So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Lean'n'mean]

I heard a news report on a hot air balloon crash stating that there was a "significant loss of life"; is there such a thing as an insignificant loss of life?

That is significant as in plentiful & not meaningful & yes there is such a thing as 'insignificant loss of life'......in war for example, losses can be insignificant as long as they're foreigners.

 

[Fading Fast]

My last stop in the "profession" was a station owned by the state chairman of a certain political party and failed candidate for Congress. No pressure to slant there, no sirreee.

It is so blatantly obvious that news services and individual reporters have aggressive biases that my only real complaint is that they won't acknowledge it.

Enough with the "objective reporting" and even calling it a "public service" nonsense. Just say what you are, a for-profit news business with a political bias.

 

[Hercule]

Annoyance du jour:

Those who seem to think that you can't use the gas pedal and the steering wheel at the same time.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It is so blatantly obvious that news services and individual reporters have aggressive biases that my only real complaint is that they won't acknowledge it.

Enough with the "objective reporting" and even calling it a "public service" nonsense. Just say what you are, a for-profit news business with a political bias.

Of course, there's never been any other kind of journalism in the entire history of the United States. Ever. The whole idea that there ever was such a thing as "objective reporting" is nonsense, a straw man thrown up by people who are upset that there exist journalistic outlets that have the temerity to disagree with their own point of view. Even the wire services have always projected a specific point of view, as much from what they don't cover as what they do.

Show me any newspaper from the Era, published anywhere within the United States, and I can tell you exactly the political inclination and the social class of its dominant reader base. Just from a quick glance at the front page of any randomly selected issue. A Scripps broadsheet and a Hearst tabloid had not a single thing in common except that they were both published on newsprint.

 

[Fading Fast]

Of course, there's never been any other kind of journalism in the entire history of the United States. Ever. The whole idea that there ever was such a thing as "objective reporting" is nonsense, a straw man thrown up by people who are upset that there exist journalistic outlets that have the temerity to disagree with their own point of view.

Show me any newspaper from the Era, published anywhere within the United States, and I can tell you exactly the political inclination and the social class of its dominant reader base. Just from a quick glance at the front page of any randomly selected issue.

I agree - it was more bias but maybe more honest about being bias in the 19th Century and maybe (only maybe) a bit less obviously bias in the Era (versus the 19th Century) but definitely less honest about being bias.

Notice in my first post, I didn't say anything about it having not been bias in the past.

 

[Fading Fast]

Annoyance du jour:

Those who seem to think that you can't use the gas pedal and the steering wheel at the same time.

My father's favorite pet driving peeve was people who had to, first, sway (or drift) a bit to the left to turn right and vice versa - very sloppy and sometimes subtle, but once you are aware that some people do it, you see it all the time.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think the papers in the Era were just as obvious in their point of view as those of the 19th Century. The presentation may have been slicker, but the essential tone wasn't really all that different. Looking thru any issue of the Chicago Tribune published during Colonel McCormick's lifetime is no different from looking over any issue of the Daily Worker, except that the political point of view is 180 degrees apart. The Tribune was just as obviously and aggressively biased to the ultra-right as the Worker was to the Left. The main difference was that the Tribune was bursting with paid advertising, and the Worker had just a few ads here and there for cheap restaurants, bookstores, Paul Robeson concerts, and electrolysis parlors in Brooklyn.

 

[Trenchfriend]

A thing, which ticks many people off, in Germany, is the extremely nerving suggestive interview-style, especially in sport-events. That wasn't used this way in the 90's, when interviewing was more old-fashioned objektive and the number of interviews was not that high. In my memory, It was "unagitated", then. Today, even people, who are watching sport-events on TV very often and listen to the interviews at free will ( ) are nerved, immensely!

I really don't want to be such an interviewer and do this suggestive mess, commanded by editorial office.

 

[ChrisB]

My father's favorite pet driving peeve was people who had to, first, sway (or drift) a bit to the left to turn right and vice versa - very sloppy and sometimes subtle, but once you are aware that some people do it, you see it all the time.

This has gotten worse in recent years. People, typically driving large SUVs, seem to think they are driving a tractor trailer, and pull all the way on to the right shoulder to make a left turn. This is annoying at a minimum, and dangerous when they don't use their turn signals. I have also seen right turns made from a left turn lane.

