You know what really grinds my gears?

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Tangentially related: you couldn't pay me enough to do Wayne Brady's job on "Let's Make A Deal." Whenever I pass through the breakroom at work and that show is on I can just feel the cringe coming off the screen. Plus, I just hate the small talk involved with meeting new people and pretending to be excited about whatever the hell they are doing. So much of that show is just him meeting and interacting with people. Same with Drew Carey on TPIR. I'm pretty sure they tape a month/week's worth of shows in a single day, so that has to be socially draining.

Reminds me a bit of that internal memo that was leaked from Steve Harvey's show, which basically said he didn't want the people who work on the show to be coming up to him nonstop trying to tell him their life story and just dominate his time every day. From the outside that might seem unnecessarily antisocial, but you can imagine what must have happened to get to that point.

The Price is Right I can handle, it's a comfort show for me. Use to watch it home from school sick, my grandma loved it, catch it sometimes when working from home. Let's Make a Deal is too hokey for me.

[Majingir]

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I can't watch price is right as much anymore simply because prices have become so crazy that I'm horrible at that game now.

Used to be fun when you could guess 99 cents for something on one of the games, but now that same thing is probably $3.

And going back to the stupid game show contestants, Price is Right with people who clearly don't pay attention in contestants row. Someone might bid $2000, someone else $1500, someone else $1200. The last person randomly says $1150 or something. Are you paying attention? If you're bidding lower than the lowest bid, just bid $1 so any price from $1--1199 wins. Or they might bid $1495. Again, someone bid $1500, someone $1200. If you think it's between those two, bid $1201. You're just wasting your bid.

I like at least on Hollywood Squares that Nate seems to call out the contestants/politely tell them they messed up when he's like "I would've gone with ___ for the block".

[SmashMan]

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I put Drew Carey and Steve Harvey together as comedians who probably like having new contestants every show to interact with and play off of. Family Feud obviously has a lot more for Steve to play with, but Drew seems happy enough letting the games be the star of the show.

Agreed on feeling bad for Wayne Brady. How's he supposed to pretend to be interested in a guy dressed as broccoli or whatever the **** they do on that show? I mean, come on.

[dubcity]

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Agreed on feeling bad for Wayne Brady. How's he supposed to pretend to be interested in a guy dressed as broccoli or whatever the **** they do on that show? I mean, come on.

At this point is has to be just a blur to him. A blur of vegetables and women dressed up as little orphan Annie.

But there was that clip that went viral of a girl embarrassing this guy on national TV by saying they were "just friends" after he made it seem like they were together.

[Master Live 013]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Whatsapp not having a "return to last message read" thingy. Like if I enter a chat were I have 50 new messages and get reading up to message 20th, then go read another char or something then when I go back to the other chat it begins at the end instead of picking up were I left. I just can't.

[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I can't watch price is right as much anymore simply because prices have become so crazy that I'm horrible at that game now.

Used to be fun when you could guess 99 cents for something on one of the games, but now that same thing is probably $3.

Same. My sick days during the 80s convinced me I was going to be a financial wizard.

And going back to the stupid game show contestants, Price is Right with people who clearly don't pay attention in contestants row. Someone might bid $2000, someone else $1500, someone else $1200. The last person randomly says $1150 or something. Are you paying attention? If you're bidding lower than the lowest bid, just bid $1 so any price from $1--1199 wins. Or they might bid $1495. Again, someone bid $1500, someone $1200. If you think it's between those two, bid $1201. You're just wasting your bid.

That hasn't changed since the Barker days. "Utter dolt" seems to be one of the tropes the they look for when interviewing people in the line to "come on down" (the other types being "over-the-top jumper" "person wearing custom TPIR shirt", "hot chick", "dude in full military dress" and various combos of each). I always imagined that the few smart contestants played dumb during their initial interviews to fool the producers.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Same. My sick days during the 80s convinced me I was going to be a financial wizard.







That hasn't changed since the Barker days. "Utter dolt" seems to be one of the tropes the they look for when interviewing people in the line to "come on down" (the other types being "over-the-top jumper" "person wearing custom TPIR shirt", "hot chick", "dude in full military dress" and various combos of each). I always imagined that the few smart contestants played dumb during their initial interviews to fool the producers.

Same goes for reality shows too. I've seen contestants pretend to fill a certain archetype they often cast for, but once the season starts they're nothing like that.

If you want to be on price is right, or at least have a good shot, arrive in a group who has matching clothes. If you have a beer league team you're part of, you and some friends show up with your jerseys. If you have some custom shirt, all of you get the same one or ones that go together and someone will get picked.

These shows definitely cast stupid people for that reason too. Family feud probably does the same. It won't be as fun if people are getting answer after answer on the board (although, in the Steve Harvey era we do see lots of stupid answers actually wind up on the board that apparently a few people in the survey said). They probably cast stupid people on purpose for Steve to use them as a straight man.

