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Once kid is like 6+, if they want to be cold, that’s their business. But preschoolers and under can be bundled up, usually with minimal pushback. I follow the same policy if they’re 6+ and don’t want to eat what’s for dinner, you can choose to go without. Little kids get some leeway and may get to have a cheesestick or yogurt so they don’t go to bed with an empty stomach.
Lol reminds me of when I was around 10 and my parents had reheated spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and I complained about having the same meal as yesterday. Mom told me to go upstairs and wait a bit, and she would make something special just for me. When I got called back down, all that was on my plate was a raw carrot lol.
That’s pretty funny. My youngest is like that, she will like something one day and dislike it the next day. When she doesn’t want to eat what’s for dinner she says “I’ll just starve”. She usually ends up getting hungry enough to at least eat some of it but one of my sisters is an incredibly picky eater and I’m not feeding into that with my daughter. I’m not going to force her to eat but I’m not going to let her have a pbj instead because she would choose that for dinner over almost any other food.
I definitely have more sympathy for, "well, don't eat, then" when the family is broke. Welcome To Real Life. When it's some rich SAHM, I'm like, "okay, you have the resources to be more gentle with your picky eater, and figure out if it's some kinda real condition or something, so do it.:
100%. I call this your building character choice. I’ll tell you the outside temperature, suggest(often multiple times) to wear pants, long sleeve, coat and hat/gloves. If you don’t want to, then it works out or you get cold.
Not entirely true. While babies maintain a "slightly" higher temperature than adults. They are also way worse at storing heat and regulating it. So its recomended that babies are dressed with an extra layer
Kindergarten age is quite a bit removed from baby age.
With that said, babies and toddlers have different temperatures and temperaments. If I dress my (at the time) babies in the same number of layers I wear I have to deal with sweaty and grumpy babies. One less and it's all smiles. For me it's an easy choice
Many of my older kid's classmates around kindergarten age do not come home wearing the hats and layers they were dressed in that morning because they claim they're too hot.
Source: having dealt with two babies/toddlers over several winters
Every time I’m in the grocery store. I have two kids and worked in early childhood for 10 years. I know damn well they kick them off every chance they get. But I can’t help it.
Every damn time! Like if you got a coat, scarf and some gloves on, why tf your baby got their dogs out? 🤨
I’m pregnant with my first and I bought so many packs of little socks and some booties that are harder to take off because ain’t no way imma have my child out here with his toes out when my grown ass is cold. Shit is outrageous tbh 😭
but onsies keep their feet covered and can't be kicked off. blankets are also great because you can strap them into the car seat safely (puffy jackets aren't advised, the babies can pop out) and then put the blanket on top. also good for a stroller, etc.
I heard they stayyy kicking off socks and shoes, like you put them on and turn around for 30 seconds and the shoes are halfway across the room already😭
my mom said it’s better to have a baby be cold than hot because overheating can be reallllly dangerous for them, but I’m so worried about him getting sick since he’s gonna be born in March 😩
One of my kids REFUSED to wear socks, so I kept extra blankets (those thin receiving blankets) in the diaper bag and wrapped & tucked them around his legs and bare feet. Can't kick that off, you little shit.
Lmao just told this to my gf on our trip to Disneyland “what is wrong with Yt people that baby is not covered, doesn’t even have socks nor a beanie and it’s like 48 degrees rn”
I was on the tramway a few hours ago
It was raining, lightly
New born in the stroller with only socks on. No shoes
It’s not that cold but still
I assumed it was his first kid. Because waking up several times a night for a week because your baby’s sneezing, coughing and waking up/not sleeping because of it is not fun
I tell my parents you don’t get sick from being cold every time they say the kids aren’t bundled enough.
Correlation does not equal causation.
You get more sick people during the cold months because you have a higher density of people inside and around each other trying to escape the cold which leads to the spread of viruses.
I keep late hours and walk the dog at like 2 AM sometimes and I find myself getting so irrationally mad when I see another person out doing the same thing. I have no idea why lol.
Maybe because in the back of your mind you know that everyone should be asleep by that point because that's how it's supposed to be. In addition, maybe you wanted to reserve that time for yourself and have a space all to your own during that time frame so you wouldn't have to worry about socializing out in public or have wandering eyes on you. This other motherfucker being out there at the same time as you is getting in the way of that.
For me it’s the audacity to invade on my time to feel like the o my person in the world and immerse myself in deep thought or shallow thoughts whatever I feel. Now they have disrupted that as now I gotta ascertain if they are a threat, a friend, a creep, a Jehovah witness, an influencer? Who knows and now that’s on my mind instead of how the Cheeto got its name when nothing about it reminds me of a very fast big cat.
I don’t know about you, but I feel like the reason why I get irrationally upset whenever I see other people walking late at night is probably related to the fact that I’m surrounded by annoying people all the time at work and walking around late at night is the only time I have to myself where I can clear my head and not deal with others. Also, just the feeling that everyone else is supposed to be asleep and I can walk around without anyone around me feels like I have the entire world to myself. And then I see some random guy jogging at 3 o’clock in the morning and I can’t help but think look at this asshole.
