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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Today I missed a call. I subscribe to Verizon's audio voice mail and a notification claimed I had a voice mail. I open the app and find forty or so voice mails from the last three months that weren't there yesterday... or last week.. or ever. I missed some calls I shouldn't have because big V dropped the ball. I never answer a call that is not in my contact list. I count on that voice mail service to be functional and allow me screen those unidentified calls.
 
olbriar said:
I had to look. $2.99 monthly and called their premium visual voicemail. I don't remember adding to my account. My number is the only one prescribed out of the four phones on my plan. I've had it for years. It's nice when it works. :)
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That's interesting. It's the first time I've heard of someone getting charged extra for voice mail, but I guess it's the visual printing of the voice mail that is extra.
 
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Finally getting a new pair of my side occupation work shoes, the old ones the air always come through the by the foot of the shoe, it was wide open, the sides are just crappy looking, also the sides are not in the best shape to walk around for another 10,000 steps in them..
 
AugieTN said:
That's interesting. It's the first time I've heard of someone getting charged extra for voice mail, but I guess it's the visual printing of the voice mail that is extra.
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I think it showed up on my billing years ago when I got my first smart watch and it was a stand alone with its own number. I like just clicking on the app and seeing and hearing the voice mail. I filter all of my unknown calls through the app. I also have a voice mail from my deceased daughter that I don't want to lose.
 
Hahaaa nope. Seriously just needed those new shoes as well. The heck is triggering my mother's brain cells though? Next time when I am up in town, I will grab an uber card..
 
A mini short fuse, DNLA server, well I attempted to connect it a few times, right before I slept a few times, and my ps3 kept timing out,so I went and deleted some of those files, yeah call me old I like to connect it withthe windows and do it that way with the usb.
 
I have a older but quality 3' walk behind mower at a repair shop. They have done all of my repairs for 30 years and though busy they are good about getting mowers in and out of their shop. This spring, eight weeks ago next Tuesday, I took my mower to their shop for repairs. Two weeks ago I was told that it was slated for repair the following Monday. Yesterday I was given the exact same line. I'm more than just a little upset!
 
Right now though, you know when you cannot fall to sleep and yet you are fully awake, and knowing on how much.
You start to reveal everything and shift in that string together, as everything you did not ask for was in front of you?
 
the reality that nobody does anything anymore. I feel like a man out of time, in that I mow my own lawn, do my own yard work, pull my own weeds, fix and work on my own vehicles and appliances while others are constantly struggling to make ends meet because they pay a service to do all of the above for them, well, except their appliance 'repairmen' are salesmen who just replace instead of repair.

People constantly make remarks about why I bother to do my own work. But I'm the one who doesn't have a body big enough to have its own gravitatonal pull as well. I seriously worry about the next 30 or so years. I don't want to live in the future. Wall-E was supposed to be a warning, not a guide.

I can only hope someone sets off a large enough electromagnetic pulse weapon and wakes everyone up en masse from this Matrix we're all sucked into. We need a reboot, a 'great reset' and not the one Klaus Schwab wants, but one where life returns to the 1950s again tech wise. I just got stuck behind some nimrod who sat through two green lights fiddling with his stupid smartphone. Enough is enough
 
nickdalzell said:
the reality that nobody does anything anymore. I feel like a man out of time, in that I mow my own lawn, do my own yard work, pull my own weeds, fix and work on my own vehicles and appliances while others are constantly struggling to make ends meet because they pay a service to do all of the above for them, well, except their appliance 'repairmen' are salesmen who just replace instead of repair.

People constantly make remarks about why I bother to do my own work. But I'm the one who doesn't have a body big enough to have its own gravitatonal pull as well. I seriously worry about the next 30 or so years. I don't want to live in the future. Wall-E was supposed to be a warning, not a guide.

I can only hope someone sets off a large enough electromagnetic pulse weapon and wakes everyone up en masse from this Matrix we're all sucked into. We need a reboot, a 'great reset' and not the one Klaus Schwab wants, but one where life returns to the 1950s again tech wise. I just got stuck behind some nimrod who sat through two green lights fiddling with his stupid smartphone. Enough is enough
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Why even worry about that time though,
If you were really a retro guy, you would not worry about the world around you.
Alright, a little less stress on your back.
 
Yeah I changed over to Posiden launcher, I really hate the interference of not going through the different windows, it is meant for those dummies who only one window. I like multiple ones.
 
well it's hard to ignore society when everyone's sucked into their smartphones and can't get away. I can't talk to anyone face to face and hold a conversation, all the cars on the road look the same, have the same boring colours, there's no sign of a grocery store with warm incandescent lamps and wood panelling, or a mechanical cash register, and brand logos are as flat and boring as ever.

