40 Annoyances in Modern Life
- Thread starter Gyakuto
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I don't belong to the mainstream. When I'm by myself, I don't want anybody to find me. I just don't think it makes any sense that you walk on the beach and talk on your cell phone.
I'm retired and I'm still married. My wife has a cell phone. Any pass code will be sent to my wife's cell phone.
Fungus
Black Belt
Only two recognized by me..
Scammers or salescalls (whatever hte difference is these days ) getting more and more common. Annoying.
Mostly happens at work, when you write an email with carefully detailed unambigous questions, and there is some moron calling you asking you to ask "I saw your email, what do you want??" This is when i ask myself, what is wrong with people
Not people. Bots.Only two recognized by me..
Scammers or salescalls (whatever hte difference is these days ) getting more and more common. Annoying.
Mostly happens at work, when you write an email with carefully detailed unambigous questions, and there is some moron calling you asking you to ask "I saw your email, what do you want??" This is when i ask myself, what is wrong with people
A term used to describe whoever came up with the idea of participation trophies for kids, for instance.
I hike with a cell phone for the opposite reason. I want to be found especially in an emergency. At that point my cell phone becomes emergency equipment. Depending on where I'm hiking I'll have both a cell phone and a radio.
But like you sometimes I just want my free time to myself. I think it's important for me to just be byself
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I never get these calls because I don’t answer unknown numbers and have deactivated my answer machine. When they initially call, it rings and rings with no response and I think they take me off their ‘to scam’ list.
Work with better people…
That can be subjective…
They clearly like the dulcet tones of your voice!and there is some moron calling you asking you to ask "I saw your email, what do you want??" This is when i ask myself, what is wrong with people
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The same phone you have to bang on your knee to turn it on?
Most smartphones have the capability to automatically ignore calls from numbers that are not in your contacts list.
Virtue signalling grrrrrr. Growing up we were taught "fishing for compliments" was uncouth and rude. This is how I view virtue signalling.Virtue signalling is my other annoyance. There are a few of those who regularly do that on this forum
Ian Abernathy wrote an article, to paraphrase him, he says that training martial arts and having a 200lb man kneeling on your chest raining punches down on your head the night before makes life's small issues seem like nothing. Good perspective IMO
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Absolutely, but virtue signallers tend to be more subtle . For example a person proclaiming on social media that they strongly support a certain cause, even though they don’t particularly, just because they want to show others how caring or changing their social media profile picture for the ‘cause of the week’ but do nothing else to help that cause.
Hot Lunch
Master Black Belt
Male virtue signaler: "Trans women are women!"
Me: "Would you date one?"
Male virtue signaler: *crickets*
Prince_Alarming
Black Belt
Yup, I'll date pretty much anything that stays still long enough
I bought a bathroom scale to keep track of my weight. It's got AI in it and it can talk. I stepped on it and it said "One at a time!"
I will consult Copilot for a response.
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lol. My current phone hasn't reach that status yet. But when it does you'll be the first to know.…by first banging it on your knee?
Fungus
Black Belt
Unfortunately it's often customers, which are always right, even when they are wrong.
In theory perphaps, but in most cases it's people are too lazy to pay attention to details.
