fett on 22/2/2006 at 04:43

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I'm not sure what you said, but whatever the Stark Fist is - they should include it in the competition.

demagogue on 22/2/2006 at 05:03

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Sounds like Bob ... or rather some kind of distorted anti-Bob but really Bob at its heart thing.

After some research (not really): (http://www.xanga.com/JR_Bob_Dobbs) close enough.

Still the quickest way to get a minister's license to perform marriages.

I'd have put you as 'the only emporer is the emporer of ice cream' kind of guy rather than just the ice cream man ... makes you sound like you drive one of those trucks in the suburbs that churn out it's a small world all day.

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edit, by the way, as long as we're on the subject of the so-called depravity of t.v. audiences (yes, yes ... we don't have to always care ... not trying to steal fett's point here, but it got me thinking):

Has anyone noticed that job-posting website commercial (maybe Monster.com, I can't remember; and maybe only in the US?) where some guy is working in an office full of unruly chimps or jackasses and wants a better job ("no thanks guys; I don't want to go out drinking for lunch."); And then the seriously *next* commercial is a Millers commercial where one guy hides a bunch of beer in the office and comes to work to find the employees literally tearing the walls apart and tackling each other looking for beer and isn't beer at work the best thing since casual-Fridays?

Watching those two commercials back-to-back was almost too surreal ... There's almost no way you can't watch one without thinking in terms of the other; and it puts you in a serious "WTF am I supposed to think after that?" position.

Am I supposed to feel some kind of pity or outright hostility for these people that don't have enough self-control to simply take the day off and drink at home and tear their own walls apart than have to come to work and pull that kind of unprovoked shit on me, pulling the chair out from under me olol, sucking me into their over-hormonal, juvenile faggotry (like the Monster.com commercial wants me to feel) OR am I supposed to feel that the guy working with the people he contemptuously looks down on as "chimps" should seriously chill the fuck out: you're in middle management. You're not pulling Africans out of poverty or discovering the cure for AIDS; on your best days you're working out the maximum CO2 saturation for your carbonated drink that critically-wounds the fewest people a year from bottle explosions while preventing it from going flat for the longest period, work so soul-crushingly useless to the greater-good of the world that you can forgive some of us for keeping a little lighter mood around the place while we do what we have to do to keep bread on the table than have to watch your holier-than-thou punk-ass brooding seriousness all day as if your work would be remembered for generations to come when you'll be lucky if it's half-assed skimmed by your supervisor and forgotten by next week. Seriously, lighten up and try to enjoy life a little (what the Miller commercial wants me to feel).

TV now-a-days (like this example, and like what fett mentioned) has my sympathies very confused, or it would except that I don't watch near enough of it to invest any care in anything that it wants me to care about. These kind of double-standard, "wtf am I supposed to think here, or what does it really expect me to care about here?" kind of moments just turn me off of it even more.

OnionBob on 22/2/2006 at 10:51

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holy lol

LesserFollies on 22/2/2006 at 19:28

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Another Olympic freak here. I love the Olympics, especially the Winter Games, because I was raised in an ice-skating family (my mom was an ice dancer and competed locally). But mostly I watch them NOT to root for America or to feel American but to be raised ABOVE that sort of thing, and to feel like a citizen of the world, the family of man type thing. I know it's corny, but there it is. That's also one of the reasons I like a certain irc channel as well, because I can be with people from all over the fucking world. ALTHOUGH IT'S MOSTLY ALL FINNS AND BRITS, GODDAMN FINNS AND BRITS EVERYWHERE :D

(sorry to be so retarded)