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adorshki

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If you are important enough to have to go on your phone and check your messages and start texting every time you are stopped at a red light, you should probably be riding in the back of a limo...and then your driver wouldn't be still be sitting on their brake pedal 6-7-8-9 seconds AFTER the light turns green, only allowing a handful of the long line of cars behind you to make the light. :mad::mad::mad:

I predict the rest of the world's traffic will soon start sounding like NYC traffic where folks talk with their car horns...and do it quick! I've already gotten to the point where you'll get a swift 4 count...then I'll give a baby tap on the horn. If no response, by 6 Mississippi, I'm leaning on the horn hard. It's getting WAY out of hand. And I've found it's not all millenials! It's mostly 40-50 yr olds!!o_O
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If you are important enough to have to go on your phone and check your messages and start texting every time you are stopped at a red light, you should probably be riding in the back of a limo...and then your driver wouldn't be still be sitting on their brake pedal 6-7-8-9 seconds AFTER the light turns green, only allowing a handful of the long line of cars behind you to make the light. :mad::mad::mad:

I predict the rest of the world's traffic will soon start sounding like NYC traffic where folks talk with their car horns...and do it quick! I've already gotten to the point where you'll get a swift 4 count...then I'll give a baby tap on the horn. If no response, by 6 Mississippi, I'm leaning on the horn hard. It's getting WAY out of hand. And I've found it's not all millenials! It's mostly 40-50 yr olds!!o_O
You have described what I've always called "A New York Minute." It's the amount of time between a traffic light turning green and someone behind you blows their horn. This was long before cellphones and I hear it more and more here because since COVID we've gotten a significant increase of New York people living in the town I live in.:eek::rolleyes:
 

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2-Mar: Netflix jacked their premium streaming service (4K) by $3, i.e., 20%. That just ticks me off. Not as much as Amazon Prime, of course, which I dropped a couple of months ago because they were doing ads even when I was paying them! Bogosity! At least with Netflix, I'll go forward with the standard plan even if it's not 4K. That actually saves me a few $$.
 

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2-Mar: Netflix jacked their premium streaming service (4K) by $3, i.e., 20%. That just ticks me off. Not as much as Amazon Prime, of course, which I dropped a couple of months ago because they were doing ads even when I was paying them! Bogosity! At least with Netflix, I'll go forward with the standard plan even if it's not 4K. That actually saves me a few $$.
Honestly, I don’t even think about Prime as a TV streaming service. I think about it as something that more than pays for itself in shipping charges alone for 1 Christmas…plus I get endless stuff for me (and my job) on my doorstep the very next day, if not sooner! And then on top of that, I get Prime TV, Prime music, etc…which is all just icing on the cake imho. I was paying for Prime well before I ever used their TV streaming. Seriously, pre Prime, my annual shipping charges for Xmas alone exceeded $250 a year. Hell, now I can log into Amazon.de and have stuff on my relatives’s porches in Germany within a day…no shipping charge! Prime baby!! 👍🏻 I won’t pay for their premium service to go no commercials….but that’s why I’ve always kept a nice fish tank in my tv room since the days of antennas….something to look at during commercials. Or I grab a guitar. I don’t mind. What’s 2-3 min?
 
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I won’t pay for their premium service to go no commercials….but that’s why I’ve always kept a nice fish tank in my tv room since the days of antennas….something to look at during commercials.
It definitely isn't worth it to me, MT. I don't live on Amazon deliveries, but I get it if you do. Amazon's streaming service is lame because you get ads even after paying the money. Streaming without ads is the primary reason why I like streaming in the first place and other services like Netflix and Max (and even Disney+ before I tossed them) live up to that.
 

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Ads don't really bother me too much. It's good for a quick bathroom break or grab something to drink. On Netflix I tend to postpone doing such things because I have to pause it, so I'm fine when an ad comes up and saves me the trouble. But that's just me.
 

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Ads don't really bother me too much. It's good for a quick bathroom break or grab something to drink. On Netflix I tend to postpone doing such things because I have to pause it, so I'm fine when an ad comes up and saves me the trouble. But that's just me.
One word: Infomercials.
When the hell do you get a bathroom break? :mad:
 
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