Those were from my prime viewing years (I was a latchkey kid in Jr High), and I recognized all but three within a few seconds of the start. (All but the Oil Board, Bactine, and Rambler ads.) What a waste of long-term brain storage! There were at least two more Colt 45 ads in the same series, I loved those as a kid.
When I was in 7th or 8th grade we went on a school trip to the Art Institute, and when we got to the room with American Gothic in it all of us spontaneously started humming the Country Cornflakes jingle. Variants of that commercial ran for at least 10 years. I wonder if Woody Guthrie (or his estate) got any residuals.
Ditto. Donât have cable or an antenna. I just stream whatever. As for commercials, they can have my mute button when they pry it from my cold dead index finger.
.09 cents is literally less than a tenth of a cent. What the fuck? How do people not know this?
Add âgrocerâs quotesâ and grocerâs apostropheâs to the list. As in: try the tomatoeâs. Theyâre âfreshâ. First off, the tomatoeâs what is fresh? Second, tomatoe is not a word, Mr Vice President. Third, why the scare quotes around fresh? What is it really if it isnât fresh?
Passing-lane campers, people who literally go into hysterics or concerned-face mode to tell you that you have a headlight out (I had a dude chase my car on foot for six blocks to breathlessly tell me this), people who tell you up front that they âare gonna tip you hella!â (they will invariably give you a $20 bill for a $19.75 tab and tell you to keep it), and men who think itâs appropriate to talk about women like worthless fuck-objects to me in my cab because itâs âjust us dudesâ.
Getting added to the email list of some nonprofit Iâve never heard about, never contributed to, and is 1000 miles away from me. Some entity must have sold or traded my name and email address (NextDoor.com? DonorsChoose?), which limits the suspects, but still.
Other things that bug me, because Iâm old and should know better:
failing at seven rephrased searches of âSeattle coffee with NO wi-fiâ I am not a newbie. I know how to use quotes and + with keywords to improve my returned search results. I still get âBest Coffee places with wi-fi for freelancersâ and results of that ilk, the exact opposite of what I want, for pages and pages. What do I want? a no-wifi zone where I can station myself at either a counter or a table for one and write letters while I sip a damn fine cup of joe.
letter-writing pads/tablets/sets. I write letters because I am old and it is fun. I can find, if I know what paper/stationery manufacturer names to use, letter-writing sets and tablets on Amazon. If I search âletter writing setsâ, âletter-writing tabletsâ, âletter-writing padsâ without a brand name, I get results for legal pads, columnar pads, reams of printer paper on Target.com and even Amazon if I donât use brand names for paper.
[ETA:] * when trilby-and-neckbeard contributors to Lifehacker or other (ex-)Gawker properties lift graphics with misspellings and other errors from websites instead of going to the original website with the original graphics with proper spellings, and get nasty at me when I point out that its art direction partners âwent in a different directionâ, when three other accounts point out the error in snarkier ways and get ignored by the offender because they donât have a female avatar. The big sin apparently to Mr. Trilby-with-Neckbeard, when one publishes content, is to have the artwork proofread and corrected before publishing? He could have used Stanford Institute of Design, the originator of the content!!
Love how my relatives canât be arsed to email me condolences when my brother dies, but keep me in their contacts so I can get their dumbass virus spam. Thereâs a word women my age and over in Canada use to describe folks like them, but I canât use it hereâŚ
If someoneâd kindly show @TobinL what Toronto-area job sites to post his resume at, I can get there that much faster. Although the last time I was in Hogtown, I went looking for a Seattleiteâs idea of âreal coffeeâ and found only those coffee shops with Hazelnut and Irish Cream flavoured coffee pots sitting on hot plates for hours⌠by TTC Subway I sat down and wept⌠I tell you what⌠those coffee shops are not the things that grind my beansâŚ
Software Vendors. Especially vendors who hock software meant to be installed in Enterprise environments that doesnât play well with automated software distribution.
What the hell?
No, our users do not have admin rights to install software.
No the majority of our sites donât have techs that could go and do this.
And even if they did, do you think Iâd expect them to install it properly each time?
I understand that MSI installers are getting to be âold schoolâ. Just let me slap a /Q after your Setup.exe and Iâll handle all the fiddly bits after the install.
If you make me repackage your crappy software that you charge too much for in the first place, you will never get a recommendation from me.
