[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

But does the Charmin get their asses so clean that they can go coh-mahn-doh?

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

Every White House Black Market commercial is annoying.  It's always just multiple shots of some woman posing.  They're relatively innocuous, given that no one is saying or doing anything douchey (other than possibly some of the poses), but it still annoys me.

 

I liked their old ads with Coco Rocha.  The new ones are definitely not great.

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

Oh my goodness, I just laughed so loud! Despite the egg thing, I disagree: I think we could be friends! You sound like you would back up--or at least understand--my dangerous urge to put a lit cigarette into a paper shredder.

 

I feel like there's a really good chance that that would not go horribly wrong.  Maybe just do it at work while nobody's looking (and make sure you are not caught on camera, just in case).

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

My current commercial hate is aimed at the Galaxy S6 ads with Chrissy Teigen.  I assume her inane ramblings are supposed to be cute or charming, but I just can't with her and I seriously lose my shit when she crams her gaping maw with chips and then hollers like a frat boy to the people watching her on youtube.  The one good thing to come from the ad is the phrase doggie-olas to describe dog nipples, which is a lot nicer than the term I've been using -- bitch tits.    

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

The Amazon Prime commercial with the dog in a cast and the song from "Paint Your Wagon" has quickly gone from favorite to annoying because of too many viewings.  It is seems to be everywhere!  And since it is everywhere, my initial response of "yay! Lee Marvin!" to what is wrong why the dog, why is in a cast, shouldn't it be walking, what would a vet say about this?

 

My dog hates this commercial so much.  I play it repeatedly just to upset her and then forget about my evil torture and later will wonder why she's being such an asshole about something else when clearly it is my fault.

 

I might be a weirdo but anytime I see some kind of egg-wrapped-in-something business, I can feel my stomach cringe up. Fuckin' "breakfast burritos," man. 

I'm sure this is going to be a big disappointment to you, but I don't think we can ever be friends.

 

The commercial with the actress from Modern Family where she says "emoji sent, pizza ordered" annoys the crap out of me.

Are people so damn lazy these days that they can't pick up a phone, dial a few numbers and order a friggin pizza?! Besides that, if you just send an emoji, how do they know what kind of pizza you want?

I have pretty much refused to order food over the phone in at least 10 years.  If they don't have online ordering either on their own site or app or through a site like Eat24 or GrubHub, I'm not getting delivery or takeaway from them. I hate calling to order food.  Inevitably you can't hear each other or understand each other or there's just too much going on in the background and the order ends up wrong.  With online ordering the order is written down and usually ends up correct.  Plus I just don't want to talk to someone if I don't have to.

 

OH MY GOD! I have a vague recollection of these (I was born in '71)! My parents didn't use them but I feel like I know about them. 

 

And your point reminds me of the "Do Not Eat" packet things that come in shoeboxes or purses and things like that. Who the hell would eat that...except someone--a dog, a baby--who didn't know how to read the "Do Not Eat" anyway?

I ate part of a silica gel packet once.  It might have been on a dare, but if it was, the dare was fueled by my obsession over what would happen if someone ate one. I never wanted to eat one until the big "DO NOT EAT" on it started taunting me.  Same with spraying canned air in my ear, I never would have thought to have done it, but the picture on the can really made me want to.  I managed to refrain from that one, although I did almost light my college apartment on fire by trying to blow out candles with one once.

 

Yes, please, if you use a Neti Pot, only use distilled water, NEVER use tap water!  Folks have died from tap water (amoeba).

I've been terrified of my sinus irrigator ever since there was an episode of House about some horrible brain infection caused by a neti pot.

[S03.E03: Pretty Cheeks]

Who says "screw the pooch" anymore? My dad; my dad's business partner; me, because I used to work for them; Lee.

 

 

Me!  Because I was introduced to the phrase by Jack McCoy.  I think it might have even been in the episode where he talks about doing it bareback in court, which might be my favorite Law & Order moment ever.

