Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Either/Or. They both do work on both shows and have the same humor.

Keep tempting fate with that "Seth MacFarlane dies in a plane crash" comments. Dude was probably scheduled to sleep in a boxcar outside Dallas yesterday, but missed his cab.

wow, you could just, y'know, not pay attention to him

I feel like you may have missed the point of the internet.

you mean seth green? seth identification can be tricky i know.

so long as MacFarlane keeps getting TV shows and movie deals people will always think this kind of humor is acceptable

Yeah my anger isn't really directed at any one person here, just this very lame type of comedy.

wow, you could just, y'know, not pay attention to him

Too late. Saw the Ted trailer already.

Guy has to be a furrie irl? We're all on the same page with that one, right?

online trade mag I subscribe to through work: mostly garbage, once in a blue moon they have actual industry news, which is why I keep my subscription up (free thank god).

however they send out these stupid daily emails almost always with the headline BREAKING NEWS. a dvd release that EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT ALREADY does not count as breaking news.

there needs to be some kind of legal decree that bans them from using the words BREAKING and NEWS in the same sentenence for the next, idk, 25 years.

the other day I read a breaking news report about how a mom in Chicago is 60 but looks 25 and that dermatologists hate her, pretty cool imo

That's been my complaint since 9/11. Now that was breaking news.

But turning to CNN and seeing Anderson Cooper go "BREAKING NEWS, Mitt Romney says President Obama's health care plan is no good." THAT'S NOT BREAKING NEWS, I DON'T CARE IF HE JUST SAID IT.

Memories of BREAKING NEWS: Survivors being pulled out of the Murrah Building. Kid waving arm out of broken window at Columbine High. 9/11. George W. Bush says he'll run for re-election in 2004…. wait WHAT?

Mitt Romney's whole disavowal of Obama's health care is a little notme.gif

That said, I don't think anyone needs to stop the presses on that one.

What was the last news event in which the old networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) all interrupted programming?

I remember as a kid watching "Manimal" or something when the screen would fade out for a second and THIS IS AN NBC SPECIAL REPORT would come on. Would scare the shit out of me.

(Not counting The State of the Union or some scheduled event.)

yeah local news is really bad for this too

Ha, the last time the local news interrupted programming was when the Razorbacks hired a new basketball coach.

remember as a kid watching "Manimal" or something when the screen would fade out for a second and THIS IS AN NBC SPECIAL REPORT would come on. Would scare the shit out of me.

Me too! I was always convinced it was going to be about Russian nuclear missiles sighted over DC airspace. Ugh.

In my gradeschool years the special reports were always local stations giving us a heads-up re tornadoes headed straight for us, which was EXTREMELY STRESSFUL GODDAMN. Stupid Minnesota.

We lived in a trailer for some years so our tornado plan was to GTFO on the highway to the north or south, depending on the trajectory of the tornado (tornadoes usually came in from the west or southwest). Only had to do that once, during the 1984 summer Olympics. We drove south as the tornado headed east. My dad threw a shoe running to the car.

God, fuck living in a trailer. Any sort of rain sounded like pebbles hitting the roof. A fucking boxcar would have been more secure.

Never had any tornadoes though. A Titan II missile did explode from its silo just down the road from us, but fortunately the nuclear warhead was thrown into a ditch.

Shook that trailer like a motherfucker when that happened.

A tornado hit my house a few years after we moved out of the trailer (built on the same spot). It was hilarious.

They moved our trailer after we moved out. Word was it got bit by a tornado too.

I feel bad for whatever family was living there, but nothing makes my heart sweller than picturing that trailer torn the fuck up to pieces.

"Oh, your little goldenrod plastic shower windows? Yeah, those are in the next congressional district now."

Out of my close friends and acquaintances, a sizable majority of the married couples have different last names. Out of all the peers that I interact with regularly (excluding parents and such) there are only maybe five or ten couples where the wife has taken the husband's name. Of course I'm into this (my wife kept her name) in a fuck-the-patriarchy equality sort of way, not accepting society's defaults or at least putting some conscious thought into these things, etc.

