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.
That sucks! I texted you!!!111!!1!
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.
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.
Nathan Loud Good advice, thank you!
speaking of old men, ya'll ever try to read the Hoffman forums?
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.
Sprague Dawley I'm shocked they have any sense of humor to even HAVE a meme thread
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.
Oh i know haha. Honestly, I'm shocked how fast that forum moves in general. I have a few threads on my watch list, mostly for jazz reissue stuff, but man, they NERD OUT on mastering and crap.
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.
The local chain has an extra dollar charge for breakfast burritos due to the egg shortage and I paid it anyway and this burrito SUCKS
this is a phenomenon that I thought was specific to the northwest but it seems to be spreading. Do people stand in single file lines at the bars in your area? Nothing gets me my old man back hair standing like a long bar line while a long bar filled with stools to sit in and counters to lean on sit vacant
Randall I think this is just a collective Portland psychosis, but I am curious to see if others have experienced it elsewhere.
I've only ever seen a 'line' at the bar when it's packed and all the seats are taken
edit: even then, it's a haphazard free for all
All the young people I work with say "welcome in" as a greeting. I think it sounds weird and clunky.
Randall Do people stand in single file lines at the bars in your area?
this is happening in Sydney too! it drives me fucking insane... it seems like a post-Covid thing here, mixed with zoomer politeness.. first noticed it at a festival at the Marrickville Bowlo a couple years ago where the lines were like twenty metres long, there were signs up saying 'please do not line up, find a space at the bar and we will serve you', and yet... the single file lines continued. to the point where i was just walking past the lines, going straight to the bar, ordering in front of everyone and being thanked by the bartenders for doing so. what the fuck happened? WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.. and the rules of that society involve leaning on the bar to save your space and talking to the bartender while they pour beers.
i hate it so much (but for as long as i can skip the line and be justified in doing so, then man, maybe it's arright)
I have been sick off and on every few days since like November. What in the FUCK is happening?
