Pet Peeves

Njny, hopefully, we have a decent amount of time before ours start doing such things. But we highly doubt it.

Garnish ............

especially Parsley or any other plant. 'Many garnishes are not intended to be eaten ....', well, then keep it off my plate or food! I know garnish is supposed to make food more 'attractive', but hell, that just makes me skeptical of the foods value. 'See how pretty it looks ... ignore the small portion and its taste'.

Kinda like that 2:00AM pickup that looks pretty good, but when you have fucked all the makeup off it, even though it sated the hunger, it turns out to be not as tasteful as advertised.

'What's the difference between Parsley and Pussy'?

'No one eats Parsley'!

LOL. Exactly. Pic tricks are bad mojo.

"PP: One pic? Bullshit.
Two pics? Worse than one pic. You think we're going to click on that profile just because you have ONE pic we haven't seen. Nope. I do not recall ever seeing ONE pic that was so impressive, it convinced me to click just to see ONE more pic. Ever."

PP: Two pics but neither one shows on your profile? I have to click on your profile to see the obligatory boobie pic, only to find that both of them are in your "private" album? Total bullshit.

When someone leaves a few seconds on the microwave timer...

“Hi Allen, still can't get us out of your headspace? lol”

So many residents, so little space.

Tramp

PP: One pic? Bullshit.

Two pics? Worse than one pic. You think we're going to click on that profile just because you have ONE pic we haven't seen. Nope. I do not recall ever seeing ONE pic that was so impressive, it convinced me to click just to see ONE more pic. Ever.

A new pet peeve. Someone that uses the word "I" over and over in a conversation or text message. Try counting the I's sometime.

AandJ: I wasn’t making an argument, it was that while I believed your thought of not every vehicle having the capability correct, but only to a point because the technology has been put into vehicles for roughly a decade, I went on to state further that you don’t even need Bluetooth to be hands free, as your phone has a speakerphone mode capable of completing your tasks.

NJNY: I am beside and behind people at traffic lights every single day while they use their phones that you supposedly deem to not be an issue. Just yesterday, the light turned green to make a left and guess what, the person was looking at their phone and only 2 vehicles made it thru the light while 10+ more of us stayed behind for another cycle. The side view mirror was adjusted in a way that I could see exactly what was occupying their attention. That is a problem, a big problem. As stated in the recent posts, there are adapters that can be installed and if you have an aux port electrical problem, it is a rather cheap and easy fix.

I’m not pointing out anyone’s finances but since you want me to head that way, I can definitely assist. If people cannot afford to get an adapter for as low as $15 nor pay to have the fuse replaced for less than $3 nor the aux port for $4-$10, then they should just use the BUILT IN hands free feature (that I have been mentioning all along) or, like you said, pull out of traffic, but when someone can make an excuse why it’s okay to affect my travels because of their lack of finances, which is really just the inability to take into consideration of others in traffic, be it work or leisure, it’s not a justified reason, it’s just a very bad excuse.

~Allen

I don't understand the need to be connected 24 hours per day.

I am probably a bit of a Luddite.

I do have a hands free mode on my car, but 90% of the time I have the top down, so the person on the other end can't usually hear me anyway...

888

I am taking no stance other than stating the fact that your statement that a smartphone and a car with bluetooth was all you needed to be completely hands free in the car for calls, texts etc is not accurate.

Thanks for proving my point in such a detailed fashion. You made the argument better than I ever could.

PP: A poster who blocked us but still manages to comment on virtually every post we make.

Hi Allen, still can't get us out of your headspace? lol

~Scamp

“Every one of the services you mention require a user to opt in and allow the phone to always be listening ”

Agree, also your phone requires you to opt in to cellular services to receive calls texts, nav coordinates, emails, etc. or you don’t receive them.

The privacy concern you mention with services listening in doesn’t include the vehicle nor the cellular software itself? You honestly believe your vehicle can’t be an invasion of privacy with that little button on your steering wheel’s ability to send commands or code......... oh man.........

