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Started by onan, May 22, 2011, 02:41:35 AM

MV/Liberace!

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 22, 2013, 07:30:18 PM

          I get my regular history lessons from "We Didn't Start The Fire" and "Right Here, Rigt Now". So, I don't know about anything after late 1990.

Haha

Caruthers612

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 22, 2013, 07:30:18 PMI get my regular history lessons from "We Didn't Start The Fire" and "Right Here, Rigt Now". So, I don't know about anything after late 1990.


               <holds head in hands> The darkness of a life without Taylor Swift...


HAL 9000

Quote from: West of the Rockies on February 22, 2013, 05:03:43 PMMy wife and I actually did away with cable/satellite when our daughter turned 3.  We didn't like the commercials that kept blasting in.  The programming, we could control to a great degree, but you never know what messages the damn commercials will send.

If I have to sit through one more transvaginal mesh/bladder sling lawsuit commercial in front of my dad, my head is going to explode.

When I was a kid, it was 18 hour bras, tampons, and maxipads - now it's transvaginal mesh. Oy vey!


Sardondi

Quote from: West of the Rockies on February 22, 2013, 05:03:43 PM
Wow, you got that right, Sardoni, about their being few Dick Cavett's on TV nowadays.  I also greatly miss William F. Buckley.  He was so well-informed on so many issues.  He and his guest would discuss an issue in great depth, not just the 30-second snarky sound-byte that passes as "discourse" these days....

I too loved to hear Buckley interview. Today, Brian Lamb at CSPAN is the medium's finest interviewer, bar none.

Caruthers612

Quote from: Sardondi on February 22, 2013, 09:47:00 PM
I too loved to hear Buckley interview. Today, Brian Lamb at CSPAN is the medium's finest interviewer, bar none.


          Brian Lamb did us all a great service with C-SPAN, for a number of reasons. THe one that stands out to me was the well-known way he instructed the hosts who interviewed guests to deliberately be almost like Disney animatronic robots--no reaction whatsoever to anything, the idea being to provide the public with a clear lens onto the politicos who appear on the network, leaving the viewer to make up his own mind. Or, to put it another way, Lamb's people are actual reporters.;-)


ItsOver

Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 22, 2013, 08:27:41 PM

               <holds head in hands> The darkness of a life without Taylor Swift...


So.... what Swift-o-licious song are you the subject of?  ;)

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: HAL 9000 on February 22, 2013, 09:43:18 PM
If I have to sit through one more transvaginal mesh/bladder sling lawsuit commercial in front of my dad, my head is going to explode.

When I was a kid, it was 18 hour bras, tampons, and maxipads - now it's transvaginal mesh. Oy vey!

            Another example of shit my dead grandparents('74,'88,'95, '99)  would be shocked by. Transvaginal...yum yum.

Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 22, 2013, 08:27:41 PM

               <holds head in hands> The darkness of a life without Taylor Swift...
I guess it's wrong of me to hope one of her fans has Robert Bardo tendencies.

           *thus concludes my awful obscure reference of the day(a new day starts in 5 minutes,though!)

         

MV/Liberace!

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 22, 2013, 10:56:50 PM
          I guess it's wrong of me to hope one of her fans has Robert Bardo tendencies.       


no, it's not.

Eddie Coyle

Quote from: MV on February 22, 2013, 11:40:06 PM

no, it's not.

       Nah, I didn't so either. I was going to make a Mark David Chapman reference, but that would be wrong. Because he actually killed a  musically talented person.

stevesh

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on February 22, 2013, 10:56:50 PM
          I guess it's wrong of me to hope one of her fans has Robert Bardo tendencies.
       

No, not wrong at all. I don't even listen to country radio, but if I hear one more Taylor Swift song, I'll drive to Reno and kill a man just to watch him die.



The Kardashians piss me the fuck off. I believe they are of the devil and suck. This bitch isn't that far along in pregnancy and it delights me in knowing how fat this trash is going to get.
That's a huge bitch!

Sardondi

Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 22, 2013, 09:53:46 PMBrian Lamb did us all a great service with C-SPAN, for a number of reasons. THe one that stands out to me was the well-known way he instructed the hosts who interviewed guests to deliberately be almost like Disney animatronic robots--no reaction whatsoever to anything, the idea being to provide the public with a clear lens onto the politicos who appear on the network, leaving the viewer to make up his own mind. Or, to put it another way, Lamb's people are actual reporters.
Exactly. Such a relief to see a prepared interviewer who doesn't play to one side or the other, and you really can't tell whether s/he agrees with the answers of the subject or not. That's so important. And it's an attitude that's been gone for several years even at the major networks.

Quote from: General Johnson Jameson on February 22, 2013, 09:45:48 PM
WTF is that?
Transvaginal mesh?  Believe me, you really don't want to know.  :(
And I liked it much, much better when lawyers did NOT advertise.

Caruthers612

Quote from: Treading Water on February 23, 2013, 07:58:36 AMAnd I liked it much, much better when lawyers did NOT advertise.


         You mean you don't like the bald guy in the Stetson hat offering you the services of Dewey, Screwem and Howe?

Quote from: General Johnson Jameson on February 23, 2013, 06:04:06 AM


The Kardashians piss me the fuck off. I believe they are of the devil and suck. This bitch isn't that far along in pregnancy and it delights me in knowing how fat this trash is going to get.
That's a huge bitch!

For me, GJJ, it is a pisser that the Kardashians are so incredibly well off -- not just because of what they inherited from Daddy, but from income based on... what?  Their appearance?  There are lots of beautiful women in the world who won't make millions based solely on their appearance.

