Random thing you loathe right now.

MaxShrek wrote:
Clumber wrote:

Wasn't sure where best to put this but I certainly loathe it, so this is where it landed.

Disney refuses to pay Alan Dean Foster

Uncle Walt "didnt want to put voice talent in movie credits because it would take away the magic of the character." More like "Uncle Walt realized that crediting voice talent meant paying them more," what Mel Blanc found out.

I think Jack Benny and other variety shows credited Mel Blanc even though Disney refused.

Too bad the company is ass, they do good sh*t.

Disney didn’t pay their animators back in the day either. Ub Iwerks, a Disney animator who’s name you see on practically every classic Disney short, let Walt take advantage of him. He lived the life of a pauper while Walt was flossin’ it.

My grandfather was an animator but refused to work for Disney back in the 30s and 40s. He went on to do stuff like the old Gulliver's Travels (1939,) Hannah Barbera, Max Fleisher, and other animated projects. He did some of what they called "bendy cartoons" way back when, where the movements of the characters bobbed with the music. I can't remember what group they formed, I was told Screen Gems.

Never met him though, probably for the best as he wasn't a nice guy from what I've been told.

MaxShrek wrote:

My grandfather was an animator but refused to work for Disney back in the 30s and 40s. He went on to do stuff like the old Gulliver's Travels (1939,) Hannah Barbera, Max Fleisher, and other animated projects. He did some of what they called "bendy cartoons" way back when, where the movements of the characters bobbed with the music. I can't remember what group they formed, I was told Screen Gems.

Never met him though, probably for the best as he wasn't a nice guy from what I've been told.

Even though he’s the grumpy grandpa that you never met, wouldn’t it be cool to own a Blu-ray of all of the projects he ever worked on?

My grandpa died of a heart attack at 35, which I think is code for he drank himself to death.

RawkGWJ wrote:

My grandpa died of a heart attack at 35, which I think is code for he drank himself to death.

Mine too before I was born, except they said aneurism or some such. defo died of alcoholism according to my mother. I would love to have some stuff about what he did while he was alive.

thrawn82 wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

My grandpa died of a heart attack at 35, which I think is code for he drank himself to death.

Mine too before I was born, except they said aneurism or some such. defo died of alcoholism according to my mother. I would love to have some stuff about what he did while he was alive.

My grandfather who died before I was born had a twin brother. AND I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THAT RECENTLY! And I’m 50yo now. WTF is wrong with my mom and my aunties? I can’t even...

sh*t, man! It’s f*cking painful. Ugh...

One of my long dead but died young relatives choked to death.

MaxShrek wrote:

One of my long dead but died young relatives choked to death.

I'm sorry for your loss. Hugs

After my sister's step daughter caught COVID, her husband has caught it and of course she now has it.
We are waiting on news of my dad but thankfully it looks like the timeline worked out that she got infected after she last visited him.

The mental aspects of this pandemic are no joke and I can't fathom how people are not taking it seriously still.
My wife and I went to our nephews 1st birthday party expecting it to be a small family gathering. (6-7 people)
Well it turned out to be 16 adults and 5 children so we left as soon as non drama inducingly possible.

But of course with my sister's infection fresh on our minds, we are dreading news that we may have caught it. And we have been so careful so we are planning on getting our groceries delivered and wearing a mask outside despite easily being able to socially distance of 10-15ft everywhere including big grocery stores.

fangblackbone wrote:

wearing a mask outside despite easily being able to socially distance of 10-15ft everywhere including big grocery stores.

So sorry to hear about your covid scare. I do want to say that you really should be doing the quoted above anyway, like until the week after you're vaccinated or the last person in your state recovers from Covid. People deciding on their own when to mask up is a big part of why we're still in this 7 months later.

My sister in El Paso caught it a month ago and it hit her hard. She never quite got to 'we're going to the hospital' bad, her symptoms weren't fever/respiratory variety, more like 'worst flu of your life' variety. She has recovered well as far as I can tell over the phone but we'll see about long term effects.
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gearswitch for thing I loathe this morning as my PC fails to properly boot up (failed windows update, thankfully auto-rolled back after 3rd boot attempt):

Cheap sh*tty electronics that are not identifiably distinct from quality functioning electronics.

