And bankers will thus get rich by investing in carbon capture firms and lending them money, and as you said the energy companies will just pass the tax on to the consumer. Thus the only one being hurt by the tax is the average consumer.

You park on a driveway and drive on a parkway.

You say PIN Number, yet you are actually saying Personal Identification Number number.

It's winter.  

Say no more....

It's summer

Too bloody hot

I had to log in to the forums again. *sigh* So much time wasted. 

I'm back cos I wanna bitch about TV stations axing shows just a part way in and not properly concluding the various story lines, thus leaving too many questions unanswered and giving little or no closure to viewers.  One such show was 'The Event', another, 'The Nine Lives of Chloe King'  Both ended prematurely and did not conclude the ongoing story lines.  Worse still, 'The Playboy Club', which looked to be a promising crime drama, was axed after only 3 episodes.

For mine, they are fucking arrogant to think they can just wind something up without a satisfactory ending.  I dislike fucking bankers a heap, but I'm starting to equally dislike TV station executives, especially when they continue to pour money into crap reality shows while pulling the plug on dozens of popular scripted shows.

In most cases they cite low ratings as the reason, but that's crap and I believe they deliberately sabotage shows by placing them on extended breaks, then bringing them back in late night/early morning time slots instead of the prime time slots they previously occupied. Another ploy is to bring back a show on a different day and play it against something with very strong ratings... to ensure it fails.

Of course viewers are going to lose interest if their favourite shows are aired irregularly and they return in late time slots... and then it's the viewing public's fault not enough people are watching.  Bullshit!!!!!  I mean, they don't whack on crap reality or contestant shows at some ungodly hour, do they? No, just the scripted stuff.

I have a friend in the the TV biz and he tells me that they are still using some antiquated random sample of the most average Americans to get a huge part of their ratings value. It just doesn't make sense considering it is possible to actually see the number of people watching a show any given night. Online views and recorded views are still a side note to these ridiculous boxes they hand out. I guess they figure if they updated this to a popular count we would want the same thing for presidential elections and so they keep things in the 70's.

I would storm their castle and change things but glee is on in a few minutes...

I'm really upset that complianing about things takes away from me the time I could have spent doing something I enjoy in my life. 

It's unfortunate that you admitted that... having a friend in the TV biz, that is.  Now I don't like you, either!!!   Nah, not really. You're alright. Not that I'm saying we're best buds or anything. I mean, we've only just met.   Anyhow, just thank your lucky stars you didn't say you're friends with a banker, otherwise I'd have gotten baity and spat the dummy

Orright, we'll put it another way.  If you use your influence as a friend to influence your friend to change things for the better then I'll like you more.

Okay, then, you don't have that much influence.  How about you know he's got some casting couch secrets he'd rather didn't get out, and you blackmailed him to stop axing decent shows?

If none of the above could or would apply, could you drop a bit of weed in his glovebox and make an anonymous call to get him out of the way?

Oh, and you do realise, dontcha, that you won't be able to be best buds with this TV bloke now we've conspired together against him?

Okay, there's a cure for that... start to enjoy complaining yourself.  Think about it!  The possibilities are endless... cos there's a possible complaint in everything and you'll never run out of material.

Actually me and him are conspiring to make our own production company in the distant future. Unfortunately, in the biz means that he is a writer working at a talent agency in NY. He gets alot of inside information, but can't really do anything about it. I mean just look at Firefly. A group of six or so people were able to block the pilot, air the episodes in the wrong order, cut the advertisement budget to one tenth, and move the show to Friday (hospice for TV shows), thus ensuring low ratings and early cancellation so that their pet project could be made sooner. Unless you are at the top, you are on the bottom. And the audience only matters so much as they continue to pay 100.00 per month for service. 

I am all for going after the bankers. I am not threatening anyone when I say, "We should storm them all dressed in Rebellion trooper gear and take all teh monies they sleep on." I hate those guys. Someone must have been really mean to them in high school. 

You're dead right about the audience not mattering to the TV station execs... so long as the advertising revenue keeps pouring in they don't give a stuff about us.

As for the bastards who sabotaged Firefly, the removal of their gonads would be my pleasure.  That is one show I particularly liked, and their 'de-nutting' would be thoroughly deserved, in my book.

So, am I going to be revisiting this thread in the "distant future" to complain about you and him axing some show I like, or will you fight for it and tell the TV bigwigs to go and get stuffed?  Hopefully it'll be the latter... TV station execs have had it their way for far too long now.

As for bankers, right on there Sean... storm Wall St and wherever else they may congregate and bring down their ivory towers.  The bankers of the world are responsible for homelessness, hunger, starvation and poverty all around the globe, and for mine, a bullet is too good for some of them.  At least with a noose it can be reused.

I want to complain about the lack of adequate means of euthanasia. I mean really, wouldn't it be more humane to just gather up all the banksters and the rest of the greed mongers in the world and euthanize them. I think doing it that way would show the world we respect animal rights.

I want to complain, Uvah, that you have somehow linked animal rights to effing bankers.  What on Earth possessed you to think such a thing?

Sure, animals have and deserve rights... yeah, well you get my drift.

Anyhow, I'll forgive you this time.  I understand that you've been through a difficult time with lunacy and no strait jacket, but the shrink says you're doing much better now, so we'll hear no more of this "rights" and "bankers" being uttered in the same breath, orright?

Welcome to the England of today........................

Welcome to the "America" of today..............

Yeah, it seems like the entire 1st world is going down the toilet... can blame the greed of corporate bigwigs and bankers for that.

We're stepping aside so that the ,,, ahem ... younger generation can take over. Yeah ... we brought them Yuppies up real good. Worship the almighty dollar and forget who the people are. Its kinda contagious I guess.

@Uvah   people before profits?

I ran out of random complaints.

I don't think it's so much a matter of people before profits as it is, profits before honesty.    If the banks and government would just be honest, both the people and the profits would take care of themselves.

Tetleytea got it right and there isn't anything wrong with people as a priority over profit. You care for the people and they'll guarantee the profit. The more you show them the more money they'll be willing to spend. What is it called ... customer service?

Talking about bankers has made this thread less random.   

I will add some randomness.   

I got engaged over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Yep, a real live woman want's to marry me, out of love too apparantly, doesn't need a visa and I'm no sugar daddy.  There is hope for all the fat nerds!

I am not surprised, lots of chicks dig the eyepatch look. 

It makes me dangerous!   

But, sadly in real life, i have both eyes, but due to strong nerd blood in my veins, I wear thick glasses.