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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hyperplex on June 08, 2017, 09:24:48 AM
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ITT we specifically discuss things that we have absolutely no right to be pissed about but goddamnit we fucking are anyway!
I'll start:
People that go the damn speed limit on winding roads when the weather is perfect and there is no traffic. I don't care if it's less safe, going 25mph on a road that can easily be handled at 40+ makes me want to throw you off the road speed away in a fiery blaze of glory. This lady I was behind this morning insisted that was her going rate regardless of absolutely anything and had a line of 8 cars behind her wishing for a meteor intervention.
Your turns....
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People at my work that go above and beyond.. secretly working 15+ extra hours a week to increase the amount of stuff they deliver. Stop making me look like a shitty employee because I'm adhering to the 40 hour work week agreement I signed in my employment contract.
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
:lol I work with a few of those guys. It's pretty funny to watch....
At the same time when my boss types her fingers literally are a blurr. It's impressive. I haven't taken a words per minute test or anything lately but I would say I'm 'above average' when it comes to typing but nothing special
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
Sorry. :lol
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Different strokes I suppose, but I always say anger is an emotion just like anything else so express it! I hate slow drivers too, especially if there's no way around them. Lately, my thing has been turn signals. It's amazing how many lazy drivers are out there who don't feel the need to communicate to other drivers.
Oh, you're slowing down. Why are you slowing down? Oh, you're getting ready to turn, I think. Or, I want to turn left. I have my turn signal on. You're driving toward me in oncoming lane. I'm waiting for you. Oh, you're turning right. Thanks for letting me know, asshole. Now, I'm behind you and you're slow! :rollin
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People that go the damn speed limit on winding roads when the weather is perfect and there is no traffic. I don't care if it's less safe, going 25mph on a road that can easily be handled at 40+ makes me want to throw you off the road speed away in a fiery blaze of glory.
:lol Yeah, that one. And especially on the freeway when they are in the left lane. If you want to go slow, cool. Just stay to the right like you're supposed to. The left lane is for PASSING, not perfectly pacing the car(s) to your immediate right so that those wanting to pass cannot.
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99.9% of all the other drivers on the road. They all suck.
People who empty their shopping cart into their car and do not return it to the store or a corral, but just leave it there.
Bicycle riders who think that the rules of the road, as they apply to automobiles, do not apply to them.
The loudmouthed guy at the bar on Thursday nights. People are literally just across the bar from you, stop yelling and STFU.
People who think that the left lane affords some sort of magical right to drive at whatever speed you like, because "passing".
Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
People who place even the remotest amount of importance on handshake firmness.
People.
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People who place even the remotest amount of importance on handshake firmness.
But how else am I supposed to know how strongly you can grip a sword in the event you need to defend my daughter's honor?
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People who empty their shopping cart into their car and do not return it to the store or a corral, but just leave it there.
People who decide to buy something, then decide to NOT buy something and just put it on any ol' random shelf. The price we pay for the goods includes the cost to pay for the return of that item to the proper shelf, you fat lazy fuck.
Cell phones at concerts.
Cell phones while driving.
Cell phones.
Social media.
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That one friend or family member that can never be on time. I personally stop going to movies together as an example.
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People who empty their shopping cart into their car and do not return it to the store or a corral, but just leave it there.
People who decide to buy something, then decide to NOT buy something and just put it on any ol' random shelf. The price we pay for the goods includes the cost to pay for the return of that item to the proper shelf, you fat lazy fuck.
The worst when I used to work in the grocery store was when someone would get something frozen or cut steaks and then leave them in a random aisle. Not only are you wasting the time of employees, but you're ruining the product and it gets wasted.
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I have a tendency to, if I find something so obviously misplaced in a grocery store, to just grab it and put it back when I am in that aisle. But yea, super annoying.
I feel like we're not allowed to talk about leaving carts in the parking lot, but that.
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leaving carts in the parking lot
Prior to seeing it posted on this forum way back when, I had never even heard of that being a thing to be annoyed at, and in college I had a job at a grocery store where returning the carts was part of my job. It never phased any of us that the majority of carts were strewn about the parking lot in places other than the cart corrals, and I don't EVER recall anyone ever complaining about it.
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Stores that put cart returns in the lot don't bother me. What bothers me is when people pointedly refuse to walk an extra 30 feet to push the cart to the return, instead leaving them where they are, so cars can hit them or a strong wind can blow them all over the place. It's just inconsiderate and creates more work for the guys whose job is to return them all; they have to run around the lot to get the stray ones.
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ITT we specifically discuss things that we have absolutely no right to be pissed about but goddamnit we fucking are anyway!
I'll start:
People that go the damn speed limit on winding roads when the weather is perfect and there is no traffic. I don't care if it's less safe, going 25mph on a road that can easily be handled at 40+ makes me want to throw you off the road speed away in a fiery blaze of glory. This lady I was behind this morning insisted that was her going rate regardless of absolutely anything and had a line of 8 cars behind her wishing for a meteor intervention.
Your turns....
Until you get points on your license by some jerk who's just camping out and waiting to attack because he doesn't care about whether you were actually operating your vehicle safely or moving with the flow of traffic.
So that's my contribution to the question in the title as well :biggrin:
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Stores that put cart returns in the lot don't bother me. What bothers me is when people pointedly refuse to walk an extra 30 feet to push the cart to the return, instead leaving them where they are, so cars can hit them or a strong wind can blow them all over the place. It's just inconsiderate and creates more work for the guys whose job is to return them all; they have to run around the lot to get the stray ones.
Well, again, as someone who worked that job in college, we didn't care and didn't think of it as inconsiderate. It was just another part of the job and a reason to get outside. The only place I have ever heard anyone say they cared was on this forum.
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leaving carts in the parking lot
Prior to seeing it posted on this forum way back when, I had never even heard of that being a thing to be annoyed at, and in college I had a job at a grocery store where returning the carts was part of my job. It never phased any of us that the majority of carts were strewn about the parking lot in places other than the cart corrals, and I don't EVER recall anyone ever complaining about it.
My biggest complaint with it is that I once had a rogue shopping cart hit my car so hard it cracked my front headlight.
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Stores that put cart returns in the lot don't bother me. What bothers me is when people pointedly refuse to walk an extra 30 feet to push the cart to the return, instead leaving them where they are, so cars can hit them or a strong wind can blow them all over the place. It's just inconsiderate and creates more work for the guys whose job is to return them all; they have to run around the lot to get the stray ones.
Well, again, as someone who worked that job in college, we didn't care and didn't think of it as inconsiderate. It was just another part of the job and a reason to get outside. The only place I have ever heard anyone say they cared was on this forum.
Well, I get annoyed because I've often either had to lose out on parking spots, or had to stop my car in the middle of the lane, get out, move the cart somewhere else, and then get back in and park.
But if it's just me, I'll shut up.
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Stores that put cart returns in the lot don't bother me. What bothers me is when people pointedly refuse to walk an extra 30 feet to push the cart to the return, instead leaving them where they are, so cars can hit them or a strong wind can blow them all over the place. It's just inconsiderate and creates more work for the guys whose job is to return them all; they have to run around the lot to get the stray ones.
Well, again, as someone who worked that job in college, we didn't care and didn't think of it as inconsiderate. It was just another part of the job and a reason to get outside. The only place I have ever heard anyone say they cared was on this forum.
Well, I get annoyed because I've often either had to lose out on parking spots, or had to stop my car in the middle of the lane, get out, move the cart somewhere else, and then get back in and park.
But if it's just me, I'll shut up.
It's not just you...it's lazy, and screws over the people who drive into the lot after you.
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@Adami: And that issue, as well as what Chino posted, I can completely understand. Here, when they aren't in the corrals, people at least (usually) have the sense to put them out of parking spaces with their front wheels up on the curb so that (1) they aren't taking up any parking spots and people trying to park don't have to move them, and (2) they don't generally wander and smack into vehicles.
And I can understand if people are just generally annoyed by it as well. That's fine. What I don't get is the automatic indignation and suggestion that anyone who has ever not put their cart in a corral is inconsiderate. If that's how it is looked at in some places, or even most places, that doesn't mean that that's how everyone looks at it. If the people responsible for rounding up the carts don't care, and the carts aren't inconveniencing anyone else (by, for example, being left where they block parking spaces or smack into cars), then it isn't inconsiderate. For anyone who just makes a blanket judgment, feels morally superior, and engages in name-calling because THEY subjectively get annoyed, the problem is with them being too judgmental, as far as I'm concerned.
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Oh yea, I mostly agree.
Like I go to three main grocery stores around me for various things. At the Albertsons near me, there are a lot of corrals. So when people leave the cart in a parking spot 10 feet from an empty corral, that seems just lazy. However, if I go to Ralph's, there's only a corral at the very very top of the parking lot, so it can be pretty far from your car, and I get not wanting to walk all the way back, but they're still too often just left in the open, blocking spots and making driving pretty dangerous. Hell, I've seen people leave the carts directly behind a parked car.
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I'll repeat some just to hammer it down. (I also feel like maybe we should try and clarify why it shouldn't piss us off...?? Otherwise it'll no doubt turn into just another "pissed off" thread, right? Or no?)
All social media. I realize it's now a gorilla-glued-down aspect of our communication, but god damn does every single nasty dripping bit of it piss me off. 8 billion motherfuckers who all want to tell you about their day. Fuck your day, fuck your pictures, fuck your "foodie" bullshit, fuck your hashtags and fuck you; shut the fuck up for one second. You are not that important. (Contrary to the verbage and assumed state of mind I'm actually in a pretty good mood, but that's how I feel whenever I do eventually get pissed off about social media, just to clarify) :lol Definitely shouldn't piss me off and most times I really don't care but sometimes...there's just one stupid fuck who posts his/her food, ugly Steve Buscemi looking child, and then throws in a fantastic quote like "Yolo" that just gets me going real good.
Most drivers. I understand that everyone thinks they're a better driver than they are, but there really are just some objectively horrific, dumbfuck drivers out there who couldn't dodge a boulder falling in slow motion, let alone make any rational decision while they and others are going anywhere between 40 and 80 MPH. The longer I live, the more I drive (and I've been driving a whole hell of a lot these past couple years), the more I think that for as awesome as cars are as an invention, they should have never been invented because humans are just too fucking stupid as a whole to use them. On the contrary, it's a FANTASTIC form of population control because of that. It just sucks that some poor innocent is usually taken along with the completely disposable dipshit. This one is a bit more logical to be pissed off about but even so...the most you can do is teach yourself and those you love who are young and learning how to drive, how to mainly not only look out for how you drive, but MAINLY how other morons drive.
That's all for now. It's actually a really nice day and I'm going to get a haircut later. Guarantee you...the second I start driving more than a few minutes...that mood will change. I hate that this is a fact. :lol :facepalm: :hat
Stores that put cart returns in the lot don't bother me. What bothers me is when people pointedly refuse to walk an extra 30 feet to push the cart to the return, instead leaving them where they are, so cars can hit them or a strong wind can blow them all over the place. It's just inconsiderate and creates more work for the guys whose job is to return them all; they have to run around the lot to get the stray ones.
Well, again, as someone who worked that job in college, we didn't care and didn't think of it as inconsiderate. It was just another part of the job and a reason to get outside. The only place I have ever heard anyone say they cared was on this forum.
I'll jump in on this horrible shopping cart epidemic, it's such a hot topic at DTF. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's a geography thing because 80% of the time in Southern Texas, most pimpled teens want to murder anyone who leaves their shopping carts like a pile of bodies a football field away from the grocery store. I worked at a Randall's back in the day but was in the deli (oh god that meat freezer...my haven), and spoke a lot with coworkers about the subject and any of them who worked the lot hated the "random carts" situation. But if I wasn't in Southern Texas and worked it, I'd probably feel the same. /Gump And that's all I hafta say about that /Gump.
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Goddamn Tio! The whole social media thing is entirely within your control. Just don't look at that stuff. I'm hardly ever on FB for some of those reasons. Hell, I'm hardly ever here.
Regarding the shopping cart epidemic. The ones who park their carts where cars are supposed to be are probably the ones who get annoyed the most when it happens to them. :facepalm:
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Goddamn Tio! The whole social media thing is entirely within your control. Just don't look at that stuff. I'm hardly ever on FB for some of those reasons. Hell, I'm hardly ever here.
I've hidden 90%+ of the people I'm friends with from my FB newsfeed. I basically just follow science/astronomy pages, monster trucks, and battlebots at this point.
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A strong wind blew a rogue shopping cart into the front of my wife's van, leaving an obvious mark on the front bumper. Because someone left it sitting where it didn't belong. Even doing as b1 suggests and putting the wheels on the curb, instead of walking it to a corral smacks of "my time is more important than to walk this cart to a corral, so ima just leave it here instead". Not you personally, b1, but I suppose to me it just seems incredibly lazy and lazy irritates me.
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Goddamn Tio! The whole social media thing is entirely within your control. Just don't look at that stuff. I'm hardly ever on FB for some of those reasons. Hell, I'm hardly ever here.
Regarding the shopping cart epidemic. The ones who park their carts where cars are supposed to be are probably the ones who get annoyed the most when it happens to them. :facepalm:
I haven't posted a good vehement post in a while, it was stored up. :lol
Yeah definitely overboard. I actually have zero social media and hardly ever see it, but it's tough to avoid when it's everywhere. Some coworker coming up to me showing me something or people talking about it or one of those horribly inescapable situations in which I'm on a date talking about it. It's a painful game of "Do I really wanna say what I want to say or do I want to get laid?" :-X :|
A strong wind blew a rogue shopping cart into the front of my wife's van, leaving an obvious mark on the front bumper. Because someone left it sitting where it didn't belong. Even doing as b1 suggests and putting the wheels on the curb, instead of walking it to a corral smacks of "my time is more important than to walk this cart to a corral, so ima just leave it here instead". Not you personally, b1, but I suppose to me it just seems incredibly lazy and lazy irritates me.
I admit that probably irks me more than it should, but that's just because I've seen an elderly near-skeleton walk a cart back, a lone mother of four whose doing thirty things at once walk it back, and then see a heaping 300 lb sack of sentient shit not walk it back after he unloaded his six tubs of ice cream and cake into his food trolly of a vehicle. Situations like that is when it really pisses me off.
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I'll jump in on this horrible shopping cart epidemic, it's such a hot topic at DTF. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's a geography thing...
Yeah, I think it definitely is. And it may be somewhat of a generational thing too. Either way. I mean, since it came up here a couple of years ago, I'm more aware that some people may be annoyed by it, so I generally put mine in the corrals now (assuming there are some within reasonable distance--depends on the store). But I'm not going to just judge someone who doesn't put theirs away when I don't have half a clue as to why. Could be someone whose mom is in the hospital and had to run to the store for something real quick and is in a hurry. Could be the stay-at-home mom of a couple of small kids who is distracted by her kids being fussy and just trying to cope and keep her head above water. Could be the guy who is mentally distracted because he just came from the doctor's office where he was told he has cancer or from work where he was just given a pink slip and has more important things on his mind than where his shopping cart ends up. I'm not really comfortable passing judgment when I have no idea what somebody else's mindset or intentions are, and don't really think it's ANYONE's place to do so. But that's just me.
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People that go the damn speed limit on winding roads when the weather is perfect and there is no traffic. I don't care if it's less safe, going 25mph on a road that can easily be handled at 40+ makes me want to throw you off the road speed away in a fiery blaze of glory.
