a year. Some jobs don't even allow staff to leave and come back later, like my previous job. I've been given reliability warnings for taking time off for appointments. Parents not only have their appointments, but their kid's appointments, and those are not regarded by employers because "your kids are not our employees". I've held off years of going to the dentist and doctor appointments just because of the rigid hours. But I guess that's a sacrifice that must be made in order to keep a job. I really don't know why these essentials can't be more flexible and hire for a couple of shifts a day to meet the patient's schedule needs.
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Personally, I think the issue is not that we need late night appointments, but that corporate culture has reached the point where taking a day off to maintain our health is considered 'bad'. It should be normal to be able to get enough time off to have appointments without being shamed or punished.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’m so glad that we don’t have this problem at the dentist I go to. Otherwise I’d have way more oral injuries than I already do
Tabitha 2 years ago
And only take appointments four days a week as well, and never on weekends. Unless they work for one of the chain dental offices, that is.
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
My dentist will happily accommodate patients with schedules that just don't permit appointments during the week (think long-haul truckers). He will schedule Saturday appointments for them, including coming in for a single patient if that's what it takes. But I realize he's the exception to the rule.
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The Weird American 2 years ago
And most dentists don't work on Fridays. No wonder they're so damn expensive - they have to charge more for not working.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
So, you think the dentist should work the late shift so you don't have to?
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
I'm starting to think turn signals are an optional accessory on new cars...or maybe the car maker just wants a paid subscription to use them.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Some people turn theirs on three-quarters of the way through the turn. Buster, it's a signaling device, not your memoirs.
Tabitha 2 years ago
And people, there are times when it is perfectly OK to honk your horn! Like when the light has turned green and the person in front of you hasn’t noticed because they’re on their damned phone, or they’re not paying attention in traffic and swerving way too close to your car, or they cut you off changing lanes. Stuff like that. Your horn is a means of communication while driving, to bring someone’s bad behavior to the attention of everyone else in earshot, as well as to get the attention of someone who is apparently oblivious to the fact that the red light is now green (and green lights are often way too short, while the red lights go on forever).
Petra 2 years ago
Okay, take 2. The BP app is glitching on me. I used to agree with you, but then I was road raged at. It was terrifying. Being right isn't worth the risk. Just slow waaay down and give them plenty of space to do their craziness far away from you. It's not worth putting yourself into a dangerous situation just to be a few seconds early to your destination. Even if it makes you late, still let them go ahead. Safety is #1. Being right and being one-time is #2.
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Richienotsorich 1 year ago
If everyone indicated properly every time, there'd be fewer accidents, fewer queues and we'd all get where we want to go quicker and more safely.
Marvin HeartofGold (she/them) 2 years ago
S**t. They changed how lanes work here and the whole city has turned into a Mad Max situation.
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ginny weasley 2 years ago
Or kids playing video games with the volume all the way up cause that is the only way they can sit still and be quiet.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Even though they can also be still and quiet with a nice quiet book (to read or color in) in front of them. Sheer laziness, as well as financial riskiness, to hand your very VERY expensive cellphone to your child to keep them occupied, because you neglected to think ahead and bring some activity books with you.
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Don't play ANYTHING out loud in public. Use headphones, they have existed for decades.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Actually had bus drivers telling people to turn it off or put some headphones on. So happy!
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
Bring back Jack's for ear/headphones then. They don't need Bluetooth, or charging. This has only been a problem since the advent of airpods.
Robyn H 2 years ago
Charge your earphones on time then. Not charging your earphones doesn't give you the right to make everyone else listen to your c**p. Also, an adapter for jack to USB-C costs maybe five quid.
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One could be forgiven for expecting that younger generations are less trusting of oil & gas, given the climate crisis facing their futures and the assumptions we often make about how they feel about the environment and sustainability. The same could be said of banking, with many growing up through the financial crash of 2008. But it's the older age groups yet again with the lowest level of trust in these sectors.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
In my case, being flaky is due to anxiety. I'm enthusiastic when I first make plans, but then when it comes to actually leaving the house I sometimes just can't do it. Thankfully I have great friends who understand my issues and don't hold it against me. I hate being this way and always hope none of them ever take it personally.
Sonja 2 years ago
Sadly the only way is to push through no matter how hard it is. If you don't, it will get worse every time. I know it's hard, to the point it seems impossible. But there is no other way. Even with anxiety meds you still have to push through. Because after a while it becomes a self conditioned reflex on top of the anxiety. And while the meds lesser the anxiety, it can't do zilch against the reflex of avoidance. I'm sorry for you, nut that's how it is. If we want to have a life, not even a good one, just a life at all, we can't let the anxiety rule us no matter how hard it is.
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 2 years ago
This is why I stopped celebrating my birthday. So many times I would set things up, pour my heart and soul into getting everything ready and making it fun, cooking the food, etc. And then I get the inevitable 'hey I got invited to some other event, I'm going to that instead.' So now instead of the twenty I prepared for, I have 2 people show up. Every time. Literally every time I have tried to plan something, this is what happened. Sends a pretty clear message, I don't matter.
SuperChicken 2 years ago (edited)
True friends will be there for you. I find it rude that they turned you down the very last minute, knowing that it's your birthday celebration. Those two people who showed up, are your true friends.
Load More Replies... Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
This is why I have no friends and refuse to acquire any. Making plans is already painful and miserable enough without the judgement. I'll pass.
Jeff White 2 years ago
I am a Boomer and, as such, you may and probably should flame me for this comment. This is an anti-Boomer comment from a Boomer. Renee, your comment is spot on. Agree 100%. But, it if I didn't know, I would have thought it was from a male. X Place, X Time, there done! is such a guy way of thinking. I am actually glad when I found this comment is apparently from a women. I am glad the "newer" generations are seemingly far less wrapped up in the Guy does it this way and the Woman does it that way Baloney.
SuperChicken 2 years ago (edited)
I'm a Gen-X female and I do the same. After we agree on drinks or dinner plans (or, both), name the place, date and time. Unless, there's an emergency, then that's a different story.
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Julia Ford 2 years ago
That’s like 10 calls. Everyone has to look at their calendars.
Load More Replies... Devon Archer 2 years ago
It’s next to impossible to make new friends in this day and age. Especially if you’re an adult with kids.
Alexandra 2 years ago
True. Although I would have thought children give you a connection to other parents through school and/or daycare.
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Keley Babs 2 years ago
ESPECIALLY in the dating world!!! I kept my hair down all day for you and reapplied my make up and put on nice clothes. If you can't make it, then tell me and then I know I can change back into my comfy stuff.
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VonBlade 2 years ago
Yes! Oh you're being sarcastic? C'mon Auntie. Real boomers make sandwiches at home and put the tomato/cucumber in a separate package so as not to make the bread soggy!
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Nacho Man Sandy Ravage 2 years ago
If it costs $9 then it better come with someone to feed it to me, rub my belly to help with the digestion and then wipe me after it's come out the other end
Giraffy Window 2 years ago
Foie gras is made by over-feeding meat geese so their livers become super fatty. Then they... do they cook it? Anyway it's fatty goose liver paste.
Dan 2 years ago
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em.
Chilli 2 years ago
"Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 2 years ago
The local café here charges $15 for a regular turkey sandwich. They must be smoking crack.
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The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Not only do they stand side by side, they also walk with just enough space between them that you can’t squeeze between them but also not enough to get around them.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
There was an interesting social experiment for women. Since women usually yield the path to men, the challenge was for women to simply walk straight and not give ground. Men actually walk into them and act shocked. I've done it myself, it's very satisfying. Just keep walking!
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The middle school kids always do this in the hallways and it’s so frustrating! The tenth graders have started aggressively pushing them aside
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
Middle schoolers really cannot comprehend there is a world around them, they all do it. They'll learn.
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Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
THIS! or stop randomly to have a conversation stopping others from walking.
Helen Horrell 2 years ago
I don't care how slowly you and your friends are walking, just don't take up the whole flippin pavement doing it!
Vinniegret 2 years ago
And for the of GOD don't have impromptu meetings in the hallway and pretend you don't know people are trying to get around you. I'm talking to you mostly men.
SuperChicken 2 years ago
That's just common sense and common courtesy that many people don't have anymore. I hate it, when people hog up the whole entire sidewalk.
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
I just continue on my way. Put on a look of pure, perhaps slightly dark, determination on your face, and most of the times someone of the oncoming group will swerve just a little right on time.
badger 2 years ago
sheesh - what sense-of-humour-failure people are downvoting this *joke*?
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Dingooo 2 years ago
My washer and dryer are 38 years old! It's amazing how long the old stuff will last if it is properly maintained. I dread the day when I would have to buy new. I've heard the horror stories.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I used to have a washer and dryer that were older than I was. They lasted and lasted and lasted. Then they finally both went bust, at about the same time. I bought a new washer and dryer, and going from the old to the new was like going from The Waltons to Star Trek.
