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Topic: CD's List of Annoying Lists

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CD's List of Annoying Lists
« on: June 05, 2019, 01:11:49 PM »
10.  Any top ten list that starts out with whatever is tenth.
9.  Projected preseason AP football ratings.  
8.  Lists of best defensive linemen, or whatever else, for next season yet to be played.
7.  Top 25 QB lists, before the season starts, starting with No. 25.
6.  List of odds to make the playoffs.  (OK, useful if you gamble I suppose.)
5.  Bowl pairing projections, any time before at least Week 11.
4.  List of best coaches in CFB (in reverse order).
3.  Lists of best defensive secondary coaches (in reverse order).
2.  Lists of best kickers (in reverse order).
1.  And finally, ultimately, lists designed to get you to click on a site just to see where your guy/team is on a list.

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2019, 01:16:16 PM »
"See how gorgeous Sophia Loren (or whomever) is today."  You click on it and you get Meg Ryan, Margot Kidder, Joan Lunden, et. al., and eventually give up without having ever seen the one you wanted to see.
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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2019, 01:34:53 PM »
Yeah the clickbait slideshows are the worst.  There are ways to de-slide them though.

It's not a list, but in general I can't stand hearing people talking about betting lines with respect to sports.  I don't care.  I don't gamble on sports, and I don't care about the betting line. Don't talk to me about it, I don't want to hear it.

It's even worse when someone says "Coach XYZ is 13-2 against the spread when playing Top 25 teams.  And Coach XYZ is 8-7 straight up."  So Coach XYZ tends to lose closer than the betting spread, but is still losing almost as often as winning.  Personally, I don't give a rat's ass how my coach does against the spread.  Losing by 1 point is still losing, even if the stupid line was 3 points or something.  I can't stand hearing about the spread.

And I also don't want to hear about someone's gambling results for the weekend. "Wow, I want 4-2 on the weekend and I bet 70 units."  I don't care about your gambling success, I don't care about your units, and I don't care about what you're saying if you're talking about betting lines.

Talking about Fantasy Football fits within this category as well, but is even more stupid.  Nobody GAF about your fantasy football team, or how well you did last weekend, or last month, or last year.  Nobody.  Cares.  Stop.  Talking.  About. It.

Now get off my lawn.

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2019, 03:00:42 PM »
Fantasy Football.  Blech!
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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2019, 03:16:05 PM »
ESPN has a list of "trap games" for each team, yay.


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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2019, 04:53:21 PM »
any list compiled by an anonymous "survey" 
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2019, 07:01:11 AM »
We all understand that Internet sites rely on clicks.  This one does in part (click on Amazon to help).  A way to get clicks is to feature some article about how say Tennessee is going to win the SEC this season.  Tenn has a substantial fan base who will click and Bama fans will click with comedy in mind.

It's the off season, duh, so all this is understood.

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2019, 07:05:45 AM »
Don't forget the list that requires that you scroll through it, milking 25 mouse clicks out of you instead of just one. 
1919, 20, 21, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 42, 44
WWH: 1952, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75
1979, 81, 82, 84, 87, 94, 98
2001, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2019, 07:35:08 AM »
Those are probably most annoying to me.

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2019, 04:22:52 AM »
Thought of another set of lists:

1.  Best uniforms, based on what?
2.  Best Cheerleaders.
3.  Best stadiums - based on what?
4.  Most intimidating stadiums - based on what?
5.  Best BBQ in the country
6.  Best mascots.  How many pay more than a second's attention to some mascot?
7.  Best game day traditions, yeah, this is a current list.  Whatever.

Folks click on these links to see where their team is and then complain about someone's arbitrary ranking of the arbitrary.  How could anyone rank BBQ anyway?  You can say you prefer A over B, if you have been to both.  And then someone else says "I didn't much care for A".  Someone else says C is the best.

Well, fine with me, I don't mind reccos at all, but if we've all been to A B and C then we can all have different opinions without being wrong.

Humans LOVE rankings for some reason.  "We" can't be happy just knowing that A and B and C are all pretty good and D is not really that great.  Don't get me started on wine rankings.  Blech.






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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2019, 12:50:09 PM »
But . . . but . . . they have committees!

A committee makes the rankings official!
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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2019, 12:55:08 PM »
I trust ELA more than a committee, he gives a great breakdown of course.

But yeah, committees.  Anyone who has worked for a while learned to love being on them.

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Re: CD's List of Annoying Lists
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2019, 10:51:41 PM »


1.  Best uniforms, based on what?

3.  Best stadiums - based on what?
4.  Most intimidating stadiums - based on what?



this is the question:  Based on what????
We never get that 
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

 

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