Dude: do you heckle the weatherman?

[Walker]

My job is in computer hardware. I was watching some show the other night on the Discovery channel, and this guy was talking about technology and society. I thought the guy was full of BS, and I proceeded to start insulting the TV.

Dude: Do you do heckle the weatherman when you watch the news at night?

-walker

 

[the_bird]

I yell at Suzie Orman on a regular basis, FWIW...

 

[bigjohnmilford]

I always talk to the tv.

I have a big mouth though.

 

[c.n.budz]

I don't bother watching the weather report anymore, it's usually wrong. I do, however, enjoy yelling at Wolf Blitzer for some reason...

 

[srm775]

I regularly dole out verbal beatdowns to Madden, McCarver, Buck and any of the dumb home/design shows my wife watches.

 

[Neomich]

I'm not allowed to speak at all during some shows SWMBO watches for this very reason.

 

[Chad]

I don't watch much television, but I do frequently argue with the radio. News radio programs where they allow people to call in and question the guests make me weep for the future of humanity.


Chad

 

[Beerthoven]

I'm not allowed to speak at all during some shows SWMBO watches for this very reason.

+1

My wife has stopped watching some shows because I ridicule them so badly.

Ever see John & Kate Plus 8? That show about the couple with 8 kids. Man that woman is such a fargin beyotch and that guy is sooo owned. We nearly divorced over that one.

 

[Alamo_Beer]

+1

My wife has stopped watching some shows because I ridicule them so badly.

Ever see John & Kate Plus 8? That show about the couple with 8 kids. Man that woman is such a fargin beyotch and that guy is sooo owned. We nearly divorced over that one.

+1

SWMBO watches it and I hate it...WTF is the appeal of that show? Oh yeah and I can't WAIT for project runway to come back The upside though is she doesn't care when I'm on HBT

 

[c.n.budz]

Ever see John & Kate Plus 8? That show about the couple with 8 kids.

They made that show twenty-something years ago, it was called "Eight is Enough" back then Man, tv writers must be completely out of original ideas...

 

[the_bird]

I actually like that show. It helps that the little ones are almost exactly Cassie's age, so I'm seeing pretty much everything that they do IRL. I can't really fault Kate TOO much for her be-yotch-hood, I mean, hell... I get frustrated enough dealing with one toddler/preschooler, I couldn't imagine dealing with six, all at once, all day, every day.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Last night SWMBO and I were watching CSI Miami. Some runway model got electrocuted when she touched a metal pole and was standing in a puddle of water. I was bitching through the whole show that the way they did it was ridiculous and wouldn't have worked, the girl would never even have felt more than a tickle. I mean, really, they have on-set electricians, why don't they ask one of them if what they're trying to present is realistic???? Finally SWMBO told me to shut up, I was ruining her show.......

 

[c.n.budz]

I get frustrated enough dealing with one toddler/preschooler, I couldn't imagine dealing with six, all at once, all day, every day.

I'm the youngest of seven, after about three the kids start raising each other which is good and bad. Good because it goes a long way for the whole "socialization thing" bad because older brothers and sisters enjoy handing out beatings and torture way more than parents do....

 

[the_bird]

I'm the youngest of seven, after about three the kids start raising each other which is good and bad. Good because it goes a long way for the whole "socialization thing" bad because older brothers and sisters enjoy handing out beatings and torture way more than parents do....

Well, with that show, if you don't know the premise, there's twin girls who I think are 6 years old. The other six are sextuplets; three boys, three girls, 3 years old - so it's not a situation with just a large family, but a HUGE number of kids all going through potty training, etc., all at the same time. You don't have that kind of dynamic at work, other that with the twins kinda helping out a little.