Load More Replies... Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
This is why I'm so happy with my analog Speed Queen washer & dryer that I bought about eight years ago. Speed Queen manufactures washers & dryers for laundromats - they know what they're doing.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Other appliances - does that include cars. I've been pleasantly surprised lately that cars last twice as long now as they used to.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
Our dishwasher broke recently. It was given to us for free back in 2012, and it has served us well since then despite it already having been 10 years old when we got it. So I said that I'll go to the Habitat for the Humanities store and get us another one. But my step-daughter said, and convinced my wife, that we should get a brand new one. "You really want to get a new dishwasher that'll last for five years versus a five to ten year old that will last us 12 to 15 years?" Sometimes GenX-ers just don't have any sense between their ears...
April Pickett 2 years ago
What! Appliances last. I've had a fridge, still working, for over 20 years. What doesn't last are heat pumps. I've lived here 27 years and have had 3 heat pumps. Not good.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
when we first moved out, we were given a fridge that was probably from the 50s, from the style of it, by someone whose elderly mother had just died. that fridge lasted us YEARS. I've lost count how many fridges we've had since that one finally gave up the ghost. likewise, there was a very old cooker, and we've been through several in the time we had that one for. things just aren't built to last like they used to be.
Shaunn Munn 2 years ago
I will never buy another flashy appliance. Money thrown out the window! Machines just need to do the basics. That way I can actually get a repair person to repair them. Just wish my electronics were that way.
So, generational divides are not as large or as significant as many would assume.
If you too have boomer complaints (or are a boomer yourself and don't see the youth as morally bankrupt), don't worry. You might be even closer to them than you've been told.
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
That's partly because lots of them have parents who can't afford houses with backyards. Kids can't just "go play outside" when they live in an apartment and "outside" is a parking lot near a busy street. Screen addition is a problem for people of all ages these days, but let's not ignore that capitalism has made it difficult for many families to have the time and money to just relax in green spaces.
Abe Ja 2 years ago
This comment is doing the nuanced work! I love it. A lot of these complaints about younger generations don't take into consideration how capitalism and urban spaces have shifted what was "normal" back in the 80's-90's
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Snorma Ray 2 years ago
I have a yard but it's mostly a front yard at the corner of an intersection so we can't have a privacy fence. Everytime I try to play with my kids outside we end up getting stared at by everyone passing by like they've never seen someone play before or something.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
if you played games "just as much" you wouldn't have time to go outside. lol nice try though.
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Warrior Mama 2 years ago
Or live theater too? Every single performance I've seen the last few years has been interrupted by people arriving late and walking in front of me/needing me to stand up so they can squeeze through the otherwise full row of seats just as the show starts - pet peeve for sure!
Sonja 2 years ago
I like ballet. And I like it even more because if you are late, they won't let you in. Also no cellphones allowed and when you keep talking the usher comes and removes you.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 2 years ago
You mean like certain politicians acting more like they’re alone in a hotel room than in a crowded theatre watching a live musical, then getting all pissy and “do you know who I am?” about it when the usher—-and security—-make them leave? (“Do you know who I am” is a stupid thing to say, because if you’re a public figure and behaving scandalously. I would think the LAST thing you should do is bring that much loud and public attention to who you are. Then again, those who do that are generally either drunk, or just stupid.)
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
One reason I stopped going to movie theatres a couple of decades ago - too many audience members just couldn't shut up. Cell phones weren't a thing back then. I can only imagine how bad it is now.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Don't loudly and rudely disrupt a live performance. People will get the idea you're a member of Congress.
kath morgan 2 years ago
I can’t stand going to the cinema, people are such feral pieces of shît in public.
Marvin HeartofGold (she/them) 2 years ago
Eh, nothing new in that. I had people in the row in front of me at Phantom Menace talking full volume the whole time.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
IDK - Japan is too strict on movie theatre behaviour - like if you laugh out loud or if you have small kids and they whisper something to you etc... some old farts get annoyed and mad....and I'm like dude if i pay 30 bucks for a movie ticket I'm going to Laugh when s**t is funny .
#33
MadMonkey 2 years ago
My students used to talk to me before class. I adored my students and they used to flick me s*** about my college basketball preferences. They also used to call me Professor Chicken because when I got married, if I had hyphenated my name (I didn't), the hyphenated name would have sounded like a chicken clucking. They never got tired of that one. Splendid kids, the lot of 'em.
BrownTabby 2 years ago (edited)
As someone who was never one of the talkers, I’m just over here like “30 of us! 30 of us! Gooble gobble 30 of us!”
Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
I didn't get my first smart phone till like 2014 or later. I still never talked to my classmates in school or college. Books FTW! Plus people scared me a lot more back then.
Marvin HeartofGold (she/them) 2 years ago
I was in college in 99/00 and I did not talk to hardly anyone. I mean there was Jeremy, but he turned out to believe that aliens probed him. And there was Steve, but he thought my mother's death turned me into a bummer to be around. So yeah, people like that is why I just don't talk to anyone.
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Yes. Also, I work at a tutoring center and the number of kids 10 and under who insist that they don't need to learn to read or do well in school because they're going to "be a YouTuber" when they grow up is disturbing. You can't pay rent trying to get random strangers to watch you play Fortnite with lame commentary.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
It’s the same mindset that claims they don’t need to get an education because they’re going to play pro ball and be rich. Thing is, you have to graduate high school and get into a good college for most pro sports, meaning you have to have that education. Additionally, if you are smart and educated AND play pro sports, you realize your time there is limited to your physical health, and that one false move in training or the next game, or even crossing a street could end your career in an instant. So having taken some business courses and actually learning from them could help you be smarter with the money, choose opportunities to make more money wisely, while playing, and show you options for continuing to make money after you retire. It will also help you avoid the numerous pitfalls along the way, such as partying too much, giving money away needlessly or to people who will always have their hands out, falling for gold diggers, being cheated, and dipping into illegal activities. So you see, your physical talents in sports might get you scouted and possibly recruited as well, but your intellect and education will help you make the most of your time playing, and after retirement.
Load More Replies... Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Get rich quick schemes are all anybody ever wants to be, it's nothing new calm down. I bet you wanted to be a famous musician or actor when you were a kid at some point just so you didn't have to worry about money. It's the same s**t different f*****g day.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
That simply isn’t true for most people; when people are being honest, the vast majority don’t want to be famous. And they don’t want to be crazy rich, either; they want to be comfortable.
Load More Replies... Candid Panda 2 years ago
Completely agree. It's important to be present and aware otherwise you're just half-assing life.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
You could re-word the above to read: "I thinks so many of us are trying so hard to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, that they're missing out on living their own lives and also neglecting the needs of their families/loved ones."
Dirk Daring 2 years ago (edited)
If these so-called "influencers" would put just half the energy into an actual job that they put into cultivating their fake personas and their carefully scripted, inauthentic lives, they'd be much happier.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
And they are putting up a front. Nothing is real. It leaves everyone disappointed with plain reality and real lives.
#35
Mark Stewart 2 years ago
All well and good until you have the issue we did in Australia a few weeks ago when Optus had a mass outage for several hours putting electronic payment systems out of action, many businesses had trade impacted.
Tess 2 years ago
People not being able to call emergency services for help is the only evidence you could ever need for corporate telecommunication companies not only be held responsible after the fact, but proof of more stringent safeguards to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
The local pizza restaurant that claims they do not handle change. So if you want to pay with cash, you have to pay them with the rounded up dollar. I thought that was illegal.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Some people can't get charge cards for various and sundry reasons. This discriminates against them.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
I literally haven't even touched cash in over 6 months. Maybe more. I just don't use it very much. Cards are a lot easier for me. YMMV.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
The thing is, a homeless person might only have cash, and I kind of wonder if some businesses are going cashless on purpose because of that.
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Uncle Schmickle 2 years ago
As an Aussie, I agree with this. As long as cash is legal tender, it should be universally accepted, and refusing to take cash should be illegal.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
My wallet is full of cash that only gets used to tip servers or if a businesses card machine goes down. It's been a lifesaver for the latter.
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
Eh, to each their own, I guess. Personally, I will turn my back on a business that is cash-only. I hate carrying cash around with me, especially coins - they always fall out of that stupid coin flap in the wallet!
#36
David Paterson 2 years ago
They really can be a pain to use sometimes. In one case I downloaded the wrong app three times before figuring out that the company had pulled the correct app off the internet so it could no longer be used. 300 dollars down the drain.
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
You need to get in contact with some company, you go to their website to find the contact information, you are redirected to a frequently asked questions page, you press the "That didn't help me button", you are redirected to a chat, it's a bot. It can only answer the most frequently asked questions. You finally find a number somehow, you're met by a bot. You are given some alternatives and five of them say you can find the most frequently asked questions on their website. You are finally put on hold to talk to a real human being... "Sorry our telephone hours are 10 am to 11 am call back tomorrow"
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
People do a better job but they also need to make money and the company doesn’t want to pay them.
