Happy Festivus 2013!

Happy Festivus to all! Lets just jump to the airing of grievances. In the spirit of the season, perhaps we can all just air one and the admin can lock the thread at 11:59.59 tonight as we move on to Christmas, doing this every year?

Roger Goddell, you have and continue to completely ruin the NFL. NFL Games are not supposed to end with a score of 45-42, there are many out here with an attention span longer then 90 seconds who like a good defensive game. Quit trying to change it, and quit thinking about putting a team in Europe and even Canada. It is NATIONAL Football League, the WFL died in the 1970s.

John Taffer, I caught you using a totally fake drunk in your show! I do not expect reality TV to be "real" but I do expect a show that shows Bar Science to know their smarks are smarter than the smarks watching the Kardashians and not be so plainly obvious about it.

CBS: Why did you cancel "Vegas?" Good show, good plot, decent viewer level. If you want to get me back as a viewer another cookie-cutter show is not the way to do it.

Who is going to be involved in the wrestling match?

1. Southwest ticket prices
2. 6:5
3. Tyranny of the left
4. QE infinity

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Happy Festivus to all! Lets just jump to the airing of grievances. In the spirit of the season, perhaps we can all just air one and the admin can lock the thread at 11:59.59 tonight as we move on to Christmas, doing this every year?

This thread doesn't end until Perdition pins me! XD

The government of the People's Republic of New York. Self explanatory.

Standard Time. It gets dark here at four freaking thirty this time of year. Set this mess to DST and LEAVE IT!

Any measurement standard that isn't metric. Self explanatory.

Hip flexors. Y U no heal?! Might as well add to that most all ligaments and tendons.

I have actually spent ther last few hours thinking about where to have my Festivus feast at. Probably just going to be lazy and get some Monday specials from KFC again.

1. Older males hair growth patterns. Why do men of a certain age stop growing hair on their head and start growing excessive hair on their backs, uni-brow and worst of all that little bush in their ears, which seems to grown back every other day. It's just gross to look at.

2. ATM bank fees. I just hate the idea of paying to get your own money. I will walk/drive miles to my home bank to avoid a $2.50 fee. Lol

I am at this moment in the back of my brother's car as we and the wives head to Mohegan Sun fir the holiday. A joyous Festivus for all of us!

- At the gym, people who set their phone, water bottle, bag etc. on a bench while they stand next to it and exercise, thereby occupying the bench. A bench in a gym is not a shelf, it was meant for a more noble purpose than holding your stuff off of the floor.
- Tailgaters
- NCAA: With the rule changes in basketball this year regarding hand checking and charging, I don’t know if a foul call is good or not. Was there something wrong with old rules?

+1 to AZDuffman's comments on the NFL

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I am at this moment in the back of my brother's car as we and the wives head to Mohegan Sun fir the holiday. A joyous Festivus for the rest of us!

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Personally I much prefer the Feast of Alvis for my alternative holiday needs. Have happy Alvistime, everyone....

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On a frosty winter's night, a wagon appeared at the gates of Fort Klugman...

As to grievances, I have many.
*Coworkers who take the last cup of coffee without brewing a fresh pot. SOCIOPATHS.
*Google search results pages, which no longer link directly to the page, but need a round-trip through Google's servers (for click tracking etc, I get it). It's fine if you're just going to the page, but if you want to copy the link to the page without actually visiting it (a common use case for me), it's impossible. Have to actually visit the page and copy the URL bar, as opposed to right-click "Copy Link Address"...</nerd>
*People on a crowded bus who won't take a seat next to someone else and insist on standing. This is cool if the bus isn't crowded; if you don't like sitting next to strangers I get it. But on a crowded rush hour bus, space is at a premium; a lot of times the bus has to stop picking people up because the aisle is full of standing riders, even though there are empty seats. You need to sit the eff down. If you don't like touching strangers, you shouldn't be riding public transit to start with.

Oh yeah, forgot my primary grievance this Festivus season...whoever on the Boise State football team pissed off of that balcony. Whether it was actually Southwick or Patti or whoever. Seriously dude? If you're going to publicly urinate...at least do it in a corner or against a fence or something. From a hotel balcony? FFS...

I'm going to add one though maybe it should end up on the cars and driving thread on DT.

People who as they are making a turn in a car all of the sudden brake to a stop or near stop when there are cars behind. This is a very good way to get rear-ended. Not only can the car behind you not see your brake lights well if at all when you do this, they are expecting your car to keep moving and be out of the way.

If there is a rear-end accident type where I feel the car being hit is partly at fault this is it.

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Standard Time. It gets dark here at four freaking thirty this time of year. Set this mess to DST and LEAVE IT!

This was tried once, in the mid/late 1970s. Somebody noticed that, in early January, it was still dark when kids were in school at 8 AM in northern cities like New York and Boston. ("Starting and ending school an hour later" was not an option.)

