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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

MuseChaser said:
What gets me are the incredibly serious possible side effects mentioned quietly and quickly (for legal reasons and not out of any concern for ethics) at the end of ads for drugs meant to combat mostly cosmetic or aesthetic problems. I'll stick with an itchy eczema rash rather than risk spontaneous interior organ detonations, thank you.
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"Suicidal ideations." I mean, really, you are tempted to take a drug with that possible side effect?
 
MuseChaser said:
Egg Zachary. Especially when the med being hawked is supposed to help with depression! I mean, yeah.... I guess suicide is a cure for depression...but certainly not the cure ANYONE should be looking for!
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Many meds are life-saving. But, the ones that Big Pharmas are aggressively hawking on cable these days, 24/7 — I have doubts about. :(
 
I hate medicine comercials too. For some years they invaded the Romanian tv screens.
Idem slot games and betting. A guy from a nearby building lostr 6,000 Lei (more then 1,000 U.S.D. or Euros) at bets...
Plus some banking.

In the days there where small casinos - pharmacy - bank. You lost money at the slots machines or small casionos, went to the bank to borrow some money and in between got some medicine to get calm. Now it's online.
 
TV sports coverage, "punditry."
It's increased year-on-year.
With the NFL, it can start well over an hour before the game.
They can have six people crowded along a desk, a "rules expert," off camera as well as two commentators. Sometimes the length of punditry is as long as the sport televised.
But there's a reason for it. "Talk is cheap" (whatever these people are paid) and it fills the schedules.
 
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Doghouse said:
"Wavy handed" people on TV. Some seem unable to speak without waving their hands about. If you mute the sound, you'd think they were doing sign language.

When I was at a UK grammar school in the late fifties. We used to have double English every week. At some point in the lesson there was always an exercise on "Public Speaking."
A different member of the class had to stand in front of the rest of us and give a two-minute talk on any subject they chose.
You were expected to conduct this with your hands behind your back.
Any hesitations, the inclusion of any "ums" or "ers." and you'd likely find a soft blackboard rubber aimed at your head, thrown by the master sitting at the back of the class. Plus howls of derision from the rest of the class. Through sheer pressure, we all became quite good at it. I found the ability very useful in meetings during my career.
Yet I find there are some people on TV, particularly older men, "who must have gone to the same school."

TV adverts that have disclaimers at the bottom of the screen that are hard to read. So many of them.
What you see on the screen should be exactly what they are selling. Car adverts where it says, "model not available in your country." Phone adverts where it says "sequences shortened."
I could go on....
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One of the most effective teachers I had in middle school, in the mid-1970s, was a high-and-tight, no-BS former Marine Sargent.

He taught English and was head/coach of the drama and forensics departments. He was a stickler for annunciation, stage projection, clarity, concision, and proper grammar. He was also very empathetic and understanding. But when he shouted from the back of the theater that he couldn’t hear you or that he was falling asleep from boredom, you adjusted accordingly.

We regularly had to do public speaking in his class. Everyone was graded on all of the errors he/she made while speaking and also on those you noted and pointed out in others. It was sometimes humiliating, but as a student and thespian, I really learned a lot and respected his pedagogical methods. He didn’t make me want to join the Corps, but my grammar definitely improved.
 
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Grammar. I was bad at it untill my '20's. But the methods of learning the pupils/students where very mechanical... they didn't used logic. And sometimes on purpouse I do it. In Romanian "to eat" is "a mânca", "hand" is. "mână". Both from Latin. But "I'm eating" is "eu mănânc" and it's annoying me, so I say "mânânc". "Handglove" is "mănuşă", but I say "mânuşă". Well, "freight train" is "mărfar" (devrived from "marfă"), but you know, most people say "marfar".
Former mariner at a theater... in one episode of "What's with Andy" was one such guy.

Oh, some one sayed on a site that LaserDisc players listed to the command, not like modern machines. Washing machines, they do load balance... the older ones, you order them to spin the laundary, no comment, the did it. Not even some things with buttons don't work proprely.
 
krautmaster said:
...having to use a cell phone App or QR code... I refuse to do so. The only things I use a cell phone for is to run Tidal on my Bluesound Node streamers and Schiit's Forkbeard in my office stereo.
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That's what I sayed in the 1st post. You need apps. But why not to able to use them on P.C.?
 
Commercials like, I have moderate to sever skin rash. “Take blah blah blah” side effects may include suicidal tendencies, kidney failures, heart attacks, anal seepage, brain tumors, blindness, or strokes.
 
OBMG74 said:
Planned obsolescence used to be longer.
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Well, tech moves faster these days so items aren't designed to outlive the tech. I can see building a lot of tech gear to a 10 year lifespan as it will be obsolete by then, but common appliances are anoyher thing. Ranges, fridges, washers, dryers, toasters, mixers all should last much longer as there's been no real world appreciation of what they can do unlike computers, phones, TVs, etc
 
krautmaster said:
I use my PC for most things, but I haven't figured out how to use QR codes and I'm too old and set in my ways to bother with it :banana:
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There are more than a few restaurants where the specials must be scanned via a QR code. Some that have no physical menu. Everything is a cloud somewhere.

If you don't have a phone, you are plum out of luck. :(

A lot of fast-food places are going AI for all drive-thrus. It's like the Jetsons! :thumbsup:
 
Mr Boochie said:
Another thing that's so common now. We went to a kinda fancy restaurant to eat (need a reservation kind of restaurant).

There was this young couple at the next table. It seemed like it was their first date. The whole time, they were looking at their phones. The guy only looked up to order food. The woman was texting away, totally oblivious to anything around her.

Dating today can seem so foreign.

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My guess is that's a married couple. :) The heated rush been quenched :biggrin:
 
SolderIron said:
My guess is that's a married couple. :) The heated rush been quenched :biggrin:
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My wife knew that they were not married. Many of these youngsters don't know how to interact with each other in person. Especially on first dates. They don't have that skill.

She said that they're probably texting each other.

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ConradH said:
I create content, but at a snail's pace. Fortunately, this is a case where 9 women really can make a baby in 1 month. Everybody with a phone/camera is a creator these days. The overall speeding up of things isn't so great. If you think about an electronic feedback system, high frequencies and a bit of delay or phase shift give you rail to rail oscillation. Society isn't so different and speed can break down political systems and/or cause wars.
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What I hate and afraid is one can't tell what is real or fiction being presented. I believe/hope there will be a fact checker on everything presented someday soon.
 
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