Stymied Egan 1 year ago
I'm on a chat, waiting for customer service human. It's going on 40 minutes.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
SAP. Costs an obscene sum to buy. Costs a bomb to install and customise. Takes a year to fully implement. WTF?
Lawrence Emke 2 years ago
yes and it usually due to bad design. people who can write code to specifications. And meet the testing algorithms specs. However, the leaders giving the instructions have no idea what is a good design. Had an instant coffee maker, by a bad design was a roach motel. It operated as designed. After a complaint, and two years later was the design changed to fix its design errors.
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Heather Evans 2 years ago
I still can't get over that my phone doesn't have a headphone jack. Whose terrible idea was this???
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
So why on God's green Earth would you pay 5 times more for a phone that doesn't have what you want. STOP BUYING APPLE PHONES! It's that simple. (Yeah, I know a few of the android phones followed suit. Stop buying those, too. And find some clothes with some God-damned pockets.)
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Admiralu 2 years ago
My Bluetooth headphones and earbuds work just fine with no wires to tangle.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Same. I used to break the wires of wired headphones all the time.
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago
i used to buy cheap earbuds with cable and now i have a cheap headphone without cable. i love it, and i love that the cable cant get stuck everywhere. I guess people are mad because they have to buy new stuff if the phone comes without jack? (i get that)
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T0t@lly-f!ne! 2 years ago
As a person who owns a pair of $150 earbuds, I still insist on wired headphones. They're just better. You don't need to charge them and when they get old they're super easy to replace.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
I agree; for one thing, they are much harder to lose (and much cheaper to replace!). So I simply bought a Lightning to 3.5mm adaptor for under $5.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
that used to be my argument, but i bought earphones and even i wont lose these :-D
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SM 2 years ago
Do people realize that modern phones can used wired earphones through the USB C connector? Frankly I think this one comes up because people just don't understand how all of this works. The old phone jack uses a lot of space that can be used for better purposes, and the USB port is already needed and can serve the same purpose.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I can't charge and listen to music simultaneously this way
Load More Replies... Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
I do love my wireless headphones but every now and then I want to plug my phone into some speakers, and I can't. Because it doesn't have a fricking audio jack.
MarieTDr 2 years ago
I'm on the poor side and don't want to spend money on speakers. Sticking my phone in a bowl or a clean pot does amplify the sound some.
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Yes! And stop leaving the carts in random parking spaces so cars don't have room!
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
Yes! And if you don't like walking 50 feet to the cart corral, do what I do: park next to it.
Load More Replies... Sonja 2 years ago
Look up the shopping cart theory. This is a measurement of civilization. And yes, people who don't bother doing such a small community service are indeed bad people. You won't find kind, generous individuals who will leave their shopping cart where they stand or litter. Those are the ultimate red flags.
jade s 2 years ago
This is why UK use the £1 system. Its amazing how much effort people will put in when they want their £1 back.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
I am gobsmacked that the greedy äss yank corporations don’t do this. Potential revenue AND they don’t have to pay workers to put back the stray carts? C’mon.
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Lawrence Emke 2 years ago
Aldi solved that problem. You get your choice, insert a quarter into the cart , then return the cart and get your money back or leave the cart where you like and the quarter stays with the cart for the next person to use and return. The problem, when physical money no longer exists this will stop working. But maybe by then, all transactions will be by home delivery.
Annik Perrot 2 years ago
Physical money's never going to disappear. Even governments have shady deals that musn't appear on the books...
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Also, if there are two rows for trolleys, put the two trolley sizes in separate rows
Wm Paul Robinson 2 years ago
Simply make them need a coin to detach the chain, and get it returned or reconnecting the trolly to the others. Most of Europe like that. Never have a €uro or pound coin when you need it? Virtually all supermarkets give tokens for them.
Jossh Nine 2 years ago (edited)
Some guy actually wanted to fight me in a parking lot because I mentioned to him that he should put his cart in the corral. I wasn't rude about it, but he took it as a personal insult and went beast mode. We didn't fight, but he parked in front of my car for a few minutes so I couldn't get out of my spot. I just sat in my car laughing at him until he squealed his tires and left. Worst thing was that he had his son with him...maybe 8 or 9 years old.
#39
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
100% for sure. but I just don't make plans with people that don't respect my time.
Sonja 2 years ago
Especially annoying when the people in question are perfectly able to appear on time when it suits them, but always claim they're time blind when you are the one waiting for them! Nope. Not accepting that. If you manage to come punctual to your job or to your personal appointments, but somehow are time blind when I have something planned, then I know you simply don't respect my time.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
These are the "I came as early as I wanted to" people.
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Clown fish 2 years ago (edited)
And I'm not sat wait 2hrs before because I get everywhere early
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
We do this with my mum (now at least, we know it is ADHD causing it)
Pamela Blue 2 years ago
This is one of my biggest bugbears. Being constantly late is nothing but rude and obnoxious. Yet the always late-comers enjoy the power it gives them when people have to wait for them. I no longer give them that power. If they're always late, I'll simply leave without them, or just leave and go home. I refuse to cater to toxic people. (this doesn't include the occasional issue of lateness - but then there are cellphones for that.)
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Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
I was in the waiting room at the doctor’s office for a checkup not long ago. A scowling, unfriendly, and kinda redneck-looking old man was also in the waiting room. He was looking at his phone quietly at first, then he got on YouTube. Turns out, he was looking up remedies for ED. I know this because he neglected to bring earbuds and the videos he would start, then quickly stop, were all about ED. There were SEVERAL of them, all extremely loud at the start, then suddenly turned off. Why he didn’t just put his phone on silent, I don’t know. I guess maybe the volume, and therefore the disturbance of everyone else in the waiting room, was the only way of “compensating” he and his dead d**k had left. I made a point of chuckling, just loud enough for him to hear, every damned time he started a new video.
Carson Scott 2 years ago
I will admit, when I go to run I play my music out loud with no headphones, but I have a good reason. My previous pair of headphones got stolen so I had to wait a year to get new ones. Gonna keep better watch over them this time!
Rinoboyrich 2 years ago
And then blaming it on their fake social anxiety that you have to pretend is real (or it will get worse!). Do you know how I cured my social anxiety (at around age 9)? I developed better social skills and made friends, instead of hiding in my room.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’m young and I can’t hear well yet I don’t keep all my calls on speaker. If I’m out in public or someone is at home then I use headphones
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Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
I choose the self checkout 100% of the time if it's available. I prefer packing things the way I want them. And it keeps me from feeling judged about what I'm buying. :) One time I had tampons, Advil, and chocolate (among other things) in my basket and when I checked out the cashier said really loud "I put all your period stuff in the same bag for you honey!". LOL!! I know she was just being nice, but it was mortifying.
Ace 2 years ago
I don't get why anyone, anywhere would prefer to have someone else pack their shopping. It doesn't need a self-checkout, you just bring your own reusable shopping bags and pack the things yourself as they're scanned by the cashier.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Where I shop, if I only have a few things to purchase, I’m “invited” to use the self check out. I tell them that I’m retired, and contrary to what he would like, I don’t work for Galen Weston (richer than god grocery store conglomerate that owns most of the grocery chains in the country as well as the largest chain pharmacy in the country). Drop my prices to a reasonable amount, warn the seismologists beforehand, then I’ll consider doing this for a few items. Otherwise it’s off to the cashier because they’re from our community and I want them all to have a job. Especially my fellow seniors who still need to work.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
the "i dont work here" thing is just a bit odd. Back in the very old days, before supermarkets, when you went shopping, the cashier or staff would take the item from the shelf for you. BOOM, supermarkets. Now you have to push your cart around AND take everything yourself. I wonder if those people were complaining too.
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Cydney Golden 2 years ago
I started using self checkout during covid and can never go back! Love packing my own way.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I prefer self-checkout (or, even better, an app through which I can also pay). Stores don't teach cashiers how to properly bag groceries anymore, so I prefer to do it myself. That way, I don't buy tomatoes and bread and end up with marinara and communion wafers.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
I absolutely HATE self-checkout. It takes at least three times as long because the machine keeps arguing with me, and I have to call the attendant. Also it is depriving people of jobs. Plus, if I am doing the work for them, why don't I get a discount?
Uncle Schmickle 2 years ago
Self checkout is theft as far as I'm concerned. Supermarkets make huge profits and then encourage shoppers to self checkout because they're too tight arsed to employ sufficient personnel at checkouts. People who do self checkout should receive a discount because they're doing the work an employee should be doing. Avoid them like the plague.
#42
Nolgoth 2 years ago
Can turn off siri and google assistant/voice commands too
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Puppy Dancing! 2 years ago
I am so sick of autocorrect recorrecting after I changed it back, over and over.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Yes the chimps trying to write Shakespeare are trying to guess what we are typing. So I turned it off.
#43
ginny weasley 2 years ago
Camera use in changing rooms where people are naked should be banned.