:lol Yeah, that one. And especially on the freeway when they are in the left lane. If you want to go slow, cool. Just stay to the right like you're supposed to. The left lane is for PASSING, not perfectly pacing the car(s) to your immediate right so that those wanting to pass cannot.
What about when it's perfect conditions and they go half the speed limit at all times ? Then when the Speed Limit lowers - THEY SLOW DOWN EVEN MORE.
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I'm not really comfortable passing judgment when I have no idea what somebody else's mindset or intentions are
Zimmerman: Hey, some 300 lb sack of sentient shit didn't put his shopping cart away, can I judge him for it?
911 Operator: We don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman: *judges anyway*
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People who travel BELOW the speed limit I believe falls in the category of things you are allowed to be pissed off about, since they are disobeying the "rules of the road." My point here was that I had no right to be pissed off at this lady because she was in fact doing what she was supposed to do, it's just that what she was supposed to do PISSED ME THE FUCK OFF.
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I'm not really comfortable passing judgment when I have no idea what somebody else's mindset or intentions are
Zimmerman: Hey, some 300 lb sack of sentient shit didn't put his shopping cart away, can I judge him for it?
911 Operator: We don't need you to do that.
Zimmerman: *judges anyway*
:lol
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People who travel BELOW the speed limit I believe falls in the category of things you are allowed to be pissed off about, since they are disobeying the "rules of the road." My point here was that I had no right to be pissed off at this lady because she was in fact doing what she was supposed to do, it's just that what she was supposed to do PISSED ME THE FUCK OFF.
I totally get it. Below the limit, I say to myself, "this person can't even do the speed limit." Actually doing the speed limit is annoying enough right? :lol
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
I have witnessed the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company not only type with two fingers, but also:
1) use caps lock instead of the shift key for capitals, and
2) realize after writing an entire letter that he had a typo half way up...so he deleted the entire letter back to that point, corrected the typo, and retyped it all, because he didn't understand how a mouse, or even the fucking arrow keys and cursor, work.
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^ :lolpalm: :rollin
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Holy. Shit.
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I KNEW HOW THE F-ING KEYS WORKED WHEN I WAS 7 YEARS OLD
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
I have witnessed the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company not only type with two fingers, but also:
1) use caps lock instead of the shift key for capitals, and
2) realize after writing an entire letter that he had a typo half way up...so he deleted the entire letter back to that point, corrected the typo, and retyped it all, because he didn't understand how a mouse, or even the fucking arrow keys and cursor, work.
Thsts what you bitches are for.
I wish I had bitches to type for me. :lol
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Fully grown adults who have been in corporate america for decades and still type with two fingers.
I have witnessed the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company not only type with two fingers, but also:
1) use caps lock instead of the shift key for capitals, and
2) realize after writing an entire letter that he had a typo half way up...so he deleted the entire letter back to that point, corrected the typo, and retyped it all, because he didn't understand how a mouse, or even the fucking arrow keys and cursor, work.
Thsts what you bitches are for.
I wish I had bitches to type for me. :lol
Okay, now I know you're doing it deliberately, King.
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;D
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Yeah, what are administrative assistants for? If everyone knew how to type, we wouldn't need them. :rollin
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I have a tendency to, if I find something so obviously misplaced in a grocery store, to just grab it and put it back when I am in that aisle. But yea, super annoying.
I feel like we're not allowed to talk about leaving carts in the parking lot, but that.
My wife yells at me for doing that (putting stuff back). Thinks I'm nuts.
99% of the time, I take the cart back or put it in one of the bins that places like Wal-Mart are handily co-opting parking spaces for.
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A strong wind blew a rogue shopping cart into the front of my wife's van, leaving an obvious mark on the front bumper. Because someone left it sitting where it didn't belong. Even doing as b1 suggests and putting the wheels on the curb, instead of walking it to a corral smacks of "my time is more important than to walk this cart to a corral, so ima just leave it here instead". Not you personally, b1, but I suppose to me it just seems incredibly lazy and lazy irritates me.
Not to challenge you or piss you off, but that's exactly how I view the dude in the left hand lane that won't let me by, I don't care HOW fast they are going. I'm not at all suggesting that left-lane driver needs to endanger their lives to move to the right lane, but 80% of the time, that's not the case.
I drove to Philly from northern Connecticut (4 hours each way) on Friday (see the Gene Simmons solo thread!! Coz you got a mention!) and then to Rochester from northern Connecticut (4 and a half hours each way) on Sunday/Monday, and I got four middle fingers. ALL FOUR were from douchebags sitting in the left lane, passing NO ONE, with open lane on the right (I got all four fingers as I passed them on the right) and with no one in front of them. They absolutely, 100%, without question, debate or conscious decision could have and should have moved over into the middle lane and let me by. AND they had the nerve, gumption and gall to make ME the bad guy. One was just wholly unprovoked, two were (presumably) because I flicked my lights at them* and one, I'll cop to probably coming up on them a little fast (and that one was funny, because it was an older couple in an Audi TT convertible; the guy flipped me the bird, but the blonde in the front seat was waving her arms at me like she was on a roller coaster at Six Flags; you'd a thought I shit in her back seat).
* Since when did that become an insult? It's a perfectly legit use of the headlights to communicate between reasonable adult drivers.
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The shopping cart thing is completely inexcusable, especially when the lazy piece of shit puts it behind someone's car. Haven't seen that since Phoenix though. Still plenty of laziness here in Maricopa though.
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Yeah, what are administrative assistants for? If everyone knew how to type, we wouldn't need them. :rollin
Dude, everyone knows executive assistants are for getting you coffee and keeping track of birthdays/anniversaries/milestones so you don't confuse presents for your mistress and your wife. Can't have them finding out about each other. Geez. It's like you never had an executive assistant before. :)
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A strong wind blew a rogue shopping cart into the front of my wife's van, leaving an obvious mark on the front bumper. Because someone left it sitting where it didn't belong. Even doing as b1 suggests and putting the wheels on the curb, instead of walking it to a corral smacks of "my time is more important than to walk this cart to a corral, so ima just leave it here instead". Not you personally, b1, but I suppose to me it just seems incredibly lazy and lazy irritates me.
Not to challenge you or piss you off, but that's exactly how I view the dude in the left hand lane that won't let me by, I don't care HOW fast they are going. I'm not at all suggesting that left-lane driver needs to endanger their lives to move to the right lane, but 80% of the time, that's not the case.
I drove to Philly from northern Connecticut (4 hours each way) on Friday (see the Gene Simmons solo thread!! Coz you got a mention!) and then to Rochester from northern Connecticut (4 and a half hours each way) on Sunday/Monday, and I got four middle fingers. ALL FOUR were from douchebags sitting in the left lane, passing NO ONE, with open lane on the right (I got all four fingers as I passed them on the right) and with no one in front of them. They absolutely, 100%, without question, debate or conscious decision could have and should have moved over into the middle lane and let me by. AND they had the nerve, gumption and gall to make ME the bad guy. One was just wholly unprovoked, two were (presumably) because I flicked my lights at them* and one, I'll cop to probably coming up on them a little fast (and that one was funny, because it was an older couple in an Audi TT convertible; the guy flipped me the bird, but the blonde in the front seat was waving her arms at me like she was on a roller coaster at Six Flags; you'd a thought I shit in her back seat).
* Since when did that become an insult? It's a perfectly legit use of the headlights to communicate between reasonable adult drivers.
People who think that the left lane affords some sort of magical right to drive at whatever speed you like, because "passing".
People.
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We got our four interns for the summer on Monday. I have to onboard them for a few things. I tell them yesterday "throw some time on my calendar tomorrow anytime between 9:00 and 2:00". Fuckers schedule the meeting for 3:45 (a Friday). Little shits have a lot to learn about the corporate world.
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3:45 on a Friday??
FIRE THEM ALL NOW.
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Two more, one benign, one liable to cause controversy (but I ask you to hear me out):
- People who, if you accidentally bump into them and say "Sorry", respond with a sarcastic "Sor-RREEE!" as if it is an insult. What happened to common courtesy? I say "I'm sorry" a lot in public, and more often than not, it's taken sarcastically and the person acts offended. I don't THINK I have a sarcastic manner, at least I've never been told that by people that care for me, but still...
- TV shows that overplay special interests or hipster conventions to make them seem more "cool" than they are. I'll use two examples, Chinese food and homosexuality, as examples (but this is not at ALL a homophobic point; it's about the writers being out of touch). My dad LOVES Chinese food. We would get it all the time. When we do, we bring it home, dish it out on plates and eat it, usually with knives and forks. Even in college, we would do likewise, or, on a rare occasion, eat it from the container with a knife and fork. I literally have not ever seen someone in my immediate vicinity eat Chinese food out of the container with chop sticks. YET.... every TV show has the characters all cool as shit at work, or in their incredibly clean, uncluttered, well-decorated apartments smoothly eating fried rice out of a white container with chopsticks, dropping none of it anywhere. Friggin' ridiculous.
The other is similar, but more serious: I binged-watched "How To Get Away With A Murder" not long ago, and now I'm watching Sense8. In both cases, the story is NOT focused on the gay community, but rather considers a randomly selected group of people in their early 20's (HTGAWAM) and in their mid- to late 20's (S8). In such a population, you would imagine the demographics are representative. In the case of HTGAWAM, it is; there are nine main characters, and they are roughly half male/female, there is one Asian (about right; 16% of the pop), one African American (about right; 13% of the pop), and yet... one of the main characters is gay, one of the others sleeps with him (so that's two, about five times the frequency in the general pop), BUT, another main character experiments with her lesbian-side (with her best friend), one other dabbles in the forbidden love, plus one OTHER loses her fiancé when it turns out that HE had a gay affair. I haven't counted, but EASILY 80% of the love scenes are between the two gay main characters and the "experimenting" main character. Sense8 is similar; it follows eight characters across the globe that are tied in a way that I haven't gotten to yet in the show. There are half men, half women (check); one African American; one Asian; all check. But two are gay (again, about five times the frequency in real life). They have (so far) only introduced TWO significant others (you got it, the gay characters' partners) and of the three love scenes... all gay. Again, this isn't homophobia (one of the love scenes was as hot as you can possibly imagine, and the other, while I didn't think it "hot" per se, was about as well done a scene as you can do) but agenda. Why the "revisionist history" (that's not what it is, but it describes what I'm going for)? Is this supposed to send a message? What's the point if the message is forced and feels fake?
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- TV shows that overplay special interests or hipster conventions to make them seem more "cool" than they are. I'll use two examples, Chinese food and homosexuality, as examples (but this is not at ALL a homophobic point; it's about the writers being out of touch). My dad LOVES Chinese food. We would get it all the time. When we do, we bring it home, dish it out on plates and eat it, usually with knives and forks. Even in college, we would do likewise, or, on a rare occasion, eat it from the container with a knife and fork. I literally have not ever seen someone in my immediate vicinity eat Chinese food out of the container with chop sticks. YET.... every TV show has the characters all cool as shit at work, or in their incredibly clean, uncluttered, well-decorated apartments smoothly eating fried rice out of a white container with chopsticks, dropping none of it anywhere. Friggin' ridiculous.
Going to piggyback this one.... chopsticks in general if you live anywhere where they aren't a main utensil. I have friends that eat their Chinese food with chopsticks (even if it's out of a container and on a plate). One of them even uses them for other food like salad and pasta because he "loves the ergonomics of the sticks" and says they don't make food taste like metal. The fork is superior in everyway. You've brainwashed yourself if you think otherwise.
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@stadler
I think it's more to do with - if every possible minority and community isn't represented - they risk abusive mail.
I also think that's why Ghostbusters 2016 got mostly good reviews. The magazines and sites just couldn't be bothered dealing with angry feminists if they dared diss it.
One of my favourite movie critics gave Ghostbusters 2016 a good review and he's a renowned feminist.
He started the review citing the " sexist backlash ". No Sorry Mark. That's exactly what they want. It was put out there by the cast and movie studio themselves.
They slapped together a movie to thrive on publicity and fake outrage instead of making a good movie or brand new IP - which they knew wouldn't have anywhere near as much exposure.
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
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@stadler
I think it's more to do with - if every possible minority and community isn't represented - they risk abusive mail.
I also think that's why Ghostbusters 2016 got mostly good reviews. The magazines and sites just couldn't be bothered dealing with angry feminists if they dared diss it.
One of my favourite movie critics gave Ghostbusters 2016 a good review and he's a renowned feminist.
He started the review citing the " sexist backlash ". No Sorry Mark. That's exactly what they want. It was put out there by the cast and movie studio themselves.
They slapped together a movie to thrive on publicity and fake outrage instead of making a good movie or brand new IP - which they knew wouldn't have anywhere near as much exposure.
or
They liked the movie. :justjen
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
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Or
They liked the movie. :justjen
:rollin :rollin
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Because it's illegal Stadler and decent people don't do that.
I get out of the way of those types of drivers because they are making a bad decision all ready which could lead to another bad decision.
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But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
If it takes you 12 seconds to pass me, I'm going to definitely be pissed off at you. :lol
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People who think that the left lane affords some sort of magical right to drive at whatever speed you like, because "passing".
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It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
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Oh gawd, let's not debate the whole left lane thing again with Stadler... there was what? A whole thread, or at least 2-3 pages in some other thread about it.
On the shopping cart thing, I'm with everyone not named Bosk here. The other thing that infuriates me is when people return it to the coral, but just zip it in there without properly lining it up. Then, magically, the coral which could probably hold 50-60 carts, now only holds a dozen. That's just as bad as not returning it at all imo.
Costco shoppers. Good lord, the parking lot is so fucking huge, pull out your membership card BEFORE you get to the door. Oh, and when you stop to get your fucking samples, or peruse what's on the shelves, don't stop directly adjacent to the other two someone's who have already stopped, blocking the entire lane.
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People that take up a whole shopping isle and give you a dirty look when you ask if you can pass by.
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- TV shows that overplay special interests or hipster conventions to make them seem more "cool" than they are. I'll use two examples, Chinese food and homosexuality, as examples (but this is not at ALL a homophobic point; it's about the writers being out of touch). My dad LOVES Chinese food. We would get it all the time. When we do, we bring it home, dish it out on plates and eat it, usually with knives and forks. Even in college, we would do likewise, or, on a rare occasion, eat it from the container with a knife and fork. I literally have not ever seen someone in my immediate vicinity eat Chinese food out of the container with chop sticks. YET.... every TV show has the characters all cool as shit at work, or in their incredibly clean, uncluttered, well-decorated apartments smoothly eating fried rice out of a white container with chopsticks, dropping none of it anywhere. Friggin' ridiculous.
The other is similar, but more serious: I binged-watched "How To Get Away With A Murder" not long ago, and now I'm watching Sense8. In both cases, the story is NOT focused on the gay community, but rather considers a randomly selected group of people in their early 20's (HTGAWAM) and in their mid- to late 20's (S8). In such a population, you would imagine the demographics are representative. In the case of HTGAWAM, it is; there are nine main characters, and they are roughly half male/female, there is one Asian (about right; 16% of the pop), one African American (about right; 13% of the pop), and yet... one of the main characters is gay, one of the others sleeps with him (so that's two, about five times the frequency in the general pop), BUT, another main character experiments with her lesbian-side (with her best friend), one other dabbles in the forbidden love, plus one OTHER loses her fiancé when it turns out that HE had a gay affair. I haven't counted, but EASILY 80% of the love scenes are between the two gay main characters and the "experimenting" main character. Sense8 is similar; it follows eight characters across the globe that are tied in a way that I haven't gotten to yet in the show. There are half men, half women (check); one African American; one Asian; all check. But two are gay (again, about five times the frequency in real life). They have (so far) only introduced TWO significant others (you got it, the gay characters' partners) and of the three love scenes... all gay. Again, this isn't homophobia (one of the love scenes was as hot as you can possibly imagine, and the other, while I didn't think it "hot" per se, was about as well done a scene as you can do) but agenda. Why the "revisionist history" (that's not what it is, but it describes what I'm going for)? Is this supposed to send a message? What's the point if the message is forced and feels fake?
