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THE STUPID FILE. RANTS 1.

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THE STUPID FILEfile

1. Texas hospital gets a man from Liberia who is sick. Liberia has Ebola. They send him home. He comes back. He’s dead now. Reports indicate he lied about his contact with Ebola (He might have carried a sick woman.) He lied becauase he thought he wouldn’t get into the U.S. otherwise. But after getting in, his best chance was to tell the truth and get help.But no end of stupidity here. The hospital had him, saw him ill but sent him home. Why? Because he lied or because they didn’t check further?
2. The Secret Service and Homeland Security (and oh, White House general security)
Man jumps the fence, eludes dozens of guards, enters the White House, goes into several rooms, maybe used the bathroom, for all we know.
Only non-stupid thing: they didn’t kill him. He’s a decorated war vet with PTSD.
3. A little annoyed at  the Hyundai ad running with the Guardian Angel alerting a car driver to break so he doesn’t crash into a truck ahead of him. The guy has a new car, two small daughters in the back seat. He’s looking out the window, not really paying attention to driving and he is stopped just in time. He turns around, sees the girls’ GA.
Angel says, “I’m not late, am I?”
Driver says something like “Little bit.”
No.
Whole point of the GA is to help when you are in danger. There’s no rule about the GA having to be there 10 min early.
If you are going to use a device such as Deus Ex Machina in an ad campaign (or otherwise), use it correctly, not in a stupid way.
4. Is anyone else tired of the Dodge Ram truck ads: Deep, deep-voiced guy says “Guts, Glory”  etc. For a  truck. Right. And the ad runs ALLL the time.
5. Are we not getting reaaaaly tired of the Home Hardware ads and the sappy music?
6. And the Trivago travel guy. He’s getting a lot of flack because he needs a shave and a belt, his pants are baggy, his shirt doesn’t fit and his hair is messy.  So many people have yelled at Trivago that they are going to do a whole new ad campaign to source the guy up.  Getting attention, though, which is the main point of advertising.
7. Note on the new TV season. How to Get Away with Murder.
Yikes. This is produced by the woman who does Scandal which is basically “allo, Police!?” on TV. (That’s  a Quebec scandal sheet–or it used to be! Great name, right?)
There are so many  bad things about this show that it  would take  two hours to point them out. Just one:
Woman is a lawyer and  teaches law at university. She asks her class what is the most important thing in a muder trial. Everybody offers an opinion and she bats them all down and gives her answer.
OK.
She teaches this course every semester. Nobody has heard this question?
Nobody knows anybody who took her class before and can get the answer and  make a good impression?
She HIRES the people who make a good impressions.
They ALL want to make good impressions.
They are law students so presumably would have the brains to do this.  (Let’s not go there. Conventional wisdom.)
This in the first five minutes. Lost me after that.
Is the audience THAT stupid?
As stupid as the students?
As stupid as the writers?
As stupid as the writers THINK the audience is?
Nope.
8. The CTV National  News sting. Just before the anchor speaks there is this volcanic, triumphalist music sting. I have to mute it. I get that it’s an identifier and all, but change the thing occasionally or tone down the drama!
Anything stupid bugging you?
Drop me a line and I’ll add it to the next Stupid File Rant!
frankdaley@rogers.com
Frank

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Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Idiots in Pakistan. The stupid file at The Daley Post

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Idiots in Pakistan.

The stupid file at The Daley Post.

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

(Peter Finch as Howard Beale, as a TV commentator in Network.)

I’m as mad as hell too, but not always mad, sometimes just thunderstruck, appalled, amused, irritated, or stunned, depending on the level of stupidity and nature of venality that goes on endlessly around us.
It’s low level outrage, I guess, and I think you feel it too.
Today begins a periodic series of posts on some of those things and my reaction to them.

               IDIOTS IN PAKISTAN

First up, are the idiots in Pakistan who have charged a nine-month old baby with murder for ostensibly throwing rocks at gas company officials.
The child’s father says the charge is “vindictive.”
Maybe, but really, it is totally stupid.

The child was seven months old at the time of the “alleged attack” and can still not hold up his baby bottle.
He could not sign in at the cop shop, of course, so the fools took his fingerprints.
The details, but should you wish to know them, are in this story from Tristan Hopper of The National Post.

PAKISTAN-CHILDREN-JUSTICE-POLICE

 

 NETWORK

If you are too young to remember Network, here’s an explanatory note from Wikipedia.
Network is a 1976 American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight.
The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky).
In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has “set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment”.[2] In 2006, Chayefsky’s script was voted one of the top-ten screenplays by the Writers Guild of America, East. In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier.
Wikipedia.

And here’s a clip from the movie.
If you see anything you think should be here, I’d love to hear about it.
And if you get outraged or mad about this kind of stuff, you can comment below!
I love tom hear from you!

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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