To the DUer's not living in Pacific time, could you please not

[SeattleGirl]

post results of things like who won a particular grammy (or a movie award, like in the Oscars) in your subject line?

I know it isn't the end of the world or anything if you do, but it kind of spoils the surprise for those of us who hadn't seen a particular show yet.

Thank you.

:hi:

[durrrty libby]

1. Sorry, but telling people not to, will not stop it

If you really....really don't want to know,
you have to stay off the boards until the event is over.

This board moves fast and people don't see your post.

Truth and reality...why do people hate it so?

[BlooInBloo]

2. Agreed - asking DUers to be thoughtful and proactively polite is a lost cause....

.... The ones out of PST, at any rate.

[BoneDaddy]

72. Jesus Christ

What else do you find "offensive". How bout the Pacific Coasters show some smarts and initiative and if they do not want to know, avoid DU for a few hours.

[SeattleGirl]

3. I was asking for a little courtesy.

Implying I hate truth and reality was unnecessary.

[Left Is Write]

4. And there was nothing wrong with your doing so.

Living in mountain time, I often have things spoiled for me too.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Thanks, LIW

:pals:

[havocmom]

5. Amazing, isn't it? The much reviled MSM recognizes TIME ZONES

but a number of alleged progressives on DU are just plain rude about the fact that the rest of the world doesn't operate on their schedule.

Want to have friends in Australia give a few US east coasters a wake up call. ;) Time zones are not that hard for most to fathom. Some need wake up calls.

[SeattleGirl]

8. There's an idea.

Let some of those folks get things spoiled for them, and see how they like it.

Geez, all I did was make a simple request, but apparently, that's not cool with some people.

[havocmom]

38. Same response to similar requests in other thread or more

Think EST spoilers should have happy hour moved to after 5PM Hawaii time ;)

[SeattleGirl]

39. ......

:rofl:

[symbolman]

41. I'm in Hawaii

that would be fine with me :)

I'm completely out of sync with most of the US, but I don't mind, unless they spot a shark.

I TIVO'D it anyway.

[EFerrari]

14. What if I outright accuse you of hating America?

lol

I'm not watching the Grammies. It sounds like Mr. Gore was a hit?

And there is no time like PST. :)

[SeattleGirl]

16. I don't hate America, just truth and reality, apparently.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

23. Okay!

Shame on you.
:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

25. My bad!

:spank:

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. I don't blame you

and I apologize. I was posting and spoiling for you guys but it wasn't on purpose and I was just so excited.

:spank:

[SeattleGirl]

22. I know. I made the same mistake in the past.

Thanks. :hi:

[durrrty libby]

40. No it is necessary. The truth is people won't stop and that is the reality

[donco6]

60. Well, I guess expecting courtesy out of some is . . . .

out of the question.

Case in point . . . you!

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Whoa, wait a minute

Are you actually suggesting west coasters should suffer the inconvenience of staying off the board as a penalty for where they live when a simple ***SPOILERS*** in a subject line would let everyone be happy?

[SeattleGirl]

10. Apparently, that poster thinks so.

Guess I'll have to pack up and move to the east coast, eh? :)

[AlCzervik]

12. the same poster feels the need to comment on anyone even suggesting

not wrecking it for the rest of us.

[Bluebear]

43. Good heavens, how insufferably rude. nt

[AlCzervik]

6. it is a reasonable request and ignore those who wonder about "the hate"

[SeattleGirl]

11. Thanks.

:)

[Nicole]

13. Kick for you

I made that mistake in the lounge.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

15. I did it once too, here in GD, on Keith Olbermann's Worst Person

in the World. I learned very quickly not to post certain things in the subject line. :blush:

[Nicole]

17. Once is enough

for me too! I will not make that mistake again. :blush:

[dysfunctional press]

18. human nature being what it is-

the best/only way for you to ultimately avoid being non-surprised, is to refrain from reading du until those award shows being broadcast live except on the west coast & which you're interested in watching are over where you are.

if you really want to be sure, that is.

personally, i don't watch/pay attention to any of them, except the oscars- and when i'm watching, i'm not posting, and afterward i maybe watch the news and go to bed- so it's not me doing any of the spoilings.

[SeattleGirl]

24. I know that posting spoilers in subject lines will happen sometimes.

Tonight, though, I saw so many threads about who won what. I just wanted people to think about it first (thought I realize that the excitement that certain grammy wins tonight generated probably just spurred folks to post about it asap.)

[Catherine Vincent]

20. There's nothing wrong with it as long as the put "Grammy SPOILERS" in the heading.

That way the folks on the west coast will not click if they don't want to find out. But I know what you mean.

