You need to try the In-and-Out Burger in North Hollywood on Radford.
Ditto!!! I’ve never understood the hatred for that book.
I don’t get the overwhelming warm fuzzies that people here seem to have for both BtVS and Firefly. And Kevin Smith, I don’t get the appeal at all.
Libertarianism is the new communism. The consensus opinion here at the SDMB is far more optimistic of L. than I. Give the rogue 5 percent the green light and they will run wild.
At least we have Sarah Brightman.
To me it is. I’m very unlikely to enjoy a book or movie if I can’t identify with or even like any of the characters. And I care about the quality of movies or literature in the same way I care about the quality of food or wine- I’m interested in what I like, not in some objective standard of what’s good.
Apparent consensus - Chloe is amazing and fascinating and utterly magnificent, but Lana is boring and annoying and not as pretty.
I disagree 50%. Yes, Allison Mack is wonderful. But DAMN, Kristen Kreuk is a knockout. She lights up the screen (not to mention my synapses) every single time. Her scene doing gymnastics on the diving board in her lingerie - best thing ever.
I loves me some Neutrogena.
I may be retarded, but I still cannot fathom what the hell you’re trying to say. Can you please state for me, entirely without irony or cleverness, the opinion that you’re trying to put across? Thanks.
No one here would advocate not supporting the troops (as far as we know) - it’s not an issue at all. Do some people argue not to support the troops? No. Then it’s a counter-point to a point that no one holds.
No, the “support the troops” ribbons and mentality have nothing to do with actual support for the troops. They’ve essentially become an irrational, knee-jerk way to express “support the government”. When someone criticizes government policy, amongst a crowd less intelligent than here, they’ll get false accusations of “Why don’t you support the troops?” or “Why do you support saddam?” or “Why do you stomp puppies?” They’ve been naively manipulated into thinking in these terms by propoganda.
And so the sort of people who put those stickers on their car at part of the fun never-question-the-government flag waving club. Something people at the SDMB are far less likely to be in than average. As such, I think that the inclusion of that is in line with the other stuff.
I should’ve said “(as far as I know)” - not sure why I said we, because it just makes it confusing.
Futurama is almost but not quite funny.
OH!OH!OH! Them’s fightin’ words!
Just kidding. I know that this thread is about saying what we disagree with that everyone else is on board with. I’ll call you out in another thread. 
(And I do realize that BBM is a hot/cold kind of movie. Either you love it and want to marry it like I do, or you could have lived quite nicely without ever having seen it.)
And I don’t support your troops. Why on earth should I?
As did I.
In fact it seems to be a SDMB consensus that Stephen King is, all in all, a hack. Personally I would say that, well, he’s certainly written some turkeys (I’m primarily thinking of Dreamcatcher, but I expect there are some who will say they liked it), but on the whole he’s a pretty damn good writer.
And, dammit, the ending to The Dark Tower was perfect.
I’m with happy; hey, I likes cats, but there are those here that have a serious kitty fetish thing going on. I love my own cat, but there are times (like right now, when she’s outside in the buses somewhere, apparently filming All Anal Kitty Orgy 3 with a bunch of tomcats, squealing like a banshee) when I could chase her.
Of course, my cat is in the BUSHES. There are no buses outside my house.
Bsically, Doperland is a place where beliefs and behaviors that are common in the real world just don’t exist. One example: someone will start a righteous indignation-type thread on … oh, talking loudly on cell phones, a behavior that is quite common, and no Doper who might talk loud on their cell phone will chime in to explain why. Those loud cell phone talkers, therefore, do not exist in Doperland.
Ibn the outside world, [url=“http://www.wcpo.com/wcpo/localshows/dontwasteyourmoney/29a42cb8.html”]lots of people display “support the troops” magnet ribbons on their car. In Doperland, though …
I agree - it always seemed really gimicky to me.
And every once in a while, I enjoy a nice trip to the Olive Garden. It’s really not so bad.
I was just thinking that. On occasion, it’s just what we want for dinner.
One more:
The only reason that The Simpsons is still popular is because it’s the last sitcom of any note. The genre is basically dead, so The Simpsons wins the title of “funniest show on televison” by default, just by showing up for the race.
Well said.
Agreed. I’ve seen plenty of King-bashing around here, and honestly, I think even his bad stuff isn’t all that bad. When I’ve read something by him I didn’t enjoy, it’s been one of two things: 1) it made me too uncomfortable to continue, or 2) the story itself was ridiculous. Stephen King is a good storyteller. He may not always succeed at creating good stories, but he tells his stories well, and I think that’s a very important part of being a good writer. I’d much rather read a bad story that’s told well than a compelling story that’s written horrifically, which I see far too often in modern popular fiction.