people do that in the US too. I think it becomes less common as traffic makes travel times less predictable.
The mild annoyances thread!
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True enough, but not a lot of zero gravity environments in the US.
Maybe it's meant to support you during ascent when the max acceleration is 4g.
The construction site across from my rental, which has now been polluting the air with noise and dust for nearly six months, is one thing.
The workers now blasting music from a portable speaker 20 metres from my front window (= study window) is certainly not something that will help me get through my day.
The workers now blasting music from a portable speaker 20 metres from my front window (= study window) is certainly not something that will help me get through my day.
Cloudflare must be getting hammered. Their DNS has been pretty awful all day.
Yes, I do understand that you have forbidden your daughter from calling or texting this boy. I'm simply pointing out two things: each of those two people have iPhones which offer them half a million ways to be in contact that skirt the definition of "call or text", and also that forbidding has never worked in the history of ever, There's a whole genre of stories about it. May I also gently point out that one of them has a car?
ROFLMAO, yeah...right...
In my annoyance, some concrete cutting/jackhammer work again. However, this is tempered by knowing this is to make a clean section instead of the irregular hole they made to do the gas line work in the alley. So this is to prep for the final patching to be fully done.
Still annoying right at this moment.
EDIT: Ok, so now they went to using a bobcat jackhammer to breaking up the bits they're removing to make a clean pour. And now it's getting to extremely annoying. I'm not pissed off...it needs doing, just...hard to really concentrate on anything with that massive noise going on right out back behind me in the alley.
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For construction we have no recourse, but this we could call in a noise complaint and get the music shut down. Maybe it is like that where you live too?
I don't know. They're back today and the radio is loud enough that I can hear it through my closed windows - if I open the windows (which would be nice to do since it's cooler outside) I can clearly hear what's being said on the radio. It is specifically irritating to me because I loathe broadcast radio, it goes back to being in a workplace where people had portable radios at their desks, and it hurt my concentration something fierce. I can handle a lot of other background noise but radio with its mix of talk, music and advertising is absolutely too much.
If this continues, I might go look for a site manager and have a chat with them.
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? But soft, what light through yonder chat window breaks?"
(I'm aware Juliet is really asking "why are you Romeo", presumably because there are a lot of guys with that handle.)
Nope, it is because he is Romeo Montague, specific to the feud between his and her families. It is a "Why do you have to be that Romeo, whom my family hates?"
In the modern, tech-infested world:
"Romeo? Where r u"
"Outside. Lights on, u awake?"
"y. your Dad OK?""Still pissed. how about yours?"
"Same. Wanna hang out?""kk. When?"
"ltr. When sleep.""kk. back rsn"
"love u""love u 2, julie"
It will be performed by two youngish actors typing on phones on opposite sides of the stage.
The texts themselves are actually blind-group-texted to all the audience members.
Aaaaand scene.
The vision of the entire cast just literally phoning it in is too much.
During my evening walk I was approaching what I'm almost certain was a mother-teenage-daughter pair out for a walk together. I'm thinking great, they value family time, time to just chat about what is going on in their lives, walking out here in the immediate world. On passing, the daughter has earphones on and is watching her phone and there's music more than loud enough for me hear.
(I may have accidentally made an on-topic post.)
This actually sounds like proper indie art house Theatre (capitalization intentional). At least in some place like NYC or the like.
Fun fact, group texts have a maximum limit of participants, and that maximum varies depending on each participant's mobile service provider.
Alright, so, small(ish) number of audience members. Maybe wrangle up some cheap tablets, get them on the local wifi, and run everything through a whatsapp message or something? Have the tablets basically chained to a pocket in the seat?
I could see something like this actually working. Vertical video messaging being in there as well. Occasionally the actors will have phone calls where they hold their phones flat perpendicular to their face, and the audience hears the entire phone conversation as the actors move up and down the aisles and through the audience?
We might be on to something here…
The Montague/Capulet feud is mostly over Twitter, because of course aristocracy is going to be on the Everything App of Awful…
Oh well, we figure the offending dad in this paragraph from our local newspaper is young enough to not know podium is not a helper verb. The young woman is his 19 year old daughter Minna who is a "phenom" at skateboarding.
Also, my charming wife thought she coined a word "historyless" at dinner tonight discussing Trump. We looked it up and it is indeed a word and means what you'd think.
edit: not verb - adverb
edit 2 - helper verb - not adverb (sheesh)
It will be common usage by this time next year if not sooner.
