Shopping channel snark

Cafe Society
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Muwahahaha! :smiley:

Oh, sure. She is the designer of her “fashion” line, LOGO. We usually just snark on her for being delusional wrt her shitty ass clothing, especially as she is always going on about how her clothes make* everyone* look “so tiny”, as we are watching both her and even the thinnest models parade around with every speck of back fat on display and generally looking twice their actual size.

Anyhoooo, one time, a host asked her to choose a favorite color of one of her shitastic tops. She dithered a bit about it, and then said she couldn’t decide, because it was just like “Sophie’s Choice.” :rolleyes: I am not terribly PC, but that was a pretty fucked up analogy, IMO.

So welcome to the club. :smiley:

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What in the eff? Could Our Shawn BE any more orange tonight? Did she rub Cheetos dust into her face instead of foundation? Spring for some dressing room mirrors over there already, Q!

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I only lasted 15 minutes. Once Isaac Mizrahi and whats-her-face started fellating each other, it was too much to bear.

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What’s the most fucked up part of this is that the “rules” these mods made up are totally arbitrary and contained to just that particular board. The inconsistency of moderation from board to board goes from 0-100; I post on a couple other boards there, and the mods let pretty much everything go. Hell, most of them are active posters!

Having been a moderator on sports and political boards, places that get VERY heated, the Gestapo rule on a fucking SHOPPING CHANNEL board is beyond ridiculous.

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Understood. Being “forced” to CLICK! is not uncommon for numerous reasons, even for us diehards. But you’re in luck! Isaac’s “show” is usually hosted by Our Shawn, not LR. I guess since LR is on her way out, they gave her a chance to say buh-bye to IM. And probably beg him for a job backstage.

So tune in Mondays at 10pm (no, I do not have a problem :D) if you ever want to get a look at Shawnie Sue “No Clue” in action with IM. She likes to continually pepper him with questions about fairly common words and expressions, etc., by interrupting him with “WHAT’S THAT MEAN?” and “WHAT IS THAT?” Our No Clue is NOT “Smarter Than a 5th Grader”, apparently. IM alternately plays along or gets visibly exasperated and bags on her. Fun for all! :dubious:

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Ooookay. Brett showing Shawn how cool the TSV Scanner organizer thingy is for recipes. He takes a recipe meant to serve 24 people and reduces it to 5 servings to show her how easy it is to reduce the recipe automatically. So instead of a whole loaf of French bread, it reduced it to 5/24ths of a loaf. Annd 5/24ths of a quart of goat cheese and 5/24ths of a this and 5/24ths of that. Yeah, that is soooo easy and convenient. :smiley:

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Hi Merchant Queen, glad you’re here. Sorry to hear you got poofed, but I wasn’t surprised when you said it was a Lisa post. I think you’re right about show hosts putting pressure on That Other Place to censor the trash talk. Lisa in particular is trying to build her personal brand, with all those selfies and shit she posts on her personal Facebook page, and she doesn’t want all that criticism. IMO, she wants a new career in TV and she wants to come across as this hip, sophisticated, fashionable expert on something-or-another. Of course the person who intimidated That Place into straightjacketing the posts could have been a QVC executive, since several of their other hosts have been on the receiving end of snark. The QVC suits are probably very annoyed that they can’t completely suppress public criticism of their empire. They do allow a certain amount of criticism on their own QVC Community Forums, but they are notorious for poofing posts.

I’m not sure it would have been the vendors who exerted pressure to stop the snark, because their products get raw honest reviews on other forums, like Amazon, or the beauty products forums. But I could be wrong and maybe it was them.

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I wouldn’t be surprised at anything over there anymore. They just proofed an innocent post of mine. All I did was agree with another poster, regarding the Duchess. It takes nothing now to get poofed.

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If we wanted to be subjected to that kind of poofing behavior we’d all be posting directly on the Q boards and not elsewhere.

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JADED, you are so right !! The use of the word MINION, to describe the slavish followers of a show host or vendor, will get you poofed immediately at the other so-called snark site, I have noticed in the recent past. Just reading it, I see that almost everyone is afraid to say anything snark-worthy, lest they get poofed or get The Axe.
Criticism is apparently considered NOT snark, by The Powers That Be “over there”.
SO Glad that this is not the case HERE.

