2009? Things you can do without in 2010?

[Alysser]

-Drama
-Nasty People
-The Six Flags season ending, it didn't help my wallet.
-Bad grades...well C's which isn't TOO bad.
-Hearing about the war was a big one, I am so against war, it was hard to hear about it.

I'll think of more soon.

[pomtzu]

Things I can do without next year:

Hard heads and know it alls
Reality shows
Extreme weather conditions --- too hot/too cold
Phonies (people)
Increasing living costs
TV commercials that insult one's intelligence
Internet scams/spam

[Medusa]

I just remembered another one:

commercials w/people who shout about their product.

[RICHARD]

I just remembered another one:

commercials w/people who shout about their product.

Did you kill Billy Mayes?

[Medusa]

Did you kill Billy Mayes?

Y'know, as irritating as he could be, I still liked him. Actually, the commercial that comes to mind is local. It's a furniture warehouse that begins w/a semi truck horn blowing twice, which gives me time to run for the remote. LOL This guy screams at the top of his lungs and, if I let it, it puts me in an instant bad mood. Thank goodness for the mute button.

[pomtzu]

That brings to mind the worst commercial of all time - IMO anyway.

I can't think of the name of it, but it's that crazy guy running around like an idiot in Washington DC, with his book, and screaming of all the free money and programs, etc, that are available from the government, just for the asking. Buy the book and it will show you how to get a piece of the action.

That spazzmo needs some downers. I could barf every time I see him.

[RICHARD]

That brings to mind the worst commercial of all time - IMO anyway.

I can't think of the name of it, but it's that crazy guy running around like an idiot in Washington DC, with his book, and screaming of all the free money and programs, etc, that are available from the government, just for the asking. Buy the book and it will show you how to get a piece of the action.

That spazzmo needs some downers. I could barf every time I see him.

The guy in the purple jacket and glasses.

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I am tired of the renovation shows.

I have various gripes about them, I do like the Old House and Fix It shows, but the others just irk me.

[kokopup]

Things I can do without next year:


Medical bills that arrive daily from UAB
WAR
Hunger
Political ping pong with our environment.
Political ping pong with health care.

[Marigold2]

I just remembered another one:

commercials w/people who shout about their product.

Yes I know that car commercials, big, fat guy shouting on Sat mornings. Fred Martin superstore isn't it? I truly want to slug that moran. I could do without his 350 lbs yelling on the TV.

[smokey the elder]

There was a furniture store in Milwaukee (Kohler's? It was 20 years ago) with a guy that would scream all the time. I hate that.

Over-the-top media drama for every little thing. Not everything is a crisis of epic proportions.

Stoopid Wall St. fatcats that are totally tone-deaf and won't lend money to small business but have no compunctions about bonuses so high they need to be expressed in scientific notation.

Reality shows. *barf* Enuff, already.

[Christmas_Hamster]

How about pets dying. I lost my dog, 11 bettas, 2 gerbils, 4 hamsters and 5 rats this year. I could have done without that.

[momcat]

I'd love to see a permanent end to:

Inconsiderate cell phone users. I do not want to know their business and they talk too loud.
Technology "advancements"
Bratty kids
Homelessness
Servicemen and women fighting in the middle east


And most of all.....
SUMMER!!!!!!!!

[Medusa]

I'd love to see a permanent end to: most of all.....
SUMMER!!!!!!!!

Why? Have a heart! I'm freezing!

[catland]

How about those really annoying internet ads? Like the ones promising that you can lose 30 pounds of belly fat by tomorrow afternoon.

[slick]

I am so deathly sick of all the renovation/design shows - I'm sorry, but I'm not even a fan of Extreme Home Edition or whatever it's called. I have no patience with someone on the telly telling what colour I should paint my walls or how I could transform my very small living space or how to put in a chimney or better yet, how my health can improve by changing my condo to "Phung Shway" or whatever that is. There should be a specific channel dedicated to those kinds of shows. OK, of my rant now.

Other things I can do without:
35 pounds
debt
bad drivers
disrespectful people
messy coworkers who don't clean up after themselves
Martha Stewart
Rachel Ray
Guy whomever he is on the Food Channel
Speaking about TV, I also hate all these big families coming out of the woodwork making a buck out of their daily lives. So you had 13 million kids - what makes you think that changing your kid's poopy diaper is something I'd like to entertain myself with??

OK, done for now