Things That Annoy You

[Eddie Coyle]

Good God, man!

That's quite possibly the scariest thing I've read here, except for cat things.

      HP Lovecraft couldn't envision what I see coming on Thursday...

        * "Young Randy Quaid" who seems like a kid to me is...14 months younger than me(he's 36, my sister 27) and it's frightening to think we're the same age, but so far apart.
   

[Eddie Coyle]

Sounds like a plan.  This year, it's just me and the dogs and cat. I was invited to aunt/cousin's house, but I really don't know their family at all, and that would be awkward.  I usually go all out on Thanksgiving, everything homemade, but I think I'll probably just make chicken wings this year. 

          If they didn't live 5 blocks from me, I could get away with it -"You know that Sandy really wiped out..." but unfortunately I have pressure coming from other siblings who rarely see me, so this is like one of the 4-5 days a year I poke my head out.

         Your plans sound better than mine, though. That's solitude.

[PB the Deplorable]

        I'm sure somebody will be recording it. Days like that seem to bring out the documentarian in my relatives. My sister has the hosting duties this year, and Young Randy Quaid's dummy kin folk will likely be there too. I have to laugh about it, or I'll go nuts. 40 people there, and I've already devised escape plans for conversations with 37 of them.

          I might stay home and watch Night Flight on YouTube.

40 people!  My trick is to show up, be sure to be seen by cheerfully smilng and saying hi to everyone, then sneak out the back. 

No one will ever know, or if they do wonder where I am it will be just a moment before they go in search of the next plateful or glass of wine.

No unpleasantness, it works pretty well.

[Eddie Coyle]

40 people!  My trick is to show up, be sure to be seen by cheerfully smilng and saying hi to everyone, then sneak out the back. 

No one will ever know, or if they do wonder where I am it will be just a moment before they go in search of the next plateful or glass of wine.

No unpleasantness, it works pretty well.

That's the plan. A quick cameo appearance...but unfortunately, I have a kook magnet implanted somewhere in my DNA, and inevitably, the nuttier people find me.

          I was thinking about it...it may actually be closer to 55-60 people I forgot to include kids.

           

[Nucky Nolan]

          I can't wait until Young Randy Quaid has the Lions game on and offers up incisive conversation starters like "Remember Barry Sanders...he was good", or "How come the Lions get to play on Thanksgiving?"

        Even when you dumb it down for him...he manages to take it lower. "I'm shocked they still call it Black Friday" will fall from his mouth by 3pm.

That sounds like a scene from "National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Dinner". Would it be possible to tape Randy, and put the clip on You Tube?

[Eddie Coyle]

That sounds like a scene from "National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Dinner". Would it be possible to tape Randy, and put the clip on You Tube?

I only wish Young Randy had "Cousin Eddie's" wit. We get the laconic, yet still somewhat talkative, Last Detail guy.

         As someone who expects their every conversation to end up on Facebook or YouTube, it's matter of time before one of me and Young Randy's skull sessions ends up there. You'll recognize me as the guy pulling the hair of out his skull.

[analog kid]

I might stay home and watch Night Flight on YouTube.

What I wouldn't give for a complete archive of those shows.

A favorite is a short where two college kids decide to rebel and live off the grid like Thereau and immediately get sick of it. "You didn't even read that book, just the back cover!" "I don't need to read it, I'm living it."

Also a favorite song.

[Eddie Coyle]

What I wouldn't give for a complete archive of those shows.

A favorite is a short where two college kids decide to rebel and live off the grid like Thereau and immediately get sick of it. "You didn't even read that book, just the back cover!" "I don't need to read it, I'm living it."

Also a favorite song.

        "Night Flight"(the song) was recorded in '71, but held off of IV and Houses, which blows my mind.

          Night Flight(the show) was genre-defying, truly free-form. That it's been gone 25 years next summer makes me feel very, very old. But that goes back to the "old cable kicks new cable's ass" argument.

