Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[Piobaire]

Funny, the woman sitting by me doing it at this moment has to be 50. It doesn’t really seem to be a millennial thing.

 

[erictheobscure]

FaceTiming in public seems neither more nor less reasonable than jumping onto a men's clothing forum to report that someone is FaceTiming in public

This is just how we live now and it is terrible

 

[Piobaire]

EtO always delivers... the false equivalencies.

 

[erictheobscure]

You're absolutely right. I admit it. Saying stuff like

Hurr durr I can't tell which of the two is worse. Hurr durr both are bad.

is pretty stupid when one thing is obviously and clearly worse than the other.

 

[Piobaire]

So bitter.

 

[Biscotti]

I just, don't see the big deal or how it's any worse than a public phone call. Having visuals can help bridge the distance gap, which (for me) is maybe the greatest usefulness of modern tech. So *******; I'll be the guy at the small cafe video chatting over WiFi.

 

[Piobaire]

This assumes one finds frivolous public calls on little cafes acceptable.

 

[Van Veen]

It’s more the walking around doing it, usually completely oblivious to one’s surroundings.

 

[Numbernine]

I preferred it when you had to find a gas station with a pay phone. Less hot air in the atmosphere.

 

[edinatlanta]

WTF is up with walking around in public while FaceTiming?

Oh, hey! Just walking into the operating theater....say hi to Nurse Lurleen!....Yeah shes' the one I was telling you about....I know, right!...Anyway, I should probably go but I'll hit you back later.... Naw it's no big deal check it out...whoa, I thought you were on anesthesia by now....OK yeah I gotta go.

 

[double00]

I preferred it when you had to find a gas station with a pay phone. Less hot air in the atmosphere.

i drove around to a few gas stations with my 4-y.o. to find a map of our town so he could hang it up, draw on it etc. no dice not even sure they make em these days

when i was in college my buddy had a pager his girlfriend got him (ugh) and he'd call her on the old pay phone every time she yanked his chain. it's a different world.

 

[Van Veen]

Though I gotta say FaceTime is helpful in situations like when my wife sends me to Michael's to get a specific garland that she very clearly described* and there are like 10 options. Or some specific flavor of Lara Kind Bars, that she doesn't remember what they are, she just knows they have a red wrapper. (There are like 5 shades of red wrappers.)

(* This is probably true, tbh.)

 

[erictheobscure]

Lately I've noticed that the thing that was bound to happen has happened to me: I read news of the latest mass shooting and I just think, "Oh, another one." I can't even keep the recent school shootings distinct in my recall.

Spoiler

Yeah yeah CE that ****

 

[Thrift Vader]

**** makes me so mad.

when i talk about it, snowflakes on playstation hide behind their guns and flags. calling me all kinds of failure.

It needs to stop. Now.

 

[jcman311]

Though I gotta say FaceTime is helpful in situations like when my wife sends me to Michael's to get a specific garland that she very clearly described* and there are like 10 options. Or some specific flavor of Lara Kind Bars, that she doesn't remember what they are, she just knows they have a red wrapper. (There are like 5 shades of red wrappers.)

(* This is probably true, tbh.)

Cuck?

Sorry, gotta call it like I see it.