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Gaynol Flora's avatar

My petty complaint is people audibly playing their music/game/phone call and not wearing earbuds. Seriously, shouldn’t we be able to banish these people to a hell dimension?

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

Bad etiquette! And to what end??? Especially on the subway, it can't be EASIER to hear music or video without headphones!!

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Sara's avatar

I'm now very worried about 2/7.

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I asked, Sara!!!

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Randal Cooper's avatar

My brain isn't working vis a vis alliterative game shows so I kept imagining you in a knockoff version of Supermarket Sweep.

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

Hahaha (Family Feud)!

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Joey Held's avatar

I very much wanted to attend the Taskmaster premiere but, alas, other life got in the way. What a fantastic experience!

Also, my petty complaint is that a growing number of drivers seem to find turn signals optional, which feels like a trend in the wrong direction.

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

What the heck!!! It's dangerous!!!

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Leslie Walstrom's avatar

Thank you for the Craig Finn song! My petty complaint is that I can't triple-like this post!

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it the allowed number of times!

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Amy Dickinson's avatar

It really pisses me off that your advice is better than mine.

Do I come to your shows and do better comedy than you?

No,

I do not.

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Josh Gondelman's avatar

Amy!!! Thank you this is extremely kind, but also for real you are one of the greats!!!

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Amy Dickinson's avatar

Haha! And another thing in the petty complaint dept-- (love that category, by the way...) today on Main Street in my very small rural town I saw a man walking a Jack Russell Terrier AND smoking a Sherlock Holmes-style pipe.

Shouldn't he be forced to pick a lane?

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

dear josh,

another great piece as always!

love this: "Plus, doing this made a lot of my close friends extremely jealous, which is of course why I got into comedy in the first place. Jkjkjkjk, it’s just a fringe perk."

please add my jealousy to the pile!

thanks for sharing!

love

myq

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Dan Afergan's avatar

My gripe: Waymos in San Francisco can't go on the highway, so it takes twice as long to get to the Marina!

How else am I going to get to the Ft. Mason farmer's market!?

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Tom!'s avatar

That documentary When Harry Met Sally is about this FWB(EEF) situation.

I can’t believe you like watching basketball more than kissing people! It’s all 3s and flops now in the NBA, and any league that isn’t the NBA you just can’t help but see the differences in talent.

In the old days you could watch Isaiah Thomas and Magic Johnson kiss on the court and then play basketball, so you felt like you didn’t have to choose. But for whatever reason that doesn’t happen these days.

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