Grumpy Old Man
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Sam Canes amazing pace
He weighs too much to be fast.
No he doesn’t you imbecile. He’s 10kg LIGHTER than Papai’li so is automatically faster.
Honestly, Don’t you know sports ?
It’s very simple, unless you’re an elite athlete you’re slower than anyone lighter than you.
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Hayfever. Fucking Hayfever.
Never had it this bad in the UK before. IT's been atrocious right from the word go since the rain stopped. On 2 Claratyne's a day plus nasal spray to keep it under control. Yet, as soon as I forget one of these things I'm back up again.
On the flip side, at least you can get 10 boxes of Claratyne from Costco for 9.99. Saving of 30 quid vs the high street.
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@MajorRage yeah i pump the claratyne. it's fucked. especially during cane harvesting season
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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.
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@mariner4life I have the same problem on YT music, a gym playlist with like 50 odd songs, but because I play it off my watch, I have to restart it (on shuffle) each time. I pretty much get the same 7 or 8 songs each time now. Was thinking of switching to Spotify so good to know I'll just have the same issue!
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@mariner4life I have the same problem on YT music, a gym playlist with like 50 odd songs, but because I play it off my watch, I have to restart it (on shuffle) each time. I pretty much get the same 7 or 8 songs each time now. Was thinking of switching to Spotify so good to know I'll just have the same issue!
lol fucking Get Free just came on!!
fuck this song. i didn't mind it, but now it's the main symptom of my huge first world problem
look, some of it will be my music listening, and perhaps i need to change my listening habits for a while to break it up.
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Fuck streaming music. I have all my stuff on USB and listen to it that way. Much easier in the car where I listen to music the most. I can easily skip to songs I want to hear. Stuck with a rental car at the moment that doesn't have a USB option for listening to music so I am stuck having to stream. Are cars only going to allow streaming in the future? All very well until the internet drops out.
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@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!
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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
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@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?
