SL "Ask a Bitter Old Man" Thread

[zzthe3rd]

A thread dedicated to discussing how computers used to take up entire rooms, what kids these days do that annoys you, and last but not least how incredible if is that phones without rotary dials exist!

Only proper grammar posts will be allowed in this thread.

[LazyTops5]

1rd ldo

[LKJ]

You know what's ****ing annoying? Guys who trash on romantic comedies, and then love sports movies. **** that, those two genres are the exact same. You get a couple/team assigned to you to root for ---> couple/team faces adversity; odds are stacked against couple/team; heartstrings are tugged at, successfully or otherwise ---> couple gets together/team wins the big game.

There are exceptions to those being the endings every once in a while, in both genres (I won't name them out of fear of spoiling movies)...but seriously, they are absolutely the same damn formula. Both genres have a couple of enjoyable specimens, but the vast majority of both suck.

You know what else sucks? Car chase scenes. I would rip on the American action movie in general really...but at least there are a handful of really good American action movies that I do enjoy, mostly because they employ a combination of decent plot/good comic relief (The Rock, Iron Man to name a couple); there are no good car chase scenes in the history of the world. That car chase in The Rock stands out as by far the dumbest part of an otherwise very entertaining movie. If I'm watching it alone, I'll just press the skip button on that scene until they get to the part where Claire Forlani is sitting there looking hot but too modestly dressed.

That guys enjoy sitting around watching **** blow up is an embarrassment to our gender in the same way that it's embarrassing for women to like so much of the utter nonsense that they do.

[LKJ]

Originally Posted by LazyTops5

1rd ldo

Also, WHY THE **** DON'T PEOPLE CAPITALIZE ACRONYMS??

If you capitalize the letters, that's indicative that each letter stands for it's own word. If you put together lowercase letters like "ldo," you just have gibberish.

It's not like it takes even one full second to send your pinky over to the shift key when you punch three letters out. ****.

[LKJ]

Spurious, it doesn't seem as though you read the low content thread. If you open up this thread, all of Student Life begs you: change your avatar. It's one of the worst on the entire site, I assure you.

While I might be in a minority who hates on GG, I get the feeling more and more that I'm in the majority who hates your ****ing avatar.

[thebigeasy59]

what time do you usually eat supper/dinner/whatever the **** people call it where you're from? O/U on 4:30

[Vintage00]

530pm imo

also LKJ, plz turn this into the following...

Spoiler:

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[LKJ]

Umm, well definitely later than 4:30 almost every day, unless there's some reason (like a huge lunch on Easter or something) that kind of knocks out two meals at once. That's sort of a dinner.

I don't eat at a designated time though, I'll start eating anywhere between 5:00 and 6:30.

[LKJ]

Another thing that ****ing pisses me off: people who are physically able to move their asses along, but lope across crosswalks as slowly as possible when there's a car waiting for them.

Are they acting within the limits of the law? Yes.
Are they total pieces of **** anyway? Yes.

If a driver stops for you in order to let you cross, something that not enough people do at crosswalks anymore, show your appreciation by waving at them and moving your ass across the road at a reasonably brisk pace.

(Let the record show that these are honest opinions of mine and I'm not trying to fit into some contrived online schtick.)

[zzthe3rd]

The driver should just keep going and the walker should pass behind him. Why would you making me hurry up be doing me some sort of favor!? Let me guess... You hold the door for people when they are 40 yards away don't you?

Damn kids!

[LKJ]

If I'm all alone on the road, I'm not stopping; in that case, I'll do exactly what you said, because that's the best thing for the overall flow of car and foot traffic.

However, if I stop at a crosswalk on a busy road, and am actively doing something to create an opening to cross the street that a pedestrian might have to wait a really long damn time for? Then I most certainly am doing them a favor, and they should appreciate it.

And no I am not one of those people who holds doors for people when they're 40 yards away. I hate that situation too, from the standpoint of the person having the door held for them.

[thebigeasy59]

a crosswalk is akin to a stop sign if there are pedestrians there.

[LKJ]

In theory and in law, yes it is. But the number of ignored pedestrians at crosswalks FAR outpaces the number of instances of people outright running stop signs. We both know that.

Pedestrians will often wait at a crosswalk through a whole line of cars who don't stop for them.

As such, a person who actually respects the law enough to stop at one is actively doing a somewhat virtuous thing.

In any case, people shouldn't be moving slowly (if they can help it) when others are waiting for them. I say this without regard for the circumstances. That's just common courtesy.

[thebigeasy59]

that post was mostly directed towards zug's idea of having them go behind the car, which is awful.

[Vintage00]

LKJ,

I met Robert Duvall yesterday. He said "call me Bobby." That is who your avatar is, right? It looks like it.

Kisses,
Vintage