To get annoyed when everything is googled

[TellMeTheTruthTheWholeTruth]

I'm a great one for using Google.

However, in the recent cold snap, snow was predicted.

My husband got out of bed in the morning and I asked him what the weather was like. Instead of pulling back the curtain and looking out the window, he googled it!

Sometimes it drives me nuts. Open your eyes to what's going on around you!

Does the weather you see in the morning, prove a reliable predictor or indicator for how it will be for the entirety of that day?

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I’m exactly like him. Like yeah, obviously I’m not blind, but it would be the trick of the fucking century if I could tell you that it’s meant to be snow and ice warnings between 00:00 - 10:00 just by looking.

Usually when I’m asked, it’s more of a question with a specific answer though. Can I tell you if your washing will be alright to leave outside for the day just be looking? Probably not. But if I just open the weather app and it’s got a 90% chance of rain all day I’d probably place my bets on sticking it on the radiator.

It’s like saying why do you ever watch the weather forecast? Just open the curtain.

OP says "...I asked him what the weather was like". To answer that question he really would only need to look outside. OP, did you ask your husband about snow and ice warnings (or anything else) for later in the day? Did you ponder aloud if it might stay dry and sunny all day so he can hang out the washing? Or did you just want him to tell you if it was currently sunny/raining/snowing/windy?

It depends. If I'm literally just out of bed like the DH, then I'm naked and my body is bed-warm, so I don't really want to pull the curtain back, feel like I'm showing myself to the world, and bathe myself in a cold draught of trapped window air. Google gives me more info for less discomfort.

@uhOhOP I know that. But both are sufficient answers to the question asked. There’s a million reasons he wouldn’t peek out the window to see what the weather is like and all of them honestly aren’t a big deal.

He's more active than I am. I just ask Alexa!

Is there a reason you couldn't look out the window? It drives me mad that I get treated like a personal Google....what's the weather doing, what time is the train, is the shop open. I am at a loss why seemingly capable people can't find the answers without interrupting what I am doing.

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I know what you mean about google but I think the weather is not the best example. I find it a conversation killer sometimes. With a group of friends you might see an actor & someone says where have I seen him before. The replies then often lead off to other things about what they have been in, was it good , the other actors where it was set etc.
my sister whips her phone out, reads the facts, question answered, topic closed now move on.
i don’t know if I am explaining it very well but it annoys me so much when she does it seems to stop the flow.

I couldn't get worked up about that.

I both look out of the window and use my weather app to see what the current temperature is (can't tell that one by looking) and what is predicted for the rest of the day.

Poor example really op. Unless you meant you wanted to know the weather right now and didn’t give a shit about the rest of the day. If so you should have phrased your question better not go on the attack for him trying to give you a full answer.

Why didn't YOU pull back the curtains then?!

Of course the OP meant the weather right now and not the while day. No one says 'whatever the weather like right now?'
You just say 'what's the weather like?'

Agree with this. I always ask my family 'do I look like Google??' When they ask me their lazy questions.

I completely get it.

I’m in a group of friends who meet every couple of weeks and one of them fact-checks what the rest of us say all the time. As you say, it closes down conversations, and it’s irritating to be corrected about things that don’t matter (‘that film can’t have come out in 2015. It says here that he died in 2014’ - that sort of thing). Fair enough if that shifts the parameters of the conversation but as often as not it’s incidentals that don’t matter to the point of what is being said.

I talk to another friend on the phone since she moved away, and she’s the same. You can be chatting happily then she interrupts to say that she’s found the dog food you mentioned ten minutes ago and yes, it’s £10 a bag. It comes across as really rude, as it’s clear that she hasn’t been listening to what you’re saying as she’s been checking on something that was said earlier.

I don’t know why people do it, other than to prove they are right, but there are no points for ‘knowing’ something you’ve just looked up, and the ability to google doesn’t set you apart from the crowd, and you’re right that it gets in the way of conversation.