Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

[cramx3]

Yea, I agree with that too.  You shouldn't have to rely on the tech in your car to drive it safely, but also, that tech makes things safer.  It's funny how I've often done two looks to my blind spot on the right side to compensate not having my camera do it for me.  Granted, I grew up without that tech so I'm just going off of a year of being used to this new thing.  If you grew up with this tech, it would be a lot hard to drive without it.  I'm pretty sure rear view cameras are a required standard in new cars in the US.  They should make it a requirement (if it isn't already) for your drivers test to not be able to use any tech besides an auto transmission and power steering.

[pg1067]

I'm not sure whats the best, but pulling in seems much easier to me, especially with having back up cameras now.  Sure having the same camera makes it easier to back in as well, but that's still a trickier task to back into a confined space vs backing out into an open road.  I'm not sure I have much of an opinion here, but I almost always end up pulling in and I hope I can just drive though if possible on exit.

For me:  pulling into and out of a parking space are equally easy; backing out of most parking spaces is pretty easy, but backing into a parking space is not at all easy.

You have a pretty good way of telling that someone is pulling out from a spot, namely that their car is moving.

It's not as easy as that.  For starters, I have no way of telling if a car pulling out of a spot is about to move, whereas backup lights tell me that someone is about to start backing up.  If the car opposite me has its backup lights on before I shift into reverse, I should wait and look for movement.  If a car is pulling slowly out of a space, it's not that easy.

As far as someone backing into a space, I can't recall a single instance in which someone desiring to do that has actually signaled.  It's hard enough to get people to signal turns on the street.  And yeah, at parking lot speeds, I'm not going to be that far back.

[cramx3]

To go back to home tech for a moment, literally just got this message in my group chat with my friends "are the nest servers down" which it doesnt appear to be, but just the idea of questioning that.  I hate relying on other's services to be working for my product to work. 

[Stadler]

Yea, I agree with that too.  You shouldn't have to rely on the tech in your car to drive it safely, but also, that tech makes things safer.  It's funny how I've often done two looks to my blind spot on the right side to compensate not having my camera do it for me.  Granted, I grew up without that tech so I'm just going off of a year of being used to this new thing.  If you grew up with this tech, it would be a lot hard to drive without it.  I'm pretty sure rear view cameras are a required standard in new cars in the US.  They should make it a requirement (if it isn't already) for your drivers test to not be able to use any tech besides an auto transmission and power steering.

We're not arguing.   Using a technology to be safer, knowing you'd still be a measure of safe without it, is one thing.  Completely relying on it and being lost without it is another.

[jingle.boy]

Agreed entirely.  Wasn't there talk of a Lexus model doing away with side view mirrors, and going exclusively camera?  Fuck that noise.  My last car, the backup camera would occasionally go on the fritz, so no way I would ever rely exclusively on cameras, beeps, or smart collision avoidance braking type shit.  I always check blind spots, and always have my foot on the ready with the brake. 

Scary thing is, in due time, we might as well rely on all these enhanced features, because the car itself (engine, steering, acceleration/braking) is more software than mechanics these days.

[King Postwhore]

I'm going to purchase a truck for the first time in February and I want the camera.  It's more for judging the closeness to the other parked cars.  I've never owned a truck before and since it is much longer I think it's a good tool to have just for that.

[cramx3]

Yea, I agree with that too.  You shouldn't have to rely on the tech in your car to drive it safely, but also, that tech makes things safer.  It's funny how I've often done two looks to my blind spot on the right side to compensate not having my camera do it for me.  Granted, I grew up without that tech so I'm just going off of a year of being used to this new thing.  If you grew up with this tech, it would be a lot hard to drive without it.  I'm pretty sure rear view cameras are a required standard in new cars in the US.  They should make it a requirement (if it isn't already) for your drivers test to not be able to use any tech besides an auto transmission and power steering.

We're not arguing.   Using a technology to be safer, knowing you'd still be a measure of safe without it, is one thing.  Completely relying on it and being lost without it is another.

Not arguing at all, total agreement, but was trying to lead to this point:

Scary thing is, in due time, we might as well rely on all these enhanced features, because the car itself (engine, steering, acceleration/braking) is more software than mechanics these days.

And the people using it will only know how to use the tech not the old school mirrors and your own damn eyes

[Chino]

I'm going to purchase a truck for the first time in February and I want the camera.  It's more for judging the closeness to the other parked cars.  I've never owned a truck before and since it is much longer I think it's a good tool to have just for that.

