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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1940 on: December 08, 2011, 07:59:33 PM »

Thad, I'm sorry.
Everyone has exhausted, verbatim, every snarky thing I wanted to say to disparage your annoyance at this. I have failed you.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1941 on: December 08, 2011, 08:05:58 PM »

I solved this problem years ago by not watching TV.

Ha, I don't have cable or an antenna, so I couldn't even if I wanted to. I got a couple consoles hooked up though.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1942 on: December 08, 2011, 08:50:57 PM »

Careful thad, you're getting dangerously close to drinking ovaltine and complaining about kids on your lawn.

Yes, because old people are perpetually complaining about how nowadays you have to get up and walk across the room to operate your TV and back in THEIR day you used to flip channels while sitting on your couch, and you unlazy kids don't know how bad you've got it.

When I was your age I used to walk TWELVE FEET to school every day in beautiful 75-degree weather!  DOWNHILL BOTH WAYS!

I solved this problem years ago by not watching TV.

Also I find it irritating when people announce that they don't watch TV, like I should be impressed or something.

What do you want, a goddamn cookie?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1943 on: December 08, 2011, 08:57:00 PM »

What do you want, a goddamn cookie?

Yes.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1944 on: December 08, 2011, 09:03:55 PM »

Heh, it's still a big deal to some people. When I go to my mom's place, she always tries to get me to watch some; it's almost like she's worried that I'm starving myself of something.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1945 on: December 08, 2011, 09:06:09 PM »

guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1946 on: December 08, 2011, 09:10:28 PM »

So it's about feeling smug about video piracy
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1947 on: December 08, 2011, 10:00:49 PM »

Thad's so old-man-y sometimes I expect him to announce he's running for the GOP.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1948 on: December 08, 2011, 10:02:47 PM »

Huh, I had figured intellectual honesty was grounds for immediate ejection from the GOP.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1949 on: December 08, 2011, 10:31:12 PM »

Also I find it irritating when people announce that they don't watch TV, like I should be impressed or something.

What do you want, a goddamn cookie?

It's kind of a point of pride to not be exposed to most of the trash that tumbles out of the boob tube despite intense peer pressure, and it's kind of a "and you shouldn't either" kind of thing.

Of course I only don't watch TV because around here it costs $70/mo to even start and shoots way the fuck up if you want anything worth watching.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1950 on: December 09, 2011, 07:07:46 AM »

guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online

In what way is this mutex with owning a TV set and operating it with a remote control?

It's kind of a point of pride to not be exposed to most of the trash that tumbles out of the boob tube despite intense peer pressure, and it's kind of a "and you shouldn't either" kind of thing.

Well yes, that's what I'm getting at, the smug superiority.  If you don't watch TV, that's swell, but don't act like it makes you a better person.

I take it as a personal point of pride that I've never sat through an episode of American Idol.  And if somebody starts going around acting like what happens on it is actually important in some way, I am liable to roll my eyes.  But I stop somewhere pretty well short of refusing to watch ALL TV and acting like it makes me better than them.

Of course I only don't watch TV because around here it costs $70/mo to even start and shoots way the fuck up if you want anything worth watching.

Again, operating a television set from your couch and paying for a cable TV subscription are not actually the same thing.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1951 on: December 09, 2011, 07:41:53 AM »

guys get with the times these days it's not about not watching tv it's about CUTTING THE CABLE and getting your tv through various video services online

In what way is this mutex with owning a TV set and operating it with a remote control?

sorry this was directed entirely at the current way to be smugly superior to the masses of sheeple

i actually agree with you on remotes
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1952 on: December 09, 2011, 08:11:58 AM »

Nah, I'm not smug about it. There's lots of shows people watch that do seem like they might be good, but following even a two hour movie now feels long to me. Keeping up with a TV show literally feels like WORK to me now.

Anyway, it was sorta supposed to be a wisecrack in the sense of "Oh yeah, well I don't have to worry about heating bills because I'm HOMELESS!", but uh, obviously that didn't come across. I didn't exactly put a whole lot of thought into it.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1953 on: December 09, 2011, 08:16:39 AM »

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1954 on: December 12, 2011, 08:22:56 PM »

Quote from: Joxam
OK, basically, I was at work and trying to post off of a phone when I posted my last reply so it wasn't really what I wanted to say, just what I could say with a fucking touch screen keyboard that is tiny, on a web browser that expects me to use a phone number pad to navigate, despite my phone being touch screen with no numpad.
Fuck you, Blackberry.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1955 on: December 13, 2011, 08:00:08 AM »

Stross had a fascinating post yesterday titled Why I don't use the iPad for serious writing.  He argued that devices like the iPad are the future of computing but that Apple's my-way-or-the-highway approach to the most basic input elements is holding them back from replacing laptops.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1956 on: January 01, 2012, 08:42:06 PM »

People who don't understand that the US presidential election is a two-party system.  It may not be ideal, but it is the case, and pretending that it's not in the face of the Constitution is just ... fffffffffff.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1957 on: January 03, 2012, 01:48:16 AM »

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1958 on: January 03, 2012, 01:53:32 AM »

in the face of the Constitution
I have no idea what you mean by this.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #1959 on: January 03, 2012, 02:14:16 AM »

Twelfth Amendment.  Short version: a third-party candidate can't take Presidential office.  Their party would have to completely supplant one of the existing parties in both the popular consciousness and in the House, at which point they're not third-party anymore.  Voting third-party accomplishes nothing but make it more likely that the major candidate farther from your views takes office.  It's tactically insane, actively self-destructive, and an action based entirely in ignorance, apathy, or both.

And nobody who doesn't already understand this ever seems to fucking realize it.
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