The Shadow

[muppetman]

the shadow has just started over on the sci-fi channel

[twrchtrwyth]

the shadow has just started over on the sci-fi channel

Damn you people and your satelite stations! ::

[Rhoderic]

I don't want to be a whine, but: This is why I wish people would use the "Location" field to actually state their location! The Sci-Fi Channel in what country? I'm presuming US, but I don't really know what other parts of the world the channel is available in. I know there's some international version of the channel available here in Sweden and presumably most of the rest of Europe too.

[muppetman]

I don't want to be a whine, but: This is why I wish people would use the "Location" field to actually state their location! The Sci-Fi Channel in what country? I'm presuming US, but I don't really know what other parts of the world the channel is available in. I know there's some international version of the channel available here in Sweden and presumably most of the rest of Europe too.

dude just check your tv listings, if its not on then its not on.. :roll:

[KeyanSark]

dude just check your tv listings, if its not on then its not on.. :roll:

The Sci-Fi channel programming is not the same everywhere... In fact, I'd also be glad that these topics would be accompanied with data on the broadcast origin.

[muppetman]

ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time

[Rufus]

ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time

Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.

[fastolfrus]

Or even which planet your channel is broadcasting on.

[Rhoderic]

ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time

I don't think you did, because that wasn't the point

I'm certainly not asking you to keep it to yourself. I'm merely pointing out, and not so much to you specifically as to internet users generally, that there's a lot of information that can sound unintentionally cryptic when the reader doesn't know what country is being talked about.

Also, the fact that half the people on any forum use the "Location" field to post some joke, as opposed to actually stating their location, is a pet peeve of mine. Mainly because every joke has been done a million times already. The range of jocular uses for the "Location" field has been exhausted to the point where it's starting to feel like a joke itself. This goes for pretty much every forum I've ever seen, not just LAF.

[Plynkes]

Well I ain't changing my 'location' field.  

But I do, on the other hand, always state what country and TV channel I'm talking about when posting a "Such-and-such is on TV tonight" kind of topic.


I like the funny little things people write instead of their actual location. They amuse me. I am a little childish in that perhaps, but that's not always a bad thing.

[Rhoderic]

It just feels a bit forced to me, that's all. Sometimes I get the impression that people actually spend time staring at the empty "Location" field and trying to think of something funny to write, when they could simply jot down their actual location and get on with things.

Remember how, a few years ago (perhaps not on this forum, but on the internet in general), everyone Photoshopped their own elaborate, oversized images to put in their forum signatures, typically involving corny imagery and turgid quotes? Then everyone stopped doing it because they realized how over-the-top it got? I think of this as a similar thing.

But now it's starting to sound like I'm having a big, serious problem with this, which I'm not. This is just a pet peeve, and isn't the thing about pet peeves, after all, that they're small and ultimately insignificant?

[Plynkes]

Yes, personally with me it is siggys.

I find even text signatures a little annoying (if there is a lot of text, rather than just a website link). Picture ones more so, and animated ones are totally beyond the pale. It's just the thing of having to read the same lines of text over and over in a discussion, or look at the same stupid flashing image twenty times.


That's not to say I haven't dabbled in them myself a little in other places. But I never claimed not to be a hypocrite.   And I'm not going to start any wars over it, so let's not fall out. It's only the animated ones I really hate, I like looking down my nose and sneering at the other ones.

[muppetman]

ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time

Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.

When i made the thead it was ment to be a promt, to promt you to walk over to your tv remote and CHECK if the program is on. I know we all dont get the same tv shows, so it dont matter if i said the uk or usa of frick'in china! you have still got to CHECK your tv to see if the bloody film is on or not....
        thank you
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you ::

[archangel1]

ok,ok.. i get the point... i'll just keep it to myself next time

Err no ... just state, which sci-fi channel you mean.

When i made the thead it was ment to be a promt, to promt you to walk over to your tv remote and CHECK if the program is on. I know we all dont get the same tv shows, so it dont matter if i said the uk or usa of frick'in china! you have still got to CHECK your tv to see if the bloody film is on or not....
        thank you
ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you ::

Not funny! There is no call to be rude when someone is simply asking for clarification of a situation.

[revford]

Yes, personally with me it is siggys.

I use a cunning ad blocking thingamy to block all sig images.

It's not ads I worry about, its flashing or animated things.

ps if you dont know how to work your tv remote, pass it to your mum and she will do it for you ::

Aw, that's going to take ages, she lives in Devon.  (a fair few miles away)