Doesn't Weatherbug install a whole bunch of adware?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.
Yeah, the Weatherbug sound is super annoying. This is some shit from the Weather Channel, so it just makes thunder noises in case of emergency -- or it did, before I turned the sound off.
I like the indeterminate gender-ness of waitron....
Weatherbug alerts are awful, I agree. Not just the chirping sound, but they alert you to everything, not just changes. So if it's raining, it will chirp every friggin' three minutes to tell you OMGSTILLRAINING!!
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Nowhere in the ballpark of JMPP, but the writing is hilariously awful.
I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.
Too much so for me. I use "server" because that's what servers I know say.
Not just the chirping sound, but they alert you to everything, not just changes. So if it's raining, it will chirp every friggin' three minutes to tell you OMGSTILLRAINING!!
Totally. HEY! NOW IT'S NOT RAINING UPSTATE ANYMORE!! STILL RAINING IN THE CITY!!!!!
What the eff is with bloglines today? I am sure I do not have 600 unread Defamer posts!
I like the indeterminate gender-ness of waitron....
I just call all waiters waiters, whether they are boys or girls. I also call girl-comedians just comedians. Because "comedienne" is the dumbest word ever.
There used to be all sorts of gendered words, like baker/baxter and thatcher/thaxter and I don't know what. But English isn't formally a gendered language, so I mostly don';t bother (unless the word is cool, like murderess!) In Spanish, where word-gendering persists, people sometimes use the male version for females because the female version has come to mean "the wife of the guy who ____". Which is why a female mayor is usually called la alcalde instead of la alcaldesa.