Comments on Polybloggimous: Today's Petty Annoyance.

Odd. And completely in line with my recent exper...

2012-01-11T20:25:59.241-05:00

Odd.

And completely in line with my recent experiences with the news media.

OK, for Local News a NY network station - #s 2,4 o...

2012-01-11T07:36:39.618-05:00

OK, for Local News a NY network station - #s 2,4 or 7 is the pinnacle, (this is also true for Network news and all three look at Fox as a joke).

However none of these people are chosen because of knowledge, but for Q factor and the ability to read a prompter in a mid-west accent.

Q factor is essentially acceptability to potential audience and is normally measured by hooking the potential audience up to something that measures, and records, skin resistance. By the way skinny young women with large breasts have high Q factors, so do men with full heads of hair. Murrow and Cronkite wouldn't stand a chance today.

Intelligence is a negative here, certain network anchors have been known to insert their own 'facts' in to otherwise well researched scripts.

Couple this with the fact most of these people came from some where else and live on the upper west side. And because of the great savings of eliminating the crew, who probably were raised in Queens and Brooklyn, the sweet young thing, has no idea where anything in the outer boroughs is. I have had more than one sweet young thing insist Manhattan is the largest city in the country, because it is New York and everybody knows New York is the largest city in the country.

It's those quartz halogen headlights on some v...

2012-01-11T00:39:17.632-05:00

It's those quartz halogen headlights on some vehicles. They're so bloody bright. I drive a Integra which puts my head about three feet off the ground and these idiots in their Ram Chargers (look at the symbol on these behemoths and then tell me what their owners are compensating for) with the "bright-as-the sun" headlights they come up behind me and my dashboard starts to melt due to the shear intensity. Any chance I have of actually seeing anything for ten minutes after they've passed me is about the same chance that Obama has of attracting the fundamentalist vote.

Fortunately I tend to speed a lot so I don't get overtaken very often. Which leads us to the sub-idiots approaching with quartz high beams blazing like a super-nova directly in my eyes. They are so intense that an image of my skeleton is permanently embedded in my seat and I see nothing but white blobs for days afterward.

These are the guys that need to spend eternity with their Ram Chargers mired in the fifth circle of hell.

Yeah, that would be like something happening on Me...

2012-01-10T19:59:25.266-05:00

Yeah, that would be like something happening on Melrose in West Hollywood, but the press saying it was somewhere around Silverlake or maybe East Hollywood (Hollywood proper lies between West Hollywood and East Hollywood, with Silverlake lying east of East Hollywood).

Looking at a map ain't that hard, people.

Why is everyone do damned needy today? And why do ...

2012-01-10T15:08:24.705-05:00

Why is everyone do damned needy today? And why do I have to be in the MIDDLE of solving all these problems instead of out on the edges?

Why am I not independently wealthy and able to spend my days as a woman of leisure?