My grievances:

Linux servers running Oracle that decide, "If I don't hear anything in two hours, I will assume the connection is broken and should be dropped," without taking into account the possibility that some operations will take more than two hours to run.

The NFL's "sorry, but San Francisco doesn't get a doubleheader if either the 49ers or Raiders have a Sunday afternoon home game on the network not showing the doubleheader that week, even if that game is blacked out" rule. Okay, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be (recently they have been taking this into account when creating the schedule), but still, there should be a doubleheader on one network every week.

People who treat "Festivus" like it's a real thing. Wait a minute...

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NCAA: With the rule changes in basketball this year regarding hand checking and charging, I don’t know if a foul call is good or not. Was there something wrong with old rules?

Apparently, yes - "hand checking" should never be allowed, but it was clear to the NCAA Basketball Committee that the officials weren't calling it, almost certainly because of "no harm, no foul" and (another of my grievances) too many fans saying, "That wasn't the time for that call! Let them play!" There is never a time not to make a call mandated by the rules - if you would call it when a game's result is no longer in doubt, then you call it if it decides the NCAA Championship Game.

Here is the new "hand checking" rule (NCAA Men's Basketball Rule 10.1.4):

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The following acts constitute a foul when committed against a player with the ball:
(a) Keeping a hand or forearm on an opponent;
(b) Putting two hands on an opponent;
(c) Continually jabbing an opponent by extending an arm(s) and placing a hand or forearm on the opponent;
(d) Using an arm bar to impede the progress of a dribbler.

This is in the 2014-15 (and 2015-16, as the NCAA now prints rulebooks every two years, although if something needs to be changed seriously enough between books, they will do it) "points of emphasis", which usually translates as "things we expect the officials to call, so don't complain when they start cracking down on it."

I didn't notice any explicit rule change concerning charging and blocking, but that is another point of emphasis, so it's probably not so much a "rule change" as it is, "We're telling the officials to do a better job of telling the difference."

My only whine is, the people who do not use turn signals. I means REALLY how hard is it to hit the little lever that is right by your hand already. I lay on my horn everytime I see this. One day when I hit the lottery I am going to rear end every car that turns without one.

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My only whine is, the people who do not use turn signals. I means REALLY how hard is it to hit the little lever that is right by your hand already. I lay on my horn everytime I see this. One day when I hit the lottery I am going to rear end every car that turns without one.

And I would like to add a similar sentiment for those people who drive without their headlights on during a heavy rain or snow storm. STOP DOING THAT !

An interesting aside. I had to go up to City Hall this afternoon, and sure enough there is a police cruiser parked in a handicapped spot. The engine was running so I'm sure they were only going to be there for a few minutes. BUT it certainly seems like the WRONG message to send ! I did NOT mention it to one of the officers I saw in one of the offices, I didn't know how they would take "constructive" input.

Even more irritating is the people who slow down, get into the turn lane, and THEN turn the signal on. Oh yea, you're turning, are you?! Thanks for the warning!

Here's someone who got into the spirit of the day:

Festivus

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Apparently, yes - "hand checking" should never be allowed, but it was clear to the NCAA Basketball Committee that the officials weren't calling it, almost certainly because of "no harm, no foul" and (another of my grievances) too many fans saying, "That wasn't the time for that call! Let them play!" There is never a time not to make a call mandated by the rules - if you would call it when a game's result is no longer in doubt, then you call it if it decides the NCAA Championship Game.

Here is the new "hand checking" rule (NCAA Men's Basketball Rule 10.1.4):

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The following acts constitute a foul when committed against a player with the ball:
(a) Keeping a hand or forearm on an opponent;
(b) Putting two hands on an opponent;
(c) Continually jabbing an opponent by extending an arm(s) and placing a hand or forearm on the opponent;
(d) Using an arm bar to impede the progress of a dribbler.

This is in the 2014-15 (and 2015-16, as the NCAA now prints rulebooks every two years, although if something needs to be changed seriously enough between books, they will do it) "points of emphasis", which usually translates as "things we expect the officials to call, so don't complain when they start cracking down on it."

I didn't notice any explicit rule change concerning charging and blocking, but that is another point of emphasis, so it's probably not so much a "rule change" as it is, "We're telling the officials to do a better job of telling the difference."

In the spirit of Festivus, I have aired my grievance and I will not defend it. (well just a little). The rules of basketball are vague and subject to interpretation. The annual "point of emphasis" from NCAA is nothing more than an instruction to change the interpretation of the rules. NCAA wants more scoring so they make it a "point of emphasis" to call more defensive fouls. The refs call the game to the best of their ability. To say that the refs were just ignoring the rules, so NCAA had to crack down is BS.