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Interviewing an athlete, I'm avoiding a spoiler, after her gold medal ceremony and asking what they would have said to a recently deceased relative . An already emotional moment, the question is cheap effort to bring on the tears. Shame on them.

We had the same conversation. What a disgusting ploy!
 

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Interviewing an athlete, I'm avoiding a spoiler, after her gold medal ceremony and asking what they would have said to a recently deceased relative . An already emotional moment, the question is cheap effort to bring on the tears. Shame on them.
I nearly posted this point a few days ago. Virtually every interview I've heard or seen with a medal winner has concluded with a question that was either a disgusting attempt to make them cry or just something totally asinine...
"I know your grandfather died this year..."
or
"How proud are you of what you've achieved?"
 

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Yesterday, spent an hour helping my Dad track down a mysterious repeating warning chime in his car that wasn't accompanied my any visible message or light. It's been bothering him for days.
An hour of aimless driving around, checking through the manual and Ford forums revealed nothing.

Eventually traced it to his "older person's" style mobile phone that he keeps at the bottom of the centre storage compartment, notifying him that he received a text message a week ago.
?‍♂️
 

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Yesterday, spent an hour helping my Dad track down a mysterious repeating warning chime in his car that wasn't accompanied my any visible message or light. It's been bothering him for days.
An hour of aimless driving around, checking through the manual and Ford forums revealed nothing.

Eventually traced it to his "older person's" style mobile phone that he keeps at the bottom of the centre storage compartment, notifying him that he received a text message a week ago.
?‍♂️
Are you sure that this doesn't go in the laughter thread ?
 
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