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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

Apreggiator said:
Bottle caps attached to bottles. Makes me go NUTS. Get annoyingly in the way when drinking.
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I haven't seen that in the US. Here they all have a plastic part that breaks when you remove the cap, but it comes fully off. I like the fact that it breaks because you can be sure the bottle has never been opened. I'd guess you can pull that top off -- seems very awkward to drink with it on. I'm guessing they did it to reduce pollution (lids being tossed) or increase recycling yield (the cap stays with bottle).
 
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Copanel said:
They can be detached if they get in the way; personally, I don't mind—in fact, it's actually good because I don't lose the cap. However, I would prefer glass packaging instead of plastic.
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The (Euro) ones can be detached for sure, but they aren't meant to.
It takes doesn't take stength, but a surprising amount of force. Younger kids and some of the elderly are sure to spill when they rip it off before taking the first few sips.

Poor design and nobody asked for it.
 
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karljansen said:
I like rap and hip-hop up to about 1996, especially the stuff that was using lots of samples from jazz records. A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, and The Pharcyde are groups I still occasionally listen to today. RUN-DMC is always fun. After 1996 it got very commercial-sounding, and now it sounds like it's written by illiterate drop-outs who can barely open their mouths when they speak, much less "rap."
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A local station on Saturday goes uncensored at 10pm, and the four letter garbage they play is unbelievable.
 
Modern "journalism" can be irritating. I read an article that Lou Gramm is retiring after this last tour. Not once in the entire article did it say he was the lead singer of Foreigner. I mean, if you already knew this, you prolly knew he was retiring and didn't need to read the article.

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Mr Boochie said:
Modern "journalism" can be irritating. I read an article that Lou Gramm is retiring after this last tour. Not once in the entire article did it say he was the lead singer of Foreigner. I mean, if you already knew this, you prolly knew he was retiring and didn't need to read the article.

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Guess he came back for the farewell tour, but he hasn't been the lead singer since 2003?
 
Modern things I hate ... third party delivery services such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about the "let's pay 50% more than we used to for the same old food delivery" :)
 
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peterp1 said:
Modern things I hate ... third party delivery services such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about the "let's pay 50% more than we used to for the same old food delivery" :)
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If you are stuck working a gig in a facility or festival that has outrageously expensive food, and are out of town and don't have access to a local car- Doordash and such can be a MUCH more manageable-cost option for eating. Venue management and their "no outside food" sign can go bite me. :D

What, throw me out? You can do that. Of course, you then won't have anyone to run your sound or lighting... that's the choice. As a result, pretty much all of them turn a blind eye, to us people working there, eating whatever we can get our hands on...

Regards,
Gordon.
 
peterp1 said:
Modern things I hate ... third party delivery services such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about the "let's pay 50% more than we used to for the same old food delivery" :)
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It is a convenience. Traffic in the city is bad, day and night, these days. Just getting in the car and driving 2 miles to a drive-thru can be an adventure.

I haven't used DoorDash or Uber Eats for hamburgers, but I have used Domino's Pizza delivery many times. At home and at work.
 
GordonW said:
If you are stuck working a gig in a facility or festival that has outrageously expensive food, and are out of town and don't have access to a local car- Doordash and such can be a MUCH more manageable-cost option for eating. Venue management and their "no outside food" sign can go bite me. :D

What, throw me out? You can do that. Of course, you then won't have anyone to run your sound or lighting... that's the choice. As a result, pretty much all of them turn a blind eye, to us people working there, eating whatever we can get our hands on...

Regards,
Gordon.
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When I was working in Lower Manhattan, delivery services were just a way of life. Working long, stressful days/nights doesn't leave you with a strong desire to run out to a restaurant. I was on call two weeks on a two month rotation too.

I later started getting groceries delivered as well. There just weren't too many groceries in that area, and carrying a full load of groceries home wasn't a lot of fun either.

There was a great restaurant pretty close that was open 24/7. There were plenty of 3-4am deliveries. I miss that option now.
 
GordonW said:
If you are stuck working a gig in a facility or festival that has outrageously expensive food, and are out of town and don't have access to a local car- Doordash and such can be a MUCH more manageable-cost option for eating. Venue management and their "no outside food" sign can go bite me. :D

What, throw me out? You can do that. Of course, you then won't have anyone to run your sound or lighting... that's the choice. As a result, pretty much all of them turn a blind eye, to us people working there, eating whatever we can get our hands on...

