Most annoying things of 2003
 

So it looks like 2003's on the wane... another year over. Probably the most irritating thing for me was Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez with their whole wedding and all that. You?

Reality shows taking over the networks

both ben and jlo, and the whole reality tv show bit (I hope this fad ends soon, but I know it's not going to; too easy and cheap to produce, and people still watch them!!!).

For me personally, what sucked... Not having enough money to feed myself properly for half the year, and then not even having enough money to visit my family in Hawaii, and now they're moving back to the mainland. But, that problem looks like it's going to really improve this next year!!!

I'd have to say the most irritating thing was the war, although mad cow disease is coming in as a last moment candidate.

For me it was starting college

The endless 'While you were out' and 'Trading spaces' marathons on The Learning Channel.

TNN rebranding itself to Spike TV. I didn't watch it very much to begin with, only the odd episode of TNG or Car & Driver, but it's still annoying.

Media monopolies telling me what I can and can't do with the music I purchase legally.

And the damn Maple Leafs loosing to Islanders, bringing to an end their 16 game point streak (tied for first in the NHL). They played like sheeeit.

My brother and the Paris Hilton sex video tape...

I gotta go with paris hilton as well.

Waking up every day to wonder if they're going to raise the terror alert level...

- The thing that really comes to mind is the whole lawsuit-happy RIAA fiasco. It would have been happier year for me as a consumer, if I did not feel the kind of anger at the industry I feel now. After years of being an honest patron, I'm now a boycotter.

Aaaand the whining, bed-wetting hordes of democrats and republicans, both throwing their little dolls and pacifiers at each other in another temper tantrum over Dubya. We need to start electing babysitters and nannys to office before someone gets peed on.

1.) "War on Terrorism"
2.) "Reality" TV
3.) George W. Bush
4.) Sucktastic Matrix Movies
5.) MTV

Lying, worthless politicians with no fresh ideas or leadership abilities.

I had a rash back in March...


that was pretty annoying

I agree with this totally.. they should move this to Gameshow Network or something.

Michael Moore also tops my list of asshat things of 2003.

That service sucks now,
and everything is fee'd to death.

I'm sure this trend will continue into next year.

Fox news and thier overuse of the "WMD" acronym

The near-zero intelligence quotient of national politics, followed by the plummeting integrity of the national press, which seems to be breaking about every rule of responsible journalism that the old j-school profs tried to bang into my head 'lo these many years ago.

Politics crushes everything every year for this award. The panasonic "va va voom" commercial is a close 2nd though.

I hate that va va voom commercial too

In terms of sheer raw annoyance, Paris Hilton tops my list too. J-lo is a close second.

I'm not annoyed with BushChenyBurton, Inc. and its War on Whoever Has Oil. Apalled, horrified, and disgusted, but not annoyed.

(Sorry. That's is why my post count in Tilted Politics is zero.)

Gray Davis vs. Arnold Schwarzaneger

By god, that's everything!

Mission fucking accomplished my ass!!!
oh yeah and Paris hilton. C'mon Honey just do porn already. You britney and christina in lesbo-athon. Just get it over with!!!

i agree...bennifer and paris hilton

Everything having to do with politics at this point..

I heard something about one of those 2 practically every fucking day!

Everything yet nothing at all.

Constantly hearing about the extremely overrated Jennifer Lopez annoyed me the most

Having Ahnold as governor.
And the Bush administration strong arm/underhanded tactics and propaganda.

Too many to start naming...

Okay, maybe Steve Bartman, and I'm not a big Cubs fan.

All the above.

Reality shows, Michael Jackson, Ryan Seacrest

The most irritating thing to me is just peoples' general stuipidity. That doesn't hold for just this year... but all the time in general. Though I will say people are a lot more rude on Christmas Eve... and that holds true for this Christmas Eve of 03.

I suppose the one thing this year that I absolutely hated and found irritating besides peoples' general stupidity is the media. The media on various stories this year was just crap because they NEVER give people the whole story of situations but want to just "feed the masses"... so that's my beef for 2003.

Tops my list.
That and the large Mutual Fund companies allowing market timing and other ways of ripping off their regular customers. :mad:

Just about everything to do with TV, politics and government as usual sucked ass.

Any type of makeover show, whether it be the body, the house, the car, whatever. Once in a while is okay, entire weekends devoted to it? Nope, don't think so.

I'm tired of "Survivor" type reality shows. It ain't survivor if no one dies, damn it!

TV "news" (and I quote that very lightly) that has more style/entertainment value than substance.

Deaths of soldiers, chidren and civilians for nothing more than the belief that "Your God" is better than "My God"

Anything to do with celebrities (except for their deaths and I don't mean that in a dickwad way either. It's a tragedy when anyone dies. To see folks I grew up with on TV, on radio or at the movies die is a major bummer)

J lo and Ben, Mad Cow, Jessica lynch story, paris hilton, recall election, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, the bachelor's wedding thing, and numerous other things that make me want to stab someone with my butter knife.

You have no idea how many times I had to watch that show...especially if that show is my gf's fav...

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fuckin' war sucks ass.

That show isn't much worse then "a wedding story." That was my girlies favorite show, it made me want to repeatedly bang my forehead into the table.

the president
the vikings
my job