Starlord Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 I thought everyone loved Chewbacca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 He wasn't talking about Chewbacca, he was talking about actual walking carpets. If your carpet keeps walking away that is an annoyance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 People who ruin the Star Wars reference joke by explaining things that everyone knew in the first place.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Badger said: I'm probably the guy who comes in and says something that has nothing to do with rules, but probably but not necessarily has something to do with the subject. Nah; not so much. I mean, no more than the rest of us. It's just annoying when someone takes it on themselves to point out how we're doing it wrong, in spite of the fact that we are doing exactly what was requested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2019 The unskippable ad that plays in front of a youtube video. Duke Bushido, Hermit and bubba smith 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 14, 2019 Report Share Posted January 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, Badger said: The unskippable ad that plays in front of a youtube video. ABP+Disable HTML5 Autoplay = I don't see the ads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 14, 2019 Report Share Posted January 14, 2019 Particular TV adverts. For example there used to be ones for building merchants B+Q. They had a tune where someone whistles. I grew to hate it. My mother hates the ads about the costs of funerals as they have an inaccuracy about funeral providers needing the money then and there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2019 I hate one radio ad: car dealership, the jingle is too happy and annoying in itself. But, it also decides to honk car horns starting at the middle. Which really messes with you, when you are waiting to pull out at a busy intersection, and may have cars behind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Ternaugh said: ABP+Disable HTML5 Autoplay = I don't see the ads. "Go, go, Gadget whatevertheheckyousaid!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Badger said: I hate one radio ad: car dealership, the jingle is too happy and annoying in itself. But, it also decides to honk car horns starting at the middle. Which really messes with you, when you are waiting to pull out at a busy intersection, and may have cars behind you. I can't listen to terrestrial radio at all* because of the commercials. In my car, I've got a flash drive that plays a bunch of my personal music collection**, and I've been a subscriber to XM Radio since right around the end of 2004 (it's just the online service now, though I have streamed it quite successfully through my phone to the car stereo via Bluetooth). *I have a clock radio that wakes me up in the morning, but it generally only plays about 3-4 seconds of whatever station it's set to. **It's playing in reverse alphabetical order by artist then album, and I'm somewhere around Steve Hackett right now, with perhaps another 500 albums to go. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Well, I don't take too many long drives, so I am only listening to 3-4 songs and a commercial break between wherever points I traveling between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Jaywalkers. The pedestrian crossing is just 10-20 metres up the "road" and your on the concrete island in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 They also leave ugly dents in my bumper and hood and never volunteer to pay for the damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Utah drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Bazza said: Jaywalkers. The pedestrian crossing is just 10-20 metres up the "road" and your on the concrete island in the middle. I was bad at doing that at the community college campus back in the day. (except many times is more like 20 ft) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome BODY (important!) Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 34 minutes ago, Pariah said: Utah drivers. I have never been anywhere I didn't hate the drivers. It's degrees of hate, relative measures of incompetent expletiveheaded know-nothings who menace everyone on the road. School age drivers are generally the worst though, I detest driving near schools with students old enough to drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Being in southern VA, NC drivers tend to be awful. I am pretty sure they are taught not to turn the steering wheel until the tires start hitting the side of the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Ewoks, oh, wrong thread. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Getting up too bloody early to drive folks to the damn airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 53 minutes ago, Bazza said: Ewoks, oh, wrong thread. How about - Great movies turned into marketing devices for toys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 12 minutes ago, Starlord said: How about - Great movies turned into marketing devices for toys? motion seconded Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Starlord said: How about - Great movies turned into marketing devices for toys? I presume you mean ESB and or RotJ is classed as a great movie? Both wouldn't have been made without toys. Which I'm sure you know. The whole Star Wars series is a marketing device for toys, ie a consumerist pseudo-religion. And ewoks are good. But my bias is that I was in America in 1983 and the day before seeing RotJ at the cinema we (family) took a road that went through Redwood Forest ie Endor. For me ewoks have more personality than a grunting walking carpet. And yes I watched the ewoks cartoon series though this is stretching my memory. And we got ewoks because Lucas didn't have the production budget for a normal adult size society of Wookiee, so we got "dwarf Wookiees" instead. And I do remember being in a warehouse in either Singapore or Hong Kong in 82 and finding a kids book expanding Chewbacca & Wookie culture and loving that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Lately the Star Wars toy franchise has been putting the cart before the horse. We only cared about the toys because the movies were awesome. This decade's Star Wars movies have not been awesome, and also the vehicle designs kind of suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Sitting with my back to the rest of the room. Maybe I was an Old West gunfighter in a prior life, but something about having to sit with my back to the room (because other people grabbed the good chairs) bothers me. Old Man, Cygnia and Rails 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 15, 2019 Report Share Posted January 15, 2019 Paper cuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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