Grumpy Old Man
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apple: I know that Apple would have done something stupid recently, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Peak peak GOM! Grumpy at a company without a reason!
It's Apple, reason enough
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People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
I wouldn’t move to Rarotonga if I were you
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
People who are repeatedly late.
Everyone is late sometimes, shit just happens. But we have multiple people in our lives that are late EVERY time. It’s just disrespectful - why do they think that their time is more important than ours?
My daughter is missing running training right now because the mum of her mate was more than 2 hours late to collect her. Fucking irritating.
Yeah, as x military it really fucken annoys me. But even before I couldn't live without having a watch on even as a kid. Probably my part of the spectrum that.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am never late. It annoys me too much, but I'm not one of those turn up way early types either. I have the misfortune to travel with someone who likes to be at the airport 3 hours ahead of departure...
Tardiness is laziness
I'm that guy - partly because I get nervous cutting flights too fine, but mostly because I really like airports and I really love airport beer...
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@dogmeat I've got a mate who's a turns up early to the airport guy. One time when he came over to Sydney, we had a great week of doing stuff, then had a huge shitfight on the day he left because he was scared he'd miss his flight and we were out at some markets. In the end we dropped him for his flight 4 hours before departure.
I'll happily go to the airport early if I have lounge access, but if not I'll leave it as late as possible.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am happy to be in the lounge an hour or a bit more before my flight is called, but you're still just killing time.
Fortunately, I can get into any Star Alliance lounge but 4 hours is ridiculous.
I've been lucky enough to have access to the Qantas First Class Lounge for the last 10 years or so (will expire for good 30 April this year...
) - I could spend all day in that place, the food is top notch, the booze exceptional, and I was typically there waiting for a long haul work flight with no kids around...absolute bliss! -
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am happy to be in the lounge an hour or a bit more before my flight is called, but you're still just killing time.
Fortunately, I can get into any Star Alliance lounge but 4 hours is ridiculous.
Yep, it is, and he usually doesn't have lounge access. He even wanted to go to the airport early in Raro before they did the renovations and it was just a hot square waiting room.
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going to the Airport is generally a cause for a fight in my house as my wife will not relax until we are checked in and through security, and i refuse to get to the airport even a minute too early.
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Boys, it's about how you play it. I'm all about the minimum possible time, but when with the family the wife will always go ridiculously early. We live 20 mins from Heathrow T5 and will happily pay extra to fly out of it, it's never let me down (until the next time now of course, after writing that).
So we go 2-3 hours early, bags dropped, through security its usually at least 2 hours now til flight. Girls like to shop, so I hit the bar with the boys Unlock his screen time so he'll be quiet and I have a couple of beers.
Whats not to like?
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I have a 9 year old daughter. She is into music that is pretty much so targeted at young girls. Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo & somebody called Bailey Spinn are the 3 that come to mind.
Taylor Swift aside, why do these musicians, who know young girls love them, insist on swearing so much on their albums? What are they actually trying to achieve? If you put Olivia Rodrigo on Spotify then play her Radio, almost every song has swearing in it. If you are doing this to try and target your music elsewhere, then you need to do a different genre of music! Not play kid friendly stuff, then add in the word fuck quite often to make you appear as something else.
Yes, I know that you can change the setting in Spotify & I know that Rodrigo has released "clean" versions of some her songs, but every kid knows how to get around these things. Besides, Rodrigos big song Vampire (which is awesome), the clean lyrics actually sound much better. It literally looks like she' put the word fuck in there, just to put in there.
It's fucking stupid.
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@MajorRage it is quite amazing how song lyrics seem to get around censors, and just how some of these songs get airtime, particularly in today's cancel culture (I'm looking at WAP I think it is, and Kiss by Eminem which seem huge outliers)