Facts! 😂 I work weird hours so when I'm biking home at like 3am and see a random person I'm always like why are you walking the streets at this time?! Go ya bed! 😂
I did this exact thing when I had to drive to pick up something on a waste not app from a petrol station at 10pm, basically massively discounted almost expired food.
Great money saver
Anyway I was mad other cars existed at this exact time on a weekday at 10pm
That’s me 😅. Sometimes I’ll have a few hours between meetings so I like to take advantage of that and knock out errands and when I have to stand in line I get so offended lol
I mean for real when I WFH and take the dog for a walk at, say, 11am and see all the cars in driveways. I do wonder, don't y'all have jobs? It seems weird that 50% of my neighborhood also could WFH but I guess it's possible!
It’s not an old person thing for 2 reasons: 1) mobile phones in cars is a fairly recent phenomenon where even us millennials can remember a time before it, and 2) old people are just as bad as anyone else, if not worse since they need 2 hands to type
I still caught a speeding ticket trying to get around someone who was lazily swerving back and forth between lanes as they drove. The cop had a speed gun, and DGAF about them because I violated the posted speed limit. Cool. Cool-cool-cool.
I'm a family doctor. A patient of mine, a middle aged woman with severe neck problems, finally got a surgery she needed. She had to lose a ton of weight and get her other medical issues addressed. It took years, but she finally got a fusion (plates and screws to hold the spine together) and it gave her her life back. She was able to get off of pain meds and she was so overjoyed.
Then a teenager driving while looking at their phone rear-ended her at 20mph. It cracked 3 of the screws in her neck. Now she's worse than she was before. The surgery will have to be revised, and the recovery will likely be even harder this time, if it helps at all. She's back on pain meds and suffers 24/7.
This is heartbreaking. I got hit from the side after clearing a building and dropped onto a staircase from 8-10 feet up, and it did a number on my C5-C6. My body armour took most of it, but it was close. Now I just have bad arthritis there.
I can imagine the sense of loss associated with going through all that only to lose all the progress because of some kid that couldn't be bothered to do the right thing.
We should treat distracted driving as the danger it is. Cars aren't toys, they're heavy equipment that can, and way to often do, kill people. There's nothing going on with that phone that can't wait until you're parked, and if there is, then pull off the road and park.
Likewise people need to learn that, statistically, speeding saves almost no time at all while greatly increasing the risk of an accident.
Well said. I've been pulled over twice in my entire life for speeding, and both times it was to get away from a distracted driver who was slowly swerving from one lane into the next while driving 5-10 under the posted speed limit, and I simply didn't want to be in an accident.
But yeah, I generally just get the hell out of the way as quickly as possible for those very important people who need to do 90+ in a 55.
It's funny that it is about as bad as drunk driving but the punishments for it are a wrist slap compared to the life ruining consequences of the former. Maybe they should be more like a dui
Add go to the mall or other errands when people are going to be home watching football.
If we pull up to a restaurant and I don't get a spot that is adjacent to the disabled parking spot, we didn't leave the house early enough to avoid the rush.
I wonder if wide availability of subtitles has made sound designers more comfortable with quiet dialog? It's annoying because I really don't like subtitles in my own language, it makes it hard to draw my eyes away from them and sometimes they reveal dialog before it's said which is super jarring.
Sound designers mix sound for movies and TV shows in a room with $50K+ speaker setups, so it sounds good in there and in theaters. These fucks need to take a page from music producers and make sure that shit sounds decent playing on a tin can.
It doesn't help that a lot of movies are mixed for surround sound, so the dialogue is quiet but the music and sound effects are loud as hell. I just want to listen to things at a reasonable volume.
I think it's more actually the way dynamic ranges are set these days as opposed to surround sound versus mono or stereo. No matter which speaker(s) I'm using, most media these days likes to oscillate between whisper-quiet dialogue and screaming explosions turned up 200%
Putting the subtitles on means that I can leave the volume at an overall comfortable level without needing to turn it up just to hear a quick convo
Whenever I go to Costco mid morning (like 10-11) like on a Tuesday or Wednesday I always get mad and think “don’t any of you people have jobs” since it will still be busy.
Don’t know if it’s an old person thing but I also lose it when the person in front of me at a touch kiosk at like a McDonald’s is looking through the entire menu and can’t figure out how to pay for things. Is this like your first day interacting with technology?
Right after he was kirked I told my husband about it and he was like, "Who?" until I said, "You know, tiny face meme guy, somebody took him out." My husband's response?
"Dang, I know his face is crazy, but he didn't need to die over it." 🤣🤣🤣
It's still a fuckload less busy than on a Saturday. Ready to ram people by the time I'm done on a weekend. But also, people in shops and shit will be in there midweek
True but I swear to god I always feel like I’m surrounded by people who apparently are living their first day on earth and have never been to Costco’s both. STOP TALKING TO THE SAMPLE LADY I WANT ANOTHER PIZZA SAMPLE
I contend that those ordering kiosk screens at McDonald’s are TOO DAMN BIG. From a UI perspective, they are so large, you can’t fully take in everything on the screen at once, so you’re constantly having to glance up and down and all around to find the buttons you need to complete the order. It think they would be much more user friendly, especially for the elderly, if they were the size of a large iPad instead of a big TV monitor.