Well, I would say that just because you don't know anyone who eats with chopsticks, doesn't mean that a shit ton of people out there don't either and Hollywood is faking it to push an agenda. I currently live in Raleigh, NC, and there are more Asian restaurants here than you can shake a stick at, and almost everyone I know or see eats with chopsticks (I don't personally, I never quite got the hang of it, but still). Hell, even when I lived in dinky little Mount Airy, many people there used chopsticks for Chinese or Japanese food.
As far as the gay/diverse race thing: in the entirety of the history of TV, shows have probably been 99% white and 99.9% straight (I am, of course, using the most up-to-date statistics), so if one or two shows somehow swing over the demographic benchmark, straight white people still have a sizable lead. I don't see a problem there. Now, if EVERY show did that, then I may start to agree with you, but I don't see that happening (yet).
None of which invalidates your feelings, of course.
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The sound of diesel engines. Man it gets under my skin even though its really not a big deal, lol.
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The other is similar, but more serious: I binged-watched "How To Get Away With A Murder" not long ago, and now I'm watching Sense8. In both cases, the story is NOT focused on the gay community, but rather considers a randomly selected group of people in their early 20's (HTGAWAM) and in their mid- to late 20's (S8). In such a population, you would imagine the demographics are representative. In the case of HTGAWAM, it is; there are nine main characters, and they are roughly half male/female, there is one Asian (about right; 16% of the pop), one African American (about right; 13% of the pop), and yet... one of the main characters is gay, one of the others sleeps with him (so that's two, about five times the frequency in the general pop), BUT, another main character experiments with her lesbian-side (with her best friend), one other dabbles in the forbidden love, plus one OTHER loses her fiancé when it turns out that HE had a gay affair. I haven't counted, but EASILY 80% of the love scenes are between the two gay main characters and the "experimenting" main character. Sense8 is similar; it follows eight characters across the globe that are tied in a way that I haven't gotten to yet in the show. There are half men, half women (check); one African American; one Asian; all check. But two are gay (again, about five times the frequency in real life). They have (so far) only introduced TWO significant others (you got it, the gay characters' partners) and of the three love scenes... all gay. Again, this isn't homophobia (one of the love scenes was as hot as you can possibly imagine, and the other, while I didn't think it "hot" per se, was about as well done a scene as you can do) but agenda. Why the "revisionist history" (that's not what it is, but it describes what I'm going for)? Is this supposed to send a message? What's the point if the message is forced and feels fake?
Don't watch Six Feet Under, then. Two of the seven main characters are gay (and a third experiments with her gay side briefly at one point). Sounds like you'd hate it. :P
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
No, safe driving is not driving 20 miles over the speed limit, and flashing your lights at a guy going 5-10 miles over the speed limit. You want to drive recklessly, drive around me, asshole. I'm not moving.
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Zook is my new hero.
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Zook is right.
I love it when people get up my ass and flash their lights, especially when I'm already going over the speed limit, I take that as that they are letting me know that I'm speeding and should slow down and hold them up even more.
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
No, safe driving is not driving 20 miles over the speed limit, and flashing your lights at a guy going 5-10 miles over the speed limit. You want to drive recklessly, drive around me, asshole. I'm not moving.
This. Absolutely this.
No offense, Stadler, but you very much seem like that guy when it comes to driving, ya know the guy who pisses everyone off on the road because he thinks he owns the road and that everyone should adjust their driving to what he wants to do (as if everyone is a mind reader and knows what every other driver is thinking).
Fortunately, I am a very non-aggressive driver, so I would likely just get out of the way of some nut job behind me wanting to go 90 in the fast lane, but I get why some would take the "f that guy" attitude with someone who rides up on their ass and flashes their blinkers at them to try to get them to move out of the way (which is a dick move).
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People at my work that go above and beyond.. secretly working 15+ extra hours a week to increase the amount of stuff they deliver. Stop making me look like a shitty employee because I'm adhering to the 40 hour work week agreement I signed in my employment contract.
In the case of one woman at my work who does this, it's because work is her hobby. She is single and her kid is in college so she loves to work.
The difference is her work output is significantly less than everyone else.
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
No, safe driving is not driving 20 miles over the speed limit, and flashing your lights at a guy going 5-10 miles over the speed limit. You want to drive recklessly, drive around me, asshole. I'm not moving.
This. Absolutely this.
No offense, Stadler, but you very much seem like that guy when it comes to driving, ya know the guy who pisses everyone off on the road because he thinks he owns the road and that everyone should adjust their driving to what he wants to do (as if everyone is a mind reader and knows what every other driver is thinking).
Fortunately, I am a very non-aggressive driver, so I would likely just get out of the way of some nut job behind me wanting to go 90 in the fast lane, but I get why some would take the "f that guy" attitude with someone who rides up on their ass and flashes their blinkers at them to try to get them to move out of the way (which is a dick move).
Agree with Kev and Zook on this, we have a lot of winding roads near where I live where there is no shoulder and if you're new to the area it demands your attention driving so the speed limit (45) is warranted. If you want to pass, pass. I pass people who are driving slowly, I give them tons of space and go around.
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I really try my hardest to give people the benefit of the doubt and to control my impatience on the road. I tend to be the nice guy that will let a person over or be courteous, and much of the time I'm good about it. However, there are days when impatience gets the better of me and I drive too close or get too frustrated or am just "that asshole." I usually regret it afterwards, but it's a bit late by then.
Sometimes it's better to bitch about it online because then I get out frustration when I'm not behind the wheel of a speeding flame beast of metal.
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Because it's illegal Stadler and decent people don't do that.
I get out of the way of those types of drivers because they are making a bad decision all ready which could lead to another bad decision.
If you're going over the speed limit, and I'm going over the speed limit, the "illegality" of it is ambiguous. So then you go to the next level: passing on the left, cruising on the right (this is the law in over half of states). Given were both passing, that's ambiguous too (though some people's definition of "passing" is... creative at best). So then you go to the next level: Slower traffic keep right. If there's someone going faster than you - not your place to play "cop", "judge" or "jury" - move over. It's very simple.
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- TV shows that overplay special interests or hipster conventions to make them seem more "cool" than they are. I'll use two examples, Chinese food and homosexuality, as examples (but this is not at ALL a homophobic point; it's about the writers being out of touch). My dad LOVES Chinese food. We would get it all the time. When we do, we bring it home, dish it out on plates and eat it, usually with knives and forks. Even in college, we would do likewise, or, on a rare occasion, eat it from the container with a knife and fork. I literally have not ever seen someone in my immediate vicinity eat Chinese food out of the container with chop sticks. YET.... every TV show has the characters all cool as shit at work, or in their incredibly clean, uncluttered, well-decorated apartments smoothly eating fried rice out of a white container with chopsticks, dropping none of it anywhere. Friggin' ridiculous.
The other is similar, but more serious: I binged-watched "How To Get Away With A Murder" not long ago, and now I'm watching Sense8. In both cases, the story is NOT focused on the gay community, but rather considers a randomly selected group of people in their early 20's (HTGAWAM) and in their mid- to late 20's (S8). In such a population, you would imagine the demographics are representative. In the case of HTGAWAM, it is; there are nine main characters, and they are roughly half male/female, there is one Asian (about right; 16% of the pop), one African American (about right; 13% of the pop), and yet... one of the main characters is gay, one of the others sleeps with him (so that's two, about five times the frequency in the general pop), BUT, another main character experiments with her lesbian-side (with her best friend), one other dabbles in the forbidden love, plus one OTHER loses her fiancé when it turns out that HE had a gay affair. I haven't counted, but EASILY 80% of the love scenes are between the two gay main characters and the "experimenting" main character. Sense8 is similar; it follows eight characters across the globe that are tied in a way that I haven't gotten to yet in the show. There are half men, half women (check); one African American; one Asian; all check. But two are gay (again, about five times the frequency in real life). They have (so far) only introduced TWO significant others (you got it, the gay characters' partners) and of the three love scenes... all gay. Again, this isn't homophobia (one of the love scenes was as hot as you can possibly imagine, and the other, while I didn't think it "hot" per se, was about as well done a scene as you can do) but agenda. Why the "revisionist history" (that's not what it is, but it describes what I'm going for)? Is this supposed to send a message? What's the point if the message is forced and feels fake?
Well, I would say that just because you don't know anyone who eats with chopsticks, doesn't mean that a shit ton of people out there don't either and Hollywood is faking it to push an agenda. I currently live in Raleigh, NC, and there are more Asian restaurants here than you can shake a stick at, and almost everyone I know or see eats with chopsticks (I don't personally, I never quite got the hang of it, but still). Hell, even when I lived in dinky little Mount Airy, many people there used chopsticks for Chinese or Japanese food.
I'm calling friendly, let's-have-a-laugh-over-beers, bullshit on that. I've lived in Charlotte, a suburb of Charlotte, and a suburb of Atlanta, and there are FAR more people that say "wha the fuck with the wooden sticks? Maryann, get me a goddamned fork, will you please!" than are hip-ly eating their tofu surprise out of a white container with a set of chopsticks. HAHA.
(Again, I'm being more funny than argumentative).
As far as the gay/diverse race thing: in the entirety of the history of TV, shows have probably been 99% white and 99.9% straight (I am, of course, using the most up-to-date statistics), so if one or two shows somehow swing over the demographic benchmark, straight white people still have a sizable lead. I don't see a problem there. Now, if EVERY show did that, then I may start to agree with you, but I don't see that happening (yet).
None of which invalidates your feelings, of course.
It is being more and more popular, though. I don't mean to bag on Sense8 - because it's a good show, and if you know the backstory, it makes sense - but we're 10 episodes in. TWICE now one of the main characters has gone in for a kiss with his shapely and comely costar, only for it to be thwarted and turned into a mocking of that character, and in another scene, the woman in that exchange was told that "her kind of love was 'pathological' and 'narcissistic". Meanwhile, there have been two love scenes - it's Netflix, so they show penis AND vag though not sexually and certainly no penetration - with the gay character (one frivolous and one integral to the plot) and no less than FOUR - including one where they showed a closeup of the strapon dildo with lube dripping to the floor - with the other gay couple (and coincidence of coincidences, one of the "women" is transsexual).
It's a message. And that's fine, I'm all for messages, and I'm CERTAINLY more than fine - actually happy - about a show that shows gay relationships as something more than a caricature and something to be gawked at - but when the message defies reality, it becomes heavy handed and preachy. And there's a LOT of "heavy handed" and "preachy" in Hollywood these days.
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All I ask is for time to move over. Not bully me over me going 75 in a 65 isn't crazy where as 90 flying up my ass and not giving me a chance to move over is what pisses me off.
I'll always move over just don't be a dick about it.
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The other is similar, but more serious: I binged-watched "How To Get Away With A Murder" not long ago, and now I'm watching Sense8. In both cases, the story is NOT focused on the gay community, but rather considers a randomly selected group of people in their early 20's (HTGAWAM) and in their mid- to late 20's (S8). In such a population, you would imagine the demographics are representative. In the case of HTGAWAM, it is; there are nine main characters, and they are roughly half male/female, there is one Asian (about right; 16% of the pop), one African American (about right; 13% of the pop), and yet... one of the main characters is gay, one of the others sleeps with him (so that's two, about five times the frequency in the general pop), BUT, another main character experiments with her lesbian-side (with her best friend), one other dabbles in the forbidden love, plus one OTHER loses her fiancé when it turns out that HE had a gay affair. I haven't counted, but EASILY 80% of the love scenes are between the two gay main characters and the "experimenting" main character. Sense8 is similar; it follows eight characters across the globe that are tied in a way that I haven't gotten to yet in the show. There are half men, half women (check); one African American; one Asian; all check. But two are gay (again, about five times the frequency in real life). They have (so far) only introduced TWO significant others (you got it, the gay characters' partners) and of the three love scenes... all gay. Again, this isn't homophobia (one of the love scenes was as hot as you can possibly imagine, and the other, while I didn't think it "hot" per se, was about as well done a scene as you can do) but agenda. Why the "revisionist history" (that's not what it is, but it describes what I'm going for)? Is this supposed to send a message? What's the point if the message is forced and feels fake?
Don't watch Six Feet Under, then. Two of the seven main characters are gay (and a third experiments with her gay side briefly at one point). Sounds like you'd hate it. :P
Well, I'm not the hugest fan of Alan Ball, so it was middling to me. That I thought was different, though, since it was a family-driven melodrama and I think an integral part of the story. I got it there, and it was done in concert with the story (at times, it WAS the story). I'm talking about a more generous, reductive reshaping of modern demographics. Not EVERYONE is a homosexual waiting to break out of their shell. Not EVERYONE would "love it" if they just "tried it once!" which is the message some of these are trying to shill.
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All I ask is for time to move over. Not bully me over me going 75 in a 65 isn't crazy where as 90 flying up my ass and not giving me a chance to move over is what pisses me off.
I'll always move over just don't be a dick about it.
But - despite some people assuming I'm some raging out of control asshole on the road - that's not at all what I'm asking for. I'm asking for the opposite: if I give you time, if I come up on you reasonably, and politely and respectfully ask if you could move over, please don't brake check, then drive slow for 10 miles parallel to the car next to you, and flip me the bird in the rearview and then again when I pass you on the right. NEITHER of us own the road, and we have to find a way to coexist. if you peaceably let me pass, we can BOTH drive the way we want to drive.
Having said that, I have probably flicked my lights twice in 2017; I don't even do it anymore because it's an invitation for vitriol.
The assholes are CLEARLY not the people who - like me - are prone to a little speed. I drive a LOT. I had reason to drive about 1200 miles this past week (Hartford to Philly and back, then Hartford to Rochester and back) and more often than not I just sat in the RIGHT lane, and passed, comfortably, all the assholes sitting in the left lane like they owned it, a line of idiot cars all trailing some douche going 60 and talking on their cellphone. I had my cruise set on 80 the entire time (and I'll note, on the Rochester ride, I passed easily five speed traps and they didn't even look twice at me. Right hand lane, going a steady, safe speed).
I guarantee - GUARANTEE - you that if you came across me on the highways anytime recently you did not leave the experience thinking "that fucking lunatic needs to cool his jets". I have a family - four kids and a grandkid - I have to get home to every day. What I don't have time for is some asswipe with a small cock asserting their "manhood" by pretending their sitting in the left lane and making me go around on the right is "safe, legal driving" and somehow going to make the roads a better experience. It's not.
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Zook is my new hero.
Except Zook is dead wrong. Up to the speed at which the road was designed (which, with our interstates, is somewhere in the 90 range, with safety factors), speed DIFFERENTIAL is a far more important metric than "speed". In the scenario he described, he is clearly, factually and unassailably the danger variable in the equation. You can (if you're so inclined) look it up. There are numerous resources that document this (one excellent one is called "Traffic").
