Things That Annoy You

[West of the Rockies]

I may have bitched about this before, but it annoys me that the lead story to The Masters (golf) is NOT the guy who is in the lead, but where bloody Tiger Woods stands (four off the lead).  I wish the media would stop shoving that jerk down everyone's collective throats.  I am aware of few athletes who are less charismatic than Woods who receive as much positive press as he does. 

[Sardondi]

I may have bitched about this before, but it annoys me that the lead story to The Masters (golf) is NOT the guy who is in the lead, but where bloody Tiger Woods stands (four off the lead).  I wish the media would stop shoving that jerk down everyone's collective throats.  I am aware of few athletes who are less charismatic than Woods who receive as much positive press as he does.

I haven't watched golf for many years for this very reason: the "where's Tiger" bandwagon. I don't care. He still has another decade to play, and win big, before he deserves the coverage he's already had for a decade. Tiger Woods brings the "low-information golfer" to the broadcasts - which of course the dog-blowers in charge of the networks think is just dandy. 

[Eddie Coyle]

 
          Tiger? The porn addicted half Chinee guy who banged waitresses in parking lots, right?

          I don't follow golf. Forgive me.

[ItsOver]

So-called public service announcements telling us what we should be doing.  Who the hey are these twits and what makes them think they know what's best for other people?  How about minding your own business.

[Eddie Coyle]

So-called public service announcements telling us what we should be doing.  Who the hey are these twits and what makes them think they know what's best for other people?  How about minding your own business.

Blame the sales weasels at the station...the Ad Council gets airtime when sponsors can't be found. Very common in overnight radio(cough)

[ItsOver]

      Blame the sales weasels at the station...the Ad Council gets airtime when sponsors can't be found. Very common in overnight radio(cough)

One of the local stations keeps playing the same PSA's over-and-over again.  Found this on the net:

"How is the Ad Council funded?
General operating contributions from more than 375 individuals, corporations, foundations, and constituent organizations are the Ad Council's principal source of funding."

I wish the busy-bodies and "do-gooders" who fund and make this crap would get a hobby that was something other than telling everybody else how to run their life. 

[Eddie Coyle]

 
           That my neighbor's cat doesn't catch mice, but manages to anger a skunk nightly.

[stevesh]

So-called public service announcements telling us what we should be doing.  Who the hey are these twits and what makes them think they know what's best for other people?  How about minding your own business.

Amen. I spend more time shouting obscenities at PSA's than I do at GN.

[stevesh]

I may have bitched about this before, but it annoys me that the lead story to The Masters (golf) is NOT the guy who is in the lead, but where bloody Tiger Woods stands (four off the lead).  I wish the media would stop shoving that jerk down everyone's collective throats.  I am aware of few athletes who are less charismatic than Woods who receive as much positive press as he does.

Especially since we all know (thanks to whiny little Bobby Costas) that the real story is racism and sexism at Augusta.

[analog kid]

          Tiger? The porn addicted half Chinee guy who banged waitresses in parking lots, right?

          I don't follow golf. Forgive me.

He might be a ridiculous horndog, but most of us will ever be this happy

[PB the Deplorable]

          Tiger? The porn addicted half Chinee guy who banged waitresses in parking lots, right?

          I don't follow golf. Forgive me.

His mother is Thai.  I happened to be in Thailand once when Tiger was there.  OMFG, he was on every channel all week - doing charity work for elephants, coming and going from his hotel, going here, going there.  Heres Tiger eating breakfast, heres Tiger eating lunch, heres Tiger out shopping, heres Tiger at the gold course....  I don't speak Thai but every radio I walked by (in taxis, at street food stalls, storefronts) I could hear 'Tiger Woods' every few minutes... 

[McPhallus]

Be it Tiger Woods or Tiger's Wood, I'm sick of that little twerp.

I may have bitched about this before, but it annoys me that the lead story to The Masters (golf) is NOT the guy who is in the lead, but where bloody Tiger Woods stands (four off the lead).  I wish the media would stop shoving that jerk down everyone's collective throats.  I am aware of few athletes who are less charismatic than Woods who receive as much positive press as he does.

[PB the Deplorable]

The good news is Kobe is out for the rest of the year, maybe longer. 

[West of the Rockies]

We may be seeing the close of an extraordinary basketball career -- that'll be a tough injury to return from at Kobe's age (which is young for most people but "up there" for an NBA hoopster).  I've admired his on-court skills; few can compare.  Off-court is another matter.  Our ath-lebrities have feet of clay.  Who knew?  His is one name on a long, long list of why I no longer follow sports the way I did in my 20's & 30's....

[Pragmier]

Man you guys are like, sooooo 2012. The media darling at Augusta is his current soul mate Lindsey Vonn.

[Juan]

That these soulless yuppies who live around me don't allow dogs to be dogs.  Dog's on a walk, takes a nice dump, turns around to give it a sniff, and before he can complete his turn, his yuppie owner is scooping up his deposit with a plastic bag.  Yes, clean up, but at least let the dog be a dog for a minute.

[stevesh]

People who use initials as their first names, especially if one is a 'J'.

[Eddie Coyle]

People who use initials as their first names, especially if one is a 'J'.

It's foolish indeed. Designed for egomania and running a cult.

         Whenever I hear somebody mention F Murray Abraham, I think "why, what he do to you?"