[TahitiNut]

26. Not according to one left-coaster - who even objected to posts INSIDE a spoiler thread.

Strange, to say the least. :shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

29. Now, I certainly wouldn't go along with that!

People who see something earlier than we do here on the west coast should absolutely post about it if they want. By putting "spoiler" in the subject line, then I and others here can click on the post or not, as we choose.

I don't quite get that one (not even wanting the spoiler IN the thread) is beyond me.

[TahitiNut]

32. As a former left-coaster (heart's still in SF), I posted one of the threads ...

... without knowing that the Grammy's weren't being broadcast live. Living on the left coast for twenty years, I was used to sporting events, award ceremonies, and news events being broadcast live and other stuff time-shifted. (Admittedly, I've rarely watched the Grammies.) So, I just didn't even think about it.

For my failure to realize that, I apologized ... and do apologize. As for the left-coaster who had to play spoiler-Nazi even inside a spoiler thread, I've formed the clear impression that person just likes to make insulting remarks - snarky shit.

Peace! :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

35. I watch lots of sports, so I know what you mean.

And yeah, I think some folks just live for the snark.

Peace to you, too! :hi:

[donco6]

61. That's just goofy.

I couldn't care less if you all share amongst yourselves. Why would anyone? That's bizarre.

[SeattleGirl]

27. Exactly. That's all I was requesting, not that people not post at all

about the Grammys. I hope that my OP didn't sound like I was asking for complete "silence" about it. :)

[Catherine Vincent]

30. No, you were not. I knew what you meant.

I wish I had been online the second with someone posted about Gore being on there, I just missed it. I saw a little of it but I don't care for those type shows like I used to. But I would have enjoyed seeing Gore up there. I hope someone captured it for youtube.

[SeattleGirl]

33. Good.

Too bad you missed Gore. I don't think he's been on yet out west. I hope someone does put it up on youtube.

[treestar]

21. Oh the problems of living in the west!

Is this the worst problem you have! I congratulate you then!

[SeattleGirl]

28. Of course it's not the "worst" problem.

Again, all I did was make a simple request. It's not the end of the world; I just wanted to find out who won which grammy when I saw it, not when those on the east coast saw it.

[Bluebear]

44. Why do you hate truth and reality so much?

:sarcasm:

[SeattleGirl]

46. !!!!!!

:spank: :evilgrin:

You crack me up!

[Bluebear]

47. Honest to pete

The same one was coming into a thread the other day saying it's not hard to quit smoking, she has 20 years as a medical expert, it's all in your head etc. I just about cracked up when I saw her answer to you :)

[SeattleGirl]

48. Yeah. Apparently I don't meet "the standards", whatever-the-hell

the standards are! They change by the hour, apparently! :rofl:

[Bjornsdotter]

31. Sounds reasonable

...to me.

Cheers

[SeattleGirl]

34. Thanks, Bjornsdotter!

:toast:

[Leilani]

36. Hey, Seattle Girl

What about me?

I live in Hawaii & always hear the results of everything before I can watch it!

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

37. Of course!

Pardon me for not mentioning your time zone. I thought about it when I was considering posting this thread, and then forgot to do so. I apologize.

:hi:

[Leilani]

52. No apology necessary!

Sometimes it's very weird out here!

Alaska & Hawaii are like the crazy relatives in the attic. Everyone just ignores us.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

56. I confess to forgetting that Alaska and Hawaii are behind me in

time. :blush:

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

45. Oh, dear Lelani -- we're on our way to Maui in March! Internet use? I know what you mean!

Three hours delayed to PT, then another two hours (or is it three? I forget) for Hawaiian Time. (We're in Portland, Oregon.)

Watching TV in Hawaii is pretty interesting -- you can catch the morning news from the East Coast before you go to bed if that happens to be around midnight.

That must be freakin' weird to have to contend with all the time. I have no idea what Hawaiian business people, who have to work with the East Coast schedules, do. They must be night owls!

Are you on Oahu? We're vacation club owners at the Hilton Hawaiian Village at Waikiki. We haven't been back to Maui since the 1980s, and we expect we'll see big changes.

Mahalo for your post.

Radio Lady

[Leilani]

57. Hi Radio Lady!

I live on Oahu, but love Maui.

Maui has changed quite a bit; it keeps growing & growing. More traffic, more roads, much more expensive, but I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time.

We don't change our clocks out here, so right now we're 5 hours behind East Coast. However when you change your clocks we'll be 6 hours behind.

[Radio_Lady]

42. I run into this all the time. We're living three hours behind the East Coast.

and with instant web access, we have to make sure we don't hear about events BEFORE they are scheduled to take place in our time zone.