There is a snotty sense of entitlement to the Kardashians, Kim in particular, as she regards the world with her smug Mona Lisa smile.  Her boyfriend/husband (is that Kanye?) looks equally self-important, though you could argue that he at least has worked to achieve what he's got.  His music does nothin' for me, but I'm not his demographic anyway.

Others in the Kardashian mode who annoy me greatly are Snookie, Paris, Spencer Pratt (aptly named) and pretty much any other reality-show fake, celebrity chef, home-decor guru, pin-headed athlete/actor/singer, and smug, snide political pundit.

Quote from: West of the Rockies on February 23, 2013, 10:20:39 AM
...  There are lots of beautiful women in the world who won't make millions based solely on their appearance...


And the Kardashians aren't anywhere near the top of that list.


I blame Sean Combs, or whatever his name is this week, for some of it - he's the one that told the world J-Lo was extra great looking because she had an extra fat ass.  Kim and her sisters and about half the NBA sure jumped on that wagon.

BigDave

Quote from: Paper*Boy on February 23, 2013, 10:28:06 AM


And the Kardashians aren't anywhere near the top of that list.


I blame Sean Combs, or whatever his name is this week, for some of it - he's the one that told the world J-Lo was extra great looking because she had an extra fat ass.  Kim and her sisters and about half the NBA sure jumped on that wagon.

Kim Kardashian has a hot body,that's about all She has going for Her

ItsOver

Quote from: General Johnson Jameson on February 23, 2013, 06:04:06 AM


The Kardashians piss me the fuck off. I believe they are of the devil and suck. This bitch isn't that far along in pregnancy and it delights me in knowing how fat this trash is going to get.
That's a huge bitch!


Gack!!! "Paging, Ellen Ripley...... paging, Ellen Ripley...... an Alien Queen has been sighted...please report for duty...."



Sardondi

Quote from: West of the Rockies on February 23, 2013, 10:20:39 AMFor me, GJJ, it is a pisser that the Kardashians are so incredibly well off -- not just because of what they inherited from Daddy, but from income based on... what?...
On their willingness to happily fellate a canine in Times Square, if there's a buck in it.

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Sardondi on February 23, 2013, 12:41:40 PM
On their willingness to happily fellate a canine in Times Square, if there's a buck in it.

And have their "mother" promote it.  Seriously, what kind of a mother would promote her daughter's piss-on-me porn tape?   ::)   And yet we have a media that now treats these hags as celebrities.

b_dubb

because no one stands for anything anymore.  the only factor anyone cares about is the stats for market share and will they be able to sell ads.  and so the race to the lowest common denominator continues

i had breakfast in a nearby white ghetto where the adults mostly work as truck drivers or waitresses at nearby corporate restaurants.  their unwillingness to set a minimum standard and to actually PARENT their children has created a population of essentially feral children who will one day gobble up handouts from the federal govt because they won't even be able to hold down a basic wage slave job

i can't let the fact that dad has a coupon dictate where i eat breakfast anymore.  that breakfast has really fucked up my mood for the day

Sardondi

Quote from: HorrorRetro on February 23, 2013, 12:49:40 PM
And have their "mother" promote it.  Seriously, what kind of a mother would promote her daughter's piss-on-me porn tape?...

Please tell me that's hyperbole and not literally true...

Caruthers612

Quote from: b_dubb on February 23, 2013, 01:53:50 PM<snip>...a population of essentially feral children who will one day gobble up handouts from the federal govt because they won't even be able to hold down a basic wage slave job


             Precisely. This is who I was talking about in the politics thread when I referenced those whose brains were simply never developed in childhood and who arrive at adulthood with the minds of children or lesser mammals, more so than of adult human beings. Funny that you should say 'essentially feral children', Sardondi, as I've used these exact words in reference to such kids myself. It's obviously not their fault they were born to parents suffering from that genetic anomaly, I forget the name, in which one's brain and one's rectum are in opposite locations. However, when they reach physical maturity, they will be our problem, that's for sure.

Harmness

Quote from: MV on February 22, 2013, 07:00:30 PM
i'd like to know how in the FUCK life is a rock by reunion ended up in my mp3 library.


You have a secret life which is pretty damned embarassing?

CrabbyOld Bat

Add my name to the anti-Kardashians list. The mother is the one who annoys me the most, though Kim is a close second. I don't know the names of the rest but that's one big messed up family. Other than to satisfy initial curiosity -- which fades quickly -- , I have no idea why anyone would care about what the Kardashians do in their unreal world, let alone spend time watching them do it.



HorrorRetro

Quote from: Sardondi on February 23, 2013, 02:19:34 PM
Please tell me that's hyperbole and not literally true...

As far as I know, it's true.  Back when her tape became public, there were numerous descriptions of it, and her boyfriend at the time liked to pee on her and she, apparently, was into it.  It's since become public that her mother was heavily into promoting the tape as a way to get her daughter the same exposure Paris Hilton received from her foray into amateur porn.  ::)   The sad fact is that it worked.  The entire clan became famous because one of them degraded herself at the behest of her mother.

Wow, that's dreadful if true, HorrorRetro.  Well, I guess some people will do truly anything for a dollar (or a million of 'em).  Having seen the Paris Hilton tape, I am doubtful that it could have done much to truly help her career.  She looked rather bored, disinterested, and not too into sex.

Sardondi

Quote from: Caruthers612 on February 23, 2013, 03:27:57 PM...Funny that you should say 'essentially feral children', Sardondi, as I've used these exact words in reference to such kids myself....

Wish I'd said it, but it was b_dubb's bon mot.

Usagi




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