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I like to think I don't have too many pet peeves ... but tonight I was reminded of one!


Sitting in a restaurant next to a table with a young girl. Girl glued to iPhone (nothing new there). Volume on phone cranked up so everyone in the restaurant could hear the stupid game sounds. I'm resigned to the fact that parents now abdicate their responsibility to entertain their kids, but allowing the kid to get away with not using headphones in a restaurant is ridiculous.

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The inability of anyone in Casablanca to give clear, simple instructions of where there office is, coupled with every driver's believes you'll be happy to be fobbed off with "Don't worry, I know where it is" when they patently don't.

Drove past one of the offices we visited yesterday 3 times before an umpteenth phone call elicited clearer (but still imprecise -- no, wrong) directions. All it required was: "face the Banque el Maghrib, go down the street on the left of the building, and we're in the building just before the first junction; there's a sign at the entrance".

At least we weren't greeted with "Did you have any difficulties finding us?".

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Yep. That and the arseholes who wander around the store (or wherever) having a conversation on speakerphone. Drives me bloody nuts, that does.

For what it's worth, I'd never allow my children to use a device with the sound all the way up in public (well my daughter isn't old enough for a phone yet but when she is, etc). I dissuade the use of them at all but if my son wants to check his texts while we are waiting for food to arrive, that isn't the hill I want to die on.

Oh yeah, thought of another one, if hell were real a special place would exist for people who have the menu button sounds enabled on their phones.

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It is based on the number of people looking for a job and don't currently have one. There are figures for the number of people receiving benefits or whose benefits ran out, but those are part of a different study and aren't in the main unemployment numbers.

From the FAQ of every unemployment report:
6. Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment insurance benefits? No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey.

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Pet peeve indeed, or going to a nice restaurant and seeing a couple sat near you, both ignoring each other, but managing to update their faceshite, or twatter or whatever. argh!!


Myself and Mrs DJ have a rule of no phones during meals/drinkys at the bar. It appears we are unique though.
I'm sorry people but get an effin life past your stupid phones.
Sorry for the rant!

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Honestly, I think most people would be like that. Confirmation bias just makes us think it's the other way around because it's the people on their phones that grab our attention when we're out for dinner etc.

At least I hope so anyway ...

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I have, once, been out in a group where we agreed in advance that we'd do that thing where everyone puts their phones face-down on the table and the first person to pick theirs up would also pick up the tab for the evening. It was suggested more or less as a joke - but we ended the meal with plenty of great conversation, nobody looking at their phones, and the waitress providing multiple bills. The only drawback was that the pedants amongst us couldn't fact-check each others' assertions via Google...

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You can always save the fact checking for another time :lol:

I've heard of things like that being done, though. The financial incentive (or in this case penalty) would certainly work well. Though when I'm out, all I do is keep the phone on hand for emergencies. I only look at it if I'm by myself for any period of time waiting for someone and even then half the time I just sit there staring into space anyway.

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Pet peeve (no doubt already mentioned):

People who incorrectly use the following: their/there; your/you're

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I think they usually have sensors in the road that detect your car as it approaches the red light and starts the change to green, particularly if you're on the minor road crossing the major.

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Many do, especially in larger towns and cities, but not all. These days there are some quirky lights that will trip or trigger based on more complex algorithms - a left filter arrow at a junction I use regularly has a trip/ trigger pattern I haven't yet worked out. I have a sneaking suspicion that at least part of the answer is that it is linked to how many cars are in the lane on the other side of the junction. But I haven't yet noticed a pattern as to how many cars are waiting to turn left (would benefit from the left filter arrow), and how many cars are waiting opposite to turn to (their) right or come straightforward across the junction (cars with that choice are all in one lane). All I have noticed is that the probability of the left filter green arrow showing is lower when traffic is lighter.

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Large tubs of laundry soap such as Gain...the caps don't have the non-drip lip and the naff little air release valve nipple to make it pour quicker is a waste and then you end up with a mess as the stuff drips off the cap when you put it back on, so now the cap doesn't go on.

The cheap, naff own brand tubs are much better designed.

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I know a similar left filter light, I think it only provides the separate left turn signal during rush hour week days.

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Google voice and just ask the phone...

Would be a bit of a cop out, but not entirely cheating :D

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Yes, many do. Except this strip of lights out to the mall...and quite a few lights in a neighbouring town. They cheaped out, don't even have the emergency transponders for the police/ambulance.