For Those of You Who've Been Wondering When "Scholarly Papers" Would Just Turn Into Girls Gabbing About Watching "The Bachelor:" That Time Is Now

Actually, that time was 2014, but I only heard of it today.

Before getting to that groundbreaking academic work, Harvard "students" have opened a "school of resistance" named Dumbledor's Army, because (as some people on Twitter notice) the only books Millennials are capable of referencing are Harry Potter books. "READ ANOTHER BOOK," goes a popular catchphrase, after catching yet another Millennial activist referencing the Only Books Xhe Has Ever Read.

Well, actually, I think they've just seen the movies, but whatever.

Students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government think this is a pretty neat idea.

Anyhow, the school’s not really a school, but rather a free four-week online course that bills itself as a means for participants to "sharpen the tools we need to fight back at the federal, state and local levels" with an overall goal of keeping "the embers of resistance alive through concrete learning, community engagement and forward-looking action."

I'm old enough to remember when Resisting a president and calling him illegitimate was a near crime, akin to treason.

Below, the real story: You can now submit papers about how you and a couple of girlfriends watched The Bachelor and videotaped your reactions to it, which is a "data-generating" exercise, and then engaged in the "hyper-reflexive experience" of watching yourselves commenting on a TV show and then commenting upon your previous comments.

This research paper (ahem) identifies itself as a "dissertation" -- which, if I understand this right, means that this is the work of original research that conferred a doctoral degree upon a person previously just in a Ph.D. Program.

Since she now identifies as Ph.D, I guess that means that according to the academic world, watching reality tv and blogging about it with your galpals is now doctoral-level work.

Can't wait for the people at Television Without Pity or the various YouTube TV show recappers to learn they're now all doctors.

In order to wade through this babble, here are some definitions of the stupid non-words shxee's using:

to "decenter" means to push some target out of the center. You look at the audience watching the tv show instead of the tv show the audience is watching. The show is "decentered" in favor of centering her and her galpals' bitching and snarking about it. (In other words: It's just watching reality tv in the same way everyone watches TV, as a horrorshow to be goofed on where the viewers provide their own entertainment.)

"performative acts" usually refers, in these gender study contexts, to displays and statements which serve some kind of identity-affirming function. In political contexts, we might call it "virtue signalling," where you're not really communicating stuff about the external world but about your internal self-definitions. So, like, just by being gurlz who are watching the Bachelor and snarking about it, they are "performing" their "gendered" roles as gurlz who watch the Bachelor and snark about it.

"subjectivities" -- I don't know what this means. I can only guess it just means "personal experience" or "lived experience." You know -- how I feel about the tv show I'm watching ( and how I feel about what I'm feeling about the tv show I'm watching, and how I feel about watching myself feeling about the tv show I had earlier been watching.)

But they had to dress it up as "subjectivities" to make it sound "sciencey."

"leisure spaces" refers to not just a physical space, but any sort of context in which one is, well, leisuring. "Feminist leisure studies" is a huge area of interest to the gender warriors, precisely because it's a great way to combine their two academic passions, watchin' tv and not workin' too hard.

But "leisure spaces" can also just refer to the couch these idiots were sitting in when they gamed the living shit out of the system.

"Wow, that bitch is crazy!": Exploring gendered performances in leisure spaces surrounding reality television
by Spencer, Callie Cross, Ph.D., THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, 2014, 202 pages; 3680377
Abstract:
In Reality Bites Back, Jennifer L. Pozner states, "Women are bitches. Women are stupid. Women are incompetent at work and failures at home. Women are gold diggers. How do we know? Because reality TV tells us so." Not only does reality TV shape what we think about the "way things are," it also shapes how we think about and perform our own subjectivities, "who we are" as gendered, sexed, raced, classed humans. If the messages sent by reality TV are that women are incompetent, stupid, gold-digging bitches, what are women doing with those messages? Are we incorporating such messages, and writing them on our bodies? Repurposing them? Reproducing them? Actively and strongly resisting them? In other words, what is the work (on subjectivity production) of watching reality TV (watching other women being watched)?
The purpose of this dissertation was to take up that question by exploring the performative experiences of three women watching the 17th season of ABC's The Bachelor. Using duoethnography, we explored how we challenged, (re)produced, assigned, and constructed gendered subjectivities both for ourselves and for each other through our performances within leisure spaces surrounding The Bachelor. In three layers of data-generative surveillance, we 1) videotaped ourselves watching the show; 2) publicly reflected about our experiences of watching the show in a blog (www.blogaboutthebachelor.com); and, 3) spent a weekend together watching the videotape of ourselves watching the show (a hyper-reflexive experience).
Within the blog, we provided a space for women to react to, critique, support, or decenter messages sent by the show and one another. As such, the blog enacted a political project in order to decenter norms of practice offering more possibilities for gendered performance. In addition to this public political project, the results of our study as presented in five articles within this dissertation provide a methodological contribution to the body of knowledge by exploring what it means to do "empowering" "collaborative" feminist research. The ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities in reaction to messages sent by The Bachelor were inextricably entangled with the ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities as collaborative researchers.

Posted by: Ace at 03:38 PM

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1 This news is not only fake, it's SLANTED!!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 07, 2017 03:32 PM (wtvvX)

2 mopar no car slant-6

Posted by: Gory Daze at April 07, 2017 03:32 PM (hhFIE)

3 wut

Posted by: kallisto at April 07, 2017 03:32 PM (kD8Fh)

4 i don't care for the slant of this piece.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2017 03:32 PM (p+Wdc)

5 We win!

Posted by: Italicans at April 07, 2017 03:33 PM (wpG6p)

6 ACE, PLEASE REPORT TO THE BARREL.

BARREL CALL FOR ACE O' SPADES...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 07, 2017 03:34 PM (wtvvX)

7 Ace doesn't go in the barrel.

Ace IS the barrel!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:34 PM (ELUpj)

8 close tags ftw !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at April 07, 2017 03:34 PM (KGH7Z)

9 Leisure Suit Larry was the king of leisure spaces.
And pixel boobs

Posted by: wooga at April 07, 2017 03:34 PM (wBedp)

10
Come on I lean.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 07, 2017 03:35 PM (8XRCm)

11 Off to a great start.

Posted by: Meremortal, GAINZZ!!! at April 07, 2017 03:35 PM (3myMJ)

12 I feel dumber for having read that.

How about a "performative act"of being a real student instead of totally punting by pretending your procrastination and love of The Bachelor is serious study????

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (NOIQH)

13 Yeah, I de-center from time to time but a cold compress fixes that up.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (RD7QR)

14 Now presenting our brand new font....

Pisa!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (wtvvX)

15 I can't wait for PHD's to be awarded for performance in pron.

That will be glorious is all its horror.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (zsHGH)

16 I think the Kardshian phenomenon would be a valid subject in a Humanities curriculum.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (bLhAC)

17 It is interesting how impressively large and expansive the conservative canon is and how the progressive canon consists of The Communist Manifesto, Rules for Radicals and Harry Potter.

Posted by: Scott 'Don't Know Nothing About No Narratives' Pelley at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (Gh/jd)

18 12 I feel dumber for having read that.

How about a "performative act"of being a real student instead of totally punting by pretending your procrastination and love of The Bachelor is serious study????
Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (NOIQH)

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How about a Ph.D. that leads to groundbreaking research in medicine instead?

How about the people who are working on this nonsense do that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (ELUpj)

19 I can't wait for PHD's to be awarded for performance in pron.

That will be glorious is all its horror.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (zsHGH)

I GRADUATED SUMMA CUM LOUD!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (wtvvX)

20 I tried to read it ... I couldn't. The stupidity overwhelmed me.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (fiGNd)

21 "Wow, that bitch is crazy!"

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Really, nothing more needs to be said.

Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (7HtZB)

22 17 It is interesting how impressively large and expansive the conservative canon is and how the progressive canon consists of The Communist Manifesto, Rules for Radicals and Harry Potter.
Posted by: Scott 'Don't Know Nothing About No Narratives' Pelley at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (Gh/jd)

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Harry Potter isn't part of the progressive canon, it's in the conservative canon as a lesson in the unfeeling, inefficient, and generally evil nature of big government run by bureaucrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (ELUpj)

23 overall goal of keeping "the embers of resistance alive through concrete learning, community engagement and forward-looking action."

In other words, not doing a damn thing.

Who would have thought the hippies would looked around and think "Pussies" about another group?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (B+qrE)

24
How about a Ph.D. that leads to groundbreaking research in medicine instead?

How about the people who are working on this nonsense do that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (ELUpj)

Nah, the future is all about making the wang bigger and helping chicks orgasm easier.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (zsHGH)

25 Anyhow, the school's not really a school, but rather a free four-week online course that bills itself as a means for participants to "sharpen the tools we need to fight back at the federal, state and local levels" with an overall goal of keeping "the embers of resistance alive through concrete learning, community engagement and forward-looking action."

This is why conservatives loose all the time. We're disorganized, we don't practice our resistance skills, and we don't monitor our political opponents, nor do we understand the code words they use.

Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (1ljSq)

26 and the equivalent of a high school dropout will bilk these idiots out of millions by selling them 'distressed' jeans full of holes.....'holes' for 'holes', as it were

Posted by: the Butcher at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (AGJqR)

27 20 I tried to read it ... I couldn't. The stupidity overwhelmed me.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (fiGNd)

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I kind of love the jargon they throw in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (ELUpj)

28 Idiocracy: It's a Cookbook!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (zsHGH)

29 Seriously......Dumbledore's Army?

Does this mean Trump is Dolores Umbridge?????

Gawd, read some Shakespeare, Greek mythology, or even the Bible for something adult, why don't you?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (NOIQH)

30 and then they will retire to their nice homes in Boulder County and Marin and look down on Trump voters who didn't get Masters and PhD degrees. Cause we're ignorant.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (dwws+)

31 Off you damn dirty sock.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (Gh/jd)

32 Can PhD diplomas on cereal boxes be far behind ?

3. Profit !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, Doctor of Kaboom at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (KGH7Z)

33 It is interesting how impressively large and expansive the conservative canon is and how the progressive canon consists of The Communist Manifesto, Rules for Radicals and Harry Potter.

You left out the dozen or so fraudulent books Oprah has recommended.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (B+qrE)

34 I kind of love the jargon they throw in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (ELUpj)

They think they're doing science.

"Science!"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (y7apq)

35 This is why conservatives loose all the time. We're disorganized, we don't practice our resistance skills, and we don't monitor our political opponents, nor do we understand the code words they use.
Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (1ljSq)

You're more than half right. This is all stupid make work, but the Left has their idiots DOING something. Ours just, well, we watch porn I guess and comment on websites.

