I ran off the road and nearly into my neighbor's tree

"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus) 02/18/2020 at 09:26 • Filed to: None

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I had gloves on and having a hell of a time getting pandora to skip to the next song. The n ext thing I know I’m on the grass and near ran into a tree.

fortunately for me, that image came from a goog le search and I was actually running, not driving,  so the worst that could have happened was me getting a sore nose and feeling like an idiot.

MonkeePuzzle > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:40

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MonkeePuzzle > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:41

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functionoverfashion > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:41

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CLICKBAIT

but I did laugh, trying to picture you literally running into a tree

MonkeePuzzle > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:41

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MonkeePuzzle > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:41

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MonkeePuzzle > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:41

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MonkeePuzzle > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:42

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Jacca > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:45

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This thread is like a SFW version of r/meatcrayon

OPPOsaurus WRX > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 09:45

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“intelligent specie”

Brickman > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:47

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ttyymmnn > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:50

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If you have an iPhone, you can say, “Hey Siri! Skip this song!” and it will skip the song.

OPPOsaurus WRX > ttyymmnn 02/18/2020 at 09:52

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I have an android powered something

Tripper > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:53

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You can double click one of the buttons to do skip

facw > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:55

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Then you want “OK Google, Next” (or “Hey Google, Next” if you don’t care about sounding like a long time Google Assistant user.)

Long_Voyager94 > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 09:58

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I would drive through that for fun!

ttyymmnn > facw 02/18/2020 at 09:58

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I use Siri voice commands all the time while I’m driving. My brother tells me that in order for it to work, your phone has to be listening to everything you say. I’m okay with that.

facw > Tripper 02/18/2020 at 09:58

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Also yes, get some headphones with playback controls. They are pretty hard to avoid unless all your earbuds are airline freebies.

facw > ttyymmnn 02/18/2020 at 10:02

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Yep. When I was commuting regularly, every trip in the car basically started with:

“OK Google, play music” (or an audio book)

and then

“OK Google, navigate to “

In theory, they shouldn’t be listening for anything other than the wake word, which then triggers sending additional audio to Google (or whoever). Of course in practice they can mishear and end up sending stuff they shouldn’t, but I find the voice commands both convenient and Star Treky.

ttyymmnn > facw 02/18/2020 at 10:04

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I use it to read and send text messages. It nails the dictation about 90% of the time. Also to make calls on the speaker (not a whole lot of hands free in my 13-year-old Odyssey). 

Kiltedpadre > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 10:11

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I had a woman walk into the center of the grill of my parked work truck while staring at her phone. My work truck has 5 led strobes visible from the front that were flashing at the time.

TheRealBicycleBuck > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2020 at 10:15

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That dog did a perfect shoulder roll. He  must be into martial arts.

CalzoneGolem > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 10:30

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I saw the picture and all I could thing of was “Where is all the  snow?”

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > Brickman 02/18/2020 at 10:34

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I was looking for this meme.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 10:50

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I had a similar experience about a month ago. Except I was driving.

I was out on a side road and looking down at my phone getting google maps set up for directions. Next thing I knew I had snow coming up over the windshield. Thankfully I wasn’t going more than 20mph? But that just proves that going slower doesn’t make you impervious to crashing into something if you’re not paying attention.

Lesson learned, if your distracted just stop. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 10:59

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How dare you bring clickbait onto m uh good Christian Oppo

OPPOsaurus WRX > CalzoneGolem 02/18/2020 at 11:29

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there is no snow, we’ve had maybe 2 or 3 small storms this whole winter. 

CalzoneGolem > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 11:31

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Fucking climate change.

TheRealBicycleBuck > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/18/2020 at 11:48

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One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed was my best friend walking into a sign pole. He was too busy talking to me to watch where he was going. :D

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/18/2020 at 12:56

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And being a good friend you didn’t say anything to warn him and gave him shit for it afterward, right?

TheRealBicycleBuck > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 02/18/2020 at 13:15

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Of course I didn’t warn him. We were walking the same direction, a few feet apart. I was switching between looking ahead and looking at him. I assumed he was doing the same. There were four or five of us in the group at the time. You can bet he still hears about it to this day. :)