What? Laptops were for adults because they needed to use it on the road for work, and they were extremely expensive, like a median price was $2500 in the mid 90s, which is like $5000 now.
SAME except I just planned a girls trip with friends, and the people who booked on their phone got an additional 15% off! But don't worry, I'm going to make that 15% up. Those sheets are coming home with me!
Personally I don’t like to make large or important purchases with anything less than the absolute precision of a desktop mouse and cursor. I don’t trust myself to not accidentally tap my screen in a way that completely fucks everything up.
bruh I do this too. 😂 I’ve actually started just opening the door like “Tf goin on out there?” I’ll be in my bonnet and night dress literally looking like a grandma, in the middle of folding laundry. My mom told me to chill because if I opened the door one day and it was a handsome nigga out there mowing lawns or something he would think i’m sickly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Saw some college kids out clubbing and gasped! It’s 30 degrees out and they were braless with open toed shoes on in mini dresses. I liked to fell out. “Where’s your coat!?” That greasy boy you tryna impress is in a puffer jacket 🙂↔️ mmh mmh mmh
Ayo what the fuck they doin with a baby on the las vegas strip your life is in a whole nother chapter you should just forget about it for the next 12-18 years
I live in vegas and wander the strip drunk pretty regularly. Every time we do, I see at LEAST 10-15 children. Most of the time in strollers. Sometimes in strollers even though the kid is tall enough to touch the ground. All of them wide awake though.
And all of them (the parents) giving me dirty looks for smoking weed in sin fucking city.
When I’m dropping my kid off at his high school, it’s a few minutes before the bell rings and I’m seeing a group of high school kids walking AWAY from the school. And I do the “tut tut” thing under my breath.
The irony of this entire thread being "old people thoughts" because true old person behavior is not giving a single fuck about pretty much anything largely unimportant
I’m usually more jealous than judgmental. Either because they’re buying stuff I feel I can’t afford or because I’m trying not to be a fatass anymore so I can’t eat that stuff.
You'd love when I help do the shops for scout and guide camps, I look like the crazy lady from old maths problems with 9 loaves of bread, 18 apples, 20+ bananas etc.
I assume everyone is confused as hell when they see my trolley.
Also, when I take a day off and I see all the stores are busy, and my first thought is “why aren’t those people at work?” like, are everyone taking the day off like me on a random ass Tuesday in March? I see a lot of work trucks, did you all take the day off of your gardening job to go get some glitter at Michael’s?
I work in telephone customer service and I have the same issue. It seems like this weird balance of “I have all day to talk to you” even though you’re 29 years old and work full-time for IBM, or “I’m on my lunch break and I only have three minutes left.
Keeps getting confused for Permissive Parenting. Gentle Parenting is meant to be the opposite of Authoritarian parenting, and is shown to be beneficial while the other 2 are damaging to children’s development.
I get so irrationally angry when there’s traffic on the freeway at 10 AM on a Wednesday. You losers need to be at work. I made my appointment specifically at this time to avoid you assholes
You don’t relize how many holidays school kids get till you have kids of your own.
Spring break? A week off. Summer? 3 months off. Fall break? A week off. Thanksgiving? A week off. Winter? 3 weeks off. Like why are you home so much??!
Summers haven't been 3 months off in a LONG time. Ive worked for school districts over the last 15 years (In CA) and school typically gets out mid June and starts up again mid August.
I judge families when I see them at public events with their little kids running around after midnight. Don’t these kids have bedtimes? How are they not tired already?
Mine is random folks riding a bike at 1:30 in the afternoon in full getup. What do you do? You’re like 40, how do you just casually have this kind of time on a Tuesday?
Anecdotally, I can tell you that I have never met a cyclist in full get up who wasn’t an absolute asshole of a human being. When I was working at Starbucks, we used to get these cyclist who would come in large groups on Saturdays and Sundays all the time and they would be the worst people to interact with, all Gen X or Boomers who would make outrageous demands like asking for only certain people to make their drinks or asking for a manager because we wouldn’t add in their stupid ass protein powder to their Frappuccino.
One guy very loudly complained all the time about how the espresso in Italy always tasted better and how they don’t even have Starbucks in Italy, yet would always order two shots of espresso.
Me seeing kids running around and acting wild at stores, and I’m in my head shouting “Someone, control your kids!!”
I still remember this kid at Sam’s Club poking holes in some raw steak packages, and neither the kid’s mom nor his older sibling did a damn thing to stop. He’s just toughing raw meat with his fingers.
Seriously I'm off work on a weekday and I'll be running errands in the morning or around noon and somehow there are parents with kids out shopping. How tf are they not in school?
Sees kids riding bikes or playing ball in the street.
“Better than being inside on their phones”
Also, gets up and has parts of my body that are sore
“I didn’t workout yesterday and I don’t remember hitting my arm on anything. Wtf is this bruise from?”
Or, someone older than me, with a newer car, once said: “yeah, it has all the bells and whistles, but I still use my mirrors. I don’t trust back up cameras.”