RE my use of the term Free Speech in a recent post: Snark is just that; observations critical of the hosts or vendors, when they either unconsciously or deliberately mis-represent something or make a statement like LR did about those boots. Almost certainly her dig was deliberate, as at this point she has nothing to lose. As Kathy Levine said on-air sometime right before she left, “What are they going to do … Fire me ??” They did not fire Kathy, and they actually could, but will not, fire The Duchess, for comments which denigrate the Q’s products, and SHE KNOWS IT. The backlash from HER MINIONS would cost them in the Sales Dept and They know it.

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HI. Larious. Good catch. Just wait 'till all the abused grandmas that called in get theirs home and try to scale up for making all their Christmas goodies! :eek:
Note for new readers: The Q and Co. are said to be committing “Grandma abuse” whenever they are pitching outdated, overpriced and/or pointless technology to the hordes of tech illiterate older folk who eagerly buy it in droves. As evidenced by the callers they frequently have on air during such presentations.

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Try the Duluth Trading Company @www.duluthtrading.com/FreeShip75‎

The home of bucknaked underware, firehose pants, long tail tees ( eliminates but crack) and free swinging flannel in both mens and womens sizes. Designed to hold up as work wear and for casual dress. They have hilarious commercials. One ad for the their fleece uses the play on words on how the shirts hold up when you need to break wind.

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Duluth sells pretty good stuff. I’ve been happy with my purchases. Just bought a pair of fleece lined pants. Should be good for driving the tractor and plowing snow.

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We all know what snark is. Unfortunately, you don’t seem to know what “free speech” is.

You seem to be under the impression that “free speech” means you’re supposed to be able to say anything you want on an internet message board. It doesn’t.

The First Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

You said “Whatever happened to FREE SPEECH, I wonder.” The answer is, nothing has happened to it. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is in full force and effect.

Congress does not regulate this message board, nor the other one. They are both privately owned. You have no right of free speech here, and you have no right of free speech there. If the powers that be of that board don’t allow you to make certain types of comments, that’s perfectly legal, just like it’s legal for the powers that be of the SDMB to prohibit us from telling someone to go fuck themselves. By imposing such rules, TPTB of any board risk losing participants. TWoP lost me as a poster and even as a reader because of the draconian moderation (the over-moderation resulted in boring threads, IMHO), and a number of people have left this board over the years because they didn’t like the moderation here.

One of the reasons that we all have been so welcoming to you all is that you seem quite willing to follow the rules of this board. The rules here are far laxer, but aspects of our culture are different, and you may indeed not like that about us. This board grew from Cecil Adams’ column in the Chicago Reader, of which the tag line is "Fighting Ignorance Since 1973 (It’s taking longer than we thought). While that isn’t the main reason most of us post here, it remains the heart of this place. If someone posts something that is just plain wrong, particularly about something as important as the U.S. Constitution, we are likely to call them on it. Yes, even in a shopping channel snark thread. That’s one of the big reasons I’m still here after nearly 15 years.

(And I wouldn’t be one bit surprised or annoyed if someone chimes in to dispute/correct what I just said about the First Amendment.)

Once again, I welcome you and your friends to the boards. Snark all you want about shopping channels, facebook pages, and whatever else you want to snark about, but if it bothers you so much to have a bit of ignorance fought while you’re at it, this may not be the place for you.

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What Green Bean just said is one of the reasons I also love this board so much, and have been a member for almost 13 years. Dopers will most definitely call you on what you post. Whether it’s to ask you to give a cite for a factual statement, or to correct you if you’re wrong. Though this is a fun and amusing board, it’s not for the thin skinned, that’s for sure.

I don’t think there is a single poster on here, that hasn’t been challenged on something they’ve said at some point.

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Welcome to the SDMB, everyone! I’m the mod who gave the green light for y’all to start posting over here, and I’m very happy to see all these new names.

