Writer's Fallout Shelter

I'm not quite sure what you mean by the first question. What is "tossing your reader out of the story?"

In response to the question about that demon from the blackest chasams, the firey prince of hate and destruction, the being whom children call "the dark one" and adults speak of not at all, whose empire spans the foulest pits, slag heaps and cesspools, who is reffered to the common man as said; I simply use it when it's appropriate. If someone "said" something, then that's what I will write. If they laughed, shouted, spat, hissed, cried, yelled, sighed, wispered, sung, or yodled then that's what I will write. (Although, on second thought, to put both yell and shout is somewhat redundant.) Most often I will tack on an adverb, but I find nothing wrong with "said" unto itself, as long as it's used appropriately. One of those things that really irritates me is when people go to great lengths to avoid "said," which usually produces all manner of wacky conversations, and typically degrades the work.

Of course, once the Official Writers Society reads this, they will probably kick me out. Said is, after all, very unfashonable. Oh well.