Yeah...guilty.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (zsHGH)

36 Gawd, read some Shakespeare, Greek mythology, or even the Bible for something adult, why don't you?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (NOIQH)

Too many big words.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (zsHGH)

37 29 Seriously......Dumbledore's Army?

Does this mean Trump is Dolores Umbridge?????

Gawd, read some Shakespeare, Greek mythology, or even the Bible for something adult, why don't you?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (NOIQH)

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Oh, the advantages of reading the content.

Yeah...that's dumb.

These kids are going to Harvard. HARVARD! And the best they can do it a Harry Potter reference?

Please.

At least with something like the 300 Spartans they could claim Greek history instead of a movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (ELUpj)

38 It is interesting how impressively large and expansive the conservative canon is and how the progressive canon consists of The Communist
Manifesto, Rules for Radicals and Harry Potter.

You left out the dozen or so fraudulent books Oprah has recommended.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (B+qrE)

Also, The Vagina Monologues. Mustn't forget that one.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (y7apq)

39 You can make fun of Feminist Leisure Studies programs all you want. Most people don't make it past Feminist Leisure 220: Logistics of C Battery Supplies and Feminist Leisure 240: Your Cat, Your Life Partner. Those are some serious weed out courses.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (a3sfz)

40 "Since she now identifies as Ph.D, I guess that means that according to
the academic world, watching reality tv and blogging about it with your
galpals is now doctoral-level work."

The scholarly CV of Professor Melissa "Can I get some muscle over here" Click was stuffed full of deconstructionist, postmodernist critiques of movies and TV shows.

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (noWW6)

41

Does this mean Trump is Dolores Umbridge?????
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Mulva?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (wpG6p)

42 these are the same kind of people who yell because there aren't enough women in science and technology.

I wish I had a PhD in making shit up.

Posted by: mallfly the expert at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (b7fwp)

43 34 I kind of love the jargon they throw in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (ELUpj)

They think they're doing science.

"Science!"
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:39 PM (y7apq)

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"Well, science papers are full of words that I don't understand, so if I'm going to write a scientific paper, it needs to be full of words that other people don't understand."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (ELUpj)

44 @Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls

LOL

Nice...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (zsHGH)

45 38 Also, The Vagina Monologues. Mustn't forget that one.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (y7apq)

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That has been excised from the progressive canon.

It's too cis-normative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (ELUpj)

46 Do you know what would look good hanging on the wall in the faculty lounge of 'The School Of Resistance?' The tip of a Tomahawk that's what.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (57R5r)

47 My dissertation submits that reality television programs are not, in fact, real.

If that is an unacceptable topic, I will try, Harry Potter: Life Lessons.

Posted by: huerfano at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (TO4Og)

48 Also, The Vagina Monologues. Mustn't forget that one.

Haven't you heard?

That's now problematic because the author is white. Also, trannie-based reasons.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:42 PM (B+qrE)

49 Dumbledore was the ghey, right?

Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 03:42 PM (7HtZB)

50 So... the dumbing down of Americans is working astonishingly well, and we don't have to bring in low-IQ Muslims to hurry up the process?

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at April 07, 2017 03:42 PM (FkAXz)

51 47 My dissertation submits that reality television programs are not, in fact, real.

If that is an unacceptable topic, I will try, Harry Potter: Life Lessons.
Posted by: huerfano at April 07, 2017 03:41 PM (TO4Og)

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I'll do:

Kim Kardashian and Learning to Accept Your Body

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:42 PM (ELUpj)

52 These kids are going to Harvard. HARVARD! And the best they can do it a Harry Potter reference?

"42" the Supreme Court Nominee said in reply to a question from Senator Cruz during Senate Testimony.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trumps Harry Potter.

Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (1ljSq)

53 The ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities in reaction to messages sent by The Bachelor were inextricably entangled with the ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities as collaborative researchers.

Gee, Isaac Newton's F=m*a and Eistein's E=mc2 look pretty stupid by comparison now, hunh?

Stupid men and their stupid cis-physics!

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (DQ4Fv)

54 brains the size of peas

Posted by: concrete girl at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (eQSM0)

55 My dissertation is Heavy Metal Apocalypse: The Intersectionality of Diplomacy, Military Policy, and AC/DC In Battleship. It consists of original groundbreaking research of my feelz where I consume a twelve pack of Milwaukee's Best and continuously watch the USS Missouri setting sail and then firing all of its 16" guns at an alien ship before going outside and screaming "USA! USA! USA!" into the early morning darkness. Does this drunken headbangin' experience result in shame upon late morning sobriety or a desire to repeat the experience?

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (hLRSq)

56 50 So... the dumbing down of Americans is working astonishingly well, and we don't have to bring in low-IQ Muslims to hurry up the process?

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at April 07, 2017 03:42 PM (FkAXz)

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Dumb people who won't do manual labor.

It's a great combination.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (ELUpj)

57 My thesis on people reacting to watching 2 Girls; 1 Cup is sure to propel me to the top of the Academy.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (nlbfN)

58 Joss Whedon/Buffy mentioned earlier --- and I noticed that for the Buffy re-runs on the Pivot channel, during commercial breaks, they have these little clips of people expounding on the cultural meaning of Buffy and other characters on the show as if it were a great work. Swear some of these tattooed and pierced idiots are quoting from their college dissertations.

It's weird and alarming, and it is in line with the nonsense here, where these idiots find great wisdom and meaning in things like Buff and Happy Potter. Idiocracy.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (NOIQH)

59 The scholarly CV of Professor Melissa "Can I get some muscle over here" Click was stuffed full of deconstructionist, postmodernist critiques of movies and TV shows.

50 Shades of Grey.

Not even kidding.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (B+qrE)

60 OT, but they just released pics from the Dirty Dancing remake. Baby is played by a slightly pudgy Flabigail Breslin, and the Swayze character is played by a retarded looking guy who is totally ripped.

Posted by: wooga at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (wBedp)

61
Gawd, read some Shakespeare, Greek mythology, or even the Bible for something adult, why don't you?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:38 PM (NOIQH)

Even a good Batman comic would be an improvement.

Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (7HtZB)

62 52 These kids are going to Harvard. HARVARD! And the best they can do it a Harry Potter reference?

"42" the Supreme Court Nominee said in reply to a question from Senator Cruz during Senate Testimony.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trumps Harry Potter.
Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (1ljSq)

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At least that was tongue in cheek.

I'll bet that both Cruz and Gorsuch have read Sophocles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:44 PM (ELUpj)

63 Well the actor playing Dumbledore 2 is gay

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 03:44 PM (Ot7+c)

64 We should really make a woman President and stuff.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2017 03:44 PM (H7tWA)

65 I'll do:

Kim Kardashian and Learning to Accept Your Body

Pretty much everyone has "accepted" her body, IFYKWIM.

Posted by: huerfano at April 07, 2017 03:44 PM (TO4Og)

66
I think this is an exceptional idea. PhD level thinking about the synergism between the multitudes of young women vying for the attention of one male, while the young male is vying for the attention of the sweet spot between the attractive contestants legs.

Feminism; the long march.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 03:44 PM (HTdUD)

67
Oops

Posted by: huerfano at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (TO4Og)

68 The purpose of this dissertation was to take up that question by exploring the performative experiences of three women watching the 17th season of ABC's The Bachelor. Using duoethnography, we explored how we challenged, (re)produced, assigned, and constructed gendered subjectivities both for ourselves and for each other through our performances within leisure spaces surrounding The Bachelor. In three layers of data-generative surveillance, we 1) videotaped ourselves watching the show; 2) publicly reflected about our experiences of watching the show in a blog (www.blogaboutthebachelor.com); and, 3) spent a weekend together watching the videotape of ourselves watching the show (a hyper-reflexive experience).

Pardon my ignorance but what language is this? It bears no resemblance to the English I know and love.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (hJrjt)

69 Things have gone really downhill. When I got my PhD, I had to reference Bored of the Rings AND Fritz the Cat. What is the world coming to?

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (DQ4Fv)

70 59 The scholarly CV of Professor Melissa "Can I get some muscle over here" Click was stuffed full of deconstructionist, postmodernist critiques of movies and TV shows.

50 Shades of Grey.

Not even kidding.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:43 PM (B+qrE)

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The terrible Twilight fan fic turned inexplicably successful novel?

My wife came clean a few weeks ago and said that she watched the first movie just to see what it was about.

She now knows that I think less of her for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (ELUpj)

71 It's poop emojis all the way down. TM

Where do I pick up my doctorate and poet laureate proclamation?

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (VFhMt)

72 I think the Kardshian phenomenon would be a valid subject in a Humanities curriculum.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (bLhAC)

The future as predicted in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (hLRSq)

73 BTW and OT, but kind of related:

Nikki Haley is rockin', folks.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (B+qrE)

74 o/t but GOrsuch can start as soon as he is sworn in, correct ? like today ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (c6/9Q)

75 We'll make great pets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (GgzGa)

76 Don't forget even Maxine Waters has a degree in Sociology, maybe even a PhD.

Posted by: Colin at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (RS7vk)

77 63. Gambon isn't gay. You're thinking of Gandalf actor McKellen.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (N3JsI)

78 Yikes.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 03:47 PM (xeeHA)

79 At some point, there is a negative correlation between tuition level and actual learning.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 07, 2017 03:47 PM (7ZVPa)

80 Pardon my ignorance but what language is this? It bears no resemblance to the English I know and love.

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM

I think they borrowed it from that professor guy that Tucker Carlson had on his show the other night who didn't like someone giving up his seat in 1st class to a soldier.

Posted by: huerfano at April 07, 2017 03:47 PM (TO4Og)

81 The scholarly CV of Professor Melissa "Can I get some muscle over here" Click was stuffed full of deconstructionist, postmodernist critiques of movies and TV shows.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 07, 2017 03:40 PM (noWW6)

Which was not a problem to the college that hired her not too long after she was fired from Mizzou.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:47 PM (y7apq)

82 Things have gone really downhill. When I got my PhD, I had to reference Bored of the Rings AND Fritz the Cat. What is the world coming to?
Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:45 PM (DQ4Fv)

Spicy!

Fritz really hasn't stood the test of time, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (zsHGH)

83 This is why conservatives loose all the time. We're disorganized, we don't practice our resistance skills, and we don't monitor our political opponents, nor do we understand the code words they use.
Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (1ljSq)

Not much time left over in a real job.

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (K9oqL)

84 My dissertation was me watching me watching a video of me watching me jacking off to Busty Nurse Trannies, Vol. VII" and getting gendered sticky stuff all over my leisurespace.