[analog kid]

        "Night Flight"(the song) was recorded in '71, but held off of IV and Houses, which blows my mind.

          Night Flight(the show) was genre-defying, truly free-form. That it's been gone 25 years next summer makes me feel very, very old. But that goes back to the "old cable kicks new cable's ass" argument.

That is nuts. It's one of the best songs on graffiti, which is saying a lot.

Saw so much brilliant stuff on the show that's probably forever down a memory hole.

There are weird video compilations on pirate bay that kinda give me the same sort of feeling of randomness and not knowing what to expect. One series is called "Lost and Found Video Night." They aren't for the faint of heart by any measure though, and are highly NSFW.

[Eddie Coyle]

That is nuts. It's one of the best songs on graffiti, which is saying a lot.

Saw so much brilliant stuff on the show that's probably forever down a memory hole.

There are weird video compilations on pirate bay that kinda give me the same sort of feeling of randomness and not knowing what to expect. One series is called "Lost and Found Video Night." They aren't for the faint of heart by any measure though, and are highly NSFW.

       My guess on "Night Flight's" semi-obscurity, and being held off until Graffiti, is that it wasn't a favorite of Page's. It's very much a "Jones/Plant" song, and from what I've read, almost never played live. Graffiti is my favorite Zep record, largely because it hasn't been played to death on classic rock.

          Down the memory hole indeed for most of Night Flight's material. They went out of their way to not be MTV or Friday Night Videos, and those movies they'd show are completely long forgotten. Even a movie like "The Kids Are Alright", which was very popular- has vanished. VH1 Classic neglects music-based films in favor of Brat Pack things.

[analog kid]

       My guess on "Night Flight's" semi-obscurity, and being held off until Graffiti, is that it wasn't a favorite of Page's. It's very much a "Jones/Plant" song, and from what I've read, almost never played live.

They rarely played "Down By The Seaside" live either. If I'm not mistaken, it was played live only once. Not a good showcase for Page I guess, like you say.

[Sardondi]

       My guess on "Night Flight's" semi-obscurity, and being held off until Graffiti, is that it wasn't a favorite of Page's. It's very much a "Jones/Plant" song, and from what I've read, almost never played live. Graffiti is my favorite Zep record, largely because it hasn't been played to death on classic rock.....

It definitely is less bluesy, but not one of the pseudo-mythic power ballads which gave us Plant's bare chest. Doesn't have what I'd call a killer hook though. So it can't be confused with Chilliwack's (hat tip to Jazz-girl and all Canucks) Fly At Night, which is full of hooky passages big enough to hang moose from. (Get it? Big hook? Canadian-moose? See, it's uh, a play on words, like.)

Chilliwack (Fly At Night)...1977...Lyrics Provided Under Info:

Wait - where am I? Isn't this "Music"?

[Eddie Coyle]

They rarely played "Down By The Seaside" live either. If I'm not mistaken, it was played live only once. Not a good showcase for Page I guess, like you say.

    "I know a person"   who has a few bootlegs from Zep's '75 USA tour, and they only played 4-5 songs from Graffitti, "Sick Again", "In My Time of Dying", "Kashmir", "Trampled Under Foot". Granted, 2 of those songs took up 25 minutes, but it's only a third(or less) of the album.

         Chilliwack! One of those 10 year overnight sensations with one hit here, but a string of them in North USA. Or is it Western Franceland?

[Sardondi]

   ......Chilliwack! One of those 10 year overnight sensations with one hit here, but a string of them in North USA. Or is it Western Franceland?

Chilliwack is a national institution in Upper Iowa. And they actually perform today at a fairly high level, with their lead singer still able to sing in the song's original key.

