What's bugging you? (2006)

[valpocrewsader]

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Message boards with nine page threads that show "1 2 3 ...9" under the title when I absolutely know I want to start reading on page 7 or 8.

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This bugs me daily! I always end up clicking 3 and then jumping to 7/8. Annoying.

[valpocrewsader]

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Members of the media and advertising industry who duped the public into thinking that the 21st century and 3rd millennium began in the year 2000.

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You know, I'm okay with this. Sure, 1 - 99 AD is only 99 years, not 100. But lets be practical. Do we really want century timespans to be 1-100, 101-200, etc? It's much more convenient if it's 1-99, 100-199, etc. Plus, it's not like there was no year 0, it's simply called 1 BC. I'd rather label 1 BC - 99 AD the 1st century, and then continue with 100 AD - 199 AD as the 2nd century. Sounds reasonable to me.

 

I guess I'm just content with "century" being used to define convenient blocks of 100 years, rather than getting all worked up about the fact that the first block of 100 years didn't have a technical year 0 to make it 100.

 

 

EDIT: Eh, I'm not even sure I've convinced myself with this post, lol.

[1992casey]

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This bugs me daily! I always end up clicking 3 and then jumping to 7/8. Annoying.

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I always click on the last one, then go back to the earliest one that's marked as unvisited. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

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Eh, I'm not even sure I've convinced myself with this post, lol.

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A century or millennium can start and stop any time we choose. But I think you've circuitously acknowledged that the 21st century or 3rd millennium can't.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Half my co-workers very casually sauntering onto the jobsite at 7:05 or later every morning, and then having the same time card as me at the end of the week.

[Schlitz001]

-Not having a home sucks.

[madcrewfan]

Pam Ward.

 

People that stop in front of stores to let people out because they're too lazy to walk. Along those same lines, people who park in the fire lanes in front of stores and wait for someone to come out. There are plenty of friggin' parking spaces.

 

Going into WalMart and not being able to understand anyone. The employees or the customers.

 

Michigan.

[Worm8181]

In football games after a touchdown they go to commercial, then do the kickoff, and go right back to commercial.

[Vgmastr]

The fact that WLUK, the Green Bay FOX station, is so cheap that they won't let Time Warner carry their HD feed. So if I want to watch the FOX games in HD, I have to pull out my antenna and try and find a decent signal.

[burrolover]

Ron Pitts

[1992casey]

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In football games after a touchdown they go to commercial, then do the kickoff, and go right back to commercial.

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I read somewhere that the Packer game immediately following the Kennedy assassination, which was on neither radio nor television, took 2 hours and 10 minutes to complete.

[bucks2281]

When local newscasts, like Fox 6 in Milwaukee, lead off their news with highlights of the Packer game. As much as I love the Packers, come on, start the newscast with some real news.

[Jimbo]

I believe th current TV contract calls for 56 30-second commercials. Hey, you gotta fit them in somehow.

[1992casey]

I'm betting it's the equivalent of 56 30-second commercials per hour (28 minutes). That would be way more than the approximately 16 minutes per hour on prime time TV programming.

 

For regular TV shows, I often start watching a few minutes late?starting about 8 minutes late for a half hour or 15 minutes late for an hour?enabling me to use TiVo to zip through commercials and finish watching at the same time as everyone else.

 

Unfortunately, for games, I like to know what's happening immediately. Normally, the only way I fall behind is if I've rewound or paused to see a play again.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I swear to god movies on TNT have a half hour worth of commercials per hour. It's terrible.

 

The rock/metal station out of Rockford (104.9) is pretty bad with commercials. I'll bet in an average hour they manage to squeeze in 7 or 8 songs.

 

I know commercials pay for a lot of things, but I'm paying a pretty penny for cable TV (and satellite isn't exactly cheap either).

 

I need tivo.

[1992casey]

TiVo on satellite is about 5 bucks per month. I believe Time Warner charges about 8 bucks. It's well worth it. There's plenty of room on the hard drive and you can punch record?just in case?anytime you want.

 

Another thing that's cool is that you can record retroactively. If you've just seen something you want to keep, you can have it unless you've changed channels before making that decision.

