What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Jstpssng]

Next we'll be measuring our turds and talking about them... like frat boys did in college days.

 

[bigtiller]

My 20 year old wife hollered from the bathroom "COME HERE, LOOK AT THAT, IT IS HUGE !"

It was. She must have been constipated.

 

[Runner]

The only poop we talk about is the dogs.

 

[WinterDeere]

New pet peeve: Thinking of a really good peeve to post in the middle of the afternoon, only to forget it when you sit down at the computer in the evening!

 

[garry1p]

Number and length of commercials on a paid for streaming service.

 

[ultrarunner]

The gastroentrologist I use has gotten away from the prescription stuff that tastes like liquid plastic, and now has patients use an entire bottle of Miralax (or equivalent) mixed with Gatorade (no purple or red flavors). Same effect, but doesn't taste quite as bad.

Getting the prep can be a problem and every week cases cancel because the solution not available.

 

[Runner]

Number and length of commercials on a paid for streaming service.

Just like the way they sold cable TV in the beginning. It was supposed to be commercial-free, but we see how that worked out....

 

[WinterDeere]

Just like the way they sold cable TV in the beginning. It was supposed to be commercial-free, but we see how that worked out....

Cable premium channels were advertised this way, HBO, Showtime, Prism. But I am not aware of any case where cable network providers were offering to remove commercials aired by their network affiliates (ABC, NBC, CBS). I’m not sure how they’d have even managed to do that in the 1970’s, either legally or technically.

Moreover, I tink the commercial-free subscription model has been pretty well-proven to not work. Network provides can never bring enough revenue in thru subscription only, to pay their affiliates more than the advertisers, which is what it would take to shut down the advertising.

The biggest ripoff of them all, IMO, is SiriusXM. Crazy high subscription fees, not per person, but per vehicle! Imagine paying a separate cable TV bill for each TV in your house! Then on top of that, scroll the channels, and it seems to be more commercials than content. I’d argue the only way that company is even in business is by tricking people to forget ongoing subscriptions, by offering it free on each new vehicle.

 

[Runner]

Cable premium channels were advertised this way, HBO, Showtime, Prism. But I am not aware of any case where cable network providers were offering to remove commercials aired by their network affiliates (ABC, NBC, CBS). I’m not sure how they’d have even managed to do that in the 1970’s, either legally or technically.

Since the start of cable TV, I have never had any "premium channels". However, I have movies on VHS tape right now that were recorded off cable in the 80's, commercial-free.

Top Gun is the first one that comes to mind, but I have a bunch of others. Some, I've converted to DVD, but I still have the original VHS tapes from the 80's, so yes, they did offer commercial-free programming for a while on non-premium channels.

The "commercial-free" programming did not last long at all, maybe a year or two at most.

 

[WinterDeere]

Since the start of cable TV, I have never had any "premium channels". However, I have movies on VHS tape right now that were recorded off cable in the 80's, commercial-free.

Top Gun is the first one that comes to mind, but I have a bunch of others. Some, I've converted to DVD, but I still have the original VHS tapes from the 80's, so yes, they did offer commercial-free programming for a while on non-premium channels.

I wonder if your memory is accurate here? After all, they used to hand out occasional free months of HBO and Showtime, to induce customers to sign up for those channels.

The reason I say this is that Top Gun was one of the top-grossing movies of 1986, and given the way they'd spend a year in the box office, then go to VHS before finally getting released on HBO or Showtime in year 3... I have trouble believing it had tumbled way down to being played on network or basic cable services anywhere early enough for you to ever have recorded it in the 1980's without a premium channel.

I bet you'd have trouble finding any listing for a movie that big being played on a basic channel before year 6 from release date. More likely, you recorded it from HBO or Showtime, during one of the many free months they handed out.