# Hey!! Meryl Streep!!!!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096 "2004-01-26T03:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/21 "2004-01-26T04:42:31Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > well CRIPES!! If everyone is so Uninterested… Why do they keep replying about being disinterested??? You’re a fucking idiot. There, is _that_ better? ---
**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/22 "2004-01-26T04:48:11Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > You’re a fucking idiot. There, is _that_ better? Lets see now, because I do not like to see POLITICAL speeches at an awards show, be it a conservative opinion OR a right wing Howard Deanish lunaticical rampage all of a sudden YOU feel the need to start calling me names??? hmmm sounds like typical liberal reaction… Did the dog poop on your carpet today? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/23 "2004-01-26T04:49:13Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > In the interest of the OP, I posted an opinion and interestingly enough,don’t recall asking for anyone elses opinion since I wasnt interested in anyone elses opinion, interesting though it MIGHT have been, but if you feel > the need… … … carry on… be my guest, whatever rolls your socks up and down If you didn’t want anyone else’s opinion, why did you post this thread? Posting something on a public message board is an open invitation to anyone who happens to read it to reply. That’s pretty much the entire point of an internet message board. If you didn’t want anyone to reply to what you wrote, why not just write “Shut up, Meryl” on a 3x5 card, crumple it up, and throw it away? That way, you’ve expressed your vitally important opinion, and managed to not make yourself look like an idiot in public. Sounds win-win to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/24 "2004-01-26T04:55:55Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > Lets see now, > > because I do not like to see POLITICAL speeches at an awards show, be it a conservative opinion OR a right wing Howard Deanish lunaticical > rampage all of a sudden YOU feel the need to start calling me names??? > > hmmm sounds like typical liberal reaction… > > Did the dog poop on your carpet today? I would suggest not posting under the influence. Lunaticical? I think the dog pooped on your posting. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/25 "2004-01-26T04:56:31Z")
Actually, I thought Jim Carrey’s little snipe at _Elf_ was in bad taste. More so than any political opinion. But, you can’t stop movie stars from saying politcal shit on award shows. And you shouldn’t be surprised by it, either. Also… you’re a stupid stupidhead. ---
**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/26 "2004-01-26T04:58:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > If you didn’t want anyone else’s opinion, why did you post this thread? Posting something on a public message board is an open invitation to anyone who happens to read it to reply. That’s pretty much the entire point of an internet message board. If you didn’t want anyone to reply to what you wrote, why not just write “Shut up, Meryl” on a 3x5 card, crumple it up, and throw it away? That way, you’ve expressed your vitally important opinion, and managed to not make yourself look like an idiot in public. Sounds win-win to me. Obviously YOU didnt see Meryls little tirade, she is the one that made herself look like an idiot in public… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/27 "2004-01-26T05:00:42Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > Lets see now, > > because I do not like to see POLITICAL speeches at an awards show, be it a conservative opinion OR a right wing Howard Deanish lunaticical > rampage all of a sudden YOU feel the need to start calling me names??? No. I’m calling you an idiot for posting some drivel and expecting people _not_ to post their opinions of said drivel. Also because yu’re obviously too fucking lazy to go make a sandwich or _gasp_ actually _change_ the channel when something comes on that you don’t want to see. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/28 "2004-01-26T05:03:54Z")
I’ve never seen **Q.E.D** like this. Tee hee. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/29 "2004-01-26T05:04:10Z")
> [@nuthinboutnuthin](#): > > Obviously YOU didnt see Meryls little tirade, she is the one that made herself look like an idiot in public… I’ll have to take your word for it, since you’re clearly the resident expert on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/30 "2004-01-26T05:06:12Z")
Actually, I think awards shows are a perfect venue for stating a political opinion. The shows themselves are basically vapid informercials for the industry but they have large audiences and if the political message is more important at _all_ it’s more important than an awards show. If you have something to say you might as well say it. You might make somebody think and who cares if the GG awards get sidetracked for a minute? It’s funny that no one ever gets upset by all the patriotic grandstanding at sports events these days. Praising the troops is just fine too. Pro-war sentiment isn’t “political.” it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/31 "2004-01-26T05:09:47Z")
