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It's probably related to how people seem to talk louder on video calls (and possibly phone calls). I never knew this until this year when my husband, my son and I all had work and school in the same room. My husband told me I yelled during Zoom meetings. I said, "So do you." Maybe we talk louder when we think people don't understand, without regard to whether or not that's because they can't hear us.
To bring this back to peeves, I get peeved with myself when I feel I am talking too loudly in virtual meetings, but I find it very difficult to stop. Also, I alternate between feeling like I can't get a word in because everyone tries to talk at once (it's hard to see nonverbal cues when everyone is online not in person) and feeling like I'm talking too much. It's a fine line, and I feel like I don't find it enough.
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4 minutes ago, PRgal said:
pet peeve: people who speak louder when the other person is a language learner. I was in the hospital for a routine MRI (I have a genetic condition which requires annual monitoring) and another lady there didn’t speak English. Her daughter (well, I think the younger woman is the daughter) was there to interpret. But when the tech was speaking to the older lady, she was very, very loud.
note: I admit I do this sometimes as well. And I get frustrated, too - especially when I’m unsure if the other person understood me.
I used to hear this a lot as a complaint about Americans (usually made by other Americans), but during various seasons of "The Amazing Race" I noticed that other nationalities do it also. It doesn't make it any less annoying, but it does make me feel better that it seems to be a (mostly) universal human reaction.
Having been in other countries where I couldn't speak the language well, I'd say slowing down is more important than speaking loudly. I often have trouble separating spoken words in languages I've learned only a little of. It's a fine line between slowing down enough to maybe be understood and sounding as though you are talking to a 3-year-old, though.
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2 hours ago, Browncoat said:
One of the local radio stations started playing Christmas music today. Not just a song here and there, but 24/7. Today. November freaking 7. It's peevy enough when they start the Friday before Thanksgiving, but this is ridiculous!
We have one that started (I think) Nov. 1. That station does it every year. I'm not sure of the exact day because I don't drive a lot any more (I took up bicycling during work from home and now get to work that way) and because it's not a station I listen to a lot anyway. Now it's a station I actively avoid -- at least until after Thanksgiving.
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On 10/22/2020 at 1:22 PM, jah1986 said:
I think the difference is that they didn't call them "alliances" in the early seasons, just being helpful, or not. And I wouldn't count Tara in there because she just wanted Chris and Alex to win because she was "falling in love" with Chris(?). But I did love that season and Tara's inability to run fast to the mat for the win. I think the real scheming with alliances became bigger once Boston Rob came on the Race.
They did call it an alliance in season 1, episode 2. When they were getting into their vehicles, Joe (of The Guidos) said, "I feel very comfortable with the three-part alliance ..." regarding the teaming up with Frank and Margarita and Rob and Brennan. It didn't last very long on anyone's part, but it was an alliance that at least one person called an alliance. @SVNBob is right, though: All alliance on The Amazing Race should be transitory and mutually beneficial. When teams forget the transitory part is when it gets sticky.
Even if the one who spoke French has learned some Spanish, it's probably all stored in the same part of her brain if she learned both as an adult so when she tries to say something in a foreign language, she grabs at the first thing that comes up and says it even if it's not what she means to say. It probably happens even more under the stress of being in a hurry during the race. I don't know what season it was or what team (but it might have been the clowns from 4[?]), but I remember one racer telling his partner that "rapido" didn't mean "fast" in every language. I think they were in South Korea at the time.
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3 hours ago, Mittengirl said:
Does Netflix usually release the entire season at once? I think my subscription ends in mid-December.
I think they did last time. I may be wrong, though. It's been a while.
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49 minutes ago, bilgistic said:
People have always been "the way they are now". It's just that the internet gives people a platform to be more vocal/visible. Not everyone could stand and yell in the town square or found a church or publish a newspaper back in the days of yore, but now there are 2.7 billion active users on Facebook, a billion on Instagram, and 330 million on Twitter. That's an unfathomable amount of opinions when we as a people were used to just hearing the ones in our community for thousands of years. This widespread exposure to billions of "other" voices has only been over the last 15 years or so.
I think you're right, that people have always been that way, just not so visible, but I think people didn't use to talk about politics and other divisive subjects even with their actual friends and neighbors so much. I think it might have been possible not to know the opinions of your friends and neighbors. As I was a kid, though, I don't know what the adults did talk about on the summer evenings when they gathered in a neighborhood driveway. We were all too busy playing games.
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I've been rewatching season 1 and just finished the episode in India in which the ticket seller at the train station would not sell tickets to Nancy and Emily because they were women. They were asking men in the station to help them, and then somehow they had tickets. I may have missed exactly how they got them, but I didn't see anyone buy the tickets for them. Does anyone know how they got tickets? (I wondered if at some point, the crew with them bought the tickets for them because they weren't going to get them any other way, they were so far behind already, and it was circumstances outside race control that made them unable to get tickets.) I googled it, but couldn't find any answers.