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (DQ4Fv)

85 So much stupid in one place. I almost can't believe it.

Posted by: USNtakim at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (hMqvx)

86 OMG 77 is right,
Face palm

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (Ot7+c)

87 Ah these wizards are all alike its hard to tell them apart.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (Ot7+c)

88
Pardon my ignorance but what language is this? It bears no resemblance to the English I know and love.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Neo-Marxist

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (GgzGa)

89 If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Ewoks.

Posted by: zombie sir issac newton at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (nlbfN)

90 Fritz really hasn't stood the test of time, sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Well, I did reference Checkered Demon in my footnotes.

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (DQ4Fv)

91 87 Ah these wizards are all alike its hard to tell them apart.
Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (Ot7+c)

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Christopher Lee had a heavy metal album.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (ELUpj)

92 I believe this was for a BA in sociology:

Sociology student writes her dissertation exploring whether the KARDASHIANS are a 'post feminist fairy tale' - after spending 80 hours watching every episode

from the UK Daily Mail

http://tinyurl.com/jzppnon

Posted by: mallfly the expert at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (b7fwp)

93 Speaking of reality TV, has anyone here watched "Survivor"? I haven't, no one I know in meatspace has, but it's been on for like 20 years, so someone has to be watching it.

Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (7HtZB)

94 Man, that Ace podcast on Ep 1 of Limitless should get everyone involved a Nobel Prize.

Posted by: Sturt at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (my2h4)

95 Academics do not care that this kind of crap devalues every PhD granted by these universities. It makes people question anything that comes out of the university. They want to act like they are resisting Trump, but they are resisting the majority elected republican house, senate, governors, and state legislatures. They are resisting democracy and the democratically elected representatives. They are resisting civil society. They are resisting the rule of law.

Posted by: IanDeal at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (teGBX)

96 Trump is illegitimate! Impeach Trump! Ignore the President!
Gorsuch is illegitimate! Impeach Gorsuch! Ignore illegitimate Supreme Court Rulings!

Posted by: Soros Useful Fools Brigade at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (iynDC)

97 I'm old enough to remember when Resisting a president and calling him illegitimate was a near crime, akin to treason.

--

I'm old enough to remember when Ivy League wasn't an insult. These days, it is an impediment to one's career.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (7ZVPa)

98 BTW and OT, but kind of related:
Nikki Haley is rockin', folks.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (B+qrE)

I know, right? She sounds like she's been taking lessons from the 'Stache.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (y7apq)

99 93 Speaking of reality TV, has anyone here watched "Survivor"? I haven't, no one I know in meatspace has, but it's been on for like 20 years, so someone has to be watching it.
Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (7HtZB)

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My wife loves it.

It's passable entertainment of the brainless variety.

I'll watch some more Pasolini, myself. Because I'm an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (ELUpj)

100 Fritz really hasn't stood the test of time, sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Well, I did reference Checkered Demon in my footnotes.
Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (DQ4Fv)

Well you deserve points for that at least. I was more into Cherry Poptart for my Pop Art.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (zsHGH)

101 You guys shouldn't get too worked up over this.

Extinction is something you get used to. After a while.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (VFhMt)

102 spent a weekend together watching the videotape of ourselves watching the show

And then came the reinforcement of every Millenial stereotype in one tidy package.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (B+qrE)

103 Liz Claman just said the Syrian planes are bombing "all over the country." Somehow I think this might be fake news parroted by nitwits.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (57R5r)

104 74
o/t but GOrsuch can start as soon as he is sworn in, correct ? like today ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (c6/9Q)

He won't be sworn in until 9 am Monday.

Posted by: Tami at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (Enq6K)

105 I ws a big never missing Survivor fan for a long time, one of the fan favorite episodes a few years ago and I was like to hell with it.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (Ot7+c)

106 No society should have to be burdened with this much willful stupidity.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (fd1WU)

107 #ThisIsHowYouGotTrump#ThisIsHowYouGotTrump#ThisIsHowYouGotTrump

X 100

= Ph.D

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whifer at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (QhxWE)

108 That's what what you get when they make drunk boning a crime.

Posted by: Roland THTG at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (QM5S2)

109 104 74
o/t but GOrsuch can start as soon as he is sworn in, correct ? like today ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2017 03:46 PM (c6/9Q)

He won't be sworn in until 9 am Monday.
Posted by: Tami at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (Enq6K)

================

I know it's tempting, Neil, but avoid the coke and hookers.

I know this is a big time for you, but don't let the NSA find out just yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (ELUpj)

110 101 You guys shouldn't get too worked up over this.

Extinction is something you get used to. After a while.
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (VFhMt)

Pussies.

Posted by: The Immortal Coelacanth at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (7HtZB)

111 Maybe the guys in Stockholm were doing a post-doc?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 07, 2017 03:52 PM (LWu6U)

112 Remember not long ago a number of Princeton alumni had to admit they did not know the origin of the word stormtroopers.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (bLhAC)

113 "Women are bitches. Women are stupid. Women are incompetent at work and failures at home. Women are gold diggers. How do we know? Because reality TV tells us so."

What, nothing about being shitty at parallel parking?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (SRKgf)

114 112 Remember not long ago a number of Princeton alumni had to admit they did not know the origin of the word stormtroopers.
Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (bLhAC)

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"It's from that Star Wars movie, right?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (ELUpj)

115 I'd also like to remind everyone that we make fun of Ace for his movie reviews.

We should be getting the Ewok a PhD with a compilation turned into a dissertation.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (B+qrE)

116 "He won't be sworn in until 9 am Monday."

Expedited appeal of the travel ban cases at 10 am

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (SIY7D)

117 Well, I did reference Checkered Demon in my footnotes.
Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:49 PM (DQ4Fv)

S. Clay Wilson: Truly one of the most disgusting cartoon artists ever.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (y7apq)

118 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you less.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

119 The Situation already texted me for a conjugal visit. A-hole.

Posted by: Snookie at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (OD2ni)

120 Is still using videotape supposed to be some statement against the patriarchy?

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (xPl2J)

121 Harry Potter isn't part of the progressive canon, it's in the conservative canon as a lesson in the unfeeling, inefficient, and generally evil nature of big government run by bureaucrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:37 PM (ELUpj)
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I find it amusing when progressive idiots accidentally write something brilliant, it always teaches conservative lessons.

They'd hate it if they had SkyNet's self-awareness.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (xeeHA)

122 I know, right? She sounds like she's been taking lessons from the 'Stache.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 07, 2017 03:50 PM (y7apq)

Putting the 'mace' in diplomacy.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (hLRSq)

123 115 I'd also like to remind everyone that we make fun of Ace for his movie reviews.

We should be getting the Ewok a PhD with a compilation turned into a dissertation.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (B+qrE)

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It'd be funny if Ace was already a Ph.D. in something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (ELUpj)

124 i've never watched the batchelor or survivor.
don't get the reality love

Posted by: concrete girl at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (eQSM0)

125
Bored of the Rings

Hope that's a typo because it'll be the best ever

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (lKyWE)

126 God damnit the modern world is just so stupid.

Posted by: Tim Marchman at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (Yx9SN)

127 And how many dollars had to die in the student loan grinder to produce that dreck?

Posted by: George V at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (LUHWu)

128 Fuck this shit. I'm starting my weekend leisuring early.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (8ZskC)

129 118 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you less.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

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My wife made me do the Pottermore thing.

I'd be a Ravenclaw, just for the record.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (ELUpj)

130 And *this* is why I am not OK with college loans being forgiven and/or "free" college for all.

This racket needs to collapse by the weight of it's own absurdity.
How much dept did that gal accrue while getting credit for that useless scholarship? Her schools should be just as ashamed as she should be.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (NOIQH)

131 PCU was prescient.

https://youtu.be/Vt6Vx7vzTRU

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (Tnhbr)

132 The ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities in reaction to messages sent by The Bachelor were inextricably entangled with the ways in which we performed gendered subjectivities as collaborative researchers.

Minitrue: Wow, that's doubleplusgood speak

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (493sH)

133 103 Liz Claman just said the Syrian planes are bombing "all over the country." Somehow I think this might be fake news parroted by nitwits.
Posted by: Under Fire at April 07, 2017 03:51 PM (57R5r)

Well.... uh... it IS their country...

Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (NgKpN)

134 My dissertation was me watching me watching a video of me watching me jacking off to Busty Nurse Trannies, Vol. VII" and getting gendered sticky stuff all over my leisurespace.

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM

Infaption?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (p+Wdc)

135 125
Bored of the Rings

Hope that's a typo because it'll be the best ever
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (lKyWE)

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*armors self for fight to the death*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (ELUpj)

136 It'd be funny if Ace was already a Ph.D. in something.
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GAINZZZ.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (nlbfN)

137 I'm a thoughtful person, so I'm not sure if I want to do my dissertation on:

"Islam- the Only Peaceful Religion in the Universe"

or

"Abortion: The Best Way to Achieve Immediate Population Growth"

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (FkAXz)

138 >>I'll bet that both Cruz and Gorsuch have read Sophocles.

In the original Austrian?

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (H7tWA)

139 My wife made me do the Pottermore thing.

I'd be a Ravenclaw, just for the record.

If I had it all to do over again, I'd be a Bear Bryant wishbone wide receiver.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (B+qrE)

140 136 It'd be funny if Ace was already a Ph.D. in something.
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GAINZZZ.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (nlbfN)

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He's actually Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (ELUpj)

141 >>>94 Man, that Ace podcast on Ep 1 of Limitless should get everyone involved a Nobel Prize.
Posted by: Sturt

we would not object to being nominated to the Committee for that work.

Posted by: ace at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (8rNrN)

142 129
118 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I
take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you
less.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

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My wife made me do the Pottermore thing.

I'd be a Ravenclaw, just for the record.
========

You guys are speaking English right....cuz I don't recognize many of these words.

Posted by: Tami at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (Enq6K)

143 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

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That is so immature...so which one did you list ?

Posted by: runner at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (c6/9Q)

144
Click the link to sign up

https://www.resistanceschool.com/who-we-are-5/

Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (1ljSq)

145 118 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you less.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

Must be an age group thing.... I've never seen that on an ad... (I'm dating 50's-60)

Now, I have seen if you voted for Trump don't contact me...

Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (NgKpN)

146 141 >>>94 Man, that Ace podcast on Ep 1 of Limitless should get everyone involved a Nobel Prize.
Posted by: Sturt

we would not object to being nominated to the Committee for that work.

Posted by: ace at April 07, 2017 03:56 PM (8rNrN)

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MOAR PODCASTS!!!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (ELUpj)

147 That sounds like manspreading, zombie, and mansplaining. That's bad unless you're now identifying as a moron and not a moronette.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (nlbfN)

148 Uh, i red the the thing and am now the much stupidr for it.

Thanks

Posted by: West at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (1Rgee)

149 Bored of the Rings

Hope that's a typo because it'll be the best ever

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (lKyWE)

Harvard Lampoon. Best ever.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (hLRSq)

150
Well then, my latest doctoral research is catching the first 3 shows of "Patriot" on Amazon. And let me tell you, I think it is brilliant. Not kidding.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (ODxAs)

151 Harkening back to the previous thread, a couple of facts:

Rape in Sweden has increased by 1500 percent over the past decade.

