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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

ta240 said:
The whole private equity buying out places and killing them things is really interesting. At first it didn't make sense to me how killing a company could be good. Even selling off assets was odd since the sale was to fund the company running longer, but then I saw a great explanation. They take a fee on everything they do for the company. Sell off the property the buildings are on? They get a percentage of the transaction. Take out loans the companies will never be able to pay back? They get a percentage of that.
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Private Equity firms are the global enforcers of EFFICIENT USE OF CAPITAL. They hunt for and dismantle any inefficient use of capital. This process destroys art, skill, craft, tradition, quality, loyalty, variety, and tradition. <----- The stuff that makes life interesting!
 
DesertRatt said:
Wouldn't it be a marvelous and joyful experience to press the OFF BUTTON and the device immediately goes OFF--- the way it did before the age of software controls? Can't they at least give us that?
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The thing I hate is the bookend for that: turn something on with the remote and nothing, especially not the pilot light, comes on immediately.
 
DesertRatt said:
Wouldn't it be a marvelous and joyful experience to press the OFF BUTTON and the device immediately goes OFF--- the way it did before the age of software controls? Can't they at least give us that?
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You mean unlike my dishwasher with “touch” controls?:mad:

The other night I almost reached the point of turning off the breaker at the main panel.

So frustrating.
 
OBMG74 said:
The other night I almost reached the point of turning off the breaker at the main panel.
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Yup. I almost ripped the BLU-RAY player out of the cabinet for the same reason. Touch the ON/OFF button and 5 seconds later it turns off. But after four seconds one thinks he didn't press the button fully, so you press it again, which turns it back on. Rinse repeat until you want to take a hammer to it.

Speaking of Blue Ray players how is it even possible that the remote for my Sony Blue Ray has about 100 buttons jammed onto a 4" long remote?
 
DesertRatt said:
...I can recall Mom serving us SPAM in about 1958 or thereabout...
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Brought back some "memories" :idea:of eating SPAM.

As a kid, my mom used to cut thin slices then cover them with breadcrumbs. At the time...I loved them! Thought them to being "steaks".

Up until a teenager, I believed "steaks" were only wooden spikes driven into the ground. Times were tough back then, eh?:dunno:


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DesertRatt said:
Yup. I almost ripped the BLU-RAY player out of the cabinet for the same reason. Touch the ON/OFF button and 5 seconds later it turns off. But after four seconds one thinks he didn't press the button fully, so you press it again, which turns it back on. Rinse repeat until you want to take a hammer to it.

Speaking of Blue Ray players how is it even possible that the remote for my Sony Blue Ray has about 100 buttons jammed onto a 4" long remote?
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Wow! Blu-Ray. I haven't heard that term in a while. Another Sony innovation that went the way of Betamax.

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DesertRatt said:
Gawd, how I hate Netflix!
I really liked the old red disc Netflix tho.

I have no paid streaming services.... I did have Netflix back in the old Pandemic Era, but I could never find anything worth watching.
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In today's world, you are a true iconoclast! :thumbsup:

I don't know where my DVD collection went. It was quite small, like 25 movies and documentaries, max at any time. :idea:

In fact, I haven't gone to the theater to watch any movies since taking my kids to Pixar flics or being dragged to God-awful chick flics by my wife (thank God for Netflix! She can watch them to her heart's delight on her iPad). ;)
 
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Mr Boochie said:
In today's world, you are a true iconoclast! :thumbsup:

I don't know where my DVD collection went. It was quite small, like 25 movies and documentaries, max at any time. :idea:

In fact, I haven't gone to the theater to watch any movies since taking my kids to Pixar flics or being dragged to God-awful chick flics by my wife (thank God for Netflix! She can watch them to her heart's delight on her iPad). ;)
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As far as I can tell "Hollywood" as us old guys understood it... is kaput. Last picture I saw in a theater was the Atomic Bomb tale. A strange movie where the sound engineer was apparently told to make sure no one in the theater would be able to hear and comprehend the dialog. I thought I was going to be deaf when the movie ended.... totally silly.

I enjoyed going to theaters from 1960 to about 1995. Then, whatever broke that system came into play. Tons and tons of stupid animated kids movies seemed to saturate all theaters all the time, and then after Covid poof! It seemed y the theater age ended.

And that is why I have an ARCHAIC blue ray player!

Last nite, I watched OPEN RANGE. Wow! Robert Duvall is so superb, and my goodness... Annette Benning! She has a small role, but steals the spotlight. What an actor!
 
DesertRatt said:
As far as I can tell "Hollywood" as us old guys understood it... is kaput. Last picture I saw in a theater was the Atomic Bomb tale. A strange movie where the sound engineer was apparently told to make sure no one in the theater would be able to hear and comprehend the dialog. I thought I was going to be deaf when the movie ended.... totally silly.

I enjoyed going to theaters from 1960 to about 1995. Then, whatever broke that system came into play. Tons and tons of stupid animated kids movies seemed to saturate all theaters all the time, and then after Covid poof! It seemed y the theater age ended.

And that is why I have an ARCHAIC blue ray player!

Last nite, I watched OPEN RANGE. Wow! Robert Duvall is so superb, and my goodness... Annette Benning! She has a small role, but steals the spotlight. What an actor!
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The last "blockbuster" flic that I saw on the big screen was Oppenheimer. I thought the screenplay was a bit of an odd take — not to my liking. And I like military history. The cost for the two of us to see it was crazy. I mean, the cost of popcorn and Coca-Cola these days...

It was at the mall, so of course we had to window-shop afterward. We aren't talking about looking at hardware stores or video game places.

Okay, I'm stepping off the podium now.

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OBMG74 said:
The last movie that I went to was "Pearl Harbor" in 2001.
I was wishing that I had brought my ear plugs.
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Horribly loud some of these movies.

These Loop earprotection things really work.
Would have left the cinema if I wouldn't have had them with the 'new' Dune.

P.s. Heard from a friend.. That there's a specialized variant to combat snoring.
 
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