Things I don't understand about modern life

[niadainud]

1. What "speaking to" means. I know it is a stage in the dating process, but have no idea as to its specific implications.

2. The point of "link in bio" - why can't you just put the bloody link where I can see it without having to hunt for it?

3. Gender-woo nonsense. When will the madness end?

4. Why it seems to be socially acceptable to use your phone to play videos or make calls without headphones, especially on on the bus. STFU!

5. Talking of buses, why they can so rarely take you from point A to point B without terminating prematurely, stopping to "regulate the service" or stopping to change driver. I'm sure it never used to be this bad.

I bet half of them were in shorts too. The immune to weather boys are a genre all of their own.

Oh, and another one - why is anything to do with fashion marketing these days an "edit"? Edit isn't even a sodding noun, FFS!

And second hand is “vintage”, an old photo is a “throwback’ and any over-priced handmade shite is “artisan” ( or even worse “artisanal”)

I don't mind artisan too much, but artisanal sounds like something you pour down the loo.

They're little, and normally tired, and they get squished by big kids.

This is a bonkers thing to be annoyed about.

I used to carry my little girl in and out of school from nursery age upwards until she became too heavy to carry because she would cry and beg for me to carry her. I guess people may have judged me for it (life was hard so I didn’t have time to notice), she later became diagnosed with a handful of shite conditions including muscular dystrophy so the poor child was in agony and physically incapable of doing that walk some days. She eventually had a special needs stroller and now has a wheelchair, I know this is a rare circumstance but sometimes it’s not always clear as to the reason why someone may be carrying a child ‘too big to be carried’.

The speaking to is literally that?

You match and spend some time messaging with the usual mundane questions. If that’s all good then you go on a date?

1. speaking to - because in the olden times you’d meet someone in person first, then exchange details and call / email and arrange to meet up again. Now you don’t physically meet first, you connect online and so talk /flirt via your phone until you decide if you want a date with them and make it real. But that speaking /talking stage is a new dating stage, that is real.

Hack is American for tip.

Reception chn need to walk in and out of school( excluding disabled obviously) as it’s part of their learning to be independent. They manage all day to not be carried by teachers so their legs don’t suddenly stop working at the gate.

You mean modern people can only have beliefs if they align with yours? Otherwise they’re “cuntish”?
You don’t sound very tolerant yourself actually.

The people deep down the gender rabbit hole are the least tolerant people I've ever encountered in the western world.

We still have boys in shorts at school today in freezing rain. If not told to wear coats at break time, they wouldn’t.

4 - blame Apple’s grabbing. They used to give you headphones that plugged into the device they were selling you. (And a fucking plug, grabby bastards making you buy a plug)

they stopped giving you headphones and took away the jack, so you have to buy more expensive headphones that aren’t just attached to your phone and easy to lose. Everyone else copied.

we normalised handing young people phones that could play music /videos and not giving them headphones at the same time.

Why do young people watch tv programmes and films that cost millions to produce on teeny weeny little screens instead of proper tvs? When LOST first came out my friends all used to go round to one house to watch it on a projector together. Now they’d do the equivalent on a bus. Each looking at their own phone.

Not to mention that the whole gender movement can be quite homophobic in itself.

Our bus drivers often switch in the town centre rather than at the beginning/ end of a route. I presume because it's a central location for the drivers to get to/from. It's near the bus depot. And the bus stops are big enough that they can sit there for 5 mins. Whereas a lot of the ones along the routes would block a line of traffic.

Vegan leather is one of my bugbears - it's fucking plastic!

It's the next generation of postmen I think.

Ah! 💡 I've never understood this either, thanks for the explanation!

My Dc use hack.

I always feel a tip is something you feel you can give after years of experience whereas a hack implies a searing intellect that has “ hacked” through the unnecessary to arrive at a wholly superior way of doing things.

But maybe I’m overly sensitive … especially when it comes to technology. (“Here’s the hack mum…”)

Why it costs so much to hire films on Amazon when companies like Blockbuster had to have staff, locations, and physical films and charged less??? Why isn't streaming films cheaper as there are so many fewer physical costs?

PP gave a good response. Just want to add that 'streaming' (ie via monthly subscription) and hiring (buying or renting a digital film one at a time) are two different business models. Streaming as many films as you like for a monthly cost of usually under a tenner is great value. Hiring one at a time is more expensive. This is for a few reasons. Amazon wants you to subscribe to Prime as then they can rely on your monthly sub and sell you lots of other services so obviously they want it to look great value. As a PP alludes to, a new film is not going to be on Netflix or free on Prime until at least a year or two after release so the newer films will cost you more to rent or buy individually.

Another issue is that cinemas took a pounding in lockdown and audiences haven't returned to the cinema in anywhere near the pre-covid numbers so film distributors need the digital release of a film to make up the shortfall. Films aren't getting cheaper to make. Box office and DVD sales used to make up a huge part of the revenue for making and marketing a £100m film. With smaller box office and no retail DVD, the money needs to come from somewhere.

(BORING ANSWER SORRY)

Certainly with trains, it's all about getting the train to a particular location and sod the passengers. Many times, you're standing at a station and the screens are showing a particular train being cancelled, but it passes through the station anyway, just empty and none stop. Well, that's what happens a lot in "Northern" railway land. Not sure if it happens elsewhere too. Very annoying when the next train comes and it's already full to capacity because it's carrying the passengers of two trains. Can never understand why they don't just connect the two units together and run them together, albeit late, so passengers aren't sardines because instead of two trains, there's one longer one. (Yes, I'm meaning units which can be formed together and are within length and compatibility - the kind of units that do run together on some cases).

No, it’s bonkers to carry a 4 or 5 year old in and out of school.

That was NOT a thing when mine were at primary 10/15 years ago. I am actually quite shocked to hear it’s a thing.

Indeed.

Another thing I don't understand is why people have suddenly started confusing "none" and "non". 😉

That was perfectly idiomatic @NoraLuka! Maybe you can do "gift" next?

As in "I was gifted some money."

Argh! No. You were "given some money" or someone "gave you money as a gift.