I hate

I haven't found a solution for talking about time zones.

I live on the west coast, but because I'm most productive in the mornings, I essentially work on east coast time. Every time I have a meeting with a new person I'm torn between telling them I'm on the east coast or telling them I'm on the west coast, but it's best to schedule a meeting between 5-8 am my time.

Everything makes me look like a weirdo. Which maybe they expect from my profession? But still.

Virtue signalling in recent TV advertising.

The perfect (white) family with good teeth that we mere mortals have always been meant to aspire to was bad enough. Compulsory mixed race families was a step forwards. Gay couples are a belated acceptance of the real world.

When Oak Furniture Land have a mixed race lesbian couple 'enjoying' their wares who gets exploited next? Will the mixed race and transgender couple with a cute child with an obvious yet excusable disability be next in the firing line?

Ad execs, pretty please stop trying to peddle your tawdry wares with your nuclear arms race based on a humanity you clearly don't understand.

Should've posted that in 'rant' but, hey...

I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, it is normalising those kind of relationships after all which is good, even if we all know ugly capitalist values are behind it all.

It's the belated coining in on relationships that have always been normal which annoys me.

Can I add 'Advanced Hair Clinic' to the hate list? Just caught up with Catalunya after a night out and had the privilege of watching their latest offering (requires ongoing maintenance). Snake oil salesmen to the unnecessarily desperate and gullible.

How much did you spend with them before abandoning all hope?

What kind of meeting request system doesn't convert to recipients' local time?

Anything sending an email to someone that doesn't have an integrated calendar system so the invite is read by a human.

This is why Swatch created Beats.

I sit here. Even if in bad faith, it moves the overton window enough that pragmatically I think it is a net-good for the world.

This.

I do sometimes scoff when I see it, but usually only if it’s for a company I don’t like, then I check myself. It’s defo a good thing that bad companies are trying to do good things.

ETA: that’s not to say Oak Furniture Land are bad. Though you should probably get your wardrobe second hand or at least made of softwood if you can. M

Mcdads

Fivedads, plz. Some of us have standards!

Some of us have moar money than bloody sense

At the very least it’s going to wind up imbeciles, which is also a good thing.

Religious door knockers.
I just had a father/daughter pair from a well known door to door group come to my door. Before they started their schtick I told them a story about one of their Fellow members I used to work with.
He was constantly preaching to us in their condescending manner and thought he was infinitely superior. Then one day his 18 year old daughter gets pregnant. So he kicked her out. She came home from school and all her belongings were on the front step. He wouldn't even let her in the house.
How do I know this?
Because he was so proud of himself for doing it that he told all of us at work.
His daughter tried calling our boss to talk to him and he wouldn't even talk to her on the phone.
Nothing says "Christian" like kicking a pregnant teenage girl out into the street.
So I told today's doorknocker daughter this story. The father called me a liar but I hope I planted a seed of doubt.

My dad fucking loves talking and will talk to anyone. So often invites them in, especially if it's nice weather and he's in the garden.

He studied history, etymology and language and is into theology. His favourite topic with them is quizzing the reliability of their version of the Bible given it is translated.

I remember one time them leaving a bit quickly after the younger one started getting too interested and asking my dad too many questions.

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All good until the last 5 lines

I feel like the ^^^ approach is so much kinder* and more subversive, while ^^ just reinforces "they hate us but we're right".

* kindness through education, not meaning politeness

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I've never heard of Beats before, and I hate it. Please tell me no one fell for this bullshit.

JW’s have a policy of “disfellowshipping”.
Their cult leaders are terrified of members being subjected to bad influences. So they ban any contact with former members who have rejoined normal society.
It pissed me off that this guy was brainwashing his daughter. He definitely did not like me talking to her.
I feel sorry for her.

There's a JW mission near us and we get them a fair bit. We just say no thank you and they leave. Really they should have worked out there's no point bothering with houses within 5 minutes walk of the mission since if we haven't already have been converted by one of their brethren we probably aren't the converting type, but there you go.

I did have an interesting chat with one guy on a bus one day because we were stuck in traffic for about half an hour and learned a bit about the setup. He was very pleasant other than double checking every 5 minutes just in case I'd changed my mind about not wanting to be converted...

Anyway, what I realised from talking to him about his mission is that the purpose of the missions and doorstep evangelising isn't to make us JWs at all, it's to make them even more deeply identify as JWs.

So these young JWs leave their home environment to be immersed somewhere they know noone except other JWs, who form a community around them. And every time they go out to evangelise, they are defining themselves as a JW in front of someone who isn't, linking their own identity more and more with the concept of being a JW.

Replying at 82.51 bmt. Not entirely sure it's going to catch on.

On average they will only convert one person in their entire life. Which seems to fit in with your theory.

Clock fiddling. Pick a UTC offset and stick with it all year.

Pick UTC

FTFY

UTC would be best but I'd settle for UTC+1 all year round rather than the current clusterfuck.