You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Watching the forum over the years go from being populated with cynical 20 and 30 somethings to fully misanthropic and miserable 40 and 50 year olds has been a wild ride. This thread is great.

We're almost at yelling at clouds stage.

[Roughneck]

I don't care what people do in their own homes, but when you try to push your Christmas agenda down my throat that crosses a line.

I have holidays that I celebrate, but if you didn't know any better you'd think they're just normal days. Aren't all in your face about it.

[Monahammer]

What do you mean by pushing their christmas agenda down your throat, though?

Do you mean putting up lights and stuff?

If so, you should probably just quit living in a city or civilization and embrace your hermit.

[Locke]

Clear answer.

Frank knows what he's about.

[habernac]

Family, smell of wood burning in the fireplace, Mom’s incredible turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy. It’s never been about religion, only family. Can’t wait to see my son when he comes home for his Christmas break.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

UCB would like Australian Christmas.

I’m having an Australian Christmas.

Suck on that UCB!

[The Yen Man]

Man, some of you people sound miserable to be around. I don't celebrate every holiday either, but I don't begrudge other people for doing so or being happy to share their celebrations with others. Who is pushing a Christmas agenda? (other than companies trying to sell you things, which, last time checked, happens outside of the Christmas season too) People are just in a festive mood. God forbid people getting enjoyment out of celebrating things lol.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

. Who is pushing a Christmas agenda?.

Big Xmas

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by habernac

Family, smell of wood burning in the fireplace, Mom’s incredible turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy. It’s never been about religion, only family. Can’t wait to see my son when he comes home for his Christmas break.

Me too.. not your son, my son. That sounds creepy. Where’d he go to school?

[getbak]

The worst thing about Christmas this year is the creepy/crappy AI generated Coke commercial.

Screw you, I'm drinking Pepsi!

[jayswin]

AI just sucks in general. I get its in its early stages in the grand scheme of things, but specifically right now, just seeing uncreative people using it to make dumb pictures, and cheat at creative writing and music/lyric writing is so lame.

[ResAlien]

Death to AI “art”. No exceptions.

[Fuzz]

Calling this stuff "AI" was the first mistake. It has no intelligence.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Calling this stuff "AI" was the first mistake. It has no intelligence.

i see this sooooo much when groups send over art work for sports team logos... they are so obviously ai generated.


i enjoy asking for it in vector format becuz the ai stuff never comes like that. then you mention the graphic designer charge to have their 'awesome logo' vectorized and suddenly something a lot more simple seems to do just fine for the team.

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

What do you mean by pushing their christmas agenda down your throat, though?

Do you mean putting up lights and stuff?

If so, you should probably just quit living in a city or civilization and embrace your hermit.

Maybe you should move to the North Pole if you love Christmas so much!

[GGG]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

The only thing I love about Christmas is that I get 10 days off work.

And more importantly the people you work with and many of your clients are also off. It’s my favourite time off because work doesn’t build up.

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Everyone should try a Turducken at least once.

Turkey is delicious. And we love duck. But don’t think I’d ever want try to eat kitten though.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Some people's love language is giving gifts.
I love shopping for people including even hitting the malls.
People can celebrate however they want.

Did you know love languages have no sociological rigor and were developed by a Baptist preacher to teach women how to behave for their husbands. Essentially by calling physical touch (sex) a love language its designed to promote the coercive giving of sex from a partner.

Go read the original book and its case studies. It’s rough.

Essentially there is no evidence to support the concept of love languages as published.

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/st...ove-languages/

Paper refuting love languages

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10....37214231217663

The message delivered to the public could then be that instead of there being only one key thing that people need to do to make their partner feel loved, people should make sure they have a nutritionally balanced relationship, and if they feel that something is missing, they could discuss that imbalance (unmet need) with their partner. In fact, one of the reasons why so many people feel that Chapman’s (2015) book has helped their relationships might be because it provides partners an opportunity to reflect on, discuss, and respond to one another’s needs, which is indeed a fundamental principle in relationship science (responsiveness; Reis et al., 2004).

So it’s a lot like an any of the personality tests, probably right in some way that you could derive learning from but also nonsense with no empirical basis.

But really we shouldn’t use the concept of love languages given its problematic origin.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Some people's love language is giving gifts.
I love shopping for people including even hitting the malls.
People can celebrate however they want.

Ohhh I understand. Finding a gift for people in my family unit who have everything was and still is a stressful part of Christmas for me.

[Ped]

Did you know love languages have no sociological rigor and were developed by a Baptist preacher to teach women how to behave for their husbands. Essentially by calling physical touch (sex) a love language its designed to promote the coercive giving of sex from a partner.

Did you really have to go and try and ruin what was a perfectly innocuous statement? All he's saying is that he, like a lot of people, really love giving gifts.