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

[Andy]

I really hate Finance class, but I find finance in the real world fascinating.

I also hate classes where the professor acts like the journey being an important part of the learning experience is a suitable excuse for not proofing their shit or being incredibly vague.  There is not reason that 4 one line questions that are supposed to be the basis of a 5 page paper should require an additional 3 pages of clarifications. It's lazy.

I'm far from being one of those "just tell me  what's going to be on the test so that I can study that and get a good grade" type of people, but this shit is ridiculous.

Also, fuck the entire finance industry.  They have 4 names for everything and they use antiquated pricing methods and jargon in order to make things as confusing as possible to outsiders so that they can steal money.  People should be in jail for a lot of the legal shit they do.

[Mark in Helsinki]

"No worries."

[slipperyslope]

All of the weird @$$ children's programming on the television networks now. Seriously,
I know we all liked some pretty strange and stupid things growing up, but so much of that crap now has no merit whatsoever unless you're competing for who can make their viewers/children the most screwed in the head.

ESPECIALLY all of that Disney/Family channel crap. What the hell?
I watched a young relative bask in it's terribleness for a weekend and understood near immediately why that child has trouble at school, communicating properly with people in general and is generally weird.

Furthermore, I want to know how much their writers get paid because I'm pretty sure I can recreate their scripts by drawing words from random dictionary cards.

This COULD BE a scene in an episode in any one of their shows:
"Oh no, what do we do? The ice cream machine in the cafeteria is spitting ants all over my homework"
"That's ok, we'll just get the king of france to give us a ride on his helicopter if we can convince the school aardvark to let us go!"


It's seriously completely random thoughts and ideas loosely arranged to resemble either a public school classroom or cafeteria scenario or something hinting at young age dating, always presented in some sort of poorly acted non sequitur. Some "genius" somewhere seems to think there's value to children in it and they air reruns all day long. I really wish I could see into the minds of others sometimes.

[Pidgeon]

It's not for you, son.

[Steve of Bloomington]

My daughter watches kids' TV. Some of it, like 'Phineas and Pherb', is really awesome. I'm glad I have an excuse to watch it. Watching the Disney Channel by myself would be pretty creepy.

[JonFromMaplewood]

I watched a young relative bask in it's terribleness for a weekend and understood near immediately why that child has trouble at school, communicating properly with people in general and is generally weird.

But you assume those shows have more power in molding people than they actually do.  It depends on the kid.  My daughter is a relatively smart, social, and decent person, and she consumes a lot of iCarly and Hannah Montana.  I see no ill effects beside picking up some catch phrases that bug me but are otherwise totally age-appropriate and used by many of her friends.   It is no different than us going "Wait...whuuuuuuuut?"

Also, I agree with Pidgeon.  These shows do not cater to us at all so why get bothered by them?  I feel the same way about the Disney music.  Why bother saying "Hannah Montana's music is terrible?"  That's like saying "Hi-C juice boxes suck when compared to my 15-year-old scotch."  

[JonFromMaplewood]

Some of it, like 'Phineas and Pherb', is really awesome.

Oh my God I love that show. I could probably watch it without a kid as an excuse.

[Pidgeon]

I also watch Phineas and Ferb with a younger relative. It reminds me of Rocko's Modern Life because of all the subtle filth humor they somehow manage to slip past the censors.

[Martin]

Icelandic volcanoes.

[Stupornaut]

I hate the fact that when I reviewed Eugene Mirman's God is a Twelve Year-Old Boy with Aspberger's for Pitchfork and he tweeted (probably facetiously) that the rating was a few points short of making him a "hot new band", I retorted with the joke that if the rating was the Richter scale his CD would still cause the World Series to be canceled. This was about a week before the Haiti earthquake, and there's been like eight of the damn things since.

[SJK]

Icelandic volcanoes.

Have you seen this Martin? A nice display of what is happening. It is a Swedish website, according to The Daily What.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

[Martin]

Icelandic volcanoes.

Have you seen this Martin? A nice display of what is happening. It is a Swedish website, according to The Daily What.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

I have seen it. I'm super bummed out about this.

[Barry Egan]

I hate the fact that when I reviewed Eugene Mirman's God is a Twelve Year-Old Boy with Aspberger's for Pitchfork and he tweeted (probably facetiously) that the rating was a few points short of making him a "hot new band", I retorted with the joke that if the rating was the Richter scale his CD would still cause the World Series to be canceled. This was about a week before the Haiti earthquake, and there's been like eight of the damn things since.

That's still a great joke.

[Mark in Helsinki]

Thumb rings.*



I guess "hate" is a bit over the top, but I give thumb rings the same double-take I do when I see neck tattoos.

*on men

[NJL]

Damn, now The 1990s will not be on Terre T's show, amid whatever other chaos.  I defy you Eyjafjallajökull!