Petra 2 years ago
David Paterson: It's about consent. The people in the locker room likely didn't consent to having their naked bodies shared with others. Especially with others on the Internet where it can 1) reach MILLIONS of people and 2) never be completely erased. It's the same as dragging them, naked, into the middle of the town square and leaving them there, forever. So, yes, may God please forbid there be naked, unconsenting people on the Internet.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
There should always be gym staff in each of the workout rooms to monitor this s**t. The actual problem is the gym not hiring enough staff to properly run, so people try to get away with anything they can. That resets the boundaries of what is tolerated , because the rest of us aren’t rude and entitled, so don’t b***h about it, and just start working out at a different time, or go to another gym. Maybe we need to get more vocal about enforcing normal rules of behavior—-just don’t start being Karens about it. There are ways of lodging complaints that don’t involve shouting and making threats. Those methods actually get a much better response, and carry a lot more credibility, than the ranting of someone losing their s**t over an annoyance or inconvenience.
Uncle Schmickle 2 years ago
Change room photos and taking photos of minors IS BANNED at leisure centres in Oz.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
If privacy isn’t important in changing rooms, then where should privacy even be important?
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Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Yeah seems unsanitary to have one (not a service animal) in a grocery store or a restaurant.
Tabitha 2 years ago
It to mention how stressful it could be for the dog. If you truly care about your dog, and they aren’t specifically trained to accompany you everywhere, like a bonafide—-and not fake—-service dog is, then let them relax in the more familiar and less stressful surroundings of their own home, instead of subjecting them to unfamiliar surroundings, a load of loud strangers, as well as both unfamiliar, and way too loud noises.
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ILoveMySon 2 years ago
I literally just read of a 3 month old child KILLED by the family pet. My friend's dog bit me once...she is a pet trainer. You never know what can happen.
Jennifer Germain 2 years ago
or brigning them to people's homes. Check first. I have a dog and dog friendly family but some people don't want your dog, they may not have a properly fenced in yard... Have a dog friendly yard, my inlaws brought their cat... it got out, go figure. Spent hours looking for him and pretty much ruined the evening...
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
People with allergies and asthma deserve to be able to go out too. Your pet does not need to go grocery shopping. That person with a severe allergy who could potentially die because your pet hair got in their food does.
kath morgan 2 years ago
Nobody bothers to train dogs any more, they treat them like the bad behaviour is inevitable so they need to be constantly supervised and coddled.
Puppy Dancing! 2 years ago
Used to kill me when people brought dogs into the hardware store, where every aisle has poisonous chemicals, and they have all been spilt on the floor.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I don't mind dogs in cafés and pubs, you can always choose another café if you do mind. But I don't see the point in dragging the poor animals everywhere
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
I love my dog, but he can wait at home or in the car, weather permitting.
Michelle Tooze 2 years ago
100% agree! Your pet, unless it is a TRUE service (fully trained) animal, does not need to go everywhere with you!! It's the owners with separation anxiety, not the animal; get counseling and fix your issues!
#45
Dingooo 2 years ago
Yes, multi-billion dollar companies and they can't afford to have humans at the other end of the phone for even the most basic customer service? Pretty soon there will be no humans to talk to at any company, just AI generated responses getting you nowhere.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
My recent problems with a company went unresolved because the support AI was apparently based on an idiot and when it switched me to email live human support I found out which idiot they based the AI knowledge on.
Load More Replies... Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Nah, if you get banned off of social media, take it for what it is. A chance for you to go outside, see the real world, and not be a f*****g troll. Too many people rely too much on social media.
jade s 2 years ago
Yes, upvote completely. Someone in the phillipines stole my Facebook account and used it to share logins to other accounts. I reported it to Facebook and got an automated reply to say they've not broken any rules so tough. How is fraud and identity theft not breaking any rules.
Featherytoad 2 years ago
Looking at you BP. I got blocked from them about a week ago for no reason that I can think of. Maybe it was a bunch of trolls just down voting people for no reason. I just created a new email address and got back on.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
When you look at the comments that got 10 downvotes, they’re very often normal stuff that isn’t actually offensive, but maybe only disproves someone’s wild and totally unfounded claim, and doesn’t even do that in a nasty or offensive way. YET, I see some commenters who are saying very nasty and offensive stuff NOT get downvoted or reported. What may be a solution is somehow weeding out trolls, it that would take having a human being and not an algorithm doing the moderating. Algorithms can only see the world in black and white, and will never replace human judgement of gray areas, as well as a comment’s true meaning, no matter how sophisticated they become—-and the world is most definitely NOT just black and white. It has a full spectrum of colors that only a human can understand.
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Michelle Forbes 2 years ago
Hell yes!!!!!! All it takes is one person to be offended or dislike you then bam reported regardless of whether it can be proven or not. My best one was "We've had information you breached our terms"...."I see, can you explain when and how please?"..."We have no further information"....unbelievable
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I know someone who was temporarily banned on a social media platform. He successfully appealed, and the ban was lifted - five days after the ban had expired.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
I'll raise this one with a "All online companies should have a customer complaint and support line where you can talk to a person."
James016 2 years ago
I had to go through British Gas’ live chat a few times recently and the people I was chatting to were either contradicting themselves or as it turns out, giving me the wrong information. Thankfully they gave me the phone number and I spoke to someone pretty quickly who straightened things out. The number I was given; I could not find it on their website anywhere.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
It is not that I disagree, but those companies would need tens of thousands of people to answer the phone in a reasonable time, because of so many users.
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just a random panda 2 years ago
honestly, as a recent Girl Scout, we were taught both of those things
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
Whaaat?! I was just taught how to make arts and crafts, and sell cookies :(
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
They still do! I a friend of mine takes her daughter's troop camping every year and they practice all those skills.
Nicholas Kramer 2 years ago
I signed in just to reply to this. My daughter is in GS. They were given pocket knifes last meeting and tomorrow the will be whittling sticks to make smores.
Sonja 2 years ago
They need to stop separating girls and boys. Teaching both together and the same things.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The Boy Scouts now accept girls. But it was more about promoting membership than equality.
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BarkingSpider 2 years ago
It's an option, they just need good leaders who are willing to do more than arts and crafts.
Marvin HeartofGold (she/them) 2 years ago
Well I build a fire better than my eagle scout husband and every one of my bot scout ex's so this may be a matter of the person who taught the girl scout you know. Or maybe I'm a pyro?
#47
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The algorithms for places like YouTube and Pinterest have stopped showing me things I might like and more of things that are popular. It’s bugging me a lot because I’m rarely finding things I like
Petra 2 years ago
Yeah, YouTube uses to be a great place to find new interests. It was awesome! Not so much anymore. :(
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Frankie 2 years ago
This.... I'm part of a book community on Instagram. We used to have so much interaction and discussion and it was so fun. Now it's like 50% people stressing over why their posts aren't even being shown to their followers and vice versa unless they follow trends or make reels
Fable Weaver 1 year ago
Idk, tick tock algorithm diagnosed my adhd, leading me to so much more information about myself that would have been very beneficial to know earlier. Idk if I ever would have gone to a therapist without it. But is IS very important to make sure people have the skills and inclination to fact check EVERYTHING
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
why do you think they *invented* those algorithims? people *couldnt* find it on their own.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Google is pretty useless now. Even if you rigidly formulate your search string, the first page is mostly not the info you want, but products for sale.
#48
jade s 2 years ago
No for 3. Sorry, I automatically believe people should pay their own way. If I can't afford it I'll turn down the offer and meet up once I've been paid. I don't know anyone that would expect otherwise and if I did they wouldnt be in my friend circle.
Kalihia 2 years ago
I'm a firm believer in "I did the inviting, the bill is on me. You did the inviting, the bill is on you." The person doing the inviting should be responsible for the check. If I can't afford to pay for everyone, I won't plan the outing.
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Nah I don't agree with the last one. If I say lets go do something together I fully expect each person to pay for themselves unless otherwise stated money is f*****g tight these days if we go bowling yeah you are paying for yourself.
Candid Panda 2 years ago
Just because you invite people out doesn't mean you have to pay to feed them. Unless perhaps if it's a date.
jade s 2 years ago
Not even for a date. If someone needs a physical incentive to want to spend time with you they don't actually want to be with you.
Load More Replies... Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
I would assume that unless they say something like "my treat" then you assume you are paying your way, like normal people would.
Load More Replies... Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
if I was invited out for a drink or a meal I would NEVER assume they were going to pay for me. the invite is to socialise in the same place at the same time, NOT to feed and water you.
#49
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago (edited)
Without dismissing the fact that anxiety is a real issue for some people, it seems like a lot of people are using that as an opportunity to get out of a lot of things. Uncomfortable? Anxiety. Nervous? Anxiety. Apprehensive? Anxiety. Just don’t want to do it? Anxiety. And avoiding everything just…ratchets up the anxiety! At this point, it seems like self-selected anxious-avoidant behaviors are outstripping actual clinical anxiety.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
"Anymore"? I'm GenX and NEVER could deal with phone calls. They increase my anxiety tenfold, especially when I was younger with a rotary phone and would often get wrong numbers. Just no.
