Things we should do away with

[YankeeFan]

People can be very rude with their phones. You'll be in a bar or restaurant and half the place is texting instead of talking to the people they're with.

Before cell phones, you had to be on time. Now it's all "where are you", "are you almost here".

But, while I never thought I needed a smart phone, I'd now be lost without one. Having email, the internet, gps, etc. with me at all times is such a difference.

 

[BTExpress]

I don't own one because it isn't worth the extra $30/month right now to me.

Is it really that cheap? I pay $25/month for cell phone. Online search for "cost of ownership for smartphone" showed prices ranging from $110-$160 per month (including cost of phone). Cannot imagine paying that much every month when I already have internet access at home, at work and a cheap e-reader with wi-fi.

IMO, that's 401(k) money people say they cannot afford . . . that they really can (but choose not to).

 

[micropolitan guy]

The two-minute warning and extra-point in football.

God Bless America at baseball games.

Having to touch-up on icing. Make it like college.

In-bounding the ball at half-court in the NBA.



Eliminate the post office? Not everyone lives in an urban area.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

The automobile/driving list:

-- Roundabouts (but not "Roundabout" by Yes)

-- Chrysler PT cruisers

-- Driving while texting

- Driving while texting
- Driving and wanting to do such brash things as turn left across heavy traffic while on a mobile device.
- People in SUVs and other larger vehicles who drive poorly and/or with a bully mentality.

 

[Ace]

And pennies.

+1 cent

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Car insurance.

Biggest scam going.

 

[Dick Whitman]

There should be a national Leave Your Cell Phone At Home Day.

Wonder how many people could do it.

Wonder if it would be almost irresponsible in this day and age.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The possession arrow in college basketball.
Radio stations playing the same ten songs every hour.
Oprah

 

[Buck]

Crying about the need for a college football playoff.
Crying about paying college athletes.
The play-in games for the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Talk about expanding the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Instant replay calls for the NFL and college football.
Crying about suddent-death OT in the NFL.
Talk about expanding the MLB playoffs.
All pre-game performances at NFL games Super Bowl or otherwise.
Half the teams that qualify for the NBA playoffs.
Saturday Night Live.
All vampire stuff except 'True Blood.'

 

[Stitch]

Sports.

 

[heyabbott]

pennies

 

[MileHigh]

-- Interviewing coaches between quarters or during a stoppage in play. Add in halftime interviews as coaches/players go off the field/court.
--The f'ing wave
-- TV viewers calling in rules infractions during golf tournaments

 

[dixiehack]

Made-up prices on medical procedures. Had a surgery last month, and the sticker price from the hospital was over over $133k. Insurance paid just over $8,000, left me with a $100 copay, and the rest went poof. What was the point? If I didn't have insurance and they tried to collect in full, they would have just had it written down in bankruptcy.

 

[Cosmo]

--The f'ing wave

Went to the Mariners-Indians game the other night in Cleveland. The jackholes in front of me do the wave just as Justin Smoak rips a two-run homer. Couldn't see it. Assholes.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Made-up prices on medical procedures. Had a surgery last month, and the sticker price from the hospital was over over $133k. Insurance paid just over $8,000, left me with a $100 copay, and the rest went poof. What was the point? If I didn't have insurance and they tried to collect in full, they would have just had it written down in bankruptcy.

Unfortunately, the costs are not made up. It's the result of the distorted supply-and-demand created by our current health insurance system.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

Credit ratings.

 

[BTExpress]

Had a surgery last month, and the sticker price from the hospital was over over $133k.

:o

How's that new heart working, anyway?

 

[Boom_70]

List now appears to be a mute point. All will be taken care of on May 21.

 

[The Big Ragu]

List now appears to be a mute point. All will be taken care of on May 21.

Can we just do away with May 21 and save humanity?

 

[ColdCat]

NHL teams in cities that have never seen ice

people who believe everything someone emails them

this idea some grammar nazis have that a sentence cannot end in a preposition (they can't . . . .in Latin and thus can't in any Romance language. English is not a Romance language, it is a Germanic language)