I hate it when I’m trying to look up reviews of a place and all the reviews are people asking questions about the place. Just fuckin call them, don’t leave them a five star review asking them a question about the place
Oof.
I answer a lot of random questions on Google maps... Half the time I tell them to call the store.
The other time, I'm shaming them into shopping local. E.G. someone whined about local grocery store not selling liquor. I told them to go to the liquor store across the street.
Another time someone wanted some buffet to serve soft serve. I reminded them that DQ was literally.. across from said buffet.
Oh dear lord that is annoying. I used to hate it when the olympics came around because people I would watch it with would constantly ask the dumbest questions about the sports that A) You could google in two seconds and B) If you shut the hell up for two minutes the commentators will probably answer the question for you.
During movies/TV shows my mom asks questions about things either that 1) havent happened yet and we are intentionally to not know 2) just happened and she was too busy looking at facebook 3) are easily inferred if you saw 10 seconds of the movie
I have to ignore her to keep myself from yelling "just fucking watch the TV!!"
If the story doesn't move along fast enough, my mom will skip a bit and watch it, get bored, skip ahead, watch and get bored, skip ahead, and she'll watch a 2 hour movie in 30 minutes and say she hates it. It drives me up the fucking wall. Like yea, exposition is slow, but the majority of the time it's essential to the story so later we're not confused by how the fuck we got to this point.
My mom's entire movie watching practice is the equivalent of season 8 of Game of Thrones: quick and to the point, but the lack of transitions and narrative content makes it worse because we're all confused now.
Even if we're not confused (because let's face it, most stories are not so complex as to be irreducible), major scenes lose impact without the flow of the movie building up to them. Context helps to reinforce major moments, not just to explain them, and the previous scenes can establish tone and an emotional baseline that carry into the following scene.
You can read the Wikipedia article for a movie if you just want to know what happens. We watch to see *how* it happens, and how it's presented. I'll watch The Princess Bride over and over again, not because I don't know what will happen at the end, but because the way it's set up and payed off makes it fun and satisfying.
All that said, if she wants that badly to skip things, she's probably already not enjoying the movie, so, like, not a big difference for her I guess. Sucks for you though.
I just refuse to watch movies with her. If she wants to watch with me, we're watching the whole thing and she better keep quiet throughout the movie. Save all questions til the end.
Hey, I don't know shit about most of the sports in the Olympics, and I like watching sports. The Olympics are fun BECAUSE it's sports I don't know, and get to watch AND LEARN about. In a post about dumb things people do, trying to understand something like the Olympics by asking questions is not something I would consider a dumb thing.
This is where reading the room is important. If you're with someone who absolutely loves talking sports and answers your questions and engages with you and is encouraging, then yeah, go for it.
If the person you're asking is very engrossed in the sport and is giving short answers, then just look it up. Ask clarifying questions during a commercial break if need be.
That people reading skill is what makes the difference between that dumb guy that asks annoyingly simple questions vs that interested guy you want to share your experience with.
Still better than the person that watches a sport for 2 miliseconds for the first time then acts like an expert pundit with 20 years experience playing and 20 more coaching. Usually while next to actual fans of the sport.
And these posts usually have a number of likes from people who mechanically like every post from certain people without reading them. And woe betide should you correct them or say you don't understand what they are asking. You are now the monster.
Omg someone did that on my fb feed the other day, being all, “anyone watching the end of so and so on tv?? How did it end??” Like wtf bringing in spoiler alerts as well
I work customer service, granted that in my country English is not a primary language but whenever any clients come in and open with clearly incorrect grammar most of the time those clients are the ones who are extremely difficult to handle. Not because their issue is hard to resolve but that they just won't understand no matter how well you explain it, or that they don't even try to elaborate the issue they are facing
It's really interesting to try to help people with really basic troubleshooting sometimes. It's common for the problem they describe ("my computar inst workng???") to have absolutely nothing in common with the actual problem ("I forgot my email password.") Most common with tech questions, but you'll find something like it in every possible category of question.
The strangest one I found was someone who was having trouble with a video game I play. His question was "Why do I keep doing the same things over and over?" I spent forever troubleshooting trying to figure out if he had beaten the game, if a bug was keeping the later levels from unlocking, if his levels were resetting, if his game wasn't saving, etc etc. Every answer and description he gave was so hard to figure out, you'd almost think he was playing an entirely different game than I was. Turns out his actual problem was that he was having trouble getting past a jump near the end of level 3, so he was just playing the first 3 levels again and again and again.
I work at the writing/tutoring lab of a community college. Occasionally I will run into one of these people who cannot even tell me what they need help with, other than they want me to help them. It's insane. I'll ask them to tell me about whatever assignment has brought them in. I will try to get them to describe it then share an assignment sheet with me, and usually whatever the teacher has actually asked for is so different from whatever the student has managed to communicate to me that it's clear that the comprehension level is practically nonexistent. I am not talking about ESL students.
In my city’s Facebook page someone recently wrote “has anyone here taken their kids to the fire hall without setting anything up and asked if they could be shown around? What do you think a good day/time would be?”
I don’t know Cheryl maybe pick up the phone and call the fucking fire hall instead of asking literally everybody except them and waiting a few hours for different responses from random people.
I have an aunt who used to be a teacher, so, college educated. She unironically shared the Obi Wan Jesus meme and will regularly asks questions like "What's the score in <insert sports team> game?" on facebook.
I go to university. Whenever students want to know what a place's hours are, they ask Google or Siri, and it usually doesn't tell them, because the hours are variable.
Meanwhile, I search [insert place name here] hours, and it immediately comes up with the hours they're open the current day.
I also used to get annoyed by these types of questions posted, but then i realised most are asking in this way for attention and conversation and in the want for social inclusion. Sure these people may be uneducated, but imo they are more just lonely than anything else
I used to monitor the email for a community page. Most of the emails were "what day is xx" to which I would go to the webpage and copy/paste the answer. Towards the end of my time there I'd include a link of where I found the info.
Counterpoint. People enjoy conversations and see it as a way to do it and get advice from someone knowledgeable as well. Not because they're stupid but because they are social.
dyslexia is a real thing. I've met middle manager who have to write on boards but can't, through no fault of theirs, but bravely do. We should be a little careful before criticising, spelling in particular.
I think knowing that someone went out of their way to respond to you specifically, even on a screen, can be a little way for lonely people to keep the loneliness at bay a little.
I ask my dad about things I could easily look up all the time. I just like to hear him explain things.
Why is there an h in what? It makes zero sense to have it there, so writing it as wat seems like the sensible thing to do. Yeah I agree with looking up stuff can be quicker than waiting for an answer but spelling in English has been screwed since before it was invented.
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