Me at a dead and company show outdoors in the summer “why ain’t that baby in a hat? Too much sun and too loud for a baby here, get that baby a damn hat!”
I'd like to know why that baby ain't covered up. Hat? Coat?
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Because wearing a coat in a car seat is dangerous, and if it’s a quick walk from the car to get inside where is a pleasant temperature, it’s fine
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What you didn't see is the tantrum before we left the house and how they kept pulling off the hat and coat and I tried but they weren't having it
For real though, babies maintain a higher temperature than adults do (growing produces a lot of heat). They truly don't need as many layers as we do
My kids will learn through ✨ experience ✨ lol. If I told you four times to put a jacket on and you decide you don't want one. Have fun being cold.
That being said of course there are limits, I would never let my kid do lasting damage to themselves.
All shopping/errands done before noon on the weekends
Edit: meant to comment on the main, but point still stands
This one hits. evening relaxing time is sacred
Once kid is like 6+, if they want to be cold, that’s their business. But preschoolers and under can be bundled up, usually with minimal pushback. I follow the same policy if they’re 6+ and don’t want to eat what’s for dinner, you can choose to go without. Little kids get some leeway and may get to have a cheesestick or yogurt so they don’t go to bed with an empty stomach.
Lol reminds me of when I was around 10 and my parents had reheated spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and I complained about having the same meal as yesterday. Mom told me to go upstairs and wait a bit, and she would make something special just for me. When I got called back down, all that was on my plate was a raw carrot lol.
That’s pretty funny. My youngest is like that, she will like something one day and dislike it the next day. When she doesn’t want to eat what’s for dinner she says “I’ll just starve”. She usually ends up getting hungry enough to at least eat some of it but one of my sisters is an incredibly picky eater and I’m not feeding into that with my daughter. I’m not going to force her to eat but I’m not going to let her have a pbj instead because she would choose that for dinner over almost any other food.
Honestly that’s fair. We were very very poor at the time and it was a gentle way of putting that awareness in me at a young age.
I definitely have more sympathy for, "well, don't eat, then" when the family is broke. Welcome To Real Life. When it's some rich SAHM, I'm like, "okay, you have the resources to be more gentle with your picky eater, and figure out if it's some kinda real condition or something, so do it.:
100%. I call this your building character choice. I’ll tell you the outside temperature, suggest(often multiple times) to wear pants, long sleeve, coat and hat/gloves. If you don’t want to, then it works out or you get cold.
Not entirely true. While babies maintain a "slightly" higher temperature than adults. They are also way worse at storing heat and regulating it. So its recomended that babies are dressed with an extra layer
Source: work in a kindergarten
Kindergarten age is quite a bit removed from baby age.
With that said, babies and toddlers have different temperatures and temperaments. If I dress my (at the time) babies in the same number of layers I wear I have to deal with sweaty and grumpy babies. One less and it's all smiles. For me it's an easy choice
Many of my older kid's classmates around kindergarten age do not come home wearing the hats and layers they were dressed in that morning because they claim they're too hot.
Source: having dealt with two babies/toddlers over several winters
This this this
Its 80⁰ that baby doesn't need 3 layers of socks, 2 layers of pants, and a parka.
Also, not supposed to wear a coat in a car seat...
Conversely, they're tiny so they lose it quickly.
🗣️ WHERES THAT BABY’S SOCKS?!?!
Every time I’m in the grocery store. I have two kids and worked in early childhood for 10 years. I know damn well they kick them off every chance they get. But I can’t help it.
Every damn time! Like if you got a coat, scarf and some gloves on, why tf your baby got their dogs out? 🤨
I’m pregnant with my first and I bought so many packs of little socks and some booties that are harder to take off because ain’t no way imma have my child out here with his toes out when my grown ass is cold. Shit is outrageous tbh 😭
I’m also pregnant with my first and wondering how many of my rules reality is about to humble me on 😂
lots.
but onsies keep their feet covered and can't be kicked off. blankets are also great because you can strap them into the car seat safely (puffy jackets aren't advised, the babies can pop out) and then put the blanket on top. also good for a stroller, etc.
wishing you a safe and easy delivery!
You gonna be fighting with your baby because they absolutely hate having socks on.
I heard they stayyy kicking off socks and shoes, like you put them on and turn around for 30 seconds and the shoes are halfway across the room already😭
my mom said it’s better to have a baby be cold than hot because overheating can be reallllly dangerous for them, but I’m so worried about him getting sick since he’s gonna be born in March 😩
"Cold babies cry, hot babies die" is the saying.
One of my kids REFUSED to wear socks, so I kept extra blankets (those thin receiving blankets) in the diaper bag and wrapped & tucked them around his legs and bare feet. Can't kick that off, you little shit.
“That kid is BACK on the escalator.”
Damn, you just reminded me to run in the house real quick and grab a hat before I head to the daycare. I had half of it right 😅
Socks! Why is that baby barefoot? Put socks on its freezing feet, please!
