Pet Peeve rants.

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
When your expecting a package in the mail, and the UPS/Fedex guy just ZOOMS by your house. Its like their taunting me.
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And then you hear a screeching of tires as the UPS guy slams on the breaks. Turning sharply, he races back to your driveway, powerslides onto your front yard, and then starts doing donuts while blaring hair metal and flipping you off with his hand out the non-door. Then finally he shows you your package, dry humps it in front of you, and then throws it back into the truck before speeding off.

Now... now he's taunting you.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Here's one that came to me out of the blue.

When I was a kid watching Woody Woodpecker cartoons, the Chilly Willy theme song always drove me to fits of preadolescent apoplexy because of the verse that goes "and what about the crocodiles along the river nile? I bet they're all as warm as toast, they always seem to smile."

Because WHAT THE FUCK do crocodiles in egypt have ANYTHING to do with a penguin complaining about the cold?! It's like, what if in the middle of the transformers theme song - which is about robots in disguise in case any of you chowderheads have forgotten - there was suddenly a verse about vegetable farming.

"Transformers! More than meets the eye. Sorghum was much more popular before the advent of wheat grains, which now dominate. The Transformers! Robots in disguise!"
 
Null

Null

Uh... because Chilly Willy envies creatures that live happily in a hot climate? That's not out of nowhere - he's bitching about the cold, and wishes he lived where it was warm all the time.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Null said:
Uh... because Chilly Willy envies creatures that live happily in a hot climate? That's not out of nowhere - he's bitching about the cold, and wishes he lived where it was warm all the time.
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The tone of it is "but what about the starving kids in africa?" As if to say "you can't complain about the cold, these have it worse." Which then is then refuted by the next line of the song. If it WAS meant to represent Chilly Willy being envious of the nile crocs, it's extremely clumsily and poorly constructed.

It really bothered me, just like how on those cartoon commercial shorts they used to sneak in on saturday morning to get you to eat better, Chopper suddenly aged 60 years between scenes halfway through the spot. At first it wasn't even clear to me it was supposed to be the same guy. Who is this, Chopper's grandfather?

 
Frank

Frank

GasBandit said:
Here's one that came to me out of the blue.

When I was a kid watching Woody Woodpecker cartoons, the Chilly Willy theme song always drove me to fits of preadolescent apoplexy because of the verse that goes "and what about the crocodiles along the river nile? I bet they're all as warm as toast, they always seem to smile."

Because WHAT THE FUCK do crocodiles in egypt have ANYTHING to do with a penguin complaining about the cold?! It's like, what if in the middle of the transformers theme song - which is about robots in disguise in case any of you chowderheads have forgotten - there was suddenly a verse about vegetable farming.

"Transformers! More than meets the eye. Sorghum was much more popular before the advent of wheat grains, which now dominate. The Transformers! Robots in disguise!"
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I'm only slightly embarrassed that I read that completely in tune with the real songs "Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of...the Decepticons."
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Frank said:
I'm only slightly embarrassed that I read that completely in tune with the real songs "Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of...the Decepticons."
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I spent extra time making sure the meter and cadence of the sentence matched.
 
Null

Null

I'm almost positive it was meant to represent envy. "I bet they're always warm as toast, they always seem to smile!" seems to indicate envy that they are warm while he's freezing his little penguin nuts off.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Null said:
I'm almost positive it was meant to represent envy. "I bet they're always warm as toast, they always seem to smile!" seems to indicate envy that they are warm while he's freezing his little penguin nuts off.
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Yes, that line clearly is... but the line before it is the bad one. It should have said "I'm jealous of the crocodiles along the river nile." SAME SYLLABLES. The way it's worded makes it sound like someone's trying to present the crocs as an example of another thing that is suffering and cold.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Who is this, Chopper's grandfather?
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Pretty sure that's just the animator not animating well.
Also, I watched that video with the sound off, but I still sang along in my head and it fit perfectly.[DOUBLEPOST=1412653989,1412653789][/DOUBLEPOST]
SpecialKO said:
...goddamn, GB, that video made me flash back to childhood.
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Some peanut butter or a slice of cheese
Some milk or juice to wash it down
...
No time for breakfast? Have a quick-fast!

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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PatrThom said:
Pretty sure that's just the animator not animating well.
Also, I watched that video with the sound off, but I still sang along in my head and it fit perfectly.
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It was 10 years later till I learned what "Peoria" actually was.

Also,

It's the blob, it's the blob
"I am the future blob!"
Without a job, without a job
"I am the future blob!"
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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I detest the smell of Banquet frozen dinners. They don't even smell like food to me. They smell vaguely like burning, sawdust, and I don't know what else. My roommate is currently living off of them. So I end up having to endure the stench about twice a day, sometimes more. It's awful.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Null said:
Silly pet peeve: The term "assless chaps". I'm pretty sure all chaps are assless; if they had an ass, they'd be pants.
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Quite, its kinda like calling a leopard a spotted leopard when all leopards have spots.

Faded street signs. Its a good thing I was early to the show(also that the show was an hour late), because it took me forever to realize I walked past the street I was supposed to be on at least three times!
 
Emrys

Emrys

Sorry, boys, I'm going to change the subject on your little rant.

My pet peeve - graduate students who can't read, can't follow instructions, and then try to blame me when I tell them they aren't going to be forwarded in a scholarship competition. Unless there is another definition for "all transcripts must be ordered", I'm thinking that you don't get to pick and choose what you get to send to me. If you can't follow these simple instructions, you really don't deserve your PhD degree.
 
fade

fade

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Yeah, grade inflation and the attendant thought processes associated with it has truly reached the graduate level. PhDs are watered down now, sadly.

Part of it, I think, is that we weight intelligence badly. We put emphasis on IQ-type scores that only measure potential. A fast engine is absolutely useless if it's never connected to wheels. We need more of an intelligence-production product as a metric.

Meaning that we push through kids with a helping hand who are clearly quite intelligent on the grounds of that potential alone. Well whoop-de-doo. You're smart. So what? We knew that when you got into graduate school. Do something with it or GTFO.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

fade said:
Meaning that we push through kids with a helping hand who are clearly quite intelligent on the grounds of that potential alone. Well whoop-de-doo. You're smart. So what? We knew that when you got into graduate school. Do something with it or GTFO.
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Undergrads are so coddled. Graduate students are coddled undergrads with a superiority complex.
 
Adam

Adam

fade said:
Yeah, grade inflation and the attendant thought processes associated with it has truly reached the graduate level. PhDs are watered down now, sadly.

Part of it, I think, is that we weight intelligence badly. We put emphasis on IQ-type scores that only measure potential. A fast engine is absolutely useless if it's never connected to wheels. We need more of an intelligence-production product as a metric.

Meaning that we push through kids with a helping hand who are clearly quite intelligent on the grounds of that potential alone. Well whoop-de-doo. You're smart. So what? We knew that when you got into graduate school. Do something with it or GTFO.
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Well, they'd become professors but those people...
 
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