Question could be something like "fill in the blank, corn ___" and the person is like "corn...er". They clearly don't get what the question asks for, and it just leaves Steve to give them the "Ok...that's not up there" look.

[Master Live 013]

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People who failed kindergarten and won't push their chairs back in after using them. See this all the time at the gym (I don't care if it is the gym, I still do it).

At first I thought it was a couple of jerks and then I realized that it is actually the norm and I seem to be in the minority? Like, it literally takes no more than 2 seconds to do it, why you gotta be like that.

[SmashMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

People who failed kindergarten and won't push their chairs back in after using them. See this all the time at the gym (I don't care if it is the gym, I still do it).

At first I thought it was a couple of jerks and then I realized that it is actually the norm and I seem to be in the minority? Like, it literally takes no more than 2 seconds to do it, why you gotta be like that.

For me, not pushing chairs in is on the same level as not returning the shopping cart. These are just really basic things people should be doing.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Same. My sick days during the 80s convinced me I was going to be a financial wizard.



That hasn't changed since the Barker days. "Utter dolt" seems to be one of the tropes the they look for when interviewing people in the line to "come on down" (the other types being "over-the-top jumper" "person wearing custom TPIR shirt", "hot chick", "dude in full military dress" and various combos of each). I always imagined that the few smart contestants played dumb during their initial interviews to fool the producers.

I watch every day and it seems like there's definitely certain criteria they're looking for when it comes to contestants. It's pretty ridiculous.

When I went to two tapings in 2024, it was pretty fascinating. The first show we went to, a lady behind us got called, someone in front of us got called, and someone two rows in front of us got called. The next time we went was for my dad's 75th bday and he had a shirt and didn't get called. If they don't want my dad on the show then it's pretty insane what they are looking for then.

[Majingir]

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For me, not pushing chairs in is on the same level as not returning the shopping cart. These are just really basic things people should be doing.

Shopping cart people are definitely way worse because that one inconveniences people way more than a chair that might be a few feet away from a table.

But people in general who don't put stuff back/clean up after themselves (in public) are horrible.

Not uncommon at all at my work to see people just leave their water bottles or coffee cups on random tables and never finish it or throw it away. Or using anything like a pen or any sort of supplies and just leaving it wherever they want (and then the next time they need something they'll ask where it is and I'm always like "this is why you people should be putting stuff back where you found it so we don't need a year supply of stuff if we're losing it every day).


Forget about all these obvious studies we always see in the news like "people who walk X number of steps a day live x years longer than those who walk under x number of steps". Let's do a study on the correlation between people who leave shopping carts in parking lots vs people who talk on speakerphone (or just loud in general) in public areas/buses vs people who litter vs people who don't signal when they turn/change lanes.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Selling something to someone online and the person is constantly asking question about shipping and freaking out thinking it's a scam when its literally been minutes between messages.

I can't teleport it to your house. I'm not reading your messages every minute of the day. Doesn't mean it's a scam, it means it's some worthless item I'm just quickly/cheaply trying to sell online and not spending lots of time keeping up with it.

Finally got through the deal and shipped it and even gave them all the tracking info.

Now they're freaking out that the tracking number doesn't show up.....they're entering the number on the wrong courier service.

They're definitely someone who is on the receiving end of the "ma'am, this is a Wendy's" meme aren't they?

[SmashMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I watch every day and it seems like there's definitely certain criteria they're looking for when it comes to contestants. It's pretty ridiculous.

When I went to two tapings in 2024, it was pretty fascinating. The first show we went to, a lady behind us got called, someone in front of us got called, and someone two rows in front of us got called. The next time we went was for my dad's 75th bday and he had a shirt and didn't get called. If they don't want my dad on the show then it's pretty insane what they are looking for then.

I only catch one or two episodes a month but it seems like they got away from picking the “wearing birthday shirt”, “military guy”, or “random old lady” characters. It’s an early daytime show with bright lights and bold colors, my guess is you have to be EXCITED the whole time to get picked. Watching old episodes on Pluto and it’s probably always been like that - people are just louder and more over-the-top about it now.

If game shows would just pick boring people I’d go on Wheel of Fortune and dominate though.

Selling something to someone online and the person is constantly asking question about shipping and freaking out thinking it's a scam when its literally been minutes between messages.

I can't teleport it to your house. I'm not reading your messages every minute of the day. Doesn't mean it's a scam, it means it's some worthless item I'm just quickly/cheaply trying to sell online and not spending lots of time keeping up with it.

Maybe they’ve been scammed before. Or maybe they’re just super paranoid. I guess you’ll never know.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Microfiber cloths with ever-so-scratchy tags.

[Master Live 013]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

How ****ing convoluted Facebook makes it to deactivate your account. I log in every few months for this or that and immediately deactivate my account till the next time and you would think I would know my way by now, but oh boy, Zuck sure wants to make it really hard to deactivate your account.