Things that annoy me

[kellycummings]

Feel like starting a rant thread so here goes....

1. Commercials for my cable company on a cable channel that I could never view without already being a subscriber to said cable company. That pisses me off. It makes no sense! What a complete waste of my time. At the very least, put on a public service announcement or something. Geez!

2. Putting the new Spongebob cartoon on at 9:30 pm. I don't let my kids stay up this late. Sure, it meant that I got to see it without being bothered by the kids but still, wasn't fair to them and seem silly since kids are the core audience.

3. Old Navy commercials. Just stop already!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never been and will never go into an Old Navy store as long as these ridiculous ads are on the air.

Can you tell I just got done watching tv?
Feel free to rant. Trust me, it makes you feel better!

 

[SlickTony]

Why is it that collections people and telemarketers always seem to know to call when I'm on the toilet engaged in serious business?

 

[McKenna]

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[Guest]

Feel like starting a rant thread so here goes....

2. Putting the new Spongebob cartoon on at 9:30 pm. I don't let my kids stay up this late. Sure, it meant that I got to see it without being bothered by the kids but still, wasn't fair to them and seem silly since kids are the core audience.

For us it was 8:30. (central time)

Our kids got to watch it because their bedtime is 8:00 - we gave them a bit more time tonight.

AND it was a funny episode.

But I hate when they do that. (Especially since mom and dad want to get the kids to sleep so we can enjoy being happily married!)

 

[SnoopDog]

I'm from germany, so I couldn't rant too much about your tv programmes. But I have lately seen the Oscar and Golden Globes broadcasts and I now know I'd never be able to live in the states because I couldn't stand commercials every 15 minutes. Aaarghhh that really is too much. I don't know whether that's the regular basis or just for those events. But it really annyoed me.
Also because the german tv station couldn't sell those late commercials (it was in the middle of the night local time), so they just put in trailers for their own shows. And believe me when you have seen them over and over again, that's nowhere near fun.
Snoopy

 

[gauchecritic]

I'd advise you against getting a sky dish then Snoop. Mr Murdoch (now that he's ruined English football) is attempting to make Europe into an ad-drenched community.

My tallest son really enjoyed the series "24 Hours" on sky and each of the 24 episodes lasted one hour.

For the second series Mr Murdoch decided to include all the ad breaks making the show run one hour and twenty minutes. After the first one, the lad decided against watching any more.

On the UK** channels all the old BBC programmes, which originally lasted half an hour, now take up 40 minutes.

If Mr Murdock visits Lit and reads the threads I'd just like to tell him that over here we can concentrate for longer than 7 minutes at a time

You're making our kids surf during commercials. STOP IT.

Gauche

 

[SnoopDog]

I'd advise you against getting a sky dish then Snoop. Mr Murdoch (now that he's ruined English football) is attempting to make Europe into an ad-drenched community.

My tallest son really enjoyed the series "24 Hours" on sky and each of the 24 episodes lasted one hour.

For the second series Mr Murdoch decided to include all the ad breaks making the show run one hour and twenty minutes. After the first one, the lad decided against watching any more.

On the UK** channels all the old BBC programmes, which originally lasted half an hour, now take up 40 minutes.

If Mr Murdock visits Lit and reads the threads I'd just like to tell him that over here we can concentrate for longer than 7 minutes at a time

You're making our kids surf during commercials. STOP IT.

Gauche

I also love that show and luckyly over here they didn't do that. But I can understand why your son decided against that. I mean it's so annyoing. And for me it doesn't even work, because I don't watch commercials, I'd rather switch channels.
Snoopy

 

[Guest]

I never watch the ads. I turn on 'mute' and read, or pet my bunny. Sometimes I forget to look at the tv again.

Perdita

p.s. Gauche, would you ask your tall son if he also thought 24 should have rid itself of the stupid daughter, i.e., just how often can a sensible girl keep getting chased by maniacs and kidnapped?!

 

[grumpymann]

what else is there to do?

As I have said before, I live in a small town (Small in size and in mind). So unless you want to: Drink yourself into oblivion, Hunt till there is nothing moving in the woods but hunters, Watch high school sports (I don’t like watching ANY sport), Make babies all day every day (Ok this one can be kind of fun), Or beat your spouse (and not the fun kind), Or complain about how you hate it here all day (Witch is the municipal sport here among people my age). There is nothing else to do but watch TV, if you want to have anything in common with the people around you. (And I don’t after living here for more than a year and a half I have no one I call a friend here.)