[Unquenchable Angst]

I have a neighbor that has a yound daughter that had a toothache one day and needed a ride to the clinic.So, being in empathy and concern I took them to the clinic.The child was like a wild animal sticking her arm from the back seat to infront of my face pointing and yelling 'LOOK' at what ever wonderment for her. Then after that day 'mom' thought she could use me to taxi her everywhere.I am fairly tightly bugeted.One day I told her I could not be her ride for her to take the city bus as I was short of gas.She offered to loan me some gas money after I had used most of a tank on her.She later came back and threw my plants of the porch put a couple little dents in my car.Other neighbors have had run ins with her and actually there is a 'no tresspassing' order from the local PD.It is odd that while I was her Taxi everyplace we went we ran into her mother.This woman is on SDI and disability.
My other peave is those GD overpowered Bass sound cars you hear before and after they pass for blocks and a couple asses that have removed the mufflers from new mustang and camero(one of each).Cops hung out one day and nailed one of those bastards.
People that make righthand tuns into the center left lane and people that make left urns into the outside lane.People that can't make right turns on RED when they can.people that make a left turn from the center lane into the rightlane when both lanes can make the left turn. Cell phones wherever whenever regardless of the danger and or in theaters.Cell phones you pay  for certain amout of time but you loose it at the end of the month if not used.
People that will block a wide aisle at the grocery with their carts while they talk( 2 carts) and will act like you rained on their parade if you ask them to let you by.
Radio ads: that dumb progressive Insurance woman. That government one that tells you things that got recalled years ago.~~~~~~~

[ziznak]

Nice list there Angst.  Here's possible solution:

[Sardondi]

I have a neighbor...She later came back and threw my plants of the porch put a couple little dents in my car.Other neighbors have had run ins with her and actually there is a 'no tresspassing' order from the local PD.....

I wonder if she ever hooked up with this guy I loaned my car to many years ago, because the behavior and sense of entitlement is identical. I was very young and was working at a firm which was going to temporarily provide me with a car. So my boss says he's got this dj friend who needs the temporary loan of a vehicle, and since he had made it possible for me to have a company vehicle, wouldn't I, etc.? Technically it wasn't even my car, it was my parents'. You can imagine that I felt I had no choice, even tHough I wanted to scream, "WHY DON'T YOU LOAN HIM A VEHICLE YOURSELF, OR EVEN THE CAR YOU'RE GIVING ME?". But I felt discretion was the better part of being bent over a barrel.

So I meet the guy and make sure he knows it's temporary, and that I might one day need it back with only 24-hurs notice, yadda. He couldn't be nicer. So polite, so undertsanding, so appreciative. Oh yes, anythign I said. He even told me how honest he was (even then I knew that was a bad, bad sign: people who tell you how honest they are, particularly while swearing on their children's lives, are definitely not). So I gave him the keys.

So about 6 mos. later I have to turn the company car in. So where's my car, Mr. Boss Man? "Uh, he'll get it to you next week." So I borrow another parent vehicle until then. The date for my car return, and of course, the honest dj is a no show. We try it again. And again he doesn't show. My parents get involved and tell me to tell my boss they're going to the police in 48 hours. So arrangements are made for me to pick up the vehicle at the dj's radio station at 6:00 am the next day. (He couldn't bring it to me, no way.)

I get there and see the dj, who says not a word but looks like he''s suffering the injustices of Joan of Arc. He silently tosses me an envelope and turns on his heel and walks off in a huff. It contains the key and a note that the car is in the lot. Nothing else; no thanks, no kiss my ass. Just the keys. Which have some slippery stuff on them. So I go to the car. Four flat tires and something like liquid WD-40 applied to the steering wheel and surfaces I might touch or sit on. I drive off on the rims.

What did I learn? Well, other than that my boss was a selfish, manipulative fuck (who later tried to inveigle me into a hot tub 3-way with his gf, who was herself a dj), I also learned that no good deed goes unpunished. Somehow the guy I loaned the car to felt he had some kind of ownership right, and acted like a total butthead. So in future I used a great deal more discretion in doing big favors for people, especially other people's friends. Caused some friction. But I tended to hold onto that which I had earned and maintained.

