[News] Things available today that show how lazy we have all become

[Eric the meek]

'How were we today? We would love your feedback'

So you want me to spend my time helping you do your customer research, something that you should be spending your own time on then?

 

[Mr Bridger]

Sliced bread, lazy. Move a knife backwards and forwards a few times and then you have a slice.

or a door stop.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sliced bread, lazy. Move a knife backwards and forwards a few times and then you have a slice.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

You could quite easily replace 'lazy' with 'busy'. It's fine for a load of Baby Boomers who worked 9-5 Monday to Friday (and immediately switched off the second they left the office, rather being constantly online and never really able to stop working) and could afford to have one earner in the house and one housewife to mock people for struggling to find the time to do things, but they don't live in the real world today.

You seem to have as much understanding of working life in the pre-tech/digitised age as many oldies have of how things are now. As someone who worked in the corporate world until very recently, I experienced both — and both were shitty, dehumanising experiences, albeit in different ways.

Everything’s relative. Someone could easily have written about how lazy people in the 1950s/1960s had become compared to previous generations with their new-fangled vacuum cleaners, TVs, telephones, supermarkets, etc.

It’s nothing to do with "laziness" of course. It’s to do with convenience, and removing some of the drudgery from our lives by inventing better ways of getting things done. Thank god for dishwashers I say.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Sat Navs - I used to enjoy working out my journeys using road atlases and an A-Z (when in London). When I was working in Holland I needed to plan a route from home to Le Shuttle and then through France, Belgium, Holland and the ferry to Middelburg all scribbled on post it notes.

 

[Easy 10]

Packets of grated cheese.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Ah the memories, I was one of those as a kid.

When I was a student in the late seventies, we rented a snazzy new push-button TV. Our remote control was a 10-foot stick.

Edited — ah, I see we weren’t the only ones to employ the latest technology at the time.

 

[Badger]

Leaf blowers, rakes are much more environmentally friendly.

This. Leaf blowers are the dumbest, most obnoxious machines ever invented. Especially petrol ones. They're pretty useless at the job they're intended for and have become a lazy tool for gardeners to move leaves/dust/rubbish and whatever else they can't be bothered to pick up by hand. The noise they make triggers my anxiety too.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Was talking about Blockbuster Video in Worthing the other day, with a friend who worked there many years ago. Ah, the carpets. The musty smell of stale popcorn.

The idea that you used to have to make a specific physical trip (perhaps even by car with parking and everything) to go and choose ONE film to borrow, and watch. And if it was rubbish, tough. That was your entertainment for the evening. AND then you have to again make the trip to take it back.

That seems unthinkably antiquated now.

I went to my local video shop for a video and bought a kitten.

 

[Horses Arse]

Push button opening car bloody boots. Why? What's so difficult about lifting a sodding boot lid?

Perhaos because cars are now taller than the midgets that drive suvs?.

 

[METALMICKY]

Ring doorbells.

This! Pre covid and years back I managed quite nicely not being able to see who's at my front door

 

[Horses Arse]

Using TLDR for "too long, didn't read", and multiple similar examples. What an arse wipe of a thing to do. Takes me ages looking up shite like that

 

[Stumpy Tim]

paid gardeners.

I hate gardening.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Using TLDR for "too long, didn't read", and multiple similar examples. What an arse wipe of a thing to do. Takes me ages looking up shite like that

LOL.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Washed and chopped vegetables from Supermarkets.

I was gob smacked to see boiled and sheeled eggs in a shop the other week.

 

[Peteinblack]

Packets of grated cheese.

Ah, I was just going to say this!

I'd also echo 'Alexa' - a mate of mine now rarely gets up from the sofa; "Alexa. turn on/off the lights; Alexa, turn on/off the heating, Alexa, play {insert name of band or song], Alexa, switch on the TV and play [insert name of film], etc., He is literally putting on weight because he gets absolutely no exercise!

Google - brilliant in some respects, but why read, research or work-out anything when you can simply 'Google it'.

Ipads when used by parents to keep their child distracted or entertained, because the parent can't be bothered to interact with their child. I see it frequently on public transport ("Oh, Tarquin's bored. Here, let him watch Peppa Pig on this little screen - and the rest of the carriage can listen to it too") . I worry that we're producing a generation of toddlers who will grow-up without any inter-personal, human communication and cognitive skills because their parents didn't talk to them, play games, read them a story, or engage in any shared leisure activities through which a child indirectly learns life skills, and also respect for other people.

ChatGPT - students now get AI to write their essays for them, leaving them with even more time to drool over 'selfies' on Instagram, or watch TikTok videos.

 

[Rogero]

Blow up dolls

 

[AstroSloth]

Deliveroo and Uber grocery's surely? They sell hardly any stock, it's over priced and supermarkets already offer delivery. You just have to have a modicum of organisation.

I wouldn't say so. Whilst yes it caters to lazy people too, it's extremely useful for people who are ill, disabled or have mental illness that prevents them from being able to go to the shop if they need something urgently.

 

[AstroSloth]

Ring doorbells.

Not a lazy thing. They're security measures that are also incredibly useful for when you're out.

 

[Questions]

You'd better hope she doesn't see this - not because of the cleaning comment but because you've called her an Old Bird

She’s a good girl …. We go everywhere together…. Saves having to kiss her goodbye.