 

[BobHufford]

Call to doctor's office to try and refill a 'script that the pharmacy has been trying to fill for two days (for migraines, so I'm in a bit of a hurry).

Office: "Last name?"
Me: "Hufford"
Office: "H .. U .. F (as in Frank) .. F .. O .. R .. D?"
Me: "Correct"
Office: "First name Frank?"
Me: (trying not to laugh) "No ... Robert".

BTW it will be 24 to 48 hours for the doctor to reply (although the pharmacy has been repeatedly trying to contact him for the refill for 48 hours already). This happened for the last refill (for two injections) as well. Why can't they just approve a refill for a year? I've been using this med for over 15 years.

 

[ChrisB]

When going for a Dr. appointment, it is always an hour after the scheduled time before they see you.

 

[Stearmen]

Of course, there's never been any other kind of journalism in the entire history of the United States. Ever. The whole idea that there ever was such a thing as "objective reporting" is nonsense, a straw man thrown up by people who are upset that there exist journalistic outlets that have the temerity to disagree with their own point of view. Even the wire services have always projected a specific point of view, as much from what they don't cover as what they do.

Show me any newspaper from the Era, published anywhere within the United States, and I can tell you exactly the political inclination and the social class of its dominant reader base. Just from a quick glance at the front page of any randomly selected issue. A Scripps broadsheet and a Hearst tabloid had not a single thing in common except that they were both published on newsprint.

"You furnish the pictures, I'll provide the war." William Randolph Hearst.

 

[Stearmen]

What is it with modern diesel pickup trucks and their big plume of thick rancid black smoke?

 

[swanson_eyes]

Why can't they just approve a refill for a year? I've been using this med for over 15 years.

Luckily my original script and a refill will last me a year or more, so that I don't have to pay for more office visits than I already do. (I have to see my doc every time for a new script for my opiate and there is only one refill allowed without that visit.)

 

[Trenchfriend]

Such a nice massmarket cognac coloured-leather jacket! But that price!

Would be nice, if someone could send me 299 Euro...

 

[Trenchfriend]

And one of the greatest propaganda from the boys of industrial bodycare-marketing, since the 20's!!

The stupid "acid protective-coat of the human skin", translated.

But luckily, in Germany many people changed from classic natural barsoap to synthetic showergel, because of practical reasons, in the 90's, but not all did! Showergel couldn't suppress the classic barsoap.

Finally, this stupid part of marketing failed, because practical reasons are more important to many people, than dermatologic reasons.

And after-shave balm couldn't suppress classic after-shave.

 

[LizzieMaine]

What is it with modern diesel pickup trucks and their big plume of thick rancid black smoke?

That's to make absolutely sure you notice how rugged and manly the driver is. As he drives to the Kwik-Pik to pick up a box of disposable diapers.

 

[Zombie_61]

Annoyance du jour:

Those who seem to think that you can't use the gas pedal and the steering wheel at the same time.

I've developed a theory that so many people are bad drivers because they consider driving as nothing more than a task they must perform in order to get to where they want to go, and don't consider it as a skillset that must be constantly improved upon. The ridiculous phenomenon of turning their vehicles into entertainment centers, and the more recent developments towards auto-pilots (i.e. cars that will drive themselves) seem to support my theory. People don't want to drive, but they have to so they learn just enough about how to do it to get by...sort of.

When going for a Dr. appointment, it is always an hour after the scheduled time before they see you.

My previous physical medicine doctor was notorious for running late. The last time I saw him before he retired, I was taken into the exam room two hours after my scheduled appointment time and still waited another 15 minutes before he walked in. I'd gotten used to this so I had brought sufficient reading material, but several patients arrived, waited a while, found out how far behind he was, rescheduled their appointments, and left. Amateurs.

 

[ChiTownScion]

What is it with modern diesel pickup trucks and their big plume of thick rancid black smoke?

They call it, "rolling coal." It's supposed to be an expression of machismo (as Lizzie notes) against "wimpy environmentalists" and it's usually implemented by some insecure jerk who has the need to make that sort of statement- and earns every laugh that he gets.

 

[LizzieMaine]

If ever in the world there was someone just begging to have a couple of big, hearty potatoes shoved down their smokestacks some dark night, it's those guys. And a Baby Ruth bar down the fuel tank for good measure.