Things That Annoy You

[slipstream]

How many websites designs are moving to a touch interface.

[onan]

How many websites designs are moving to a touch interface.

Hopefully all the porn sites.

[Sardondi]

Neil Young's music. It hasn't changed an iota. I happened to see part of something called the Global Citizen's Festival, and Neil was on there pretending it was still 1969. And I swear I could have been listening to Rust Never Sleeps. It was the same music. Same melodies. Same guitar tone. Same lyrics. Even the same single-note "guitar solo" that was kinda neat when Neil first did it in Cinnamon Girl but is a little tired almost 45 years later. The last album of his I have is Live Rust, which btw is great. But I can't see that I've missed a thing in the almost 35 intervening years.

[West of the Rockies]

Dana Carvey may have sung it best (in a funny Young voice):  "This is every Neil Young song you've ever heard -- 'Dead dog lying in a ditch, cigarette smoker has an itch; secret whores with ancient vices, Lucky's has the lowest prices... I'm gettin' higher... I'm gettin' higher... in the world."  (You can find the clip on YouTube.)

[Yorkshire pud]

Hopefully all the porn sites.

The more updated ones also have scratch and sniff...


Did I say that? 

[Yorkshire pud]

Neil Young's music. It hasn't changed an iota. I happened to see part of something called the Global Citizen's Festival, and Neil was on there pretending it was still 1969. And I swear I could have been listening to Rust Never Sleeps. It was the same music. Same melodies. Same guitar tone. Same lyrics. Even the same single-note "guitar solo" that was kinda neat when Neil first did it in Cinnamon Girl but is a little tired almost 45 years later. The last album of his I have is Live Rust, which btw is great. But I can't see that I've missed a thing in the almost 35 intervening years.

I'm glad it isn't just me who thinks that. It's almost as if the guy (and he isn't alone) is on a pedestal from where he cannot fall. Although it's fair to say in the UK with the BBC and no commercial considerations, there's more direct criticism of certain sacred cows. having said that, it doesn't of course stop buddy (or life long fan) broadcasters of said bovine to put their spin on the latest 'must have'. The exception I think is the great Bob Harris, well known in the country music fraternity in the US. An encylopaedic mind when it comes to most genres of music. He's introduced loads of US bands and artists to British radio play. He has many many favourites, too many to mention.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
            I get the awful feeling that my grandkids will be subject to a Jaden Smith presidency.

[Sardondi]

            I get the awful feeling that my grandkids will be subject to a Jaden Smith presidency.

I feel I can safely say they won't face a Justin I'm-an-artist-and-deserve-to-be-talen-seriously Bieber administration though. Making oneself a worldwide butt of jokes and mockery before the age of 21, and future success in politics, historically have not mixed well. http://www.accesshollywood.com/justin-bieber-fires-back-after-being-booed-at-billboard-music-awards-i-should-be-taken-seriously_article_79695

[Eddie Coyle]

 
         When inmates are doing the jobs that should be reserved for uh...non-criminals. Fucking disgusting.

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

I feel I can safely say they won't face a Justin I'm-an-artist-and-deserve-to-be-talen-seriously Bieber administration though. Making oneself a worldwide butt of jokes and mockery before the age of 21, and future success in politics, historically have not mixed well. http://www.accesshollywood.com/justin-bieber-fires-back-after-being-booed-at-billboard-music-awards-i-should-be-taken-seriously_article_79695

He can't be POTUS - he's Canadian.

[Eddie Coyle]

He can't be POTUS - he's Canadian.

       Bieber Birther!

[PhantasticSanShiSan]

       Bieber Birther!

As I was writing it I was wondering to myself "Does that still even matter anymore?"

[PB the Deplorable]

As I was writing it I was wondering to myself "Does that still even matter anymore?"

Depends on the Party.  There are two sets of rules on all political activity.

[coaster]

The old time traveler or ghost to ghost shows. Open lines in general. When theres a show where he has callers calling in to tell him their bullshit stories. It annoys me to no end. I dont understand how Art could sit there for hours while some rube told him he was from the future.

[coaster]

Nancy Grace and her death row porn channel. They have a count down to when they decide Jodi Arias fate. Nancy Grace is a disgusting woman. I bet she thinks about murder trials while she does the two finger clam jam late at night.

[Eddie Coyle]

Nancy Grace and her death row porn channel. They have a count down to when they decide Jodi Arias fate. Nancy Grace is a disgusting woman. I bet she thinks about murder trials while she does the two finger clam jam late at night.

Amen!

         Those poor fingers. May they find a better place via a lawnmower accident or something.

[coaster]

My new neighbor blaring rap music and having the bass shaking my walls. I dont know what annoys me more..the shitty music itself, or the fact that the neighbor thinks this bullshit is acceptable. I'll have to remind him I'm the property manager and unless he wants his shit on the curb to cut it the fuck out.

Also, rap music is fucking garbage.I'd rather listen to Noory, and thats really saying something.

