OLD MEN YELL AT CLOUD

Señor Scratchy

BLASPHEMY

JessVex

I fucked up my car’s suspension when I hit a huge pothole. Oh, just one of the gazillions in Portland. 🕳️ 🕳️ 🕳️ 🚙💨

Randall

there's a young punk who plays basketball on the side of my house way past dinnertime and he doesn't move out of the street quick enough when Im driving down the street.

filthqueen666

I'm an old man at heart. My phone completely died today, like it is completely destroyed. I miss flip phones. They were indestructible.

BARELY HUMAN

filthqueen666 I miss flip phones. They were indestructible.

i recently made the switch to flippy and will never go back. highly recommend ditching the pocket computer and re-living the chance to be BORED in the world again. ironically, the only negative that isn't minor inconvenience when coming across a QR code menu or something, is the fact that (old man yell at cloud time)... everyone else stays in phone world when you're sitting at the table or whatever. probably warrants its own thread actually, but man... we've really fucked our society with this shit and not having a smart phone really makes you see how nuts it all went without us barely noticing

Nathan Loud

filthqueen666

That sucks! I texted you!!!111!!1!

toddS

What part of "No Soliciting" is hard to understand? Don't knock. Don't make it weird.

Randall

toddS man I had the same guy come twice today

Señor Scratchy

toddS What part of "No Soliciting" is hard to understand?

You need one of these bad boys

Total Old Man flex

Al Dorado

the changes to ebay's Saved feed are terrible. bring back the older version.

Randall

Señor Scratchy accompanied by one of these

Randall

BARELY HUMAN just thinking about QR code menus gets my fist shaking at the nearest cloud

filthqueen666

BARELY HUMAN my smartphone free day was actually awesome. I know I’m pretty compulsive about using it so it felt good to break the habit.
Also, I find that I enjoy the internet good parts of the internet (like these here forums) a lot more on desktop.

BARELY HUMAN

Randall just thinking about QR code menus gets my fist shaking at the nearest cloud

hahah it shits me too... especially at pubs and bars, where in australia table service was neeeever a thing, you always had to get up, go to the bar, talk to the bartender, bring your beers back yourself... now the bar lines are longer because the bartenders have to work their way through the QR code orders. really gets that fist shakin.

terminalsunset

It is also impossible to read news online not just due to the abundance of ads (which I understand is necessary to the very existence of most news sources) but just how the ads are incorporated in the overall format. The article itself starts as a sliver, overwhelmed by the cookies pop up and various ads and then you have to scroll down only to have the ugliest line breaks with more ads. To say nothing of the fact that your reward for grappling with all this is to feel bad because the news is all bad.

Nathan Loud

terminalsunset

Try the AdBlockPlus extension and/or the Brave web browser. You can also set up a Pi Hole to prevent your home router from accepting any ad traffic.

terminalsunset

Nathan Loud Good advice, thank you!

sicboy

speaking of old men, ya'll ever try to read the Hoffman forums?

Sprague Dawley

sicboy speaking of old men, ya'll ever try to read the Hoffman forums?

I am well and truly BANNED FOR LIFE from their Meme thread.

jm

sicboy one of the best things about the internet. ive learned so much from it

sicboy

Sprague Dawley I'm shocked they have any sense of humor to even HAVE a meme thread

Sprague Dawley

It's no exaggeration to say the average age there is 70. And not the cool nifty type of 70 either. More the "Beatles all day, I havent even bothered to listen to anything made after 1983" kind of 70.

And if you even hint at Boomers being the spoilt shitheads who were handed the moon on a stick by the "Greatest Generation" and fucked the whole thing to hell, they will shoot your forum account into the sun.