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I'm a fast driver, or at least faster than most here in Oregon. As such, I pass a lot of people on the road. I do, however, try to stay patient if someone is in the left lane going slower than I am, but they need to be passing someone. If you're just camped in the left lane going the same speed as the person next to you, you need to move. But with this in mind, I won't flash my lights, and I *never* tailgate people. It annoys the shit out of me more than anything if someone does it to me, so I refuse to do it to anyone else. Plus it's dangerous as all hell.
If someone does scream up behind me as I'm already doing 10-15 (or more) over the limit and I'm passing a long line of cars, they can wait. I'll move over at my earliest and safest opportunity. Until then, they can manage to wait the 30-60 seconds it takes me to pass the people I'm driving by. And I won't brake check people either. I used to, but that's just as dangerous and dumb as tailgating in the first place.
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See, THAT (three posts ago because I've been ninja'd twice now) is reasonable. Some of your other posts (as well as the last time this issue came up) were not. You were quite clearly stating that, even if the person in front of you WAS going over the speed limit, and WAS passing other cars, they should still slow down to merge with the slower traffic and get out of your way so that you do the speed you want to.
THAT is what may of us are saying was unreasonable.
I'm a fast driver, or at least faster than most here in Oregon. As such, I pass a lot of people on the road. I do, however, try to stay patient if someone is in the left lane going slower than I am, but they need to be passing someone. If you're just camped in the left lane going the same speed as the person next to you, you need to move. But with this in mind, I won't flash my lights, and I *never* tailgate people. It annoys the shit out of me more than anything if someone does it to me, so I refuse to do it to anyone else. Plus it's dangerous as all hell.
If someone does scream up behind me as I'm already doing 10-15 (or more) over the limit and I'm passing a long line of cars, they can wait. I'll move over at my earliest and safest opportunity. Until then, they can manage to wait the 30-60 seconds it takes me to pass the people I'm driving by. And I won't brake check people either. I used to, but that's just as dangerous and dumb as tailgating in the first place.
This guy gets it.
Zook is my new hero.
Except Zook is dead wrong. Up to the speed at which the road was designed (which, with our interstates, is somewhere in the 90 range, with safety factors), speed DIFFERENTIAL is a far more important metric than "speed". In the scenario he described, he is clearly, factually and unassailably the danger variable in the equation. You can (if you're so inclined) look it up. There are numerous resources that document this (one excellent one is called "Traffic").
You're right... you - who wants to drive 20+ mph over the limit and be the fastest vehicle on the road - clearly aren't the problem
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Those same people flashing their lights when I'm already speeding in the left lane. All of you can eat all of me, impatient driver.
This one bothers me too. If I'm going 80-85 in a 65 and I'm still getting tailgated, I don't know what they want me to do! I'm the one that's going to get pulled over. I just get over a lane and let them pass and usually will get back in the lane once they pass.
But what's wrong with that? If I'm the guy coming up behind you - and sometimes I am - that's all I'm asking. Move over, for the 12 seconds it takes me to pass you and go back to what you were doing. It's the rules of the road. It's common courtesy. It's safe driving. What is so hard about that?
No, safe driving is not driving 20 miles over the speed limit, and flashing your lights at a guy going 5-10 miles over the speed limit. You want to drive recklessly, drive around me, asshole. I'm not moving.
This. Absolutely this.
No offense, Stadler, but you very much seem like that guy when it comes to driving, ya know the guy who pisses everyone off on the road because he thinks he owns the road and that everyone should adjust their driving to what he wants to do (as if everyone is a mind reader and knows what every other driver is thinking).
Fortunately, I am a very non-aggressive driver, so I would likely just get out of the way of some nut job behind me wanting to go 90 in the fast lane, but I get why some would take the "f that guy" attitude with someone who rides up on their ass and flashes their blinkers at them to try to get them to move out of the way (which is a dick move).
As I've said above, "not this", because Zook is wrong. Not "my opinion" wrong, but factually wrong. At those speeds, both cars are equally dangerous (and they're not). It's the speed differential that is a more important factor.
And no, I try very hard not to be "that guy". Not to say it NEVER happens, but I usually have wife and one or more kids in the car, and I drive with their lives in mind. And I've said too many times to count now (funny how that doesn't get read) that I'm not talking about the response to the dicks who drive like they own the road. We're not even at that point yet.
I threatened once before to take video of what I'm talking about (and I couldn't figure out how to get the video uploaded). I'm talking about the driver who is going 65, isn't passing a single soul (in fact, is likely getting passed on the right) and is yapping away on their phone, or off in dreamland, and when you do drive behind them - be it 2, 3, or 4 car lengths, whatever you feel is safe - and 'flicks the lights', it's treated as if you just tried to tell them to "Go fuck your mother". In my experience, there are far more inconsiderate drivers at 60 sitting in the left lane like they own it than there are "90-mph assholes looking to own the road". I have just as little patience with those drivers as I do the one's I'm talking about. I'm asking for a more peaceable, harmonious experience for EVERYONE not just me.
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I'm talking about the driver who is going 65, isn't passing a single soul (in fact, is likely getting passed on the right) and is yapping away on their phone, or off in dreamland, and when you do drive behind them - be it 2, 3, or 4 car lengths, whatever you feel is safe - and 'flicks the lights', it's treated as if you just tried to tell them to "Go fuck your mother". In my experience, there are far more inconsiderate drivers at 60 sitting in the left lane like they own it than there are "90-mph assholes looking to own the road". I have just as little patience with those drivers as I do the one's I'm talking about. I'm asking for a more peaceable, harmonious experience for EVERYONE not just me.
Again... THIS is reasonable. I get annoyed at those kinds of drivers as well. However, you've painted scenario's where the driver in front of you is doing 75-80, regularly passing slower drivers, but because YOU want to do 90, they should slow down, merge, and allow you to pass. THIS is what most of us are debating with you about.
I should've listened to my own advice earlier. :lol
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See, THAT (three posts ago because I've been ninja'd twice now) is reasonable. Some of your other posts (as well as the last time this issue came up) were not. You were quite clearly stating that, even if the person in front of you WAS going over the speed limit, and WAS passing other cars, they should still slow down to merge with the slower traffic and get out of your way so that you do the speed you want to.
THAT is what may of us are saying was unreasonable.
Well, at some point they DO have to move over. It's all a matter of relativity. They can't camp in the left lane any more than I can. I'm not the 90mph guy - I don't want to pay the insurance for a speeding ticket - but we ALL - me included - need to move over and drive more to the right as a general proposition. If you're in the left lane for more than a couple miles, you're doing it wrong (well, traffic plays into that, so that's not entirely fair, but still). I also DO NOT tailgate. People are NUTS; I am not going to end up in a ditch because some asshole wants to brake check me.
All this is largely ideological and for purposes of this discussion.
I'm a fast driver, or at least faster than most here in Oregon. As such, I pass a lot of people on the road. I do, however, try to stay patient if someone is in the left lane going slower than I am, but they need to be passing someone. If you're just camped in the left lane going the same speed as the person next to you, you need to move. But with this in mind, I won't flash my lights, and I *never* tailgate people. It annoys the shit out of me more than anything if someone does it to me, so I refuse to do it to anyone else. Plus it's dangerous as all hell.
If someone does scream up behind me as I'm already doing 10-15 (or more) over the limit and I'm passing a long line of cars, they can wait. I'll move over at my earliest and safest opportunity. Until then, they can manage to wait the 30-60 seconds it takes me to pass the people I'm driving by. And I won't brake check people either. I used to, but that's just as dangerous and dumb as tailgating in the first place.
This guy gets it.[/quote]
And he and I are in almost full agreement. Please stop taking my position to the extreme. I'm RESPINDING to extreme positions ("Fuck you, asshole, you can wait till I'm good and ready to move over" is an extreme position) but mine is not itself an extreme position.
Zook is my new hero.
Except Zook is dead wrong. Up to the speed at which the road was designed (which, with our interstates, is somewhere in the 90 range, with safety factors), speed DIFFERENTIAL is a far more important metric than "speed". In the scenario he described, he is clearly, factually and unassailably the danger variable in the equation. You can (if you're so inclined) look it up. There are numerous resources that document this (one excellent one is called "Traffic").
You're right... you - who wants to drive 20+ mph over the limit and be the fastest vehicle on the road - clearly aren't the problem
Uh, the sarcasm is really lame and unproductive, sport, unless you know and are clearly articulating my position, and you're not. Not even close. I have no desire to be "the fastest vehicle on the road" and am more often than not not even close. What I'm asking is for ALL drivers, me included to get their heads out of their asses and stop viewing driving on the highway as some dick measuring contest. You're not "teaching me a lesson" by slowing down when I ask to pass. You're not "being safe" when you're busy giving someone the finger in the rearview mirror because they want to pass you. You're being a dick. ALL of us have to respect the drivers around us. Not just the ones that drive like we do.
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I'm talking about the driver who is going 65, isn't passing a single soul (in fact, is likely getting passed on the right) and is yapping away on their phone, or off in dreamland, and when you do drive behind them - be it 2, 3, or 4 car lengths, whatever you feel is safe - and 'flicks the lights', it's treated as if you just tried to tell them to "Go fuck your mother". In my experience, there are far more inconsiderate drivers at 60 sitting in the left lane like they own it than there are "90-mph assholes looking to own the road". I have just as little patience with those drivers as I do the one's I'm talking about. I'm asking for a more peaceable, harmonious experience for EVERYONE not just me.
Again... THIS is reasonable. I get annoyed at those kinds of drivers as well. However, you've painted scenario's where the driver in front of you is doing 75-80, regularly passing slower drivers, but because YOU want to do 90, they should slow down, merge, and allow you to pass. THIS is what most of us are debating with you about.
I should've listened to my own advice earlier. :lol
If you can quote me saying that, then one for you, you win, but I don't recall saying that. In that scenario, you pass everyone together, and once both of you - BOTH OF YOU - can move back over, you do so. NEITHER car in that scenario should remain in the left lane. Perhaps I was trying to paint the picture of a "hierarchy" and refute the (false) idea that "just because I'm going over the speed limit myself, I don't have to be courteous or considerate to others on the road". This isn't "Fast and Furious", and nor should it be.
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Like I said it's not that somebody wants to pass me in the fast lane that is upsetting. I'm reasonable and will always move over. My issue is someone who rides up my butt when I'm not going to speed up any faster than I am to move over. I will move over for them in a safe manner.
It's the bullying that pisses me off.
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People who share everything on social media. Having to see your 60 something aunt post about "Fifty Shades of Gray" is just wrong.
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People who share everything on social media. Having to see your 60 something aunt post about "Fifty Shades of Gray" is just wrong.
Haha, so true.
Anyone who posts too much about politics and/or religion always gets the defriend/unfollow from me on FB or twitter (except family members :lol).
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If you can quote me saying that, then one for you, you win, but I don't recall saying that.
I've got better things to do that to go and scrub whatever old thread this was originally hashed out. I don't recall what you specifically mentioned, but it was along the lines that your speed is more important than anyone else who doesn't want to drive as fast as you.
Uh, the sarcasm is really lame and unproductive, sport,
So is the condescension .... sport. I was trying (twice) to cut you some slack, and you promptly tightened it right the fuck up.
As I said, I should've listened to my own advice. There's an old saying... 'you can be right, or you can have peace'. At this point, I chose peace.
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People who share everything on social media. Having to see your 60 something aunt post about "Fifty Shades of Gray" is just wrong.
Haha, so true.
Anyone who posts too much about politics and/or religion always gets the defriend/unfollow from me on FB or twitter (except family members :lol).
Lucky for me I only post funny pictures on politics. :lol
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People.
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People.
Yup.
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In my scenario you have asshole reckless driver going 80 in a 55 while I'm going 65. 2 lanes, just me and Dick head and some schmuck far enough back not to matter. Why the fuck isn't cock stain going around me? If I'm already going over the speed limit and you're flashing your bright's, you can fuck off. I'm in the fast lane driving over the limit. I don't need to move. You need to slow the fuck down.
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In my scenario you have asshole reckless driver going 80 in a 55 while I'm going 65. 2 lanes, just me and Dick head and some schmuck far enough back not to matter. Why the fuck isn't cock stain going around me? If I'm already going over the speed limit and you're flashing your bright's, you can fuck off. I'm in the fast lane driving over the limit. I don't need to move. You need to slow the fuck down.
While I agree that the person doing 25 over the limit and riding your ass is a dick and in the wrong, I don't think that this approach is the best either. If you're in the passing lane, and passing nobody, and there's space to move over as you alluded to with the "schmuck far enough back not to matter," then you're the one that should move. Several states have laws saying that you need to move to the right if you're impeding someone from driving how they want, or YOU will be the one to get the ticket. What's the big deal in letting him pass? Let the police pull him over for speeding down the road and you can laugh at him and feel vindicated then. Let the police do the policing. Otherwise, it's just a dangerous situation brewing where two stubborn people refuse to adjust what they're doing, as they both insist they're the ones to be adjusted to. No one wins in that scenario.
But if you are actually passing folks and Mr. Impatient is still riding your ass, then yeah, he can go to hell and snack on a bag of dicks along the way.
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He can snack on the bag of dicks anyway, AFAIC.
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Threads that are supposed to be a bit of fun but turn into pages of back and forth pedantic arguing for no real reason.
Unrelated, of course.
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My boy cat Harry at my feet when I walk through the door and he soesnt move. I love the guy but ive got to drop my stuff off first before i feed him.
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When my owner comes home and I'm starving, but he feels the need take his shoes off, take a dump, grab a beer. Did I mention I'm STARVING!!
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You're always hungry Harry. You bully your sister for her food. You will wait.
Also, tell Tim I dump in the morning since you know that.
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Also, tell Tim I dump in the morning since you know that.
Yeah but then you get to leave for the day while the house smells like shit. So we're not only starving, but we can't fucking breath either!.
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I'm from California, where if a pedestrian is standing on a sidewalk waiting to cross a street and a car is approaching, the pedestrian waits for the car to pass, then crosses. Which makes complete sense; it'd take the car longer to brake, stop, let the pedestrian pass, then continue.
I live in Vancouver now, and drivers here stop, let the pedestrian pass, and then continue themselves. And it drives me nuts because it takes longer for both of us, and some pedestrians will just cross the street with an oncoming car, assuming they'll slow down, which is fucking stupid to do, because here it rains like hell year-round, and if the driver doesn't notice, they'll skid right into you if they try to brake quickly for your dumb, presumptive ass.
So now, every time I prepare to jaywalk, and a car is oncoming, I have to wait an extra five seconds for the fucker to slow down enough to get the signal that I can continue without being bowled over, when it'd be easier for the dude to just keep driving and save himself the gas, and me the time.
But instead, I politely smile, and wave a thank you, welcoming the discontent
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People who use exact change and take forever to count it out or it's not easily accessible. I'm a manager at my family's grocery store. We're small store, but usually have close to 2000 customers a day. We only have two register lanes and constantly back up. Usually we move through pretty quick but sometimes you'll get the person (usually old) who wants to use exact change, but it's not easily accessed and they dump the change and it takes forever. It shouldn't make me mad, but it holds me up and others. Just take the change, and move along.
Also, we don't have the chip reader. When someone over 70 asks me "You don't have the chip yet?"
Shut up, you have no clue what you're talking about.
Again, shouldn't make me mad--but it does
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One thing that has always drove me nuts is when getting change from a cash purchase most cashiers will give you cash > reciept > coins on top.
Drives me nuts.