Also, my charming wife thought she coined a word "historyless" at dinner tonight discussing Trump. We looked it up and it is indeed a word and means what you'd think.
edit: not verb - adverb
edit 2 - helper verb - not adverb (sheesh)
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It's totally a "bold new interpretation for the modern era" kind of thing.
If you do it right? Where the text dialogue is right in line with @UserIDAlreadyInUse so helpfully played out for us, but the actual voice lines are still classic Shakespeare? Short/Tiktok style videos for the monologues that are piped out straight from the stage to the audience - set the stage up so you are basically looking in (or out) through a window at the actors doing their performance in front of the phone - get the circle lights and the staged look of the area with the mess just out of shot but visible to the audience on the stage. Maybe even do multiple “takes”.
I’m not the one to write it. But I could see it being actually really well done.
OED dates "podium" as a verb to 1948-- it's neither novel nor particularly uncommon in that particular context (although per the Google ngrams database it really started to take off in the late '90s).
This reminds me of the new cover that Debbie Ridpath Ohi designed for Judy Blume's "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" (which ties this back into an earlier Lounge discussion):
The new team is full of people who will ask a question in Teams, and then bump straight to a call (sometimes without even mentioning that they are going to do it) only to get the same answer. Except spoken.
This could have been a two line response in Teams instead of a call.
This could have been a two line response in Teams instead of a call.
If I recall the specs, it isn't only the provider limiting the maximum, but also the size of the message. Group texts uses the MMS system, which is basically a data packet with a maximum size, which the size is defined by the provider. Part of that data packet is the recipients, part is the message, as long as the entire dataset is under the max size. So if you send a larger message, you can have less participants get the message.
The variable group size limit is such a headache at church where old people text forty people at once, then the reply only goes to seventeen. And then they ask me to show them how to add everybody back in and make it stick. They never understand "you can't" or "I don't know."
Got hit by a weird bug in Linux Mint after an update that caused the Nemo file browser to crash when trying to navigate to my Pictures folder.
Made sure it was a real problem by launching Nemo from the terminal and watching for error messages as I clicked around. A purely document-laden folder didn't trigger it, but Pictures or Video would.
First I tested that was just a Nemo issue by installing Thunar (my ACTUAL favorite file browser!) and it worked without any issue, then I disabled a couple of plugins for Nemo until it worked. Turned out to be the one that enables columns for media information.
Got confirmation that it was a legit issue by going to the Linux Mint forum and doing a search for crashes related to Nemo.
Workaround for me right now is just to keep the media columns plugin disabled, but being caught off-guard like that really threw me off-track for a while.
Made sure it was a real problem by launching Nemo from the terminal and watching for error messages as I clicked around. A purely document-laden folder didn't trigger it, but Pictures or Video would.
First I tested that was just a Nemo issue by installing Thunar (my ACTUAL favorite file browser!) and it worked without any issue, then I disabled a couple of plugins for Nemo until it worked. Turned out to be the one that enables columns for media information.
Got confirmation that it was a legit issue by going to the Linux Mint forum and doing a search for crashes related to Nemo.
Workaround for me right now is just to keep the media columns plugin disabled, but being caught off-guard like that really threw me off-track for a while.
It might be something as simple as needing to get the metadata for every. single. file. in an entire directory and if there's too many files, time out -> error.
DoorDash search is complete garbage. "Marsala" and "Masala" are not interchangeable, as one example. Also, restaurants apparently entering every keyword they can think of for results. No, local cheap pizza joint, you do not offer unagi, in any form at all. "Trout" does not equate to "any place that might sell fish". "Moo Shu" does not mean any menu that includes any instance of "moo" or of "shu" somewhere should be included. Etc.
Also, listed restaurants that can't be bothered to actually curate their menu, so it's either no description, or they let the AI do it..."traditionally prepared with spices and served with starch side" is not helpful. Rather the opposite.
/post brought to you by me being hungry, but not wanting to cook.
Also, listed restaurants that can't be bothered to actually curate their menu, so it's either no description, or they let the AI do it..."traditionally prepared with spices and served with starch side" is not helpful. Rather the opposite.
/post brought to you by me being hungry, but not wanting to cook.
white noise backup signals? wtf? I mean, there's the "beep. beep. beep." kind, that's fine. I've never heard (of or in person I guess) what a white noise backup signal is. Or are we not talking about motor vehicles?