[Unquenchable Angst]

I lived in Hawai'i for about 3 years.The second place I lived at we had a thief that paid regular visits taking food,fertilizer,plants,CD's odd stuff finally we figured out who it was.As killing him might start a vendetta. We found that he had parked his car while he was scouting for loot. I prepared an emulsion of habenero peppers and DMSO that we painted on his door handles,car controls,steering wheel,all knobs levers,seat adjusters etc. My friend had sold his house and was moving about 40 miles north of there.

[slipstream]

Marxists

[Eddie Coyle]

Marxists

I was more of a "Howardist" myself.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Windows 7 indexing. the best i've been able to do is turn it off on my media storage drives and video editing drives, plus moving to using alternative programs for file management.

[onan]

me.

for not following my own directive. This thread was supposed to be about annoyances disregarding politics. But it is too easy to slip off the path and forget the intial intent.

you guys for not reading the first post in the thread.

[slipstream]

me.

for not following my own directive. This thread was supposed to be about annoyances disregarding politics. But it is too easy to slip off the path and forget the intial intent.

you guys for not reading the first post in the thread.

I know, but it is really hard when your day to day life is controlled more and more by Marxists.  I'll just leave it at that.

[ziznak]

Windows 7 indexing. the best i've been able to do is turn it off on my media storage drives and video editing drives, plus moving to using alternative programs for file management.

Ah there's this registry tweak I've been using that turns off the windows search and a ton of crap you don't really need on to boost performance... I just don't know what machine it's on right now i'd try to link ya.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Ah there's this registry tweak I've been using that turns off the windows search and a ton of crap you don't really need on to boost performance... I just don't know what machine it's on right now i'd try to link ya.

das ok. my issue was far from a performance one, what with 8 cores, gobs of ram, speedy drives, etc. it was only windows indexing wanting to update anytime i did any editing and such. kept it on for what i do want indexed/searched. it is a known issue with windows 7 as it was with Vista... only worse with win7. it prompted me to pick up great file browser programs for images (i loves zoner photo studio for image browsing), vid files and music files. nice if you don't want to bring out the big gun programs for simple file managing. 

[Sardondi]

me.

for not following my own directive. This thread was supposed to be about annoyances disregarding politics. But it is too easy to slip off the path and forget the intial intent.

you guys for not reading the first post in the thread.

Having been both a 'jacker and 'jackee, I can but say it's hell when a thread gets away from you, but nonetheless almost always futile to complain.

[HAL 9000]

Windows 7 indexing. the best i've been able to do is turn it off on my media storage drives and video editing drives, plus moving to using alternative programs for file management.

No registry tweak needed. Here's all you do (I have mine disabled too)

Click on "Start Button" and in box "Search programs and files" simply type: services.msc

The services application will open, and now you can turn off anything you desire.

Scroll down until you find "Windows search"... right-click --> select properties. Now select --> Startup type, choose --> disabled.

Done.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

No registry tweak needed. Here's all you do (I have mine disabled too)

Click on "Start Button" and in box "Search programs and files" simply type: services.msc

The services application will open, and now you can turn off anything you desire.

Scroll down until you find "Windows search"... right-click --> select properties. Now select --> Startup type, choose --> disabled.

Done.

no... really... i does knows this stuff... almost mostly. i was just annoyed with it when i didn't need it... some things i do need it, i learned all this stuff watchin a Chuck season 4 gag reel...
ah... thanks gobs.... 

[Pragmier]

Use of the word pivot.

[Eddie Coyle]

        I almost made it through the day without offending anyone. But apparently, an honest observation can be seen as offensive.

           I mentioned in passing about a child of a quasi-relative bearing an uncanny resemblance to somebody. A few laughed, a few others were not as amused.

              So here's who the kid looked like...