Shades of Deivi Cruz Posted May 18 Posted May 18 (edited) My pet peeve is that every time this thread gets bumped, I get reminded that my guitar has been packed and stowed under the bed for years due to lack of progress. Edited May 18 by Shades of Deivi Cruz 2 Quote
LaceyLou Posted May 28 Posted May 28 Ear worms-at least this particular one. I can't get the theme song to Hogan's Heroes out of my head. Quote
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted June 4 Author Posted June 4 On 5/28/2026 at 9:59 AM, LaceyLou said: Ear worms-at least this particular one. I can't get the theme song to Hogan's Heroes out of my head. oh, man, I had a bad one recently, probably for at least a week before you posted this and maybe up till a couple days ago. just a random song I'd listened to and nothing that's usually an earworm for me, I don't think, but I could. not. get. rid. of. it. I seem to be ok now, though. I basically always have some song running through my head, but it's almost never just one for that long, and it's usually easy enough to knock one out if it seems a little stuck. 1 Quote
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted June 4 Author Posted June 4 also, oof, I hope my posting that doesn't bring your earworm back to you. Quote
LaceyLou Posted June 4 Posted June 4 18 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said: also, oof, I hope my posting that doesn't bring your earworm back to you. Don't worry-the show comes on after another show I watch so that's what would bring it back. 🙂 1 Quote
oblong Posted June 5 Posted June 5 an oldie but goodie... people who smoke near doors. Went to the dealership this morning to get bagels, there's an awesome bagel cafe inside, and right outside the door, on a courtesy bench they have for people waiting for rides, a lady is smoking. I can still smell and taste it. Just ****ing rude. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted June 6 Posted June 6 On 6/3/2026 at 9:00 PM, Crazy Cat Gentleman said: oh, man, I had a bad one recently, probably for at least a week before you posted this and maybe up till a couple days ago. just a random song I'd listened to and nothing that's usually an earworm for me, I don't think, but I could. not. get. rid. of. it. I seem to be ok now, though. I basically always have some song running through my head, but it's almost never just one for that long, and it's usually easy enough to knock one out if it seems a little stuck. Here’s one that happens to me all the time, and I don’t know how common this is: I will catch a snippet of a song I’ve never heard before, frequently part of an ad jingle, and then I will fill in the rest of the song in my head, basically writing it as I go, and then I get into a repeating pattern with the part I heard going into the part I made up, over and over, and that becomes an earworm for several minutes at least. Occasionally, I will “write” the rest of a song in my head based on a snippet I heard, maybe after I pause a show playing an outro theme so I can go to the bathroom or something, then I come back and push play to see how close the song I “wrote” in my head matches the actual rest of the song, and it literally never matches. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 11 Posted June 11 Medical "reminder" apps like MyChart and whatever your local doctor/hospital uses. These are great for sending out things like test results, and reminders about appointments and such. However I think they seem to be getting out of hand. I received at least 6 reminders each for upcoming appointments. They are constantly coming up in my texts and e-mail. I mean, ok, I have an appointment for next week, month, whatever. I don't need a reminder right after the office scheduled it, one an hour later confirming it etc. The latest was for a series of rehab sessions. It's a 12 week session twice a week. I received 24 texts about it this morning... I guess that's what it takes to keep us responsible adults these days. Quote
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted June 12 Author Posted June 12 9 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: Medical "reminder" apps like MyChart and whatever your local doctor/hospital uses. yes. I actually never had a lot of issues when I was with systems that used MyChart specifically, but my current place uses two different ones for some reason, so I have to check in twice. plus they both remind me to "check in" even if I've completed it already. one basically just lets me log in and then says I'm all caught up and don't need to do anything. the other does not and happily lets me do the whole thing again and doesn't even seem to keep my responses from the previous checkin (for the same visit). I really need to make a note somewhere each time I complete that one checkin so that I can just not do it a second time. pisses me right off. Quote
chasfh Posted June 12 Posted June 12 There must be a setting in MyChart that reduces the number of reminders. I get one a week before and a day before. Beyond that, I love MyChart because I can send questions to my doctors that get answered by them or their PAs within a day. Before this I could never have called them to ask anything and expect a reply. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 12 Posted June 12 3 minutes ago, chasfh said: There must be a setting in MyChart that reduces the number of reminders. I get one a week before and a day before. Beyond that, I love MyChart because I can send questions to my doctors that get answered by them or their PAs within a day. Before this I could never have called them to ask anything and expect a reply. I like the apps just for test results and to have a place where my appointments are. In reality, I just need to change the notification settings on my devises. The thing that set me off the other day was 24 reminders of rehab sessions. They are twice a week for 12 weeks...every one of them was a separate reminder. It was also delivered pre coffee... Quote
smr-nj Posted June 17 Posted June 17 OK, so this is kind of random.… But - When did the word NO become a two syllable word? It seems teenagers and young adults say NO – WAH. It kind of drives me crazy. ” are you going to the party? No-wah! My mother is making me watch my baby sister tonight! “ I’m not imagining this. and it is driving me nuts. 🤪 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 17 Posted June 17 2 minutes ago, smr-nj said: OK, so this is kind of random.… But - When did the word NO become a two syllable word? It seems teenagers and young adults say NO – WAH. It kind of drives me crazy. ” are you going to the party? No-wah! My mother is making me watch my baby sister tonight! “ I’m not imagining this. and it is driving me nuts. 🤪 I blame Bill Murray. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 1 Posted July 1 (edited) Pet Peeve - Conceal Browse. It's installed on our work computers. What it does is block any potential harmful website. Let me give you an idea of how this works. For some reason our search engines always default to yahoo - no matter how many times we try to change it, but anything you try to look up on yahoo gets blocked. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. If I text in the search line "Tigers starting pitcher on July 1". I will get a big stop sign with THREAT DETETCTED. "What's the high temp today?" THREAT DETECTED........."How many fingers am I holding up" THREAT DETECTED. If you search with google it's fine , but I always end up having to search for everything twice and I ****ing HATE Conceal Browse. GO **** YOURSELF ! And yes - every single website out there, including this one, is a threat, but let's be reasonable about this. Edited July 1 by Motor City Sonics Quote