Alexandra 2 years ago
I readily believe that anxiety can be a reason to not want to talk to someone on the phone, but given the numbers of people who don't want/can't conduct an ordinary phone call I don't think that's the number one cause. Maybe because people are more used to app and email, they're tongue-tied when talking to another person beyond the "hi how are you". That's a pity, because the voice of another human being carries so much more meaning than an email.
Julia Ford 2 years ago
I just don’t feel like sitting on the phone listening to people go on and on. It’s too hard to get people off the phone.
Load More Replies... Spittnimage 2 years ago (edited)
If my sister calls it's a three hour call, I'd rather text. At least I can do something else like dinner prep while I'm waiting for the next text, and I don't have to stop to answer if I don't want to right then.
Jules Marten-Feldmann 2 years ago
Right? If someone wants to talk, fine, let's find a time that is convenient for us both and make the call then. I hate when people call randomly and I am expected to stop what I'm doing and make time for them.
Load More Replies... Keira Pendragon 2 years ago
Just going to point out that for 200 Thousand years of human history PHONE CALLS were NOT A THING. Y'all need to get over their return to ignominy. Phone calls Suck with very very few exceptions.
Tomato Froggo 2 years ago
I have a lot of issues with my hearing, and when I answer calls I usually can’t hear 70% of what they’re saying. This makes me super nervous to answer calls, knowing I’m barely going to hear. FaceTime (or even better, texting), is just way better for me as I can read lips and text.
#50
Pheebs 2 years ago
I argue that women need better collared shirt options. I am so sick of blouses, many of which have uncomfortable fabric. I work in IT - wearing a flowy, flowery blouse will just get in the flipping way, and I get sick of polos. Plus, half the “modern” collared shirts and polos for women are made for incredibly flat or athletic figures. I have both decent sized boobs and hips - your moisture wicking, no stretch fabric is annoying af.
Bored something 2 years ago
And less synthetic materials. I hate synthetic clothing. Bamboo and cotton is so much more comfortable and it lasts better.
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Doctor Strange 2 years ago
People need to stop caring so much what other people are wearing. I work as a land surveyor. I am not going to spend 8 hours a day or more tromping around the woods or construction sites in all kinds of weather wearing a collared shirt.
michael Chock 2 years ago
This one needs a boomer award. Nothing like genderfying and pushing your wardrobe preferences on the rest of the world.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
I think they meant that it would be nice to see more people care what they look like and dress a bit more nicely. I wonder soemtimes what people of the past would think of how we go about in pajamas.
Load More Replies... Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Those huge bows on ladies' blouses! Please, no more. And if you do have a collar on your shirt/polo, menfolk, turn it down like your adult person should have taught you.
Sina 2 years ago
If men add more collared shirts into their wardrobe, they also need to do their own ironing, or pay for a dry cleaning service. I refuse to do it.- I used to do it with my dad's shirts, that single chore took more than an evening to finish. Never again.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I'm 67, no one has ever done my ironing but me. I've done my own laundry for 55 years. I don't mind doing those chores for a SO if needed. But, I'm a boomer.
Load More Replies... Tommy DePaul 1 year ago (edited)
#50 is about men wearing more collared shirts and just about EVERY comment is from a woman complaining about her wardrobe choices.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My brother has plenty of collared shirts in his wardrobe, organized by colour, but I rarely see him wear them!
#51
David Paterson 2 years ago
In my whole life I have never gone to a restaurant that is too quiet, and had to ask them to turn the music or the TV up, or had to ask people at the next table to speak louder. Yes. Restaurants are too loud. So are hospitals.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
Imagine wanting to talk with the others at your table, instead of all being on their phones ...
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Sports bars are especially bad about this, especially around championship games - the Super Bowl, the World Series, etc.
David Paterson 2 years ago
First time I've seen it here. The others must be further down.
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Zoey Rayne 2 years ago
Rumor has it there also used to be such a thing as penny candy. * glares at movie theaters' overpriced snack stands *
Kat Hoth 2 years ago
I'm so old I remember when coke bottles had a two-cent deposit. If you had a bottle a quarter would get a soda, candy bar, and bag of chips.
Load More Replies... Little Wonder 2 years ago
You can blame the rights holders for this. the cost for the rights to screen a movie are high, and most of the money is made on concession stands rather than tickets, b ut tickets are going up for that same reason.
#53
David 2 years ago
Perhaps, but when you take toddlers shopping there is a special time warp that makes and hour seem like a year or two. /S
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majandess 2 years ago
Ugh. Electricity, cars, portable music, telephones, backpacks, Target... none of these things have existed for the majority of time that children have. And yet, I don't really want to do without any of them, regardless of what it does to my brain. Can we pick a different reason that isn't so inane?
Sonja 2 years ago
Why the heck do they care if a kid uses a tablet quietly while the adults are shopping? I remember my childhood and sometimes I was bored to death when my parents had no choice than dragging me along. As soon as I could read they let me bring a book and I had lots of picture books before that. My mom let me bring a notepad and colour pencils to restaurants just in case they didn't have any. Later I brought a book. It's the exact same thing as long as they don't turn up the sound.
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
If I recall what my parents told me correctly, the timing of your shopping has a great influence on whether the kid will be more well-behaved or be a screaming mess. Personally, I only care that they're quiet (or at least not screaming), no matter how it is accomplished...
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
TBF, when my brother and I were young (a looong time ago) department stores had pet departments. My mother could browse her "foundations" till the cows came home and we were set. She knew just where to find us. In the local Kmart they had a mynah bird named Curley. We would spend the better part of an hour teaching new cuss words to Curley, then laugh like hell when he repeated them. I don't envy kids or parents now. They don't have the same freedom to get the experiences we had as kids. Stores don't have the same offerings and there's too much chance for bad things to happen to kids. Not to mention that many parents have this whole "free range" attitude and with that the impression that no matter what the kid is up to, it's OK, it's literally their (employees) jobs to clean up after their kids.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
They end up only knowing how to communicate with others through a screen.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
this is for sure a boomer complaint. If you could have you would have.
#54
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Wish I'd done that, my $3 ticket to see Jimi Hendrix would have a page to itself...........yeah, I'm old.
Load More Replies... CanadianDimes 2 years ago
I love love love having my boarding passes and train tickets on my phone. It’s one less thing to worry about and it’s so incredibly convenient
keyboardtek 2 years ago
A retired friend who does not have a smart phone decided to go to a pro baseball game when he visited Chicago. He said it was a nightmare to get actually physical tickets. He had to go in person to get the tickets as the ticket vendor refused to mail them. Then when he got to the stadium, everyone at the check in laughed at him for having a paper ticket.
David Paterson 2 years ago
And the tickets and bookings over the internet are all sold by scalpers who add a huge mark-up.
BrownTabby 2 years ago (edited)
I hate Air New Zealand’s previous CEO for reasons that every vaguely decent person in New Zealand will understand, but he was right about allowing us to have our boarding pass on our phones. You can still print it if you want to, but I’ll stick with waving my phone at the scanner.
PattyK 2 years ago
Why can’t we just pay at the boxoffice? Why do we have to buy all these tickets in advance?
Admiralu 2 years ago
If it's a popular movie, you may not get a seat. I've been at the theater for a popular film and seen people try to walk in and buy a ticket when that show was already sold out.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
People in Mzansi don't know how traffic circles work. THEY DON'T WORK LIKE 4-WAY STOPS! You give way to the right! (We drive on the left here.)
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
The thing about 4-way stops that annoys me is the folks who think only one car at a time can go. If two cars opposite each other are both going straight, they can advance at the same time. Both turning right - just go at the same time!!
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
Also those who hog the overturning lane and drive slowly. MOVE OVER you selfish cretins!
Jeff White 2 years ago
All four way Stops are a 2 step process 1)Stop 2) then GO! Not Stop, wait for all other incoming lanes to stop, wait another 4 seconds, and then go. NO! No waving. Stop then Go.
Tim Douglass 2 years ago
I think you need to review your 4-way stop procedure. You stop, let everyone who was stopped before you go, THEN you go.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
There's no such thing as a four-way stop in my country. I can't imagine why any place would install them, ever. Just have Yield (not Stop) signs on the minor road, and the major road goes straight through. No fuss, no hassle, no accidents.
David 2 years ago
And that when you make a turn, right or left, you are supposed to turn into the lane closest to your side. People illegally jump over into your lane by turning wide and then are surprised when you are in "their" space.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
Don't know where you live, but everywhere I've lived left turn can take any lane they want (unless of course there is more than one lane that can turn left),
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Dingooo 2 years ago
Way back when my brother who had five kids tossed a 2x4 with nails sticking out in front of a car that was regularly speeding through his neighborhood. He lived across the street from a park and the kids would cross the street to get there.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
My cousin would sit in his garage with an old tire mounted on a rim. When he heard Speedracer coming he'd roll it down the driveway.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
Back in my day the speed limit on my road was 60 km/hr. Which worked perfectly. Since then the speed limit has dropped 10 km/hr every ten years. It's now 20 km/hr. Quit dropping the speed limit!