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Not at our store. That's one of the things that drives my dad up the wall and militantly enforces it. Most cashiers don't care, but it makes life so much easier for people.
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One thing that has always drove me nuts is when getting change from a cash purchase most cashiers will give you cash > reciept > coins on top.
Drives me nuts.
Yes. That drives me nuts.
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Also, tell Tim I dump in the morning since you know that.
Yeah but then you get to leave for the day while the house smells like shit. So we're not only starving, but we can't fucking breath either!.
https://youtu.be/zlxX0hCIDw8
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Yup!
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One thing that has always drove me nuts is when getting change from a cash purchase most cashiers will give you cash > reciept > coins on top.
Drives me nuts.
I've noticed that at Kroger now (at least the larger stores), cashiers don't even count back coins anymore. There's a machine that spits them out at the customer.
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At the supermarkets here we have self serve checkouts and every time they fuck you when spitting out the change, pisses me off. If my change is for example $20.80, it spits two five dollar notes, a ten and then four 20c piece coins. WTF?
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People still pay with cash? :P
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People still pay with checks at our store. Still looking to eventually not allow them
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People still pay with cash? :P
I pay with cash most of the time. I hate cards. I usually take out a wad of cash once a week and use it for fuel, food, groceries etc. Cash is where it's at!
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People still pay with checks our store. Still looking to eventually not allow them
What used to drive me nuts was the people who would fill out the whole check by hand even when you told them the cash register would do it for them.
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People still pay with cash? :P
I pay with cash most of the time. I hate cards. I usually take out a wad of cash once a week and use it for fuel, food, groceries, CDs, more CDs, a few more CDs, DVDs, etc..
Fixed! ;)
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Say for instance you go into the bathroom and lock the door and start doing your thing. Then someone else goes to use the bathroom, twists the doorknob, clearly realizes that the door is locked, but yet they knock for some reason.
There is someone in there, that is why the door is locked, so turn around and walk away. jesus
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When the Penguins win the Stanley Cup... It's just a game, but holy shit I really don't like that team.
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When you see in the TV channel guide that beach volleyball is coming on then you wait 4 hours for the match to start to find out it is only a men's match.
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Mortals
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I know I bitch about this every year, but here goes....
It's going to be humid and in the low 90s today in the city I work in. The city itself will be well over 100F in no time once the heat starts getting trapped between the buildings. Brooke gets to walk in with opened-toed heels and a sleeveless dress that comes to about 4"-5" above her knees. This is permitted under company dress code. Meanwhile, I'm stuck wearing leather shoes, dress socks, long pants, and a long sleeve button down.
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People who skullhead it for photographs. It is not "smiling" when you bare your teeth like a jolly roger. You look like you have just cut off the world's largest shart and just remembered you didn't bring a spare pair of underpants; it would be better if you just mugged it.
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Threads that are supposed to be a bit of fun but turn into pages of back and forth pedantic arguing for no real reason.
Unrelated, of course.
People that have to critique the thread itself instead of contributing to it productively.
:-*
(I'm busting on you, Adami.)
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I'm from California, where if a pedestrian is standing on a sidewalk waiting to cross a street and a car is approaching, the pedestrian waits for the car to pass, then crosses. Which makes complete sense; it'd take the car longer to brake, stop, let the pedestrian pass, then continue.
I live in Vancouver now, and drivers here stop, let the pedestrian pass, and then continue themselves. And it drives me nuts because it takes longer for both of us, and some pedestrians will just cross the street with an oncoming car, assuming they'll slow down, which is fucking stupid to do, because here it rains like hell year-round, and if the driver doesn't notice, they'll skid right into you if they try to brake quickly for your dumb, presumptive ass.
So now, every time I prepare to jaywalk, and a car is oncoming, I have to wait an extra five seconds for the fucker to slow down enough to get the signal that I can continue without being bowled over, when it'd be easier for the dude to just keep driving and save himself the gas, and me the time.
But instead, I politely smile, and wave a thank you, welcoming the discontent
What gets me is if I let someone cross and signal them to cross, they acknowledge, then leisurely stroll across the street, like they've got all day. If I'm letting you cross the street in front of me, move your ass and at least TRY to make an effort to be quick about it.
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So...moving quickly = bad when driving, and anyone attempting to do so should be harshly criticized for their obvious moral deficiency; but moving quickly = good when walking, and anyone failing to do so should be harshly criticized for their obvious moral deficiency? :dunno:
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Finally, someone gets it.
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Threads that are supposed to be a bit of fun but turn into pages of back and forth pedantic arguing for no real reason.
Unrelated, of course.
People that have to critique the thread itself instead of contributing to it productively.
Well....technically, based on the nature of the thread, by critiquing it, I am contributing to it. :angel:
(I'm busting on you, Adami.)
Gross dude, at least get me a towel!
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I'm from California, where if a pedestrian is standing on a sidewalk waiting to cross a street and a car is approaching, the pedestrian waits for the car to pass, then crosses. Which makes complete sense; it'd take the car longer to brake, stop, let the pedestrian pass, then continue.
I live in Vancouver now, and drivers here stop, let the pedestrian pass, and then continue themselves. And it drives me nuts because it takes longer for both of us, and some pedestrians will just cross the street with an oncoming car, assuming they'll slow down, which is fucking stupid to do, because here it rains like hell year-round, and if the driver doesn't notice, they'll skid right into you if they try to brake quickly for your dumb, presumptive ass.
So now, every time I prepare to jaywalk, and a car is oncoming, I have to wait an extra five seconds for the fucker to slow down enough to get the signal that I can continue without being bowled over, when it'd be easier for the dude to just keep driving and save himself the gas, and me the time.
But instead, I politely smile, and wave a thank you, welcoming the discontent
So, it angers you when people's attempts to be courteous to your law breaking is inefficient? That about right? :lol
y stroll across the street, like they've got all day. If I'm letting you cross the street in front of me, move your ass and at least TRY to make an effort to be quick about it.
Yeah, definitely this one. Hell, I jog even when I have the right of way. Comes from being polite and appreciating efficiency.
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I was always taught to wait until the driver waves you on to go across the street and then still look at the other side.
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People still pay with cash? :P
I pay with cash most of the time. I hate cards. I usually take out a wad of cash once a week and use it for fuel, food, groceries, CDs, more CDs, a few more CDs, DVDs, etc..
Fixed! ;)
:lol Touche.
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I was always taught to wait until the driver waves you on to go across the street and then still look at the other side.
I wait for them to wave and then maintain steely eye contact. I want them to know I don't trust them.
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I know I bitch about this every year, but here goes....
It's going to be humid and in the low 90s today in the city I work in. The city itself will be well over 100F in no time once the heat starts getting trapped between the buildings. Brooke gets to walk in with opened-toed heels and a sleeveless dress that comes to about 4"-5" above her knees. This is permitted under company dress code. Meanwhile, I'm stuck wearing leather shoes, dress socks, long pants, and a long sleeve button down.
You know what you got to do, wear heels and a dress :lol
Seriously though as someone who works in the city and wears business clothes every day I can relate
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y stroll across the street, like they've got all day. If I'm letting you cross the street in front of me, move your ass and at least TRY to make an effort to be quick about it.
Yeah, definitely this one. Hell, I jog even when I have the right of way. Comes from being polite and appreciating efficiency.
That's me too. I want to be out of the way and moving on as quickly as I can.
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I believe I have the right to be pissed off about this, despite this thread intending to be about things that shouldn't elicit anger, but kids (and some adults) nowadays who insist the street is where they are entitled to walk, despite there being perfectly good sidewalks literally right fucking next to them. Yeah let's just walk 5 abreast across an entire lane of a street because fuck everyone else that's why. And middle-agers (no offense to anyone here) who do their power walking exercises and utilize the street instead of the sidewalk...yeah fuck you cars in the street, people on the concrete.
When I was a kid I was taught to stay the hell out of the street, no exceptions unless crossing. Don't know when the fuck it became normal to challenge drivers to hit you.
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I was always taught to wait until the driver waves you on to go across the street and then still look at the other side.
I wait for them to wave and then maintain steely eye contact. I want them to know I don't trust them.
Yes that and then in the middle look at the car coming the other way to get a wave to continue to cross.
I believe I have the right to be pissed off about this, despite this thread intending to be about things that shouldn't elicit anger, but kids (and some adults) nowadays who insist the street is where they are entitled to walk, despite there being perfectly good sidewalks literally right fucking next to them. Yeah let's just walk 5 abreast across an entire lane of a street because fuck everyone else that's why. And middle-agers (no offense to anyone here) who do their power walking exercises and utilize the street instead of the sidewalk...yeah fuck you cars in the street, people on the concrete.
When I was a kid I was taught to stay the hell out of the street, no exceptions unless crossing. Don't know when the fuck it became normal to challenge drivers to hit you.
Over the last decade or so, please now just jump out and expect a car to stop for them. People never think of human error driving a killing machine. They expect you to see them and stop. The days of looking for the driver to let you go are a thing of the past.
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Isn't that just a general "fuck you" attitude? I see a lot of that. The douche talking on the phone at Deep Purple volumes instead of ordering his Happy Meal while you're standing behind him ready to go? The asswipe that speeds to the checkout line with a cart full of carbs and saturated fats while you stand there with a half gallon of milk and a smile? The jag off that stands in front of you at the concert with his iPad on "RECORD" held over his head?
It's why I love Philly so much. I was there last week and stopped for a Pat's cheesesteak and the guy in front of me was trying to figure out what he wanted (he had 30 minutes in line at least at that point to think about it) and the guy behind the counter just said straight out"step aside until you figure it out or go to Geno's" (the competition that is literally right across the street, denoted by their garish orange sign and inferior cheesesteaks).
Seems being considerate is a lost art for a lot of people, and our society suffers for it.
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Yes. it isn't isolated though. It seems to be the norm for pedestrians. It's not just a certain age. It's permeated for all ages.
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I witnessed a teenager jaywalk across a 5-lane highway yesterday, at rush hour, giving zero fucks and when cars beeped at him he just flipped them off and slowed down. There is some lack of caring about being clobbered at 55+mph; somehow he feels above the possibility of death or injury, and certainly above common courtesy or, gasp, law.
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Yeah, along the lines, cyclists who don't know the rules really get on my nerves as well. And it's a trickier issue here in California as well, because we have this dumb law now that requires cars to stay 3 feet away from cyclists. I get the intent. There are more bikes on the road nowadays, and you want cars to keep their distance to keep things safer. But that doesn't take into account the fact that not all roads are meant to safely accommodate cyclists, and many that arguably can safely accommodate cyclists are too narrow to provide a 3 foot buffer, which results in a situation where cars cannot legally pass a bike and are stuck de facto stuck behind the much slower moving bike, which makes no sense. The problem is compounded by the all-coo-common prevailing attitude I see among cyclists that push past the boundaries of "right of way" laws and safety laws and act like they own the road. As a cyclist, I get it, to an extent. Yeah, if I'm rolling up to a 4-day stop at about the same time as a car, and the car gets there a second or 2 before me and technically has the right of way to go first, I'm still going to keep rolling and signal by my eye contact that I intend to keep going and go first because it is a lot easier and safer for me to not stop and have to unclip and then start up again as the next car is impatiently waiting for me to pick up speed from a dead stop than it is for me to let the car go first and then go. And there are plenty of other analogous situations that annoy drivers who aren't cyclists and don't have an understanding of why it is easier or safer to do certain things. But there are plenty of other situations where cyclists are just plain rude and/or take advantage of the rules, or even break them just because they know drivers can't really do anything about it. One example is riding side by side instead of single file (sometimes 3 or 4 bikes side by side) so that cars cannot possibly pass while observing the 3-foot rule, or cannot pass at all. I live in a big biking town, and I see this kind of thing all the time.
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One thing that has always drove me nuts is when getting change from a cash purchase most cashiers will give you cash > reciept > coins on top.
Drives me nuts.
Oh holy hell... that sends me off a perfectly safe ledge into the wild-blue-yonder on a rocket made of assholes. And honestly, that also ends up pissing the person behind me off because I'm a money clip guy (separate pocket from my wallet) and I now have to use some kind of chicanery to quickly move the cash into the clip and the coin-change and the clip into my pocket while holding the bag of merchandise while the a$$hole behind me gives me a rectal exam for not getting out of his way quickly enough.
I'm a nice guy, so I allow the office next door to mine to use one of our parking spaces daily because their offices spaces are limited; on any given day, my parking lot is mostly empty... the only exception to that is when I have a closing (parking lot fills-in quickly with buyers, sellers, Realtors, and the Closing Agent). The guy that uses the space refuses... REFUSES... to pull his car all the way into the space at the back of my building; I park behind my building, so I am forced to execute a three-point-turn to get out of the parking lot I own. Shouldn't make me mad... but it does.
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What we have here that I experience with cyclists is the situation where they ride on windy roads that have no shoulders and are only one lane in either direction, speed limit 35 usually. Lots of hills, switchbacks, etc, really good driving roads but absolutely impossible to perform a legal pass, even around a car. Get stuck behind a cyclist who honestly is probably perfectly fine biking the road, and you are completely sunk because the only way around would be to cross the double-yellow on blind curves or abbreviated straights and hope there won't be a car heading back the other way when you do. The roads aren't deserted, and do carry a lot of traffic, so at high volume times, one cyclist can hold 10-20 cars up for a very long way.
I'm not sure how I'd propose to deal with this other than sucking it up and sharing the road, but it's definitely a pain the ass.
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Yeah, we have plenty of those kinds of roads too. Honestly, cyclists should stay off of them, and I say this as a cyclist myself. Because of the conditions you mention, when a cyclist is present, the cyclist makes the road conditions more dangerous for both him/herself and drivers. Just use some common sense and common courtesy!
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It's nice to hear the point of view of a cyclist who doesn't feel he's to be protected with a forcefield; you understand the concept of shared responsibility. So many around here feel they are simply immune to any and all consequences just because they are "cyclists."
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That mentality in general infuriates me, as I know it does others. And, sure, I need to recognize that, as just about everyone else, I'm guilty of a bit of hypocrisy because I have my own self-imposed exceptions to the rules where I don't follow certain rules to the letter because I subjectively believe it's easier not to. But I legitimately try to keep that to a minimum and to ask whether it really is a situation of "all things balanced, is this approach mostly inconvenience-neutral to all parties involved?" Take for instance the issue I mentioned above about coming to a stop at an intersection. By me rolling through and forcing a car that technically has the right of way to yield to me because I'm not coming to a complete stop, I am technically in the wrong every single time. But the inconvenience to the vehicle of the 1-2 seconds is minor, and the inconvenience to me and perhaps other drivers that may subsequently arrive at the intersection of maybe around 10 seconds weighs in favor of my approach. Drivers who are cyclists get it and don't make a fuss. Many drivers who AREN'T cyclists get it and don't make a fuss. But some do get pissed, and I fully understand why they would, given that they don't understand the additional problems associated with me stopping in that situation.
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But some do get pissed, and I fully understand why they would, given that they don't understand the additional problems associated with me stopping in that situation. because you are acting on what you think is best instead of following the rules of the road that everyone else (theoretically) abides by.
The issue with come cyclists, maybe this applies to you, maybe not, is that they feel they operate under a different set of rules, yet should still have full access to the roads.
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Yeah, I see that all the time. I do not subscribe to that mindset at all. But I recognize that I could be perceived that way, so I strive to avoid giving that impression. I'm sure I don't always succeed. But I try to both follow the rules and be considerate to others that share the roadway.
