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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

Imma wondering about these celeb posts, like, "Shania Twain, 60, how menapause helped her stop fixating on herself." Or "Jennifer Lopez admits to her new untold shocking sex confessions!"

I thought all that jazz went out with supermarket line tabloids. Does anyone really care about older performers' personal nonsense?
 
Presented for discussion:
Red light cameras.

I personally find them stressful and avoid them when possible, although I agree that red-light running seems to be an epidemic.

From AI:
"Red light cameras effectively reduce total injury crashes and dangerous right-angle ("T-bone") collisions, though they can cause a temporary rise in minor rear-end accidents. While they successfully deter drivers from running red lights, the abrupt braking to avoid fines sometimes leads the following driver to strike the rear of the vehicle."
 
Jose Jimenez said:
Especially long hair, tube tops and bell bottoms!!!
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Do you like old-fashioned school cheerleaders? That may be best kept for another thread, on another site. :idea:

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Quadman2 said:
Relative to your "dislike/hate", there's been more than 200 cities/counties that have outlawed these gas devices in the States.


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I'm would normally be for it, but it's pretty expensive for landscapers to use electric or a rake when they are doing 15+ yards a day. Our lawn service rates have gone up, and selection of lawn services have gone down as a direct result of the law.
 
ta240 said:
Flock cameras can identify vehicles without reading the license plate by using Vehicle Signature (or "vehicle fingerprint") technology. This system analyzes visual features such as the car’s make, model, color, bumper stickers, roof racks, dents, and scratches to create a unique profile that persists even if the plate is missing, covered, or obscured
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IOW, it's kinda like a human with a photographic memory.
 
peterp1 said:
I'll counter your noisy leaf blowers complaint (which I get) with my with quiet leaf blowers complaint :).

They cost us 3 landscapers who quit servicing our town because of a recent electric leaf blower requirement. I'm all for electric over gas-powered where it makes sense, but the commercial electric leaf blowers cost a fortune for the landscaping companies, and battery-powered doesn't work (well) when they are doing 10 or 20 yards a day.
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Our neighbor has an electric leaf blower that makes me long for the gas powered days. The very loud, incredibly shrill sound it makes is the worst. They love to use it at 6 in the morning and 10 at night....

Mr Boochie said:
The gardeners around here use old-fashioned rakes again.
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There are times in the leaf removal process when a rake is faster. Part of the bad reputation leaf blowers get is from overuse. The "I'm going to spend 5 minutes moving the leaves the last 3 feet" or "I don't care if it is raining, we get paid for leaf blowing and we are going to do it"
 
Modern cars that don't have oil dipsticks. Don't get me wrong, I like the electronic readout of oil level, the problem is that several (maybe most) car brand's electronic oil measurements take a long time before provide oil level readings after you change the oil or have had it changed. In the Audi Q5 and Porsche Macan 2.0t, you have to drive about 50 miles before it starts reading oil levels after an oil change.

I've had dealers both underfill and overfill oil on the Audi and Macan and you can't tell until it starts reading oil level again 50 miles after you've picked up the car. The Alfa Giulia is the same way -- it takes a LONG time before it starts reading oil level -- there's a very long thread on the Alfa forum trying to determine how to read the electronic oil level and when the reading is reliable. If you read that thread, you will come out more confused than when you started :(:).

The time when you most need to know oil is after an oil change, so you don't drive around underfilled or overfilled, but it won't give you a reading. If they had a dipstick along with the electronic oil readout (some of the older cars do), that would be ok, but it's inexcusable to me in cars without a dipstick.
 
Modern old people are such whiners these days.

I can remember when good old fashioned old people would be grateful for their good fortune and how they went about earning their station in life. They had to overcome uncertainty and hardship. Modern old people think punching a clock for 25 years at some desk job qualifies them to judge subsequent generations. As if.

These modern day old people are soft and weak and think other people's happiness somehow diminishes their own.

Old people sure aren't what they used to be.
 
Ridiculous movie plots. There are some good new movies (e.g. Song Sung Blue), but many have either crazily ridiculous/unbelievable movie plots or special effects/violence over substance.

As an example, the original Happy Gilmore movie was quite good -- silly movie but pretty funny and entertaining. The 2025 Happy Gilmore 2 remake was unwatchable in my opinion. Poorly acted by everyone (honestly the best actor was rookie actor Bad Bunny) -- but the plot was ridiculous. Another movie was "Nobody 2" -- I didn't see Nobody 1, but the 2nd one was ridiculous -- the plot was ludicrous / unrealistic and violence over substance. There seem to be a ton of new movies that are just unwatchably bad plot/story/believability-wise -- I don't know how many of these moves even get backing to be made.
 
peterp1 said:
Ridiculous movie plots.
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I used to think that people approached the studios with movie scripts that they had spent a long time refining and perfecting, then the studios decided which ones were good enough to make. What I see in most scenarios is the studio decides they want a movie and hire people to write a script for their subject in a very short time.

The first Nobody movie was unrealistic at moments, but overall was quite entertaining. The second one felt almost like a spoof.

I saw an article not that long ago about how streaming services have different demands for movies that are changing the way they are written. They want big action in the first few minutes to hook people. They want the plot to be summarized several times throughout the movie for people that get distracted.
The days of movies made for people to sit and watch undistracted for 2 hours is fading. Now they have to compete with everything on people's phones. Complex movies that make sense tend to confuse the distracted.
 
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Enophile said:
...Old people sure aren't what they used to be.
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You def hit a "nerve" on this comment for the many. :thumbsup: And, the "ones" that complain the most, should take a trip to a third world country, and that would set them straight!

Then there's the element of having so much time on their hands, and nothing to do but find fault. Just another human "foible" in growing old.


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