Partially, that, I suppose. And to some extant I agree with you. It can be distracting to talk to someone whose hair slips down in front of their eye. Worse is when a strand of hair gets caught on their eyelashes, and it moves every time they blink. I think “isn’t that driving you crazy? It’s okay to push your hair away from your eye!” Not infuriating, but sort of annoying by proxy.
It’s not a look that’s easy to make work, but in at least one case it worked very, very well.
And look where she ended up
This behavior is not limited to Germany.
At my local YMCA there is an indoor running track over the gym, similar to this one:
Ever since the “broken shoulder incident” of 2021, my wife has forbidden outdoor running, so all of my miles are run on the track.
There are many times when I go there and find a pair of middle-aged ladies (different ones every time) strolling along side-by-side having a nice chat, ignoring the signs that say “walkers and slow runners keep on inside lane”
It is super annoying, and I give them two or three laps with me saying “excuse me” politely as I pass. If they still insist in blocking the track, I start bellowing “Watch your back” as I come up behind them. And at that point I have no qualms about accidentally getting sweat on them as I squeeze past.
Most people have enough courtesy that they immediately apologize and move aside as I approach. Some were raised by wolves and decide to be stubborn and passive aggressive.
Unless you are in the leftmost lane, slowing down is an excellent way to encourage them to pass you. And you really should drive slower if someone is close behind, because sometimes there’s an unexpected obstacle and you need to break suddenly. And you don’t want to be going really fast and break suddenly if that will make someone crash into you.
When somebody comes up with a stupid term which is a version of a better term and it sticks, becoming the norm. The thread about planes being diverted to your ultimate destination reminded me of this. A good term “skiplegging” (skipping legs) got turned into “skiplagging”, which makes no sense, but somehow it caught on and everybody uses the bad version now.
I know there are other examples but I can’t think of them right now.
I will definitely look into these Carhartt pants!
Back to the license tabs stuck all over the plate. My FIL did that for a while. He got stopped by the cops who gave him a warning. The tab is supposed to be in the bottom right hand corner. Otherwise it would be like Where’s Waldo when the cops are trying to see if you have current tabs.
Wait, what? Why wait around? I don’t even slow down when I’m going in. I hold my card up and wave it around. If none of the employees are paying attention, that’s their problem.
Speaking of Costco, though… the goddamn “sample stations” they set up at the end of every aisle drives me up the wall. Half of the entrance to the aisle is blocked, then idiots park their cart and block the other half while they try whatever is being given out.
I’ve found that if I get there right when they open, and stay focused on my list and get in/get the fuck out, I can be done before they set up all the sample stations. This is a real conversation that has happened in my house: wife asks “I need X, will you go to Costco today?” “Hmm, sorry, I wouldn’t get there until ten minutes after they’ve opened. Maybe tomorrow?”
This commercial for Clear Captions phone:
The offending portion is near the beginning. A kid tells Grandma that he played baseball. Asked what position, “First base.” All appears on the phone in text form. Until Grandma says “That’s what my grandpa used to play!” But the text says “That’s what Grandpa used to play.” Leaving out “my” which she clearly says. It would make more sense for her line to not be about her own grandpa, and for her not to say “my grandpa” and for the caption text to be correct. But since she does say “my grandpa” then the caption is wrong. Why didn’t anyone correct this slight mistake before the commercial aired, seemingly one hundred times or more?
I have heard many other commercials for various products or services that have had the audio edited after the fact (sometimes very clumsy edits) so Clear Caption would not have to reshoot anything. I think it irritates me beyond reason because what’s the point of having captions if they aren’t correct. I know voice to text technology isn’t perfect yet, but it could be more accurate in a commercial for a product that is using such technology. Every time I see the commercial I yell at the screen “you said MY grandpa! The caption is NOT correct!”
How about “ratchet”? ISTM it’s an ignorant person’s mispronunciation of wretched.
I had to look this up as I had no idea what you’re talking about. Apparently it’s part of American hip-hop culture. American hip-hop culture has A LOT of stupid words, that’s what they do. Skiplagging is mainstream. It’s how upmarket newspapers describe the practice.
Along the same lines - the last person who used the Keurig leaving their old pod in there. It’s the rule of office Keurigs to take out your old pod and throw it away. When you don’t do that, then I’m throwing your nasty (and often still warm) pod away, as well as my pod.
Also- no fish in the microwave, and anyone burning popcorn in the microwave can no longer use it for popcorn.
This is an awesome minirant, thank you! But even though the commercial kind of stresses the fact that it probably doesn’t work perfectly, does anybody have one of these? I want one. Actually I want one for somebody else.
ETA1:
Happy to allow this pronunciation anytime, provided they don’t spell it that way.
ETA2:
I hang out in the right lane most of the time, doing about 5-10 mph above the speed limit, so that’s pretty much where I encounter tailgaters. They’re in the right lane because their exit is coming up in a mile or two, and they’re not quite het up enough to go around me on the left. I can certify that my slowing down in this situation, even a little, can cause rage. Most tailgaters are doing it mindlessly, but some are very much trying to intimidate, and I find it safer to avoid provoking those ones or engaging in the least little way.
Isn’t it more that that’s not really a common word and with various accents “skiplegging” and “skiplagging” would sound the same, so who knows what the right one would be when writing?
Well one makes sense, the other doesn’t
On my drive to the gym yesterday I remembered one of the most infuriating trivialities I deal with.
I drive a several-year-old GMC pickup truck that has a handy “parking assist” feature that uses ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles in your path.
The problem? It cries “Wolf” way too often, and GM deemed it an essential feature that cannot be turned off. I’ll be driving slowly through a parking lot and the thing will go off. I’ll be in line at Starbucks and it will go off. I’ll be turning a corner and it will go off.
But, there is a little checkbox buried deep in the menus next to “Park assist” so why not uncheck it? I do, and then it comes back on the next time I start the truck. A search online tells me that there really is nothing I can do. There may be a way to turn it off using the OBD-II port, but there is no other way. And I can’t disconnect the sensors because apparently they also are part of the collision detection system for the airbags.
So I just swear at it when it beeps and I hit the thankfully-easy-to-reach button to turn it off.
I’m sure nobody wants this useless feature enabled all of the time. Surely lawyers are to blame.
actually “ratchet” is/was a term for an hyper masculine looking female usually athletic…Britney grimer in her college days used to be the main example
Interesting. I just looked at the Urban Dictionary and didn’t see that definition. Not to say that you’re mistaken; there are multiple definitions given and maybe I just haven’t heard it used in that context.
I hadn’t heard of it being used in reference to a “hypermasculine” looking woman, but there’s this: