Things That Annoy You

coaster · August 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM

The Department of motor vehicles annoys me. Had to renew my license today. Absolute hell. I can't imagine having to work there.

CoastCanuck · August 01, 2012, 03:56:54 PM

Summertime road construction, and having to navigate through it.

PB the Deplorable · August 01, 2012, 04:17:20 PM

Quote from: coaster on August 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
The Department of motor vehicles annoys me. Had to renew my license today. Absolute hell. I can't imagine having to work there.

Reading that, I'm feeling undertaxed again.

Eddie Coyle · August 01, 2012, 06:57:01 PM

Quote from: coaster on August 01, 2012, 03:53:36 PM
The Department of motor vehicles annoys me. Had to renew my license today. Absolute hell. I can't imagine having to work there.

But they're so gifted at photography. In my recent license, they made me look like Brad Delp of Boston circa 1977. Fittingly, the picture makes me want to kill myself too.

coaster · August 01, 2012, 07:45:29 PM

they had to take my picture twice. the first time my eyes were closed. the picture I have now makes me look like a hungover stroke victim.

McPhallus · August 01, 2012, 07:47:19 PM

eBay/PayPal, picky buyers, how they handle disputes/refunds, and I think I'm losing my fucking goddamned mind.

analog kid · August 01, 2012, 08:58:45 PM

Doug Hutchison and his 17-year-old wife are getting a reality show.

Camazotz Automat · August 03, 2012, 11:57:14 AM

Greg Raymer, poker player, and his abominable hologram eyes spectacles.

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coaster · August 03, 2012, 02:59:38 PM

Getting old annoys me. Tomorrow I'm supposed to celebrate the fact that I'm getting old. What kind of bullshit is that? I'm supposed to be happy that I'm slowly creeping up to the grave? It makes no sense to me.

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on August 03, 2012, 11:57:14 AM
Greg Raymer, poker player, and his abominable hologram eyes spectacles.

Almost every professional poker player annoys me. The WSOP pays Scotty Nguyen to flaunt his alcoholism, Phil Hellmuth is a sociopath. The only decent player I know of is Daniel Negreanu. I havent followed "professional" poker in a couple years because it really annoys me.

MV/Liberace! · August 03, 2012, 03:05:45 PM

Quote from: coaster on August 03, 2012, 02:59:38 PM
I havent followed "professional" poker in a couple years because it really annoys me.

hasn't the "sport" pretty much died out as a matter of public interest and excitement anyway?

coaster · August 03, 2012, 03:17:57 PM

Quote from: MV on August 03, 2012, 03:05:45 PM

hasn't the "sport" pretty much died out as a matter of public interest and excitement anyway?

Its died out in the US. One major reason is the ban on online poker. Another reason is they really went overboard on tv. You can only watch so many poker related tv shows before you lose interest. Its still pretty popular in other parts of the world. I love playing poker, but I wont watch it anymore.

Harmness · August 03, 2012, 05:29:16 PM

Quote from: coaster on August 03, 2012, 02:59:38 PM
Getting old annoys me. Tomorrow I'm supposed to celebrate the fact that I'm getting old. What kind of bullshit is that? I'm supposed to be happy that I'm slowly creeping up to the grave?

This. So much this.

Oh and happy...never mind.

RealCool Daddio · August 03, 2012, 11:20:48 PM

Quote from: coaster on August 03, 2012, 03:17:57 PM
Its died out in the US. One major reason is the ban on online poker...

I used to work in the online gaming business, in a pretty senior capacity. You are right, the DOJ shut pretty much shut it down. It was one hell of a ride while it lasted, equal parts .com wild times, and sordid tales of 20-something millionaires in a grey market trying to stay one step ahead of the Feds.

One day, I might write a memoir about it...

ziznak · August 04, 2012, 12:02:47 AM

I always loved poker. I'm not huge on the whole hole'em fad that's swept the world recently. Always liked to play 5 card deuces wild... with or without people.

Camazotz Automat · August 04, 2012, 01:12:57 AM

Quote from: coaster on August 03, 2012, 03:17:57 PM
It's died out in the US. One major reason is the ban on online poker. Another reason is they really went overboard on tv. You can only watch so many poker related tv shows before you lose interest. It's still pretty popular in other parts of the world. I love playing poker, but I wont watch it anymore.

This resonated with me. While watching a poker game in a dramatic context - and if presented correctly, such as in Dead Wood, or The Sopranos, etc. - can be highly engrossing, real game coverage is a form of self-torture. Instead of watching poker TV, I believe I would rather repeatedly watch Death and the knight Antonius Block playing chess in Bergman's The Seventh Seal! In fact, I'm sure of it!

Local media here has been advertising a nearby casino where Raymer is to appear and they insist on doing a closeup of his face with the hologram glasses studio lighted for optimum opacity and for some reason it annoys the Hades out of me, which prompted my original post.

