What TV show drives you CRAZY!

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I love House Hunters, although I do miss the "old days" of the show where they concentrated in California a little more.  I don't want to see some schmuck buy a $170K house in Idaho.  

A lot of times they are a little unreasonable, but they are obviously told to talk thru their thought process as they walk through the house.  So pointing out things like Granite (or lack) are probably what's encouraged.  Besides, little things can add up to a lot of money so why would you accept a house that needs a lot of smaller, cosmetic repairs when you don't have to.

[doxieluvr]

Jun 27, 2013 13:15:40 GMT -5 Sam_2.0 said:

"Charlie and Lola" and "Gaspard and Lisa" are two shows DD watches that I absolutely can not stand. Lola and Lisa are bratty little things. We usually change the channel when those two come on.

DH watches those Jackass type shows. Rob Dyrdek (?), Tosh, etc. I really hate them. I don't even know enough about what is on TV since I never get the remote, so in the off-chance that I do I end up picking something off Nat Geo, A&E, or HGTV.

All of this! 

[Pants]

In other news, I think I am watching an episode of house hunters starring WWBG and (at that point) DF.

WWBG - time to fess up!

[Nazgul Girl]

    I do truly hate Toddlers and Tiaras.   I hate the way they have their daughters do overly-sexualized routines, wear lipstick and heavy makeup, and I hate to see Mom and Dad pushing toddlers who have fallen asleep because they haven't napped to wake up and go up there and "do their routine " because Ma and Pa Ignoramous have "spent all that money."   Are you kidding ?  Let your child sleep and run around and have fun, not pretend to be a "tiger."   And put your tens of thousands of dollars in a collage fund.   It's just sad.

[genericname]

Jun 27, 2013 13:01:40 GMT -5 gs11rmb said:

Thomas the Train books were first written in the 1940s (I think) by an English vicar, so I grew up with "Thomas the Tank Engine".  I was very surprised when I had children and heard parents and kids talking about Sir Topham Hatt and it took me quite a long time to figure out they were referring to "The Fat Controller" - not p.c. enough for the USA!

Man, I wish that guy was called the fat controller here!! Stupid PC crap. That show would be so much more tolerable if the adults could make fun of a fat guy. Totally not PC, but oh well. His mom is quite the b* as well, always yelling at Thomas and Bertie.

[Pants]

Yes, let's make fun of fat people.

[thyme4change]

I have had it with "How I met your mother."  Yes, it is funny - but seriously, Ted Mosby is so whiny!  I watched it this season because I thought it was the end of the series, and found out during the last episode that we have a WHOLE NOTHER YEAR - agh.  

[genericname]

FICTIONAL fat people

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I checked out of Hannibal because it got way too unrealistic and I want to scream at the FBI director he's so freaking stupid/clueless.

The actor that plays Hannibal is brilliant and so is the guy playing Will Graham but they're just not enough to hold my interest in the show.  I won't be watching the second season if there is one.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Jun 27, 2013 13:09:59 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

In general I like the CSI type shows.
But the labs drive me crazy. They are all dark and shadowed.
Anyone who has ever worked in a lab knows the bright florescent lighting can almost blind you.

Not only that, inevitably someone comes through the lab with a cup of coffee or a soda.  Maybe you could get away with that 15 years ago, but NEVER today!

[genericname]

If the labs were lit like actual labs, HDTV would show every crease, wrinkle, and pimple on the beautiful people that work in them on those shows. Come to think of it, I've never run into people that hot who actually work in labs. (Drama you may be an exception, but I've never seen you so I don't know)

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Drama you may be an exception, but I've never seen you so I don't know

  How you doing?

Nobody looks good under florescent lighting.  It's also really hard to be sexy when you have various fluids/chemicals splattered all over you.  Must be nice for all those TV lab people with their make-up and costume department people.

[sheilaincali]

Because when you are standing in a lab testing bodily fluids and chemicals nothing short of tight skirts or linen pants, silk blouses and 4 inch heels will do. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I wear heels in the lab most days.  Don't tell OSHA. 

[thyme4change]

Jun 28, 2013 11:40:51 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

I wear heels in the lab most days.  Don't tell OSHA. 

That is because you are trying to compensate for being short.

[tloonya]

Jun 26, 2013 23:30:47 GMT -5 @oldtex said:

What shows have things that drive you crazy & what are those things?

