Minor things that bother you

[Rothman]

"Xennials."  They're just Millennials with daddy issues.  "Look at me, Boomer parent, I am not like those lazy Millennials!  Please, accept me and don't lump me in with them!  I'm a cool kid like those Gen Xers, not those Millennials!"  The only generation type split off by people not wanting to be associated with another generation due to being criticized/made fun of by an older generation...

My brother-in-law was born in 1981, the youngest of three children, so naturally followed in the footsteps of those straddling the two generations but experienced more attributes of the former yet a few ideals and cultural norms of the latter.

I guess there isn't really a cusp for one born in 1965-66 which might be in a similar situation. (Bumexicans?)

I am the youngest of 8 and born in 1967. All my siblings were born between 1952 and 1962. That leaves me as the odd one out (not a boomer). Some of my older siblings delight in telling stories about things I did in (say) 1969. It doesn't pay me to get annoyed anymore, although I did (silently) for a long time.

Tend to like boomer music because that's what I heard as a youngster. But I am pretty sure I go later than any of the my other siblings that way, especially now with a teenage son of my own.

As I write this, I'm the only one of the 8 still working, and it will be that way probably for about 5 years. I had the same experience in the early '80s when everyone had left the house to college and beyond, while I was still in high school. At least I had the house to myself (with parents) and didn't have to fight siblings over access to things.

It'd be nice to see someone other than a boomer win a national office.

My attitude for the last few years, now that I am middle aged, is that I'm glad I'm as (relatively) young as I am. The calendar will eventually do its job and I'll get to have as much fun as the others.

But you were so cute when you were two!

Annoyed when people point out your terrible twos?

Yes, when they do it for 40+ years straight.
It's my sister, I love her, I just wish she wouldn't always go there.
She is about 10 years older than me, so the things she remembers occurred when she was a tween and early teenager.

Family is forever.

[ZLoth]

The fact that I keep getting notification from my color duplex laser printer letting me know that I need to replace the Black toner. Should I mention that it's at 10%, and this is a home office environment with emphasis on home? And, with the volume of printing that I don't do, I have to put up with that warning for a few more months until it is really, actually low (1-2%) before I will replace the toner. Is there any way I can adjust this? No.

FINALLY! No more "low toner message". And after I ordered replacement toner on July 11th, 2023 as part of the prime sale, the "replace toner" actually appeared on my printer.

[GaryV]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I refuse to acknowledge "X", I still call it "Twitter".

[jeffandnicole]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

Yes, not everyone pays attention to Twitter. And X is a stupid name.

[Scott5114]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

The Website Formerly Known As Twitter

[1995hoo]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

This is pretty funny: There's a letter in this morning's Washington Post asking almost exactly the same thing.

Must we reference X's former name?

When will the Post stop mentioning X as "formerly known as Twitter" in its articles? X owner Elon Musk rebranded Twitter more than two months ago. If and when Musk re-brands his social media platform to, say, Birdy, will the Post then have to write "Birdy, formerly known as X, formerly known as Twitter"?

—Karen Handford, Rockville

[hotdogPi]

Everyone should continue to call it Twitter and not even mention X.

[DTComposer]

I'd go with X-Twitter.

[ZLoth]

Can we blame this on the artist known as Prince?

[Big John]

I just consider that site X-rated.

[Rothman]

I just consider that site X-rated.

Makes me wonder if Chatroulette is still around.  Scared to check.

[SSOWorld]

I quit Twitter (deleting both of my accounts) - oh, I quit X too.

[SSOWorld]

(intential double post - different rant for ya)

I seriously hate the tacking of "for ya" or "there for ya" to sentences - sorry MN, but that is an awful habit and it has spread into neighboring states

A cashier at Petco asked me "phone number for ya?" (requesting it for the loyalty program)
When stating the total price of an order I've heard often "<insert price here> for ya" - I responded "Well, hand it over"

Goddam verbal tics.

[DenverBrian]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

Until the URL is retired, Twitter is still going to be used as the name of that gawdawful site.

[vdeane]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

What's weird is that a name change was never announced.  I remember the reports of the logo changing.  But not the name.  Everybody (at least in the media) just started saying "X, formerly known as Twitter" one day.  Indeed, to this day the URL is twitter.com, and a Google search for Twitter still identifies the site as such (even if the page title of the homepage says X).

Everyone should continue to call it Twitter and not even mention X.

Agreed.  Not only because it's a bad name/logo, but it's especially fitting given Musk's other issues (specifically, the opinions we know that he shares with Lord Carhorn).

[GaryV]

Everyone should continue to call it Twitter and not even mention X.

Agreed.  Not only because it's a bad name/logo, but it's especially fitting given Musk's other issues (specifically, the opinions we know that he shares with Lord Carhorn).

What, he doesn't think Illinois is flat?

[ZLoth]

What, he doesn't think Illinois is flat?

Depending on which criteria you use, Illinois is the second flattest state only to be topped by Florida. And, despite my mother's protests of "Texas being as flat as a pancake", it's the 9th flattest state.

Or, per World Population Review which measures the flatness between the highest and lowest points, Florida is the flattest state, Illinois is seventh flattest, and Texas is number 37 thanks to the El Paso area.

[vdeane]

Everyone should continue to call it Twitter and not even mention X.

Agreed.  Not only because it's a bad name/logo, but it's especially fitting given Musk's other issues (specifically, the opinions we know that he shares with Lord Carhorn).

What, he doesn't think Illinois is flat?

Let's just say that Crash_It didn't get banned for claiming Illinois isn't flat.

[Dirt Roads]

What, he doesn't think Illinois is flat?

Depending on which criteria you use, Illinois is the second flattest state only to be topped by Florida. And, despite my mother's protests of "Texas being as flat as a pancake", it's the 9th flattest state.

Or, per World Population Review which measures the flatness between the highest and lowest points, Florida is the flattest state, Illinois is seventh flattest, and Texas is number 37 thanks to the El Paso area.

Not surprisingly, West Virginia was the least flat of the 48 contiguous states.  Flat land is so rare in some parts of the Mountain State that where my father grew up, there were unofficially 3 acres of "flat land" on two adjacent family farms totalling 143 acres.  Two acres of which were on a 45-degree slope about 450 feet up the side of "the hill".  But indeed flat, smooth and also aimed towards the Southern skies where crops could be planted.

[formulanone]

Why do news reports constantly have stories like, "[Someone] posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying ..."

We got it already. Is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know that Twitter is now X?

Maybe to avoid implying someone has posted on Ecstasy (formerly known as 3,4-Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine).

[kkt]

Because X is not sufficiently distinctive to be a proper name.  Congratulations to Mr. Musk for changing the name from Twitter to TheSocialMediaFormerKnownAsTwitter.

[hotdogPi]

This doesn't explain why they can't keep calling it Twitter.

[thenetwork]

This doesn't explain why they can't keep calling it Twitter.

They should take a page from the DOTs over the decades that converted from consecutive exit numbers to mileage-based exit numbers -- have a multi-year transition with both the old and the new names.

[tchafe1978]

So are tweets now called X-crements? Or X-cretions? Is the act of tweeting now called X-creting? Inquiring minds want to know.