#57
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I'm at the point in life where I can't even remember that I had a grandmother, let alone what her maiden name was...
Admiralu 2 years ago
That 2 FA is there to protect you from being hacked. If you can't remember passwords or security questions, then get a password manager. I don't have to remember I can just look it up.
BrownTabby 2 years ago
This. ACTUAL boomers are a prime target for the kind of scammers that led to 2FA being put in.
Load More Replies... Pheebs 2 years ago
Blame people who keep taking social media quizzes online that ask all the common security questions. People post so much of their lives online it makes passwords and questions too easy to guess.
Mark Stewart 2 years ago
Facebook is bad as well, people put more information than they realise on there.
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Sonja 2 years ago
It depends. I agree that there should be an option to deactivate it on certain devices and sometimes it's ridiculous that you have two factor identification on an account that has no personal data and has another two factor identification as soon as you want to do anything. I have one app from our vet where I have two factor identification just to access the vaccination status of my cats. I can't do anything on that app after logging in with authentication, not even book an appointment, without doing another two factor identification. That's absolutely ridiculous.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Two factor? Had ten factor identification recently - security questions + voice print + captcha + password + time dependent password + mobile call back + email call back + money amounts on bills that had been received + credit card number + expiry date + hiv + number on identity card + exact spelling on identification card + colour of identity card + unique number in 3 point type on the back of the identity card that had other printing over the top of it + drivers license. I'm not kidding.
#58
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I don't understand the problem with this, people are decently clothed. And pyjamas are originally day wear, they don't magically become indecent just because they are tartan or rosebud pattern fleece
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
Pyjamas are SLEEP wear, not day attire. I sleep naked; would it be appropriate for me to turn up in public like that? At the *very* least, it would put people off their food.
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Belle_Pandamonium🇧🇻l 2 years ago
I've done that too. Also in the morning 🫢🤭
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 2 years ago
I'm in agreement in a general sense Jared. And I do think it's a bit of a leap between PJ's and a chicken suit at a funeral
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 2 years ago
When I was in college, our ADVISOR specifically said, and I quote, "no one cares if you show up to class in your pajamas, as long as you show up."
David Paterson 2 years ago
I've never seen people walking around in pyjamas. I have seen them walking around in lingerie, and at my age I must say I don't disapprove.
madeleine f 2 years ago
The problem I have with pyjamas in public spaces or doing your make up on the train or eating on the bus it is a way of claiming public space as your own personal space. In public spaces it's common sense to be more discreet for everyone's comfort.
#59
Dingooo 2 years ago
People that park their cart on one side of the aisle and stand on the other side blocking the whole aisle. Zero situational awareness or consideration. No one else exists in the world but them apparently.
Hannah Hudson-Lee 2 years ago
I was lol-ing at the Leonidas reference. Then my brain decided the store was called, "Thermshopoli," and it's shelves are a bit Spartan.
David Paterson 2 years ago
My advice is to go into the store with the narrowest aisles in a mobility scooter, and watch the free standing displays in the aisles topple.
#60
David 2 years ago
It seems like a lot of burger places are charging on par with sit down restaurants these days. It used to be you got your burger fairly quickly and with zero service but it cost less than going to a "real" restaurant. It's still a burger (more or less) if you are in the mood for a burger but otherwise it seems like you get all the worst aspects - still zero service but not it costs like a sit down meal. Similar for Taco Bell. I used to tolerate TB because even though the food was c**p compared to real Mexican food, at least it was cheap. Still c**p, no longer cheap
keyboardtek 2 years ago
A typical fast food meal cost $5 about ten years ago. $7 five years ago, and now $10. That is 100% inflation in ten years. And that is mostly corporate profit as minimum wage has barely increased in 40 years. Every one seems to blame Biden for the inflation but corporations have reported their highest profits ever these last ten years. None of it trickles down.
Lawrence Emke 2 years ago
The idea of pricing burgers based upon cost plus a percentage for profit is gone. Now it is whatever the market will bare. Restaurant support organizations, convince all of the restaurants to increase their prices together (eliminating competition). These organizations sell the idea they are helping restaurants to stay in business. So every new year you are going to see the prices rise by another xx% across the entire industry (the same across rural and urban). The support organizations get a cut in the profit as well. Then there are the credit card companies, telling the small businesses to switch to the concept of adding a surcharge for credit use, rather than including the credit cost in their prices. It is a man in the middle situation. I will not be surprised if next year the credit surcharge goes up. The retailers will not have to change their prices. Retailers no need to find a different credit card service. Lower competition in the financial system. paper money is dying
SM 2 years ago
I have never heard of a business (other than maybe a small mom and pop one) that wasn't based on what they think the market will bear. That is exactly how they decide what the "profit part" is going to be. I mean how can you even decide what the "plus a percentage" is without some kind of calculation like that? For example, you don't really think that the CEOs of a supermarket go "Let's shoot for a 2 percent profit market because we feel that is the right thing to do." And the people in the tech industry say "Let's shoot for a 25 percent profit market because that is the right thing to do."
Load More Replies... Devon Archer 2 years ago
Went to Wendy’s yesterday and it was $41 for like a burger and some nuggets for my kids. Corporate greed is gonna cause a revolution bro! Please print some pamphlets before trying to start any revolution. That way people know what’s happening and can join the fun if they want.
#61
Little Wonder 2 years ago
Not to mention three emails a day because you bought some socks online
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Or LOOKED at the socks! Hey Wally World, just because I glance at a pair of socks (or whatever) doesn't mean I want emails for the next 5-6 days telling me it's time to "make it mine".
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago (edited)
68 years old here. Eyesight failing. Why do manufacturers of food items have to have tiny fonts on the label and a thousand colors that make reading them take us old folks ten minutes to find them on the shelves? You want to sell more to oldsters then make the labels big and simple to find.
#62
Pheebs 2 years ago
Lol. We made a registry of “normal gifts” (waffle irons, fancy ways to make coffee, etc), and then things we actually wanted (board hames). Got nothing but money, because “We’re not wasting our money buying childish things”. We were two adults that had an established household. We didn’t need china sets, picnic baskets (it’s too f’ing hot to picnic here), or 99% of household stuff. What we did want were games, as our friends group held regular board game days.
Sonja 2 years ago
Yep. That's it. Most often those so called 'thoughtful other gifts' are nothing but rubbish you don't need or getting the same thing several times. After my wedding, when my husband and I were living together for ten years, Some people were still trying to gift me 'useful stuff everyone needs'. Yes, it's true, that's useful, that's why we already have one, thanks. But I think it's outrageous when people have registries that are far too expensive and expect ridiculous amounts of money.
Load More Replies... BrownTabby 2 years ago
Good. I’m not a mind reader. As for acknowledgment, I gave the gift because it’s a good thing to do, not because I want the new couple to individually write a note for each guest.
Megan Curl 2 years ago
Yes! This. We recently gave a $75 gift as well as a $100 bill in the card to my daughters bestie since 2nd grade, and don’t even know if she got is or if it was stolen. I spend part of my honeymoon handwriting thank you cards. It’s just rude AF.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Registries are not Make A Wish, ask for normal stuff that isn't designer or gold plated.
Candid Panda 2 years ago
Still waiting on a thank you card for a very generous wedding gift to my cousin. At least acknowledge that you got it. I mean isn't the words Thank you still customary?
#63
Colleen Foley 2 years ago
I got some great bulbs from Costco that have a switch to change the light color and strength.
Alecto76 2 years ago
I lucked out with this. My step father and mom were the head of lightin and things for Walgreens for several years. I just let my steo dad into our place and he goes room to room - you need a cool/warm blah blah blah with this fixture and it'll save you X money and last X years here I stopped and got these bulbs and fixtures before we came I'll install them...
David Paterson 2 years ago
The main advantage of incandescents inside is that they warm the house. The extra energy to power them is not "lost". Instead it saves on heating bills.
#64
keyboardtek 2 years ago
And at live concerts the soundmen are idiots who mix the audio equalization as if it was a car stereo with mostly bass. Cannot hear the piano, the guitar, or the cymbals. Only the bass and some vocals.
#65
#66
Lydsylou (she/her) 2 years ago
I hate making phone calls. I actually practice what I'm going to say before I call
Flora Porter 2 years ago
It's about choosing the right channel for the communication, not just using the same one every time. I've lost touch with a lot of family and younger friends because I won't discuss things by text or messaging.
