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  1. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've driven past it several times (I love going to the Tacoma Trains hobby shop around the corner). Never seen a movie there, though. Ever gone to the Fox Theater in Centralia? Really cool, my wife and I just watch Buster Keaton's, "The General" there last weekend with organist accompaniment...
  2. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Cult of the Individual"... I like that. I can't recall who, but a comedian recently said that aliens orbiting the Earth and monitoring communications would come to the conclusion that the majority of Americans were famous. I've been seeing a scary number of people refusing to turn their phones...
  3. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Or how about if your computer has problems, and you call the customer service line and all it does is give a recorded message to go on their website? If your computer is having problems, wouldn't it be likely that you might not be able to get online?
  4. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm quite sired of things needing to be hooked up to the internet before they'll even work. We bought a TV a year ago and if you didn't have a Wi-Fi router, you couldn't even turn the thing on! Took forever to hook the thing up. I grew up in a real redneck part of the country (North Florida...
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    HMS Hood Bell To Be Recovered

    I imagine it'll be one of those things that only a chosen few ever get near...
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    • Post #10
    • Forum: WWII
  7. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    People who will drive or walk around a long line of people, then cut in at the head end. Must be nice to not be burdened by the thoughts of what others must think of you. I was in a long line for something yesterday and two people who claimed not to speak English (though they sure seemed to be...
  8. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yep, you've nailed it. We were working between 10-20 hours per person, per week average for 2 years when they introduced a new computer system that took much longer for us all to do the same job the previous one did. It took that long for the company to realize they couldn't keep going on...
  9. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm sick to death of employers thinking that they can have 3/4 or less of the people they really need, then make everyone work overtime forever. I'm over 5 years into working OT every week without fail. All mandatory, of course. They even changed the job description to include OT being a...
  10. p51

    POW Camps in America

    When I played pee-wee league baseball in elementary school (I grew up in Tallahassee, Florida), the field we used, everyone said, had been a German POW enclosure during WW2. To this day, I haven't found anything on where the enclosure was, only that there apparently was one in the area...
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    • Post #29
    • Forum: WWII
  11. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was so thankful for the lack of the "Hellllllp meee!" scene in the remake of 'The Fly'. That was, to me, the creepiest scene from any horror movie ever. Still sends chills up my spine just thinking about it. I'm not terrified of spiders but I really don't like them. I never want to see that...
  13. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Good one, I'd forgotten that. I'd agree with all your points on that film.
  14. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The only movie remake I can think of that in my opinion improved on the original was John Carpenter's, "The Thing," as it was really close to the original story it was based on. The original film was just another schlocky monster movie with few elements of the original source material. But you...
  15. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the Jane Bond movies, I assume she'll get random men she just met to immediately do household chores for her? [huh]
  16. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You make a great point there. But messing with a hallmark of some people's youth (especially people in their 40s and older, which are prime griping years) brings out the worst in some people.
  17. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm a Dr Who fan from way back (when the only way you could see it at all was ancient re-runs on PBS). I've heard all the arguments since the 80s...
  19. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fair enough, but how ticked would many here be if they re-made Gone with the Wind or Casablanca with different genders? I think Ghostbusters is a classic comedy in every sense of the phrase, something people will keep enjoying for generations. So to make a cheap buck, and lacking the guts to...
  20. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In Seattle, bike riders are some of the biggest jerks out there. Fueled by entitlement and smugness, they feel they can do anything they want. For all the griping they do about how car drivers treat them, they in turn treat pedestrians far worse. The funniest thing I ever saw was a bike rider...
  21. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Cell phones... Sorry for the crudeness, but no man should be talking on a phone when he's taking a dump. [huh] Earlier today at the bathroom at work, three stalls were filled and every guy in each was talking on the phone to someone. Really, truly, if you're talking to me, tell me you're in the...
  22. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Heard it from another, she's been messing around! :eeek:
  23. p51

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The sad part is that stations that do this, normally do decently in the ratings. As much as you (and I, too) hate this, plenty of other people want it. Nothing new about gossip stuff in the media, just look up all the scandals and how they were covered in the golden era. It was just as bad...

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