I agree with Airman Doors, lissener’s post about “dance, monkey, dance” was an obvious confession of trollery on his part. I don’t see how a reasonable person could read it any other way.
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By the same token, *Showgirls * on HDTV is as much of an oxymoronic ludicrosity. Can you *smell * the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you *feel * the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No!
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Exactly! No “show,” no “girls,” just a flat representation of real life. A ludicrosity indeed.
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Can you *smell * the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you *feel * the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No!
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Try the Sony.
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Can you *smell * the funk coming from Gina Gershon’s nethers? No! Can you *feel * the slap of Elizabeth Berkley’s funbags upside your head? No!
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Sure wish I could, though.
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Well, there’s your problem. Lissener wasn’t talking about sports, per se. He was calling “sports on HDTV” an “oxymoronic ludicrosity.” And he’s right!
Sports on HDTV aren’t really sports! They’re a 2D construct, a representation, an image. Can you smell the dirt and sweat of the players on HDTV? No! Can you feel the slap of the dodgeball upside your head? No!
Sports are meant to be experienced: smelled, and felt, and tasted. The pale construct represented on HDTV isn’t “sports.” It’s a ludicrosity.
And you’d do well to remember that.
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But why HDTV in particular? It’s just as far removed from the authentic experience on the RCA of my youth as it is in the showroom at Paul’s King of Bigscreen.
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This is retarded ludicrosity.
I don’t know which is worse, lissener’s obvious trollery or your long-winded, pedantic analysis. At least lissener’s comment was kinda funny, in junior-high kind of way.
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De gustibus, I guess. I enjoyed the deconstruction more than I did the original thread-crap.
I don’t think lissener is a troll, but he certainly seemed to be trolling then. Sadly the rules don’t differentiate between the two.
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Exactly! No “show,” no “girls,” just a flat representation of real life. A ludicrosity indeed.
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My chances of seeing Gina Gershon nude in real life are so miniscule that they can’t be measured with 21st century technology. I’ll take a 2D representation as the next best thing. Lacking as it may be, it is of the same order of magnitude better than no nude Gina Gershon at all.
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I am convinced that people like Lissener will, eventually, drive the development of new technologies. Technologies which will, in time, allow you to punch someone in the mouth via the internet.
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I laughed out loud as I formed the visual on this one!
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I am convinced that people like Lissener will, eventually, drive the development of new technologies. Technologies which will, in time, allow you to punch someone in the mouth via the internet.
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I pray every day that this breakthrough will come. Dear OG do I pray…
The emperor is naked. Film at 11.
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…I don’t know which is worse, lissener’s obvious trollery or your long-winded, pedantic analysis. At least lissener’s comment was kinda funny, in junior-high kind of way.
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Well, if you don’t know, copy off your buddy’s paper. You won’t get caught.
Actually you’ve got a point. Tell you what: from now on I’ll begin all my posts with a fart joke. That will give you something to chortle at (quietly, please) while anyone who likes long-winded and pedantic analysis goes on to read the other, longer parts. That way, fewer people will feel that I’m shirking my obligation to entertain them.
Okay, Airman, it’s not about you, or sports, or HDTV: it’s just another episode of Pro-Bono Troll Hunter. Carry on, and when it’s over I’ll be the one saying, “…and we never got a chance to thank him.”
Wait, people are upset that lissener seemed to thread fart in a …Cafe Society thread? No? A MPSIMS thread? No? An IMHO thread? No? A General Questions thread? No? A Great Debates thread? No?
**A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? **
giggle
Was Ideocracy a documentary?
[QUOTE=Equipoise]
Wait, people are upset that lissener seemed to thread fart in a …Cafe Society thread? No? A MPSIMS thread? No? An IMHO thread? No? A General Questions thread? No? A Great Debates thread? No?
**A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? **
giggle
Was Ideocracy a documentary?
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He has made it a clean sweep, every forum crapped in. The occasion deserved some sort of acknowledgement.
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Okay, Airman, it’s not about you, or sports, or HDTV: it’s just another episode of Pro-Bono Troll Hunter. Carry on, and when it’s over I’ll be the one saying, “…and we never got a chance to thank him.”
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I didn’t even have to hunt. He came to me.
Somebody pissed off Airman? Laid-back, easy-going Airman? Hard to grasp, its like visualizing Sheriff Andy of Mayberry pistol-whipping Otis.
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Was Ideocracy a documentary?
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A documentary about rule or government based on ideology or theory? Like Triumph of the Will ?
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Somebody pissed off Airman? Laid-back, easy-going Airman? Hard to grasp, its like visualizing Sheriff Andy of Mayberry pistol-whipping Otis.
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Wait ‘till you see it in HD. There’s practically blood and teeth in your living room. 
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Wait ‘till you see it in HD. There’s practically blood and teeth in your living room.
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With redder blood and…greener teeth?
[QUOTE=Equipoise]
**A…wait, hold on…lissener gets Pitted because he crapped in a PIT THREAD??? **
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I am pretty sure that he got pitted because he admitted to trolling in a Pit thread. (Glances up at thread title.) Yep. That was it.