So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Edward]

Vinyl, maybe?

I’d have to see it up close and run my hands over it before delivering a verdict. Is it textured, maybe?

That it’s fake glass or ceramic or whatever wouldn’t necessarily put me off to it. The vinyl plank flooring in my kitchen has a faux wood grain, as does the ceramic tile on the bathroom floor and the sheet steel garage door.

We have wood-effect vinyl flooring in the kitchen and the bathroom. I was wary initially, but in truth it's so much nicer getting out of the bath than stepping on cold tiles. Whoever tiled my kitchen floor (long before I moved in) also didn't level it well, which was always a pain when sweeping. The vinyl top layer now is so much easier in that regard. Mind you, much as the woodgrain works for our kitchen, I'm still hoping the wife will let me have one of the old-shop-floor sparkly type ones if we ever move house...

I prophesy, that Youtube is dead. It's far beyond it's zenith. All next-generation Youtubers doing the same now, old pioneer youtubers are submerged. There's not more any innovative stuff.
I bet, it will change to pay TV, next years.

IT's already possible to pay for youtube "Premium" in order to avoid the ads. I'd love to know the take-up on that. It was always a truism of the web that the audience expected everything for free, but with the rise of Netflix and Amazon especially, I think there is a higher number of people now who are prepared to pay for content that is ad-free and less reliant on data profiling (though the latter far from disappears with a subscription fee).

Another thing:
Yesterday, in the next bigger city, an Edeka supermarket, I have never been in before, had new shopping carts with smartphone holders! I only thought "WTF"?? But these carts curiously had no deposit slots, too.
Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?

Sainsburys in the UK now offer an app for phones which allows the user to scan purchases as they go round the aisles, allowing for an expediated check-out experience at the end - which has to be by a human for security purposes, obviously. Not used it yet, but it does seem like a nice compromise between tech and not seeing human jobs replaced entirely by automated check-outs. I expect this sort of thing will start to be a standard feature of the design of trolleys as it becomes more common, even if some places don't use it - in the same way as I remember barcodes being on all products for literal decades before they were actually used in any shops I ever was in as a way of facilitating sales and payments.

 

[MisterCairo]

Another thing:
Yesterday, in the next bigger city, an Edeka supermarket, I have never been in before, had new shopping carts with smartphone holders! I only thought "WTF"?? But these carts curiously had no deposit slots, too.
Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?

Yes, most likely.

 

[MisterCairo]

I have said it before but it bears repeating - cilantro.

 

[Harp]

Why does everybody who makes You Tube videos adopt the same eye-bugging, nostril-flaring, hand-waving persona, exclaiming "Guys!" to start every other phrase? Is there some trendy How To Make Engaging You Tube Videos That Get The Clicks tutorial that urges them to do this in hopes of promoting viewer engagement and driving the algorithm? Or is it just that all You Tube videos are made by eye-bugging, nostril-flaring, hand-waving idiots? "GUYS!"

You Tube music reactors; especially African and Jamaicans tend to hammer this idiom nail
but I attribute indigenous colloquial usage at play, and I am far more intrigued by the current
generation hunger-women in particular- for male vocalist troubador romance song.

 

[tonyb]

…

Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?

That would be my guess.

I have yet to see phone holders on shopping carts here, but cup holders are ubiquitous. But then, so are in-store Starbucks coffee stands, so …

 

[LizzieMaine]

I can remember a time when you hardly ever saw anybody walking the streets with any kind of a beverage in their hand, and those rare occasions when you did, it was usually a kid with a soda. Now, suddenly, everyone has to venture out equipped with sufficient personal-hydration supplies for a Foreign Legionnaire on a death-march across the Libyan desert. Water bottles are, by far, the most common item in our lost and found box, and yet, I've never owned or used one, and I've never walked the street holding a coffee cup. What am I missing? Where did this trend come from?

 

[Trenchfriend]

I can remember a time when you hardly ever saw anybody walking the streets with any kind of a beverage in their hand, and those rare occasions when you did, it was usually a kid with a soda. Now, suddenly, everyone has to venture out equipped with sufficient personal-hydration supplies for a Foreign Legionnaire on a death-march across the Libyan desert. Water bottles are, by far, the most common item in our lost and found box, and yet, I've never owned or used one, and I've never walked the street holding a coffee cup. What am I missing? Where did this trend come from?

North Face-people...

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh yeah, the people who put on a puffy polar coat, a heavy scarf, ski gloves, and mountain boots to walk from their heated house to their heated car, and then complain they have to stand out in the cold to buy a movie ticket.

 

[tonyb]

I can remember a time when you hardly ever saw anybody walking the streets with any kind of a beverage in their hand, and those rare occasions when you did, it was usually a kid with a soda. Now, suddenly, everyone has to venture out equipped with sufficient personal-hydration supplies for a Foreign Legionnaire on a death-march across the Libyan desert. Water bottles are, by far, the most common item in our lost and found box, and yet, I've never owned or used one, and I've never walked the street holding a coffee cup. What am I missing? Where did this trend come from?

I don’t quite get it, either.

