I realize a lot of this board is devoted to that very idea. But I had some general nits which don't seem to fit the other categories. There are just some things which seem absurd and inconsistent, and I felt like listing them together.

I can't watch TV if the TV set is turned off. However, I can tape a TV show if the TV set is turned off. How is that possible?

If I wrote a novel where the computer programmers routinely put bugs in the software and design badly designed hardware and nobody does anything about it, and it's not part of a conspiracy, it would seem like bad plotting.

Nitpickers don't deal in reality, I know--but that has to do with the movie/TV show itself. My next nit has to do with behind-the-scenes:

The producers of Star Trek: Generations didn't want to do a sequel because they didn't want to have to spend a few minutes explaining the plot of the original episode. As if the fans wouldn't already be familiar with the episode! As if nobody would be familiar with the episode from the publicity for the movie! As if "Wrath of Khan" didn't do perfectly well as a sequel!
They also didn't want to do a time travel episode like they'd done before. So why didn't they just have Kirk & Co. be really old? McCoy was still alive, the others could still be alive.
It was supposed to be a gathering of both casts, but they didn't care enough to write a script everybody in both shows would be glad to accept.
And that two minutes between Kirk and Picard was very unsatisfying.

Argh! Okay, I'm feeling better now, thank you.

Other non-Trek, non-TV nits are hoped for, thanks.

I can't watch TV if the TV set is turned off. However, I can tape a TV show if the TV set is turned off. How is that possible?

Simple. The TV is just a display device, it doesn't stop the signal from coming. Your VCR, upstream from the TV, still recieves the signal whether or not you watch.

If I wrote a novel where the computer programmers routinely put bugs in the software and design badly designed hardware and nobody does anything about it, and it's not part of a conspiracy, it would seem like bad plotting.

Bad plotting maybe, but it seems more like Real Life. :-)

They also didn't want to do a time travel episode like they'd done before. So why didn't they just have Kirk & Co. be really old? McCoy was still alive, the others could still be alive.

In my opinion, it was stretching it to have McCoy be alive, even though it made for a wonderful sendoff in TNG's pilot episode. Having the whole gang still alive would be ridiculous.

Mr. DeForrest Kelly was a true gentleman, that's for sure!

Demi Moore & Ashton got married.

Didn't Ashton know that >I< saw Demi first?

No but appently he does know that older women make beautiful lovers.

Don't you just love it when you call a place & ask a question & then they transfer you two or three or more times until you are connected with the right department you need? I've learned after doing this too many times to now state my question "very" briefly & not go into longer details until I'm finally on the line with the right person.Also,a friend of mine once told me that according to a friend of hers who works the phones at a company that when they put you on hold for long periods of time,they are hoping that the person calling will become impatient & hang up.It reduces their call load.

Why not just hire more people? Yes, there's budget concerns, but I'd think it'd be worth it if it meant increased customer satisfaction.

I can't watch TV if the TV set is turned off. However, I can tape a TV show if the TV set is turned off. How is that possible?

IIRC, the TV must be on and on that station to record with the digital cable nowadays.

And what's with people letting their kids stay up so darned late nowadays? I think it's crazy when a 6 year old kid is up and about at 10 pm.

I get annoyed shopping at my local supermarket by two types of people.The first are the one's who come out of an aisle wheeling their carts so quickly that they bump into you.The others are the one's who have their cart parked on one side of an aisle with their hand on the handle,while they look at the shelf on the opposite side,thus blocking anyone from walking past them.It's a supermarket folks,there's a good chance that there will be other people in there just like you.Courtesy please!

I have to admit to being guilty (repeatedly) of your first complaint, Mike. I usually apologize when I do it, for what it's worth. Generally when I do that, I'm in a hurry. But mostly it's a matter of me just not thinking.

That's cool Benn,if someone apologizes I appreciate that.But so many don't & a few even look annoyed that I've in some way caused them a problem.That steams me.

How about people who began with saying "this may be none of my business" & then proceed to discuss a topic that is indeed none of their business? And they well knew that to begin with but figure that by prefacing the whole thing with that statement it somehow absolves them of any responsibility.

Isn't it interesting that the folks who love to offer unsolicited advice all of the time are also the ones who hate,hate,hate,it whenever you do the same to them? But I find that generally,with most people that the vice they exhibit is the very same one they are least tolerant of in anyone else.As an example there was a fellow I once worked with who teased people too much. But if you so much as teased him only slightly he became angry very fast.I knew someone in my family that always used tones with his voice.So you can imagine his reaction whenever you gave him a tone.He became furious.There's an old saying that goes if you wish to know a person's faults,see what they crticize in others. Ain't that the truth.

In Disneyland , near the Haunted Mansion,I was hit by a lady's baby carriage, with baby inside..Then again and again. I stopped, she stopped.Then I walked again and she hits my feet with that carriage..Then she stops and says What are you looking at? Then she annoyed me when she hits my feet one more time with that carriage.Did I do something to bother her at all? I was trying to have fun...