OMG guys i wuz waiting 4 teh Bus Downtown and this homeless Girl was all like “STOP STARING AT ME!!!1” and yelling at everyone, and i was like “Hey, no one CARES!” Damn Liberals! ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/32 "2004-01-26T05:36:29Z")
I blink, therefore… I am. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/33 "2004-01-26T05:37:47Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > How about an Abraham Link-oln, here? [Here you go.](http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/a044.html) You’ll have to ask my brother **Cervaise** to sing it, though. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/34 "2004-01-26T06:13:36Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > At the Golden Globes tonight, she said that we have more important things to worry about than people who wish to commit their lives together and athletes on steroids. Yeah, like Alar on apples. Meryl should keep her yap shut on things outside of acting. Although given the amount of work she’s been getting, I guess we won’t be hearing much of her. PS: Seemed to me that Dubya said a lot of things were more important to worry about than gay marriage and steriods. You know, terrorism, for example. That’s why he didn’t start out the speech: “Ladies and gentlemen, the State of the Union is good except for the scourge of jocks on roids and all these people making commitments to one another…” ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/35 "2004-01-26T06:20:05Z")
> [@schplebordnik](#): > > Meryl should keep her yap shut on things outside of acting. likewise… ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/36 "2004-01-26T06:34:50Z")
You know, people used to talk about steroid abuse or committed relationships, but these days it’s their sleep number: “I’m a 30!” “I’m a 70!” “I’m a 25 but I used to be a 40, isn’t that funny?” I care about MY sleep number. I set my side to 25, my wife sets hers to 60, we go to sleep. So don’t come up to me and say “I had to watch Meryl Streep talk, how 'bout you?” because I DON’T CARE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/37 "2004-01-26T06:48:55Z")
> [@schplebordnik](#): > > Yeah, like Alar on apples. > > Meryl should keep her yap shut on things outside of acting. Although given the amount of work she’s been getting, I guess we won’t be hearing much of her. > > PS: Seemed to me that Dubya said a lot of things were more important to worry about than gay marriage and steriods. You know, terrorism, for example. That’s why he didn’t start out the speech: “Ladies and gentlemen, the State of the Union is good except for the scourge of jocks on roids and all these people making commitments to one another…” Is there anything LESS important than stopping gay marriages? Is there any excuse at all for introducing some stupid, personal bugbear into the SOTU Address? Go Meryl. Shrub should keep his yap shut on things outside of Playstation baseball. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/38 "2004-01-26T07:06:49Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Is there any excuse at all for introducing some stupid, personal bugbear into the SOTU Address? Not sure it’s just personal. In fact, as Dubya noted in his speech, Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act. And then there are the poll results, which last I heard were on Dubya’s side. Note also that Dubya never said that gay marriage should be outlawed. He said that one state may not redefine marriage for another state. If the people of Massachussets or Hawaii or Vermont want to make gay marriage a reality in those states, there isn’t much Dubya can do about it (unless he tries to shoehorn some sort of federal legislation based on interstate commerce, which I doubt he’d do and the Supremes would likely not uphold). ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/39 "2004-01-26T07:14:23Z")
Actually I wasn’t forced to hear her words on TV…I HAD TO HEAR IT HERE. You fucking moron! If you are ignorant to the point of actually watching that shit in the first place. Actors giving each other awards, gimme a fucking break. I wouldn’t even watch the shit they were bragging about. Never even heard of half the friggin shows they mentioned on the news as being “awarded”. So you’re saying that the ignorant bitch was wrong. That we SHOULD be worried about gay marriages, huh? Good lord…next thing they’ll be talking about selling dildoes in Texas again. Fucking stupid shit. and to think I let a halfass intelligent thread to stop in here. :smack: Hey **D/C** wussup! ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096/40 "2004-01-26T07:21:17Z")
sorry **nuthin** nuthin personal…had a bad fuckin weeks all and it just felt good to rant w/ya a bit. Damn, I can’t even chew on somebody’s ass anymore without feelin guilty. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-meryl-streep/226096.md?page=3)