Ok, this is getting ridiculous .........

[brewer]

Everybody in town knows Benny is the smack dealing pimp with a heart of gold who is just doing it to make money for support of his Samoan teenage foster daughter.

[AFTT47]

Methinks perhaps anger management classes are in someone's future. Maybe there's no anger here, but lots of words in all caps sure seem to me that you're just wanting to be angry about something.

Have you tried a Snickers bar?

No shit! I'd go with a sedative rather than the Snickers though.

Congratulations Brian, you are the first person I have ever heard bitch about the NFL first-down marker. I HAVE heard of many non-football fans who got a sudden understanding of the game from that graphic. Also, thank you for cluing us in that it's a graphic added to the video feed and that there isn't really a magic yellow line on the field.

Other possible things to bitch about:

Angled Parking Spaces
Water is Wet
Why Does the Sky have to be Blue? I want Purple!
The Upper Brake Light Required on US Cars is STUPID!
Divided Road Medians SUCK!

I'm sure there are many other things worth whipping ourselves into a frenzy for.

Geeze, Brian. Stop and smell the roses once in a while. AND WATCH OUT FOR THOSE FUCKING THORNS!!!

[bennyboy]

^
haha, good one.

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If they used Comic Sans for the font, I might be with you... otherwise I don't know.

I hate geeks who rage against Comic Sans, or who insist that Linux rocks because they didn't like Windows 98 and. . . you know. . . nothing changes, or who will stand in line to buy the newest Apple product, which anyone with a brain should see is now inferior to generic Android devices 1/4 the price.

Also annoying are people who buy Teslas thinking they're saving the environment and smugly telling everyone about the wonders of electric cars, even though the carbon footprint of a new vehicle, especially one shipped at a distance, is probably bigger than the fumes you'd pump out by about 10 years of running your old Chevy Impala, and even though the electricity to POWER the damned cars very likely came from burning coal.

(just kidding about the hate. I don't really hate you )

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Everybody in town knows Benny is the smack dealing pimp with a heart of gold who is just doing it to make money for support of his Samoan teenage foster daughter.

Wait. . . wut? 

[Rev. Rye]

Daytime Soaps have been around since I was a kid. And I get that new technology gets added to everything.

BUT, It is a bit fucking cartoonish in a SOAP OPERA WHEN, instead of doing a screen shot of a text message on the device, you put a bubble graphic up as if it were the Coyote holding up a sign saying "Yikes". 

That is as annoying to me as the "first down" graphic in the NFL...... NO IT IS NOT ON THE FIELD. 

The only time you put bubbles up in a show or movie is when IT IS A COMEDY!

IT LOOKS FUCKING STUPID! If you have a dramatic "text" convey the screen on the device, as it would be looking at it yourself. DON'T PUT UP A IMAGINARY BUBBLE, IT LOOKS FUCKING STUPID!

To be honest, having the latest technology in media in general does kind of irk me, if only because it dates it immediately. Case in point, Kieslowski's Decalogue is an excellent series, ten stories, one based around one of the Ten Commandments, and holding up remarkably better than one would expect something made in the days before Communism fell in Poland. Seriously, it feels like almost every story could happen in Chicago today (at least if you ignore that the death penalty has been abolished in Illinois, so 5 loses its power.)

The one exception to this is the first one: "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods." In this case, the God is a computer. And the computer is probably the best the Eastern Bloc could buy in 1988. And except for an early attempt at making a Smart Home in a Warsaw tenement flat, it just does some physics equations I could probably program into my TI-83. It's still good, but you can really tell when it was made. It's nowhere near as horrible an example as a lot of things, but it's why I prefer to not put new technology in my stories.

[Foxaèr]

Soap Operas don't accurately represent reality, that's kind of the point; to get lost in the fantasy. I remember when I was younger and I always watched Young & The Restless with my grandmother. Hope and her evil twin, and how evil Stefan never died no matter how many times they tried to kill him.

I see no reason about getting bothered by the scenario you mentioned in the original post, however. Unless you just want to gripe for the sake of it.

[Brian37]

Soap Operas don't accurately represent reality, that's kind of the point; to get lost in the fantasy.  I remember when I was younger and I always watched Young & The Restless with my grandmother.  Hope and her evil twin, and how evil Stefan never died no matter how many times they tried to kill him.

I see no reason about getting bothered by the scenario you mentioned in the original post, however.  Unless you just want to gripe for the sake of it.

Neither does Star Wars.

Not the point.

I really could give a shit less. It was more a rant about mixing motifs.

[Foxaèr]

Neither does Star Wars.

Not the point.

I really could give a shit less. It was more a rant about mixing motifs.

I'm not saying you shouldn't rant. Rant away. I was just pointing out the fact that it was a rant. But you already knew that.

[RoadRunner79]

I’m quite upset to find that most soap opera’s have very little singing, let alone of the quality they advertise. If they are going to call it a soap opera, the big media should have to deliver what they say!

[Foxaèr]

I’m quite upset to find that most soap opera’s have very little singing, let alone of the quality they advertise. If they are going to call it a soap opera, the big media should have to deliver what they say!

You like Opera singing? That surprises me.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’m quite upset to find that most soap opera’s have very little singing, let  alone of the quality they advertise.  If they are going to call it a soap opera, the big media should have to deliver what they say!

You like Opera singing?  That surprises me.

Someone should like it, I suppose.  To me, opera largely seems to consist of a fat man and a fat woman bellowing at each other in some language (probably Italian) for about 45 minutes, merely to observe that the sun has risen.

Boru