Things that annoy you...

Sure! "But ya doesn't have to call me Johnson." Remember that.

Oh yes. Talk about a one-trick schtick! That guy got rich & famous (for a while anyway) chanting the same set of words over and over.

(Back then people thought it was hilarious for some reason. I may have found it amusing the first couple times, but after that I was like... "not Johnson again.")

I looked the guy up - his name was Bill Saluga. He died in 2023 at age 86.

Who was he? I never heard this saying before.

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Saluga's shtick as the character "Johnson" would be, when someone would refer to him as "Mr. Johnson" or by the common generic nickname "Johnson," to exaggeratedly feign offense and list off all permutations of the name Raymond J. Johnson Jr. and nicknames thereof that do not mention the word "Johnson:"

"NOOO!!! You don't have to call me Johnson! My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior; now you can call me Ray J, or you can call me RJ, or you can call me RJJ, or you can call me RJJ Jr. . . but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"

Saluga would then smugly turn away and begin puffing on his cigar.[2][3] Saluga's routine received more widespread attention in the late 1970s after being used in a series of commercials for Miller Lite beer, and subsequently, in the early 1980s for Anheuser-Busch Natural Light beer. Saluga appeared alongside comedian/pitchman Norm Crosby echoing (in a roundabout way) Norm's advice to unknowing customers on how to more easily order the lengthily-named beer: "Well, y'doesn't hasta call it Anheuser Busch Natural Light Beer, and y'doesn't hasta call it 'Busch Natural.' Just say 'Natural!'" Saluga then later launches into the "You can call me Ray" routine after Crosby warns not to ask Johnson his name.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Saluga

Hasnt happened in a very long time but... going over to a family members house and they are watching "Cops" the tv show. Why?

They don't have YouTube where you can watch bodycam videos.

Never understood sitting around watching ppl getting arrested. But theres jerry springer, judge shows, intervention, all that, that i dont understand as well. I just stay away from my family mostly.

When people refer to a senior citizen (such as myself) as "young man" or "young lady." I don't get angry about it as the person imagines they are paying the senior a compliment. It is not. It's dumb and it sounds dumb. Now if some says I don't look my age, that's fine. Just don't call me "young man."

Right now, Sam's Club pharmacy.

This morning they faxed over an authorization request to refill medication for a pet that hasn't been seen here in years. I marked the box to deny the authorization, wrote the reason for the denial, and faxed it back. A few minutes later, they faxed a second request for the same thing. I again marked the denial box, wrote the reason, wrote the word "NO" across it in Sharpie, and faxed it back again. Maybe an hour later, we received a third fax for the same prescription. This time I called the pharmacy and spoke directly with the pharmacy technician to again deny the prescription.

Guess what we received this afternoon? Yep, a fourth request for the very same prescription. I called again and spoke with a different pharmacy tech. I'm about to lose my shit if we get a fifth request.

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Why do some drivers drive before dawn with no lights on their vehicle? It’s so bizarre & dangerous.

So the microchip company that we've been using for years suddenly shut down recently and now their database is just gone. This is a HUGE problem for anyone whose pets got these chips because now the database is gone too and until/unless the pet owners register their pets' chips elsewhere, the pets might as well not be chipped at all because there's no way to trace the chip back to the owner.

So now I'm having to go through and try to contact all of our clients that have purchased these chips and let them know about the situation. What a nightmare.

I read about the microchip company shutting down. It's a shame that they didn't sell their database to another company so that the chips would still work.

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Fortunately, people can register their SaveThisLife chips with other databases. But of course that means letting them know what has happened and where to go. We've been advising our clients to register with the American Animal Hospital Association's database at https://www.freepetchipregistry.com/

Well, I say "we" but really it's just me. Our staff is tiny so it's fallen on me alone to try to go through and email/mail people notices one by one, on top of everything else I have to do.

Well they already got their money from selling the chip. Actually providing a service is work and expense. That’s sadly the reason they folded and couldn’t find a buyer for the company and its info.

School zones: Slowing from 45 mph to 20 for 2 blocks is just a waste of time.


Ice cream trucks: Do they have to use the same song?


Smart watches: Do we really need to see 18 message alerts before we see the time?


Gas stations: Why does the price change everytime the wind blows?

Here’s a man asking the important questions.

Wearing a smart watch...do people really need to be tracked that much? Alexa, how do I feel today?

I know these are annoying, but some of them have good reasons...

The first is obvious: safety. This is a good, effective and necessary law.
The reason most ice cream trucks play the same song is one of marketing: just like with any product jingle, they're conditioning the kids to recognize that it's time to pester their parents.
Don't own a smart watch - but yeah, sounds stupid and annoying.
Gas prices fluctuate based on the ever-changing market... it's complicated.

Same. This really annoys me, too. Sometimes a VPN helps.

Reminds me of a horror movie where the mother bought dog medicine in bulk to give to her teenage daughter to limit movement in her legs and make her believe she was disabled. That dog was never seen at the pharmacy, either.

Ah, remembered it now: it’s called Run with Sarah Paulson.