90 percent of the rapists are mohammedans.

Of course, this thread is now banned in Sweden, due to reporting of facts.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (7ZVPa)

152 Bored of the Rings

Hope that's a typo because it'll be the best ever

No, that's the Harvard Lampoon parody.

Pity that the Harvard Lampoon doesn't and couldn't exist now.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (B+qrE)

153 Just let me know when Ass becomes the number one movie in the country.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (FqgrG)

154 I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I
take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you
less.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

================

My wife made me do the Pottermore thing.

I'd be a Ravenclaw, just for the record.
========

You guys are speaking English right....cuz I don't recognize many of these words.
Posted by: Tami at April 07, 2017 03:57 PM (Enq6K)

Muggle....

Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (NgKpN)

155 125
Bored of the Rings

Hope that's a typo because it'll be the best ever
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

No, it's not a typo: Before the staff at the Harvard Lampoon started National Lampoon, they wrote a book-length Tolkein parody and called it Bored of the Rings . It was a bestseller in the early '70s, I think.

Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (DQ4Fv)

156 Bored of the Rings was written by the guys who started National Lampoon.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (SIY7D)

157 Further on the ridiculous language these lay abouts use:

I'm convinced Winston Churchill would never have been able to give the English the courage to resist the Nazis if he didn't use clear, Anglo-Saxon language in his speeches. His speeches were filled with short, direct words.
The polysyllabic non-words used today aren't able to mobilize anything.

Sorry if that's off topic but I've been reading The Last Lion. (A Churchhill biography).

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (hJrjt)

158 I wonder if the "dissertation" ever considered the fact that "Reality" shows are anything but reality. The fucking things are scripted - the producers tell the actors what to say and do.

I know Shep from Southern Charm and have been at places where they're filming (though they didn't use any of the scenes they shot where I was).

Posted by: Tim Marchman at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (Yx9SN)

159 My dissertation was me watching me watching a video of me watching me jacking off to Busty Nurse Trannies, Vol. VII" and getting gendered sticky stuff all over my leisurespace.
Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (DQ4Fv)
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A++++++++++ - Teacher from A Christmas Story

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (xeeHA)

160
Speaking of reality TV, has anyone here watched "Survivor"?

I totally lost interest in the show when I found out they were -- like good communist masters -- giving the contestants some subsistence level of nutrition.

That's not 'reality'. It then was no longer about shielding the providers from elimination, but engaging in no-calorie-burning-activity while voting the strongest and smartest out.

It's kind of a thoroughly repugnant reflection of the current state of our society, actually.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (HTdUD)

161 I just finished my daily performative act. Anybody have a bottle of Febreeze? The vent is not cutting it today.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (DxWUs)

162 84 My dissertation was me watching me watching a video of me watching me jacking off to Busty Nurse Trannies, Vol. VII" and getting gendered sticky stuff all over my leisurespace.
Posted by: zombie at April 07, 2017 03:48 PM (DQ4Fv)

Pro tip from a guy a who once pulled a 2.4 GPA on 15 credit hours after being on campus six times including finals for the semester: Set up two mirrors facing each other and sit between them while watching those angels of throbbing mercy. That way you can watch yourself watching yourself watching yourself watching yourself watching yourself watching yourself... eh, you get the idea.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (a3sfz)

163 This is why Sweden needs to increase the number of refuges, to hold onto this coveted record.

Sweden has produced more ISIS fighters per capita than almost any other
European nation, the International Center for the Study of
Radicalization and Political Violence reported last year.

And that damn idiot Trump says what he said about Sweden, what an idiot.

Posted by: Colin at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (RS7vk)

164 90-- the society of Illustrators did a retrospective of Zap Comix last year - it's weird to see comix I collected and read under glass in a museum setting. Plenty of S.Clay Wilson artwork - the Checkered Demon and even Captain Pissgums and Ruby. I've got two signed original watercolors of the Checkered Demon - my late husband was a fan. Personally I liked Vaughn Bode.

Posted by: vivi at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (11H2y)

165
It's nice that these children have the luxury to this nonsense.

The last time spoiled adult-children talked and acted like this was they were in the SLA (Sybian Liberation Army) and the Manson Family.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (nfBpn)

166 PCU was prescient.

https://youtu.be/Vt6Vx7vzTRU
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:55 PM (Tnhbr)

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"I could major in GameBoy."

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (xeeHA)

167 126

The Earth disinfects it self from time to time.

Been there. Done that.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 03:59 PM (VFhMt)

168 re 112: actually, neither did I. wikipedia says it originated with the Germans in the first world war.

Stormtroopers were specialist soldiers of the German Army in World War I. In the last years of the war, Stoßtruppen ("Shock troops" or "Thrust Troops") were trained to fight with "infiltration tactics", part of the Germans' new method of attack on enemy trenches.

Posted by: mallfly the expert at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (b7fwp)

169 oops

Posted by: concrete girl at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (eQSM0)

170 160
Speaking of reality TV, has anyone here watched "Survivor"?

I totally lost interest in the show when I found out they were -- like good communist masters -- giving the contestants some subsistence level of nutrition.

That's not 'reality'. It then was no longer about shielding the providers from elimination, but engaging in no-calorie-burning-activity while voting the strongest and smartest out.

It's kind of a thoroughly repugnant reflection of the current state of our society, actually.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 03:58 PM (HTdUD)

===============

Eh.

I'm not exactly a fan, but the appeal isn't them being near death or anything, it's the backstabbing and political maneuvering the contestants go through.

At least for most people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (ELUpj)

171

btw, this is how the weather underground started, no?

This is the same bullshit bill ayers did. It's only a matter of time until these terrorists resort to violence.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (nfBpn)

172 Just let me know when Ass becomes the number one movie in the country.

Should be just after "Ow My Balls: The Movie" has it's run.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (4WhSY)

173 Can we have a re-posting of the Carly Fiorina PODCAST!!11!!

*hides*

Posted by: Under Fire at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (57R5r)

174 WHAT LOVE POTATO?
The purpose of this experiment was to take up that question by exploring the performative experiences of me watching the filmography of Winona Ryder. Using genital manipulation, I explored how Winona challenged, (re)produced, assigned, and constructed genital excitement both for me and for my pancakes through our performances within leisure spaces surrounding both pantsed and pantsless. In three layers of data-generative surveillance, I 1) videotaped myself watching Winona; 2) publicly reflected about my Winona fixation in a blog comments section (run by a Mr. O'Spades); and, 3) spent a weekend watching the videotape of me watching Winona movies (a hyper-reflexive experience ruined by my big head sometimes obstructing my view).

IN CONCLUSION: BORK BORK BORK

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (lZ2Zo)

175 Speaking of reality TV, has anyone here watched "Survivor"?

I often wear a Survivor ballcap...people keep asking me if that show is still around....

Posted by: Colin at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (RS7vk)

176 These wealthy reality stars and billionaire authors make me repeat over and over a Churchill quote so I don't go postal.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (bLhAC)

177 Bet they didn't include this episode of "The Bachelor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJ55YKYIzc

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (SRKgf)

178 The last time spoiled adult-children talked and acted like this was they were in the SLA (Sybian Liberation Army) and the Manson Family.

Symbionese Liberation Army

The Sybian Liberation Army is led by a redheaded budget midget who posts ranty manifestos to the internet.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (Tnhbr)

179 I'm not exactly a fan, but the appeal isn't them being near death or anything, it's the backstabbing and political maneuvering the contestants go through.

At least for most people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (ELUpj)

Yeah... because a TV show that makes you cheat and lie, to win 1 million dollars... is such a great show for our children...

Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (NgKpN)

180 I wonder if the "dissertation" ever considered the fact that "Reality" shows are anything but reality. The fucking things are scripted - the producers tell the actors what to say and do.

===

Next you'll be telling me professional wrestling isn't real...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (fd1WU)

181 Hey Chuck Schumer, how does my ass taste?

Posted by: Miguel Estrada at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (11H2y)

182 I'm still collecting data for my doctoral dissertation on pr0n trends. I'm calling it, "Pr0n in the 21st Century: Cruel Destroyer of Productivity or Cornucopia of Horny Stepmoms and Big Tits?"

I'll get started on the writing soon if my boner doesn't give out first.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (8ZskC)

183 I started off wacking to Robert Crumb comics before I was able to attain proper pron.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (6Ll1u)

184 I am really only interested in a woman's leisure spaces.

Posted by: garrett at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (H7tWA)

185 It annoys me the number of profiles I see on dating sites which list which "house" they'd be in.

I don't care if you think you'd be a Hufflepuff. Actually, wait, I take that back. If you think about this crap then I want to date you less.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 03:53 PM (Tnhbr)

================

My wife made me do the Pottermore thing.

I'd be a Ravenclaw, just for the record.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 03:54 PM (ELUpj)

As a conservative, you want them to be a Slytherin. Because people admit to being Slytherin are the basically the only ones smart enough not to make the stupid all Slytherin=racists jump.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (KUaJL)

186 179
Yeah... because a TV show that makes you cheat and lie, to win 1 million dollars... is such a great show for our children...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (NgKpN)

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I think the audience is mostly adults, but whatever.

I don't like it. I find it uninteresting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (ELUpj)

187 Commentology: Deconstructing the Mythological Roots of Blogging With a Fictional Cinematic Marketing Gimmick as a Leader.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (hLRSq)

188 *clutches copy of Debbie Does Dallas*

I need to start writing. My acedemic future is looking brighter and brighter.

Posted by: Soona at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (Fmupd)

189 >>I started off wacking to Robert Crumb comics before I was able to attain proper pron.

Come to the Forest.

Posted by: Forest Porn at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (H7tWA)

190 what now? i have no idea how this helps the chirren. it all sounds like misogyny to me. or, the russians.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (KP5rU)

191 What a stupid time to be alive

Posted by: brak at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (guIHw)

192 Fuck Friday afternoon Houston traffic. That is all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (7jTtI)

193 185
As a conservative, you want them to be a Slytherin. Because people admit to being Slytherin are the basically the only ones smart enough not to make the stupid all Slytherin=racists jump.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (KUaJL)

=====================

Well, except that...

I'm not getting into this. I can get overly geeky about stuff, but I'm not doing it for Harry Potter.

Harry Potter isn't worth it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (ELUpj)

194 I need to start writing. My acedemic future is looking brighter and brighter.
Posted by: Soona at April 07, 2017 04:03 PM (Fmupd)

You're academic future's so bright, you gotta wear shades.

Also... you're blind from excessive masturbation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (Tnhbr)

195
At least for most people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I gave my opinion. You gave your opinion.

