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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

MapQuest?
My wife and I were just talking, the other night, about us planning all of our old trips on a simple road atlas.
50 states and Canada (with a smattering of major cities thrown in). When ever we entered a new state we'd always stop at their welcome center and pick up their official road map.

I had a respectable collection of them when my wife gave me a GPS one Christmas.
 
GPS took me into so many cornfields and dead-ends than I expected so I still relied on MapQuest until it ultimately EOL'd, although its predecessor from DOS, called Rand McNally Tripmaker, can still print out routes like MapQuest. The roads I go on don't change enough to make even that program obsolete just yet and there's no internet needed

I know how to read paper maps, including those used in aviation, but trying to find one today makes people look at you like you're a dragon. Welcome centers around where I've traveled are just rest areas with coke machines and digital kiosks that advertise on video about the state, and maybe some art. But paper maps are the modern-day Holy Grail of Monty Python.
 
Yeah My Mother just said about the road trip to a few of the cities, Mawwah and then the first city, I cannot think of the first city in my mind though.. It is somwehere she had only mentioned a few times ever.
 
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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Surprised me a bit a while back, when i learned that Polaroid instant film was still been made. I already knew about Fujifilm Instax instant cameras and film, as that's quite popular here, especially with students.
 
mikedt said:
Surprised me a bit a while back, when i learned that Polaroid instant film was still been made. I already knew about Fujifilm Instax instant cameras and film, as that's quite popular here, especially with students.
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That was my first few films rolls when I was younger man, Fujifilms..
 
I have completely forgot how to turn off the power on vibrations on my moto z2 force..
Like when you power on, it should not have any vibrations.
 
I wonder what models of Polaroids use 600 film? There's tons of vintage Polaroid cameras around and I want to be sure which one to get. I just want so badly to just hand a Polaroid photo of whatever that Zoomer I work for expects me to use my stupid phone to photograph. I mean she's the type who has to have pictures sent via MMS that should be simple enough to just write on a note pad and hand it to her, but at least with the actual instant camera I can maintain my vintage lifestyle and possibly make her head explode along with it.

"As long as you're shopping at K-mart, don't forget the film!"
 
So I thought I could trust a friend of mine, now basically her cell's is I cannot get off from my google activity underneath turning it off, I did it once though on accident but I cannot recall how I did it and it is fused with that in certainty though, now I have to do the takeout thing and download all my contacts on my pc and take it completely down.
 
People who must and I mean MUST photograph their food with their smartphone before sitting down to eat it. No, they're not using some oddball health app. Also nope, it's not some fancy meal they made themselves and are proud of, this is just everyday crap like their McDonald's meal, or potato chips, or anything really. It looks weird. Maybe it's the byproduct of not having a limited number of photos on a roll of film and then waiting an hour to have it developed later, but it just looks weird. Many vegans say that a meal is 15 minutes of pleasure that's easily forgotten, but photographing their hamburger? What's up with that?
 
nickdalzell said:
People who must and I mean MUST photograph their food with their smartphone before sitting down to eat it. No, they're not using some oddball health app. Also nope, it's not some fancy meal they made themselves and are proud of, this is just everyday crap like their McDonald's meal, or potato chips, or anything really. It looks weird. Maybe it's the byproduct of not having a limited number of photos on a roll of film and then waiting an hour to have it developed later, but it just looks weird. Many vegans say that a meal is 15 minutes of pleasure that's easily forgotten, but photographing their hamburger? What's up with that?
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Because some time it looks outstanding in the colors and texture of everything that is why we photograph our meals, to make others simply drool over it, because when sitting and eating food, the light does not appeal to our own eyes or other own eye balls.
 
Why wasn't this an issue before then? I just like something that tastes good and today, doesn't result from the unnecessary killing of a sentient being. I don't need to have a phone filled to the brim with photos of food that don't invoke nostalgia. I mean I got photos of Daisy Deer that invoke great times in 2009-10, and I keep any tech or app that was around when she was part of my life, but food is something that's 15 minutes of forgotten pleasure. It's not like it won't exist again like the food that Annorax was eating in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Year of Hell".

I just think there are far more important things to photograph, like people or pets who we grew close to and might no longer be with us, or beautiful landscapes. I just don't see anything from a fast food restaurant as pretty or worthy of being 'immortalized' in that fashion. It seems to be a Gen Z thing too, as I only notice it with folks who are teens or just turning 20. perhaps it's byproduct of our attention spans and memory retention getting smaller and worse with the whole of human knowledge literally in our pocket today, but if that's the case, we really do have a problem.
 
nickdalzell said:
Why wasn't this an issue before then? I just like something that tastes good and today, doesn't result from the unnecessary killing of a sentient being. I don't need to have a phone filled to the brim with photos of food that don't invoke nostalgia. I mean I got photos of Daisy Deer that invoke great times in 2009-10, and I keep any tech or app that was around when she was part of my life, but food is something that's 15 minutes of forgotten pleasure. It's not like it won't exist again like the food that Annorax was eating in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Year of Hell".

I just think there are far more important things to photograph, like people or pets who we grew close to and might no longer be with us, or beautiful landscapes. I just don't see anything from a fast food restaurant as pretty or worthy of being 'immortalized' in that fashion. It seems to be a Gen Z thing too, as I only notice it with folks who are teens or just turning 20. perhaps it's byproduct of our attention spans and memory retention getting smaller and worse with the whole of human knowledge literally in our pocket today, but if that's the case, we really do have a problem.
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Not really a byproduct per sa, sure we are all going to soon withered without the sunlight, and everything else in the universe either, sometimes it is really eye-catching to see what you are having in front of you, never take anything for granted Nick.
 
Small rant, when my mother was re-arranging my room just about a few hours ago,she moved the comp over an inch, causing the wires and surge protector to get off the socket, moved my huge dvd tower by it and moved the other one, only not seeing the layards on the wall or even taking note on the way I use the surge protector on the evenings, but ontop of that my room is finally cleaned enough to eat off the floor hahaa..
 
They closed this store and in its place they opened a crocs store:mad::maddroid:
 

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My tv speaker the push button all of a sudden the tiny bit of it was cracked in two, and the button decided to make a perament home inside the speaker.
Huh guess who needs new small speakers all of a sudden, after using the ones he did get from a friend of mine, after so long with the two blackest ones, I might get newer smaller ones at the store.. 😢
 
I put the mower I use to mow my cabin property in a repair shop June 20th and got it back today. It is an old three foot walk behind which is ideal for mowing the property with all its trees. It needed a new carburetor that has been backordered all of this time. Two months and $600 later I'm ready to mow the property again. It might be just a wee bit hard to mow.
 
Call me a lunatic,but almost every app I have open, it shows my wall paper right through them, in the thumbnail view, and not the messages.. huh go figure that out, on my moto edge plus.
 
So I'm waiting in the self checkout lane. My hearing is fine. An employee walks up to me and says, "cak er edit", and i said what?. he repeated, "cak er edit". I said I can't understand you, then he said in a slow and angry tone, "cash or credit", like I'm a big dummy.
 
I mowed my river property today. I had to mow very slowly and then mow it all again. What a task to mow two months growth. I managed to get it mowed back into shape though it took three times the amount of time it normally takes to mow. At least I didn't burn up my newly repaired lawn mower.
 
Third week in a row this happens. I'm at the Kroger and in checkout with my handful of items. There's always this one person with a full cart, like 50 items, they get half of them on the belt, get scanned, but then they pay mid-scan, and then I have to wait the 30 seconds for their stupid chip-n-pin which still confuses 90 percent of people here, then they scan the remainder and another 30 second wait. Would it kill people to just pay ONCE FOR EVERYTHING? it always holds up the line.

Today, I waited for the 90 year old to leave, then asked the checkout guy what is up with that since it happens ALL THE DAMN TIME and only holds the line up. He said it's something called 'instacart' and I just went 'omg not another modern solution in search of a problem' and left. I feel so out of place in this era.
 
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