Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Paul DePhiladelphia]

My roommates boyfriend gave me the history of PBR(Pabst not Roy) one night. And literally asked me if I knew how it got started. I said no and he paused and went into "Okay so..." It was frightening that he acted either like explaining this was a chore and hard to intake (as if to doubt my intelligence or to be like "okay here's the lowdown" on something I don't care about at all) or that he was doing me a favor in sharing this wisdom about a beer I don't even drink.

[SJK]

I don't remember so clearly, a story about her using toilet language in front of a kid at a comedy club and the mother protesting...which set off another round of toilet language...it's all a little fuzzy. Was it PFT who told the story?

I'm pretty sure that was told during her appearance on Doug Loves Movies. I thought she came off as a bit of a jerk in that appearance, but then, who cares? Lots of male comedians are jerks (or pretend to be).

That's exactly where the story was told...I forgot she was on DLM. Didn't impress me at all. Sorry for making up that whole imagined story taking place on TBS.

I hate my non-remembering brain, to get back on the thread topic!

[cutout]

delete your bookmark and re-add it.

Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.

[moonshake]

delete your bookmark and re-add it.

Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.

It appears that the 'www' in the URL is somehow problematic. If you use http://friendsoftom.com/forum/ it works just fine.

[AllisonLeGnome]

delete your bookmark and re-add it.

Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.

It appears that the 'www' in the URL is somehow problematic. If you use http://friendsoftom.com/forum/ it works just fine.

I was sort of confused why everyone but me seemed to be having that problem- until I just went to actually post for the first time in a few days and realized I've been logged out the entire time. Smart.

[jbissell]

My stupid AT&T U-Verse is about to drop AMC and IFC.

[Andy]

I hate when people who don't have the power to create/inforce rules try to do so and then act like you're an idiot for not following their rules.  My physician has a new policy: all medication refill requests must come from a pharmacy.  My medication is a controlled substance, so I have to go physically pick up the prescription every  month.  Instead of me calling the doctor and the doctor calling me when the script is ready, now I have to call the pharmacy, the pharmacy calls the doctor, the doctor calls the pharmacy when it's ready, the pharmacy calls me when they hear from the doctor. This would be ok if the jackasses didn't act like they were put out constantly or wait until the end of the day to make their calls, so that the process takes 4 days instead of a day.

So I just still call my doctor, and they still write me prescription, but every month the nurse tells me "you really need to be having your pharmacy fax over a prescription request, but we'll go ahead and take care of it this time."  I kind of take pleasure in the fact that I know she hangs up the phone and bitches about me ("what's so hard about this, people are idiots...")

I don't have to follow your stupid rules.  Especially rules that are designed to help your bottom line at the expense of my experience as a customer. Go fuck yourself, doctor's offices.

[Martin]

People who rely on Spotify* playlists for their goddamn wedding party instead of getting a proper DJ. When there's plenty of DJs among the wedding guests, to boot. Thumbs down. Humiliating.




*) or Pandora or whatever else of the streaming-random-playlists-to-a-laptop/ipod variety.

Well, unless the DJ-guests were willing to work for free, it's possible that this is a budgetary decision.

Or maybe it's a taste-related decision. Nothing ruins a wedding faster than a DJ who decides it's his job to inject his "personality" into his narration tasks, intro songs, etc, as though it's a morning zoo instead of a special event that requires a bit of restraint. We specifically asked our wedding DJ to keep his mouth shut in order to avoid this. Then he showed up with a big banner in front of his DJ setup reading "A DASH OF CLASS" and his phone number. So thanks, guy, for dropping your dash of class into our wedding photos.

I guess what I'm saying is, I hate wedding DJ's. 

Sorry about that, that guy sounds horrible.

They have a bunch of friends attending the wedding who dabble as DJs (as in club DJs, not wedding DJs - me included), all of whom would be thrilled to play a number of 30-60 mins long sets all through the evening. I think it's not so much a question of taste as a case of last-minute scramble to get everything sorted out.

But I will oblige and put together something for them to use. Why not?

Hey, guess how well this turned out!

Guess how many of my 100 cherry-picked all-time classic party jams got selected by the drunk partygoers who all had access to the same laptop with all the music on it? (A: 1,2. (Salsoul Orchestra's Runaway only got 20 seconds before someone changed it to, if memory serves, Tubthumping.))