How does your opinion become 'most people'?

Because everyone I've spoken with on the matter
thinks you should be taken out into the desert, staked
into the ground, and fed to the fire ants. By huge numbers.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (HTdUD)

196 So what you're telling me is that universities took the message in the Justin Long/Jonah Hill/Blake Lively/Lewis Black movie "Accepted" seriously and you can now major in things like "walking around and thinking about stuff", Daydreaming 307, "Letting it Speak to You" and not only graduate, but be considered a Ph.D? Wow.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (7A4qQ)

197 Harry Potter isn't worth it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM (ELUpj)

Fair enough.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 07, 2017 04:05 PM (KUaJL)

198 "Naked and Afraid: Uncensored" is total false advertising. They still blur the naughty bits.

Posted by: josephistan at April 07, 2017 04:05 PM (7HtZB)

199 Yeah... because a TV show that makes you cheat and lie, to win 1 million dollars... is such a great show for our children...

Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (NgKpN)

C-Span?

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at April 07, 2017 04:05 PM (kdXZ9)

200 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a good documentary about the hey day of National Lampoon, which had a huge influence on 70s/80s comedy. Think of something funny from that era and it most likely had a connection to National Lampoon

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:05 PM (SIY7D)

201 The only "regular" TV show I watch is Last Man Standing...

Posted by: Susan Rice at April 07, 2017 04:05 PM (O2RFr)

202 The lint in this chick's navel is now asking for an unlisted number and a restraining order. Said Navel, "The gazing was oppressively limiting."

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (1CroS)

203 I have discovered a way to generate electricity from a potato.

Posted by: Clock Ahmad the Muslim Boy Genius at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (8ZskC)

204 The SYBIAN Liberation Army? Wait, wut?

Although Patty Hearst *did* have that very strange smile on her face for quite a long time afterward.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (noWW6)

205 Television Without Pity is gone. Fun site, but what a bunch of dumb lib, pud-pulling jackwagons

Posted by: Mega at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (AZcjW)

206 btw, this is how the weather underground started, no?

This is the same bullshit bill ayers did. It's only a matter of time until these terrorists resort to violence.
Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (nfBpn)

Yep. I've long predicted this; when the country turns away from leftist shit, a contingent of the hard left goes underground and becomes terrorists.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (SRKgf)

207 The above sounds like someone cut as many seven syllable words out of the dictionary that they could find, put them in a plastic bucket like a 50/50 raffle, pulled them out one at a time and wrote sentences with them, throwing in some commas and a few ands.

I couldn't read it. And I do have decent reading comprehension.

Posted by: Jen at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (OBjuz)

208 And people (or their parents) pay $50K to $60K a year for this crap in just tuition.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (mpXpK)

209 206 btw, this is how the weather underground started, no?

This is the same bullshit bill ayers did. It's only a matter of time until these terrorists resort to violence.
Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:01 PM (nfBpn)

Yep. I've long predicted this; when the country turns away from leftist shit, a contingent of the hard left goes underground and becomes terrorists.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 04:06 PM (SRKgf)

=================

They will also be 90% rich white kids.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (ELUpj)

210 Yeah... because a TV show that makes you cheat and lie, to win 1 million dollars... is such a great show for our children...
Posted by: Don Q. at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (NgKpN)

================

I think the audience is mostly adults, but whatever.

I don't like it. I find it uninteresting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If they called it, "Macheivelli's fuckover fest", it'd be closer to the truth.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (326rv)

211 Yep. I've long predicted this; when the country turns away from leftist shit, a contingent of the hard left goes underground and becomes terrorists.

The non-special Snowflakes?

Posted by: Susan Rice at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (O2RFr)

212 Come to the Forest.

Knot now!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (4WhSY)

213 *head tilt*

Posted by: rickl at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (xjiRE)

214 210 If they called it, "Macheivelli's fuckover fest", it'd be closer to the truth.
Posted by: Blue Hen at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (326rv)

=================

"Poor Man's Machiavelli's fuckover fest"

When they get to the frantic whispering...just...ugh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:08 PM (ELUpj)

215 I'm not exactly a fan, but the appeal isn't them being near death or anything, it's the backstabbing and political maneuvering the contestants go through.

At least for most people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (ELUpj)
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If you want to watch people starving, just watch documentaries about Africa.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:08 PM (xeeHA)

216 The Sybian Liberation Army is led by a redheaded budget midget who posts ranty manifestos to the internet.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 04:02 PM (Tnhbr)

Would subscribe to.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 04:09 PM (zsHGH)

217 "scholarly papers"

Is that like "journalistic integrity"?

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 04:09 PM (VFhMt)

218 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a good documentary about the hey day of National Lampoon, which had a huge influence on 70s/80s comedy.

It is and it was wicked nostalgic. I do think they spent too much time on the Lemmings because they basically went on to be Saturday Night Live.

That seemed like a ratings move, I think the magazine was the heart of Nat Lamp.

To keep this thread perv-compliant, the cover of the 1964 High School Yearbook Parody:

http://bit.ly/1thc509

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 07, 2017 04:09 PM (gIRsn)

219 217 "scholarly papers"

Is that like "journalistic integrity"?
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at April 07, 2017 04:09 PM (VFhMt)

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"Yes."
-William Randolph Hearst

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:10 PM (ELUpj)

220 ...with an overall goal of keeping "the embers of resistance alive through concrete learning, community engagement and forward-looking action."

Just have another Hippie Jamfest and shut your piehole. Everyone would be better off.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 07, 2017 04:10 PM (1CroS)

221 if they ever do another "the nice guys" i hope they get rid of the kid.

Posted by: concrete girl at April 07, 2017 04:10 PM (eQSM0)

222 Why the fuck do I even bother?
I coulda been done 2 years ago if I had just wrote "I FEEL THIS WAY DAMNIT" 1000 times and turned it in.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:11 PM (dzmBR)

223 Posted by: mallfly the expert at April 07, 2017 04:00 PM (b7fwp)

Yes but it was also used by Rohm who named his Brownshirts the Sturmabteilung ( SA) or Stormtroopers / Storm battalion.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 04:11 PM (bLhAC)

224 222 Why the fuck do I even bother?
I coulda been done 2 years ago if I had just wrote "I FEEL THIS WAY DAMNIT" 1000 times and turned it in.
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:11 PM (dzmBR)

=================

"I like what you did with Chapter 1. Chapter 2 really built on those ideas. Chapter 3 is where things got super deep."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (ELUpj)

225 "Before getting to that groundbreaking academic work, Harvard "students" have opened a "school of resistance" named Dumbledor's Army, because (as some people on Twitter notice) the only books Millennials are capable of referencing are Harry Potter books. "READ ANOTHER BOOK," goes a popular catchphrase, after catching yet another Millennial activist referencing the Only Books Xhe Has Ever Read."

Ace, I'm sure you're aware that to get into one of these Ivy League schools or most grad schools today, demands that one cannot have any real world experience such as a summer job or running a business like an after school yard service, etc.

These students have to have a grocery list length of volunteer work, social justice awards and submit endless essays of how they want to improve the world's impoverished, or affect climate change.

In other words, they are clueless not only from their high school and private school experiences, but outside of school, they are not permitted to do anything sports like (well maybe soccer) and they must have spent at least one semester overseas living with a Swiss diplomat's family and have volunteered to tag ocelots for tracking in Bolivia.

They have never had real life experiences. And it shows.

Posted by: Jen at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (OBjuz)

226 I can't wait for PHD's to be awarded for performance in pron.

That will be glorious is all its horror.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 03:36 PM (zsHGH)

Ever seen Sleeper by Woody Allen? They make a joke about that where the main character has a PhD in Oral Sex.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (dzmBR)

227 Were they in nighties when in the leisure place and did they have a pillow fight after performing gendered subjectivities, cause that's what it sounds like to me.

Posted by: Javems at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (yOqwj)

228 The Granola church in our neighborhood is advertising Sunday's sermon entitled "Celebrating Resistance."

Grrrr. How do these clowns get a tax exemption, anyway?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (SRKgf)

229 i thought you wiped with scholarly paper. or, is that the itchy stuff? i shoulda went to kollidge. or, rodeo clown school.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (KP5rU)

230

Y'all didn't read the links, didja?

This is a serious, you guys.

Posted by: Jaffry at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (1ljSq)

231 Aaaah. A tiki-punch is quite refreshing after a day out in the hot sun.

Posted by: Barack the Splendid at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (Ivjge)

232 "I like what you did with Chapter 1. Chapter 2 really built on those ideas. Chapter 3 is where things got super deep."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (ELUpj)

I'm having a hard enough time because I'm writing on animal research and there's this moment of "Yes, I know I can't cite that's how the rules work, but I've done this before, and that's how it's done no matter what's on the paper."

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (dzmBR)

233
Truth be told, in the first season of Survivor, when some rotund gay guy laid around naked most of the day, after capturing subsistence nutrition for his tribe and won the million, I wasn't jumping up and down with joy.

But I understood why he was there at the end.

I don't like to see backstabbing lazy f_cks win because they're better backstabbers.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (HTdUD)

234 What a stupid time to be alive
Posted by: brak at April 07, 2017 04:04 PM

And miss all these tears from Leftists?

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 04:14 PM (Ot7+c)

235 >>>if they ever do another "the nice guys" i hope they get rid of the kid.

Good movie but doesn't need a sequel

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 07, 2017 04:14 PM (lZ2Zo)

236 The Granola church in our neighborhood is advertising Sunday's sermon entitled "Celebrating Resistance."

tack on to the end of the sign "to obamacare"

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (326rv)

237 Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 04:13 PM (HTdUD)

I think he went to jail for tax evasion so there's that.

Posted by: Jack Sock at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (bLhAC)

238 Why was I not consulted. I am the self appointed leader of The Resistance! Have you not seen my vlogs that I film in my bathroom?

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (FqgrG)

239 202 pages. Two hundred and two pages.

Posted by: jd at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (IiR2y)

240 235 >>>if they ever do another "the nice guys" i hope they get rid of the kid.

Good movie but doesn't need a sequel
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 07, 2017 04:14 PM (lZ2Zo)

===================

Didn't make money. Won't be a sequel.

Just be glad that Shane Black gets to keep making movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (ELUpj)

241 I first saw School of Resistance with Pantera on the second stage at Monsters of Rock, Dallas 1984.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (DxWUs)

242 202 pages. Two hundred and two pages.
Posted by: jd at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (IiR2y)

you format these things really stupidly. Double spaced with really dumb margins.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (dzmBR)

243 239 202 pages. Two hundred and two pages.
Posted by: jd at April 07, 2017 04:15 PM (IiR2y)

==================

"Brevity is the soul of wit."
-Charles Dickens (who did not originally say this. I know...jeez)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (ELUpj)

244 And I would add to my post about the clueless students, the example of the current trend of taking a year off to do nothing but travel in Europe and party on Daddy's dime prior to going to college, where you still party on Daddy's dime and write up stupid crap about being the resistance.