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Freddy Mercury/Queen. No question. I love watching the Live Aid performance on YouTube.
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10 minutes ago, bilgistic said:
I love Smarties. Pure sugar. Yummy.
Necco wafers taste like antacid. Raisins are the devil's candy. Disgusting.
Everything else in that picture is some form of wax, and you can't convince me otherwise.
Also, Smarties make a good quick Halloween costume. Just tape them to your pants.
I'm tired of the wind. It's really not that windy (comparatively speaking probably -- it's not that windy for here), but the wind is strong enough that it keeps blowing Halloween decorations down the street. I'm going to have to try something different to keep them in the yard.
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3 hours ago, smittykins said:
Even if you spend years in a coma, as soon as you wake up, you’ll immediately recognize everyone in the room and ask for a pizza.
Except for that woman who your family thinks is your fiance but who you have never actually met.
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20 minutes ago, ABay said:
My pet peeve today is Halloween candy, specifically Whoppers, and more spefcifically the impossible-to-open wrappers on the "fun size" ones that come in variety packs. All the other candies unwrap as nature and Hershey intended, but the freaking Whoppers wrappers are designed from some anti-candy eater material and sealed with superglue.
Are these the tube packages with three Whoppers in them? I always squeeze below the top Whopper, pushing it up and out of the package. You do have to be careful where you are pointing the package when you do that, unless you don't care about picking up the Whopper off the floor and eating it anyway.
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#1. I've always lived where we don't get much snow.
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22 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
The computer doesn't need to install the usb driver either. And none are password protected.
Unless it's a crime show, and the detectives have five minutes to stop the crime. Then it's password protected, but the computer geek detective will get the password with one minute left, and they'll still be able to stop the crime even though it's across town.
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I love Arby's curly fries, but I have to have the honey mustard sauce to dip them in.
I vaguely recall that KFC had potato wedges/fries, but I don't think I ever ate them. I always got mashed potatoes and gravy. I haven't eaten at a KFC in years, though, because I've known too many people who got food poisoning from the one here, and the one in my parents' town closed. (We wondered when it closed what people would do for food to take to families who had someone die. We had so much KFC after my father died that my mother froze some of it and (I think) eventually threw out some. It was good, and it was very thoughtful of people to bring food especially since the whole family was there for several days, but we did get a little tired of fried chicken.)
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12 hours ago, BlackberryJam said:
Those Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island bra tops are a hard no.
I still wouldn't like them a lot (in the sense that I would never wear them), but they'd be a lot better if they had any kind of support. I don't understand designer clothes that make women's breasts look saggy.
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3 hours ago, RoxiP said:
I don't know why he put the plus sized model in the bra top and ill-fitting skirt. I applaud him for including plus size (relatively) women in his collection but most of them were still a miss for me (as a plus sized woman). I also noted that apparently plus-size women do not need the formal dresses at the end of his collection.
I think that outfit could have looked as good on that model as on anyone else (which in my opinion is not that great -- I don't care for it) if only the skirt fit her. I think it would have benefited from a wider waistband as well as one that was a touch bigger around so it didn't look like it was squeezing her too tight.
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4 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
The Michael Jackson Beat It jacket was popular in my 6th grade. My older cousin was in HS early/mid 80s and had a bit of a Madonna look.
I vaguely remember one or two kids with the jacket, and there were a few girls with bits of Madonna's look, but just bits: mostly jewelry or hair, but toned down. No one would have been allowed to wear most of her look to school. The Coca-Cola shirts were the ones I was talking about when I said rugby shirts -- and others that had the stripes, but not the logo.
4 hours ago, kariyaki said:Something that doesn’t seem to come up re: 80s fashions is the designer jeans fad. I remember those being really popular.
Oh, yeah. Not that I ever had any, except for the hand-me-down Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. I loved the fit, though. Mostly, I wanted Levis. But, from 1980:
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7 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:
I basically looked like a cast member of Saved by the Bell, which was close but again, more 1992-1993 as opposed to 1987-88. Lol. It was really hard to find cheap 80's gear at Goodwill in 2004 for guys, although that year pastel polo shirts came back in style which made 80's parties a lot easier. Anyway, decade dressing is really hard to do in the real world for cheap unless you manage to come across vintage or the styles are back in again. It's probably really easy to do 90's right now.