 

 Why did she accept the job of being a stew if she really wanted to be a deckhand, cook, or whatever the hell it is she wanted to do instead?

 

 

Her saying being in the water is why she joined the yachting industry made me roll my eyes so hard that I had to pick them up off the floor.  If you want to spend time in the water be a surf instructor or something, but I would imagine being a yachty is zero percent about swimming.

 

I suspect Rocky and Don didn't realize the positions they'd be put in - purposely misled by production in order to create drama. Don probably thought he'd be engineering much more, and Rocky probably thought she'd be outside more. Do we see her serving food to the guests, or working upstairs at all, or solely laboring down below?

 

Would you let Rocky serve the food if you were trying to get a big tip?  She's fucked up everything she's attempted, so I wouldn't be surprised to see her dump a plate in a guest's lap.

[S03.E03: Pretty Cheeks]

I know!  And their tricks are kind of working on me because as much as I can't stand her, I do think she has a nice ass.  But I am judging her for always having it hanging out. 

[S03.E03: Pretty Cheeks]

I'm bummed that there's so much focus on Rocky.  She annoys me enough, I don't need to see all the ways in which she is annoying.  I hope this doesn't turn into the Rocky show. 

 

I like that Emile wasn't having it with Dan calling him Emilio.  

 

I'm glad that asshole Dan quit.  Hopefully the best waker-upper ever will be next.

 

I was too annoyed with Rocky to notice much else.

 

ETA: I just realized maybe it's Don and not Dan.  Whatever.  I don't care.

[S10.E13: Sex, Lies & Leeches]

I understand what you are saying, and I agree for the most part. However, if I met Meghan as Meghan Edmonds, or, as just Meghan but knew she was married to Jim Edmonds, and then on the phone she said Meghan King, I wouldn't realize she was the same person either. No trickery involved. Just a misunderstanding. 

It's stated up above that Meghan was setting Shannon up for a "prank" by not using her married name.  I agree with you that it was a misunderstanding and not some devious plot.  It then got blown way out of proportion by Meghan's calls for justice in the form of an apology and Shannon's bizarre over the top "I start charities" ranting and fleeing. 

 

Seriously, one of my friends just did a thing where she had a guest list.  You had to give her name and say you were her guest to get in.  I screwed it up and gave her maiden name at first and was standing there joking with her husband of 5 years about it when our other friend walked up and said he made the same mistake.  We both were in the wedding party and like her husband -- I even threw the bridal shower, which probably had some kind of Mrs. ____ paraphernalia involved.  It just happens sometimes.  

[S10.E13: Sex, Lies & Leeches]

Not if they weren't filming, which they weren't.  

 

It is odd how differently the same scenes can strike us... I felt just the opposite.  One thing I'll point out is that Meghan said she was "Meghan King", leaving off the Edmonds.  Even Jimmy asked Meghan, "do you think you probably confused her, calling yourself Meghan King instead of Meghan King Edmonds?"  

 

I didn't get the impression Shannon was mean to her, just that she was in the car with her kids, didn't understand who was calling and thought it was a sales call, so she asked if they could talk later.  Meghan is the one -- IMO-- blew that shiz way up.

 

But like I said... different strokes.  

To be fair to Meghan, she'd been married for about half a minute at that point in time.  Forgetting the Edmunds was probably a simple slip up.  I have friends that have been married for years and I still think of them by their maiden names -- not because I don't like their husbands or am disrespecting their marriages, but because that's how I knew them for 20 years.  I usually catch myself and correct it, but I guess I'm a slow learner :)  

[S03.E02: Off The Radar]

Rocky and Don need to go.  It isn't fun to watch them rage against the machine.  

 

The fact that guests seemed to have a great time, rolled with the punches, and just enjoyed the hell out of their vacation made them fun for me to watch.  They didn't seem overly demanding and besides the foam party didn't have a lot of requests that created extra work.