Malia Obama is # 1 example.

Posted by: Jen at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (OBjuz)

245
I think he went to jail for tax evasion so there's that.

Posted by: Jack Sock

Which was a lmao moment for me. Must have been during a republican administration.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (HTdUD)

246 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a good documentary
about the hey day of National Lampoon, which had a huge influence on
70s/80s comedy.

It is and it was wicked nostalgic. I do think they spent too much
time on the Lemmings because they basically went on to be Saturday Night
Live.

That seemed like a ratings move, I think the magazine was the heart of Nat Lamp.

To keep this thread perv-compliant, the cover of the 1964 High School Yearbook Parody:

http://bit.ly/1thc509

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 07, 2017 04:09 PM

And then there's Dennis Leary's summary of the movie The Doors: I'm drunk, I'm nobody, I'm drunk, I'm famous, I'm drunk, I'm fuckin' dead".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (p+Wdc)

247
I have to wonder how many other people don't realize how heavily-edited these fake reality shows are?

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (nfBpn)

248 Is it wrong for me to wish incredible hardship on these people....hardship like scarcity of food and/or water sources? You know, something that will jar them out of their fucking fantasy world and REALLY hurt them?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (vg8iE)

249 Kids these days. How disappointing.

Back in my day we quoted Hamlet.

In the original Klingon.

Posted by: Lily Formerly of HotAir (Now from AoSHQ)assassin in the night at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (vivhj)

250

ThinkProgress Editor: Never Concede Gorsuch Is A Legitimate Member Of Court

Deny gravity!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (IqV8l)

251 But "leisure spaces" can also just refer to the couch these idiots were sitting in when they gamed the living shit out of the system.

And to think that all I did was talk a professor into letting me write a paper about how Chuck Norris exemplifies the Ubermensch in the Nietzschean sense.

I'm pretty sure he gave me an A for talking him into letting me watch Chuck Norris movies for class, not so much for the utter hilarious bullshit I spit in the paper.

Mine was only like 30 pages though.

Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (mf5HN)

252 I thought the original Nice Guys, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was better. Although I made the dumb decision to watch The Nice Guys one evening when I'd been up for about 36 hours.

So that could have colored my opinion.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (FqgrG)

253 If I recall correctly, Michelle O's senior thesis was about the experience of being a black student at Princeton.

A university graduation address I witnessed was about the speaker's experience of trying to come up with a speech topic.

Actual content is apparently passe these days.

Posted by: Emmie at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (xVuS6)

254 Come to the Forest.

Knot now!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (4WhSY)

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I'll lumber over later.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 07, 2017 04:19 PM (8XRCm)

255 250

ThinkProgress Editor: Never Concede Gorsuch Is A Legitimate Member Of Court

Deny gravity!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (IqV8l)

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So...

"That 5-4 decision is actually 4-4! Judges shouldn't consider it precedent!"

I'm sure that will work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:19 PM (ELUpj)

256 Actual content is apparently passe these days.
Posted by: Emmie at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (xVuS6)

Why attempt to discuss something of substance and reveal yourself to be an intellectual lightweight, when you can discuss yourself and be the hero of the story.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (Tnhbr)

257 "Brevity is the soul of wit."
-Charles Dickens (who did not originally say this. I know...jeez)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (ELUpj)
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

258
Also, I hope everyone here realizes that the even the sequence of dialogue is heavily edited in these fake reality shows.

In other words, the verbal response by one character might not have anything to do with what another character said on camera right before.

In other words, if ellipses were visible during the dialogue, they'd be numerous.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (nfBpn)

259 257
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

================

"Live long and prosper."
-Gandalf (over picture of Patrick Stewart)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (ELUpj)

260
I'm not exactly a fan, but the appeal isn't them being near death or anything, it's the backstabbing and political maneuvering the contestants go through.

So it's C-SPAN

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (lKyWE)

261 >>Actual content is apparently passe these days.

And navel-gazing is in!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 07, 2017 04:21 PM (NOIQH)

262 I found that shallow, cheesy Space Opera book, Starship Troopers, to be waaay less entertaining than the cinematic masterpiece Space Mutiny.

Posted by: Chadwick Susan Flemmenbaum at April 07, 2017 04:21 PM (9KfFL)

263 254
Come to the Forest.

Knot now!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM (4WhSY)

-----

I'll lumber over later.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 07, 2017 04:19 PM (8XRCm)

Wood you please leaf.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at April 07, 2017 04:21 PM (DxWUs)

264 Ever seen Sleeper by Woody Allen? They make a joke about that where the main character has a PhD in Oral Sex.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (dzmBR)

Is that the one where he is revived after 200 years and they give him steak, whiskey and cigars and the doctors are laughing about what people back then considered health food?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 04:21 PM (493sH)

265 264 Ever seen Sleeper by Woody Allen? They make a joke about that where the main character has a PhD in Oral Sex.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (dzmBR)

Is that the one where he is revived after 200 years and they give him steak, whiskey and cigars and the doctors are laughing about what people back then considered health food?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 04:21 PM (493sH)

==================

Yes.

And he kidnaps the president, who is only a nose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (ELUpj)

266 F*ck the academy. The whole thing, STEM (maybe) excepted.

And bring back mandatory shop classes in High School.

Lawn, get off of my.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (+APBP)

267 ThinkProgress Editor: Never Concede Gorsuch Is A Legitimate Member Of Court

Circa, AOSHQ Moron: What the fuck is a ThinkProgress?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (B+qrE)

268 I think it's high time we had a long discussion about the movie "Ice Pirates."

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (xeeHA)

269
So this idiotic thesis is based on an edited fake reality show in which the actors aren't really saying the things to each other as they appear on the screen.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (nfBpn)

270 257 "Brevity is the soul of wit."
-Charles Dickens (who did not originally say this. I know...jeez)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:16 PM (ELUpj)
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

That's a joke, right? Tell me he didn't really say that.

Posted by: Chelsea of House Clinton at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (7HtZB)

271 Is it wrong for me to wish incredible hardship on these people....hardship like scarcity of food and/or water sources? You know, something that will jar them out of their fucking fantasy world and REALLY hurt them?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (vg8iE)

University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment.

Just pointing that out. For no reason at all.

Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

272 If I recall correctly, Michelle O's senior thesis was about the experience of being a black student at Princeton.

And so well written it done was

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (493sH)

273 And to think that all I did was talk a professor into letting me write a paper about how Chuck Norris exemplifies the Ubermensch in the Nietzschean sense.

I'm pretty sure he gave me an A for talking him into letting me watch Chuck Norris movies for class, not so much for the utter hilarious bullshit I spit in the paper.

Mine was only like 30 pages though.
Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:18 PM (mf5HN)

Nice.

I did a presentation in school where I screened the airborne attack from Apocalypse Now for the class and asked them 'how it made them feel'.

That was fun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (zsHGH)

274 University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment.

Just pointing that out. For no reason at all.

Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

Beautiful.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (SRKgf)

275 I'm curious. What happens when your leasure space becomes a rape dungeon?

Posted by: Sliding Moral Quandry at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (cfjq1)

276 268 I think it's high time we had a long discussion about the movie "Ice Pirates."
Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (xeeHA)
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No! You'll infect the thread with Space Herpes!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (PhYV5)

277 University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total
to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment.

Their appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (4WhSY)

278 270
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

That's a joke, right? Tell me he didn't really say that.
Posted by: Chelsea of House Clinton at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (7HtZB)

=================

Nope. He really said it.

Chelsea, you should be president.

Don't let anyone in the Democratic Party tell you otherwise. You take what belongs to you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (ELUpj)

279 I think it's high time we had a long discussion about the movie "Ice Pirates."
Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:22 PM (xeeHA)
----
No! You'll infect the thread with Space Herpes!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (PhYV5)

They're really not that dangerous.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 04:25 PM (zsHGH)

280 "I like what you did with Chapter 1. Chapter 2 really built on those ideas. Chapter 3 is where things got super deep."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:12 PM (ELUpj)

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I'm going to do a dissertation entitled, Stoned, Drunk, and Laying On My Car Hood At Night - A World Retrospective.

Posted by: Soona at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (Fmupd)

281
I'm curious. What happens when your leasure space becomes a rape dungeon?

Well, for one thing, you buy a lot more plastic sheeting then you'd think.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (4WhSY)

282
University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total
to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment.

Could I get some students over here?

Posted by: Melissa Glick at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (IqV8l)

283 Is it wrong for me to wish incredible hardship on these people....hardship like scarcity of food and/or water sources? You know, something that will jar them out of their fucking fantasy world and REALLY hurt them?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 07, 2017 04:17 PM (vg8iE)

I take comfort in knowing, when the apocalypse gets here, these are the folks who will, if they are able, be serving as sex slaves.

The rest, the ones not acceptable as sex slaves, will serve as food.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (Pz4pT)

284 Nope. He really said it.

Chelsea, you should be president.

Don't let anyone in the Democratic Party tell you otherwise. You take what belongs to you!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (ELUpj)
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Shoot for the stars, inconvenient sham-marriage prop!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (xeeHA)

285 I am going to need someone to xersplain that thing about the thing about the duoethnography. My brain cannot comprehend any of these nonsense words.

Posted by: MN_Meathead at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (XHivO)

286 They're really not that dangerous.

Maybe not, but they keep coming back.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (4WhSY)

287 alexthechick: "University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment."

Faster, please.

Oh, and More, please.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (1CroS)

288 If you haven't check out ZEBRA CORNER on YouTube and his take on The Batchelor. He does the parody of the Chevy commercials. Chevy paid YouTube to take him off the trending page because he did such a good job of making fun of them.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (dKiJG)

289 No! You'll infect the thread with Space Herpes!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:24 PM (PhYV5)
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It's a risk I'm willing to take.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (xeeHA)

290 258
Also, I hope everyone here realizes that the even the sequence of dialogue is heavily edited in these fake reality shows.

In other words, the verbal response by one character might not have anything to do with what another character said on camera right before.

In other words, if ellipses were visible during the dialogue, they'd be numerous.
Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (nfBpn)

It's obvious if you pay attention to the clothes they're wearing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 07, 2017 04:27 PM (u8Ywb)

291
Why attempt to discuss something of substance and reveal yourself to be an intellectual lightweight, when you can discuss yourself and be the hero of the story.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (

The graduation speaker did throw in a "Bush is bad" diss, but that was the only content.

