When you need to rant...

They say if you have a DVD where the movie automatically starts without you pressing play, to return your DVD, for it is haunted.

I guess that means every dvd ever watched on a Mac. Hmm. That's a lot of Ringu.

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You mean Fast Play, right Snowth?

What is this Fast Play thing? Is it something new? I don't quite understand it. I saw it pop up on The Muppets dvd and was very confused about what it meant

Fast play is when they immediately play the movie, and after the movie plays, it goes right to bonus features.

I have a bunch of Disney DVDs and I was confused at first but I think Fast Play is what miss kermie is saying. You have the option to Fast Play (just have the trailers and movie begin automatically) or skip right to the menu.

EDIT: Man! I've been ziffeled!

Not so much a rant, but an observation.
On Jeopardy, a contestant can win tens of thousands of dollars, and might just crack a smile or indulge in a little golf clap. Meanwhile, over on The Price Is Right, a contestant might be screaming their head off, high-fiving everybody, and running victory laps for winning an oven mitt.
I'd like to take one of those contestants, put them on Jeopardy, and see how Alex Trebek would handle it when they win. It's the end of May, it's Sweeps Week, so now's a good time to do it. Could do wonders for ratings.

I think it somehow depends on the "sophistication" of the game show as to how excitable the contestants get.

Yeah, but the shows are apples and oranges, especially the kind of contestants they get. The contestants on Jeopardy are usually calm, college educated trivia buffs who specifically get on Jeopardy for the show's sophistication. Not so much just then money, but to prove that they know a lot on various subjects. The only thing loud about the show is the theme song. It's not so much that they aren't excited, but they have a much greater deal of composure.

Price is Right, while the contestants aren't exactly idiots by comparison, are usually just normal people, sometimes younger, sometimes much older. And unlike Jeopardy, there's much more of a game in this game show. It's not exactly Double Dare, but it's a little more physical than Jeopardy. Not to mention the fact they call contestants down, where as in Jeopardy, the contestants are already at their podiums.

There are also ushers to help pump up the contestants in TPiR.

There is that game where you have to putt the ball in the hole, so that requires some physical skill, lol. But sometimes you do need a bit of mental ability on The Price Is Right, especially trying to guess the price of the cars. I think they fix the prices sometimes to make the games harder or easier depending upon how much stuff they've given away.

I think it's amazing people can be so desparate to save the hair on top of their head,
and get rid of it everywhere else. Vanity perhaps?

Gah! When I was a kid, hairy chests were supposed to be impressive, so we couldn't wait to sprout hair on our chests... my chest was the last place I sprouted hair (well after I hit puberty), but by then, it was completely hairless bodies that was impressive.

I can't imagine the how painful it must be to have your back or chest waxed

Well, people are just gonna have to put up with the fact that I've got the body of Bob Hoskins circa Roger Rabbit.

Yeah, I know, nice mental picture...

This might have been posted elsewhere, but I think it bears repeating.
In 1976, I was 8 and going into 3rd grade. I still enjoyed watching Sesame Street (and why not?) but got razzed by my classmates for still watching that "kiddie show".

Ironically, that's when the Muppet Show made its debut. You were cool watching Kermit on CBS, but if you watched him on PBS, you needed to grow up.

So if you follow that mentality, what do you do when they show the episode where Bert and Ernie were the guest stars? Switch the channel when they're on? Watch Little House on the Prairie instead? Go play air hockey? Such dilemnas my generation faced. PHEW!

ADHD, as well as ADD, are not weird, they are just something that you are born with and sometimes grow out of. No matter what you hear, you cannot just spontaneously get it as an adult. That means that you have had it all of your life.

LMAO!

Well, just try to channel his acting chops...
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I dunno if I can do THAT, but it's something to consider, lol.

I think what miss kermie was more saying was that she doesn't know a lot about ADHD and ADD, and called it weird as more of a "I don't know much about it but I know it's out there" or saying it is something more unique. Like, if I said "I don't want one of those weird brands of cars," I'm not necessarily saying that those brands are weird and horrible, I'm just saying that they're kinda unique and lesser known brands.