The pet peeve thread

[oblong]

In the mid 90s on the weekend A&E was the mafia documentary channel. 

[casimir]

2 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

On that note, why is there often a marathon of a show called Naked and Afraid on Animal Planet? And I miss when Discovery and The History Channel had documentaries about science and history. I do sometimes find shoes about WWII that are interesting on one channel (forget the name of it), but that's about it.

One of those channels had a show called "How the States Got Their Shapes" which, well, the title kind of explains it.  Another show was called "Aerial (State/Region)" which showed drone/airplane footage of different geographical parts of a state and touched on historical significance.  I'm a map nerd and I love me some map porn, so these shows were great.  Pretty sure they were before COVID, but, geez, between Marble Olympics and 2019 International Team Handball Championships, if these map shows were on then, I don't know if I'd have had time to see how my wife and kids were doing.

[Deleterious]

Modern Marvels, Aerial America, and How It's Made. I could watch those shows non-stop.

[casimir]

52 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Modern Marvels, Aerial America, and How It's Made. I could watch those shows non-stop.

I forgot about “How It’s Made”.  That was a good show, too.

[Motor City Sonics]

5 hours ago, oblong said:

Arts and Entertainment.  
 I think TLC has some kind of MILF show where these women in their 60s who have had a ton of plastic surgery live in th same compound as men in their 20s. 
 

MTV is interesting.  I read a book on the history of it and it was inevitable what happened.  The labels and artists got tired of providing free content to the network. And between them they couldn’t agree who would pay for the videos.  In the beginning it was a free for all. Nobody knew anything. And they saw results when the videos played. That changed.  MTV was insisting on not paying them for the videos… then they started to show their original content like remote control and then real world and ratings took off.  It’s a business, not a public service.  They won’t change the name because it’s a brand they built up.  
 

they used the moon landing footage in the beginning because it was free and they ironically were thinking what they were doing was just as important. 

Paying for content is kind of dumb.  Why would I pay a label to expose their videos to potentially millions.  The exposure is more important than paying for the content.    But I know from experience, record labels shoot themselves in the foot for a quick buck all the time.

Its not that MTV has original programing, its that the programing is shit and manipulative and trashy.   Teen Mom?   Celebrating 16 year olds that get knocked up?   Seems really sinister to me.      And there is that MILF show they advertise.   My station played a song by Tori Amos called Big Wheel and in the song, at one point she sings "I am an M.I.L.F. Don't you forget".   We had to edit that part out because some listeners got enraged.  Now its the actual name of the show.   Plus this whole 90 Day Fiancee universe.   These peope all seem like the scuzziest, most shallow people ever.  I'd rather watch paint dry. 

[oblong]

VH1 was started up kind of as a joke. Ted Turner said he was going into the TV music business and was going to be family friendly and free to the cable providers so at MTV they tasked some people to quickly come up with counter programming on a new channel.  They did the same. They actually didn’t want it to succeed in terms of rating’s because it would affect MTV as buys.   They put Kenny G on.  Then he became huge. Turners station didn’t last long. 
 

[Screwball]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Modern Marvels, Aerial America, and How It's Made. I could watch those shows non-stop.

I have not heard of Aerial America, but I will look that up.  Thanks. The other two are gold, love them. Can get some of the same with Twitter. I was watching this today. This is a kick ass hammer.

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by Screwball

[oblong]

I haven't watched Modern Marvels since they changed the format.  But i still record them all but most I have seen.  I still watch the one on the Mackinaw Bridge, Beer, Whiskey.... those stand out to me as fun.  And I like anything related to food and the mass production.  "here's how we fill 5 million M&M's a day into these bags!"

 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Pet Peeve is how many damn times I have to do Cyber Security training.   Probably about 8 times a year now.  And its always the same thing.   Everytime some dumbshit in my company opens an email they shouldn't, we have to do this training.   

[oblong]

My company sends out phishing tests and if you fail, then you are put on a list for potentail training.  If you pass, you don't.  The way you pass is 1) don't open it, 2) they give us a method to report a phish attempt.

It's also a good way to get out of some stuff.  A few times I would say "Sorry, didn't see that, I thought it was a phishing attempt"

[chasfh]

On 2/5/2023 at 4:40 PM, LaceyLou said:

On that note, why is there often a marathon of a show called Naked and Afraid on Animal Planet? And I miss when Discovery and The History Channel had documentaries about science and history. I do sometimes find shoes about WWII that are interesting on one channel (forget the name of it), but that's about it.

That shipped sailed 20 years ago, for a bunch of those networks. History Channel isn't historical; Discovery discovered that the money is in cheap reality nonsense; Travel Channel travels only to where there are yetis or ghosts; Sundance is all Law & Order and no Sundance films; Nat Geo's geography encompasses anything involving crime or UFOs; you can learn only about 1,000-pound women and being secretly pregnant on the Learning Channel; the Science Channel is focused on the "science" of the paranormal; and A&E isn't particularly artful or entertaining anymore.

[Motor City Sonics]

44 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That shipped sailed 20 years ago, for a bunch of those networks. History Channel isn't historical; Discovery discovered that the money is in cheap reality nonsense; Travel Channel travels only to where there are yetis or ghosts; Sundance is all Law & Order and no Sundance films; Nat Geo's geography encompasses anything involving crime or UFOs; you can learn only about 1,000-pound women and being secretly pregnant on the Learning Channel; the Science Channel is focused on the "science" of the paranormal; and A&E isn't particularly artful or entertaining anymore.

My Big Fat Fabulous Life....................every promo for the show shows her breaking down in tears at some point.   What's fabulous about that?   Reality TV is cheaper to produce and there's a reason for it, because it's absolute garbage.  Now we have "influencers".    It's just garbage.       There is ALWAYS a Law & Order episode on somewhere.   Always.      

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

It's also a good way to get out of some stuff.  A few times I would say "Sorry, didn't see that, I thought it was a phishing attempt"

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[LaceyLou]

For the past few days, I've had the theme song from Leave it to Beaver stuck in my head. At least I find the show entertaining...

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

snow.

I guess I just spent too many years in Houghton County. if Portland gets so much as a dusting, I get tense. today we're on track for a solid inch. hate hate hate

[LaceyLou]

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

snow.

I guess I just spent too many years in Houghton County. if Portland gets so much as a dusting, I get tense. today we're on track for a solid inch. hate hate hate

I get tense because people here are bad drivers to begin with and can barely drive in rain, let alone snow.

[gehringer_2]

Power starting to go out in SE Ann Arbor. Oddly here on the north side of town not much ice......yet.

[djhutch]

February.  This is the 3rd year in a row that I've developed a nagging cough in February.  Last year, it lasted 6 weeks - went away when I got Covid - & then came back for another 2-3 weeks.  It's absolutely exhausting

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

10.8" of snow at the PDX airport yesterday/overnight. this is terrible.

[Biff Mayhem]

15 hours ago, djhutch said:

February.  This is the 3rd year in a row that I've developed a nagging cough in February.  Last year, it lasted 6 weeks - went away when I got Covid - & then came back for another 2-3 weeks.  It's absolutely exhausting

Happens to me almost every Februweary as well.

[casimir]

10 hours ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

10.8" of snow at the PDX airport yesterday/overnight. this is terrible.

That's terrible at any airport.  But is PDX/Portland metro equipped for that?

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

5 hours ago, casimir said:

That's terrible at any airport.  But is PDX/Portland metro equipped for that?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no

well, maybe PDX is, at least sort of. but I seem to recall that the city has like 3 snowplows.

Edited February 24, 2023 by Crazy Cat Gentleman

[Biff Mayhem]

I'm just here starting my daylight savings ire a week and a half early. The sunshine act passed the senate a year ago and it's still waiting on the house. Morons. And not the good kind of morons.

[Motor City Sonics]

On 2/24/2023 at 7:28 AM, Biff Mayhem said:

Happens to me almost every Februweary as well.

I thought you were a bad typist but I see what you did there.   Least favorite month is gone,  to be replaced with 8-10 inches of snow March 3rd, which will probably completely melt by March 8th.  

[LaceyLou]

March is my least favorite month, on average. No holidays off, weather can't make up its mind between snow, rain, and mud, and the start of DST tends to throw me off, for some reason.