Posted by: Emmie at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (xVuS6)

292 The Russians stole my house out from under me and now Trump is trying to start a war with them.

*hic*

Posted by: Hilary's Handle of Vodka at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (FqgrG)

293 I'm curious. What happens when your leasure space becomes a rape dungeon?
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Well, for one thing, you buy a lot more plastic sheeting then you'd think.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 07, 2017 04:26 PM (4WhSY)

Another reason to root for the pending apocalypse. No need for plastic sheeting. You just dump the bodies far enough away so the stench doesn't get back to one's hut.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (Pz4pT)

294 "Keepin' it real" unfortunately involves suffering from impostor syndrome while you 'fake it till you make it'".

Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (e6aCv)

295 Nice.

I did a presentation in school where I screened the airborne attack from Apocalypse Now for the class and asked them 'how it made them feel'.

That was fun.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (zsHGH)

Ohhhhhh that's awesome.

When I was teaching I would step kids through a fact pattern with increasingly hilarious additions.

Okay. Car A rearends Car B while Car B is stopped at a red light. What are the key search terms to determine liability?

What if Car B was slowing for a yellow instead of stopped at a red light?

And the driver of Car A was drunk?

And the driver of Car B was on the phone?

And what if a cat ran in front of Car C and it swerved into Car B which then hit Car A where the driver was on his phone while slowing for a yellow light?

I would then point out that those were all examples of cases Old Firm handled.

I am not making this up, we had a case where a ballerina hit a nun who was walking in a crosswalk and oh the difficulty I had in not making all kinds of terribly inappropriate jokes.

Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (mf5HN)

296 There are legitimate meditations upon pop culture, you guys. I myself wrote a paper on Bored of the Rings complete with illustrations and footnotes.

My 7th Grade English teacher gave me an A+!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (PhYV5)

297 Anyone with invisalign experience want to put me some knowledge? Do you adjust after a few days and not notice the change in bite and tension on the teeth?

Its a pity I am not a vanity driven youngster in the habit of suffering discomfort to look better. All I have to get me through the sucky initial adjustment period is my miserly "I spent $$$ on this and can't and wont waste that kind of money" and that it is supposed to help with long term dental health.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (eASYU)

298
msnbc has completely concocted a narrative of Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner hate each other, which, they imply, is natural since Kushner is Jewish and Bannon hates Jews.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:29 PM (nfBpn)

299 You can now submit papers about how you and a couple of girlfriends watched The Bachelor and videotaped your reactions to it, which is a "data-generating" exercise, and then engaged in the "hyper-reflexive experience" of watching yourselves commenting on a TV show and then commenting upon your previous comments.

++++

Thanks for reminding me. I've got to get over to PornHub for a data-generating exercise with my dick. Not sure if we will follow through with the whole commenting portion. After the data has been collected, we usually just marinated in our shame.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 07, 2017 04:29 PM (R+30W)

300 Heard a clip from I think Sen. Blumenthal that without the 60 vote margin for the Supreme Court is Tyranny, so thats what they call 51% voting now. Good to know.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (Ot7+c)

301 300 Heard a clip from I think Sen. Blumenthal that without the 60 vote margin for the Supreme Court is Tyranny, so thats what they call 51% voting now. Good to know.
Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (Ot7+c)

===============

I'm sure he's ready to repeal the ACA, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (ELUpj)

302 I read Nat Lamp late in its life, after the golden years, after the bad years, when it had become okay again. Tim Matheson -- yeah, of Animal House -- was the editor in chief. I think maybe that was just an honorary position. Ian Maxtone Greame, later of the Simpsons, was a big writer.

PJ O'Rourke was long gone when I read it.

They were always making references to Chris Miller being dead. I had no idea who that was.

Posted by: ace at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (8rNrN)

303 They will also be 90% rich white kids.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:07 PM

Symbionese Army, baby!

Posted by: Meremortal, GAINZZ!!! at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (3myMJ)

304 >>"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

>>That's a joke, right? Tell me he didn't really say that.

Posted by: Chelsea of House Clinton

IT'S EVEN FUNNIER WHEN YOU REMEMBER HER MOMMY "WROTE" A BOOK BASED ON A WISE AFRICAN PROVERB OF UNKNOWN/BOGUS ORIGIN

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (NOIQH)

305 University of Missouri is closing three more dorms, bringing the total to 7 freshmen dorms that are being closed due to declining enrollment.

Just pointing that out. For no reason at all.

Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

Let me guess declining enrollment will in no way affect the staff or administration of the school or their salaries but will probably require higher tuition to make up the difference

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (493sH)

306
It's obvious if you pay attention to the clothes they're wearing.

Or when you see the guy in the gorilla costume enter the scene dribbling a basketball.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (nfBpn)

307
Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

Still angry that the internet gave Our American Cousin 4 stars?

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (lKyWE)

308 "msnbc has completely concocted a narrative of Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner hate each other"

Yep. Morning Joe has been banging this drum for awhile.

Then he and Mika screamed at the outrage in Syria and how Trump would do nothing NOTHING about it

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (SIY7D)

309 Chris Miller, or Chris Keney? I forget.

Posted by: ace at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (8rNrN)

310 msnbc has completely concocted a narrative of Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner hate each other,
___________________

Did you see that Situation Room picture? Kushner is just sneering at Bannon! Or maybe the picture caught Kushner in mid movement and he was looking at one of the other four people around Bannon.

Nah, he was sneering at Bannon! Totes.

Posted by: Charlie Gasparino at April 07, 2017 04:32 PM (FqgrG)

311 >>> Chuck Norris exemplifies the Ubermensch in the Nietzschean sense.

Good Guys Wear Black? Or Silent Rage? The Octagon? What did Bruce Lee tearing out his chest fur represent?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 07, 2017 04:32 PM (lZ2Zo)

312 I'm sure he's ready to repeal the ACA, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (ELUpj)
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Sick burn.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:33 PM (xeeHA)

313
Anyone remember that?

They'd tell you to watch the basketball in a scene of people, and then ask if you noticed the gorilla.

And then you're like A Gorrilla!! What Gorilla??

And then they replay the scene and there's a gorilla.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:33 PM (nfBpn)

314 306
It's obvious if you pay attention to the clothes they're wearing.

Or when you see the guy in the gorilla costume enter the scene dribbling a basketball.
Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (nfBpn)

You do have a point.

On the bachelor they do franken edits. They splice in reaction comments that are from a completely different time.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 07, 2017 04:34 PM (u8Ywb)

315 I am not making this up, we had a case where a ballerina hit a nun who was walking in a crosswalk and oh the difficulty I had in not making all kinds of terribly inappropriate jokes.
Posted by: alexthechick - most delicatest flowerest of innocent virtuest at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (mf5HN)

I'm having a hard time with that myself right now.
That sounds like the set up for a very, very good joke.

Where's Muldoon?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 07, 2017 04:34 PM (zsHGH)

316 The full circle is nearly complete for far left and far right.

Both entities now believe government is illegitimate. Of course the far left ultimately believes in super-government, but as long as we maintain a conservative majority at the federal level, perhaps we can reach common ground in dismantling government.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at April 07, 2017 04:34 PM (GQn43)

317 My doctor has some velspar, fucking good varnish, I should only look 104 after he brushes it on.

Posted by: Ruth the Bader Grimsburg at April 07, 2017 04:35 PM (17bvA)

318 307
Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln Posted by: Moron Pundit at April 07, 2017 04:20 PM (xeeHA)

Still angry that the internet gave Our American Cousin 4 stars?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 04:31 PM (lKyWE)

You guys are funny.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 07, 2017 04:35 PM (u8Ywb)

319
They splice in reaction comments that are from a completely different time.

Or they show a non-response that implies the actor ignores the other actor and just makes a weird face.

Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:36 PM (nfBpn)

320 Its amazing, there is just so much we don't understand about this millennial generation.

It may take decades to unwrap all this mystery.

Posted by: dananjcon at April 07, 2017 04:36 PM (WLK0w)

321 316 The full circle is nearly complete for far left and far right.

Both entities now believe government is illegitimate. Of course the far left ultimately believes in super-government, but as long as we maintain a conservative majority at the federal level, perhaps we can reach common ground in dismantling government.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at April 07, 2017 04:34 PM (GQn43)

===================

Wake me up when liberals propose the 28th Amendment:

"Any federal law that affects domestic policy must also pass 3/4 of the state legislatures."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:37 PM (ELUpj)

322 "Heard a clip from I think Sen. Blumenthal that without the 60 vote margin for the Supreme Court is Tyranny, so thats what they call 51% voting now. Good to know."

McConnell called it right. He shut down the first and last partisan filibuster of a SCOTUS nominee. Abe Fortas got a bi-partisan filibuster because he was too much an LBJ crony (and a crook).

Schumer had been peddling the false narrative that SCOTUS nominees have always required 60 votes in the Senate. It's bullshit. Why Thomas got approved with only 52

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:37 PM (SIY7D)

323 National Lampoon, Spy, and I guess I would include MAD, all throve when they had strong leadership setting the tone. But they were kind of hitched to a decade - NatLamp was very 70's, Spy loved rolling around in the Trumpian excess of the 80's, and MAD really only functioned by rebelling against the straightlaced 50's Establishment generation that was still calling the shots in the culture and politics 60's and early 70's. Once pop culture became ironic and self-referential there was nothing for MAD to lampoon.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:37 PM (PhYV5)

324
Heard a clip from I think Sen. Blumenthal that without the 60 vote margin for the Supreme Court is Tyranny, so thats what they call 51% voting now. Good to know.
Posted by: Skip

Don't they like democracy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2017 04:37 PM (IqV8l)

325 What. A. Stupid. Time. To. Be. Alive.

Posted by: User name cannot be blank at April 07, 2017 04:37 PM (cZPUP)

326 317; you should just drink it. might kill ya, but, oh, what a finish.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 07, 2017 04:38 PM (KP5rU)

327 Voldemort did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2017 04:38 PM (waD4g)

328 If this were a true democracy Hilary Clinton would be President.

Democracy is tyranny!

Posted by: Senator Richard Blumenthal (D)umbass at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (FqgrG)

329 Heard a clip from I think Sen. Blumenthal that without the 60 vote margin for the Supreme Court is Tyranny, so thats what they call 51% voting now. Good to know.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 04:30 PM (Ot7+c)

Payback is fun. Donald Trump likes payback.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Abhorrent Abominations Abound at the Outrage Outlet! at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (hLRSq)

330 319
They splice in reaction comments that are from a completely different time.

Or they show a non-response that implies the actor ignores the other actor and just makes a weird face.
Posted by: iSoothsayer at April 07, 2017 04:36 PM (nfBpn)

Some of the things the girls say need no editing. This season one of the girls said " my heart is gold but my vagine is platinum". I'm sure her parents were proud.

I admit I enjoy trash tv.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (u8Ywb)

331 "They splice in reaction comments that are from a completely different time."