I graduated high school in 1986. I remember a lot of guys wearing pastel polo shirts (including some who wore them layered, usually pink and turquoise) in the early to mid 80s with Levi 501 button-fly jeans. Also very popular were button-down shirts, particularly in vertical stripes. I remember having a few of those myself, in stripes and solids, and wearing them with sweaters and what we called baggy jeans. Baggy sweaters with a bigger knit were popular when I was in high school. And the Cosby sweaters were very popular in high school and college. In college, people also wore the striped rugby shirts. I was also fond of wearing my dad's old shirts with suspenders. No one else I knew dressed that way, but I liked the look.
No one I knew really wore much new wave or punk or dressed like Madonna or Michael Jackson in real life. Those looks were for dress-up days during homecoming week. (Yes, my high school had a different theme for every day of homecoming week.)
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3 hours ago, Katy M said:
the other thing is though, if you have a cash bar, that's technically run by the venue. Therefore, if one of your guests goes out and gets in an accident, you're not liable. If you are providing the alcohol, you very may well be. That's also not a concern with dessert or chicken. But, basically, I fall into the no alcohol at all at my reception group. It will be in the basement of my church so having alcohol isn't really even an option.
That's how my wedding reception was -- in the church's fellowship hall. No alcohol. For that matter, no dinner. It was an afternoon wedding with cake, punch, mints and nuts. It was what some wedding book described as an uppity Baptist wedding: You serve those things, and everyone stands around talking to the people they came with. My mother made my dress, my maid of honor maid the bridesmaids' dresses (she was a good seamstress and volunteered), my mother-in-law made the cake, and a friend of my mother's asked to make the groom's cake. The biggest expenses were probably the flowers and the photography, and they weren't that expensive.
51 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:Uh, wut? I've been had.
Me, too. I graduated college in 1990 and got a job, as I had expected to do. All my friends also got jobs (or continued their education), and most of their mothers had jobs. I've known groups of women over the years who didn't have jobs but did a lot of volunteer work in the community. They were a much higher economic class than anybody I usually hung out with.
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6 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
One dose icocain powder. Done.
What if the person spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder?
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33 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:
Our county also offers the once-monthly hazardous material drop off (it's at the county landfill site), BUT, with electronics & TV's, it's a different drop-off point. When last I called, they charge $1 dollar per diagonal inch to dispose of a television. Now I ask you...how many are going to pay that, now that 50" and larger screens have become the norm? I would like to see some brain power used on a better option for that.
When we needed to get rid of an old (heavy) TV that worked (sort of) but had a weird thing at the edges of the picture, we gave it to a college student who was willing to come pick it up. It would have cost us to take it to the recycling center or to have it picked up for the dump. At the end of the college year, though, the city has a weekend when they will pick up college students' furniture and electronics for free. Of course, sometimes you can get rid of stuff by setting it out by the curb, and someone will come along and decide it looks good and pick it up. (Possibly we have a lot of rednecks here.)
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44 minutes ago, PRgal said:
That could happen at a virtual meeting too. #justsayin
That's a peeve for me. We have virtual meetings once a week. Every time the same woman gets a call on her phone or her grandson pops over to tell her something, and she has a conversation on the phone or with her grandson every time without muting herself. And the host of the meeting apparently doesn't notice and doesn't mute her (or possibly doesn't know how to mute her).
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1 hour ago, peacheslatour said:
They say that the change you find in your sofa are the spiders trying to pay for their rent.
I'm pretty sure that the change in my sofa is from my son trying to do magic tricks and not picking up after himself.
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3 hours ago, Suzn said:
Here in Kansas I pronounce Dawn and Don are distinctly differently. Dawn sounds like awe and Don like on as in on and off.
They are all the same to me and I'm not sure how they would be pronounced differently.
I can make myself say "on" differently, but I can also hear myself saying "on" and sounding the same as "awen" (where "awen" is one syllable, not aw-en). I also don't hear a difference in Mary, merry and marry. You may, but I don't. If I try, I'll pronounce pen different than pin, but only if I try. If I'm not thinking about it, they sound the same. The same is true for our and are. I know the difference, but in casual conversation, our becomes are.
2 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:Actually, there's nothing to really get exercised about with any of these differently pronounced words, names, etc. IMO, they're amusing. Maybe this topic should've been in Chitchat--nothing to get peeved about here.
The peeve for me, as it probably is with everyone else, is people telling me I'm wrong because I don't pronounce those words they way they do. I'm willing to let them pronounce things differently; why can't they let me do the same? Heck, I don't even correct people who mispronounce my name any more even though almost everyone outside my family does.
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Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"
in Everything Else
I vaguely remember reading when my son was small that kids can handle a lot more spices than people think they can if it's something they've always had or if it's something their mothers ate when they were pregnant/breastfeeding. I have no idea if that is true or not, but I definitely remember reading that children do not need to eat a completely bland diet.
That leads to one of my pet peeves: people who say acronym when they mean abbreviation or initialism. If it doesn't spell out a word (or something that can be pronounced as a word), it's not an acronym.