For at least a decade, I’ve noticed this particular camera technique that drives me right up the wall: a spokesperson for a product will be looking straight into the camera (at you, supposedly), when all of a sudden, the camera is now 45 degrees to the left or right while spokesperson is still looking where you’re supposed to be (we see a 3/4[?] view of their face). Then it will jump back to the original position after 5 seconds or so. I don’t get it. I wave my hands at the TV and holler I’M OVER HERE! but it doesn’t seem to register. 
Make them stop!
Sounds like a great way to further remove accountability for police violations of civil rights.
And when they switch to the side view, it’s usually B&W for some reason.
yup. But there are ways around it. If you know the general location of the person, you can do a mass address search. Anything that reports that the name is not available, is a LEO of some sort. But you have the address.
It’s pretty messed up. Us in GIS/IS do not like it. Not one bit. What if I want to be excluded?
This morning I went to Starbucks to get coffee, and I saw one of my all-time “Infuriate you beyond their actual importance” violations.
A guy casually pulled into one of the handicapped spots in front and casually got out and entered the restaurant. And he had dark tinted windows (illegal in my state).
I see this on a weekly basis: people who treat those handicapped spots as their own personal parking spot, when there are plenty of spots available. I might not be annoyed if it were a Doordash person going in and out to pick up an order, but it’s usually regular people who are entitled and don’t feel they need to follow the rules the rest of us do.
The tint is just the icing on the cake: our state doesn’t allow dark tint in the front doors of a car, but so many people have it anyway. It’s one of those things that doesn’t get ticketed unless you do something else wrong.
I wish the cops would start actively ticketing handicapped violators–ones who do not have a hang tag or plate and casually saunter out of their car–that would be so cool to watch.
But it shouldn’t affect me whatsoever, and I wish I could just ignore this behavior.
Speakin’ of coffee..
Why do all authors have to describe it as “steaming”.
I’m sure there are other adjectives available, or if you can’t think of
any, just don’t use one. Why can’t it be just “hot” occasionally.
Bastards.
People who use “Cali” when referring to California. Although no one likes a pedant, I will inevitably retort with some reference to the city in Colombia and will often get a confused look (if this interaction is in person) or a confused response if it is something in writing. I know it isn’t important, but please don’t be so lazy-assed and not say “California”.
Maybe, if you have to respond to them, refer to the state as “Fornia.” If they ask, just tell them it’s short for California and leave it at that.
If there are no handicap spots available, there is always the fire lane. I see this a lot, probably more than handicap violators.
I hate this, too. Partly because it always seems to be pseudo hipster types… or those who think they’re hip.
Honing in on this: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. You know what everyone there calls San Francisco? “San Francisco.” Only idiots from out of state call it “Frisco.”
I mean… suppose you live in Chicago and I come to visit. And I say “you know what? I’m gonna call your city ‘Chicky.’” Would you think:
a) “Hey, that’s an awesome nickname! I’m gonna use it from now on!”
b) “This guy’s a moron.”
I’d think, “Isn’t it Chi-town?”
Thanks for that…I may give it a try!
That’s EXACTLY one of the reasons it annoys me!
I heard it called “SF” or “esseff” a lot and “The City” (which pissed me off).
I do use Frisco once in awhile just to annoy them.
My mom spent 6 or 7 years in the Bay Area before she married my dad and moved to L.A., but she strongly reinforced for us baby Angelinos that nobody in San Francisco calls it Frisco.
Calling it “Frisco” is worse than saying “the” before highway numbers.
The City is what San Francisco was called by everyone, back when it was the only one in northern California. I grew up in Milpitas (population 5000 then, 80,000 now), 50 miles south, and everyone called it that. It’s a real name.
Frisco is a town in Colorado I think. No local ever called The City Frisco.
Nothing “wrong” with either.
San Jose and Sacramento both disagree with that statement. San Jose has had a larger population since 1989. And even before that, it was pretty close.
Heh, I grew up in the far northeastern corner of San Jose, two blocks south of the Milpitas border. Right near Landess & Piedmont.
Yeah, we called San Francsico “the city” too, even after San Jose became the larger city. I didn’t mention it earlier because I didn’t want to confuse the issue. 