chasfh Posted July 17 Posted July 17 Drivers ahead of me on side streets who come to a literal stop before crawling gingerly as possible over a speed bump. They must have no shock absorbers on that 2006 Honda Odyssey of theirs. Quote
oblong Posted July 17 Posted July 17 related to that, and I only notice this when going over the Grosse Ile bridge that recently put up 2 speed bumps as you approach, drivers that cut over so that only one side goes over the bump. What does that accomplish? It doesn't harm me or slow me down.... just bugs me because it seems silly. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 17 Posted July 17 I don't know if this is the right thread, but.... I respect most of the folks here. The VAST majority of the folks here. Baseball people, in general, seem to be smarter than the other sports's fans. Something about the statistical lure of it. WHEN IS THIS SOCIETAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF STUPIDITY GOING TO END? Are we ever coming out of this. It's truly astonishing. I blame tech and "smart" phones, but it's so beyond stunning now. I don't like getting old, but I am kind of glad that I likely won't be around by the time Gen Alpha is running things. That's a scary thought. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted July 17 Posted July 17 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said: WHEN IS THIS SOCIETAL DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF STUPIDITY GOING TO END? Are we ever coming out of this. It's truly astonishing. I blame tech and "smart" phones, but it's so beyond stunning now. I don't like getting old, but I am kind of glad that I likely won't be around by the time Gen Alpha is running things. That's a scary thought. great example "year 'round daylight savings time". It's like nobody can think themselves out of a paper bad any more. This is so asinine it hurts my head. If you aren't going to change the clock to match the seasons and you don't like your schedule, then just change what time of day you doing things and leave the clock in sync with the actual day it's supposed to be marking.. Edited July 17 by gehringer_2 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted July 17 Posted July 17 2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: great example "year 'round daylight savings time". It's like nobody can think themselves out of a paper bad any more. This is so asinine it hurts my head. If you aren't going to change the clock to match the seasons and you don't like your schedule, then just change what time of day you doing things and leave the clock in sync with the actual day it's supposed to be marking.. Those of us who went thru the "permanent daylight savings time thing remember it didn't work in 1979. Why should we expect it to work now. Especially in the Winter. 1 Quote
LaceyLou Posted July 17 Posted July 17 (edited) Permanent DST is meant to be showing they're 'doing something' about a problem, whether it be saving energy or helping with seasonal affective disorder, without having to come up with solutions that actually work. Edited July 17 by LaceyLou Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted July 23 Posted July 23 Autism epidemic. What? First - the net for "autism" is much wider. There is no epidemic. And thousands, if not millions of people who might not seem "normal" are considered "autisitc" or "on the spectrum". It's a bunch of B.S. designed to come up with more ways to pay the medical cartel. And I am pro-medicine, but lets see this for what it is. It's just like the ADD/ADHD "epidemic". Kids get unruly - because that's what they do, they haven't figured things out yet, so they act out - but a few drug manufacturers got together in 1991 to define this -- to sell drugs. ADD for kids is actually quite normal and it's hard-wired and kids will grow out of it without drugs - as they figure out more things about life But we turn kids into zombied out drug-addicts and think we're treating them. I think much of the same thing is going on with Autism. There is no "cause" for it. It's a normal aspect of the human species and always has been and as for as that stupid word "normal". That's a nonsense word too. The societal definition of "normal" is how people in power think everyone else should act. That normal hasn't led to very good things. Crime, violence, greed, racism, classism, bigotry - oh, that's "normal"? Each person has their own definition of normal and those obsesed with trying to be someone else's definition of normal are the ones who are the sick ones. We don't need to "cure" anyone of Autism. It's who they are. It's their normal and we need to stop forcing square pegs into round holes. Quote
Edman85 Posted July 24 Posted July 24 On 7/17/2026 at 1:36 PM, chasfh said: Drivers ahead of me on side streets who come to a literal stop before crawling gingerly as possible over a speed bump. They must have no shock absorbers on that 2006 Honda Odyssey of theirs. Similar, but drivers who come to the same complete and slow stop to turn right from a main road. Quote
chasfh Posted August 11 Posted August 11 I am a bicycle rider and I really like the expansion of bike lanes throughout the city. But it has had a really ****ty side effect: motorcycles who now act like bikes, bypassing traffic using the bike lanes, driving in between cars, even blowing right through red lights. I think a lot of these bikers are young, like late teens or early 20s, who grew up as kids bicycling in bike lanes, so now they just see their cycles as an extension of their bikes. I don’t see old bikers doing this ****. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted August 11 Posted August 11 All motorized vehicles should stay out of pedal lanes 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted August 12 Posted August 12 (edited) 4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: All motorized vehicles should stay out of pedal lanes so the current admin in A^2 has been adding bike lanes all over. Or I should say subtracting them because they aren't adding any space, just taking lanes off an already under under-engineered road net. So the upshot is that the bike lanes have become the parking lots for every tree trimmer, utility truck, construction crew, and amazon delivery vehicle working in town. And just to make it the more the merrier, on a bunch of the streets with bike lanes the trash bins get put in them for pickup and once the garbage trucks dump them and leave them all over the place haphazardly, you get to play bicycle slalom on your way to where you're going once a week. Brilliance all around. Edited August 12 by gehringer_2 Quote
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