 

[bigjohnmilford]

Last night SWMBO and I were watching CSI Miami. Some runway model got electrocuted when she touched a metal pole and was standing in a puddle of water. I was bitching through the whole show that the way they did it was ridiculous and wouldn't have worked, the girl would never even have felt more than a tickle. I mean, really, they have on-set electricians, why don't they ask one of them if what they're trying to present is realistic???? Finally SWMBO told me to shut up, I was ruining her show.......

my SWMBO won't watch any of the csi's when I'm around anymore. She watches on demand after I start getting ready to leave for work. I have way too much to say to those. As stated earlier I have a big mouth. She'll agree when she sees this.

 

[Brakeman_Brewing]

sometimes i will catch myself yelling "WATCH OUT WALKER!"

 

[z987k]

I have to deal with weather on a regular basis, but I never argue with a tv figure reading off a screen to me the weather. Note the most all "weathermen" have no degree in meteorology and just read off a printout.

Personally I like to use ADDS, Duat and WSI products for my weather.

Commercial I hate right now is the one of the "pilot" in the Iphone commercial. I don't think any self respecting commercial pilot uses weather.com... it's garbage and doesn't have any of the information you really need other than composite looping base reflectivity radar echos, which may or may not be worth much anyways. Hell, the "I could see the storm pass", you very likely have onboard radar.
/rant

Or I saw an "Accident investigation" where the airplane was descending rapidly and the vertical speed indicator was twisting about like an altimeter, I mean were they really descending at oh I don't know 100,000ft per minute

Or Hellboy was on FX today, saw the first 10mins of that: Scotland 1941(or thereabouts), the germans had a secret base set up in SCOTLAND! And the Americans(maybe the british, can't really tell) are assaulting the German base in SCOTLAND! What history class did this guy go to?

They must just figure the public is stupid beyond belief and they can do whatever they feel like for more drama.

 

[Chris_Dog]

I regularly dole out verbal beatdowns to Madden, McCarver, Buck and any of the dumb home/design shows my wife watches.

Man Buck is the worse!!! Aikman is bad too!

 

[Cheesefood]

Last night SWMBO and I were watching CSI Miami. Some runway model got electrocuted when she touched a metal pole and was standing in a puddle of water. I was bitching through the whole show that the way they did it was ridiculous and wouldn't have worked, the girl would never even have felt more than a tickle. I mean, really, they have on-set electricians, why don't they ask one of them if what they're trying to present is realistic???? Finally SWMBO told me to shut up, I was ruining her show.......

My favorite is how CSI can take an extremely low resolution picture and apply that "Zoom and Enhance" feature which will allow them to see a drop of blood on someone who's about 1 pixel large. Oh, and all the crazy GUI's on their programs.

Anyone else play the CSI Miami drinking game? Drink for every Horatio-ism. Two drinks if he puts his sunglasses on while delivering it.

 

[beergears]

I'm not allowed to speak at all during some shows SWMBO watches for this very reason.

I heckle Probst when SWMBO watches Survivor... and I play indoor-fetch and tug with the cockapoo..!!


Other targets: Larry King. (= Condit, O.J., Anna NS, and other freaks)

 

[the_bird]

Other targets: Larry King. (= Condit, O.J., Anna NS, and other freaks)

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[david_42]

Around here, we only have two weather reports: Sunny & hot for the summer, cool with a chance of showers for the winter.

I can't watch TV, the commercials are so stupid & irritating. Radio isn't much better.

 

[Cheesefood]

Radio isn't much better.

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I used to be a big fan of talk radio, but then a few years ago it got to be too much. I couldn't stomach listening to one more host bitch about who stole which bit from them, or that Stern was making too much money. That was also at the time when Stern was getting ready to make his jump to satellite and I couldn't deal with him whining about how he could no longer be funny without swearing. And it was too many bits done over and over again and too many "Ohh...my co-host is crazy" bits.

As for AM, I can't handle political shows. None of them agree with me and in Chicago there were billboard wars about "We're Liberal and Hate Conservatives" or vice-versa. I'm already pissy about being stuck in traffic, I don't need someone on the radio fueling my road rage.

Music stations aren't much better. 2 songs, 5 commercials and a DJ who thinks he/she is funny and that people care about his/her thoughts. Just play some damn music and shut up! You're 40 and make $30k per year, what makes you think I value your opinion on anything?

