Rich, skinny, famous people are no better than poor, fat, anonymous ones.
I am sick to death of people-worship in our society.
Tattoos. Completely fugly.
Sunglasses. While there might be perfectly good reasons to wear them, there is not a soul in existence who looks better in the things than they do out of them.
Oh, and Catcher in the Rye. It was lame in high school, it is lame now.
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I drink coffee black. Starbucks is terrible. It has a burnt crappy taste. I try it every year or so and wind up pouring it out.
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Nobody cares that you don’t like Starbucks.
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Oh yeah.
Jack Kirby, may he rest in peace.
Totally overrated as a comic book artist.
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He did have this way of making everybody look squat, beady-eyed and chrome-plated, didn’t he?
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Miller, Vonnegut, Wolfe
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Completely overrated. Especially Kurt “I am a self-proclaimed misunderstood and edgy wanker who likes to think he’s ahead of his time” Vonnegut. After I read Cat’s Cradle I wanted to set my hair on fire.
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The guys who write that stuff write it because they don’t understand REAL LIFE and REAL PEOPLE and so they have to make up fake worlds and fake people. A real writer, someone like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Miller, Vonnegut, Wolfe, knows what real people and real life are like, and writes about it, instead of inventing fake universes to set everything in.
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Hang on, Kurt Vonnegut didn’t write science fiction? I mean, it was crap, sure, but it was still pretty clearly science fiction.
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
The Thai monarchy. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything further without risking 15 years in prison. 
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Sam wins the thread.
What hasn’t been done here… oh, I know. “Popular stuff that I think sucks” threads. I get it, you don’t like some stuff that’s popular. No need to go nuts about it.
I second/third the nominations for the Baby Boom generation. You killed rock music, just let it die. It seems like American culture is 75 percent composed of nostalgia for crap, and I attribute that to Boomers who insist all the minor bands from their youth be revered. That was bad enough on its own, but now it’s been adopted by younger people and nothing ever goes away. If it does, it’s quickly revived as camp by people who don’t know the meaning of irony.
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Bob Dylan–who told this man he could sing? Who told him he was a great lyricist? He is naught but a narcissistic poseur.
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He’s also a song thief, and the way his fans apologize for it is ridiculous. The same thing happens with Led Zeppelin (who never wrote a single decent lyric). Dylan is just a little more annoying because you can tell he knows he will get away with it. He’s Bob Freaking Dylan, after all.
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I think Stone and Parker would be pretty upset to have their show considered a sacred cow.
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Tough: it’s a scared cow in a certain set. Which is too bad, because not only is the show unfunny, Stone and Parker are terrible as social satirists. We get it, guys, you know how to oversimplify! Do you want an award for it? When did the guys who made the cartoon with the kids cursing suddenly become the leading political satirists of their generation? Give me a break.
Oh, and I forgot one other thing about the Boomers: they didn’t bring peace and love to the land. The Freedom Riders and activists did the work. The hippies mostly just wore cool clothes and listened to good music. They give themselves way too much credit.
Penn & Teller: obnoxious, rude, and stupid. plus, they don’'t do any good tricks!
Basketball is boring.
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Hang on, Kurt Vonnegut didn’t write science fiction? I mean, it was crap, sure, but it was still pretty clearly science fiction.
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He actually wrote about the irony of the science fiction label and how usually the inclusion of any science was at best coincidental.
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Guys who trim their eyebrows…
I can’t wait till this fad is over, and guys retain their natural brows.
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waggles his scraggly bird nests at Panache
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Guys who trim their eyebrows. I HATE it!!! It looks fake, it looks effeminate (not that there’s anything wrong with that), it totally throws off the balance of the face and makes the eyes look weak. I know a guy who had a beautiful almost-monobrow, and now it looks like he penciled in his brows, and I feel like shaking his shoulders and knocking some sense into him.
I can’t wait till this fad is over, and guys retain their natural brows.
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Eyebrows are bad. Shaved pubes are worse. :blech:
TV is better now than it ever has been, and it’s all thanks to reality television. Before cable and satellite, networks had to appeal to a broad market simply to get the best shares relative to the other networks: An ideal split would have been one-third of the total viewing public per network. The explosion of channels allowed each network to be content with less, and therefore target a narrower audience. Network TV has decided that the morons entertained by reality TV and game shows are its natural constituency and more power to it: I get to watch Good Eats on Food Network, classic movies from the past nine decades on TCM, and engaging documentaries on the Documentary channel, and completely ignore the Jeffs Probst and Foxworthy.
Apple products are neither good-looking nor all that innovative. The only reason Apple succeeds as often as it does is that Apple fans include the tastemakers in Hollywood and New York City.
Disco wasn’t all that bad. Hell, it beat the shit out of the Eagles and plenty of other rock bands of the same era. I’d rather listen to “I Feel Love” than the majority of what the Rolling Stones put out in that decade and if anyone suggests a live song longer than six minutes I’m going to break their face with my bare hands.
Live albums largely suck. You either were there or you weren’t, and if you weren’t you probably prefer professional mixing over indistinct crowd sounds and random heckling.
Freddy Got Fingered is a hilarious movie. Tom Green is a comedic genius.
All new cars look like shit. They may be safer but they all look like big, round, curvy, toy-like pieces of shit. Your new Honda Element is not “fun,” it’s an ugly sin against aesthetics.
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Sue Grafton is a sloppy writer. She cannot write a comprehensive sentence.
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I believe you mean “comprehensible,” unless you intent to assert that any sentence Ms. Grafton writes should include all information imaginable on the subject of the novel in which it appears.
Gaudere help me. Gaudere help us all.
The American version of The Office is retarded. The British version is the only one worth watching.
Bob Dylan’s old albums might be good, but today, he is a washed up, drunken, disheveled wreck of a man who puts no effort at all into performing and gives a terrible live show.
Buffy and all the other Whedon badass-female-warrior shows are lame. Female warriors who are deceptively sexy and sassy, yet have the power to kick everyone’s ass with super-ninja-powers, is a cliched and totally played out genre. The only thing that saved Firefly for me was Adam Baldwin.
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I believe you mean “comprehensible,” unless you intent to assert that any sentence Ms. Grafton writes should include all information imaginable on the subject of the novel in which it appears.
Gaudere help me. Gaudere help us all.
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You know, that’s not what holographic writing actually means, but it should be…
Rilla of Ingleside is the worst L.M. Montgomery novel.