We get it. You're masking your "tell" or your pupil dilation or your reactionary blink rate, or whatever, and it's all very mysterious, Mr. Raymer and there's a self-branding aspect as well. We TRULY bloody get it. Cut to the chase and wear a welder's helmet if you're that concerned.

I'm enjoying everyone's resulting poker comments/anecdotes. A good weekend to the lot of you.

(this thread can be such a catharsis ... a soothing balm toward a cantankerous, pissed-off soul. Ha!)

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ziznak · August 04, 2012, 01:35:35 AM

he's masking the fact that he hasn't seen his own genitalia in decades.

Camazotz Automat · August 04, 2012, 03:49:01 AM

Someone notify David Icke. The above picture is proof positive we are ~dealing~ with a reptilian with a poker agenda.

http://www.davidicke.com/articles/reptilian-agenda-mainmenu-43/

McPhallus · August 04, 2012, 09:26:42 AM

Quote from: RealCool Daddio on August 03, 2012, 11:20:48 PM
I used to work in the online gaming business, in a pretty senior capacity. You are right, the DOJ shut pretty much shut it down. It was one hell of a ride while it lasted, equal parts .com wild times, and sordid tales of 20-something millionaires in a grey market trying to stay one step ahead of the Feds.

One day, I might write a memoir about it...

It amazes me that people ever fell for that. Didn't they realize they were playing against a piece of computer software that could be rigged?

McPhallus · August 04, 2012, 09:34:11 AM

Quote from: ziznak on August 04, 2012, 01:35:35 AM
he's masking the fact that he hasn't seen his own genitalia in decades.

No one else has seen it, either, I would imagine. It's actually kind of clever, like he's triggering something in the reptilian part of his opponents' minds.

MV/Liberace! · August 04, 2012, 10:35:50 AM

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on August 04, 2012, 01:12:57 AM
We get it. You're masking your "tell" or your pupil dilation or your reactionary blink rate, or whatever, and it's all very mysterious, Mr. Raymer and there's a self-branding aspect as well. We TRULY bloody get it. Cut to the chase and wear a welder's helmet if you're that concerned.

lol, i know. i always thought the same thing. these people are not cool.

analog kid · August 04, 2012, 12:11:24 PM

It's cool if Jennifer Tilly is doing it, IMO.

ziznak · August 04, 2012, 12:12:11 PM

cuz you ain't looking at her eyes silly

analog kid · August 04, 2012, 12:52:12 PM

Those cans are hard to ignore.

CoastCanuck · August 04, 2012, 02:05:31 PM

Summertime bugs, especially cicadas, and the noise they constantly make...

Eddie Coyle · August 04, 2012, 02:46:15 PM

That summer weather will persist for at least roughly 6 weeks. I'm like Mr Dragon from "The Eiger Sanction" during these months.

Eddie Coyle · August 05, 2012, 08:26:29 PM

People who find Mike Tyson even remotely interesting. The James Toback or Jimmy Kimmel type of groupies who are to Tyson what Patricia Krenwinkel was to Charlie Manson. Scumbags.

Eddie Coyle · August 06, 2012, 10:05:01 PM

That I still use the word "man" in general conversation more than Tommy Chong,Dennis Hopper and Ray Manzarek combined. Every fuckin' eighth word is "man"...and about every fifth word is a variant of "fuck". I was born in the Ford Administration, which makes it more assclownish.

onan · August 07, 2012, 07:15:59 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on August 06, 2012, 10:05:01 PM
That I still use the word "man" in general conversation more than Tommy Chong,Dennis Hopper and Ray Manzarek combined. Every fuckin' eighth word is "man"...and about every fifth word is a variant of "fuck". I was born in the Ford Administration, which makes it more assclownish.

Man I fuckin hate that

Me too Eddie, although I was born during the Eisenhower admin. I have to point out however, when words have that kind of longevity there must be something to them.

McPhallus · August 07, 2012, 08:47:58 AM

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on August 06, 2012, 10:05:01 PM
That I still use the word "man" in general conversation more than Tommy Chong,Dennis Hopper and Ray Manzarek combined. Every fuckin' eighth word is "man"...and about every fifth word is a variant of "fuck". I was born in the Ford Administration, which makes it more assclownish.

I admire people who can weave the word "fuck" into a conversation so casually that after a few minutes, you don't even notice it. I've known a couple of people like that, and they were both drunks, so I think there might be a connection there.

Eddie Coyle · August 07, 2012, 10:26:18 AM

Quote from: onan on August 07, 2012, 07:15:59 AM
Man I fuckin hate that

Me too Eddie, although I was born during the Eisenhower admin. I have to point out however, when words have that kind of longevity there must be something to them.

That's a good point, and my usage of "man" definitely comes from outside sources. I grew up around the hardhats who would have attacked anything remotely resembling "left/hippie", so it must have come subliminally via music and film. Very few people I came into contact with in my formative years were prone to use the argot of a Deadhead. Or as my father still calls it "that acid rock". By his standard, Buffalo Springfield and Dylan fall into that category...