Needless to say, I had a great time.

[senorcorazon]

Needless to say, I had a great time.

Ugh. This is the worst. I feel lucky that I had a restrained DJ friend who was willing to spin in exchange for cab money (and then we paid him anyway). A crowd of drunk people should never be allowed to control music.

[Steve of Bloomington]

I hate when people who don't have the power to create/inforce rules try to do so and then act like you're an idiot for not following their rules.  My physician has a new policy: all medication refill requests must come from a pharmacy.  My medication is a controlled substance, so I have to go physically pick up the prescription every  month.  Instead of me calling the doctor and the doctor calling me when the script is ready, now I have to call the pharmacy, the pharmacy calls the doctor, the doctor calls the pharmacy when it's ready, the pharmacy calls me when they hear from the doctor. This would be ok if the jackasses didn't act like they were put out constantly or wait until the end of the day to make their calls, so that the process takes 4 days instead of a day.

So I just still call my doctor, and they still write me prescription, but every month the nurse tells me "you really need to be having your pharmacy fax over a prescription request, but we'll go ahead and take care of it this time."  I kind of take pleasure in the fact that I know she hangs up the phone and bitches about me ("what's so hard about this, people are idiots...")

I don't have to follow your stupid rules.  Especially rules that are designed to help your bottom line at the expense of my experience as a customer. Go fuck yourself, doctor's offices.

Also: FAXes! Yesterday's technology tomorrow with these people...

[Martin]

Needless to say, I had a great time.

Ugh. This is the worst. I feel lucky that I had a restrained DJ friend who was willing to spin in exchange for cab money (and then we paid him anyway). A crowd of drunk people should never be allowed to control music.

You'll be interested to know that I'm attending ANOTHER wedding this weekend, with this interesting musical set-up: twelve DJs, one dancefloor. Each DJ gets 30 minutes. Vinyl and CDs, with additional samplers and laptops expected. Entire crowd will be very hardcore music nerd people, but with WILDLY varied styles/genres. I'm organizing it (and will be doing a set), and right now I'm trying to put together a workable schedule. Where to put the indie pop dude? Next to the gal playing Italo disco? The guys who will play mostly ambient drone on cassette tapes will admittedly be difficult to fit in anywhere. Maybe as a chill-out set as the sun comes up.

I'm actually really excited about this. My only concern right now is time. If everybody ends up doing their sets we'll be dancing til 6 am. Luckily I won't be doing any of the late sets.

[crumbum]

All this wedding talk reminds me of the time my friend, who's a trained (though not professional) photographer, was hired by an old friend of hers to shoot his wedding. They agreed to a fee of a few hundred dollars or so, including film costs (this was in 2002, prior to high-quality digital being common) -- a serious bargain.

She shoots the wedding using three or four different cameras and film stocks, does an amazing job, and then gets a call from the groom the next weekend saying he can only give her about 25% of the agreed fee. He didn't offer much of an excuse, just said that things were kind of tight. My friend wasn't even able to cover her own expenses (and she had bought them a gift).

[Sarah]

This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.

[fonpr]

This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.

[Big Plastic Head]

This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.

If you subscribe to the Industrial Wedding Complex (florist, fancy caterer, expensive dress, high-end photographer, popular (shitty) DJ) your wedding will probably be boring and lame and not memorable. I have seen enough of them to know. For 4 years I was a bar manager at a fancy Yacht Club in SF and we did 70 to 80 special events a year. Most of those were weddings and 99% of those weddings SUCKED. ("Weddings suck. Wedding receptions suck..." etc.) They were completely unoriginal with zero creativity thrown in. BOO-ring. To this day, anytime I hear "Love Shack" I want to stab somebody.

That said, a wedding is what you make it. Mine was fantastic. As cliché as it sounds, it was the best day of my life. We made it a full weekend event for everyone and we did it on the cheap. We didn't ask our friends to do anything yet they were volunteering to help out like crazy.

If people getting married think of it as a "party" and not a "wedding" and never open a bridal magazine or consult a wedding planner, they can avoid the bunk label and throw a pretty good shindig.

Oh, things I hate...um..."Love Shack". Really hate "Love Shack".