My favorite is Home to the MSN refugees. Off-topic!
Its on every day 24/7 and whenever you turn it on...there is always some drama.
Or comedy. Or stupid stuff like Bang bang theory...too bad I can't use remote...

[skubikky]

Jun 27, 2013 10:43:49 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

 And I want to shoot some of the people who sell family heirlooms for no real reason.  One young woman, having sold Grandma's beautiful vintage mandolin, said to her BF, "OK, let's go gamble!"  If I sold Grandma's vintage mandolin so that someone who actually played it could love it as much as Grandma did, I'd try to do something meaningful with the money- buy a nice piece of jewelry, donate to a charity Grandma would have appreciated- not just gamble it away.

  That's the problem with stuff.   Grandma's mandolin might conjure up fond memories for one person and mean nothing to another.
Most often, heirlooms just collect dust or are stored away and forgotten.    The memory of a person I think is more valuable that the stuff.
And then there's taking care of and finding a place for stuff.   Sometimes it's better to just sell it and allow someone else to buy it who might have more use for it or value it more.

You're attaching some moral imperative regarding material possessions to someone you don't know and who probably values things differently than you do.
Ask any estate dealer.   They'll tell you that for a great majority of the time much of what is left is sold.   No matter how much sentinment is attached it's not always practical to keep all that vintage stuff.
Also, if there's some reasonable value, it often makes more sense to liquidate it.   Doesn't mean that you didn't love Grandma, it just means that you don't love her stuff as much and it needs to find another home.

Particularly for those of us that are not into accumulating things, they can be seen as a burden.  To maintain, to protect and secure.....possession begin to own you.

[thyme4change]

I come from a family that doesn't value "stuff."  My husband comes from a family that thinks their history and heritage is encompassed in their "stuff."  I know they come from a long line of humble financial people.  My MIL has her milk glasses on display - she got them with green stamps.  They weren't unique at the time, and they aren't that special.  Frankly, when she passes, I don't really want any of their stuff.  I don't care that Great-Aunt Ruth drank tea from that cup.  I don't even know who Great Aunt Ruth is, and neither does my husband.  

Passing down "stuff" and assigning a lot of sentiment and value to it, beyond market value, can be a huge burden to someone.  It can be boxes of junk, it can cost them money to store it.  And it can cause guilt if they don't love it as much as you did.  

When my Grandmother died, she left all of her grandkids $5,000.  I asked my father if it would be okay if I used that for a new A/C.  He said "Grandma would be thrilled that you used it for a new A/C."  I thought I was suppose to do something life changing with it - save it, or enjoy it, or whatever.  But alas, my Grandmother was super-pragmatic, and I do love air conditioning!  I'm glad she didn't leave me a piano that I didn't have room for, or a piece of jewelry that I would never wear.  

[steph08]

Jun 28, 2013 13:10:10 GMT -5 skubikky said:

Jun 27, 2013 10:43:49 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

 And I want to shoot some of the people who sell family heirlooms for no real reason.  One young woman, having sold Grandma's beautiful vintage mandolin, said to her BF, "OK, let's go gamble!"  If I sold Grandma's vintage mandolin so that someone who actually played it could love it as much as Grandma did, I'd try to do something meaningful with the money- buy a nice piece of jewelry, donate to a charity Grandma would have appreciated- not just gamble it away.

  That's the problem with stuff.   Grandma's mandolin might conjure up fond memories for one person and mean nothing to another.
Most often, heirlooms just collect dust or are stored away and forgotten.    The memory of a person I think is more valuable that the stuff.
And then there's taking care of and finding a place for stuff.   Sometimes it's better to just sell it and allow someone else to buy it who might have more use for it or value it more.

You're attaching some moral imperative regarding material possessions to someone you don't know and who probably values things differently than you do.

My aunt just passed away, and multiple times and for years before she died, she told me she wanted me to have her engagement ring - it had been her mother's (my grandmother). However, because of some circumstances, my family isn't really speaking to her children. I doubt I will get the ring (my family's word against her children's and all that). I want it for sentimental reasons (the only grandmother I knew, and my favorite aunt). I know that her daughter and daughter-in-law probably place absolutely no significance on that ring and would probably sell it or put it in a drawer for years and then get rid of it.

I'm trying to determine whether or not to mention it to them when I see them tomorrow. I might as well since I will probably never see them again after this.

[8 Bit WWBG]

...:::"In other news, I think I am watching an episode of house hunters starring WWBG and (at that point) DF. WWBG - time to fess up!":::...