Lmao just told this to my gf on our trip to Disneyland “what is wrong with Yt people that baby is not covered, doesn’t even have socks nor a beanie and it’s like 48 degrees rn”
I was on the tramway a few hours ago
It was raining, lightly
New born in the stroller with only socks on. No shoes
It’s not that cold but still
I assumed it was his first kid. Because waking up several times a night for a week because your baby’s sneezing, coughing and waking up/not sleeping because of it is not fun
A baby wearing socks and no shoes is not going to give them a cold. That's not how viruses work.
But thats some ol folks thinking for sure
I tell my parents you don’t get sick from being cold every time they say the kids aren’t bundled enough.
Correlation does not equal causation.
You get more sick people during the cold months because you have a higher density of people inside and around each other trying to escape the cold which leads to the spread of viruses.
Probably not the first kid because usually the first kid is treated like bubble boy
Me going to the gym at 5 AM wondering why someone else is up at 5 AM
I take walks late at night, like 12-1 in the morning and I always get mad when I see other people walking around late at night.
I keep late hours and walk the dog at like 2 AM sometimes and I find myself getting so irrationally mad when I see another person out doing the same thing. I have no idea why lol.
It's MY TIME!
Maybe because in the back of your mind you know that everyone should be asleep by that point because that's how it's supposed to be. In addition, maybe you wanted to reserve that time for yourself and have a space all to your own during that time frame so you wouldn't have to worry about socializing out in public or have wandering eyes on you. This other motherfucker being out there at the same time as you is getting in the way of that.
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Exactly. Why is this asshole walking his dog so late? Messing up the sleep schedule or something.
For me it’s the audacity to invade on my time to feel like the o my person in the world and immerse myself in deep thought or shallow thoughts whatever I feel. Now they have disrupted that as now I gotta ascertain if they are a threat, a friend, a creep, a Jehovah witness, an influencer? Who knows and now that’s on my mind instead of how the Cheeto got its name when nothing about it reminds me of a very fast big cat.
I don’t know about you, but I feel like the reason why I get irrationally upset whenever I see other people walking late at night is probably related to the fact that I’m surrounded by annoying people all the time at work and walking around late at night is the only time I have to myself where I can clear my head and not deal with others. Also, just the feeling that everyone else is supposed to be asleep and I can walk around without anyone around me feels like I have the entire world to myself. And then I see some random guy jogging at 3 o’clock in the morning and I can’t help but think look at this asshole.
Interestingly enough, I've never felt it that way. It's more like a feeling of "one of us! one of us!".
You see them and are like “why is that person walking at night? Must be up to something” lol
Yeah as opposed to me who is definitely not up to something.
Facts! 😂 I work weird hours so when I'm biking home at like 3am and see a random person I'm always like why are you walking the streets at this time?! Go ya bed! 😂
"Fuck outta here this is my time"
I am familiar
I did this exact thing when I had to drive to pick up something on a waste not app from a petrol station at 10pm, basically massively discounted almost expired food.
Great money saver
Anyway I was mad other cars existed at this exact time on a weekday at 10pm
I wanted to zoop right there but fucking noooooo
Other people had to use the road.
“Why are you mf’s out and about in the middle of the day, don’t you have jobs?!” -me, working from home and running errands
Me at Costco during the day wondering why everyone else is at Costco, ESPECIALLY WITH THEIR SCHOOL AGED KIDS.
THIS is the one. Walking around Costco with my wife and kids wondering why people aren’t at work 😂😂😂😂😂
Omg this is me. Im WFH but with a floating lunch I use for errands sometimes and if it a store is busy I'm like: Tf? Does no one work anymore?!
That’s me 😅. Sometimes I’ll have a few hours between meetings so I like to take advantage of that and knock out errands and when I have to stand in line I get so offended lol
I mean for real when I WFH and take the dog for a walk at, say, 11am and see all the cars in driveways. I do wonder, don't y'all have jobs? It seems weird that 50% of my neighborhood also could WFH but I guess it's possible!
Haha I do this one a lot. “Where are all these people going!?!”, as I am also out and about going somewhere.
Me at 2pm in the gym wondering what these mf's do to be in the gym in the middle of the day.
Me at 1 a.m. in the gym after spending christmas with the family because I can't sleep seeing one other guy there. What the fuck you doing here?
I got to commute to work and I hate it!
"Put that damned cell phone down and drive, dammit! You're gonna hurt someone!"
Thars just common sense honestly
As my grandfather said: "Use your head for something besides a hat rack!"
It’s not an old person thing for 2 reasons: 1) mobile phones in cars is a fairly recent phenomenon where even us millennials can remember a time before it, and 2) old people are just as bad as anyone else, if not worse since they need 2 hands to type
Nah, this is a legitimate concern. I can't believe the shit i see on road.
I still caught a speeding ticket trying to get around someone who was lazily swerving back and forth between lanes as they drove. The cop had a speed gun, and DGAF about them because I violated the posted speed limit. Cool. Cool-cool-cool.
I'm a family doctor. A patient of mine, a middle aged woman with severe neck problems, finally got a surgery she needed. She had to lose a ton of weight and get her other medical issues addressed. It took years, but she finally got a fusion (plates and screws to hold the spine together) and it gave her her life back. She was able to get off of pain meds and she was so overjoyed.
