Grumpy Old Man
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse hey grandad, you can download the songs onto your phone/tablet.
Edit: and most car stereos have bluetooth these days. Ours doesn't so I splashed out on a ten quid Bluetooth receiver with a line out. It's science!
My music is ripped from CDs. Google CDs if you don't know what they are. I don't download.
If I bought a USB adaptor (USB A to USB C I think) and plugged it into my phone would I then be able to play my music on my phone and Bluetooth it to the car?
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@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
If I bought a USB adaptor (USB A to USB C I think) and plugged it into my phone would I then be able to play my music on my phone and Bluetooth it to the car?
Quite possibly, depends on what your phone is maybe.
FYI - you can upload personal music to YT Music as far as I'm aware - not sure if you can on Spotify.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
fucking social media algorithms
and in this i count Spotify
Every platform is getting fucking worse, and the stuff you see is getting narrower and narrower
Spotify is starting to give me the shits. I used to just use the "made for you" playlists, and now the "your top mixes" and they were good, plenty of different stuff in them. Not now. They are getting narrower and narrower. it's the same songs on every list. So it's gone from "you like this band, so maybe you'll also like this one" to "you like this song, so I'll play it to you heaps"
And this becomes and issue when Spotify picks the songs, and for what ever reason does put in something new. Last month it decided i wanted to listen to Frank Zappa. A lot. I fucking didn't, but "Broken Hearts are for Assholes" was everywhere! Also i don't like "Get Free" but The Vines anywhere near as much as you seem to think i do.
Instagram is fucked. In an effort to compete with TicTok it priorities video content. And your home feed is now fucking full of "because you interacted with". Tough fucking shit if the interation was you pausing your scroll because you looked up to maybe talk to someone. The search page is fucking terrible too. And it's wall to wall reels. fuck your reels.
At least on Facebook the thing works because i get heaps and heaps of "Raw is War" memories..
These platforms are fucking enormous, and yet are deliberately designed for you to see as little as possible. Not to make them useful, but to keep you looking, because eyes equal $$$. fluffybunnies.
What's Spotify? ...
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@Crazy-Horse have music stored on phone and play on Samsung Music while connected on Bluetooth ...
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Jeez, people and their dinky music systems....
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Tourists to Cornwall who throw their shit out of car windows. Walk up the lane and there's new Costa coffee cups, crisp packets etc every fucking day.
Take your shit with you and don't put your dog crap in my rubbish bin, you fucktards.
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@mariner4life yep I've downloaded my many thousands of YTM likes so I can actually shuffle the songs with an app on my phone. If I try shuffle in YTM basically plays the same 20 or 30 most recently played songs in a random order.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Tourists to Cornwall who throw their shit out of car windows. Walk up the lane and there's new Costa coffee cups, crisp packets etc every fucking day.
Take your shit with you and don't put your dog crap in my rubbish bin, you fucktards.
Same in Northland, locals just as bad tho.
I am really puzzled by petite who take the time to collect the dog shit in a plastic bag, then leave the bag. Just leave the
, it'll wash way or degrade quickly. Shit in a bag will be there for fucking years! -
@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Tourists to Cornwall who throw their shit out of car windows. Walk up the lane and there's new Costa coffee cups, crisp packets etc every fucking day.
Take your shit with you and don't put your dog crap in my rubbish bin, you fucktards.
Same in Northland, locals just as bad tho.
I am really puzzled by petite who take the time to collect the dog shit in a plastic bag, then leave the bag. Just leave the
, it'll wash way or degrade quickly. Shit in a bag will be there for fucking years!It's not such a big problem if I stand on the bag though.
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If you're the CEO on a workday fronting a press conference, how hard is it to turn up in a suit and tie?
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
fucking social media
The rest of your - admittedly deliciously spicy - rant was superfluous
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
If you're the CEO on a workday fronting a press conference, how hard is it to turn up in a suit and tie?
Probably trying to show how cool and one of the common people he/she/it/they is / are
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When the kids finally left, I said quietly, "thank fuck they've gone" to a knowing smile or two from other remaining adults.....
Not that they are bad kids, or that their parents are bad parents - very, very much the opposite - but there seems to be a modern theory of child-rearing that you let them find their own discipline and way of doing things. So you end up with a 14 yr old thumb-sucker who kneels on the table chair, uses his hands to shovel his food into his mouth with one elbow on the table supporting his head - which is about 6 inches from his plate. And wipes his sticky, greasy hands on our new, fabric covered dining room chairs - repeatedly.
I don't have a problem with parents bringing their kids up in what way they choose, just don't assume we're in on the same semi-new-age parenting shit. And when they do fuck up our stuff, at least show some concern for the damage caused.
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@Victor-Meldrew how deep did you dig the hole?
Self-regulation aside there is no excuse too not instill some degree of manners and empathy. In our household genuine accidents are given a pass but listening and respecting people is #1. Well as much as Ms 5 and Mr 2 give a shit!
Don't be a dick is pretty much the MO!
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@MN5 you didn't accidentally sober up did you!? That'd be tragic!
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@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 you didn't accidentally sober up did you!? That'd be tragic!
Even worse, it gave me ample time to put serious thought into thinking about the wankiest beer I could possibly get.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 you didn't accidentally sober up did you!? That'd be tragic!
Even worse, it gave me ample time to put serious thought into thinking about the wankiest beer I could possibly get.
You can’t just put that out there and leave it. What was it?
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@JC said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 you didn't accidentally sober up did you!? That'd be tragic!
Even worse, it gave me ample time to put serious thought into thinking about the wankiest beer I could possibly get.
You can’t just put that out there and leave it. What was it?
I can’t remember but the strongest I had was the Paul Mason Brandy Barrel aged Sea Monster Imperial Oatmeal Stout ( 13.1% )
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@MN5 you'd be sober before you finished saying the bloody name ffs
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@Paekakboyz said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 you'd be sober before you finished saying the bloody name ffs
I remember pointing and saying “that one”…….even those two words were tough after the strong ones I’d had prior !
