What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[dsheinem]

Ticked: Viacom/DirecTV dispute. My son is a Nick/Nick Jr. addict and I have serious trouble coping without my daily Jon Stewart quotient. I have no cable options where I live, and Dish Network doesn't carry the Sunday Ticket (or AMC, apparently), which is why I went with DirecTV in the first place.

I am mostly pissed at Viacom (not DirecTV), as they have even gone so far as to take their shows down from their own websites too, so I would have no legal option for watching the shows I like. /first world problems

I think they will work something out soon...

Ticked: dsheinem hasn't been answering my emails all week!

Sorry about that - on it now!

[Luke]

I would support its removal, something that was unthinkable to me even a week ago.

The newly released report is so sad and damning/condemning to the paternos.

I say try a fresh start to help console the afflicted families, and start by removing anything to glorify people who covered up multiple child rapes.

And I get the fact that the primary reason the Penn State kids flipped out over the firing of paterno was simply an excuse to get drunk and "fuck shit up", but there were a few kids interviewed that are going to wish they would have kept their mouths shut.

Moving on:

Smile: My Parents will be here tomorrow, and my Father is bringing Havanas. Can't wait to see 'em, hug 'em, and relax with 'em.

Ticked: What the fuck is it with new Grandmothers not wanted to be called "Grandma"? My Mom went loopy with this, and I thought it was a Southern thing for dumb ass names like "mee-ma", "Nonna", and other shit like that.

You are OLD. Embrace the tradition. Cherish it. You have immediate respect and authority with the titles "Grand Mother", "Grand Father". No one respects "Pee-Paw" or "Mammy".

Even my friends with kids Grandmothers want to be called silly shit other than Grandma. I guess when I finally have a child I can asked to be called "MC Moose Knuckle" because "I don't want to feel old".

[Jmustang1968]

Smile: My Parents will be here tomorrow, and my Father is bringing Havanas. Can't wait to see 'em, hug 'em, and relax with 'em.

Ticked: What the fuck is it with new Grandmothers not wanted to be called "Grandma"? My Mom went loopy with this, and I thought it was a Southern thing for dumb ass names like "mee-ma", "Nonna", and other shit like that.

You are OLD. Embrace the tradition. Cherish it. You have immediate respect and authority with the titles "Grand Mother", "Grand Father". No one respects "Pee-Paw" or "Mammy".

Even my friends with kids Grandmothers want to be called silly shit other than Grandma. I guess when I finally have a child I can asked to be called "MC Moose Knuckle" because "I don't want to feel old".

I called my grandmother meema and I had a ton of respect for her.

[harper]

"Mammy" just seems like a word that should only be spoken by 85 year old men with no teeth.

[Luke]

I called my grandmother meema and I had a ton of respect for her.

Why didn't you just call her Grandma?

And what is a meema?

I could understand if the first time you met your Grandmother you mumbled "meema", but I just don't get it.

edit* another thing that I can't stand is grown men and women saying "Daddy and Mommy".

I guess I'm the Maternal Paternal Title Police.

It's the entire "cat in the room" thing. Show some respect.

[dsheinem]

And I get the fact that the primary reason the Penn State kids flipped out over the firing of paterno was simply an excuse to get drunk and "fuck shit up", but there were a few kids interviewed that are going to wish they would have kept their mouths shut.

At that time there was no damning evidence that Paterno had done anything worse than failing to follow up on his report to the University police. That's not a fireable offense, and the "Penn State" kids' anger was justified at the time. In hindsight we now know more, and if he were still alive/coaching NOW would be the time to fire him.

[Luke]

At that time there was no damning evidence that Paterno had done anything worse than failing to follow up on his report to the University police.

What I meant to convey is that I feel bad for those kids, as they didn't have the information available at the time, and now they look like jackasses.

Knee jerk reactions can have awful consequences.

[BoringSupreez]

Ticked: Viacom/DirecTV dispute. My son is a Nick/Nick Jr. addict and I have serious trouble coping without my daily Jon Stewart quotient. I have no cable options where I live, and Dish Network doesn't carry the Sunday Ticket (or AMC, apparently), which is why I went with DirecTV in the first place.

I am mostly pissed at Viacom (not DirecTV), as they have even gone so far as to take their shows down from their own websites too, so I would have no legal option for watching the shows I like. /first world problems

I think they will work something out soon...

They'll have to. I'm hearing complaints about what's happened both online and offline. It's too big a problem to ignore for long.

[the King]

It's one of those curve balls you didn't see coming, and didn't want to see coming.

But unfortunately jo-pa was a grade A schmuck. I say remove his statue. Unless that is what Penn State stands for.

Schmuck is putting it way too kindly and I can understand that people didn't want to see this coming, there are plenty of them(a lot of people living in central Penn), but I don't know how anyone didn't honestly see this coming. I thought it was pretty clear that the most powerful man on that campus would of had more knowledge of the situation than he was saying. It takes a huge leap of faith to believe JoePa never once followed up to see what was going on with an investigation involving his right hand man for over 30 years. As far as the statue I heard they are just going to rotate it, so JoePa can look the other way.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Smile: Good day at work

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