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loving how have you never heard of it outside of gbs?
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I guess I roll with people who are all okay with saying things like "that guy doesn't know what he's talking about" without having to pretend they are TV doctors providing a diagnosis on the patient of the week
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Apr 17, 2017 03:55
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nice tv tropes post op
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Apr 17, 2017 03:57
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I have a hot take on this issue. The reason that "smart" characters are also portrayed as pricks is because the New Stupidity of 21st century America is so infuriating that even marginally smart people are angry all the time.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:47
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The New Stupidity is when you aunt says to you "well that's just your opinion you have yours and i have mine and we're all entitled to what we think" when you've mentioned the existence of the water cycle. Or when your cousin says about her dentist "I had people who went to college, they think they know so much more and lord it over you." Yeah I'm sure he really lorded his knowledge of how to take care of your stupid loving teeth over you dipshit.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:47
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NomChompsky posted:I have a hot take on this issue. The reason that "smart" characters are also portrayed as pricks is because the New Stupidity of 21st century America is so infuriating that even marginally smart people are angry all the time. 
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Apr 17, 2017 04:48
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Most TV writers these days aren't slumming novelists, they are morons who do nothing but write for tv and have no clue what intelligence looks like.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:49
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NomChompsky posted:The New Stupidity is when you aunt says to you "well that's just your opinion you have yours and i have mine and we're all entitled to what we think" when you've mentioned the existence of the water cycle. American's are no dumber now than they ever were.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:51
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The Dennis System posted:American's are no dumber now than they ever were. i am
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Apr 17, 2017 04:52
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Most TV writers these days aren't slumming novelists, they are morons who do nothing but write for tv and have no clue what intelligence looks like. Don't like half of Simpsons and Futurama writers have PhDs in actual things like math?
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Apr 17, 2017 04:52
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The Dennis System posted:American's are no dumber now than they ever were. "When you eat carbohydrates and protein together they rot in your stomach and turn into cancer and fat. I heard it on the radio." - Words said at me by a flesh and blood human.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:53
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Most TV writers these days aren't slumming novelists, they are morons who do nothing but write for tv and have no clue what intelligence looks like. We're still in the golden age of TV. TV now is much better on average than it ever was in the past and is better on average than movies.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:55
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NomChompsky posted:"When you eat carbohydrates and protein together they rot in your stomach and turn into cancer and fat. I heard it on the radio." - Words said at me by a flesh and blood human. not too long ago their ancestors were extolling the health benefits of radium water, let's not romanticise the past by pretending there was ever a more enlightened age when the average person could take care of themselves A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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Apr 17, 2017 04:56
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The Dennis System posted:We're still in the golden age of TV. TV now is much better on average than it ever was in the past and is better on average than movies. Only because movies have gotten worse, for the same reasons Go watch a new broadcast tv program and tell me that with a straight face. Like apb or taken or whatever. They're real bad
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Apr 17, 2017 04:57
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The flatness of the earth is just an opinion, man.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:59
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Only because movies have gotten worse, for the same reasons seriously. tv is loving awful.
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Apr 17, 2017 04:59
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Only because movies have gotten worse, for the same reasons I agree that most TV is trash, but there's still a lot of good stuff out there. Stuff like Better Call Saul, Baskets, Sunny, Rick and Morty.
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Apr 17, 2017 05:02
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a couple weeks back I sat through part of a multi-channel marathon of bigfoot hunting; Animal Planet was running back-to-back episodes of Finding Bigfoot where they had an entire hick town go out in the woods and beat the bushes to drive out Sasquatch, then the next channel up was Killing Bigfoot which was the exact same thing but with guns, and the next channel had something I didn't catch the name of where some professor guy was being interviewed at length about the very real phenomenon of bigfoot. gently caress you if you think TV is bad now
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Apr 17, 2017 05:05
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Only because movies have gotten worse, for the same reasons Broadcast TV had real good stretch of comedy shows from the mid-2000s up until like four years ago. I have no idea what their gameplan is now. Pretty sure their core demographic is the 50-dead crowd. It's like the funny pages in a newspaper. A slow cringey trainwreck with outliers you can count on one hand.
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Apr 17, 2017 05:05
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*says a verifiable fact* "I don't believe that  "
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Apr 17, 2017 05:06
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NomChompsky posted:*says a verifiable fact* Sounds like somebody needs to learn to question* everything he reads! *(Decide whether or not this new information makes you feel good about yourself.)
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Apr 17, 2017 05:17
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:not too long ago their ancestors were extolling the health benefits of radium water, let's not romanticise the past by pretending there was ever a more enlightened age when the average person could take care of themselves at least with radium water even the scientists were like, "wow this radium stuff is crazy! I wonder what it does? oh well I'll just carry chunks of the most radioactive materials I've identified so far around in my pockets, can't hurt."  *pioneers of radioactivity science all die early from cancer* maybe there wasn't a more enlightened age, but there was a time when everyone was more equally stupid
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Apr 17, 2017 05:22
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what if I identify with raskolinikov? is it cool to identify with characters from 19th century russian literature? will that help me secure a mate?
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Apr 17, 2017 06:50
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de_dust posted:what if I identify with raskolinikov? Yeah maybe if you're an edgy megalomaniac 18 year old. If you want tail when you're older, you gotta identify with Razumikhin. Dude just wants to sip stew and lay pipe without making too many waves or killing too many people because reasons.
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Apr 17, 2017 07:15
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:a couple weeks back I sat through part of a multi-channel marathon of bigfoot hunting; Animal Planet was running back-to-back episodes of Finding Bigfoot where they had an entire hick town go out in the woods and beat the bushes to drive out Sasquatch, then the next channel up was Killing Bigfoot which was the exact same thing but with guns, and the next channel had something I didn't catch the name of where some professor guy was being interviewed at length about the very real phenomenon of bigfoot. gently caress you if you think TV is bad now
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Apr 17, 2017 07:18
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FaradayCage posted:Yeah maybe if you're an edgy megalomaniac 18 year old. brb I'm "going to America"
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Apr 17, 2017 07:20
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SpaceClown posted:N/A i am a non-sentient malignant mass of chaos, a blind idiot nebulous entity
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Apr 17, 2017 07:34
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NomChompsky posted:The New Stupidity is when you aunt says to you "well that's just your opinion you have yours and i have mine and we're all entitled to what we think" when you've mentioned the existence of the water cycle.  (i just won the conversation)
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Apr 17, 2017 07:36
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de_dust posted:brb I'm "going to America" My take on the line is that America doesn't have gulags and gag firing squads so America is basically heaven to a Russian. Or it's a reference to the whole "I would have liked have seen Montana" line, I don't know if reference humor was big back then.
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Apr 17, 2017 07:45
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More like Hero With One Face A Thousand Times.
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Apr 17, 2017 09:25
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They should have ended Prison Break after the first season and made a spin-off called "T-Bag's World".
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Apr 17, 2017 22:21
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What is T-bag short for
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Apr 17, 2017 22:24
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:What is T-bag short for Theodore Bagwell.
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Rutibex posted:sheldon is an anti-hero The premise of the big bang theory seems to be that if you recognize your flaws and actually work to improve yourself on some level, your life will improve, and if you continue to act like a gross weirdo your life will be poo poo, so from that point of view I don't think it's a very bad show. From a lot of other points of view though, it is a very bad show.
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