One thing, though – please don’t throw around the word “cunt” freely. It’s forbidden to call another poster that anywhere on the SDMB, including in the Pit (our free for all forum), and it’s just bad form to call anyone, even a third party, that. I’m not the only one who’s deeply offended by the word, and I’m getting a bunch of reports that y’all are using it in this thread.

I’m happy to let y’all just amuse yourselves as you see fit in here, but you are still subject to not only the rules of this board (our registration agreement, if you want to read it again), but board culture – which draws the line at that particular piece of invective.

Again, though, welcome to the SDMB, I hope you enjoy your stay – and perhaps find some other threads you want to participate in!

twickster, Cafe Society moderator

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:slight_smile: I’m not averse to being corrected on occasion. Of course, it’s rarely necessary in my case. :dubious: :smiley:

Thanks for the welcome, and for setting up a little camp for us here, twickster! I’ve read articles at TSD on occasion over the years, but never happened to check out the MB before, that I recall. But I’m sure at least some of us will be taking a look around now and chiming in other topics, as well.

FTR, not really one to use the “C” word myself, so…that’s cool. :slight_smile:

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Good morning, all.

Thanks again, to everyone here who allowed us to bring our specialized brand of weirdness to your boards. We appreciate you allowing us a few days to get our feet underneath us again (after having been so rudely bounced about in our previous digs). And we also appreciate you instructing us on what our boundaries here will be. I think (hope) I can speak for all of us in saying that we really do want to be good posting citizens.

Language is a powerful weapon - both for good and evil. The English language is rich and varied and there are thousands of words we can use to emphasize and enrich our conversation. If I want to curse, I try to emulate the Arabic peoples. Calling someone a scrofulous son of a poxy desert camel sounds so much more dignified than calling them an a*****e, for example. Plus, it has the added benefit of sending them scrambling for a dictionary to look up ‘scrofulous’ while you make your escape. :slight_smile: So no worries. No misuse of that ‘c’ word from me.

If I misspeak, by all means correct me. Nothing has made me a more informed citizen and voter than having to argue my position with those from the opposing position who have forced me to vet my sources and clarify my statements. But I’ll argue back atcha if I’m right!

I’m going to admit it, right in front of all you nice people. I won’t be watching LR’s farewell show on Friday. Why, you ask? I hate goodbyes. Make me all emotional. Even if it’s someone I neither know nor particularly like. I have absolute faith that you fine people will fill me in on all the icky/funny/stupid/ridonkulous details.

Regarding yesterday’s TSV, the Neat Scanner, I looked it up on Consumer Reports (yeah, I do that kind of thing) because I thought the price was a little high for what it offered. I was a bit surprised to find that it got a very high rating and was considered the top item of its kind that CR reviewed. So way to go, QVC, you got the good one, not the grandma-abuse model. If grandma buys you this for Christmas, give her a big kiss and hug. Grandma has done well!

Still think it’s pricey, but Q’s price is right in line with what it’s selling for elsewhere, only about $20 more at most.

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Hee – I was watching during a break from another show and said “She doesn’t know what ‘plaid’* means?!” Pop seemed to think she asked just to set Isaac up to explain what it was, but I think she’s just dumb. Or gets on a roll with her peppering and forgets what she is saying.

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:smiley:

Oh, I think it is at least sometimes a “set up” for IM. They all use questions they know the answer to as a cue for the OAPs to explain things the viewer might not be familiar with - with varying degrees of skill and…subtlety? I suspect she thinks her approach is just “adorbs” in accordance with her “cute and quirky” persona. :rolleyes:

But I happen to think she is also a complete dipshit - one who also can’t be bothered to do a little prep work to familiarize herself even the most basic terminology that is common for the products she pitches as her job. Not to mention some words that should be known to pretty much any native English speaker above the age of 10 or so.

On a related note, we also have Albany, who despite being the supposed holder of the aforementioned BS in Chemistry, frequently likes to employ a “set up” tactic of “Good golly gosh, my lil’ ol’ southern gal pea brain can’t even understand what that’s all about.” Which makes me even more stabbity, because it’s harder for me to at least try to give her a pass for being an actual dullard. :smack: