"Stop interrupting my shows with weather reports!"

[Celista]

but what about informing counties to your east after your clear? Thats one of my biggest gripes. People were bitching about tornado warnings and wind damage taking up their tv shows after their own county was clear.

People are irrational and selfish. Like for example, the other day I was reading an article about electric cars being too quiet when driving under 35mph. I can't find the specific article I was looking at, but here's an article on the subject: https://transportevolved.com/2015/02...-law-u-s-2018/ apparently these cars are SO quiet that pedestrians can't hear them, and pedestrian accidents for these cars are high. So US regulatory agencies are requiring new electric cars to have a built-in noise maker for under 35 mph so pedestrians can hear a car coming, and move out of the way when need be.

Reading the comments section? Grumbling from electric car owners, and one guy saying he was going to hack into the car's system and disable it. No concern for other people around him whatsoever, not even an iota of concern for pedestrians (and drivers) who would benefit from such a requirement.

So, yeah. People are ridiculous and selfish, even when something is being offered to them that is in their best interest. Not all of them all of the time, but still.

[Cerus]

Never had a weather interruption but I never watch local channels or live TV for that matter.

What annoys me more is sports broadcasts going over time cutting into my shows when there's entire sports channels dedicated to them. But what's more annoying is when the game that just finished (on time for a change) is followed by an after game commentary show for an hour to talk about the game that just fucking aired.

Put that shit online or on a sports channel and stop making non sports fan watch shows in progress or miss them entirely.

[Crissi]

People are irrational and selfish. Like for example, the other day I was reading an article about electric cars being too quiet when driving under 35mph. I can't find the specific article I was looking at, but here's an article on the subject: https://transportevolved.com/2015/02...-law-u-s-2018/ apparently these cars are SO quiet that pedestrians can't hear them, and pedestrian accidents for these cars are high. So US regulatory agencies are requiring new electric cars to have a built-in noise maker for under 35 mph so pedestrians can hear a car coming, and move out of the way when need be.

Reading the comments section? Grumbling from electric car owners, and one guy saying he was going to hack into the car's system and disable it. No concern for other people around him whatsoever, not even an iota of concern for pedestrians (and drivers) who would benefit from such a requirement.

So, yeah. People are ridiculous and selfish, even when something is being offered to them that is in their best interest. Not all of them all of the time, but still.

Well, at least my comment on WFAA's page got more likes than the pro- interview comments, including a like from WFAA itself. some hope restored.

just...GAH. Probably just super sensitive since my area was under the tornado warning with sirens going off so had to go to the bathroom. Everyone else gets to sit on their comfy couches not worrying if you're going to get hit or not *mutters*

Im of the opinion that some selfishness is ok, but not if it is in regard to life saving measures, which a pre-empt of a tv show for severe weather absolutely is.

[apepi]

What else would interrupt the Greg Hardy bitching?

[Celista]

Well, at least my comment on WFAA's page got more likes than the pro- interview comments, including a like from WFAA itself. some hope restored.

just...GAH. Probably just super sensitive since my area was under the tornado warning with sirens going off so had to go to the bathroom. Everyone else gets to sit on their comfy couches not worrying if you're going to get hit or not *mutters*

Im of the opinion that some selfishness is ok, but not if it is in regard to life saving measures, which a pre-empt of a tv show for severe weather absolutely is.

Yeah, that's basically my opinion on stuff. Be as selfish, self-centered, whatever as you want, but don't negatively hurt other people or put yourself in harm's way. Unfortunately people are a poor gauge of what is or is not in their best interest (like with the weather reporting).

Also, in the article I linked, you'll see that most of the comments are positive...generally speaking I think the reasonable people outweigh the unreasonable ones.

[Crissi]

Yeah, that's basically my opinion on stuff. Be as selfish, self-centered, whatever as you want, but don't negatively hurt other people or put yourself in harm's way. Unfortunately people are a poor gauge of what is or is not in their best interest (like with the weather reporting).

realized this ended up being more of a rant thread, but I feel better now lol. DO want to understand the atittude of the "I hate interruptions" crowd though.

[Celista]

realized this ended up being more of a rant thread, but I feel better now lol. DO want to understand the atittude of the "I hate interruptions" crowd though.

Yeah rant threads can be therapeutic lol.

[Ealyssa]

Sorry for having a tornado!

Don't push your tornado agenda on us !!!

People should be free to believe in what weather they want !!! If I don't want a tornado to touch me it's my choice !!!

[Graeham]

You'd think people would value their lives more than something interrupting their favourite TV show...

[Torgent]

There is no real reason that I can see that a show needs to be interrupted like they do. Tickers on the bottom, pop ups that cover the bottom corner give the same info w/o dickin over people unaffected.

Those aren't noticeable enough in case of real emergencies. Just because it doesn't affect everyone in your broadcast area, doesn't mean it isn't important enough to interrupt a tv show. If there's a tornado hurdling toward one house on a hill, that house has their tv on, but they are in the kitchen. Instead of the current system of beeps to get your attention then words, you want just a scrolling bar or a small message in the bottom. So the people in their kitchen don't see it, and they die.

A bit extreme, but that's why it is important. Your television is not more important than someone else's life.

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People are irrational and selfish. Like for example, the other day I was reading an article about electric cars being too quiet when driving under 35mph. I can't find the specific article I was looking at, but here's an article on the subject: https://transportevolved.com/2015/02...-law-u-s-2018/ apparently these cars are SO quiet that pedestrians can't hear them, and pedestrian accidents for these cars are high. So US regulatory agencies are requiring new electric cars to have a built-in noise maker for under 35 mph so pedestrians can hear a car coming, and move out of the way when need be.

Reading the comments section? Grumbling from electric car owners, and one guy saying he was going to hack into the car's system and disable it. No concern for other people around him whatsoever, not even an iota of concern for pedestrians (and drivers) who would benefit from such a requirement.

So, yeah. People are ridiculous and selfish, even when something is being offered to them that is in their best interest. Not all of them all of the time, but still.

That to me is a very different situation. A car being quiet shouldn't be causing accidents. You shouldn't have to hear something that you should be looking for before you enter the street. One of the draws to them are that they are quiet. A quiet car is not more dangerous, if both the driver and the pedestrian are paying attention, nothing will happen. I don't own an electric car, but I don't agree with artificial noise makers because people are too stupid to look before they cross the street.

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Never had a weather interruption but I never watch local channels or live TV for that matter.

What annoys me more is sports broadcasts going over time cutting into my shows when there's entire sports channels dedicated to them. But what's more annoying is when the game that just finished (on time for a change) is followed by an after game commentary show for an hour to talk about the game that just fucking aired.

Put that shit online or on a sports channel and stop making non sports fan watch shows in progress or miss them entirely.

You don't understand how television works lol. Sports are a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry, there are deals with many different channels because no one network can house all of it. So ESPN has some, TBS has some, TNT, CBS, etc. When the game goes over it's time, the commentary show is shortened or eliminated. If the game went way over and is interrupting your program, the commentary will be handled on a different network if capable, if not it will be omitted. They don't usually continue to hold up normal schedules after the game is over in that case. Sounds like somebody just doesn't like sports and is a little grumpy :P

[Celista]

That to me is a very different situation. A car being quiet shouldn't be causing accidents. You shouldn't have to hear something that you should be looking for before you enter the street. One of the draws to them are that they are quiet. A quiet car is not more dangerous, if both the driver and the pedestrian are paying attention, nothing will happen. I don't own an electric car, but I don't agree with artificial noise makers because people are too stupid to look before they cross the street.

I trust the studies that have been done on the subject. I mentioned it because it is, like the weather reports, something that is supposed to be in the individual's best interest (less accidents) as well as the people around him/her, but there has been a backlash.

In Portland, we have a lot of electric cars and it is actually quite shocking how quiet they are, they will be right behind you and you can't hear them if they're going below a certain speed. I absolutely believe they are probably more likely to cause accidents, even if only because the pedestrian can't react if they can't hear the driver and the driver isn't paying attention (oftentimes, one of the causes of accidents in the first place).

And it's not just from pedestrians jaywalking, it can be from things like parking lots and people crossing at intersections and having the right of way, but drivers not noticing that stop sign, especially in neighborhoods. It's wholly possible for an accident to happen between a car and a pedestrian and neither of them are doing anything intentionally illegal.

[cuafpr]

two things:

1) I have discovered that with a DVR if you hit pause the report / warning does its thing then you can resume without it playing over your show, FF through commercials back to live.
2) I wish they had an acknowledge button on the remote that would mute the report, it would need like 3 are you sure prompts but still i'd 2 have one.

[breadisfunny]

Who watches their shows on t.v. anymore??? Get out of the stone ages people.

because every single episode and season of every single show currently running is on netflix and hulu....oh wait i forgot the networks like to just put the current 5-15 episodes to force people to still watch tv to catch the latest shows or hope a rerun of one of the earlier ones ever comes on.

[Celista]

Light drizzle is more breaking news to me than anything involving Bruce Jenner.

As long as there are people like you out there, there is hope for this world. /salute..although if he is coming out as trans, then yeah I'd consider that pretty brave considering all of the media attention that family gets.

[Cerus]

Those aren't noticeable enough in case of real emergencies. Just because it doesn't affect everyone in your broadcast area, doesn't mean it isn't important enough to interrupt a tv show. If there's a tornado hurdling toward one house on a hill, that house has their tv on, but they are in the kitchen. Instead of the current system of beeps to get your attention then words, you want just a scrolling bar or a small message in the bottom. So the people in their kitchen don't see it, and they die.

A bit extreme, but that's why it is important. Your television is not more important than someone else's life.