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Isn't that just a general "fuck you" attitude? I see a lot of that. The douche talking on the phone at Deep Purple volumes instead of ordering his Happy Meal while you're standing behind him ready to go? The asswipe that speeds to the checkout line with a cart full of carbs and saturated fats while you stand there with a half gallon of milk and a smile? The jag off that stands in front of you at the concert with his iPad on "RECORD" held over his head?
It's why I love Philly so much. I was there last week and stopped for a Pat's cheesesteak and the guy in front of me was trying to figure out what he wanted (he had 30 minutes in line at least at that point to think about it) and the guy behind the counter just said straight out"step aside until you figure it out or go to Geno's" (the competition that is literally right across the street, denoted by their garish orange sign and inferior cheesesteaks).
Seems being considerate is a lost art for a lot of people, and our society suffers for it.
I didn't know that any actual Philadelpharinos ate at Pat's or Geno's. I figured the locals left those for the tourists.
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Another gripe: people who fail to consider how their parking affects the cars around them. I'm not referring to the obvious asshole who parks crooked, over the line taking two spaces with his tail sticking out into the parking lot. That's a class all its own. What I am referring to is the person who has plenty of room to park, say at the curb in a residential community, and instead decides to park at the absolute extreme end of the open area, thereby created a massive visual obstacle for another car that is already there.
Right in front of my house is a perfect example of this as it happens to me regularly:
My house is an end-of-group townhome. Our parking spaces are recessed, that is off the main road, perpendicular to the front of the house. Since we are on the end, my space is next to the curb, which comes out the length of the space then goes to the left to follow the roadway. There is a street light at the corner in the grass. The entire length of the curb that runs along the street is open unrestricted parking, so that is where most guests in the neighborhood park. Generally speaking, if all of the cars park with the nose their cars even with or behind the streetlight, everything is copacetic. However, if they pull forward, even sometimes up to the absolute end of the that portion of the curb, they effectively blind me of any oncoming traffic from my left as I'm trying to pull out of my space. I should add, I'm talking about MAYBE a 4 foot cushion past the street light before my space begins. They really aren't conserving or opening up any more space by doing this.
So many times, people pull up and INSIST on pulling their cars as far past the light as they possibly can, and I have lost count of the times I've *almost* been smashed by oncoming traffic THAT I CAN'T SEE no matter how slowly I try to pull from my space. It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to look and assess viewing angles when you pull up. It's pretty goddamn obvious that if you park there, you're obstructing my view.
It just make me so damn mad because they really wouldn't be inconveniencing themselves if they just fucking parked from the street light back.
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^Giving people the benefit of the doubt, I would guess that a good portion of them just haven't paid attention to the fact that they would be obstructing your view, and I would guess that a good many probably incorrectly figure that, by pulling all the way to the end, they are making space for people to fit the most cars possible. That would probably be my thinking anyway if I were parking there. But anyway, what occurred to me from your last sentence is that there is probably a solution. I would complain loudly and specifically about the issue to whoever runs your townhome community, your local police department, and your city council, and request (i.e. politely demand) that a sign be put up that says no parking in that 4-foot or so space because it creates a danger. You might very well get results that could solve the problem.
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That seems like a problem that is damn near unsolvable. A lot of people don't pay attention, are unaware of their surroundings, or just flat out don't care. Even if there was a red curb there or sign that says "no parking past this point", people will still do it.
Here's a shout out to slow drivers. They drive like they're going to live forever. Meanwhile, I'm stuck being them and they just might get out of my way sometime between now and my death. :lol
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Bosk, I have actually brought it up at HOA meetings and with the County and am pretty much told the same thing each time: they won't do anything. It's "too small a curb area" to bother doing anything and since parking in front of a streetlight isn't a crime, there's no reason to block it off.
Thankfully it isn't such a rampant problem that it's a daily thing, but when it does happen it's a goddamn fucking pain the ass.
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Speaking of cyclists in the street, this scene from Californication brings me great joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLIS6VM44Bo
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Background themes in emails. I hate them but shouldn't care.
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I concur.
In the same breath, I loathe overlong signatures. My company is semi-guilty of it, but ours aren't terrible. I've worked for a guy whose signature was easily over a full page long.
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I concur.
In the same breath, I loathe overlong signatures. My company is semi-guilty of it, but ours aren't terrible. I've worked for a guy whose signature was easily over a full page long.
I HATE signatures in the office. I refuse to have one. There's nothing more annoying than trying to skim through a 20 message email chain and having there be more signature content than work communication content. If I need your home phone, cell phone, fax, email, company phone, or address, I'll just click your info button. I don't need it in every fucking email.
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Agreed 100%. Set up you sig file for new emails only, not replies. And if you have your company website in your signature, don't have it as part of an image file. Make it a link so I can click on it.
And goddamn quit telling me to "Think before I print."
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Webpages with black backgrounds and white text. 2 minutes of that shit and my eyes hurt.
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Actually, Coz, studies have shown white text on dark is better for screen reading. It provides a.more optimal contrast ratio for human perception and actually causes less eyestrain than black on white.
Of course, personal preference can trump a study any day.
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And now back to our regularly scheduled fuck cyclists circle-jerk. Driving into work this morning I passed a guy who's a somewhat regular obstruction. Inwood is a fairly busy street, 3 lanes each way, and and chock full of people turning into fast food places for their nine in the morning Taco Bell fix. In the midst of this urban American tableau is a school zone, further contributing to the bottleneck. From time to time some guy is pedaling along in the right hand lane. I'm not entirely unsympathetic to him. He has a right to the road and taking up full lane is essential to his not becoming a red stain and crippling civil lawsuit for the poor schmuck that hit his silly ass. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't defend his right to be a law-abiding asshole. So like many other aspects of driving in this country I'm at first aggravated and then almost immediately resigned to the fact that it simply is what it is. C'est la guerre.
What fascinates me, though, is that I couldn't stand to be that guy. The knowledge that I'm creating my own personal, one man traffic jam would make me feel terrible. I couldn't stand to see car after car slow to a crawl to merge into already crowded lanes for miles upon miles, every person passing by staring and shaking their heads disapprovingly. I like neither being an inconvenience nor the center of attention. Hostile attention, at that. I don't begrudge this fellow's right to ride to work (or perhaps Taco Bell), but I have to question how he weighs value considerations such as being a cyclist vs being an impediment to hundreds of other workers (and Taco Bell aficionados).
At what point is the sense of smug self-satisfaction of riding a bike to work outweighed by the realization that you have no soul?
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Webpages with black backgrounds and white text. 2 minutes of that shit and my eyes hurt.
My eyes don't even last two minutes. That shit is literally painful to look at. If a site is light text on black and more than a page long, I won't even bother, because it fucks my eyes up too badly, too quickly. Not even exaggerating. It gives me a head-ache, makes my eyes hurt for a while, and makes me see weird patterns and shit afterwards. Under any other circumstance, I don't have a single issue staring at my monitor for 10+ hours a day. Also, it's not 1998 any more, people. It looks so dated.
And if you have any problem with black text on white hurting your eyes, your monitor is adjusted too bright! The average monitor these days is capable of over double what you should be using. My monitor is only using about 1/3 of it's max brightness, and that's at the highest recommended setting. I've read entire books on it with no strain at all.
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When people have to get off an elevator in an order other than who's closest to the door.
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Of course, personal preference can trump a study any day.
Exactly, but in this case, it isn't exactly "preference". I don't prefer black text on white, it literally makes my eyes fatigued. If I HAVE to read white text on black, I will click and drag to highlight the entire section of text I have to read, because it is incredibly exhausting on my eyes, immediately, just like BVD's experience.
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That is kind of what I meant; that which works best for you, be it by choice or necessity. It's how different people react to different things.
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And now back to our regularly scheduled fuck cyclists circle-jerk. Driving into work this morning I passed a guy who's a somewhat regular obstruction. Inwood is a fairly busy street, 3 lanes each way, and and chock full of people turning into fast food places for their nine in the morning Taco Bell fix. In the midst of this urban American tableau is a school zone, further contributing to the bottleneck. From time to time some guy is pedaling along in the right hand lane. I'm not entirely unsympathetic to him. He has a right to the road and taking up full lane is essential to his not becoming a red stain and crippling civil lawsuit for the poor schmuck that hit his silly ass. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't defend his right to be a law-abiding asshole. So like many other aspects of driving in this country I'm at first aggravated and then almost immediately resigned to the fact that it simply is what it is. C'est la guerre.
What fascinates me, though, is that I couldn't stand to be that guy. The knowledge that I'm creating my own personal, one man traffic jam would make me feel terrible. I couldn't stand to see car after car slow to a crawl to merge into already crowded lanes for miles upon miles, every person passing by staring and shaking their heads disapprovingly. I like neither being an inconvenience nor the center of attention. Hostile attention, at that. I don't begrudge this fellow's right to ride to work (or perhaps Taco Bell), but I have to question how he weighs value considerations such as being a cyclist vs being an impediment to hundreds of other workers (and Taco Bell aficionados).
At what point is the sense of smug self-satisfaction of riding a bike to work outweighed by the realization that you have no soul?
:lol I feel fortunate that my most-used route (work to home) involves very minimal travel on surface streets (just over a mile), and that on streets that are wide and/or have bike lanes, with the remaining 23 miles on bike trails. Most of the other rides I do are similarly on roads that have designated bike lanes or on trails. This is a very bike-friendly area where most of the neighboring cities and towns have trails or bike lanes, so there is plenty of opportunity to ride without being a nuisance to vehicular traffic.
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Dallas is a bike-hostile town. Partly it's just the way that it evolved, but it's also a function of Dallas S.O.B. Sprawl makes driving a necessity and city management focuses on long term goals rather than immediate need. While there are a few bike lanes in Dallas they're only in places that The Man wants people to start riding bikes, rather than where people actually do. Along with the fact that it's already closing in on 100°, most people here have the good sense to drive a damn car. The exception are the silly fucks I referred to that care more about their own self-congratulatory intrepidness than the sum of their safety, discomfort, and fondness of being dicks.
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I concur.
In the same breath, I loathe overlong signatures. My company is semi-guilty of it, but ours aren't terrible. I've worked for a guy whose signature was easily over a full page long.
I HATE signatures in the office. I refuse to have one. There's nothing more annoying than trying to skim through a 20 message email chain and having there be more signature content than work communication content. If I need your home phone, cell phone, fax, email, company phone, or address, I'll just click your info button. I don't need it in every fucking email.
Our office policy is that we use our signatures for really high level executives, other than that we email with no signatures or use skype
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I concur.
In the same breath, I loathe overlong signatures. My company is semi-guilty of it, but ours aren't terrible. I've worked for a guy whose signature was easily over a full page long.
I HATE signatures in the office. I refuse to have one. There's nothing more annoying than trying to skim through a 20 message email chain and having there be more signature content than work communication content. If I need your home phone, cell phone, fax, email, company phone, or address, I'll just click your info button. I don't need it in every fucking email.
I have a regular one for sending emails and a very truncated one for replies. I like having my information on there at all times because it can get annoying looking for a particular client's phone number because they don't use signatures so it's just a courtesy.
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Isn't that just a general "fuck you" attitude? I see a lot of that. The douche talking on the phone at Deep Purple volumes instead of ordering his Happy Meal while you're standing behind him ready to go? The asswipe that speeds to the checkout line with a cart full of carbs and saturated fats while you stand there with a half gallon of milk and a smile? The jag off that stands in front of you at the concert with his iPad on "RECORD" held over his head?
It's why I love Philly so much. I was there last week and stopped for a Pat's cheesesteak and the guy in front of me was trying to figure out what he wanted (he had 30 minutes in line at least at that point to think about it) and the guy behind the counter just said straight out"step aside until you figure it out or go to Geno's" (the competition that is literally right across the street, denoted by their garish orange sign and inferior cheesesteaks).
Seems being considerate is a lost art for a lot of people, and our society suffers for it.
I didn't know that any actual Philadelpharinos ate at Pat's or Geno's. I figured the locals left those for the tourists.
Well that's true; I would have been at Jim's on 4th Street if it was up to me, but I didn't have a ton of time. I had to get on stage with Gene. ;)
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When people have to get off an elevator in an order other than who's closest to the door.
When people try to get ON the elevator (or stand there in the opening) before everyone gets off the elevator. PHYSICS (or, I guess, geometry)!
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When people try to get ON the elevator (or stand there in the opening) before everyone gets off the elevator. PHYSICS (or, I guess, geometry)!
This is such an annoying violation of social decorum, I try to instill the proper behavior in both my kids as soon as they are walking on their own. I always have to remind them to wait for people to get off first. The impetuousness of youth...
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When I get on the elevator at work, I can generally assess who will be getting off on what floors (a lot easier when there's only 6 floors), so I try to position myself in the elevator in such a way as to exit in turn.
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^^^See, I love that. That's a level of awareness, consideration, and decency that is lacking in 95% of our species.
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^^^See, I love that. That's a level of awareness, consideration, and decency that is lacking in 95% of our species.
I try. But it's only because I would hope people would similarly GTFO of my way when they aren't exiting before me. In the end, that can still all kiss my ass, because:
People.
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When people have to get off an elevator in an order other than who's closest to the door.
When people try to get ON the elevator (or stand there in the opening) before everyone gets off the elevator. PHYSICS (or, I guess, geometry)!
People in my office building constantly do that. It's exceedingly ironic considering who we work for.
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Progressive Insurance commercials. They are on the internet radio I listen to all freaking day and goddamn if they aren't the dumbest commercials. Flo has to be the worst pitch-person in the history of advertising.
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I love Flo, and I'd let her have my offspring if she wanted to.
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Progressive Insurance commercials. They are on the internet radio I listen to all freaking day and goddamn if they aren't the dumbest commercials. Flo has to be the worst pitch-person in the history of advertising.
I don't know what it is about her but she irritates me. It's probably because she's trying to be funny - and she's not.
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I fucking HATE all car insurance commercials, especially Flo. There is nothing endearing about those commercials anymore.
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Gheico's commercials are pretty funny.
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When did they change their name? :laugh:
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GEICO probably has the best marketing department, but I still hate all of them. And for some reason, perhaps because of the smug voiceover, esurance's commercials fill me with rage.
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I love Flo, and I'd let her have my offspring if she wanted to.
Wow. I did not see that one coming.
But on that note, every time I see the "Amica" commercial with that cutie wearing the headset, I want to call and tell her all the dirty things I would do for her, with her and to her in the back seat of the car they are insuring buy insurance
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So, it angers you when people's attempts to be courteous to your law breaking is inefficient? That about right? :lol
Nah man. I'm obviously, admittedly, breaking the law by jaywalking, so why the hell are you, the driver, stopping and wasting your time to let me cross, forcing me to strut in the process? Coz was right when he said that the driver, rightfully, will expect the pedestrian to proceed quickly, to reciprocate the politeness. And that matters a lot because if I have to strut, it's more likely that I'll trip, and who the hell wants to trip in front of someone else like that? Vancouver's a rainy, slippery place. It's not built for strutting. Inefficiency is only so much of the problem.
All that unpleasantness, plus the inefficiency, could be avoided if drivers just kept on driving and enforced a mentality of patience upon jaywalkers. And I'm speaking from a jaywalker's point of view.
Hey man, take a look at the thread title. This gripe is only supposed to make so much sense.
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That's wasn't always the way. A pedestrian used to wait for the driver to wave them on to walk across. It's only over the last few decades that people took it upon themselves to just dart right our forcing the cars to stop. The dumb part about that is a car is a a large weapon and not so easy to stop compared to someone walking.
