The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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I'm here on halforums. GF walks in in just a t-shirt and panties. We are due to take her son to the airport today.
Me: Did you want to go get him now, or putter around for a while?
Her: "We can go. First I just wanted to come wear my panties at you."
Me: "I KNEW IT! IT WAS CALCULATED! DELIBERATE!"
Me: Did you want to go get him now, or putter around for a while?
Her: "We can go. First I just wanted to come wear my panties at you."
Me: "I KNEW IT! IT WAS CALCULATED! DELIBERATE!"
Said Zelenskyy, probably.
GasBandit
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Oh yes, I have divided the house with a baby gate, same as when I was taking care of a friend's dog while he moved houses for a few months. The bedrooms are Nibbles' territory, and the LR/DR/K/Hall is Schatzi's. Nibbles can slither under the baby gate if he want too, though, and that was what led to the peeing incident. He came out to investigate, and Schatzi came up for an enthusiastic sniff... and Nibbles went full "Oh Long Johnson" until the dog was in urinating range.
Every day we make a tiny bit of progress. Nibbles was refusing to come out from under the bed for the next day... then didn't want to come out of the bedroom the day after that... now he's back to yowling at the dog in the hall when he passes on the way to my office.
GasBandit
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So, my GF's adult kids (19 and 23) do this... thing... that strikes me as really odd. Just wanted to know if anybody else has seen this sort of thing.
They'll call someone, like, facetime, or regular phone, or even discord video call, whatever, on their phone. And after a brief few sentences back and forth, they'll just.... leave the call running while they do other things. Laundry. Play Fortnite. Eat dinner. Whatever. They just keep the call going forever. They both do this when they call their mother, but also I've noticed that the younger (who has still been living with his mother) will do it with other friends/family as well. Start a call on his phone, then watch TV or play fortnite with the call still in session. Sometimes talking in voice chat and then having to let the person on the phone know "oh I was talking in game chat" to clarify.
It just always strikes me as really bizarre and not a small amount discourteous. Usually if neither I nor the other party has said anything in over 10 seconds, I will say "Ok cool talk to you later" and begin the social steps of politely terminating a call that has run out of things to say. But not these folks.
So I just thought I'd have a reality check with the rest of you guys before I started down the rabbit hole of figuring out exactly who is having the Poop Knife moment here.
They'll call someone, like, facetime, or regular phone, or even discord video call, whatever, on their phone. And after a brief few sentences back and forth, they'll just.... leave the call running while they do other things. Laundry. Play Fortnite. Eat dinner. Whatever. They just keep the call going forever. They both do this when they call their mother, but also I've noticed that the younger (who has still been living with his mother) will do it with other friends/family as well. Start a call on his phone, then watch TV or play fortnite with the call still in session. Sometimes talking in voice chat and then having to let the person on the phone know "oh I was talking in game chat" to clarify.
It just always strikes me as really bizarre and not a small amount discourteous. Usually if neither I nor the other party has said anything in over 10 seconds, I will say "Ok cool talk to you later" and begin the social steps of politely terminating a call that has run out of things to say. But not these folks.
So I just thought I'd have a reality check with the rest of you guys before I started down the rabbit hole of figuring out exactly who is having the Poop Knife moment here.
14yr-old will do the same thing.
Heck, even I will do the same thing, though only in things like Discord or other VC. Perhaps they are just treating phone calls as yet another form of VC rather than its own separate category? The end of the pressure of per-minute billing probably contributes to that mentality.
--Patrick
Heck, even I will do the same thing, though only in things like Discord or other VC. Perhaps they are just treating phone calls as yet another form of VC rather than its own separate category? The end of the pressure of per-minute billing probably contributes to that mentality.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Not only that, but it used to be just... expected... that when you had a phone call, the entirety of your attention was on the person on the call. Watching TV while on the phone was incredibly rude. Eating while on the phone was only acceptable if you were in a huge rush or in transit. "We're having dinner, call you later."
There's just a new "always connected" group chat mentality for zoomers now where sitting silently in a 2-person call is the same as sitting in an IRC chat with 2 people, waiting for more to show up or whatever, I guess. It makes me make the "boomer Karen sees someone with a visible tattoo" face, and I don't know if I'm the Seymour Skinner here, or if no, it is the CHILDREN who are wrong..