 

Speaking of changing channels, if you like channel surfing during commercials, you don't have to worry about returning to your program in time, either.

[Nicole the Baker]

People that stop in front of stores to let people out because they're too lazy to walk.

 

The assumption that people who are dropped off in front of a store are too lazy to walk.

[1992casey]

The javascript 'date picker' on the ESPN Standings page:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/casey1992/boardpics/bfnet/espn_date.gif

If you want a different month, day, and year, you have to pick a month and watch the page reload, pick a day and watch the page reload again, then pick a year and watch the page reload a third time. How about a good old fashioned 'Submit' button?

 

ESPN redeems itself a bit, though, by giving us user-friendly URLs. It's easy to change the date in the browser's location bar:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?date=20060710

Just bookmark a page from a previous date and you're set to go back in time. I just wish it didn't take me so long to notice that.

[Jimbo]

What bugs me? Very few things, so it took me a while to come up with a list.

 

1. Poor cell phone ettiquette (driving, everywhere else)

2. Throwing stuff out the car window.

3. Chicago traffic.

4. Wisconsin DOT's inability to place white-on-green "Wisconsin State Line" signs at the Wisconsin state line.

[Cracked Bat Collector]

People who can't stop checking their cell phone every other minute.

People who talk on their phone while driving.

People who walk REALLY slow.

People throwing cigarettes out the car window.

[Fatter than Joey]

I've got a good one.

 

Recently I was staying on business in a large hotel (many floors). I was heading to the elevator, there was a dude standing in front of the doors waiting for the elevator -- I asked him the obligatory "heading down?" he pleasantly nodded so I smiled back and waited with him for the elevator to arrive (the down arrow was lit). About 15 seconds later this drillhead heads to the elevator and proceeds to mash the elevator button 47 times.

 

First -- buttons generally only need to be pushed once, the elevator doesn't move any faster if you mash the button.

 

Second -- Who does this guy think he is? -- The only person that knows how elevators work? -- and that we are too stupid to push the down button?

 

This also applies to crosswalks, and the bells at checkout lines or service desks.

[BrewCrewForever]

The NFL Network not being on regular expanded basic cable.

 

Not having every single Brewer game broadcast on FSN North.

 

MTV, it is complete garbage. I wish they went back to playing videos and not crappy reality shows and stupid dating game shows.

 

Entourage and The Sopranos not being on again untill March.

 

Panic at The Disco and Fallout Boy, I just cant stand either of those bands they make me sick.

 

Ummm that is it for now.

[RightFieldCoder]

When local newscasts, like Fox 6 in Milwaukee, lead off their news with highlights of the Packer game.

 

Or how about when they interupt the second game with a news break in which one of the stories is that the Packers won? Uh, the game was on this station an hour ago, and you can catch the score by watching this game. Anyone that thinks the Packers winning is a news story and is already watching this channel already knows. Yet despite the four highlights and talking about it for a minute durring a news break, they don't even mention the Brewers.

[hawing]

The NFL Network not being on regular expanded basic cable.

 

With all due respect to the broad interest many of you have in the NFL, I'm bugged by the NFL Network's advertising blitz this fall. "You won't see the Vikings-Packers game in December! unless your evil cable provider relents and makes a deal with the NFL Network!" The ads are on TV, websites, and (maybe worst of all) those little post-it style ads that now appear far too often on the front pages of newspapers. Guys: anyone who cares GETS THE MESSAGE by now.

 

Oh, I'm also bugged by those little post-it style ads that now appear far too often on the front pages of newspapers. You can't remove them without taking off some newsprint ink. They'll rue the day that they splatter a post-it ad on the front page of a newspaper I want to save for posterity.

 

Finally, I'm probably bugging pogokat by repeating myself. But those newspaper post-its really bug me.

[mothershipconnection]

Eventually, they'll probably go professional boxing on the fans and put the big games on pay per view.

I don't watch much outside of Packer games anymore, but it still bugs me that some games are not on basic cable.

[jloos19]

What's bugging me? Northwestern football, and that's it.