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That's wasn't always the way. A pedestrian used to wait for the driver to wave them on to walk across. It's only over the last few decades that people took it upon themselves to just dart right our forcing the cars to stop. The dumb part about that is a car is a a large weapon and not so easy to stop compared to someone walking.
I don't know, some of the people I've seen attempt this would be harder to make come to a complete stop on a dime than a car...
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That's wasn't always the way. A pedestrian used to wait for the driver to wave them on to walk across. It's only over the last few decades that people took it upon themselves to just dart right our forcing the cars to stop. The dumb part about that is a car is a a large weapon and not so easy to stop compared to someone walking.
I don't know, some of the people I've seen attempt this would be harder to make come to a complete stop on a dime than a car...
:lol
It is amazing isn't it?
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I think we've talked about this here (was it related to the bike discussion?) but it's especially infuriating to me, because it takes advantage of our humanity. My car will MANGLE you, no matter how huge you are, but out of human decency and a respect for human life, I now go out of my way to make sure I don't hit - and therefore, hurt - you, and your response? "Fuck you, jack, I'ma going to make sure I don't trip, I don't break out in a sweat, and ALL the ladies see my swag as I mosey across this street!"
I had a friend who once said "If I ever get told I have only months to live, I'm going to put a bullet in [insert polarizing politician]." Not me. I'm going to teach some rude pedestrians a clear lesson on physics.
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It's a selfish move. Nobody thinks about anyone but themselves these days.
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I think we've talked about this here (was it related to the bike discussion?) but it's especially infuriating to me, because it takes advantage of our humanity. My car will MANGLE you, no matter how huge you are, but out of human decency and a respect for human life, I now go out of my way to make sure I don't hit - and therefore, hurt - you, and your response? "Fuck you, jack, I'ma going to make sure I don't trip, I don't break out in a sweat, and ALL the ladies see my swag as I mosey across this street!"
I had a friend who once said "If I ever get told I have only months to live, I'm going to put a bullet in [insert polarizing politician]." Not me. I'm going to teach some rude pedestrians a clear lesson on physics.
To each their own. I'm going to Thailand to bang lots of Asian girls and take up smoking opium before finally overdosing on heroin on some Phuket beach. If I feel like being a humanitarian perhaps I'll teach some of them to make a nice chicken fried steak.
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The dumb part about that is a car is a a large weapon and not so easy to stop compared to someone walking.
Exactly. Exactly this. I see what you're saying though. People started to dart across, drivers adapted, forgot those better times, and now drivers are at the mercy of jaywalkers, and jaywalkers suffer for it, tripping more often because they have to strut. I think see how it happened. How awful.
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And worse now with all the distractions like a cell phone, I-Pod........
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When people say/write "10am in the morning."
Just like "PIN number" or "ATM machine." Acronymical [sic] redundancy pisses me off.
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IKR, right?
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Inb4 Hype blows a gasket.
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Inb4 Hype blows a gasket.
I think you meant "Inb4 before Hype blows a gasket."
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Not being able to sleep more than 5-6 hours a night for the past three weeks, no matter what time I go to bed. Tough to focus on patients' pain and problems through a ten hour workday, let alone give a shit about them, when the only thing keeping you going is coffee until the weekend. Sucks waking up at 330-430 am in the morning every night. (Yes, that last sentence was intentionally busting some balls...)
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You mean intentionally on purpose? ;D
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:lol
Basic spelling/grammar mistakes kill me, and no I'm not referring to Kinglish. I mean top-level executives that write "asoom" or say "irregardless" or "fustated."
Things like "would of" or using the incorrect version of "your" ...all things grown adults should be able to know and use properly. I get the occasional mistype or screwup, but I read a post on Facebook yesterday that used multiple instances of your/you're and it was spelled "your" every fucking time. Mind-boggling. Know the damn language you speak.
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Kinglish is a way of life.
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Damn straight.
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:lol
Basic spelling/grammar mistakes kill me, and no I'm not referring to Kinglish. I mean top-level executives that write "asoom" or say "irregardless" or "fustated."
Things like "would of" or using the incorrect version of "your" ...all things grown adults should be able to know and use properly. I get the occasional mistype or screwup, but I read a post on Facebook yesterday that used multiple instances of your/you're and it was spelled "your" every fucking time. Mind-boggling. Know the damn language you speak.
I no, rite?
Text speak drives me insane. At least with the your/you're thing, they're trying to spell it out instead of just lazily typing "ur"...
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This is sort of borderline because I think there is an actual societal problem with it and social media has already been covered but when some event happens and you see headlines like "The most powerful tweets in reaction to <event>" or "See how this brave <person> stood up to Twitter backlash" and the like. The reason why it shouldn't piss me off is because I can just scroll passed and go about my day but god damn if that isn't one of the best examples of how fucking stupid our hivemind has become where we're just OK with this sort of throwaway "news" popping up and, worse, actually shared by human beings.
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The thing that upsets me with social media is the liberties people take that they would never take slurring a face to face conversation.
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:lol
Basic spelling/grammar mistakes kill me, and no I'm not referring to Kinglish. I mean top-level executives that write "asoom" or say "irregardless" or "fustated."
Things like "would of" or using the incorrect version of "your" ...all things grown adults should be able to know and use properly. I get the occasional mistype or screwup, but I read a post on Facebook yesterday that used multiple instances of your/you're and it was spelled "your" every fucking time. Mind-boggling. Know the damn language you speak.
This sooooo much. Also, when the fuck did incentivize become a word? This word literally angers me. Incent is a perfectly fine verb on its own. There was no reason to a "ivize" to the end of it.
And ffs, even Google Chrome underlines "incent", but thinks "incentivize" is a perfectly fine word. >:(
Kinglish is a way of life.
You didn't chose it ... it chose you.
The thing that upsets me with social media is the liberties people take that they would never take slurring a face to face conversation.
I slur my conversations all the time!
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:lol
Fuck! :lol
During!
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:lol
Fuck! :lol
During!
Kinglish level: Boss
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God like. Imagine if italked like that in person? That would be a funny skit.
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Kinglish is a way of life.
Since I started posting from work more on my phone I'm slowly learning the ways of Kinglish.
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Kinglish is a way of life.
Since I started posting from work more on my phone I'm slowly learning the ways of Kinglish.
I had an update that wiped out the auto correct so it's made it worse for me. :lol
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What phone do you use King?
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Galaxy S6
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What autocorrect app do you use and where can I download the King AutoCorrect :lol?
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:lol
It's the standard Verizon app. Lol.
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Verizon auto correct is so frustrating but here I am still using it like an idiot and constantly complaining about it. God forbid I stop typing a long word and then continue typing it. No, Verizon, I don't want you to auto correct the second segment of that word into something else.
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An update rebooted mine and now it makes a bad speller and a bad texter worse. Oh and a guy that doesn't proofread.
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I don't proofread either, I start and I just get lazy.
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The fidget spinner fad. I've been able to mess with one of them and I just don't get it. On the other hand my dumb ass bought plenty of pogs back in 94 so I can't really judge
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The fidget spinner fad. I've been able to mess with one of them and I just don't get it. On the other hand my dumb ass bought plenty of pogs back in 94 so I can't really judge
I don't get it either, but I lived the yoyo (revival) craze of the mid '90s, so I guess I understand it.
Of course we didn't have smartphones and real internet back then, but what's their excuse? :lol
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This is sort of borderline because I think there is an actual societal problem with it and social media has already been covered but when some event happens and you see headlines like "The most powerful tweets in reaction to <event>" or "See how this brave <person> stood up to Twitter backlash" and the like. The reason why it shouldn't piss me off is because I can just scroll passed and go about my day but god damn if that isn't one of the best examples of how fucking stupid our hivemind has become where we're just OK with this sort of throwaway "news" popping up and, worse, actually shared by human beings.
That triggered another one that bugs me (though I won't concede "that it shouldn't"): when people use "brave" instead of what they presumably mean, like "admirable", or "worthy of praise". I don't at all think that acting performances are "brave". I don't think statements to the press - with forethought and through a publicist - are "brave". I think "brave" should be reserved for when you KNOW you're going to take a bullet - or even die - and you do it anyway, with no benefit to self. The soldiers that got off first in Normandy? BRAVE. Firefighters that run into a burning building worried about people inside and not their own skin? BRAVE. Charlize Theron? Hot, hot AF, but not "brave" (at least for her acting). Caitlyn Jenner? Admirable, to be admired, and certainly a role model for thousands that are confused and dealing with feelings they cannot process. But "brave"? Not willing to go there.
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"Adam Ruins Everyrhing" I want to throw that dude down a flight of steps. To me, he is the perfect example of the 'self entitled millennial' Pointing out all the things wrong with something in his smug little way.... why this or that is a 'lie' and so on yet offering no solution to any of it. Just causing $hit to cause $hit.
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Since Today is Fathers Day, here is one people have been saying more recently.
"Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers...and also to the mothers doing double duty." (vice versa for mothers day)
Its like...No. That's what Mothers/Fathers day is for. If they're gonna do that might as well combine them into a day...Parents Day.
With that logic. I wonder if Homosexual parents take turns being the father/mother on that day? Or if they wait till that one day so both get the greeting?
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I don't really see a problem with throwing some extra credit toward a single parent.
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One thing that drives me nuts is for movies and shows it seems the will get covers of songs that often try to be more brooding. It's hard to describe but ever since the "Mad World" cover by Gary Jules I've seen lots of for shows where sometimes I think the original would work just as well if not better.
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One thing that drives me nuts is for movies and shows it seems the will get covers of songs that often try to be more brooding. It's hard to describe but ever since the "Mad World" cover by Gary Jules I've seen lots of for shows where sometimes I think the original would work just as well if not better.
Yup!
That's one reason I liked the new Thor trailer. Just the original Immigrant Song. No weird remake of it.
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Don't watch the Justice League trailer then.
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I love Flo, and I'd let her have my offspring if she wanted to.
Wow. I did not see that one coming.
You didn't? He pines for Avatar, and this is a surprise? ;D
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I love Flo, and I'd let her have my offspring if she wanted to.
Wow. I did not see that one coming.
You didn't? He pines for Avatar, and this is a surprise? ;D
I didn't see THAT one coming either, though, so there's that. :)
But I can't talk now. I'm on the phone with the Amica girl (Tristan McDonald, if anyone cares). FINALLY. :)
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One thing that drives me nuts is for movies and shows it seems the will get covers of songs that often try to be more brooding. It's hard to describe but ever since the "Mad World" cover by Gary Jules I've seen lots of for shows where sometimes I think the original would work just as well if not better.
Slow, minimalist covers of pop songs seem to be dominating video game trailers as well.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
Or people wearing shorts in the winter.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
Or people wearing shorts in the winter.
It was a really thick large winter hat too.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
Or people wearing shorts in the winter.
It was a really thick large winter hat too.
Um..they were really short shorts.
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:lol
By your response it was a dude.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
Or people wearing shorts in the winter.
Dude I would wear shorts year round if I could get away with it.
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People wearing winter hats in 88 degree weather. It's also muggy.
Or people wearing shorts in the winter.
I do this unless I'm going to be outside for a prolonged period of time.
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When people wear their watches so the face is on the inside of their wrist.
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Men who sit with their legs crossed.
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Men who sit with their legs crossed.
I can't physically do that.
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Men who sit with their legs crossed.
At the ankles, or when they have one foot above a knee?
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Men who sit with their legs crossed.
At the ankles, or when they have one foot above a knee?
Neither. The kind where your knees are actually crossed.
(https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q591/Stadler111/timberlake_zpss9g4et61.jpg)
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You mean the Metro Nut Crush?
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Men who sit with their legs crossed.
At the ankles, or when they have one foot above a knee?
Neither. The kind where your knees are actually crossed.
(https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q591/Stadler111/timberlake_zpss9g4et61.jpg)
I don't think I could do that if I tried.
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(https://jackflacco.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/al-pacino-godfather-michael-corleone.jpg)
I started crossing my legs after seeing the godfather and never looked back.
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^^^ There are variations. I'm not talking about the "I could have you killed before you even have a chance to be scared" version, ala Michael Corleone. I'm talking about the other version.
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Yeah the other version is pretty whack. I couldn't bring myself to sit like that. Justin looks too much like an eager beaver in that first shot.
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What? I sit with my legs crossed in meetings all the time. I get called out for by other guys at work but my out is that I'm from Europe :)
It's a comfortable way to sit.
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Men crossing legs: Leaning back = ok. Upright or leaning forward = emasculation
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I am totally a leg crosser.
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People making delicious smelling food in the office microwave. Right now someone's got microwave popcorn and it smells so good and I just want to just find the desk where it is and steal it all.
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To illustrate the clusterfuck that was my last employer, we had a couple occurrences where popcorn was left in the microwave too long and ended up smoking, setting off the alarm, causing 1,000 employees to leave the office and an awkward explanation to the fire department by our facilities dept. Ultimately signs were posted above the microwaves: "No popcorn in the microwaves, Disciplinary action will be taken for violations."
"Hey Joe, heard you lost your job, what happened?"
"Microwaved some popcorn in the cafeteria."
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I see, this kind of over reaction corrections with Wal Mart all the time.
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2:20 on the clock for microwave popcorn has never failed me.
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When people wear their watches so the face is on the inside of their wrist.
I don't get why people do this. I'd be too afraid to damage the face of the watch on a table or something. It's also awkward to twist my wrist that way
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When people wear their watches so the face is on the inside of their wrist.
This is bad enough, but when people do it when they own and wear an expensive, fine watch that is meant to be seen and used, it pisses me off even more. It's almost like spending $275,000 on a Lamborghini, then only driving it at 20mph with a car cover draped over it.
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This is related to but not exactly clickbait, but I hate all articles and videos on social media now that are like "PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED/PUMPED/PISSED ABOUT [insert thing here]!"
Like it's so obviously just a way to tell readers/watchers what to feel, as if the content doesn't even matter. I sound like someone 30 years my senior when I say this, but it seems to be riding on the backs of people not wanting to think for themselves anymore. Like you can't just have a story about thing, and then maybe provide some commentary with it. Now, stories have to tell us how others are feeling because that tells US how to feel! We need to be told our opinion on the matter before we even know what the matter is.
It's so fucking insulting to me whenever I see this, and it just makes places like Facebook 50 times worse when it's already the worst social media platform that's also infecting every other successful site too.
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Losing at video games.
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People that lose at video games.
Losers.
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This is related to but not exactly clickbait, but I hate all articles and videos on social media now that are like "PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED/PUMPED/PISSED ABOUT [insert thing here]!"
Like it's so obviously just a way to tell readers/watchers what to feel, as if the content doesn't even matter. I sound like someone 30 years my senior when I say this, but it seems to be riding on the backs of people not wanting to think for themselves anymore. Like you can't just have a story about thing, and then maybe provide some commentary with it. Now, stories have to tell us how others are feeling because that tells US how to feel! We need to be told our opinion on the matter before we even know what the matter is.
It's so fucking insulting to me whenever I see this, and it just makes places like Facebook 50 times worse when it's already the worst social media platform that's also infecting every other successful site too.
Even regular news is like that now. CNN and Yahoo! News both place Op-ed pieces as lead headline pieces and it's insulting.
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This is related to but not exactly clickbait, but I hate all articles and videos on social media now that are like "PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED/PUMPED/PISSED ABOUT [insert thing here]!"