I want the complete package, and like theming a modern phone to look like it's running Android 2.3, it's always half done. I want so badly to travel back in time and never live to see the dystopia that's coming.

It's sorta stressful when everyone is in a damn hurry, and driving is painful because everyone has those super bright blue HID lamps these days and doesn't even turn them off in the daytime
 
nickdalzell said:
well it's hard to ignore society when everyone's sucked into their smartphones and can't get away. I can't talk to anyone face to face and hold a conversation, all the cars on the road look the same, have the same boring colours, there's no sign of a grocery store with warm incandescent lamps and wood panelling, or a mechanical cash register, and brand logos are as flat and boring as ever.

I want the complete package, and like theming a modern phone to look like it's running Android 2.3, it's always half done. I want so badly to travel back in time and never live to see the dystopia that's coming.

It's sorta stressful when everyone is in a damn hurry, and driving is painful because everyone has those super bright blue HID lamps these days and doesn't even turn them off in the daytime
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I never even bother with it anyways. Oh well everyone is slightly different then the next person.
 
I just want to live when people could be social, not anti-social on Facebook, and nobody expected you to be connected and available. it will never feel correct to be the only one awake from the Matrix, and sadly my fears might come true and I'll be forced to have an EV, or some robot one day. I want to never live to see that dystopia. It's bad enough now. I can't comfortably shop, I have to drive 20 miles to a gas station with mechanical pumps, and everyone mostly expects you to use Samsung, Google or Apple pay. there are stores that refuse cash even.

no matter how hard I try to escape the future, the future keeps re-asserting itself over me.
 
nickdalzell said:
I just want to live when people could be social, not anti-social on Facebook, and nobody expected you to be connected and available. it will never feel correct to be the only one awake from the Matrix, and sadly my fears might come true and I'll be forced to have an EV, or some robot one day. I want to never live to see that dystopia. It's bad enough now. I can't comfortably shop, I have to drive 20 miles to a gas station with mechanical pumps, and everyone mostly expects you to use Samsung, Google or Apple pay. there are stores that refuse cash even.

no matter how hard I try to escape the future, the future keeps re-asserting itself over me.
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Ero and people wonder why I do not give out my fb to anyone at all, I do not want to be that arsehat of spewing all my crypto infomation of my rl friends, and it will be like a wild virus though, I just do not want to connect and have pure excitment over this or that when people's flood gates open though. I only have like a few of them on there.
 
i had a thought of finding an old Polaroid camera because you can still get film for them, and whenever that idiot at work asks me to send her a damned photo I will hand her the blurry polaroid of what she expected instead of MMSing it to her. I'm sick of smartphones. I got the outfit, the mechanical watch, the typewriter, the AM radio with tubes, all I need is the car and a community who lives the same and I will be fine.
 
nickdalzell said:
i had a thought of finding an old Polaroid camera because you can still get film for them, and whenever that idiot at work asks me to send her a damned photo I will hand her the blurry polaroid of what she expected instead of MMSing it to her. I'm sick of smartphones. I got the outfit, the mechanical watch, the typewriter, the AM radio with tubes, all I need is the car and a community who lives the same and I will be fine.
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Now now.. There is not to totally go off the grid ya know.
 
I mean a car from the 50s or 70s, not giving up electricity or living a 19th century lifestyle, but one like out of Leave it to Beaver--that community. One where modern crap never has any influence on me or other people.

But that moron wanting me to use a stupid smartphone to send pictures as opposed to writing the serial number down for her, that's nuts. At least with a polaroid camera, i'd feel a bit more consistent in my vintage life. i sadly can't do anything about the building being lit by harsh 5500k leds.

It's quite scary that people who have lived in this town for over 20 years suddenly can't get to the grocery store without Google Maps. Stop the train, I want off
 
nickdalzell said:
I mean a car from the 50s or 70s, not giving up electricity or living a 19th century lifestyle, but one like out of Leave it to Beaver--that community. One where modern crap never has any influence on me or other people.

But that moron wanting me to use a stupid smartphone to send pictures as opposed to writing the serial number down for her, that's nuts. At least with a polaroid camera, i'd feel a bit more consistent in my vintage life. i sadly can't do anything about the building being lit by harsh 5500k leds.

It's quite scary that people who have lived in this town for over 20 years suddenly can't get to the grocery store without Google Maps. Stop the train, I want off
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Oh, you mean like a classic car?
Yeah we all wish to have that, we rather have gas vs. electricity to just get out and move around.
 
We find it useful to find everything on the maps and Mapquest, take if you were driving into an unknown and do not see that sign at all though, and take if you where out of the city and stop to ask questions, But there was no one around there. Unless you were on coffee and drugs to make you fully awake all the time, then you might as well resort to mapquest.
 
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