Things That Annoy You

[coaster]

Websites that auto play videos.

[The General]

Luvs diapers

[aldousburbank]

Luvs diapers

They're shitty.

[PB the Deplorable]

Websites that auto play videos.

I despise this as well.

[zeebo]

"...And THAT's the BACK of the T-Shirt!"

More perfection!

[Juan]

I visited a home that has cable television yesterday.  I clicked through the hundreds of channels, and was surprised to see that "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" was among the least vapid shows.

[onan]

I visited a home that has cable television yesterday.  I clicked through the hundreds of channels, and was surprised to see that "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" was among the least vapid shows.

Spent a week in Pittsburgh during the New Year. Stuck at the Fairmont. Both my wife and I were too sick to fly out. Plenty of TV... I am not sure whether it was the vomiting or the programming that was more torturous.

[The General]

Spent a week in Pittsburgh during the New Year. Stuck at the Fairmont. Both my wife and I were too sick to fly out. Plenty of TV... I am not sure whether it was the vomiting or the programming that was more torturous.

Sad, huh. 
Even what used to be the best channels (History, Discovery, etc.) are now just full of weird reality shows about Swamp People and Duck Hunters.  Our culture croaked.  Dammit.

[WhiteCrow]

Sad, huh. 
Even what used to be the best channels (History, Discovery, etc.) are now just full of weird reality shows about Swamp People and Duck Hunters.  Our culture croaked.  Dammit.

Yep ill-bred ill-mannered Raggies are now running the show.
There is no escaping them anymore, advertisers have main streamed their rudeness.

[jazmunda]

I visited a home that has cable television yesterday.  I clicked through the hundreds of channels, and was surprised to see that "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" was among the least vapid shows.

It's incredible that with hundreds of channels there can be nothing decent to watch bar a handful of gems in the shit heap.

[jazmunda]

Websites that auto play videos.

I hate the ones that are so loud you get a heart attack in addition to them waking everyone in the house at 2am.

[aldousburbank]

I hate the ones that are so loud you get a heart attack in addition to them waking everyone in the house at 2am.

Fucking porn 

[jazmunda]

Luvs diapers

It's just the beginning son. I'm still ankle deep in shit.

Even once you toilet train the little shit makers you're still wiping asses. I can't wait til I'm incapable of wiping my own ass and they have to do it for me. They better not fucking put me in a home.

[jazmunda]

Fucking porn 

Oh you need sound for that. Can you imagine porn in the silent era? Porn flourished with the talkies.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

Can you imagine porn in the silent era?

Not only can I imagine it, I can beat off to it.  I have a copy of "A Free Ride," believed to be the earliest existing American-made porn film.  Shot in 1915 in glorious black and white (just like "Nebraska").

Ever wonder how great-grandma and great-grandpa made the eight-legged aardvark?  Well, it was pretty much the same as we do now, just with less tattoos. 

[jazmunda]

Not only can I imagine it, I can beat off to it.  I have a copy of "A Free Ride," believed to be the earliest existing American-made porn film.  Shot in 1915 in glorious black and white (just like "Nebraska").

Ever wonder how great-grandma and great-grandpa made the eight-legged aardvark?  Well, it was pretty much the same as we do now, just with less tattoos.

I would have thought you'd like to hear the pigs squeal.

[zeebo]

Fucking porn 

Haha exactly what I was thinking ... um wait, how would I know that?  Must have come to me in a dream or something.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Not being able to skip past advertisements/coming attractions on newer DVDs. Either you pay a rental fee or buy the DVD, but either way it's been paid for and that makes these advertisements even more annoying.

[Heather Wade]

Not being able to skip past advertisements/coming attractions on newer DVDs. Either you pay a rental fee or buy the DVD, but either way it's been paid for and that makes these advertisements even more annoying.

Fast-forward?   

[jazmunda]

Not being able to skip past advertisements/coming attractions on newer DVDs. Either you pay a rental fee or buy the DVD, but either way it's been paid for and that makes these advertisements even more annoying.

So far torrents have been spared this scourge.

[jazmunda]

Fast-forward?   

Sometimes you are unable to skip or fast forward. I'm surprised you can mute or even close your eyes, block your ears and go la la la la la la la.

[Heather Wade]

Sometimes you are unable to skip or fast forward. I'm surprised you can mute or even close your eyes, block your ears and go la la la la la la la.