Regards,
Gordon.
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Mr Boochie said:
It is a convenience. Traffic in the city is bad, day and night, these days. Just getting in the car and driving 2 miles to a drive-thru can be an adventure.

I haven't used DoorDash or Uber Eats for hamburgers, but I have used Domino's Pizza delivery many times. At home and at work.
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devnull said:
When I was working in Lower Manhattan, delivery services were just a way of life. Working long, stressful days/nights doesn't leave you with a strong desire to run out to a restaurant. I was on call two weeks on a two month rotation too.

I later started getting groceries delivered as well. There just weren't too many groceries in that area, and carrying a full load of groceries home wasn't a lot of fun either.

There was a great restaurant pretty close that was open 24/7. There were plenty of 3-4am deliveries. I miss that option now.
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I can see niche needs for it, or geographic-specific needs for these services, but it just seems to be an added expense in many cases.

Or maybe I misunderstand the services. I am assuming that if I order delivery from Domino's directly, I pay the pizza price plus tip to driver. I am assuming that I can also order Domino's through DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc -- and it will cost significantly more for essentially the same delivery. Is that correct?

To the extent that Uber Eats and others extend the restaurants that you can have delivery from, that's a good thing that wouldn't otherwise be available. For it to be used instead of, or (worse) to displace delivery services previously available directly from the restaurant, that would seem to be a bad thing unless my presumption about the much higher markup is wrong.
 
peterp1 said:
Or maybe I misunderstand the services. I am assuming that if I order delivery from Domino's directly, I pay the pizza price plus tip to driver. I am assuming that I can also order Domino's through DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc -- and it will cost significantly more for essentially the same delivery. Is that correct?

To the extent that Uber Eats and others extend the restaurants that you can have delivery from, that's a good thing that wouldn't otherwise be available. For it to be used instead of, or (worse) to displace delivery services previously available directly from the restaurant, that would seem to be a bad thing unless my presumption about the much higher markup is wrong.
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Yes, you can have Uber Eats (or others) deliver pizzas. But it will be more expensive.

FWIW, when we use Uber Eats or DoorDash at work, they are super fast. Even in the rain, the food usually arrives in 15 minutes. Even if the restaurant is 5 miles away. We do order from restaurants that use delivery services a lot, so they are geared up for that.
 
GordonW said:
If you are stuck working a gig in a facility or festival that has outrageously expensive food...
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... you prep and take your own.

That's usually what I do at least.
We took cooler boxes to a (4 day) festival just last week. It wasn't necessary in hindsight because the food quality was very good, but nice nonetheless because the variety was somewhat slim.
I usually cook dinners that are enjoyable to eat both in warm and cold state, because I often don't feel like warming up stuff after working.

If I organise an event myself I book a good cook for the crew (or we rotate cooking duties), keeps the good people coming back. ;)
 
Apreggiator said:
... you prep and take your own.
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Many events that I've gone to lately (like the last 5-10 years), don't allow you to bring in food or drinks.

I think these make a lot of $$$ from concession sales. Plus, the organizers don't want to inspect big backpacks, etc, so they just confiscate them.

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Mr Boochie said:
Many events that I've gone to lately (like the last 5-10 years), don't allow you to bring in food or drinks.

I think these make a lot of $$$ from concession sales. Plus, the organizers don't want to inspect big backpacks, etc, so they just confiscate them.

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For crew they do allow it over here.
Also to the campsite for visitors.
And this is drinks and food. On the camping grounds we had whisky, several beercan trays, water, vodka and another crate of food with us next to the aforementioned cooler.
As crew I could also take some food to the backstage area, no idea what the rules actually were, but most folks took something with them to get through their shift.

It is not allowed to take food & drink into the festival area for visitors obviously, but one soft plastic bottle of water per person is usually condoned during summer heat.
 
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Apreggiator said:
... you prep and take your own.

That's usually what I do at least.
We took cooler boxes to a (4 day) festival just last week. It wasn't necessary in hindsight because the food quality was very good, but nice nonetheless because the variety was somewhat slim.
I usually cook dinners that are enjoyable to eat both in warm and cold state, because I often don't feel like warming up stuff after working.

If I organise an event myself I book a good cook for the crew (or we rotate cooking duties), keeps the good people coming back. ;)
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We do take quite a bit ourselves. We have a huge cooler and a small ATA-type road case, that we load up with as much stuff as we can realistically bring.

There's no realistic way we can cook at most of our gigs. And, it does get to the point, sometimes, where just for morale- we just need something better than food out of a can or a bag.

Regards,
Gordon.
 
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