[MV/Liberace!]

People who use initials as their first names, especially if one is a 'J'.

yesss.  i haaate that.

[stevesh]

I should have been clearer, I think. I was really talking about people who go by 'BJ' or 'PJ' or 'JB'. If your name is Beauregard Jehoshaphat Smith, go by Bo or Joe or Smitty.

I just read a book where one of the characters was named Lisa Greene-Dempsey, and she insisted everyone address her as LGD.

[onan]

I am just as annoyed by the likes of J lo, or others with rap names. Or the likes of Lloyd Bernard Free changing his name to World B. Free in the 80's.

[Pragmier]

My dad's initials were SA, and when he became a citizen legally added a first name so he could sign as USA    I think it's cool.

[Sardondi]

         It's foolish indeed. Designed for egomania and running a cult.

         Whenever I hear somebody mention F Murray Abraham, I think "why, what he do to you?"

Yes, you must know the story. It was professionally necessary for Mr. Abraham, since on the day of his birth Mom was still under the narcotic power of the fentanyl epidural when the nurse asked for her newborn infant's names. Mrs. A, who upon being harshly wakened from a beautiful poppy dream in which she flew across the pink sky on a pale blue unicorn, was unpleasantly reminded that moments before a human bowling ball had passed out her previously dainty but now ravaged lady parts. In short, she felt simply beastly. And so her response to the nurse was prefaced, quite understandably, by her declaration to the universe of how she felt at that instant, after which she answered the nurse's question. And so it was she let out a strangled, "Fuck, Murray" before she conked again.

That was good enough for the nurse, who didn't hear any comma, and who was a very literal, concrete-thinking woman anyway. And so it was that Mr. Abraham's birth certificate says he is "Fuck Murray Abraham". Little Murray was from a rather rough and tumble people, so there was no problem about it for the first several years of his life, since as it occurred he was addressed as "Fuck" quite as often as he was "Murray" anyway. This ended with the first day of school, as the name "F. Murray Abraham" was imposed on him by education authorities.

So don't blame the little Abraham boy for abbreviating his first name.   

[Tinfoil Hat]

I should have been clearer, I think. I was really talking about people who go by 'BJ' or 'PJ' or 'JB'. If your name is Beauregard Jehoshaphat Smith, go by Bo or Joe or Smitty.

I just read a book where one of the characters was named Lisa Greene-Dempsey, and she insisted everyone address her as LGD.

Back in high school, I wrote a script about a bunch of medics in Vietnam. The stereo-typical druggie character was named Lawrence Samuel Dawson, a.k.a. LSD.

[Eddie Coyle]

Back in high school, I wrote a script about a bunch of medics in Vietnam. The stereo-typical druggie character was named Lawrence Samuel Dawson, a.k.a. LSD.

        And his trusty assistant Ellis D Freeq?

          I'm annoyed that(a) I was cajoled into joining a stupid "fantasy" baseball league.(b) that the other 20+ people are using their real names or nicknames.

            But asshead me for a name...chooses "Al Di Meola's Wig".

[Sardondi]

I'm annoyed that(a) I was cajoled into joining a stupid "fantasy" baseball league.(b) that the other 20+ people are using their real names or nicknames.
            But asshead me for a name...chooses "Al Di Meola's Wig".

Sort of the online version of thinking that, just like earlier years, you were supposed to show up at the gym for your school's medical clearance for sports in jockstrap only, to find this year it was a) coed, and, b) everyone else was dressed in street clothes...

[stevesh]

The fact that, despite his apparently being a flaming asshole personally, I really enjoy Alec Baldwin's work, especially in comedy roles.

[Sardondi]

The fact that, despite his apparently being a flaming asshole personally, I really enjoy Alec Baldwin's work, especially in comedy roles.

I'm guilty. I read Alec Baldwin's newspaper quotes, and I want to see him close a car door on his dick; watch Jack Donaghy, and I can't breathe for laughing. It's so unfair.

[Eddie Coyle]

I'm guilty. I read Alec Baldwin's newspaper quotes, and I want to see him close a car door on his dick; watch Jack Donaghy, and I can't breathe for laughing. It's so unfair.

      Baldwin was always been a terrific secondary actor going back to the 80's, great being an absolute fucking asshole in Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, Outside Providence, The Departed. Don't know how much inspiration or method is required...but nevertheless.

          * Al Dimeola's Wig has been changed to the more baseball appropriate "The Un-Natural", half of the league asking "who is Al Di Meola" prompted the change. I'm in 19th place out of 27. And sinking.

[Sardondi]

I am presently annoyed by the brutal night I had last night doing a "sleep study", at the halfway point of which I had a CPAP machine put on me, which I found simply intolerable due to how it dried my mouth out terribly within mere minutes of putting on. It annoys me that I might be forced to use one of those damn things now, without any discussion of a fitted oral device. I am further annoyed at finding out in my own research tonight that I was supposed to keep my mouth closed (I'm ordinarily a mouth-open sleeper due to a badly deviated septum and nasal allergies) on the CPAP machine, which none of the nurses hovering over me like the Death Angel ever mentioned last night. Doh!!! It might have turned a miserable night, in which the nurses entered my room every 10 minutes to adjust something, or I asked them to come in every other 10 minutes so I could drink some water because I was so badly parched, into a tolerable one. Dammit.