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ginny weasley 2 years ago
No. But kids need to go to bed at a reasonable hour to function and fine dining should be adults only. It's expensive and doesn't cater to kids' paletes. If people want to go eat out with kids there are literally hundreds of kid friendly places. Having an adult only space is fine.
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David 2 years ago
Wow. that one sounds pretty d-bag. Yes to kids getting enough sleep but leave it up tot he parents to decide when there are worthy exceptions, not you as a grumpy stranger. And some kids behave in restaurant. Month back - me and a friend at a moderately nice restaurant. Family is seated behind me next table over. Parents and two young boys. The boys were VERY well behaved. To the point we complimented them as we were leaving. Certainly better behaved than some adults I've had to sit near.
Libstak 2 years ago
Nope, that's not a boomer thing, it's just a grumpy you thing. When I was a child, late 60s and early 70s, families went everywhere. Weddings, dinners, dinner dances, shopping, pubs....people have become more intolerant and it's not good.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Same here. Of course I was enjoying being a temporary grown up for the evening and pretty much behaved immaculately
Load More Replies... Mimi M 2 years ago
I ate in fine dining with my parent(s) when I was quite young. I still remember my dad teaching me to eat spaghetti (twirling it in the bowl of a spoon onto the fork). I learned to eat snails ('scungilli', as my mom taught me) and I ordered frog legs sautee provencale, which I quite liked. TLDR: it depends on the kid.
Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
I'd say, it depends on the parents too. If they are engaged and actually willing to focus on their kids when needed and do it so the kid can have a wider experience , take care that it's appropriate for their age and personality, you rarely get disturbed by children. Children are mostly annoying when they are bored and it's not the right place for them so they merely don't want to be there. People always act as if any criticism about children is about normal child behaviour. But that's not true. Most people don't complain about children laughing or sitting somewhere eating. They complain about children screaming like banshees and running around like angry bulls. But still often people lump in everyone with Karens and kid haters
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 2 years ago
WELL BEHAVED kids are welcome in fine dining restaurants. By the age of 5 or 6, I was able to behave well enough to eat in some of the finest restaurants in the world. (My dad was a VP of a moderate level company. We were never rich enough to go on our own, but sales people would take him, and therefor us, to high end places to try and make sales). So this one is more on the parents. If your child can behave well enough to not disturb other diners, then yes, bring them along and give them the experience. If not, then either get them a sitter or don't go.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Not everyone lives you schedule, As long as children get the necessary amount of sleep
#68
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
We all have that one friend or family member and you know the one.........."Help I'm Talking And I Can't Shut Up".
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I have friends in different countries, WhatsApp video calls are a treasure to me
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Anon822209 2 years ago
I won't mow before 9, and I try not to do it before 10. But sometimes, you just gotta get sh!t done when you can and/or before it gets too hot
Phillip Moderow 2 years ago
Downvote this one. It's as American as apple pie and a white picket fence.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I think it just needs to be one hour later on weekends. 9 am I could handle, 8 is too early.
Karl 2 years ago (edited)
I would mow the lawn first thing in the morning but there’s way too much dew on the grass to do so until at least midday (well, in the UK in summer anyway). Mind you, if you chose to go out and get f****d up the night before, we’ll that’s on you Honeybun. No one has to respect your hangover.
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
I have an electric mower that is quite quiet, and my yard is small so it takes me only 15 minutes, and I STILL won't mow my lawn before 10 am.
#70
Tamara Augustine 2 years ago
They might take someone else out with them then
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BarkingSpider 2 years ago
People might hate me for this, but I feel like people should take pride in their work and do the best they can. I have worked s****y minimum wage jobs, fast food, retail, and you can make the best of it. You can always keep looking for something better and at least you'll have good references.
Sonja 2 years ago
The problem are companies that as for 'pride' in your work to demand absolutely unrealistic amounts of overtime and output. Yes, it's good to do your work well. It also feels good. But still you need to set boundaries and be realistic. If your boss gives you twice the amount of work than you could reasonably do in the paid time you agreed to, stop giving extra hours or even free labour to fulfil unreasonable and unrealistic standards that will give you burnout if you try. Because if you can't work anymore, they won't hesitate to throw you away like an old tissue paper.
Load More Replies... Jared Robinson 2 years ago
No being productive for myself and to further my own goals feels good. Being productive for someone else just so I can afford to live is monotanous and soul crushing. Should be out there working to further MY dreams NOT someone else's.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
Busy work infuriates the hell out of me. Give me something real to work on or let me go home.
Phillip Moderow 2 years ago
I don't buy this one. We're paid to do mundane and unfulfilling things because our employer has a REASON for it. There's a whiff of entitlement in your post, Brooksie.
#72
BrownTabby 2 years ago
There are NO restaurants in your city that serve regular food? Seriously? I pretty much exclusively eat regular food and I’ve never had trouble finding restaurants.
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Sonja 2 years ago
My husband and I love fine dining. We dress fine and go dining... in our favourite greasy spoon. But I understand that if you save up for a really nice restaurant you want to see a nice environment. Looking good and being dressed neatly doesn't mean you have to buy Gucci or something though. Still, if you go out for fine dining, dress somewhat smart. It's part of the experience and if you don't like it, don't go
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Yet another person who cares way too much about what other people are wearing.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
it's weird to be weirded out by another persons sense of dress as long as they are covered, but i guess we're all a little judgemental.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I don't much mind what other people wear. Mr Auntriarch is a very natty dresser, so I always have something to look at
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
it doesnt matter what you wear. wear whats comfortable and decent.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
If I could I really would dress nicer, it’s just that for some f*****g reason every single top that looks good always shows the straps of my bra so i have no choice besides wearing plain boring shirts
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
no such thing. the function of clothes is to cover you up. plain and boring has no meaning when your shirt actually did its job.
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David 2 years ago
I am an auditory person. Sometimes headphones or ear buds helps me drown out the too much noise around me. And some folks use the noise canceling ones.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 2 years ago
I have bad tinnitus so I find that having head phones on really helps me especially when I'm out and about by myself. I don't wear them at social events though.
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People who don't grasp that headphones means go away, and that some of us don't want to be at this social event , but we were obligated, forced or coerced.
Bored something 2 years ago
Two of my kids nearly always have headphones with them due to asd / anxiety reasons. Please don't judge.
Lydsylou (she/her) 2 years ago
I have a friend who is always wearing earphones. She wants to be there she doesn't have any problems with noise etc she just likes to be constantly listening to music. But that means that she often doesn't hear what we are saying to her or goes to sit on her own to listen to her music. It gets to a point where it becomes rude because she doesn't have the manners to take her earphones out when she didn't catch what we were saying she just ignores that anyone says anything
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Dingooo 2 years ago
But stumbling around the grocery store lost and confused counts as a workout.
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago (edited)
I tried this during covid (when stores implemented a one way system). Failed by the second trip as 1, they moved things around, and 2, product info (ingredients etc), change quicker online than the store packages did. Immensely annoying for me when I suffer severe allergies. Why they need to change things when they taste good anyway is beyond me. Bar alienating their customers..
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
As long as you aren't blocking the aisles or holding me up, I don't care what path you take through the store. Me, I like to start at one end and go up and down each aisle. Because sometimes I see something not on my list that I need or want.
Sonja 2 years ago
This is no longer possible. Grocery stores change their layout on a weekly basis nowadays. Sure, the freezers and coolers don't change places but everything inside does. It's no longer possible to make a shopping list sorted by order of progress. Thus for I'm grateful for my shopping app. I can get into the store, look around which produces are around me, get what's on my list, check the box and only see what I still need when progressing to the next aisle.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
I try to but also, it's not the end of the world if someone is meandering. We all should do a little more meandering through life. stop and smell the roses, touch grass, don't be in a hurry type of thing you know.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
My wife does this and sends me to the store with the list then gets upset when I come home with something that wasn't on the list but I saw it while wandering and picked it up. Hey, you're the one who sent me out without adult supervision.
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
But it is though. Literally our society is a capitalistic society driven by the need and greeed for more money, Sorry you don't see the real world for what it is. maybe people just want you to open your eyes.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Capitalism has always been about predatory elites figuring out the most efficient way to get your money. It is just that every new technology becomes another tool that can use. Much like how organized crime uses new technologies to steal more. The "end stage" is when most people are then poor and have nothing left to steal.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
In your country it is. In my country it's underrated. We have beef, lamb, pork and chicken. But turkey should be in there, too.
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ginny weasley 2 years ago
Yeah there is a really good reason they DON"T do this anymore, the infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit. No one wants their genitals fused to their clothing.
Sonja 2 years ago
There's a vast difference between hot coffee and that McDonald's incident. Normal hot coffee doesn't give you third degree burns. That was hyper heated coffee from an industrial quick brew coffee machine that steams coffee so it brews faster.
