In a weird coincidence, my husband texted me an alot the same day I posted that link.
I showed Wee Weasel the meme and he went absolutely bonkers. He shares his mother’s love of strange creatures.
Who would of thought? …
That’s hard to swallow even for a non-native speaker
Alright, alright. Sheesh.
In another thread (the spousal tiff one) I mentioned one of my disproportionate annoyances: people who do not immediately respond to text messages…not in a “answer while driving or in the bathroom” kind of way, but in a “acknowledge sometime in the next hour or so that you got the message” kind of way.
This is a “me” problem, mostly because my network analyst mind totally says “a message not acknowledged is a message not received”
But I seethe silently as I imagine everyone intentionally ghosting me for days. That’s the way some people roll, but it drives me crazy.
I am (sometimes) that person … NOT acknowledging right now a Whatsapp …
but for a very specific reason: it “allows” me a very low-threshold follow up should you forget …
an example, you say?:
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@minor7flat5 : Al128 I will call you later today b/c reasons
@Al128 : (internal) OK … then the next day (if you did not call me, I will send you a Whatsapp OK or 
as a “friendly reminder” …
works very well and saves us both a “you lying bastard said you’d call me and you did NOT - shove your fancy chords up your …” msg.
I’m cool with that. The ones that really frost my cookies are repeat offenders where I put in some effort to craft a note about something (e.g. a detailed writeup of some plans with other musicians on our worship team) and nobody even says “got it.” or “Sure…let me digest that.”…for days.
All it takes is a thumbs-up to say “received…a bit much for now, but I’m not ignoring you”
That reminds me of mine, people who send WhatsApp audio messages instead of writing, I can read far faster that you can talk, by sending me audio messages you are taking time from me for your convenience.
Not cool.
(Offer not valid if you were, for example, in a real hurry or needed your hands/attention free for important motives)
Also, if you send me an audio message, I’m not listening to that in a public space. I don’t want to be that person that forces others to listen to their phone on speaker. It will wait until later.
Theoretically you can press the phone to your ear to hear the audio message, it even works… sometimes.
Not sure if you’re trying to be cute, but audio played through a speaker isn’t the same thing as listening to a phone call. I can’t hear the other person on the line with you. I can hear when you play audio through the speaker, and I hate when other people do it. As do most people.
No no, I’m serious, if you press the “play” button in the WhatsApp audio message and immediately press the phone to your ear it’s supposed to use the “phone call” speaker (so only you hear it), the problem is that it doesn’t seem to work reliably.
yep, greatly dislike audio msg in whatsapp, especially when they are 3 min. long …
There is - however - a place for those: when there is lots of context information needed, telling a bit of “pre-ambulo”, etc… then I resort to audio msg. b/c I feel I can get way more info into 30 seconds of audio as pecking on a tiny screen.
But, yeah - I completely get you and your dislike - and use it as “plan-b”.
I don’t have any of these qualms about communicating over text/WhatsApp/telephone, because I’ve accepted that everybody communicates differently. Some prefer calling me over landline (my parents and one of my best friends), some call me on the cell phone, most nowadays write to me on WhatsApp, but I also have friends who prefer to communicate via speech messages, and that’s fine by me also. Some seem to expect fast responses, and some are not wont to answer soon to a text (I’m looking at you, mom!). I try to keep the idiosyncrasies of different people in mind, and it works quite well.
On my commute in to work I come to a T intersection. There are three lanes: The left lane is left turn only. From the center lane you can turn either direction. The right lane is right turn only. I need to turn right at this intersection, then after the turn I need to get in the left lane because I need to turn left at the next intersection. So it’s easiest to make this turn from the center lane so I can just turn into the left lane on the next street. But if there’s a car ahead of me waiting to turn left I’m stuck there for the entire traffic light cycle, so in that case I will just use the right lane to make a right turn on red. So in other words I decide which lane to use based on which direction the cars ahead of me appear to be turning.
So this morning I get to that intersection, and there’s one car ahead of me in the center lane with it’s right turn signal on. So I get in the center lane behind it, assuming he’ll make a right turn on red and then I’ll be able to make a right turn on red. Except he sat there until the light turned green, so I was stuck behind him until the light turned green. And to be clear, it was perfectly safe to make the turn. During much of this time traffic on the opposing street had a left turn arrow, so there was no cross traffic whatsoever.
I once needed to have a brief conversation with a stranger and she suggested we text each other. Then she said, “Unless you prefer a phone call?”
I said, “I’m a Millennial. I definitely don’t prefer a phone call.”
It’s a stereotype for a reason.
You mean “alwrong”.
Sorry 
. I’m sure it wasn’t me,but I do that pretty often. Because where I live , I can’t turn right on red, so I often forget I can other places.
This has happened to me multiple times.
I stop at a red light in the right turn lane. The lane to my left is going straight. The car to my left, waiting to go straight, rolls forward so I can’t see to make a right turn. I roll forward a few inches so I can see past their unnecessarily large vehicle. For NO FUCKING REASON whatsoever, they roll forward, blocking my view again. No matter how far I roll forward, they just inch out in front of me, over and over.
WHY?
Don’t send me any. It could be four or five days before I even notice that I’ve received it.
Audiobook first person narrators of the wrong gender, grrr!
Just now I’m listening to an English mystery novel, and was sort of getting an inkling that the male narrator was actually a female protagonist. She was saying things that somehow seemed a bit more feminine than something a typical male character would say, like preferring to be interviewed by a female officer. Additionally, this narrator is clearly trying to sound female, but with little success. I don’t think there are many men who can really pull that off.
I have heard female narrators speak the words of third person male characters, and most of them do it surprisingly well. But the other way around, not so much. And it’s especially disorienting when it’s a first person narrator protagonist.
Because this is an included audiobook that comes free with the subscription, the narrator is apparently an AI bot, but in that case, why couldn’t they have used a female sounding bot? Moreover, once or twice I have even come across this in books that I had to pay for.