Then a teenager driving while looking at their phone rear-ended her at 20mph. It cracked 3 of the screws in her neck. Now she's worse than she was before. The surgery will have to be revised, and the recovery will likely be even harder this time, if it helps at all. She's back on pain meds and suffers 24/7.
Put down the damned cell phone and drive.
This is heartbreaking. I got hit from the side after clearing a building and dropped onto a staircase from 8-10 feet up, and it did a number on my C5-C6. My body armour took most of it, but it was close. Now I just have bad arthritis there.
I can imagine the sense of loss associated with going through all that only to lose all the progress because of some kid that couldn't be bothered to do the right thing.
We should treat distracted driving as the danger it is. Cars aren't toys, they're heavy equipment that can, and way to often do, kill people. There's nothing going on with that phone that can't wait until you're parked, and if there is, then pull off the road and park.
Likewise people need to learn that, statistically, speeding saves almost no time at all while greatly increasing the risk of an accident.
Well said. I've been pulled over twice in my entire life for speeding, and both times it was to get away from a distracted driver who was slowly swerving from one lane into the next while driving 5-10 under the posted speed limit, and I simply didn't want to be in an accident.
But yeah, I generally just get the hell out of the way as quickly as possible for those very important people who need to do 90+ in a 55.
Anybody that is using their phone while driving should have their license taken away and should have to reaccomplish their driving test.
It's funny that it is about as bad as drunk driving but the punishments for it are a wrist slap compared to the life ruining consequences of the former. Maybe they should be more like a dui
They also need to stop making cars with a big ass ipad in the middle to run everything. That's my old people take.
Saw a dude smoking a blunt watching tiktoks yesterday
"There's too many people there. I'll go eat somewhere else."
Add go to the mall or other errands when people are going to be home watching football.
If we pull up to a restaurant and I don't get a spot that is adjacent to the disabled parking spot, we didn't leave the house early enough to avoid the rush.
I'm 41
We don't need to avoid exercise that hard
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
If the wait time is more than 15 min, I'm going somewhere else
Subtitles on everything!
It’s to the point where not only can I not hear without them I literally feel like I cannot see without my subtitles on.
Some kind of cultural shift happened and now so many of us live this way
bad sound mixing in movies.
That and just subtitle availability. Before DVDs they were just not that available. Even CC on tv was bad
I wonder if wide availability of subtitles has made sound designers more comfortable with quiet dialog? It's annoying because I really don't like subtitles in my own language, it makes it hard to draw my eyes away from them and sometimes they reveal dialog before it's said which is super jarring.
Sound designers mix sound for movies and TV shows in a room with $50K+ speaker setups, so it sounds good in there and in theaters. These fucks need to take a page from music producers and make sure that shit sounds decent playing on a tin can.
This
Mixing in movies seem like its gotten worse.
Because sound design is terrible and isnt made for in home television use. Using too much dynamic range
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It doesn't help that a lot of movies are mixed for surround sound, so the dialogue is quiet but the music and sound effects are loud as hell. I just want to listen to things at a reasonable volume.
You can change that setting from surround sound as the default to tv speakers on your tv or the app depending and it solves this problem.
I think it's more actually the way dynamic ranges are set these days as opposed to surround sound versus mono or stereo. No matter which speaker(s) I'm using, most media these days likes to oscillate between whisper-quiet dialogue and screaming explosions turned up 200%
Putting the subtitles on means that I can leave the volume at an overall comfortable level without needing to turn it up just to hear a quick convo
Sir, those are my emotional support subtitles 😭😭😭
I asked for subtitles, not opinions. Now hush and watch the movie.
Subtitles and autoplay. I’m not trying to only watch one episode of Gilmore girls, thanks. Keep it rolling.
And then after 3 episodes they’re like “are you STILL watching Gilmore Girls?!”
Whenever I go to Costco mid morning (like 10-11) like on a Tuesday or Wednesday I always get mad and think “don’t any of you people have jobs” since it will still be busy.
Don’t know if it’s an old person thing but I also lose it when the person in front of me at a touch kiosk at like a McDonald’s is looking through the entire menu and can’t figure out how to pay for things. Is this like your first day interacting with technology?
Your username is my sleep paralysis demon
I promise I’ve had this name solely because I used to laugh at the TP USA memes about his fucking small ass face.
Right after he was kirked I told my husband about it and he was like, "Who?" until I said, "You know, tiny face meme guy, somebody took him out." My husband's response?
"Dang, I know his face is crazy, but he didn't need to die over it." 🤣🤣🤣
Sidenote but this is CRAZY lmaoooo
I thought Mitt Romney was the OG tiny face meme guy
Kirked is the slang I didn't know I needed
It's still a fuckload less busy than on a Saturday. Ready to ram people by the time I'm done on a weekend. But also, people in shops and shit will be in there midweek
True but I swear to god I always feel like I’m surrounded by people who apparently are living their first day on earth and have never been to Costco’s both. STOP TALKING TO THE SAMPLE LADY I WANT ANOTHER PIZZA SAMPLE
Stop where you want but get out of the middle of the fucking aisle.
Yeah people lose all ability to be a normal person in Costco
I contend that those ordering kiosk screens at McDonald’s are TOO DAMN BIG. From a UI perspective, they are so large, you can’t fully take in everything on the screen at once, so you’re constantly having to glance up and down and all around to find the buttons you need to complete the order. It think they would be much more user friendly, especially for the elderly, if they were the size of a large iPad instead of a big TV monitor.
Major purchases need to be made in person or on a laptop. Furniture? Laptop. Plane tickets? Laptop. I refuse to plan a trip on a small screen.
Now I'm having the old man thought of "back in my day, the laptop was for children, adults used desktops."
What? Laptops were for adults because they needed to use it on the road for work, and they were extremely expensive, like a median price was $2500 in the mid 90s, which is like $5000 now.
SAME except I just planned a girls trip with friends, and the people who booked on their phone got an additional 15% off! But don't worry, I'm going to make that 15% up. Those sheets are coming home with me!
Big internet for big purchases
Personally I don’t like to make large or important purchases with anything less than the absolute precision of a desktop mouse and cursor. I don’t trust myself to not accidentally tap my screen in a way that completely fucks everything up.
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That’s why I’m already on the front porch, watching everything while I’m chillin’.
This is the sole reason I told my wife we need a porch….. I’m be out che watching…. Lol
bruh I do this too. 😂 I’ve actually started just opening the door like “Tf goin on out there?” I’ll be in my bonnet and night dress literally looking like a grandma, in the middle of folding laundry. My mom told me to chill because if I opened the door one day and it was a handsome nigga out there mowing lawns or something he would think i’m sickly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Birdwatching. I don’t even like most birds.
I pay a mortgage and deserve to stand in front of my window asking who that is who just parked down the street
Saw some college kids out clubbing and gasped! It’s 30 degrees out and they were braless with open toed shoes on in mini dresses. I liked to fell out. “Where’s your coat!?” That greasy boy you tryna impress is in a puffer jacket 🙂↔️ mmh mmh mmh
"I know your mother raised you to wear a coat, wtf are you doing???" 😭😭😭
My kids won't wear a coat to the bus stop, because they took away lockers from them all, and they'd rather freeze than carry a coat around all day.
So maybe not.
Me last new years going to clubs with my also 30+ GF. lol.
"Look at all these kids not wearing anything"
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It's nice to know the kids are keeping the traditions alive lol
"good thing we got here when we did"
“We really beat the crowd”
Must be giving stuff away
Here comes everybody and they Moma
put some clothes on that child
Or, "that baby should be in bed," when I see babies or toddlers out shopping with both parents at 2 am.
Like...one of you couldn't stay home so the kids could sleep?
Edit: see not saws
I see any kid in public past 9pm and I am like, what the actual fuck.
Usually the person not holding the babies hand. Like someone not gon hold the babies hand?!
Thats me when I see children with their parents on the las vegas strip at fuckin midnight.
Ayo what the fuck they doin with a baby on the las vegas strip your life is in a whole nother chapter you should just forget about it for the next 12-18 years
I live in vegas and wander the strip drunk pretty regularly. Every time we do, I see at LEAST 10-15 children. Most of the time in strollers. Sometimes in strollers even though the kid is tall enough to touch the ground. All of them wide awake though.
And all of them (the parents) giving me dirty looks for smoking weed in sin fucking city.
When I’m dropping my kid off at his high school, it’s a few minutes before the bell rings and I’m seeing a group of high school kids walking AWAY from the school. And I do the “tut tut” thing under my breath.
I don’t know if it’s old person but I’m judging the contents of your shopping cart
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You in my business???
The irony of this entire thread being "old people thoughts" because true old person behavior is not giving a single fuck about pretty much anything largely unimportant
I sometimes find myself thinking someone else's shopping cart shows they're having much more fun at home than I am.
Shoutout to the guy I saw at the grocery store with three giant bags of tortilla chips, a few bricks of chile con carne and a lot of salsa.
I wanted to ask where the party was and if I could go
I often silently wonder at some people’s carts - “Big family, restaurant, or party?”
I’m usually more jealous than judgmental. Either because they’re buying stuff I feel I can’t afford or because I’m trying not to be a fatass anymore so I can’t eat that stuff.
You'd love when I help do the shops for scout and guide camps, I look like the crazy lady from old maths problems with 9 loaves of bread, 18 apples, 20+ bananas etc.
I assume everyone is confused as hell when they see my trolley.
Also, when I take a day off and I see all the stores are busy, and my first thought is “why aren’t those people at work?” like, are everyone taking the day off like me on a random ass Tuesday in March? I see a lot of work trucks, did you all take the day off of your gardening job to go get some glitter at Michael’s?
Working retail I feel this everyday. Like how the eff are you off work AND dropping thousands of dollars at 2PM on a Tuesday??
I work in telephone customer service and I have the same issue. It seems like this weird balance of “I have all day to talk to you” even though you’re 29 years old and work full-time for IBM, or “I’m on my lunch break and I only have three minutes left.
I tell kids "No"
Idk what y'all think "Soft Parenting" is. But you NEED to say no.They're usually baffled, but they don't act like shits around me.