[S10.E13: Sex, Lies & Leeches]

I don't know if Brooks is faking cancer or not but Vicki is using it for her storyline without doubt. According to her blog tonight, Brooks did NOT want his cancer talked about on the show at all and Vicki convinced him otherwise so, IMO, she fully intended his cancer story to be her main storyline this season. AND that in itself is disrespectful of Vicki toward a man she claimed to love but it is WHO Vicki is. It is always about Vicki, her needs, her wants, her desire, her, her, her and never about the people in her life. It was never about Don's needs, Briania's desires, Michaels wants, now Brooks needs and even her late mothers peaceful death was not what Vicki wanted for herself. UGH, the woman is an endless black hole of need/wants.

 

As Vicki let us know, sometimes it just needs to be all about her.

[S03.E08: Tulip]

It was a cheap trick, but I enjoyed there being so many possibilities for the grave.

 

Connor was missing again.  Maybe he's dead and his absentee family hasn't noticed yet.  Bridget is probably the only one that would normally notice, but she's too busy trying to bang her teacher.

 

I don't care about Ray cheating on Abby, but did he have to do it with Tinsel Teeth?

 

I feel like this episode ended too upbeat (for this show) and too many things wrapped up too cleanly.  I hope Avi doesn't get caught with the fake passport.

[S03.E07: All Must Be Loved]

Yes, but she wasn't concerned that Bridget had alcohol in her room. She also gave Bridget the encouragement to go after her teacher, not knowing that he was her teacher.  Also, where was her other bad seed this episode?

Unfortunately, I dislike her kids so much, that I don't mind her being a bad parent at all, so this doesn't help me with my Abby like train.  She could push those kids off a cliff and as long as she kept being un-needy, not-whiny, and didn't fuck things up, I think I'd be okay with her.  I'm sure she'll be back to her annoying self soon though.

[S03.E01: More Foam, Bosun!]

I cannot imagine being stuck on a boat with Rocky.  One of us would end up going over board.  I'm not sure if I'd push her or jump though.

[S10.E12: Racing To The Truth]

What's with supposedly classy Heather calling the water closet a "toilet room"?  It just sounds so gross.

[S03.E07: All Must Be Loved]

I might actually like Abby now and I'm totally annoyed by it.  Ray tells her that Terry needs to move in and she doesn't even blink an eye and jumps to on getting a room set up for him.  I'm sure I'll be back to being unable to stand her by the end of the season though.  

[S03.E06: Swing Vote]

Did I miss this great love story between Bunchy and the wrestler. I'm confused, she showed him her boobies once and bossed him around a bit and now they're in love? I almost feel like some scenes were cut out because none of it makes any sense.

 

I could see Bunchy thinking he was in love that quickly.  He's immature and somewhat impulsive due to his molestation.  I don't know enough about her to guess what her motivation would be and whether or not it's benign.  

[Robotic Media Coverage]

Vulture has an interesting analysis of Elliot done by a psychiatrist

http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/mr-robot-elliot-alderson-psych-evaluation.html

[Graceland - General Discussion]

Show of hands:  Who's shocked that Mike fucked things up?

[S01.E09: eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt]

Or is Tyrell another alter ego too?

Is it possible Tyrell went to high school with Elliot and Angela and Darlene too? Maybe it was Elliot's baby Joanna gave up for adoption.

I always want to tell women who feel guilty for giving their children up for adoption that I feel guilty for keeping mine. I read aloud to them a lot, but I parented about as well as Elliot takes care of Flipper--whether a real dog or not.

I like this interpretation of Elliot's interactions with not!deadDad.

I could almost swear that the collection of 3" floppies the real Mr. Robot dad was recycling were the exact colors of the ones I got rid of a few months ago. Heh. Who's hallucinating now?

But shouldn't he have been dealing with old 5¼" floppies in '94?

