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Things that frustrate us all

You know what really sucks?

When a line from an old commercial gets into your head, and you can't stop thinking about it...but you can't fucking remember what the commercial was FOR. :brickwall: :mad:

In my case, this is the line:

"Well you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Billy..."

WHAT THE FUCK AD WAS THIS? :confused:
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
You know what really sucks?

When a line from an old commercial gets into your head, and you can't stop thinking about it...but you can't fucking remember what the commercial was FOR. :brickwall: :mad:

In my case, this is the line:

"Well you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Billy..."

WHAT THE FUCK AD WAS THIS? :confused:
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Never heard of it. But I have heard of Google, and it tells me this:

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Mr. Laser Beam said:
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In my case, this is the line:

"Well you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Billy..."

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Late 1970s Anheuser-Busch beer ads:

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Kor
 
Went to my polling place today and the minute we got out of the car we were set upon by lots of people, waving platform papers and talking over each other to get our attention. We also had to climb around a bunch of campaign signs in our walkway. So annoying.
 
scotpens said:
In Los Angeles, you can be fined up to $500 for violating the city's "pooper scooper" law. Come to think of it, I can't even remember the last time i saw a deposit of dog doo on the sidewalk.
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Fun fact: If the sun is just barely starting to rise, and you are walking somewhere where people ride and walk their horses, it's very hard to tell what's manure, and what's a hoofprint. And stepping in a hoofprint in soft dirt is also a good way to trip and almost fall on your face.
 
Velocity said:
Went to my polling place today and the minute we got out of the car we were set upon by lots of people, waving platform papers and talking over each other to get our attention. We also had to climb around a bunch of campaign signs in our walkway. So annoying.
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And illegal, I would think...
 
There are a number of things that irritate and frustrate me.

One of my biggest pet peeves... snobs.

I can't f*cking stand them. I was looking through a few posts on this thread (I stopped because there are FAR too mamy pages) and discovered a very long, well thought out explanation of why we need all kinds of workers, but is irritated at high degree professionals who look down at people in labor jobs. In a nutshell, snobs.

I. Cannot. F*cking. Stand. Them.

A vast majority of the last 25 years was spent working at Publix, Nestle, and Whole Foods, and each store I was at was part of a well off area.

The amount of snobbery and douchieness is astounding, and it actually got WORSE every year.

Even when I walk into a Publix or WalMart as a customer, I watch all kinds of snobby behavior. One thing everybody seems to do (including my wife, sadly), is if a customer finds they don't want an item, they just put anywhere. It can even be a refrigerated or frozen item, and you'll see them just drop it on a shelf of dog food. Really, people?

I have always, always made it a point to put an item back where I found it. Even if it's on the other side of the store. I am a very fast walker, so this doesn't bother me. But I know that at closing time, the workers have to round up all the random items and put them back where they belong. I refuse to make their jobs any harder than it already is. I will not be that douche who makes their jobs harder or take longer to accomplish because of snobbery, laziness, or stupidity.


(I hope I am keeping with the spirit of this thread.)
 
It's why I feel very left out amongst various genre fans, and have for years. It's an elitist club.

As foe my frustration, the furnace going out in the middle of a cold snap and being strapped for cash until payday sucks.
 
Well, these are people who found it necessary to censor people's pancake breakfasts. Of course they're going to mess with movies as well.
 
^ Maybe it has something to do with the film Imitation of Life? In any case, the commentators in this TCM series specifically say that they are not calling for the films in question to be edited or banned or removed from circulation or anything like that, just that they be considered with some critical thinking. The series has aired in conjunction with these movies being broadcast in their entirety. I don't see how that can be considered 'canceling' anything.

Kor
 
Kor said:
just that they be considered with some critical thinking.
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And why is that important? If you don't like a film, don't fucking WATCH it.

I mean, EVERYBODY KNOWS Mickey Rooney's character in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner was a racist and offensive caricature. We don't need to be constantly reminded of that. And Rooney himself has apologized for it, hasn't he?
 
There are plenty of classic films that I love for their storytelling, filmmaking craft, characters, plain old fun factor, or a multitude of other reasons, that include problematic depictions of marginalized groups, insensitive depictions of problematic behavior, and the like. I'm not going to stop watching them. But I will openly acknowledge the ways in which these films reflected the culture in which they were made, and in turn could affect viewers' perceptions of a wide range of matters. Just so I don't have to type out something I've already said, here is what I said on this kind of thing in another thread (it was specifically about sexual consent and non-consent in a TNG episode):

Kor said:
And there's nothing wrong with critiquing this type of thing, in both past and present media. There's a balance between dismissing something out of hand in kneejerk fashion and calling for it to be banned and whatnot; and just unquestioningly accepting the thing at face value and telling others to 'get over it.' A younger viewer attempting to approach older media without context may find many depictions to be downright horrifying, and react in the first manner while passing harsh judgment on both the product itself as well as the entire society of the time, 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater,' so to speak. Somewhere in between the two extremes, we can understand the social context that the movie or TV show, or book or song or whatever arose from in the first place, and recognize that certain aspects are not okay while still acknowledging the work's artistic merit and seeing what we can learn from it.

TCM does a good job of introducing classic movies in a way that contextualizes things that may be considered problematic today, and Leonard Maltin did something similar on DVDs of early Disney cartoons, and maybe some other movies that I can't remember at the moment.
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And to get back to further discussion of everybody's frustrations, that's all that I'll say on this topic here.

Kor
 
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