Under a single light-bulb, tied to a chair, with our eyes wired open:

"We have ways of putting our advertising into you.  Mu ha ha haaaaaa."  The man in the suit replied.

*sigh*  Society used to merely annoy me, and I would just laugh it off.  Now, it's starting to give me the total heebeegeebees.  Corporations.

Over here, at Lowe's, there are these creepy black, spherical cameras that hang from the ginormous warehouse ceiling on long cables, hovering directly a foot or so behind and above each cashier.  Actually, these things are so prolific throughout the store, one starts to think they are some kind of leftover goth Christmas ornaments.  There's well over a hundred of them throughout the store.
However, everyone acts as if this is normal.   

The people are screwed, and the screwing is all being recorded.

If someone had told me when I was a child that this is the world I would grow up to be an adult in, I would have made my way to an island in Alaska years ago. 

Fucking dvd's.  Next, it's rfid in everything we buy. 

[jazmunda]

If someone had told me when I was a child that this is the world I would grow up to be an adult in, I would have made my way to an island in Alaska years ago. 

Fucking dvd's.  Next, it's rfid in everything we buy.  Is no one else bugged out by this?

1984 predicted this.

I'm going to report your non-conformist thinking to the thought police.

[DigitalPigSnuggler]

I would have thought you'd like to hear the pigs squeal.

A friend told me a story, told to him by his father.  The father had wanted to see the movie "Deliverance" when he was a lad.  The commercials were so enticing...something about shooting rapids in canoes, and evading men with guns and trying to fight back with bows and arrows.  It looked like an exciting action-adventure flick, accented by that marvelous Eric Weissberg banjo work.

Trouble was, he was only 15 and the film was R-rated.  He needed to be accompanied by an adult to get into the theatre.  So he came up with a plan: he told his mom he was going to take her to the movies for her birthday.  And he suggested what looked like a real barnburner of a film that he'd seen in the commercials: Deliverance

The movie started, and he was enjoying it, and dang if his mom didn't seem to be enjoying it too.  Everything was going along just swell, until...

[Heather Wade]

1984 predicted this.

I'm going to report your non-conformist thinking to the thought police.

Ha haa, the thought police in my area are still in therapy from the last time they gathered information on my phone calls.   

[eeieeyeoh]

Under a single light-bulb, tied to a chair, with our eyes wired open:

"We have ways of putting our advertising into you.  Mu ha ha haaaaaa."  The man in the suit replied.

*sigh*  Society used to merely annoy me, and I would just laugh it off.  Now, it's starting to give me the total heebeegeebees.  Corporations.

Over here, at Lowe's, there are these creepy black, spherical cameras that hang from the ginormous warehouse ceiling on long cables, hovering directly a foot or so behind and above each cashier.  Actually, these things are so prolific throughout the store, one starts to think they are some kind of leftover goth Christmas ornaments.  There's well over a hundred of them throughout the store.
However, everyone acts as if this is normal.   

The people are screwed, and the screwing is all being recorded.

If someone had told me when I was a child that this is the world I would grow up to be an adult in, I would have made my way to an island in Alaska years ago. 

Fucking dvd's.  Next, it's rfid in everything we buy.

My debit card still seems to work. IDK why parking lot became fertile ground for those barely able to sell services in the American Language. Silly people are born every minute despite what PT Barnum said.

[jazmunda]

I'm no bleeding heart liberal but I just watched 12 Years a Slave (illegally) last night and I still can't believe people could treat another human being like that. I can't believe that things like that still go on today albeit on a smaller scale but nonetheless tragic and fucked up.

[Yorkshire pud]

My debit card still seems to work. IDK why parking lot became fertile ground for those barely able to sell services in the American Language. S

There is no American language, that's maybe why their business model falls down.

[Yorkshire pud]

I'm no bleeding heart liberal but I just watched 12 Years a Slave (illegally) last night and I still can't believe people could treat another human being like that. I can't believe that things like that still go on today albeit on a smaller scale but nonetheless tragic and fucked up.

It's been given some very good revues Jaz. But almost all say it's compelling and forces the viewer to watch it. I'm not sure I'd be able to because of the reasons you state; How could anyone treat another human like that?

[Heather Wade]

It's been given some very good revues Jaz. But almost all say it's compelling and forces the viewer to watch it. I'm not sure I'd be able to because of the reasons you state; How could anyone treat another human like that?

It happens.  More often than you think.