I often have some sort of liquid refreshment in the car (iced coffee or tea, usually), and just about every car built in recent decades has cup holders. But when I’m on foot I much prefer having my hands free. And I especially don’t wish to be encumbered with any item too precious to toss in the litter basket. A 10-plus dollar stainless steel insulated go cup would be such an item.

 

[Edward]

I can remember a time when you hardly ever saw anybody walking the streets with any kind of a beverage in their hand, and those rare occasions when you did, it was usually a kid with a soda. Now, suddenly, everyone has to venture out equipped with sufficient personal-hydration supplies for a Foreign Legionnaire on a death-march across the Libyan desert. Water bottles are, by far, the most common item in our lost and found box, and yet, I've never owned or used one, and I've never walked the street holding a coffee cup. What am I missing? Where did this trend come from?

I think it's part of the 'to go' culture. Gives a fashionable appearance of being a person on the move, too busy / too important to stop and sit down somewhere for a coffee. I'm clearly just cheap, but I never really 'got' why anyone would go to the effort of taking their own, re-usable cup from home, going and buying a coffee on the way to work, rather than make it at home and put it on your own cup and carry it from there.... I'm no coffee drinker, though, never developed a taste for the stuff, so I'm sure for a coffee drinker to whom a Brand X MegaMochaWhatever *is* distinctly different from a home-brew it might be worth the extra hassle. I suppose I'm just like someone who doesn't like cola not getting the Pepsi v Coke thing.

 

[Harp]

I confess to finding 'milkshake' drinkers at Starbucks a royal pain in the ass with their heated
skim milk, caramel squirt horseshit coffee and other non latte crap comic concoctions when I stand
waiting for a small cup of joe=just java. end of rant

 

[Trenchfriend]

See, these are the moments, when I hate Youtube! Seeing this and immediately wanting to be there.

 

[Harp]

See, these are the moments, when I hate Youtube! Seeing this and immediately wanting to be there.

Kyokushinkai Shodan or 1st degree black belt awardees will spar all night then be pampered the
following day by lovely kimono girls who bathe, massage, and provide other chaste service.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Do they think, people use their smartphones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?

I don't mount mine on any shopping carts, but I do use my cell phone for grocery/shopping lists. It's easier.

 

[Trenchfriend]

These were the new Edeka shopping carts, I talked about. The ones yesterday without the usual deposit coin slot, like I said.

BUT in my mind, I already see blind SMOMBIES bumping into other people.

My smalltown Edeka and our other markets still got their old carts, luckily!

How could we all survive the 90s with analog devices??

 

[Hercule]

I can remember a time when you hardly ever saw anybody walking the streets with any kind of a beverage in their hand, and those rare occasions when you did, it was usually a kid with a soda. Now, suddenly, everyone has to venture out equipped with sufficient personal-hydration supplies for a Foreign Legionnaire on a death-march across the Libyan desert. Water bottles are, by far, the most common item in our lost and found box, and yet, I've never owned or used one, and I've never walked the street holding a coffee cup. What am I missing? Where did this trend come from?

It was a product of the first Gulf war.

 

[Zombie_61]

These were the new Edeka shopping carts, I talked about. The ones yesterday without the usual deposit coin slot, like I said.

BUT in my mind, I already see blind SMOMBIES bumping into other people. ...

And that's the real danger--people walking through stores not paying attention to anything but their damned cell phones and running into people, and product, and whatever else they won't be paying attention to because Billie Eilish's newest video dropped.

...How could we all survive the 90s with analog devices??

Hell, I survived the 60s, 70s, and most of the 80s with none of this crap. And I believe I'm a better person for it.

 

[tonyb]

I confess to finding 'milkshake' drinkers at Starbucks a royal pain in the ass with their heated
skim milk, caramel squirt horseshit coffee and other non latte crap comic concoctions when I stand
waiting for a small cup of joe=just java. end of rant

They were told it brings all the boys to the yard.

 

[Hercule]

These were the new Edeka shopping carts, I talked about. The ones yesterday without the usual deposit coin slot, like I said.

BUT in my mind, I already see blind SMOMBIES bumping into other people.

My smalltown Edeka and our other markets still got their old carts, luckily!

How could we all survive the 90s with analog devices??

Given how tied we are to our smart devices, it's a pretty handy thing in my opinion. But I would suggest another application other than holding a phone that has a shopping list on it. (my family likes to do this, but I still prefer a paper list) In my neck of the woods self scanning your purchases while you shop has become a godsend for avoiding all the lines and getting through a supermarket in a reasonable time. While some markets provide hand held scanner guns, others encourage the use of a phone app. The device pictured would sure make scanning barcodes with a phone much easier. These things (similar but horizontally oriented and centrally located) appeared on carts around here a while back but soon disappeared. We use the gun scanner all the time. The cup holder on the cart makes for a great holster too.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I don’t quite get it, either.

I often have some sort of liquid refreshment in the car (iced coffee or tea, usually), and just about every car built in recent decades has cup holders. But when I’m on foot I much prefer having my hands free. And I especially don’t wish to be encumbered with any item too precious to toss in the litter basket. A 10-plus dollar stainless steel insulated go cup would be such an item.

Maybe this comment is better for the "You Know You're Getting Old When ..." thread, but I rarely have a fierce thirst when walking around town. I do frequently have an urgent need for the other end of the business.