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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

Bushikan said:
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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The ability to express yourself in the way we've described can help your progress in a company, possibly more than academic qualifications.
It certainly helped me in management meetings, including "the top brass." I found some contemporaries, when addressing a couple of dozen people around a conference table, were like fish out of water.

On occasions, when an opportunity for a necessary immediate promotion occurs, "old school top bananas" can rely on memory, more than advice from HR.
So a particular one of a couple of minutes in a meeting including many possible candidates, can make a difference.
 
I hate most subscription services.

I'm fine with a few like Spotify or Netflix but it's getting awfully close to the saying "You'll own nothing and be happy".
For example, a few years ago, BMW was charging a monthly subscription for using heated seats... a subscription for F...ING HEATED SEATS that are already in the car!
 
krautmaster said:
I know what you mean with some of those fugly Japanese cars that look like a carp, but how about a 1957 Chrysler 300C with a 392 hemi ?
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The old Miata front looked like someone saying, "I'm here for the picnic, guys!"

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enricosonic said:
Picking up a call-in order at a restaurant and being presented with a tablet with 15%, 20%, 30% gratuity options.
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The the thing is, food prices went up a lot -- so waiters and waitresses were already making more -- why did the expected tip percentage also go up?

If I've got all of this straight, now we pay higher costs for food, with higher percentages on that higher cost, to an untaxed "no tax on tips" recipient, using what remains (post Uncle Sam) from our heavily taxed income. :) :(
 
peterp1 said:
The the thing is, food prices went up a lot -- so waiters and waitresses were already making more -- why did the expected tip percentage also go up?

If I've got all of this straight, now we pay higher costs for food, with higher percentages on that higher cost, to an untaxed "no tax on tips" recipient, using what remains (post Uncle Sam) from our heavily taxed income. :) :(
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Yes, all costs have gone up, not just food. (I just bought lumber for a fence).

I’m not opposed to paying when dining out. But I don’t appreciate paying large gratuities when I wasn’t served nor waited upon. Just picked up a call-in order. Which btw already had a price hike built-in because of said food cost increases.

Don’t hit me on both sides.

An old Simpsons reference; “Pay and Park and Pay” comes to mind.
 
krautmaster said:
This is one of the fugly Japanese vehicles I was referring too:
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I agree - designers somehow got it stuck in their heads that everything needs to look like a freakin' spaceship or something, plus all the electronic bells and whistles that eventually break and costs thousands to fix, plus turbos on everything that blow up after 60k and the astronomical prices for these vehicles with all this crap that nobody needs - I'd just as soon have a K-car that I know I can fix cheaply
 
Nkuruma said:
I hate most subscription services.

I'm fine with a few like Spotify or Netflix but it's getting awfully close to the saying "You'll own nothing and be happy".
For example, a few years ago, BMW was charging a monthly subscription for using heated seats... a subscription for F...ING HEATED SEATS that are already in the car!
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Tesla is a master of this deep pool of suckage (too).

I deeply dislike the subscrition model for 'screen content' (which is in itself a horrific term) as a consumer and Spotify wrecked the music industry as we all know.
 
1) People listening to music without headphones while riding the public transport. No problem per se, but they put high volume. Luckly, you don't see many nowdays;
2) People speaking on speaker while riding public transport. Not many, but annyoing;
3) A woman was taking selfies while riding the... trolleybus;
4) Worse of all: people doing live while driving!!!
5) With a smartphone you can't even take a rest in the rest room.

I don't know how you call trotinetă in English. Kickbike? But those one for rent are dern dangerous. Since people want to pay less money, the ride like crazy. And sometimes left them in the middle of the walking space. Some cites prohitibed the rented ones. Teens are the most dangerous ones on this things.
I did some stupid things while riding the bicycle. But most cyclist don't know what a turn signal is or pass you nearby.... most cyclist don't have mirrors. Oh, pedestrians are stupid. If you are on bicyle they consider that you must stop for them in any conditions; they have priroity when they are entitled to cross, but crossing where or when they aren't allowed to cross, they do the same.

Oh, people who modified everything because they think is good, normal, modern.
Some examples where given in the 1st post.
I also metioned the Romanian language. During time in Romanian we used to write both with "â" and "î". The letters mean the same sound, only the form of writing differs. This letter/sound is of Slavic origin. Well, during communism they made all words to be write with "î", except for family names that contained "â". In 1966 they made an extemption: România an it's derivates. In 1992, the Romanian Academy decied that word shoul be again written with "â". Well, only parts of them, because at the beging or end of the word you use "î". Well, if this wasn't complicated for a Romanian, let alone a foreigner... well, "mână" ("hand") respects the rule; but if you have "reîncepe" ("restarts"), it isn't "reâncepe" because it "re + începe". Some people will probably write âncepe. Darn bloody bored people! By the way. "începe" can be funny splited into "în cepe" ("in the onions"). :)
Oh, they made a mess-mend with the public transport...
 
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