 

I had a Tandy computer with a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" drive in elementary school.  I don't remember exactly when I got it, but it was in the 80s.  5.25" were still common then, but 3.5" wasn't hard to find -- I think most of my Math Blaster type games were on 3.5".  The 3.5" drives were still kind of expensive back then though.  When I bought my own computer in 94 or 95 it only had 3.5" drives as 5.25" were out of favor.  I was a 16 or 17 year old buying a computer with my own money from my after school job that maybe paid $4/hr, so I wasn't buying the most expensive cutting edge piece of equipment.  My dad bought the Tandy in the 80s, so it might have been extra fancy.

[S01.E09: eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt]

That was really fucking weird. But I doubt Tyrell is a nurse or anythign of that sort. As far as we can tell, anything without Elliot (or his alter ego) in it has been real. We his, imaginary friend, somehow know more than him, even if it's not fair.

Still something was missing there. It went from gloved hands, to glove free hands without any explaiantion what they were actually for. I would guess another personality took over for a while?

Tyrell putting the gloves on was a call back to when he paid the homeless guy to let him beat him up.  He put the same rubber gloves on before starting the beating.  I'm not sure if he didn't want homeless guy blood on him or if he didn't want to leave DNA on the homeless guy should things go too far, or both.  Either way, the implication was that he was prepping for some violence.  

Yeah, but I doubt a guy who served child porn intentionally limited the exit nodes. That would have been really dumb. Also I'm pretty sure what the show said is factually wrong. You'd have to not only control the exit nodes, but all nodes in a given connection to effectively trace it, but I have to confess, I haven't looked into how TOR works too much. But the whole thing didn't make much sense in general, since Elliot was sitting at the source. There was nothing to trace. Anywho thanks for considering and understanding my point. :)

This was also by far not the only incident that left a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth, but it was a pretty harsh to be introduced to a new show like this, which is why it stuck out so much. After a while you just have to accept that it's TV and they'll never get it quite right, but not quite. I'm just not sure what's worse, if hacking is essentially magic or if they get it almost right. I certainly have an easier time enjoying media where it's magic.

I don't think he was tracing, he was packet sniffing.  In theory, I guess he could have hacked in and altered the TOR config himself, but if he could get in to do that, I don't know that he would actually need to make himself a node, as he'd already be in.

[S07.E19: New Beginnings, My Ass]

That is the danger using a stupid term such s "partied".  What does it mean?  You met someone at a party?  You met someone at a party and were both drinking? You shared an illegal substance  with someone?  To me Sonja is trying to glamorize the days when she planned parties for the rich and famous and eventually was a guest at the same parties by virtue of her marriage.   I don't think she is talking about sharing an eight ball with someone.   I guess under the present rules here on Previously TV Sonja Tremont Morgan would  related to two American presidents.  Of course her daughter Quincy is related by blood.  The dangers of claiming in-laws as blood relatives. 

 

Do you really not see the difference between calling someone that you have/had a very close personal relationship with family versus claiming the ancestry of a family that booted your ass (not that Sonja is, but it's what you're talking about)?  

[S03.E06: Swing Vote]

I should be annoyed at Abby lapping up any little morsel of affection Ray flings in her direction, but I actually liked them together this episode.  I don't know why.  Maybe because it seemed like they were both trying.  I didn't find Abby or Bridget annoying and Connor was missing.  

 

Poor dumb Bunchy.  Things are surely not going to work out with that girl and him confiding in anyone about Ray murdering the priest is obviously not going to go well, even if it wasn't someone manipulating him specifically to get the info.  

[S07.E19: New Beginnings, My Ass]

 

Carole in fact does call Sonja out and then asks that Sonja not talk about her family.  Technically, Carole should have said, my late husband's family.  There is really no recognition for cousin-in-laws.  It is always my husband's cousin or cousin by marriage. 

 

They were her dear friends and she considered them family (and they actually were, by marriage).  I don't think she's trying to glom on to the Kennedy name.  By all accounts, they were very close.  John and Caroline were on the way to the vacation house they were sharing with Carole and her husband when they crashed.  I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't share a vacation house with someone I didn't consider family, by birth or not.