I’m not certain the stance you are taking, but from what I’ve read, there are a couple things worth mentioning:

Point one being, people don’t have the privacy they believe in relation to their fear of being invaded anyway.

Point two, if you are making excuses for people to use their phones locally (by hand), instead of the phone’s or vehicle’s abilities, including those above your hands free anything while in moving traffic, I’m not in an agreement.

Your privacy concerns should have no bearing on another’s being nor can you justify using such just because either your vehicle manufacturer tries a cash grab to include such hardware or if someone is pinching pennies and opts to not purchase the technology.

As a previous poster mentioned, they make canbus adapters and plug and play accessories for those wishing to utilize their car’s to phone hands free potential that is way cheaper than risk’s worth of potentially injuring or even killing another person(s) because of a want to be in the workplace or social media informational loop.

~Allen

No. It's not a safe assumption.

Every one of the services you mention require a user to opt in and allow the phone to always be listening so it can wake up when the trigger phrase is uttered. Many folks consider this an invasion of their privacy and opt not to use them.

My new car has a button on the steering wheel that triggers the voice interface.

"It's not a safe assumption that all you need is a bluetooth enabled car and a smartphone. "

It's not? Let's think about that for a moment...………….

You're correct in that statement; If your smartphone is sitting beside you on the seat and you have Alexa, Cortana or Siri enabled, you don't even have to use your car 's audio functions with the voice prompting available on ANY of the smartphones on the market. One thing is for certain, no vehicle is even needed to use hands free.

~Allen

888

It's not a safe assumption that all you need is a bluetooth enabled car and a smartphone. My prior car. A 2013 model, had bluetooth but only supported hands free calling. No texting or even broadcasting the nav voice over the car speakers.

Not so much a PP I suppose, unless it personally effects me, still, I will never understand why people will pay for a special event like NYE, and then get drunk and shoved into an Uber by 9pm.

If a car has Bluetooth connectivity and the driver has a phone, they have complete access to hands free features such as full feature texting, calls and reading/replying to emails; this includes possibly having voice navigation on their phone thru their vehicle. My daily commuter vehicle just hit 7 years old and I use those functions daily for years now, so it's technology is nothing new to the market.

~Allen

As the technology becomes more prevalent and affordable texting while driving will become a non-issue.

Wife and I just bought 2 new cars (base models) and both came with interfaces to allow calling, texting etc via voice. It reads incoming texts and allows us to dictate our response.

It does result on some comical moments tho. Once. I was convinced my wife was texting me a random womans name. Then I realized she was asking for my ETA.

The tension is between distraction and wasted time. While many drivers appropriately feel that their time is "wasted" while stopped at a red light or stuck in traffic, there are alternatives to browsing, texting and so on that can be used to advantage while keeping visual attention on the environment. Hands free phones can be used to crunch calls, books on tape, voice-commanded activities can be used without taking eyes from the immediate environment.

Scamp, a few years back when Apple added the call/text block while driving feature on iOS, I posted the article on fb with obligatory praise. I literally had a friend who said they would not be installing, because they are an adult and can do both safely. I didn’t know what to say.

I think we would all agree that people who text and drive should be shot but how about the “responsible” texters who pull out their phone at stop signs and red lights? Then sit there for thirty seconds after the light turns green getting that last “lol” in or get so deep in a conversation they don’t realize there is no traffic coming but sit at the stop sign staring down at their lap.

Better than texting while driving but still annoys the shit out of me.

~Scamp

Whenever I have done business I always ask the other side, "what makes you happy"? The same quote with sex.

Also, unless I know you well enough to trust you, I'll be taking care of putting that condom on. Because, yeah, there are some really stupid guys out there.

"There are guys out there stupid enough to actually try without asking?"

Oh, you sweet summer child. There are guys out there who are stupid enough to try after I've expressly given my hard limits, which include anal.