Are we talking about 60 Minutes

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (SIY7D)

332 Oh, did anyone catch the CNN comparison of Obama, who fought ISIS and worked with a coalition, to Trump, who sought to overthrow Assad and acted unilaterally?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (PhYV5)

333 Also, I totes caught in Vietnam. Don't look into that though, you can trust me. I'm a politician.

Posted by: Senator Richard Blumenthal (D)umbass at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (FqgrG)

334 Its amazing, there is just so much we don't understand about this millennial generation.

It may take decades to unwrap all this mystery.
--

Not years.

Just include psychiatric visits as part of their Obamacare freebies; that and medication will help sort it out.

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at April 07, 2017 04:40 PM (FkAXz)

335 Who bitch dat is?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 07, 2017 04:40 PM (xfb67)

336 Oh, did anyone catch the CNN comparison of Obama, who fought ISIS and worked with a coalition, to Trump, who sought to overthrow Assad and acted unilaterally?

You have got to be kidding me.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 04:40 PM (B+qrE)

337 You know Leftists, whatever works for them at that moment and nothing else counts.

Posted by: Skip at April 07, 2017 04:41 PM (Ot7+c)

338 331 "They splice in reaction comments that are from a completely different time."

Are we talking about 60 Minutes
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:39 PM (SIY7D)

I'm now thinking that reality TV learned all their tricks from the msm.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 07, 2017 04:42 PM (u8Ywb)

339 Tillerson says there have been 3 nerve gas attacks, not just the last one.

Says needed to act now to prevent Assad from normalizing the use of WMD, and to discourage him from using such weapons.

Posted by: Meremortal, GAINZZ!!! at April 07, 2017 04:42 PM (3myMJ)

340 Live long and f*** off. - James T. Kirk

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at April 07, 2017 04:43 PM (+aCe4)

341 340 Live long and f*** off. - James T. Kirk
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at April 07, 2017 04:43 PM (+aCe4)

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"Get a life."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 07, 2017 04:44 PM (ELUpj)

342 You have got to be kidding me.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 07, 2017 04:40 PM (B+qrE)
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Nope.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 07, 2017 04:44 PM (PhYV5)

343 RE: Syria, there's an interesting article at GP about a "doctor" who is on the scene, talking about casualties and such was tried in the UK as a jihadist (case was dropped.) Doctor's last name is Islam.

/of course it is

Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at April 07, 2017 04:44 PM (FkAXz)

344 Reading about the activities of the Left reminds me of all those science fiction stories/shows where children have taken over the world.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 07, 2017 04:45 PM (MZcWR)

345 The other night as the hit on Syria was just breaking, in the midst of shots of Tomahawks launching from ships, one of the MSNBC chicks said that surely this must mean that Trump will now reverse position and let in Syrian refugees. Because ... logic

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (SIY7D)

346 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Doctor Jill Biden at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (ZO497)

347 his first name is probably Sayful.

Sayf al-Islam is Arabic for Sword Of Islam. popular name over there. also Sayfullah, Sayfuddeen etc etc.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (waD4g)

348 Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.

Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (FqgrG)

349 I been napping. Retired folks do that. I suppose several have noted this is MST's dissertation too.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (a0xe8)

350 Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.
Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (FqgrG)

Watch it Jack! You're not the Preezy anymore so I'm not letting you take credit for my work anymore.

Posted by: Brian Williams at April 07, 2017 04:48 PM (X+nFp)

351 Sayf al-Islam is Arabic for Sword Of Islam. popular name over there. also Sayfullah, Sayfuddeen etc etc.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (waD4g)

Does Sudafed al-Islam mean you're Sick of Islam?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 07, 2017 04:48 PM (493sH)

352 348
Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.

Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (FqgrG)

Where do we find such men?

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at April 07, 2017 04:48 PM (DxWUs)

353

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 07, 2017 04:49 PM (X+nFp)

354 Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (FqgrG)

Liar! I was there you know!

Posted by: Bryan Williams at April 07, 2017 04:49 PM (3myMJ)

355 Reading about the activities of the Left reminds me of all those science fiction stories/shows where children have taken over the world.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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See: 'Wild in the Streets', 1968

Plot summary:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mnc8527

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 04:49 PM (ZO497)

356 That's the biggest load of crap I've ever read. I wonder if I can get an advanced degree picking thru it looking for corn?

Posted by: Fritz at April 07, 2017 04:49 PM (MF/hn)

357 348; scotch or duck tape?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 07, 2017 04:50 PM (KP5rU)

358 i always mix up matheson with wally from leave it to beaver.

Posted by: concrete girl at April 07, 2017 04:50 PM (eQSM0)

359 Reading about the activities of the Left reminds me of all those science fiction stories/shows where children have taken over the world.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Only today it would be called-

Children of the Scorn

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 07, 2017 04:50 PM (X+nFp)

360
Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.
Posted by: President Obama

With duck tape.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 07, 2017 04:51 PM (IqV8l)

361 See: 'Wild in the Streets', 1968

Plot summary:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mnc8527
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Spoiler alert, a campaign slogan used (regarding voting age) is "Fourteen or Fight!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 04:52 PM (ZO497)

362 Assad says he will now fight ISIS even harder.

Nothing about the US, he's going to fight our enemies harder.

Posted by: Meremortal, with Alacrity at April 07, 2017 04:52 PM (3myMJ)

363 Remember high-falutin' interlectual Melissa Click's academic work? Femynyst drivel as seen through the 'Twilight' phenomenon.

It's increasingly clear that at least 50% of academia could be shuttered tomorrow with nothing but benefit for society.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 07, 2017 04:53 PM (oVJmc)

364 Reading about the activities of the Left reminds me of all those science fiction stories/shows where children have taken over the world.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
------------

Lord of the Flies

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 04:53 PM (ZO497)

365 Anyone with invisalign experience want to put me some knowledge? Do you adjust after a few days and not notice the change in bite and tension on the teeth?

Its a pity I am not a vanity driven youngster in the habit of suffering discomfort to look better. All I have to get me through the sucky initial adjustment period is my miserly "I spent $$$ on this and can't and wont waste that kind of money" and that it is supposed to help with long term dental health.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 07, 2017 04:28 PM (eASYU)

I did it. It was worth the money.

You wear them almost all day and night, so other than when you're eating they're supposed to be in. I didn't notice any significant pain or tension, and the change in bite is expected. It was gradual, and frankly my only complaint is they don't recommend it for kids.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2017 04:53 PM (Pz4pT)

366 Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.

Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:46 PM (FqgrG)

Where do we find such men?
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at April 07, 2017 04:48 PM (DxWUs)

In alleys, giving bj's for money, mostly.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 07, 2017 04:54 PM (Pz4pT)

367 Tim Matheson voiced Jonny Quest in the short-lived TV comic series.

How's that for some useless trivia.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:55 PM (SIY7D)

368 362 Assad says he will now fight ISIS even harder.

Nothing about the US, he's going to fight our enemies harder.

Posted by: Meremortal, with Alacrity at April 07, 2017 04:52 PM (3myMJ)

Wow. Trump is that good!

Posted by: washrivergal at April 07, 2017 04:55 PM (Ivjge)

369 >>Where do we find such men?

I hear American, inner-city kids can more easily get guns than books, so I'd look there...

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 07, 2017 04:57 PM (NOIQH)

370
Nothing about the US, he's going to fight our enemies harder. Posted by: Meremortal, with Alacrity at April 07, 2017 04:52 PM (3myMJ)

But he said earlier that the U.S. is on the side of ISIS

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 07, 2017 04:57 PM (lKyWE)

371 Where do we find such men?
________________

WE come from places of great humility, where we rarely talk about ourselves or our great deeds.

Posted by: President Obama at April 07, 2017 04:58 PM (FqgrG)

372 It's increasingly clear that at least 50% of academia could be shuttered tomorrow with nothing but benefit for society.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
----------
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2000 members of the faculty of Harvard University. - Wm. F. Buckley

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 04:59 PM (ZO497)

373 "But he said earlier that the U.S. is on the side of ISIS"

Jeez, that's why he's going to fight them harder.

Same guy thought using gas to kill 100 civilians was a great idea

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 07, 2017 04:59 PM (SIY7D)

374 Wow, Mike Hammer. I was looking up Wild in the Streets just a few days ago - mostly because of the big tune from it, The Shape of Things to Come . The surf band Davie Allan and the Arrows performed it for the movie incognito and later released their own version as an instrumental.

Anyway, yeah. 14 year olds get to vote, young musician becomes president, and old people get sent off to the LSD camps.

Posted by: Sporkatus at April 07, 2017 04:59 PM (eXSOZ)

375 364 Reading about the activities of the Left reminds me of all those science fiction stories/shows where children have taken over the world.
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Lord of the Flies
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 04:53 PM (ZO497)

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Children of the Corn

Posted by: Soona at April 07, 2017 05:00 PM (Fmupd)

376 Lest CNN forget, I also personally led the mission that killed Bin Laden. Double taped him myself.

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It's true. I was there.

Posted by: Brian Williams at April 07, 2017 05:00 PM (ZO497)

377 Wow, Mike Hammer. I was looking up Wild in the Streets just a few days ago - mostly because of the big tune from it, The Shape of Things to Come . The surf band Davie Allan and the Arrows performed it for the movie incognito and later released their own version as an instrumental.
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AoSHQ. The repository of obscuri.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 05:03 PM (ZO497)

378 Wait...two sequential posts? That can only mean one thing...and it rhymes with 'Willowed'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 07, 2017 05:04 PM (ZO497)

379 Nothing shows erudition like adding extra syllablisms to intelligencify your expressionising.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at April 07, 2017 05:04 PM (QtQaN)

380 Davie Allan was involved with Mike Curb for a while, which is how he ended up scoring a tune for another exploitation film around then - Blues Theme for Wild Angels. Roger Corman movie, Peter Fonda, nazi bikers, that kind of thing.

Mike Curb, of course, did Burning Bridges for Kelly's Heroes.

Posted by: Sporkatus at April 07, 2017 05:09 PM (eXSOZ)

381 Thanks BurtTC. I'm getting a neck tension thing today which may not be completely from the retainers but is related to my back teeth not being able to meet cuz of the plastic. And I can feel the tug on my teeth/jaw. Its not to a level of actual pain but when I take the liners out to eat, I'm procrastinating on putting them back in. I'm sure I'll adjust. This is only day 2 of having them.

I could see my teeth getting more crooked after blowing off doing this when the dentist first suggested because I thought it was purely cosmetic and didn't care. But I suddenly have more sympathy for teens, since so many have gone through braces or something and it is a PITM.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 07, 2017 05:21 PM (eASYU)

382 "I'm old enough to remember when Resisting a president and calling him illegitimate was a near crime, akin to treason."

Yeah--three months ago.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 07, 2017 07:54 PM (Ndje9)

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