When in doubt, I don't log in until it's "safe" to do so. Some events that are scheduled simultaneously -- we used to call it "simulcast", with no delay, are fine. The Academy Awards, for example, start around 5:30 PM PT, and 8:30 PM ET. Many championship sports games, like the Super Bowl are also no problem.

This was an easier situation to avoid before the Internet. I'm from the dinosaur age. In the early 1960s, my job with the New York "Tonight Show" unit was to get the nightly tape edited and "bicycled" (not really on a bicycle!) to the airport to fly it to Los Angeles, so the West Coast TV stations could show it the next night. So, the show we recorded at NBC on Monday at 6:30 PM was usually shown on Tuesday at 11:30 PM. (I have no idea what the rest of the country did! My production assistant duties were limited to typing TelePrompTer copy and sitting on the stool in front of the cameras as a "color girl" while cameramen adjusted their equipment.

Isn't that special?

Have a great week!

[SeattleGirl]

49. Even though the Grammy's aren't "all that" in terms of what's going

on in the world at large, I still get pissed off. This stems primarily from my experience in the Carter-Reagan election in 1980. First time I voted in a presidential election; heck, first time I voted, and the freakin' MSM folks announced that Carter had conceded to Reagan just as I was pulling into my driveway at 5:00 PST!

As I said before, it's not the end of the world, to read who won what at the Grammy's or the Oscars, or whatever. My point was that there may be some folks around here would appreciate finding out the winners in our own time zone, not when someone in the oh-so-privileged east coast crowd decides it's time.

I just get tired of the east coast "get over it" crap. My feeling is, I have as much a right to be pleased or excited or whatever, as everyone else in terms of time zone. As for me making a kind request to hold off in terms of the time differential, all I can say is, I hope y'all have an instance some day where you find out something before you can see it, and then tell me how unreasonable I'm being.

I would bet a month's salary that lots of the earlier time zone folks wouldn't be so very happy in that case.

[donheld]

50. I hear ya Seattle girl

Lot of rude people on DU

[SeattleGirl]

54. Methinks sometimes, that being that way is a hobby for some.

:hi:

[BoneDaddy]

51. You have to be kidding me

Just suspend your DU time till the next day.

[SeattleGirl]

53. Oh, heck, I forgot that we west coasters have to concede all to

the east coast. :sarcasm:

I dont see why you had to respond this way to what was a simple, and easy to do request. Do you just like being snarky? :shrug:

[donco6]

58. In answer to your question, yes.

He does like being snarky.

[SeattleGirl]

66. Thought so.

:hi:

[BoneDaddy]

71. I guess asking the entire east coast

NOT to talk about the Grammy's when all you have to do is not go to DU is a reasonable request under the circumstances.

Sorry, my snarkiness comes out when someone asks so much from others when all it takes is a small effort on their part.

[donco6]

55. There are people in other time zones????

Wow. Who knew?

:sarcasm:

[SeattleGirl]

62. See? Ya learn something every day here on DU!

:rofl:

:hi:

[Madspirit]

59. I agree

I agree with your sentiment. Unfortunately, around here, it will probably just bring you grief. I run some fan groups for certain television shows...(Buffy, Angel, Firefly and many current ones in the genres SciFi, Fantasy, Horror)...and getting people to NOT spoil people and to leave spoiler space is one of our biggest problems.

People really don't mind hurting other people and they don't mind hurting other people's feelings. It's weird.

I will never spoil you. I promise.
Lee

[SeattleGirl]

64. Yeah, I know the more people who are involved in a group or web site

the more chance there is of spoilers. I just don't get why my simple request was met with nastiness by a few folks. Probably it's as you say: some people don't mind hurting others. Their behavioral dials must be set on permanent snark.

:hi:

[Madspirit]

68. It is odd.

On my group you aren't allowed to post spoilers until the episode has aired on the West Coast.

Just btw, my girlfriend is a Seattle Girl too. I'm the Texas Girl in the family. We live in Austin and have been together for 15 years and I still haven't visited Seattle. I hope to this summer.
Lee

[SeattleGirl]

69. I think you would like it here.

Hope you can make it out this summer.

[Nutmegger]

63. Can we tell you now?

Huh? Can we? I'm dying to tell somebody!

;)

[SeattleGirl]

65. ......

:P

:rofl:

[Tatiana]

67. I don't think I've made that mistake before, but you've made an excellent point.

I will certainly try to be more cognizant of our west coast family in the future.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

70. As I said above, I made that mistake once, and won't do it again.

Lots of people immediately posted that they had not seen a particular show yet (it reruns later in the evening), and so I changed my subject line right away.

I felt bad. :blush:

:hi: