What modern things do you hate/dislike?

Mr Boochie said:
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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The worst case is texting their respective spouses that they are in the office working:(
 
Also: In NYC, almost everyone on two wheels. I’m pleasantly and genuinely, absolutely surprised when anyone on a bike, scooter, or motorcycle actually obeys a traffic law. You’d think they were all spermatozoa racing frantically to that one egg—as if their and their offspring’s lives depended upon getting to it first.
 
Just an observation - my wife and I were out grabbing some grub (great burger using local meat) and grog (mid-NYS brewed hazy, but more beery/herby bitter than juicy for the win) at one of our favorite sports-ish bar hangs, and filling gaps in the conversation with sporadic gazing at the plentiful offering of various sporting events on the myriad televisions. Without a single exception, the talking heads/color commentators/whatever for the male sports all contained at least one or two females, with many obviously taking the lead role in the "panel." Similarly without exception, EVERY female sport had ALL-female commenting panels.

As I said, just an observation. I could make some comments, but then I'd probably have to take another self-imposed year off from this place to clear my head..... :)
 
"Smart TVs"

Nah, I'm not liking it at all. I was actually shocked to discover a couple years back when we bought the last TV, that I have to go thru ROKU Operating System to even USE the damn tv. I hate it, despise it, but that's what TVs are now - another data collection hub always listening, always sending back reports. Always annoying. I liked the older TV where we had a Google dongle you could activate, or NOT as you decided.
Our TV use boils down to this:
Wife: watches Padres baseball on MLB every day. Nope, I go to the OTHER TV to watch YouTube.
Me: 98% YouTube, 2% 6PM News, and that crap is getting so useless I will probably not bother very soon. 1/2-hour of "National News", and most of the time is wasted telling lost dog stories, and neighborhoods buying a new used car for the local 106 year old school janitor who walks 12 miles to work everyday. Now, mind you that's a wonderful thing to do....but National News?? When there is a war going on? And the economy is about to explode?? Maybe save that story for CBS Sunday morning?
 
Another thing are those modern bicycles. I mean these e-sh*t bicycles. They all look the same. They even have the same ugly gray color. Mostly. Even Bart Simpson's fake puke looks nicer. The people are ready to pay some 5000 euros for them, or even more. And in 5 years, when the recharcheable battery is dead, they are junk.

I have a bicycle from 1952, it is a German "NSU", the other one is a British "Scott" from the Eighties. They look different. Very different.
 
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DesertRatt said:
1/2-hour of "National News", and most of the time is wasted telling lost dog stories, and neighborhoods buying a new used car for the local 106 year old school janitor who walks 12 miles to work everyday. Now, mind you that's a wonderful thing to do....but National News?? When there is a war going on? And the economy is about to explode?? Maybe save that story for CBS Sunday morning?
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I stay away from all National Cable news networks. It just reinforces that I have no power over anything.

And there's no magical blue pill to fix that.

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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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How lucky you were to have him!

I didn't have a public speaking class until college, and I aced it despite having a weak voice that the instructor couldn't hear during the final in an empty auditorium. What I did have was a good one-to-one, classroom, and microphone voice, honed by a year of part time work as a Demonstrator at the Museum of Science and Industry. That year erased any fear of public speaking, especially when the manager of the German submarine tour convinced me and other newbies that we were more expert on the subject than any visitor. I lost all "ums" and "errs," and developed my natural modulation that followed and emphasized the meaning, unlike dead-spirited recitation. This partly was my innate ability and partly training by learning the museum demo scripts and then presenting the story instead of the words. My presentations may have changed the exact words from time to time, but always kept the facts and meaning, and the tone was of speaking to each visitor in the audience individually. My supervisor at the museum actually told me that my presentation of the "Electric Theater" was the best he had ever heard.

I later used the experience in writing (and ghost-writing) and presenting technical papers, a few of which won awards.
Nowadays, I would say that the equivalent is a good TED talk.
 
1) I hate dopes who think they are over-taxed.

2) People who feel entitled to free stuff after whining about taxes.

3) Facebook. I don't care what you had for lunch or how your bowels are behaving.

4) Tik Tok

5) Instagram.

6) Twitter/X

7) Selfie sticks.

8) Old guys who whine about the modern world who would be dead if not for the modern world. Same goes for anti-science ranters.

9) People who judge genres of music.

10) Billionaires who insist on playing the victim.

11) Reality television.

12) People who mewl about 'kids these days.'

13) The term "High End" in audio.

14) PG-13 movies that feature street violence, a man being stabbed in the head with a pencil, bombs killing civilians, and a tied-up hostage having a gun shoved violently into his forehead (Batman, Dark Knight) but if a pair of boobies slip out, it becomes R rated.

15) Pop Up ads.

16) Fast zombies, glittering vampires, and incorporeal spirits that still use floors and doors.

17) Fast food "meals" than cost more than sit down restaurant.

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Speaking of cars, I had hoped the style would die a quick quiet death, but it didn't. I will never buy a car whose grill is wider at the bottom than the top.
 
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