Load More Replies... Mimi M 2 years ago (edited)
I just flew in an airplane 2 days ago. Asked for a cup of hot water, cause I had an herbal teabag. As I held the cup, I tried to lower the tray-table with my one free hand. It slipped out of my grasp and fell down and almost knocked the cup of hot water in my other hand. The water they gave me was so hot (too hot to hold even through a double cup - it was scalding hot) that had that tray table hit it, and had it sloshed on me, I would have been the new McDonalds lady, as well as screaming so loudly that the whole plane would have gone on high alert and maybe had to re-route, bc I would have been continously screaming even after. It came so close that I was truly shaken, and just thanked my lucky stars. I really thought about the McDonalds woman at that moment. And yes - that water was much too hot!
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Sure, and then you won’t complain if you end up burning yourself right?
David Paterson 2 years ago
You've got to be frigging kidding. You got a death wish or something.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My mum always asks for it to be hot, even though she knows it scorches the coffee beans. A bit silly too, because she usually forget to drink it and it goes cold!
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David 2 years ago
This is b******t. An air fryer is more or less a small toaster oven - which was invented in 1910. It is a tool - just like my toaster, pressure cooker, regular stove, microwave and so on. Mostly it just saves me electricity / fuel if I want to roast one or two chicken thighs or few french fries but not fire up the big oven. SPOILER - I didn't forget all my other cooking skills when I got an air fryer.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
I buy the big box of spring rolls at Costco now.
Load More Replies... Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
Neither microwave nor air fryer have ruined the art of cooking. People cutting corners and declaring mediocre 'cooking hacks' do be 'just as good' when they're not even good enough have ruined cooking. If the recipe is meant for an oven and the portion fits, an air fryer is no worse than a hot air oven. But people trying to make a beef wellington or something like that that need patience and good preparation in half the time in their completely unfit device of choice and pretending it's 'just as good' as the real deal destroy cooking. It's just the same as people trying to cook steak in the dishwasher or make pizza in a toaster. Just don't do it. As long as you use it as intended with recipes that fit, no cooking appliance like an air fryer or microwave ruins anything.
Russell Rieckenberg 2 years ago
If there's any appliance that ruined the art of cooking, I'd say the microwave. It has certainly ruined the "art" of fast food.
Matthew Barabas 2 years ago
fast food places dont microwave their food, genius. if they do, go to another one.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
I've seen so many people say how good an air fryer is. I must find out what it is some day. I just want to find a great recipe book for microwave. For basics like popcorn and steak.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
it's basically a small, counter top convection oven. it doesn't really fry. but it IS great for things coming out crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. doing frozen chips in the oven, I'd often find I nearly had to burn them to get them to crisp up. in the air fryer they come out perfectly crisp without being singed. and for things like meat, the outside gets a nice crispy skin, but the inside is so moist and juicy. I am a late convert, but I absolutely love ours. the results are so good and it's so easy. the air fryer and the slow cooker are by far my favourite kitchen gadgets, that get the most use. we rarely use anything other than the hob on our oven now.
Load More Replies... Candid Panda 2 years ago
I disagree and love my air fryer. It's allowed me to cook much better than with my oven. I think what they meant to say was that microwaves have ruined the art of cooking.
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ginny weasley 2 years ago
Why? TSA makes you pretty much undress anyway and air travel is god awful uncomfortable. Sweats are a win win in that situation.
Candid Panda 2 years ago
No need to dress formally for an air flight. It's important to be comfortable, however, I don't want to see your whale tale.
Hannah McCoy 2 years ago
as an experienced world traveler here, i can say that i am very glad my mother made us wear comfortable clothing for those long, boring flights. it helped very much.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Hell NO. two hours early, you gotta take everything off sit on a flight for god knows how long. and you have to pay thousands of dollars potentially. F**k that you go as comfy as possible.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I dress formally for any plane flight that offers ballroom dancing.
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Don't show up in pants covered in metal studs trying to go through the metal detectors at security (yes, I saw that actually happen). Otherwise, no one should give a flying flip about what people wear at the airport. In fact, I would even say the opposite is true. Wear sweat pants or pajamas to the airport, easier to get through security, and therefor you hold up the line less.
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Mimi M 2 years ago
Without the divisiveness ('boomer') this just reads as common-sense complaints about stuff.
INGI 2 years ago
And that would be MY complaint!! Why do we have to label everyone as a certain generation, and use it as an insult????
Load More Replies... James016 2 years ago
Adverts on tv are louder than the program. Despite the stations denying it.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
I have to keep lowering the sound so it doesn't scare my upstairs neighbor, though I think she might be hearing impaired anyway.
Load More Replies... Data1001 2 years ago
Customer service call centers outsourcing to somewhere like the Philippines because it's way cheaper. This is not *always* an issue, but it is when you cannot understand what the rep is saying because their accent is so thick. The place I work (a very large corporation) has its help desk in the Philippines, and I dread every time I have to call them, because I end up having to tell the person to repeat themselves at least a half-dozen times, and even after that I'm still not totally sure what they said to me.
Shane S 2 years ago
Same. The last time I called IT, it was so annoying listening to the rooster crowing in the background.
Load More Replies... Aspiring Canuck 2 years ago
Sitting through commercials on the BP app. That's what I could do without.
James016 2 years ago
People seem to be completely unaware of their surroundings. Saw one girl on staring at her phone nearly get killed 3 times at a crossing as she kept stepping into the road while the lights were green and cars were moving. Some idiot on an e-scooter crashed into me from behind because he wasn’t looking where he was going
Bear Hall 2 years ago
My number one complain is evrything looks so fuzzy. Bring back days when the word was clear and sharp, not this blurry and foggy like now.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Have you been tested for glaucoma? This is not a joke.
Load More Replies... Shane S 2 years ago
In the US at least, I agree and would add taking away someone else’s rights or choices due to religious motivation. Just because your religion forbids something, doesn’t mean you should forbid it for others too.
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Joe Publique 2 years ago
Not a Boomer. Don't like divisiveness. Many of these are perfectly valid.
Zakaar Bovus 2 years ago
Some are valid most are whining or ignoring the societal reasons behind the issue. Not boomer exclusive though
Load More Replies... JL 2 years ago
My complaint - the louder the car, the dumber the driver. Oh, you paid a ridiculously large amount to replace the exhaust on your 2008 sedan? It doesn't sound like a muscle car, it sounds like a weed whacker. And driving around with the stereo volume maxed and windows open doesn't make you look cool, it just announces to the world how terrible your taste in music is.
Arrien 2 years ago
How about when they keep the windows up and the car just vibrates so badly from the 'music' you think the panels are going to pop off.
Load More Replies... Mimi M 2 years ago
Without the divisiveness ('boomer') this just reads as common-sense complaints about stuff.
INGI 2 years ago
And that would be MY complaint!! Why do we have to label everyone as a certain generation, and use it as an insult????
Load More Replies... James016 2 years ago
Adverts on tv are louder than the program. Despite the stations denying it.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
I have to keep lowering the sound so it doesn't scare my upstairs neighbor, though I think she might be hearing impaired anyway.
Load More Replies... Data1001 2 years ago
Customer service call centers outsourcing to somewhere like the Philippines because it's way cheaper. This is not *always* an issue, but it is when you cannot understand what the rep is saying because their accent is so thick. The place I work (a very large corporation) has its help desk in the Philippines, and I dread every time I have to call them, because I end up having to tell the person to repeat themselves at least a half-dozen times, and even after that I'm still not totally sure what they said to me.
Shane S 2 years ago
Same. The last time I called IT, it was so annoying listening to the rooster crowing in the background.
Load More Replies... Aspiring Canuck 2 years ago
Sitting through commercials on the BP app. That's what I could do without.
James016 2 years ago
People seem to be completely unaware of their surroundings. Saw one girl on staring at her phone nearly get killed 3 times at a crossing as she kept stepping into the road while the lights were green and cars were moving. Some idiot on an e-scooter crashed into me from behind because he wasn’t looking where he was going
Bear Hall 2 years ago
My number one complain is evrything looks so fuzzy. Bring back days when the word was clear and sharp, not this blurry and foggy like now.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Have you been tested for glaucoma? This is not a joke.
Load More Replies... Shane S 2 years ago
In the US at least, I agree and would add taking away someone else’s rights or choices due to religious motivation. Just because your religion forbids something, doesn’t mean you should forbid it for others too.
Load More Replies... Joe Publique 2 years ago
Not a Boomer. Don't like divisiveness. Many of these are perfectly valid.
Zakaar Bovus 2 years ago
Some are valid most are whining or ignoring the societal reasons behind the issue. Not boomer exclusive though
Load More Replies... JL 2 years ago
My complaint - the louder the car, the dumber the driver. Oh, you paid a ridiculously large amount to replace the exhaust on your 2008 sedan? It doesn't sound like a muscle car, it sounds like a weed whacker. And driving around with the stereo volume maxed and windows open doesn't make you look cool, it just announces to the world how terrible your taste in music is.
Arrien 2 years ago
How about when they keep the windows up and the car just vibrates so badly from the 'music' you think the panels are going to pop off.
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