But now that everyone's having kids, all of them (save one couple who hyphenated) has given their child, male or female, the father's last name. Which I guess doesn't really make me angry, just kind of befuddled and vaguely disappointed.

i dunno, it seems like a much bigger deal for a bride to *change* her name than to give a kid one or the other (and hyphenated names are terribly un-american amirite)

Yeah, but I think joygoat's point is that it's always the father's last name that the kid gets, never the mother's.

balls to hyphenated names

were I to have kids I'd probably let them take Mr Veg's last name, sheerly out of practical reasons that might sound preposterous but w/e. I didn't change my name but Mr Veg's last name gets randomly bestowed on me at every turn anyway, so it just seems easier for the kids to go through life with their Dad's name, save confusion bc wider society tend to like assuming yr last name for you

I had a friend whose parents kept their last names and gave the kids a portmanteau surname that combined elements from both parents.

the mayor of los angeles has a portmanteau name. he was villar, his wife was raigosa, and they both changed it to "villaraigosa." (they're divorced now, but he still uses that name.)

lol am picutring the possibilities

Pennyhill
Cahenny

xp that’s pretty cool, i’m into the idea of both husband and wife changing their names when they get married

i have a really long hyphenated surname that often doesn’t fit on forms and stuff, but i like my name

i changed my surname to my stepfather's when i was a kid

other than that, i guess i don't really care? i am unlikely to have children tho.

i know totally feminist women who took their husbands' names just because it sounded better, or didn't need spelling to every clerk.

supposedly it was a tradition in my real father's family to have the first son's initials be w.c. (lol) but happily my mom said fuck that.

winston churchill mookieproof?

If sunny and I had tried a portmanteau on the kids, their names would have been either Bakin or Marker.

I had one long-term relationship before ss, and privately, I have to admit one of the (many) reasons we didn't work out was because she wanted hyphenated names and our names sound like shit next to each other.

Should've dated a Studa.

I like Bakin :)

We refer to lots of other couples and they refer to us by portmanteaus and we've seriously talked about using that as a child's last name should we ever have them. I know it would be a serious hassle to have three different last names when traveling or dealing with forms or whatever but I stubbornly love that kind of shit - you can't make me follow your naming rules dammit. Either that or we'd seriously toss a coin.

I do work with a guy (his wife works in the same building) who sort of portmanteaued their last names by adding her O' to his last name.

Never thought about it before, but now I'd like to marry and hyphenate with a man with the last name Behr bc that would be cute as all fuck. Je55e K3|-|r-B3|-|r. Just like I was called in grade school!

I had the salesgirls at a store I frequent tell me "We love your name! It's so cool! You can never get married!"

Wait, what?

you need to make this your mission in life.

mine will be to get Mr Veg to change his name to Money so I can be Moneyp3nny

(xpost)

you heard them, tokyo. YOU CAN NEVER GET MARRIED.

No wait, I can, but only to someone with an EVEN COOLER last name.

'tokyo morbius'

(virginia plain will be jealous, tho!)

Police club

Gore Police

Jeff and I have different last names and I felt p strongly about keeping my last name for feminist and personal reasons. I go back and forth on kid names but any kid will probably get Jeff's bc:

1. All possible portmanteaus of our last names sound like noises you'd make when you barf.
2. His name ends with "th" and mine with "ss" so hyphenation makes the speaker sound like Sylvester the Cat.
3. My bio dad's side of the family from whence my last name came consists of truly horrible people with whom I have little to no contact and it kind of feels like I would be cursing my kid to saddle it with all the baggage inherent in this last name.
4. I've always been the odd person out in my family, last name-wise, so I'm used to it.

But maybe I'll saddle the kid with a cumbersome hyphenation, who knows.

man, my little sister was married for less than two years and all she got out of the deal was a different last name

xp your names hyphenated would sound like a character from a Henry James novel, in a good way

I'd go for the shorter name. Preferably 1 or 2 letters. I'd have to write/type that name a lot so it would really save me some time over the long haul.