# I'm getting mad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362 "2020-08-05T19:18:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/21 "2020-08-06T22:30:51Z")
Be careful with CNN. They went from “all Trump all the time” to “all COVID all the time”. As **Fretful\_Porpentine** astutely points out, most TV news is designed to keep you steadily keyed so you will stay tuned-in and be exposed to the network’s advertisers. I agree - stick to your local news - that is all you really need to know about anyway. I watch 30 min of local news every day or two and the occasional 30 min national newscast, and that’s it. Less is more, when it comes to news. Maybe it should have said “Turn off the TV news”. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/22 "2020-08-07T13:24:16Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Be careful with CNN. They went from “all Trump all the time” to “all COVID all the time”. As **Fretful\_Porpentine** astutely points out, most TV news is designed to keep you steadily keyed so you will stay tuned-in and be exposed to the network’s advertisers. I don’t watch network news. I’m mostly get my news through progressive YouTubers. While I don’t often really listen to their analysis, I still like the ‘curated’ clips of outrageous shit people in government, media, & people of power, do and say the night before. I also like The Hill, and get news from their through Facebook. So avoiding going online at all is more important than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/23 "2020-08-08T00:32:22Z")
@Beckdawrek I don’t think sharks have ears. 👂 ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/24 "2020-08-08T00:36:25Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > don’t think sharks have ears. 👂 Depending on your definition, sharks do have ears. **Sharks have** only an inner **ear** , which consists of three chambers and an **ear** stone called an otolith. A **shark’s** inner **ear** detects sound, acceleration, and gravity. **Sharks** use sound to locate food. Sound is often the first sense a **shark** relies on to detect prey. [image] [SeaWorld.org](http://SeaWorld.org) › animals › all-about ### [Sharks & Rays - Senses | SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment](https://seaworld.org/animals/all-about/sharks-and-rays/senses/) ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/25 "2020-08-08T00:43:00Z")
Thanks for the correction. Tyson bit off an external ear, so I think the sharks are safe. Good thing I’m not a shark. If I had to listen for me food, I’d starve. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/26 "2020-08-08T00:45:00Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Thanks for the correction Not a correction, at all. Just displaying my awe and respect for what I know is your boundless curiosity. 🖖🏻 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/27 "2020-08-08T00:45:27Z")
Hey, I learnt about them inner ear thingys. On NG. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/28 "2020-08-08T01:32:48Z")
I’m at the far end of my measly 3 acres of woods, as far as I can get from civilization on my own property. I just shot up a bunch of cans with my pellet guns. That helped. Now I’m listening to music, drinking a lot of beer and sitting by the fire. Maskholes is good but I prefer “plague rats”. You are not alone, we are many. Hope that’s enough. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/29 "2020-08-08T02:19:24Z")
P.S. By measly 3 acres I meant that I wish I had a bazillion acres in which to escape people. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/30 "2020-08-08T12:34:47Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > @Beckdawrek > > I don’t think sharks have ears 👂 > > ~VOW Being born with poor eyesight is a death sentence for a shark, since they cannot wear glasses due to the no external ear thing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsTheEnd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisistheend/32/4713_2.png) [@ThisIsTheEnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsTheEnd)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/31 "2020-08-08T12:56:06Z")
If you want to watch tv, watch Forensic Files non-stop. It’ll make everything else going on seem tame by comparison. Plus you can take notes of what the perps did wrong so you won’t make the same mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/32 "2020-08-08T16:55:07Z")
The shark talk is making me remember the cutest shark-related thing I ever saw on television. It was an aquarium with divers feeding a chubby shark. You could see the shark had a weight problem. It had a double chin. Anyway, the narrator said, “This shark prefers squid, but the driver is trying to feed the shark mackerel, which has fewer calories…” So the shark took the mackerel into its mouth from the diver’s hand, swam with it a little ways, then opened its lower jaw and let the mackerel drop from sight. I swear, a spoiled shark spitting out mackerel is just the cutest thing you can imagine a shark doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah… animal in captivity…bored and unhealthy…blah…blah… Still damn cute. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/33 "2020-08-11T01:32:29Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I’d never hurt anyone purposely unless provoked. Any advice? Anyone else in the same boat? Same boat. I even turn the old cognitive behavioral therapy on it, try and gauge if the level of rage I’m feeling at any number of things is appropriate. By any objective standard I’m not angry enough. So I got nothin. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/34 "2020-08-12T17:34:17Z")
@ThisIsTheEnd I like you. I like the way you think. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/35 "2020-08-12T17:38:46Z")
Smoke a bowl and lighten the fuck up already. All you can do is make the best choices you can for yourself and your family. Other people will do stupid shit. It’s what they do. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/36 "2020-08-12T21:16:06Z")
Um… I’m actually a little lit right now, still a little anxious about the future, though. Are you suggesting we do nothing? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/37 "2020-08-12T22:55:25Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Are you suggesting we do nothing? I’m suggesting there is nothing we really can do. As Ambassador Kosh, a great American, observed “The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.” ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/38 "2020-08-12T23:38:28Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Smoke a bowl why do potheads always act like this is the solution to everything? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/39 "2020-08-13T02:56:28Z")
I’m a pothead… I think he’s saying that there’s no ‘solution’, so may as well take a few rips. I wouldn’t say there’s nothing that can be done. But yeah. I should try to worry most over what I have control of. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362/40 "2020-08-13T14:21:43Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > > [@Oakminster](#): > > > > Smoke a bowl > > why do potheads always act like this is the solution to everything Because even if it’s not the solution, it makes looking for a solution more fun, or accepting that maybe there isn’t a solution more tolerable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-mad/917362.md?page=3)