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I was laughed at when my grandma died, of old age.(88), in jr, high..The kid is now a quadruplegic from a motorbike accident.He can only move his eyes, his brother told me in 1989.
He should show compassion, or at least say sorry.
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I avoid people like that (teasing me especially)
like the plague.

At my first party, in 1972, I touched some girl.She openned the door for me.She went to her boyfriend who saw that, he yelled at me, (color) and you touched my girlfriend.I didnt know who was with who anyways.(I will never know how my first set of flowers I bought for the host was..), I was looking for the host who I never saw.. I said to him tell --- I came, and gave him the flowers to give to her. .When I came home 6 hours early, my parents also grounded me for 6 months, for fighting.My dad was supposed to give a ride home at midnight or so.I didn't get How was the flowers for ---- or how was the party?

Mike , in San Fransicso , in the 80s I got an empty cart, and some old lady says that's mine.She got the manager out and I said it was empty.I got tossed, don't ever come back here.
and I went to Lucky's.A cart is a cart is a cart.. I hate it when bums use their carts for thier garbage.
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a girl I went to school with worked at a ----and she got r- --- by her boss. She got instantly fired for complaining. She went to work at their rival 's company.Eventually they merged. Guess who became her store manager?
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JohnA- Hands off She's Mine (you know who).

say, JohnA, can you give us a link for your Marina-JohnA ictures?

pictures.

There's only one picture.

The link is somewhere at "Lines You'll Never Hear on Star Trek"

Hey I found your picture, JohnA...which one is you?

(ah ,ah).

But >I< touched Marina, and you didn't. :P

(Who's laughing now?)

I'm not exactly sure where to put this but it just seemed too strange not to put somewhere.

One of the regulars at the bar where I work is a middle aged guy who lived in South Florida in the 1980s, during the "cocaine cowboy" days when Miami and Ft Lauderdale were ground-zero for drug smuggling, drug use, spring break, parties, 1980s excess and all around debauchery (think 'Scarface.') He's always got some interesting stories stories about his youth when he bartended in clubs, hooked up with lots of party-girls, abused drugs & generally partied like a rock star. He talks about how great the 1980s were (normal for anyone to say about the era that they spent their formative years in) but actually told me that the 80s were the last era where sex and drugs were safe, because these days days they just aren't anymore.

Someone talking about the 1960s I could ALMOST believe it but the 80s? This is the era that gave us the AIDS epidemic, the crack cocaine epidemic and the moral panics about satanism & stranger danger.

Seems like every era had it's 'thrill seekers' who partied, drank and abused drugs. Most survived with some crazy stories to tell, and often deny to their own kids later in life, and others were not so lucky. I wonder what Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & John Belushi would say about about how much safer drug use was for you back in the 'good ole days.' They probably wouldn't say much of anything as they all died of drug overdoses.

The sex one I'm not even going to touch the sex one as "sex was so much safer back in my day" saying came OUT OF THE 1980s referring to the AIDS epidemic.

To me he sounded as dumb as a 19 year old pill-popper who I work with who I got into an argument with over the safety of her abusing prescription pills. She was trying to tell me that because they're prescription pills (which were not prescribed to her) and which she's taking in greater amounts and using methods that you are not supposed to use; they are safer than street drugs like cocaine, meth or ecstasy. Lets ask Heath Ledger about how safe those drugs are to abuse.

For myself I'm 28 and I did 'experiment' and even abuse some drugs back in my college days. I also engaged in unprotected sex with the kind of girls who I shouldn't have. With both things I came through them OK but plenty of other people didn't. I hope to never become that guy tries to rationalize 'youthful indiscretions' with that lame argument that it was safer back than. What's people's problem with saying "I did it because I was being wreckless, young & stupid. I'm still here and none the worse for wear because I was lucky."

3 words for you about your "friend"

Ignorance is Bliss

Can't seem to find the Driving Rants anymore so i guess I will put it here until a mod can relocate it-

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In Central Ca, I got on he number 9 bus ready to go to Borders,, 10 mile from where I live, then the 55 bus driver pointed his fingers at me (after I sit), and talked to the other bus driver,thru his open window,and got tossed by the #9 driver (my driver). So i found the #16 bus and took me straight to borders!
First, I never saw this guy before and what did I do to him?, Second it was to San Jose ca, 45 miles from where I was suppose to go ,so what's the deal?
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No I'm no making this up.

Rodney and ScottN, you can think what you will.

local news got the mad Chimpanzee killing somebody's kid....

this morning's news.

or is it somebody?

Isn't nitpicking real life basically what stand up comics do?

"What's up with that?"

"Who ARE these people?!"

What’s some ‘wives tales’ your parents would tell you? 1 of mine was if you swallow your bubble gum it’ll take 7 years to digest! LOL

Ever notice how modern dating and
Relationships are so extremely difficult and complicated in real life , the rules keep changing for both sexes