"But mom lets me do it"
"Yeah well your uncle doesn't"
Edit: I was wrong.
I hate "Permissive Parenting"
This 1000X. Gentle Parenting means don't smack them around and say they're worthless.
That kid still needs to say please and thank you and put their damn dishes away.
They'll get a real rude awakening when nobody wants to play with them because they never learned basic manners.
I say on a pretty regular basis "well good for grandma, but now you're with dad."
IDK what you think "soft parenting" is, but for sure it's not allowing a kid to do whatever they do, and saying yes to everything.
Keeps getting confused for Permissive Parenting. Gentle Parenting is meant to be the opposite of Authoritarian parenting, and is shown to be beneficial while the other 2 are damaging to children’s development.
Why is the baby not dressed?
“THIS DONT MAKE NO DAMN SENSE” whenever there is a line ANYWHERE.
You forgot the GODDAMN in there 😂. THIS NOT MAKING NO GODDAMN SENSE
Why the fuck are there so many people out when im trying to do errands at 10am.
Ain't you all got jobs
I'm looking at YOU on MY day off thinking the same thing 😅
I get so irrationally angry when there’s traffic on the freeway at 10 AM on a Wednesday. You losers need to be at work. I made my appointment specifically at this time to avoid you assholes
I want you to compose your text messages with complete sentences!
And you BETNOT use text slang or text abbreviations in a formal/professional document
Especially when it’s 9am. Why are you on the streets
With a "now" in front.
"Now, why aint them kids in school"
Don't forget to add a 'damn' in there somewhere
Or "the hell" after why...
You don’t relize how many holidays school kids get till you have kids of your own.
Spring break? A week off. Summer? 3 months off. Fall break? A week off. Thanksgiving? A week off. Winter? 3 weeks off. Like why are you home so much??!
Always just enough time to get used to driving without having to accommodate school busses and then being furious next time I'm stuck behind one.
Summers haven't been 3 months off in a LONG time. Ive worked for school districts over the last 15 years (In CA) and school typically gets out mid June and starts up again mid August.
What kind of parent would buy Their teenage or that outfit?
Lmao! Half the comments talking ‘bout "is that child a nudist ? Where his damn clothes at ?"
I guess we’re all the same
Some parents haven’t experienced multiple sleepless nights in a row because of a sick kid and it shows
You wouldn’t leave the house like that. Why should your baby. Cover them up
I judge families when I see them at public events with their little kids running around after midnight. Don’t these kids have bedtimes? How are they not tired already?
I know all that gen z slang but I'm afraid to say it in public
Afraid or embarrassed?
Both! It'll sound so forced and unnatural.
I’m in an apartment now but when I’ve had a house with a yard I’ve yelled at kids about not walking through my yard.
Mine is random folks riding a bike at 1:30 in the afternoon in full getup. What do you do? You’re like 40, how do you just casually have this kind of time on a Tuesday?
Anecdotally, I can tell you that I have never met a cyclist in full get up who wasn’t an absolute asshole of a human being. When I was working at Starbucks, we used to get these cyclist who would come in large groups on Saturdays and Sundays all the time and they would be the worst people to interact with, all Gen X or Boomers who would make outrageous demands like asking for only certain people to make their drinks or asking for a manager because we wouldn’t add in their stupid ass protein powder to their Frappuccino.
One guy very loudly complained all the time about how the espresso in Italy always tasted better and how they don’t even have Starbucks in Italy, yet would always order two shots of espresso.
Me seeing kids running around and acting wild at stores, and I’m in my head shouting “Someone, control your kids!!”
I still remember this kid at Sam’s Club poking holes in some raw steak packages, and neither the kid’s mom nor his older sibling did a damn thing to stop. He’s just toughing raw meat with his fingers.
Wait, but for real... why aren't them kids in school???
Seriously I'm off work on a weekday and I'll be running errands in the morning or around noon and somehow there are parents with kids out shopping. How tf are they not in school?
Some “home schooling” bullshit probably
Put my robe on and peek through my blinds
Im a nerd because I read this as wizard robe
Sees kids riding bikes or playing ball in the street.
“Better than being inside on their phones”
Also, gets up and has parts of my body that are sore
“I didn’t workout yesterday and I don’t remember hitting my arm on anything. Wtf is this bruise from?”
Or, someone older than me, with a newer car, once said: “yeah, it has all the bells and whistles, but I still use my mirrors. I don’t trust back up cameras.”
Clean my house at 8 am on my day off.
Me taking a day off: why the hell is there so many people here, don’t yall have work?!?!
When someone is driving crazy, “See thats why your car f’d up right now”
I’m on time to parties. I help take out trash. I leave before everyone else plans to.
I’m 28.
them kids are too young for mountain dew
Bruh that is not Just out of bounds, That is playing a Whole different Sport at this point.
Me at a dead and company show outdoors in the summer “why ain’t that baby in a hat? Too much sun and too loud for a baby here, get that baby a damn hat!”
This bar is too loud. Let's go across the street.
I've had kids tell me they missed school because their parent wanted to take them shopping. We're cooked.