[Sardondi]

Nancy Grace and her death row porn channel. They have a count down to when they decide Jodi Arias fate. Nancy Grace is a disgusting woman. I bet she thinks about murder trials while she does the two finger clam jam late at night.

Forgive the self-quote, but this is from earlier in this thread:

"I spent half a lifetime being a prosecutor in both state and federal court. Nancy Grace should be one of my people. But I think she's a Nazi and one-woman lynch-mob. I hate her kind of rush-to-judgment, tell-only-one-side, put-a-finger-on-the-scales, just-win-baby prosecutor. She's mean-spirited and cruel, and I think she's responsible for at least one suicide of an innocent person, and perhaps more. I'd be willing to believe her standing-up-for-women schtick a little more if she stayed in the courtroom representing them instead of barking at the P.T. Barnum tent where she makes $5 Million a year, and from which she has amassed a net worth of $18 Million."

[onan]

Forgive the self-quote, but this is from earlier in this thread:

Sardondi for pres.

[coaster]

She is a liar and a phony. Anyone remember a couple weeks ago when, while playing make believe,  she claimed to be on a satellite link with one of her reporters? They were actually in the same parking lot, a few stalls away from one another. Nancy Grace was really getting into it, holding in the ear piece and acting like she couldnt hear. It would be really embarrassing for a normal person, but Nancy Grace has no soul, so she easily shrugged it off and moved on.

[West of the Rockies]

I agree entirely, Sardondi, and I, too, come from a legal background (13 years as a non-sworn member of a municipal police agency doing evidence/crime scene work, and 2+ years with the D.A. doing investigative work.  I have no extraordinary for criminal defenders (though some of them do good and important work), but Grace is an extreme example of what can go wrong in the prosecution of crimes as well.

[Treading Water]

Sardondi for pres.

Ditto.

I hate the "C" word.  But when I hear it, I think of Nancy Grace.

[ItsOver]

Sardondi for pres.

+1.  I could sleep better at night, wouldn't need night-time talk radio, and The White House press conferences would not only be informative but entertaining.

[Eddie Coyle]

        Memo to our leaders. Terrorism from Chechen Muslims who were here less than a decade is NOT "homegrown terrorism". It's imported. From the usual suspects.

       Memo 2. It's hardly comforting when we're told ex post facto by our esteemed leaders that they "were aware" of these terrorists beforehand. Oh good.

[Sardondi]

Raymond Barry's* wretched Kentucky mountain accent in Justified. I've only recently started watching the show in syndication. Barry plays the main character's father, supposedly born and bred in the Appalachians of east Kentucky. The people there speak with an unmistakably brittle-sounding "twang", which features a very hard "r" and vowels which sound more like diphthongs. But Barry plays the role with a bizarre sound which most resembles a resident of Maine. I kid you not. He sounds like he should be wearing a plaid wool hat with ear flaps and selling maple syrup, a-yup. There's not an "r" to be heard, just "ah". What the hell?! He sounds like a cartoon southern colonel on a plantation. It ruins the scenes he's in, making them unwatchable. Damn him, and damn the series director, whoever he is.

It's bizarre, and terribly distracting. Where the hell is the series' dialect coach? I've ranted before about the widespread inability of American actors to speak with any dialect of the Southeastern quarter of the continental US in an even remotely correct way. It's embarrassing, its unprofessional and it's lazy. And it's insulting to the role, the region they're supposed to be portraying and to the audience whom these lazy-ass actors apparently think are either so stupid they won't get it or are of so little consequence that more than minimal effort to get the dialect wrong is meaningless.

It should embarrass the hell out of American actors that many British actors can do a better regional US dialect than their US counterparts. Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman and Helen Mirren just off the top of my head could do a better job speaking almost any regional American accent than most American actors.


* Not to be confused with Raymond Berry, the great wide receiver for the Baltimore Colts in the 50's and 60's, and Johnny U's favorite target. Unlike actor Barry, the 6-time All-Pro Berry was competent at his job.

[Juan]

It should embarrass the hell out of American actors that many British actors can do a better regional US dialect than their US counterparts. Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman and Helen Mirren just off the top of my head could do a better job speaking almost any regional American accent than most American actors.

Not to mention Vivian Leigh.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
       Features on "the oldest" living person, etc. It makes me hope they are soon "the deadest" person.

        "So and so of the Ukraine just turned 116 making them oldest living..., hold on they just croaked. Now Xiu Dong of Mongolia is oldest living...uh, wait.

[ziznak]

ok shot in the dark here Eddie... is that some russian czar in yer avy? or vlad the impaler or something? Ivan the terrible?

[coaster]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_the_Short

[Eddie Coyle]

ok shot in the dark here Eddie... is that some russian czar in yer avy? or vlad the impaler or something? Ivan the terrible?

Charles "The Hammer" Martel. Repelled the forces of Mahomet circa 732...did the things the modern man won't/can't do.