Like it's so obviously just a way to tell readers/watchers what to feel, as if the content doesn't even matter. I sound like someone 30 years my senior when I say this, but it seems to be riding on the backs of people not wanting to think for themselves anymore. Like you can't just have a story about thing, and then maybe provide some commentary with it. Now, stories have to tell us how others are feeling because that tells US how to feel! We need to be told our opinion on the matter before we even know what the matter is.
It's so fucking insulting to me whenever I see this, and it just makes places like Facebook 50 times worse when it's already the worst social media platform that's also infecting every other successful site too.
Even regular news is like that now. CNN and Yahoo! News both place Op-ed pieces as lead headline pieces and it's insulting.
"Listen to _________ destroy ________ with one word!"
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It's like putting the cart before the horse to me, but with more manipulation.
Movie trailers commonly get this same reaction out of me. The way they are assembly line tailored to evoke jejune emotional reactions so blatantly and without an ounce of subtly or artfulness is just painful to me. I feel manipulated, which does not make me want to see your movie.
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People who think they know what jejune means but don't.
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This is related to but not exactly clickbait, but I hate all articles and videos on social media now that are like "PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED/PUMPED/PISSED ABOUT [insert thing here]!"
Like it's so obviously just a way to tell readers/watchers what to feel, as if the content doesn't even matter. I sound like someone 30 years my senior when I say this, but it seems to be riding on the backs of people not wanting to think for themselves anymore. Like you can't just have a story about thing, and then maybe provide some commentary with it. Now, stories have to tell us how others are feeling because that tells US how to feel! We need to be told our opinion on the matter before we even know what the matter is.
It's so fucking insulting to me whenever I see this, and it just makes places like Facebook 50 times worse when it's already the worst social media platform that's also infecting every other successful site too.
Even regular news is like that now. CNN and Yahoo! News both place Op-ed pieces as lead headline pieces and it's insulting.
"Listen to _________ destroy ________ with one word!"
And even worse, when you read the article and it doesn't even come close to matching that headline
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People who think they know what jejune means but don't.
Did I mess up? I could've sworn I used it correctly. Naive, simplistic, superficial...is that right?
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People who think they know what jejune means but don't.
Did I mess up? I could've sworn I used it correctly. Naive, simplistic, superficial...is that right?
No, it was fine. :lol I was just giving you crap because it's such a seldom-used word. Actually, I have to give props for using such an obscure word so adeptly.
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Shitty Craigslist listings.
Been looking for a used pickup truck and can't tell you how many people will post a bunch of pics with no info other than a contact number or post a bunch of info with no pics. You're asking $15K for something and can take a single pic with your phone? C'mon.
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I just went through this twice with my stepson (finally settled on a '98 Toyota Tacoma 4x4; got it for $1700 cash, which is kind of a steal) and it's brutal. Some of these people think their ball of rust is just going to sell itself.
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I just went through this twice with my stepson (finally settled on a '98 Toyota Tacoma 4x4; got it for $1700 cash, which is kind of a steal) and it's brutal. Some of these people think their ball of rust is just going to sell itself.
Wow. That's a great price. Those typically hold their resale value really well. How many miles? I was hell bent on buying one of those for the longest time, but I need something that can handle a plow now.
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I just went through this twice with my stepson (finally settled on a '98 Toyota Tacoma 4x4; got it for $1700 cash, which is kind of a steal) and it's brutal. Some of these people think their ball of rust is just going to sell itself.
Wow. That's a great price. Those typically hold their resale value really well. How many miles? I was hell bent on buying one of those for the longest time, but I need something that can handle a plow now.
170K, but those engines - if cared for - will go forever. I was more worried about the frame, but it looks in good shape; no bends, no rust holes. When I went to DMV, I put the actual price down (usually you can shave a couple hundred bucks off to save on the sales tax) and they charged me tax on $3800, because that was what book said (even with the miles). Even being honest you can't win with the CT DMV.
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I just went through this twice with my stepson (finally settled on a '98 Toyota Tacoma 4x4; got it for $1700 cash, which is kind of a steal) and it's brutal. Some of these people think their ball of rust is just going to sell itself.
Wow. That's a great price. Those typically hold their resale value really well. How many miles? I was hell bent on buying one of those for the longest time, but I need something that can handle a plow now.
170K, but those engines - if cared for - will go forever. I was more worried about the frame, but it looks in good shape; no bends, no rust holes. When I went to DMV, I put the actual price down (usually you can shave a couple hundred bucks off to save on the sales tax) and they charged me tax on $3800, because that was what book said (even with the miles). Even being honest you can't win with the CT DMV.
Yeah, my father had a Sequoia that was still banging away at 260K miles until my sister's friend tore a fire hydrant out of the ground with it and then put it through a tree.
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People who think they know what jejune means but don't.
Did I mess up? I could've sworn I used it correctly. Naive, simplistic, superficial...is that right?
No, it was fine. :lol I was just giving you crap because it's such a seldom-used word. Actually, I have to give props for using such an obscure word so adeptly.
That's a relief. I learned the word quite some time ago, but that was my first go using it in a conversation. For some reason my mind just went straight to that word when describing the emotions.
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People who walk slow and like this
(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/8598/HhVCyK.jpg)
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Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. Amirite?
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Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. Amirite?
That's my philosophy on the highway.
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I assume that is a mall, and if so, it used to bother me but not anymore. I just pull a Dude On The Left from that picture and go around.
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That's the first floor of my office building, entering the food court.
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Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way. Amirite?
That's my philosophy on the highway.
But behind three young black asses, it's walk even slower and snap a picture! ;D
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I took it specifically for this thread
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You know what I hate. When everyone loves a certain album but I don't.
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You know what I hate. When everyone loves a certain album but I don't.
You must hate a ton since your tastes suck. :biggrin:
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:lol
I know, right!
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:lol
So I decided to buy all Gary Moore on CD. Gonna blow some money!
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:lol
So I decided to buy all Gary Moore on CD. Gonna blow some money!
Really? PM coming your way!
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:lol
So I decided to buy all Gary Moore on CD. Gonna blow some money!
I'd just spend the money, if I were you. You never know where money has been.
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You know what I hate. When everyone loves a certain album but I don't.
Or the flip side, when (the royal) you love an album that everyone else seems to think sucks.
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I'll admit this is super lazy, but having to switch out discs everytime I want to play a different game on PS4. Its 2017, I just want everything to be digital at this point. My model of PS4 has shitty harddrive space, so I will get something much bigger when PS5 comes out.
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I'll admit this is super lazy, but having to switch out discs everytime I want to play a different game on PS4. Its 2017, I just want everything to be digital at this point. My model of PS4 has shitty harddrive space, so I will get something much bigger when PS5 comes out.
:lol
Kingshmegland, you want this one........?
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Fuck, I'm not even that lazy! :lol
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Fuck, I'm not even that lazy! :lol
I am. Sometimes I'm have a BluRay concert in the PS4, but then I either A) get pissed when jingle.son switches it out to play, and I have to re-load it or B) I can't be bothered to switch it out, so I don't even play games much.
I don't even think this qualifies as a 1st world problem. :lol
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When someone downstairs in the house texts me and I hadn't looked at my phone and then like 30mins later, they are mad that I hadn't texted them back yet despite them being like 10 feet away in the same house :P
Its a brave new world we live in :lol
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:lol
When a pedestrian darts out into the street force a car that is a weapon to stop. Twice today that happened.
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I'll admit this is super lazy, but having to switch out discs everytime I want to play a different game on PS4. Its 2017, I just want everything to be digital at this point. My model of PS4 has shitty harddrive space, so I will get something much bigger when PS5 comes out.
Remember when you had to switch discs in the middle of a game? (Final Fantasy 7 comes to mind)
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Fucking goddamn FedEx. Have a package scheduled for delivery tomorrow that arrived in the last stop before my local depot 2 days ago. It has literally spent 36 hours and 3 tracking updates sitting in the same location. Like what the fuck, how is it AT ALL productive to let a package sit for a day and a half, not moving, when you could deliver a day ahead and get it out of your pipeline?
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Fucking goddamn FedEx. Have a package scheduled for delivery tomorrow that arrived in the last stop before my local depot 2 days ago. It has literally spent 36 hours and 3 tracking updates sitting in the same location. Like what the fuck, how is it AT ALL productive to let a package sit for a day and a half, not moving, when you could deliver a day ahead and get it out of your pipeline?
It's scheduled for delivery tomorrow. It's extremely productive to have it sit for several reasons:
- It's scheduled for TOMORROW. Isn't that what the customer asked for? Will people even be there to accept delivery?
- To make a special run to move THAT PACKAGE out of inventory costs more than to have it "piggy back" with a delivery that is already scheduled for that run.
- There is a metric that almost all manufacturing/production/operations people use called "span". It's the difference - PLUS OR MINUS - from the scheduled production/delivery date. I sell trains; if the train I'm delivering is scheduled for July 1 delivery, there is no difference (in terms of "bad") between a delivery on October 1 (late) or April 1.
- Our sales guys; if they have a commitment for $5 million in sales, and they do $2.5 million, that's bad. Really bad. if they do $7.5 million, that's bad too. Really bad. Why? Because they didn't know their customer, and they weren't in there influencing at least 50% of their sale requirement.
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This is why the thread is titled "things that shouldn't piss you off but do anyway." ;)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that. :) (And I know the feeling of WANTING YOUR PACKAGE and knowing it's sitting in a warehouse somewhere!)
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Yea I think that feeling of seeing it on the tracking just sitting there is what sucks, it's like you'd rather see it being moved across the country and seeing "progress" than just nothing and wondering why it's not delivered yet.
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One time I drove 115 miles to pick up my 3D TV from a warehouse because I didn't want to wait the for the weekend to pass :lol
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I've absolutely done that. 100%. And for dumb stuff! I need a filter for my garage vac. I can get it from the Sears website for like $6 shipping, delivered to my door, and I'm likely going to drive down to Wethersfield - 45 minutes through the City - to get it. Forget that I'm going to procrastinate until Friday to do it (by which time it would have been delivered). I did that with a bracket for my truck too; could have had it from the dealer in three days, instead I'm walking through Duvalier's Junked Cars to "u pick it" off an old truck so I could have it NOW.
Fucking humans. :) (Though the latter was at least fun).
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Yeah I mean it isn't so much a necessity, and while it would be nice to have it already, the real frustration lies in this image of the tracking info:
(https://scontent.fphl2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19800574_10155224739821508_3123700848989520226_o.jpg?oh=aa226c1726ce6deac2f73bb6b41a8a40&oe=5A02F5D3)
Notice how for 3 consecutive timestamps, it's been In Transit, Hagerstown, MD. That is literally the last stop before hitting and being sorted at my local depot. What this means is today sometime, it will arrive at my local depot, get sorted, and be put on the truck for delivery tomorrow.
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Ok so now FedEx tracking says it's at the FedEx location.....in Hagerstown. I think tracking has encountered a bug, or it thinks Hagerstown is a lot bigger than it is.
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When I'm watching something (Glow) with Victoria and she makes a comment like "her body is fucking perfect". I just reply with "no comment" :lol
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Yeah I mean it isn't so much a necessity, and while it would be nice to have it already, the real frustration lies in this image of the tracking info:
(https://scontent.fphl2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19800574_10155224739821508_3123700848989520226_o.jpg?oh=aa226c1726ce6deac2f73bb6b41a8a40&oe=5A02F5D3)
Notice how for 3 consecutive timestamps, it's been In Transit, Hagerstown, MD. That is literally the last stop before hitting and being sorted at my local depot. What this means is today sometime, it will arrive at my local depot, get sorted, and be put on the truck for delivery tomorrow.
Shipping and logistics drive me crazy. I've ordered items from Amazon, who hold the order for a month, and then I get 2-day shipping. Because I'm not always a Prime member, it doesn't ship right away. That's fine, but it's weird that they hold it for so long and then it goes out 2-day shipping.
Also, my personal favorite, is the back and forth past my house. I live south of the Amazon depot in Kenosha, WI. Maybe 10-15 miles away. An item just went even further south, past my house, to another location in a different Chicago suburb. It then traveled BACK NORTH to my house to be delivered today. Wouldn't it be easier to just drop it on a truck with local deliveries, rather than send it way further south than the delivery address, then have to move it back north to deliver?
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FedEx never fucking came. Been in the truck for delivery since 5am and it never came to my office. Guaranteed delivery by end of day. But it's a business address. No one will be there at 8pm. Bastards.
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7:41. Business delivery at 7:41pm. Delivery exception bc duh the building autolocks at 6.
I hate FedEx.
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I feel your pain Hyper. I was supposed to get my tired in yesterday when I got a notification that my address is undeliverable even though I've had countless packages dropped off here. Had to call them and it's now 8:35 and I'm still waiting for my tires.
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Wanted a sandwich but didn't want to go out. So I called Jimmy Johns up to get a sandwich delivered. They can't deliver to me because I'm out of their delivery zone. It's two miles away :-[
I realize that's really close, I just didn't want to change and go out.
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Wanted a sandwich but didn't want to go out. So I called Jimmy Johns up to get a sandwich delivered. They can't deliver to me because I'm out of their delivery zone. It's two miles away :-[
I realize that's really close, I just didn't want to change and go out.
But you have to go and get your free smells! :lol
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Projection christmas lights
(https://setthewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/christmas-lights-laser-projector-on-sale-projection-walmart.jpeg)
I'm a guy that just likes the old school physical bulb lights. To me they just have a better look and feel than the projection lights, which I am not into at all.
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I'd say 40% of the homes in our neighborhood have those lights, doesn't look special when three homes in a row have them.
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Projection christmas lights
(https://setthewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/christmas-lights-laser-projector-on-sale-projection-walmart.jpeg)
I'm a guy that just likes the old school physical bulb lights. To me they just have a better look and feel than the projection lights, which I am not into at all.
Go you one better: the guy across the street - he's a very nice guy, but he's one of those guys (40" deck walking mower, blows his leaves about every two weeks in the fall, spotless, perfect edging) - has the OLD SCHOOL big bulbs on his house, all in perfect order (red, blue, yellow, green, orange, red, blue...) and it's oddly the best decorations on the street. I personally like the LED lights that have the same shape but the 'lenticular' cut to them, but this guy went old school and delivered the goods.
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Projection christmas lights
(https://setthewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/christmas-lights-laser-projector-on-sale-projection-walmart.jpeg)
I'm a guy that just likes the old school physical bulb lights. To me they just have a better look and feel than the projection lights, which I am not into at all.
That's just... lazy.
Have these people not ever watched Christmas Vacation? Do they not know the joy of freezing your baguettes off while stringing lights that you forgot to check before hand, then you plug them in and half of them don't work, then your wife tells you that the Christmas tree that you just spent an hour cutting down with your own hands with a saw that was last sharpened at the century's turn has fallen in the living room and your couch is now covered with broken ornaments, needles, and sap?
That's just... lazy.
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Was just discussing this with my parents in Jacksonville where I saw their neighbors had the projection lights. My Dad said he wanted them. I don't blame him. It's the easy solution and he has a bad back so I wouldn't want him lighting up the house, but I do agree with you guys. I don't like the look and when everyone is doing it, it looks like shit. Granted, this is coming from someone who doesn't do one bit of holiday decorating on his house. I'm lazy and uninterested so if forced, I would go this route too, but no one is forcing me. I'd rather just keep the lights off. I don't want people driving through my street anyway to see lights.