What, is the guy the one ponying up all the dough, and all the chick is doing is being pissed off because since the guy can't afford the $800k city townhouse she wanted, everything else is settling?

[doxieluvr]

Jun 28, 2013 13:20:51 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I come from a family that doesn't value "stuff."  My husband comes from a family that thinks their history and heritage is encompassed in their "stuff."  I know they come from a long line of humble financial people.  My MIL has her milk glasses on display - she got them with green stamps.  They weren't unique at the time, and they aren't that special.  Frankly, when she passes, I don't really want any of their stuff.  I don't care that Great-Aunt Ruth drank tea from that cup.  I don't even know who Great Aunt Ruth is, and neither does my husband.  

Passing down "stuff" and assigning a lot of sentiment and value to it, beyond market value, can be a huge burden to someone.  It can be boxes of junk, it can cost them money to store it.  And it can cause guilt if they don't love it as much as you did.  

When my Grandmother died, she left all of her grandkids $5,000.  I asked my father if it would be okay if I used that for a new A/C.  He said "Grandma would be thrilled that you used it for a new A/C."  I thought I was suppose to do something life changing with it - save it, or enjoy it, or whatever.  But alas, my Grandmother was super-pragmatic, and I do love air conditioning!  I'm glad she didn't leave me a piano that I didn't have
room for, or a piece of jewelry that I would never wear.  

Milk glass is very in again. I started picking up pieces at Goodwill last year, a month later Martha had an article in her magazine and now you can't find it cheap. 

[thyme4change]

Jun 28, 2013 13:37:38 GMT -5 steph08 said:

Jun 28, 2013 13:10:10 GMT -5 skubikky said:

  

My aunt just passed away, and multiple times and for years before she died, she told me she wanted me to have her engagement ring - it had been her mother's (my grandmother). However, because of some circumstances, my family isn't really speaking to her children. I doubt I will get the ring (my family's word against her children's and all that). I want it for sentimental reasons (the only grandmother I knew, and my favorite aunt). I know that her daughter and daughter-in-law probably place absolutely no significance on that ring and would probably sell it or put it in a drawer for years and then get rid of it.

I'm trying to determine whether or not to mention it to them when I see them tomorrow. I might as well since I will probably never see them again after this.

Offer to buy it from them.  

[steph08]

Jun 28, 2013 16:02:26 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Jun 28, 2013 13:37:38 GMT -5 steph08 said:

My aunt just passed away, and multiple times and for years before she died, she told me she wanted me to have her engagement ring - it had been her mother's (my grandmother). However, because of some circumstances, my family isn't really speaking to her children. I doubt I will get the ring (my family's word against her children's and all that). I want it for sentimental reasons (the only grandmother I knew, and my favorite aunt). I know that her daughter and daughter-in-law probably place absolutely no significance on that ring and would probably sell it or put it in a drawer for years and then get rid of it.

I'm trying to determine whether or not to mention it to them when I see them tomorrow. I might as well since I will probably never see them again after this.

Offer to buy it from them.  

I would rather not give them the satisfaction. I'm terrible, I know. one cousin makes in a month what I make in a year, and the other is also well-off (both married, mid-40s, no kids). It isn't about the monetary value, which I have no idea what it would be.

[Pants]

Jun 28, 2013 13:51:21 GMT -5 8 Bit WWBG said:

...:::"In other news, I think I am watching an episode of house hunters starring WWBG and (at that point) DF. WWBG - time to fess up!":::...

What, is the guy the one ponying up all the dough, and all the chick is doing is being pissed off because since the guy can't afford the $800k city townhouse she wanted, everything else is settling?

Yep, pretty much.
To be fair, I was watching on mute while doing something else, so I ascertained this based completely on body language and facial expressions.

[8 Bit WWBG]

...:::"Yep, pretty much.
To be fair, I was watching on mute while doing something else, so I ascertained this based completely on body language and facial expressions.":::...

Well you know... give a woman a house, she'll make it a home.*



_{*This process goes much more smoothly if its the home she wants.}

[Pants]

Jun 28, 2013 19:21:47 GMT -5 8 Bit WWBG said:

...:::"Yep, pretty much.
To be fair, I was watching on mute while doing something else, so I ascertained this based completely on body language and facial expressions.":::...

Well you know... give a woman a house, she'll make it a home.*



_{*This process goes much more smoothly if its the home she wants.}

She was also way more attractive than him. At least that dynamic I understood.