# Congratulate me! Almost Kardashian free, since the Conception.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576 "2014-09-25T23:19:13Z")
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/1 "2014-09-25T23:19:13Z")
I’m kind of very proud of myself. Since it was announced that Kim Kardashian was pregnant, I have studiously avoided reading so much as a whole headline that had her name in it.
Of course, I have slipped-I am only human, but, I don’t think that I have read over more than 6 headlines with her name in it, and NO articles, since then. My secret: peripheral vision. Yep. I can usually catch a “Kim” in a headline. This peripheral vision isn’t unique to me, but, I do work at it. See a capital “K”? Whoa, there, hh! Let’s check out the sports! Comics! Reread about Obamacare! Gov. Christie! Anything, except…the Creature!
My resolve only grows, as time goes by. I plan to have read NO headlines about her by this time next year.
It’s all about the discipline.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/2 "2014-09-25T23:33:19Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> My secret: peripheral vision.
My secret: not giving a shit. Oddly, I don’t have to work at it too hard.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/3 "2014-09-25T23:33:59Z")
Aren’t Kardashians those creatures on Star Trek?
Joking aside, I have to say I am aware of the existence of these beings mainly through jokes on SNL and abuse heaped on them here. I have never been tempted to read past a headline.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/4 "2014-09-26T00:57:44Z")
She’s pregnant? I actually hadn’t heard.
Thanks lots.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/5 "2014-09-26T00:58:14Z")
They got an act, and they can sell it. It’s ok to follow their escapades if you’re doing it _ironically._
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/6 "2014-09-26T01:32:06Z")
I occasionally see a picture of a Kardashian on the cover of a magazine while I’m waiting in line at the grocery store. Other than that, I’ve been pretty much Kardashian-free since the OJ trial ended.
It’s not hard at all if you really just don’t care.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/7 "2014-09-26T01:37:06Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
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> I occasionally see a picture of a Kardashian on the cover of a magazine while I’m waiting in line at the grocery store. Other than that, I’ve been pretty much Kardashian-free since the OJ trial ended.
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> It’s not hard at all if you really just don’t care.
I only just yesterday (yes, yesterday, September 24, 2014) noticed, for the first time, some reference to a Kardashian w/r/t the OJ trial. It was in some several-months-old issue of Time Magazine. I coulda gone the rest of my life without knowing that and it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference to me.
ETA: Really, I know very nearly nothing about them. Not once ever, having seen various headlines, have I felt any particular reason to read, or not to read, the attached article. I know they seem to come in for lots of ridicule just for being _Kardashian_ but I have no idea to this day why that is so, or why I should care or why I shouldn’t care. What’s the big deal that they’re always so ridiculed? Wait, don’t answer. I don’t even know why I should care about that.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/8 "2014-09-26T01:51:13Z")
I’ve also only heard of them through jokes. There’s about a 50/50 chance I could recognize Kim, I have a vague notion of what she looks like, but none of the others or even the guy she is/was married to.
The Kardashians are like crystal meth. If you find it hard to avoid them, you’re hanging out in the wrong place. Life is too short to be reading anything that features the Kardashians so heavily.
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### Author:  [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/9 "2014-09-26T06:30:10Z")
> [@Fubaya](#):
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> I’ve also only heard of them through jokes. There’s about a 50/50 chance I could recognize Kim, I have a vague notion of what she looks like, but none of the others or even the guy she is/was married to.
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> The Kardashians are like crystal meth. If you find it hard to avoid them, you’re hanging out in the wrong place. Life is too short to be reading anything that features the Kardashians so heavily.
I think the only place I’ve seen them is that show on E(The Soup?) that shows clips of and mocks reality shows.
I also once saw a post someone made of an article where on their show apparently they gathered from around the world for a vagina smelling contest, where they compared their vaginal odors to see who smelled the best. Yea that was pretty gross seeing as they are sisters, they kind of define disgusting idle rich.
[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4849734/Kardashians-have-vagina-smell-off.html](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4849734/Kardashians-have-vagina-smell-off.html)
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> The Sun – THE Kardashian sisters have left viewers appalled after taking part in a vile sniffing contest for their reality TV show.In shocking scenes aired during this week’s episode of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, the two sisters were seen discussing how pineapple juice could make a woman’s private parts smell “sweeter” And to their audience’s horror Kim, 32, and Kourtney, 33, then went on to challenge each other to a “vagina smell-off”. The vulgar contest saw the elder Kardashian girls downing litres of pineapple juice, before asking younger sister Khloe to judge their distasteful challenge. Khloe was seen telling them: “Do I want to be the judge of the pineapple p\*\*\*\*? Not really, but we’re sisters … if I can’t smell their p\*\*\*\*\*\*, what else am I supposed to do?” The 28-year-old later ruled: “Honestly, I will say that Kim’s p\*\*\*\* smells the best – she’s the winner.” Disgusted viewers took to Twitter to slam the repugnant scenes. Katie Callaghan tweeted: “Listening to Kourtney and Kim Kardashian argue about which one of them has the better vagina makes me sad to be an American.” While Tiffany Miller wrote: “No way are the Kardashian girls having a vagina-smell-off. F\*\*\*ing sick!” And Justin added: “Just when you thought reality TV couldn’t hit rock bottom, the Kardashians are having a Vagina Smell Off.”
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/10 "2014-09-26T14:51:32Z")
I look at it this way: I figure web bots measure how many hits a certain topic receives, and has a bracket for which headlines get displayed more prominently based on amount of hits. If I don’t click on a Kardashian thing, it just might miss the upper bracket by 1 and get pushed further down the chain. So my lack of interest actually counts for something.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/11 "2014-09-26T15:01:53Z")
I call it “Keeping up with the Kevorkians”.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/12 "2014-09-26T15:03:11Z")
Reminds me of a National Lampoon (IIRC) questionaire “Are you a hipster?”
“Do you watch as many soap operas because you hate them, as does a housewife who loves them?”
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/13 "2014-09-26T16:27:03Z")
I wouldn’t know a Kardashian if I tripped over one.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/14 "2014-09-26T19:15:48Z")
> [@grude](#):
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> … I also once saw a post someone made of an article where on their show apparently they gathered from around the world for a vagina smelling contest, where they compared their vaginal odors to see who smelled the best. …
I lost a _fortune_ betting on Kim!
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulate-me-almost-kardashian-free-since-the-conception/699576/15 "2014-09-26T19:18:15Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> I wouldn’t know a Kardashian if I tripped over one.
From all reports, you can smell the difference.