If it's a 2018+ model, it's required by law to have a backup camera.   

I never ever felt like I needed/wanted a backup camera. I can get a vehicle around just fine. However, my most recent purchase had a camera in back, and I have to say, it's made getting around my tight parking garage a million times easier.

[lordxizor]

I love back up cameras. My wife's vehicle has one. Mine doesn't. It's a really nice thing to have when I drive hers.

[Chino]

You know what I like even more than the backup camera? The cross traffic detection. If I'm backing out of a space, I get a beep if someone is crossing my path from either direction. That saved me just last week from a fully grown adult bombing through the Costco parking lot riding a carriage like a scooter.

[cramx3]

sounds like TAC leaving them as far away as possible from the corral 

[King Postwhore]

 

[TAC]

[jingle.boy]

You know what I like even more than the backup camera? The cross traffic detection. If I'm backing out of a space, I get a beep if someone is crossing my path from either direction. That saved me just last week from a fully grown adult bombing through the Costco parking lot riding a carriage like a scooter.

It'll also remind ya when you forget to pickup your cone.

[chknptpie]

I know its been a while since I've seen him in person... but is that Nick?

[Lethean]

Daylight Savings Time.  Begone with it already.  My body is still on DST, so I've been awake since 5am.  Can't get up, otherwise the dogs won't get their internal clocks adjusted.  So I just laid in bed for about an hour uselessly.

I personally think they should leave daylight savings time on all the time, rather than getting rid of it, but either way we'd do away with the annoying time changes.

Yeah I know this isn't timely, but whatever.    I'd be fine with lordxizor's suggestion - keep daylight savings time all year.  We have it for most of the year now - sometime in March-November, so let's just keep it all year.  If they're not going to do that however, I absolutely do not want them to get rid of DST.  It's so much nicer having the sunlight longer in the evening.  It's totally worth losing an hour in the spring, and in the fall, I'm not complaining about an extra hour of sleep.  Jingle you can just keep some headphones near your bed and listen to Voyager from 5am to 6am every year until you realize how awesome they are and are chatting with Kattelox and I about your favorite Voyager songs.

[pg1067]

Yeah I know this isn't timely, but whatever.    I'd be fine with lordxizor's suggestion - keep daylight savings time all year.  We have it for most of the year now - sometime in March-November, so let's just keep it all year.  If they're not going to do that however, I absolutely do not want them to get rid of DST.  It's so much nicer having the sunlight longer in the evening.  It's totally worth losing an hour in the spring, and in the fall, I'm not complaining about an extra hour of sleep.  Jingle you can just keep some headphones near your bed and listen to Voyager from 5am to 6am every year until you realize how awesome they are and are chatting with Kattelox and I about your favorite Voyager songs.

Don't really care whether we stay on standard time all year or DST all year, just get rid of the time change.  I remember when my son was a baby.  He was born in May and was hyper-sensitive to schedule changes.  The the clocks changed when he was 5-6 months old, it was hell on us until he adjusted.  Nowadays, I don't have any problem with the "fall back," but the "spring forward" SUCKS.  I suppose if they want to move the time for the time change to noon on a Friday, that might be ok, but screwing folks out of an hour of sleep, even on a weekend, is just silly.

[Lethean]

But it's done on a Saturday night/Sunday morning.  You don't have to lose an hour of sleep.  Just sleep an hour later the next day.  Or if you work Sundays, go to bed an hour earlier.  Or do it by the half hour.  Just because it's officially done at a certain time doesn't mean you can't work around it sooner if you need to.  People traveling between time zones that are next to each other seem to manage all the time.

[bosk1]

Using a technology to be safer, knowing you'd still be a measure of safe without it, is one thing.  Completely relying on it and being lost without it is another.

Reminds me of that scene in The Mule where Clint Eastwood comes up on that car stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire, and the younger dude driving it with his family is at a complete loss because he never learned how to change a tire and there is no reception for him to be able to Google it.   

[bosk1]

Mildly irritating:  When you are just getting to know someone, and when you text them, they text back but don't address your question.  Like:
-Me:  Ur not a serial killer, right?
-Them:  lol

[JayOctavarium]

When someone whom I barely know sends me a text asking if I am serial killer.

*Nervous Chuckle*

[cramx3]

Mildly irritating:  When you are just getting to know someone, and when you text them, they text back but don't address your question.  Like:
-Me:  Ur not a serial killer, right?
-Them:  lol

Without knowing context, this could be a nervous laugh 

[Spiritus]

Why can't they ever cut my bagel/sandwhich all the way through. 