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That to me is a very different situation. A car being quiet shouldn't be causing accidents. You shouldn't have to hear something that you should be looking for before you enter the street. One of the draws to them are that they are quiet. A quiet car is not more dangerous, if both the driver and the pedestrian are paying attention, nothing will happen. I don't own an electric car, but I don't agree with artificial noise makers because people are too stupid to look before they cross the street.

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You don't understand how television works lol. Sports are a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry, there are deals with many different channels because no one network can house all of it. So ESPN has some, TBS has some, TNT, CBS, etc. When the game goes over it's time, the commentary show is shortened or eliminated. If the game went way over and is interrupting your program, the commentary will be handled on a different network if capable, if not it will be omitted. They don't usually continue to hold up normal schedules after the game is over in that case. Sounds like somebody just doesn't like sports and is a little grumpy :P

I have never seen a commentary moved whether the game went over or not. I know it's all about money but sports shouldn't have a higher or lower priority over any other show. I've seen games run over an hour or more and still have the full commentary show.

There's plenty of premium sports channel packages available to sports fans who want to pay for them. Let em fork over the cash for those and let me have my shows.

[Celista]

But Kim Kardashian tho, THAT is real news.

NOOOOOOOOOO I edited my post because I don't want to sound like I don't care about transgender issues, even though I dislike the Kardashians. An acquaintance of mine is trans and I know the shit she puts up with on a regular basis. Her life is not easy because of her gender orientation.

[Celista]

Caring about Bruce Jenner being transgender doesn't help anyone besides some cable networks ratings. So i don't feel as if i am showing a lack of support for the transgender community for having the attitude of "Fuck Bruce Jenner" because he doesn't represent the trans community. Our attention would be much better focused elsewhere, like for instance, drizzle. :P

Haha. Fair enough.

[Issalice]

Weather warnings are no joke. They used to sound the sirens every time there was a severe thunderstorm warning here. They have since changed that thankfully. But seriously people are moaning about safety concerns? Maybe it would be better for everyone if they just got swept away lol

[Torgent]

I trust the studies that have been done on the subject. I mentioned it because it is, like the weather reports, something that is supposed to be in the individual's best interest (less accidents) as well as the people around him/her, but there has been a backlash.

In Portland, we have a lot of electric cars and it is actually quite shocking how quiet they are, they will be right behind you and you can't hear them if they're going below a certain speed. I absolutely believe they are probably more likely to cause accidents, even if only because the pedestrian can't react if they can't hear the driver and the driver isn't paying attention (oftentimes, one of the causes of accidents in the first place).

And it's not just from pedestrians jaywalking, it can be from things like parking lots and people crossing at intersections and having the right of way, but drivers not noticing that stop sign, especially in neighborhoods. It's wholly possible for an accident to happen between a car and a pedestrian and neither of them are doing anything intentionally illegal.

I understand that, but I just don't see it being the car's job to make noise so that the person in the street notices them. We're taught to look both ways before entering a street or aisle in a parking lot. Noise has nothing to do with looking. I blame the pedestrians for not being aware of their surroundings. Now, if we're saying that people in electric cars are sneaking up on people and assassinating them, sure. Put some bells on the wheels and we'll hear them murderous vehicles coming. If it's about being in streets or driving through parking lots....the places where cars have priority....no. People should be looking for the cars just as much as cars watch for people.

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I have never seen a commentary moved whether the game went over or not. I know it's all about money but sports shouldn't have a higher or lower priority over any other show. I've seen games run over an hour or more and still have the full commentary show.

There's plenty of premium sports channel packages available to sports fans who want to pay for them. Let em fork over the cash for those and let me have my shows.

Well actually sports should have higher priority over any other show, because they make the company more money than any other show. Especially if it's going into overtime. In my experiences (avid sport watcher), when the game goes into overtime and cuts into other programs, the commentary is moved to another network or eliminated. Just because the game went into overtime or was long, doesn't mean it's interfering with normal schedules, and thus the commentary would remain.

[Celista]

I understand that, but I just don't see it being the car's job to make noise so that the person in the street notices them. We're taught to look both ways before entering a street or aisle in a parking lot. Noise has nothing to do with looking. I blame the pedestrians for not being aware of their surroundings. Now, if we're saying that people in electric cars are sneaking up on people and assassinating them, sure. Put some bells on the wheels and we'll hear them murderous vehicles coming. If it's about being in streets or driving through parking lots....the places where cars have priority....no. People should be looking for the cars just as much as cars watch for people.

I mention parking lots because I've had exactly that happen, an electric car behind me as I was heading to my car, I turn around and BAM there it was. Zero noise. I always look around and pay attention in parking lots, crossing streets etc. If that driver wasn't paying attention for a second then it's quite possible something could have happened. You can't really blame a pedestrian for not hearing a silent car behind them.

I have to note that the quiet nature of an electric car is when the car is going at speeds under 35mph, they sound like your typical car at higher speeds.