u/Hmmark1984

I'm sure Ashley and Burnie already know this, but for those who don't, one of the reasons those phishing emails often include poor grammar and spelling mistakes is because the scammers aren't looking for the people smart enough to notice them. As harsh as it sounds, they're looking for the people "too dumb" to spot such obvious warning signs.

Also, while this isn't such an issue these days with more and more people choosing to only have a mobile, not a landline, one of the classic tricks scammers would do is call your landline, claim to be your bank, then when you do as Burnie did and say you'll call them back on a number you find, you'll "hang up" the phone, but the scammer won't, so when you pick up the handset and dial your bank, you'll still be on the call with the scammer, but you'll think you've called the real bank. They've even been known to play a fake dial tone! So to avoid that, if possible use a different phone, wait at least 15 mins before calling your bank if you have no other phone, or call a trusted friend first.

Hearing Ashley and Burnie talk about pasta reminded me of something that always seems weird to me when i hear Americans talk about pasta. Is it only Americans that seem to refer to the majority of pasta as "noodles"? Here in the UK the only thing you would call "noodles" would be noodles, like you get with chow mein or similar, i've never heard anyone other than Americans refer to generic pasta as "noodles", i assume it's probably also a thing in Canada, but just curious if anywhere else in the world calls random pasta shapes "noodles" as well.

Hearing them talk about the new Steam controller, and Burnie saying he wasn't really a fan of the original, it made me think back to its release and how i remember at the time that i really didn't like it, but any time i dared mention that i got shot down by a near endless stream of people proclaiming it the best controller ever.

However, now when i look around, the overwhelming thoughts i can find about it anywhere are that it wasn't any good.

I was listening today when Burnie mentioned his annoyance when you get people all making the same, very predictable, "joke" on something, even if hundreds of people have already done it.

I think this might be part of a bigger issue, where people are almost conditioned of what to say/do in a certain situation, without really know why they're doing it.

For example, the "split the G" thing, i'd put money that most of the people saying that to him, have never done it and as he pointed out, it's not "a thing" in Ireland, but as he found out, post a pic of a partially drunk Guinness and that's what 90% of your comments will be, only because all those people know that's what you do if you see a pic like that.

I'm a "car guy" and it's something i run into frequently, normally with younger people, who seem to have picked up the knowledge that you must wait several mins upon starting your car, to let the oil circulate, before you set off. Obviously that did use to be the case, but if you drive anything even slightly modern, that uses fully synth oil, all you need to do is wait a few seconds for the revs to drop, and then you're fine to set off and drive normally. However, if you try and tell those "car guys" that, they'll shoot you down and claim that not only are you wrong, but they're "better" car guys because they care enough about their cars to wait. It just proves they don't actually know the reason you used to have to do it, and why it's no longer needed.

I think the bigger issue is with people wanting to know the answer to something, but not wanting to learn the reasoning for the answer, they just google something, see a vid or see someone else say/do the thing, and they just think "right, that's what i do/say in this situation" they don't put any further thought into why.