Because it really also bugged me when I glanced at the 19yo's phone on his desk while he played and the person he was in facetime with was in the act of driving a car.
When I was a kid, I called a friend's house (landline) and afterwards I didn't hang up the receiver properly. So, every time they picked up they could hear our household. The next day at school the friend said, "you're mom yells...a lot".
Fun times
Maybe it's the modern equivalent of just hanging out and doing nothing. But since people don't hang out in person as much, they just do it electronically. People of the age you're referring to spent a large portion of their socially-formative years in covid lockdown.
GasBandit
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Yeah, if it were a voice channel, I wouldn't have questioned it. but plainly this was a person-to-person call. Just.... two people on a single, two party video call... doing separate things and only occasionally talking to each other.
It especially bugs me when they call their mom while we're watching a movie, so she can sit there and try to hear the movie over her son's mechanical keyboard clicking on her phone.
My teenage daughter does the same thing, but only with her friends. I don't say anything about it when she's talking in her room with someone from school, but I don't let her do it to family members (like when my mom calls). She gets annoyed when I tell her to focus on the call, but she seems to get it. And I think @Tinwhistler is right; it's their equivalent of just hanging out. You're not wrong, and neither are they. It's just a different approach to socializing.
Our youngest does this. I don’t understand. The call goes on forever and sometimes I hear his friends talking when our son isn’t the room.
I used to do this as a kid over roger wilco. It was the day before discord group chats. Just a way to hang out with someone while doing other stuff.
I guarantee if the mom said "Hey I'm watching a movie so I'll let you go" or even just hung up they wouldn't take offense to it.
figmentPez
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Have you got anything by Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters?
Dave
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Hey it was an honest mistake! (Just noticed this was from 2022. Still funny.)
www.cbsnews.com
U.K. medical practice mistakenly texts patients they have "aggressive lung cancer" instead of wishing them a merry Christmas
They were also sent a form meant for people with terminal illnesses to apply for benefits.
www.cbsnews.com
An honest mistake. They're right next to each other on the keyboard.Hey it was an honest mistake! (Just noticed this was from 2022. Still funny.)
U.K. medical practice mistakenly texts patients they have "aggressive lung cancer" instead of wishing them a merry Christmas
They were also sent a form meant for people with terminal illnesses to apply for benefits.
--Patrick
Which one?
The first one, I assume. Otherwise it'd have been a Christmas concert ho ho or a Christmas concert ho ho ho.
To be a tad more specific, they're oyster omelette flavored chips, meant to evoke the flavor of an oyster omelette, which is a traditional night market snack in Taiwan. It's made with oysters, eggs, sweet potato flour, and a sweet and savory sauce. Green vegetables such as cabbage leaves, parsley, or scallions can also be added.
A properly made oyster omelette is incredibly visually unappealing, but it tastes amazing.
A properly made oyster omelette is incredibly visually unappealing, but it tastes amazing.
God help me. I don’t want to do this.
I have this morning and tomorrow morning in the office, then Sunday's two services then I'm off for the rest of the year. It's effectively 2 days before the "big day" and I feel like I should be running around like a chicken with my head cut off, yet... it's quiet. I've done all the home visits I have been asked to do (and then some), the services are all set up and printed and the dozen (literally) different readers found, confirmed, and confirmed again, and I have one meeting/conversation scheduled for tomorrow morning that requires no prep work and no follow-up. No-one's in hospital, I've got one person a month after major surgery, but I talked to them yesterday and they're fine. There's no more outreach drop-offs, nothing more is being collected.
I could work on the course material for a class I'm running in the winter. But it's 90% done already anyways, and there's not much point in doing more until I see how it's going to go.
I could call a few more folks, and probably will in a little bit, but even that won't take more than 30-45 minutes.
It's weirdly and unsettling-ly quiet.
I could work on the course material for a class I'm running in the winter. But it's 90% done already anyways, and there's not much point in doing more until I see how it's going to go.
I could call a few more folks, and probably will in a little bit, but even that won't take more than 30-45 minutes.
It's weirdly and unsettling-ly quiet.