No big names I can find make KVM switches, for example, so you're stuck looking at Amazon for the best reviewed one of 60 varieties and still get 3 lemons in a row (this most recent one took 6 months to fail, at least), all different brands, and just trying to choose more expensive ones from somewhat more recognizable names each time.

A 4th, HDMI-CEC switch for the game room also doesn't function as intended (automatic input detection/switching doesn't work, manual does).

This proliferation of 'brands' covers basically all products. An Amazon search for basically anything comes back with a ton of results. Is it 10% garbage? 20? probably closer to 80, with no good way to identify the good stuff thanks to review fraud and other manipulation.

My wife is self-medicating with reality TV. It was fine when it was the great British bake off, but now it's survivor, which is super annoying and really distracting when I'm trying to read or do chores. Ugh.

This too shall pass.

polypusher wrote:

This proliferation of 'brands' covers basically all products. An Amazon search for basically anything comes back with a ton of results. Is it 10% garbage? 20? probably closer to 80, with no good way to identify the good stuff thanks to review fraud and other manipulation.

Yeah, this. It feels like there's a gap in the market for a retailer who's only stocking legit brands. Amazon is all but unusable for electronics now.

Mixolyde wrote:

My wife is self-medicating with reality TV. It was fine when it was the great British bake off, but now it's survivor, which is super annoying and really distracting when I'm trying to read or do chores. Ugh.

This too shall pass.

When my wife claims to not have any interest in politics, I always jest that she watches Survivor which is nothing BUT politics.

Black Box, Tripp Lite and Dell all make good quality KVMs. They sell into datacenters. But you'll be paying for the reliability.

And Newegg carries them.

My cat Socrates woke me up at 4:30 AM by throwing up on the couch, and now I'm tired and want to go for a nap. I might do just that after lunch.

My last surviving grandparent, my dad's mother, died last week. That's really not even the loathe. It was not sudden, and her dementia and memory loss really took her away from us years ago. I'd already made peace with it and while it still sucks, it was not a shock.

We're immediately concerned about a funeral, because almost all of that side of the family (and probably most of the family friends) aren't taking the pandemic seriously. No masks. No social behavior changes. Nothing. And they want an indoor funeral. Actually, even that's not the loathe. I'm not surprised - they're all in the Springfield MO area which has always felt like a bunch of rural, conservative folks just decided to live all scrunched together.

What I loathe is that my dad had to reach out to all of his children and say "Please don't come to your grandmother's funeral. It won't be safe, and I don't want to have to deal with worrying about all of you and my own grandkids on top of everything else."

condolences for that whole situation Boudreaux

When people put "went to school of hard knocks" on their facebook profile, and are actually serious. Especially when you know those people.

MaxShrek wrote:

When people put "went to school of hard knocks" on their facebook profile, and are actually serious. Especially when you know those people.

I see that in Quora profiles or credentials a lot. Any reference to "hard knocks", "real life", "real world", "mean streets", "university of LIFE", etc., is a pretty good indicator of valueless content.

LOL. I also went to the University of Life. It was concurrent with my actual university education. Haha.

I'm amused more than I loathe it, since I usually don't hire nor associate with "hard knockers." Not knowing how to do a trade or a profession to a standard isn't a good look.

LarryC wrote:

LOL. I also went to the University of Life.

Well, I mean, I think the only way to graduate from it is to die, so yeah...

Hmm. If that's the case I'll take a correspondence course.

My new phone seems to be on a mission to destroy my hearing. Almost every time I pick up a call it flicks to speaker or FaceTime and I get blasted.

I pinched my sack with a toilet seat.

Well. That's something I didn't know was possible.

*Darth Vader "Impressive"*

I f*cking goddamn hate sh*tting {sexist slur}ing those f*cking Geico commercials with the clog tap dancers. I want them all to be chased and chopped up by f*cking alligators wielding chainsaws.

*it's a horseshoe toilet seat, it's less impressive and more painful.

MaxShrek wrote:

*it's a horseshoe toilet seat, it's less impressive and more painful.

*makes a mental note never to buy one of those*

...I love that commercial.

Yeah, the whole cult-like atmosphere really adds to the idea that there's more there than just clogging...

Waiting in. Fighting sleep. Deliveries. Tradesmen. Afternoon is too broad a term. This does not mesh with a night shift pattern at all!

I was already irritated with people saying proof instead of evidence, and now the internet has decided to use the word receipt constantly.

The internet was a mistake.