Lets face it as far as MOST TV shows go… “All the good themes have been used up and turned into theme parks.”

If I can watch 85% of the shows on the air and not know how it’s going to go and end all I did that day was watch FOX news.

But that is WHY TV sucks (For the most part). Life is such a pain in the ass that sometimes I want to turn off the day.

It’s a drug and sometimes I’m addicted, so I put up with the asinine commercials, slighted news, sensationalized lies about what life is really like, plots made so that it can’t even hold the attention of the average three year old and erratic cut away shots that are so erratic that they can even make infomercials seem exciting.

P.S. I still hate myself and wash my hands in the dark afterwards.

 

[gauchecritic]

Perdita

p.s. Gauche, would you ask your tall son if he also thought 24 should have rid itself of the stupid daughter, i.e., just how often can a sensible girl keep getting chased by maniacs and kidnapped?!

He shrugged his shoulders and was like "mneh".

Gauche

 

[minsue]

My tallest son really enjoyed the series "24 Hours" on sky and each of the 24 episodes lasted one hour.

For the second series Mr Murdoch decided to include all the ad breaks making the show run one hour and twenty minutes. After the first one, the lad decided against watching any more.

Gauche

How long are your ad breaks??? The show is only an hour long here.

- Mindy, who often prefers the ads to the shows

 

[Guest]

He shrugged his shoulders and was like "mneh".

Ah ha ha, just like a bloke.

Thanks, Perdita

 

[CharleyH]

hmm, since we started, and carried on with television, and aside from cable company monolpolies charging a hundred bucks WAY too much, how about suddenly finding a hidden digital camera that you were unaware of? That makes me a LITTLE more than angry, but I have no appropriate words YET.

 

[Guest]

Charlie babe, really? Spew.

On non-hidden cams: I sometimes take a cab to work when late for an early meeting. The 5 cabs in SF now have vidcams so I have to rush more frantically making sure my hair looks good.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

This has nothing to do with television, but right now, whiney butt kids annoy me...

Do they ever grow out of the whiney butt stage??

 

[kellycummings]

hmm, since we started, and carried on with television, and aside from cable company monolpolies charging a hundred bucks WAY too much, how about suddenly finding a hidden digital camera that you were unaware of? That makes me a LITTLE more than angry, but I have no appropriate words YET.

I think hidden cams are bullshit. I got no problem if someone wants to put up cams to protect their property, company, whatever but there is no need to hide them. That just screams invasion of privacy. I'm sure there is a legitimate arugment that a company can hide them because by working for them you are giving up privacy in the workplace (I'm assuming that's what you are talking about) but I still think it's bullshit.

 

[kellycummings]

This has nothing to do with television, but right now, whiney butt kids annoy me...

Do they ever grow out of the whiney butt stage??

No, they never do. LOL

 

[gauchecritic]

hmm, since we started, and carried on with television, and aside from cable company monolpolies charging a hundred bucks WAY too much, how about suddenly finding a hidden digital camera that you were unaware of? That makes me a LITTLE more than angry, but I have no appropriate words YET.

That deserves a report to the police and a law suit figuring somewhere in the millions of dollars, even if you did actually sign up for it in the small print, they obviously didn't make much effort to point it out to you.

Aghast.

Gauche

 

[Guest]

Do they ever grow out of the whiney butt stage??

Red gurl, are you kidding? Just read the AH .

Yeah, I hated the whining stage, all parents do I think.

Perdita

 

[gauchecritic]

Do they ever grow out of the whiney butt stage??

I don't know, did you?

Gauche

 

[Guest]

Aghast.

Gauche

Just have to say I like the juxtaposition of those two words.

not Perdu

 

[Guest]

I don't know, did you?

Yikes, now I am aghast.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I don't know, did you?

Gauche

LOL, to some extent I did. I generally have a good reason if I whine about something. They just whine about everything, lol.

CM

 

[Guest]

Red gurl, are you kidding? Just read the AH .

Perdita

LOL, good point.

 

[Guest]

Hooray! Calvin's back. thanks, P.