The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Cronopio]

So apparently they're taking the hobbits to Isengard. WHAT THE FUCK? Why the fuck didn't anyone bother telling me this? I thought they were going to Mordor, I even booked flight tickets there, so now I'm not even going to get to see them on this leg of the tour. Fuck fuck fuckety-fuck!

 

[Tonka Time]

So apparently they're taking the hobbits to Isengard.

Scrolling slowly down the page and then I read this.

 

[arg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDAbsj72aI

i approve of this video

 

[Satanstoenail]

I am sick. I don't often get sick, but today I have had to resign myself to the fact that I've been trying to deny for days: I am sick. Spent all night gurgling and sweating and shivering and trying not to cough until something ruptured. Now I am home from work, which is good, but I feel like shit, which is bad, and I'm earning no money, which is also bad. Bad is outweighing good at this juncture. I need to throw some flat lemonade and two-minute noodles into the mix to restore some sort of balance.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

FUCKING TFC.

LET'S SIGN FRINGS AND KOEVERMANS BUT SIGN A GIANT FUCKING SLUG TO PARTNER THE OTHER GIANT SLUG IN THE CENTER OF THE BACK LINE

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Krow]

Going to be mid to upper 90s tomorrow and humid as fuck. Work is going to be brutal.

 

[The Butt]

It was 35 Celsius earlier today. Next time it is this hot, I am just going to climb in a freezer and die.

 

[damnromulans]

I have to go to a fucking baseball game tomorrow with work.

 

[sevag00]

It's 33 here and it's hot as fuck. Fuck global warming.

 

[Satanstoenail]

It's freezing here. Therefore global warming must be a lie.

 

[tagradh]

Everyone is constantly complaining that it's rained near every day this July.


I love it.


I mean everyone seems to have forgotten that April/May/early June were all near as hot as it generally averages in July/August and that it really didn't rain much at all then, but that's because they're all fucking idiots.


I fucking hate stupid people.

 

[A1a23]

Another brutal 98 degree day. I can't even spend a few minutes outside.

 

[The Emptier]

It's so neutral here I love it, basically has stayed consistent in the 70's all summer. Back in Portland I've heard it's just been shitty and raining, thank god I'm out.

 

[sevag00]

It's freezing here. Therefore global warming must be a lie.

Fuck. I wish i was living at that part of the world.

 

[King Richard]

@A1a23: If you'd stay outside for more than a few minutes and get used to the temperature it wouldn't be so bad. When you're coming from inside, where I presume you have AC, of course it's going to feel unbearable.

 

[Einherjar86]

How the fuck does the History Channel get away with doing all this hideous pseudo-academic (and sometimes not academic at all) bullshit? "Apocalypse Island" is on right now, and it's about the possibility that an artifact and monument found on a remote island could somehow offer clues to the 2012 apocalypse. There was a quite racist portrayal of a Mayan male exhausting himself before a fire, impaling his penis with a wooden spear-point, wrapping paper around the bloody wound and then burning the paper. From the smoke of the burning paper, apparently they could commune with the gods.

Interesting, okay; but ridiculous when the dude at the center of the episode actually believes all this (which he does). The entire voyage that the episode focuses on is based around the possibility that all this bullshit is actually true.

 

[tagradh]

Fuck the history channel, and fuck basically every other 'factual' channel.


The best factual shows here always come outa the BBC and Channel 4 and even they're slowly dumbing shit down for the average person.

Stuff like Horizon used to be fairly decent, and in general factual/documentary shows made over here seemed to be less pedantic and repetitious than what I saw from the US but that's all changing and now shit fucking sucks.


Watching things like the TTC lectures >>>>> spoon fed TV bullshit aimed at the common TV barnacle.


God bless docs4you.org

 

[Der Morgenstern]

How the fuck does the History Channel get away with doing all this hideous pseudo-academic (and sometimes not academic at all) bullshit? "Apocalypse Island" is on right now, and it's about the possibility that an artifact and monument found on a remote island could somehow offer clues to the 2012 apocalypse. There was a quite racist portrayal of a Mayan male exhausting himself before a fire, impaling his penis with a wooden spear-point, wrapping paper around the bloody wound and then burning the paper. From the smoke of the burning paper, apparently they could commune with the gods.

Interesting, okay; but ridiculous when the dude at the center of the episode actually believes all this (which he does). The entire voyage that the episode focuses on is based around the possibility that all this bullshit is actually true.

They had a show on yesterday that attempted to establish the link between major natural disasters and interference by aliens. This was all wrapped up with presenting the works of Zecharia Sitchin as being factual and true. They also interviewed Erich von Däniken. At no point did they ever interview anyone who was critical of the ancient astronaut theory.

 

[Cythraul]

The History Channel has been pissing me off for a few years now. They really went down the tubes. These days the National Geographic Channel has some pretty decent stuff when they're not playing that show with that fruitcake who teaches dogs to behave. PBS World is pretty good too (yeah, that's right, I like public television.)

 

[Der Morgenstern]

You're a fucking socialist.

All jokes asisde, PBS is awesome and their Secrets of the Dead series is rock solid in terms of presentation, factual evidence and just being interesting in general.