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    Another thing. Men's Health Magazine.

    Anyone else ever notice all the lame suggestions they give?
    I'm a subscriber to Men's Journal, similar to Men's Health but more on the travel and adventure side. I generally enjoy reading the magazine but I wish they had more realistic and practical suggestions too.

    For example, there will be a headline: "10 of the Best Adventure Weekend Getaways to Beat the Winter Blues". I think, cool, I like adventure type vacations, maybe I'll find one I like and try it out. But when you get to the article you see things like "Kayak the wild rivers in the remote jungles of Africa and for only $8,235 a night, stay in the luxurious Riverside Resort." Each issue gets more and more outrageous than the next. Why can't they promote reasonable trips? Maybe I'm subscribed to the wrong magazine, but I doubt too many readers can afford thousands of dollar weekend getaways or have the ability to climb Mt. Everest naked...
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    Re: Things That Drive You Crazy Redux

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    I also can't stand those Burger King commercials where they pretend they stopped selling the Whopper for a day.

    Not sure if those folks are real or not, but let's say they are. How happy are they going to be to know that a) Burger King isn't really stopping the sales of the whopper and b) they just wanted to film people's reaction to their little inside joke.
    Those people aren't real, for one..nobody who is sane cares what type of fast good they are getting, it all tastes the same anyway, and two..a lot of those "real" people show up in other commercials, imagine that?
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    Those people aren't real, for one..nobody who is sane cares what type of fast good they are getting, it all tastes the same anyway, and two..a lot of those "real" people show up in other commercials, imagine that?
    Most of those reactions seemed pretty real to me. It's hard to fake something like that, even with actors. You can tell a fake Candid Camera gag from a real one as well as a fake American Idol audition a lot of the time.

    Assuming you are right, though, it's still moronic. It's like they expect people to think, oh wow, did you see what Burger King did? They went and got rid of the Whopper! The horror!!!!

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    NFL players who make unspectacular tackles (or even spectacular ones) and then dance, or otherwise act out to draw attention to themselves. I suppose the tackle wasn't enough.

    Even more annoying to me are basketball players who act as though they have just achieved some warrior feat after a dunk. First of all, for most college basketball players the dunking a basketball is no more difficult than putting one foot in front of a another. Second of all, scoring a basket is not an act of violence, so what is the guy trying to prove. Intimidation, I suppose, but that's what talent is supposed to do.
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    NFL players who make unspectacular tackles (or even spectacular ones) and then dance, or otherwise act out to draw attention to themselves. I suppose the tackle wasn't enough.

    Even more annoying to me are basketball players who act as though they have just achieved some warrior feat after a dunk. First of all, for most college basketball players the dunking a basketball is no more difficult than putting one foot in front of a another. Second of all, scoring a basket is not an act of violence, so what is the guy trying to prove. Intimidation, I suppose, but that's what talent is supposed to do.
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    I hate when you've been standing in line for 5-10 minutes at a fast food restaurant. The menu is above the counters and plainly obvious (at least to anyone who can read). Besides talk on you cell, their isn't much else to do besides read the menu.

    And then the person in front of you gets to the counter, the cashier asks them what they want, and *then* they squint at the menu and say "hmmmm, let me see", study the menu like it just magically appeared in the last 5 seconds, and take their sweet old time about ordering. And then keep adding on to the order after the cashier says "will that be all?".
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    JT Wentworth..... "It's your money! Get it when you need it!"

    Viagra and Cialis commercials - "If you have an ******* that lasts more then 4 hrs, contact your physician immediately"

    I dn't know abut the rest of you men, but wouldn't you find it kinda hard, and somewhat embarrassing, walking into your Drs office in that "condition" and the female receptionist asks you why you're here.

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    Re: Things That Drive You Crazy Redux

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    Most of those reactions seemed pretty real to me. It's hard to fake something like that, even with actors. You can tell a fake Candid Camera gag from a real one as well as a fake American Idol audition a lot of the time.

    Assuming you are right, though, it's still moronic. It's like they expect people to think, oh wow, did you see what Burger King did? They went and got rid of the Whopper! The horror!!!!

    I think the people are real but their reactions are fake. I think they seem a little over the top becuse they didn't get a Whopper.

    I think it's a bad ad too because it is purportedly playing a joke on their customers and showing their purported angry reactions. Does this make people want to go to BK or not go to BK? If I'm thinking about going someplace where they might play a joke on me, I'm gonna think twice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip R View Post
    I think the people are real but their reactions are fake. I think they seem a little over the top becuse they didn't get a Whopper.

    I think it's a bad ad too because it is purportedly playing a joke on their customers and showing their purported angry reactions. Does this make people want to go to BK or not go to BK? If I'm thinking about going someplace where they might play a joke on me, I'm gonna think twice.


    What we don't know about those commercials is how many reactions they went through to get the ones you see. Maybe those aired were one in a hundred, and what the director was looking for.

    Looked like natural reactions to me. What we probably didn't see were the many reactions that didn't fit the profile.
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    They actually did take the Whopper off the menu in a couple of stores in Las Vegas and these are real reactions. The store employees I believe are actors.
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    Not everywhere. We have a reading room that is for silent reading and studying. And we enforce it.


    What drives me bonkers is when a person answers their cell phone while you are talking to them. Honestly, I have people approach me for help at work, but then their phone rings and they take the call.
    I've forgotten to turn my cell ph off in the library. But I'm usually the only person in the microfilm reading room ... so I might answer it if it rings. I usually also just say ... hold on ... I'm in the library ... let me get to the lobby. Just in case someone snuck in that I didn't see.

    I can't read in the quiet reading room. Oddly enough, I find it too distracting. (my mind wanders: what is that person over there reading/studying? what books are on the shelves around here that I might be interested in?) Now, if I'm just browsing, or taking notes/working problems/writing, I can get lost for hours.

    At Univ of Ariz one time, I got lost in what I was doing ... and my heart skipped a beat when the lights went out. They came right back on a few seconds later, and I realized it was their signal that the library was closing. It was 2:45 am.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rojo View Post
    Quiet is becoming a rare commodity. I hate diners with TV's blasting. Or coffee shops were idiots blather on about whatever interests idiots. Or oversharing commuters. Or airline passengers who want to make small talk.
    I'm guilty of making small talk on an airplane ... but I don't press. It's more a matter of being friendly than anything.

    Diners are noisy places with/without TVs or Jukeboxes. Clanging silver, plates, sometimes waiters/waitresses calling out orders. The cook shouting "order up". I don't expect quiet there. But most diners and such have the sound down on their TVs and closed captioning on.

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    Re: Things That Drive You Crazy Redux

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    At Univ of Ariz one time, I got lost in what I was doing ... and my heart skipped a beat when the lights went out. They came right back on a few seconds later, and I realized it was their signal that the library was closing. It was 2:45 am.
    I got locked in the library once at Ohio University after failing to heed the signal that the library was closing. What can I say? I'd never been in the library at closing time before. I had to call campus security to get me out. They thought it was hysterical.
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    I think that's why they turned out the lights. That's a hard signal to miss. And they did it a couple of times more before I got out of the building. I didn't realize it was the closing signal, and it was so dark I was afraid to move at first.

    Bikes on the road scare me, but they have a right to be there. At least here, we don't have enough bike paths. I'm bothered tho when they don't follow the rules of the road. re: stop signs, traffic lights, signalling turns, etc, and ESPECIALLY the direcition of travel.

    Bicycle pants have padding, so if you're riding for long periods of time, there is a comfort factor.


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