I hate TV news people

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they are stupid and arrogant and don't know how to work very basic office equipment

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

but they're pretty, I guess

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

did I mention that I started my 3-step quitting smoking program today?
Step One: Don't smoke
Step Two: Be a cranky asshole.
Step Three: Don't smoke.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to smoke. I want a smoke. I want to smoke a smoke.
See, it's easy now, cuz I'm at work, but the long lonely night lays ahead of me and I'm scared.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Smoking and listening to music is great. I miss smoking like crazy. Cigarettes are great, there's nothing better...

Good luck, Horace!

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You are jealous of the TV news people, it's OK.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I hope you can do it, Horace. Eat tons and tons of mints. I've gone through lots of Wintergreen Ice-Breakers.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I want some mints.

Good luck, Horace MANN.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

some mints are too strong. I am not something enough for altoids. TV news people might be okay if they didn't wear so much makeup, the bastardgs. The one TV news person I met was a phenomenal drunk, so, you know, free dummy

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

somebody wants a smoooooooooooke

(hint: it ain't me)

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Instead of smoking, try substituting a nice hit of smack.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been meaning to post this to ILX for a long time but haven't gotten around to it. There is this woman on NY1, which is the all-day NY news channel, who does the traffic report and consistently and without fail mispronounces "Van Wyck". How the fuck do you get a job doing traffic when you cannot pronounce the name of one of the most major highways going into NYC? AND WHY ARE THEY NOT CORRECTING THE STUPID BITCH???? /ARHOIGNONFBHQAIOH OIANB GOD FUCK THAT. Every single person in my office has noticed this and wishes this woman would die.

I feel soooo much better now.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

why do they ever need more than one on the same news programme? Breakfast on BBC1 is the worst offender here. Now it's over to Rob with the sport, now its over to Declan with the Business News. Is it all an attempt to create the illusion that these ppl are experts even tho we know they are autocue dummies? The weather I can understand, at least they are genuine Met Office boffins (at least on the bbc).

You are spending our licence fee on too many salaries and I hate you.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

it's because instead of spending all of the program time staring at one ugly mug, you have different mugs to choose from, in hopes that one of them won't be so damn fugly.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And they're so condescending! And why do they (esp. the women) feel the need to have hair that even the Jetsons would say is too much?
And after 36 hours, with my newly active taste buds, I've come to realize that I'm a terrible cook.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Keep a magazine nearby when you eat, it distracts your tastebuds.

Ally, how on earth does she say "Van Wyck"? It's not that hard. Is she trying to reclaim its Dutch heritage or something? Does she say "Stuyvasent" funny too?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

She just says it...weird...all drawn out and funny and mushy harsh. I don't like it at all! It makes every morning a sad morning in my household. I should stop putting on NY1 but how else will I know what the weather is?!?!

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

There was an article in the New Yorker a year or two ago about the two schools of thought of Van Wyck, but I forgot the point.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

And they're so condescending! And why do they (esp. the women) feel the need to have hair that even the Jetsons would say is too much?

Their hair is actually flat; the camera just add on 20 pounds.

(Good luck, Horace. As I hear, the first 2 weeks are the worst to ace.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There was an article in the New Yorker a year or two ago about the two schools of thought of Van Wyck, but I forgot the point.

That the New Yorker sucks and has nothing better to do with its time? I'm sure there are two schools of thought, the school of everyone in the world and the school of four wankers who are trying to be superior. I just don't know which school I'm in!!!

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I sold a bag of weed (via a middle man) to one of Lexington's most popular local newspersons about 3 years ago. The meteorologist that works for that channel can go fuck himself with a bronze Elvis bust, btw.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

when I started this thread, there were two TV news people in the office..."doing research" or as I like to call it, bossing me around.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(and the first day was awesome, I was like "Here I am, Master of Will Power" and my nicotine-loving cells were like, "hey, this is weird, but just an aberration, whatever, we'll get through till the next smoke."
But today, my cells are all "hey, this guy is serious! He's not going to give us anymore good good mountain top cattle-roping manly man pleasure. We gotta show him who's boss! Bring on the sweats! The headache! The irrrrrrrrrrrrritability!")

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bring on the whores!"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

well, a guy needs SOMETHING to keep his hands busy!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

That is what the penis is for.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Since when do you need your hands for that?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

are you trying to say that men don't aim?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

You do?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

generally, yeah

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

y'know, I could have a cigarette and nobody would know.
I'm not going to see anyone close to me for another 25 hours. I could do it. I could get away with it.
But then I'd know.
And then I'd be a smoker pretending to be a non-smoker again. I don't really want a cigarette anyway. I just want the damn buzzing under my jaw to go away!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm telling ya, smack will help cure those nicotine cravings.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, c'mon, let me smack you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

waa-haa. Day 3. My tongue is a pulpy mess, from biting while frantically chewing gum, but the tinny blood that constantly pulses down my throat tastes like victory.
I haven't even snapped at anyone. Though I did eat a carton of "hermit" cookies (oatmeal with walnuts and raisins) yesterday. I'm gonna get FAT. And that's a good thing.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

also, I hate interns.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but you can have sex with them, can't you?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

not the current ones (they're both dudes, and not even pretty dudes). January can't come soon enough!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, make them have sex with each other, then.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

film at 11!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Broadcast journalism majors at Syracuse actually talk like television newscasters in casual conversation. Or else they talk like Guy Smiley from Sesame Street. Everyone else hates them and thinks it's funny that they call themselves "BJ majors".

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

film at 11!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'know what I hate even more...print news people who would rather be TV news people.
Radio news people, I give them a free pass, cuz some of them are actually cool. CBC ones at least.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

horace, i wish you luck and all - i've been there before - but it's going to get worse.
after a bit you start coughing and you can't stop.
you want to pummel all the fucking smokers you see.
you barely posses the will power to get out of bed; for months. actually i still don't. ..

uh. i guess what i'm saying is go vandalize a family photo belonging to one of the journalists you loath so much, blame the interns, get them fired & repeat until hot "bj" intern arrives. let her do the smoking for both of you.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

If heroin is too hard to get a hold of, you could always lick toads as a substitute...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually went 6 weeks last year, so I know what I'm in for. But the decision was sort of spur of the moment this time and I think that I'm ready. I've felt nicotine withdrawal, but haven't felt the urge to put a cigarette in my mouth. Mostly because I've been sucking off the interns.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

er, I mean, using will power.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure Will appreciates it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"There is this woman on NY1, which is the all-day NY news channel..."

Then there's the lovable morning news guy on NY1 who smirks through every inane story he is forced to read, and viciously slagged off Starbucks on the air a few weeks back. He's the TV news person of choice.

― Benjamin (benjamin), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

a news anchor slagging corporate america'a little darling¿
what'd he say¿

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

toot toot

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

nicfitting nicfitting the musicles in the back of my neck are seizing up

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

from nicfitting, or from servicing the interns¿

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, do you interns want to join the company La Crosse team?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

But you have to bring your own balls.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

STOP THAT RIGHT NOW MISTER

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I have done it, I have FINALLY found Dan's limits!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Screw that, lad! I tapped his limits first!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nichole in extraneous comma SHOCKAH!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

dan in lacrosse limitations shockah¡

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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