[King Postwhore]

After 16 years of coffee bliss Dunkin Donuts in my town has not put sugar in my coffee 3 times in the last 3 months.

I hate to sound like an old bastard but it's always the afternoon shift with the 20 somethings working.

[TAC]

Why do they show the owners during an NFL game? Who fucking cares? They look like emperors sitting there.

I wonder if it's in the contract. Knowing the owners, it probably is.

[Stadler]

Jeff Lurie always looks like he just ate a bag of crap.   

Robert Kraft always looks like he's not sure if he ordered that next Scotch or not. 

He's not the owner, but they kept showing Ryan Pace (the Bears GM) during the game last night, and he looked like he was figuring out how to tell his wife that the vaca to Universal is off this year because he's going to be job-hunting during that week. 

[cramx3]

I don't really mind the owner shots.  They are part of the game (in the grander scale of things) and seeing them reminds you of that.  Now, I don't think they should be showing them when there's something worth showing, but there's plenty of downtime during an NFL game to show them.  Now, those certain games where they just keep going back to them, that's annoying.  We don't see to see Jerry Jones on every 3rd down.

[MoraWintersoul]

The rampant discontinuing of cosmetic products that encourages hoarding and excessive consumerism.

When it comes to makeup, I mostly have one of each item because they're purely utilitarian to me - except for lipstick. I like having a few different ones, just for variety's sake (right now I have three), and I generally won't buy one unless I've used something else up. That takes about three months of everyday use. However, within those three+ months, shit I'm eyeing often floats in and out of stores, with absolutely no warning that it's "limited edition".

I'm picky when it comes to lipsticks. There's a small range of colors I like to wear, and if every brand has, say, five different formulas of lipsticks with different properties, I might like one formula, and one color in it. Last night I was browsing to find one of the lipsticks I have on my tentative shopping list that fits both criteria, and boom, it's gone. 

Beauty industry, you will not get me. I refuse to pounce on stuff as soon as it's released because I'm afraid you'll discontinue the shiny thingy I like. I don't care if it's the color of the roses from the garden of Eden and formulated with ambrosia. Even if I didn't have the "use one up to purchase one"-rule, it takes me several months to read and compare reviews and see how the reviews "age" (say, maybe one of the reviewers noticed their lipstick changed its consistency within several months, or maybe something even better comes out, or whatever). I don't ~collect lipsticks~. I don't wanna waste money introducing consumable goods in unrecyclable plastic packaging into my makeup bag and my home unless I'm sure that's the best option out of everything on the market, and it takes time to determine that. I'll just go to the few brands who appreciate their returning customers enough to keep a reliable lineup of products for several years.

Shaking my fist really hard at Maybelline right now. "Maybe she's born with it - because that particular color's been out of production for a while" doesn't quite roll off the tongue but it's true. 

[JayOctavarium]

This ^ reminds of Lush with their products. You never know what products are going to be axed.

(Not that I am a fan of Lush... but my other half was once obsessed passionate about their products)

[lordxizor]

When you try and DYI some stuff in your house and it all goes to shit.

[bosk1]

When you try and DYI some stuff in your house and it all goes to shit.

Have you been reading my Face Book posts? 

[pg1067]

So...I went and grabbed a burger at Carl's Jr. for lunch today.  There were three booths along one side of the restaurant the one in the corner was occupied by a single person, the middle one was not occupied, and the third one was occupied by a single individual.  The individuals in the two occupied booths were facing in the same direction.  I sat down in the unoccupied booth and sat in the same direction, so none of us were looking at each other.  Shortly after I sat down, the guy in the third booth left and was almost immediately replaced by a new occupant, who sat facing the opposite direction, such that he and I were essentially looking at each other the whole time.

Definitely mildly annoying.  It's like when you're peeing in urinal #1 of 4 and someone walks in and stands at urinal #2 (instead of the socially appropriate #3).

[King Postwhore]

When you try and DYI some stuff in your house and it all goes to shit.

Have you been reading my Face Book posts? 

it took my brother and I 3 weeks to build my portable shed for my lawnmower.  I posted it on Facebook.   

It took forever!

[TAC]

I built a portable shed, and a week after I finished a damn wind storm blew the fucking thing to pieces over my fence and into my neighbor's yard.

[King Postwhore]

Was is a metal frame?  I bought 4 50 pound bags of sand that is over the anchors in the ground.