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Trivial Annoyances

Postby tippy » July 29th, 2013, 7:29 pm

When are consumers going to figure out that seedless watermelons with their strangely mottled flesh and lack of flavor are CRAP?
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Blue Train » July 30th, 2013, 8:49 am

tippy wrote:When are consumers going to figure out that seedless watermelons with their strangely mottled flesh and lack of flavor are CRAP?



Not anytime soon.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/0 ... n-seeds-go
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby drumsolo » August 4th, 2013, 11:45 am

I agree, all those tiny little seeds are gross.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Mike Schwartz » August 4th, 2013, 1:23 pm

tippy wrote:When are consumers going to figure out that seedless watermelons with their strangely mottled flesh and lack of flavor are CRAP?


This is way beyond trivial IMO ;)
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby moldyfigg » August 4th, 2013, 3:04 pm

Don't get me started on seedless avocados.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby A. Kingstone » August 4th, 2013, 5:49 pm

Fuck watermelons!

I hate pop culture and media charting every move of Justin Bieber (for instance).

JB puked in a bucket. Pot found on JB's bus.

What do they expect?



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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Mike Schwartz » August 4th, 2013, 6:16 pm

A. Kingstone wrote:Fuck watermelons!

I hate pop culture and media charting every move of Justin Bieber (for instance).

JB puked in a bucket. Pot found on JB's bus.

What do they expect?



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AK,

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby A. Kingstone » August 4th, 2013, 7:32 pm

Mike Schwartz wrote:
A. Kingstone wrote:Fuck watermelons!

I hate pop culture and media charting every move of Justin Bieber (for instance).

JB puked in a bucket. Pot found on JB's bus.

What do they expect?



The ROYAL baby.

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AK,

Is this what you do waiting around for the hockey season to start?



No, I'm a curmudgeon 365.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby jaka » August 7th, 2013, 5:56 am

Looking for a replacement to my 23-year old car, I just discovered that most recent vehicles don't have cd players anymore, not even as an option. Bluetooth is the new thing, but what if you don't use your phone to store and listen to music? :(
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Ron Thorne » August 7th, 2013, 2:31 pm

Jaka, don't most new cars also have a USB port/Aux In? When Patti & I rent cars on vacation, we use our iPod in addition to the car radio and simply plug into the available USB port via a short cable. You could even use a thumb drive.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Blue Train » August 7th, 2013, 3:08 pm

jaka wrote:Looking for a replacement to my 23-year old car, I just discovered that most recent vehicles don't have cd players anymore, not even as an option. Bluetooth is the new thing, but what if you don't use your phone to store and listen to music? :(



You should still be able to order them, but they no longer get put in the dashboard/console. You can always just add a multi-disc player in your trunk. That's what I did with my car, but then my car was made back when mono was still big. :lol:

We do what Ron and his wife do when renting a car, or using my wife's car. Always have to have the tunes!
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby jaka » August 8th, 2013, 12:28 am

The idea was also to avoid using digitized music (and I have no iPod... Still using portable cd players when on the move - I'm a dinosaur, I know) and continue to be able to choose a disc from the shelves right before leaving in the morning and put it in the car.
Multi-disc player in the trunk might be the solution in the end.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby A. Kingstone » August 8th, 2013, 4:55 am

jaka wrote:The idea was also to avoid using digitized music (and I have no iPod... Still using portable cd players when on the move - I'm a dinosaur, I know) and continue to be able to choose a disc from the shelves right before leaving in the morning and put it in the car.
Multi-disc player in the trunk might be the solution in the end.



You should be able to plug the portable CD player into the mini-jack connection that Ron mentions. Select AUX on the radio.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby steve(thelil) » August 8th, 2013, 7:25 am

You can't beat those portable cd players with the 10 second overwrite.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby moldyfigg » August 8th, 2013, 11:04 am

jaka wrote:Looking for a replacement to my 23-year old car, I just discovered that most recent vehicles don't have cd players anymore, not even as an option. Bluetooth is the new thing, but what if you don't use your phone to store and listen to music? :(

Donna just got a 2014 Mazda ICX5 crossover which has a CD player plus all that other stuff.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Mike Schwartz » August 8th, 2013, 12:22 pm

Most cars still have CD's but some are being eliminated now and more will be in time
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby steve(thelil) » August 8th, 2013, 1:04 pm

Mike: I assume you mean that most new cars still have cd players. Is that right?

Since vinyl is making a small comeback, I'm still betting on 8-track cartridge players.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby jaka » August 8th, 2013, 1:10 pm

Mike is right. Many cars still have cd players, but I should have precised that THE models I had views on (from the manufacturer I trust because I had a previous one from them which lasted 23 or so years without any problem) and that I can afford don't. Hence the disappointment.
Now, if I have to go through the process of selecting another model from another manufacturer... Switched to another annoyance.

But I'll investigate the mini-jack connection thing before. :|
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Ron Thorne » August 8th, 2013, 6:49 pm

Jaka, if you don't mind sharing this info, what make/model are you interested in purchasing?

Patti & I also have a vehicle we bought a long time ago, but it's not quite in your category yet. Our car is 15 years old, a VW Passat GLS, which had a dedicated space in the trunk for a Panasonic 6-CD Changer, which I purchased and had installed. It's completely hidden from view and takes up no usable space.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby jaka » August 8th, 2013, 10:57 pm

A Renault Clio IV, the like of the picture below, without the blue sportish bullshit.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby Jimmy Cantiello » August 9th, 2013, 2:51 am

Hey, Jaka, do they actually list "blue sportish bullshit" as an option in the brochure? :D
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby walto » August 9th, 2013, 3:13 am

Neck crick.

Three weeks.
Surely not all of a sudden. Less than half of a sudden at best.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby jaka » August 9th, 2013, 7:36 am

Jimmy Cantiello wrote:Hey, Jaka, do they actually list "blue sportish bullshit" as an option in the brochure? :D


:lol: My interpretation.


walto wrote:Neck crick.

Three weeks.


Wouldn't call that trivial.
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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby David Beckett » August 10th, 2013, 1:16 pm

I'm as big a gadget freak as the next guy. But one of my biggest annoyances is that cars have gotten so full of gadgetry they require the driver to have an engineering degree to tune the radio.

For example, I'm on my third Audi. The first one had two giant knobs to turn for temperture and fan and a button to push to turn the a/c on and off. My current car makes it much more difficult to select temp and fan - and I have to do it TWICE because of the idiotic "dual climate control".

The radio and cd player on the current one are OK. But I'm actively shopping for a newer one, and every time I drive one, it ruins my day because the cd slot is NOT REACHABLE BY THE DRIVER, (the morons who make these decisions put it in the Friggin' GLOVE BOX) - and that's just for starters.

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Re: Trivial Annoyances

Postby bluenoter » October 15th, 2013, 4:57 pm

Today my purchase at a Giant supermarket came to $20.71. I handed the checker this Giant-issued coupon:

Save $2.00 off your purchase of $20 or more
Expires 10-17-2013
[that's two days from now]

It didn't work.

Checker: This coupon has expired.
Me: Read it.

After a few more tries, the checker called for a supervisor, who gave the coupon another few tries.

Supervisor: Your purchase is supposed to be at least $22, and you get $2 off of that. That's how the coupon works.
Me: Read it. [Etc.]

The supervisor humored me by giving me a $2 discount manually. And with my sales printout, I got . . . another coupon, just like the first (only with a later expiration date). So if I try to use the second coupon, the results will no doubt be exactly the same, because no one at Giant seems to have noticed or acknowledged that the fucking coupons aren't coded correctly.
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