I can handle ESPN, but not always. They've yet to have a good mid-day crew (Rome is Burning SUCKED ASS). Their evening drive guys can be great, but their leader (Dan McNeil) can be a real prick to callers sometimes and that turns me off. Be funny, but don't be a prick.

Radio in Chicago just flat out sucks. All the rock stations are gone, so I'm stuck with disco, hip hop, urban, mexican, christian, or crap. NPR is OK when they're not the All-Iraq station or doing a report on how some lady who owns a worm cart is going out of business because the bridge is closed and she refuses to move her cart to the other side of the bridge. The few stations that play music I like seem to only play 20 songs. You never hear a lot of the really good music, or any music not on MTv. The only bands featured are the REALLY mainstream ones. I go to AZ and listen to the rock station there and hear all sorts of new stuff. Then I come home and hear Linkin Park, 311, Metallica, AC/DC, Van Halen, Stones, Kanye West and others like that.

</rant>

 

[z987k]

cheese, if you're up late at night, I've noticed vh1 has started playing some good music on noctural state.

 

[Hopleaf]

Yah, my wife gets annoyed with me when I'm heckling her shows.

 

[user 574]

can handle ESPN, but not always. They've yet to have a good mid-day crew (Rome is Burning SUCKED ASS). Their evening drive guys can be great, but their leader (Dan McNeil) can be a real prick to callers sometimes and that turns me off. Be funny, but don't be a prick.

<rant>
Stephen A Smith = ANNOYING!
</rant>

I like Mike and Mike and Colin and that's about it.

 

[Dude]

A thread directed DIRECTLY at me and I just now saw it? WTF is up with me?

To answer, NO. Know why? I haven't watched a TV weatherman (outside of the weather channel) in almost 20 years. The truth about them is most are broadcasting students with very limited weather knowledge. They take a bogus wx course in college to fill out credits, then get a bogus AMS certification and they are deemed weather gods.

The only time I've really heckled something weather related was in the movie Twister. That was brutal.

Regarding the weather channel, most of those meteorologists are pretty sharp, and have extensive weather background. They just dumb it down so much that it really isn't beneficial for me to watch it. I can look at a few products from some websites and get a much better clue than they could ever offer.

Does that help?

 

[Bernie Brewer]

My favorite is how CSI can take an extremely low resolution picture and apply that "Zoom and Enhance" feature which will allow them to see a drop of blood on someone who's about 1 pixel large. Oh, and all the crazy GUI's on their programs.

Anyone else play the CSI Miami drinking game? Drink for every Horatio-ism. Two drinks if he puts his sunglasses on while delivering it.

LOL I just saw this post! SWMBO and I have a running bet every week. We have to guess how many times H is going to put on/take off his sunglasses! Not a drinking game, it's just for sh!ts and giggles.

 

[Kevin Dean]

I don't, but the reason for that is simple: I only watch TV with my wife.

Luckily, she's intelligent and we've got MythTV which lets us pause anything, so if either of us has a point, we pause, chatter and resume. This is, partly, the only reason I can deal with TV.

I find I yell at 60 Minutes more than anything else... Geezuz god, what morons.

 

[RichBrewer]

A thread directed DIRECTLY at me and I just now saw it? WTF is up with me?

To answer, NO. Know why? I haven't watched a TV weatherman (outside of the weather channel) in almost 20 years. The truth about them is most are broadcasting students with very limited weather knowledge. They take a bogus wx course in college to fill out credits, then get a bogus AMS certification and they are deemed weather gods.

The only time I've really heckled something weather related was in the movie Twister. That was brutal.

Regarding the weather channel, most of those meteorologists are pretty sharp, and have extensive weather background. They just dumb it down so much that it really isn't beneficial for me to watch it. I can look at a few products from some websites and get a much better clue than they could ever offer.

Does that help?

So then I take it you are never wrong?