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    Also, Mark McGrath was excited about jumping through the 42 because he's a huge fan of Douglas Adams. However, "Sugar Ray" is not a known h2g2 reference.

     

    But he jumped through a number 42 in Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, who are not known to be Douglas Adams fans. They had a big ceremony where they retired Jackie Robinson's number in commemoration of baseball's integration several years ago. So, he's either happy because he's a baseball fan and liked Jackie Robinson, or he's happy because he didn't like Jackie Robinson and he's destroying a physical representation of the man's legacy.

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    Disagree with trying to get in people's faces. Sometimes they are racist, yes, but sometimes they have social anxiety disorder or asperger syndrome. Sometimes they need headphones in just to summon up the courage to walk into the Wal-Mart at night to use the automated checkout.

     

    I agree with being reasonable but if people in the world don't want to be social with you, they don't owe you any interaction, and it shouldn't be encouraged to get in their face about it. If they hit you or elbow you in line then you're within self-defense rights to engage them, but if they just don't want to show interest, fuck off. Microaggressions don't just apply to race stuff, but also ability status, mental strain, etc.

     

    So people can be racist dicks to you, and Joshie feels that you should first assume they have social anxiety disorder and let them be, because the racist's feelings should be privileged over your own. Then he goes on to say that racial mircoaggressions should take a back seat to mental strain microaggressions (whatever the fuck that is).

     

    Stop using language meant to point out racial imbalances to give cover to racists.

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    While I appreciate your condescending remarks, I think you missed the point. Did I say that the struggles of people with red hair are identical to (or even equal to) the struggles of certain races or ethnic groups that are routinely discriminated against? Certainly not. I am interested to know whether you have ever been a white kid with red hair. If you have, then I doubt you would have the opinion that "being a white kid with red hair isn't that different from having to wear glasses." Because, from my experience, the two are very different. I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as "kick a person with glasses day." And I also don't figure wearers of glasses are routinely told they have no soul. These things may sound silly to you, but kids have committed suicide as a result of this kind of torment. And while I recognize that calling this behavior racist is not necessarily appropriate, it does fall somewhere in the middle. I just really wish people would recognize this as something that is not ok.

     

    You called the "struggles" of red hair people an accepted from of "race hate." Pfchangs gave you examples of race hate. If the "struggles" of red hair people don't match up or exceed this, then you're just talking bullshit.

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    you are so so dumb shariq. go back and try to comprehend again. no argument was made that contradicts what white privilege is. you could save yourself a lot of time by just listening to people instead of trying to hear yourself talk

     

    I got the point just fine, Joshie. White privilege is "clumsy" and a "clunky" phrase because there was this one white guy who was broke this one time.

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    Are white people only supposed to wear "white people" clothes? That seems kinda racist.

     

    And also, if I don't wear a hat "of another culture", my neck will get sun-burnt and I will be called a redneck. bit of a Catch 22

     

    It doesn't seem racist to you at all. If white people mockingly wearing traditional attire from other countries isn't racist, then you definitely don't think someone telling white people to wear white people clothes is racist.

     

    And no one is called a redneck by their tanlines -- they are called rednecks because they are ignorant assholes, tanlines be damned.

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    What, do you want him to preface everything he says with "MY DAD IS A HOLLYWOOD LAWYER"?

     

    I feel like Armen's shtick is not genuine and that he is kind of mocking people who are genuinely anxious with an act he is putting on, so I don't like him, but hating him because of what he was born into isn't fair and comes from jealousy.

     

    People are hated on all the time because of what they are born into -- i.e, the hate against poor people of color in this country -- so I think Armen's rich ass can take it.

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    Agreed, some people are just being complete assholes

     

    Comments like this

     

     

     

    make you seem like a real piece of shit, what did Armen ever do to you that made you so angry? Did he fuck your girlfriend or something? Seriously, if a host you don't like on a free podcast makes you that angry that you get that personal then you should probably look into yourself a little bit

     

    By "some" people, you mean ONE PERSON. Everyone is just saying he's terribly boring and unfunny.

     

    And you have to give Sgt. Bunny a pass, I have it on good authority that Armen had sex with his girlfriend, mother, and cousin...at the same time...and gave them herpes to boot!

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    Joshie, after reading your comment, it is clear that you do not understand white privilege at all, probably because you are directly benefiting from it. White privilege is not about money; it is about access. So, the poor white folks in Appalachia that you bring up (which only makes up .0000001 percent of the white population in this country, BTW), still have more access than any of Chris Rock's children will ever have --- and he's rich!

     

    White privilege is not being treated like a criminal every time you leave your house. It is being given the benefit of the doubt that you are a human being that has intelligence and feelings. It is not losing your job because you are not a "cultural fit." It is not being The Other.

     

    Your feeling that word is "clunky" is one shared by many of the privileged group because very few of you can wrap your mind around the idea that the way you have been treated is better than other people. And God forbid something tragic happen in one your lives, then it's all, "My parents died when I was 10! Was that privileged?! White people have pain too!" But what about the black child whose parents have died? He has to deal with that AND the fact that society sees him as a future criminal, no matter what he does.

     

    Buddy, the word is perfect and fits exactly all of the parameters you stated -- privileged in prerogatives; privileged by choice; and privilege by the system and laws.

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    A little kid?! This person is 16-years-old; not a 3-year-old. They are a teenager; not a child, or a kid. They should know better. The fact that they have lived 16 years on this planet and have not figured out that because you like Japanese stuff doesn't make you trans-Japanese. It is a stupid, stupid argument that even other 16-year-olds understand is dumb as hell.

     

    But Gabe did say something that is telling -- many white people they do consider themselves "children" until they are 29, and treat non-white children as full grown adults.

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    A couple more crazy things about this movie:

     

    Was the Mayor pulling executive privilege in order to be accepted into the speed skating race wearing skis & poles? Who would be dumb enough to use skis on solid ice?

     

    What the hell was the plan behind Devito's revenge against Broderick? Just like the car sale scene, it's like they weren't good enough to write it so they came up with nonsense. He cuts down the town square Christmas tree, puts it in Broderick's house, and forges his signature to sell a car.

     

    I thought he was going to frame Broderick by immediately reporting him to the police for vandalizing the tree. But he didn't so...what was the point? How was dumping stolen public property in his living room as a gift going to get revenge if no one ever found out? How did Broderick or his family not notice the Marilyn Monroe statue on top of the tree? How the hell did Devito cut down a brightly lit tree in the wide open town square with a gas chainsaw without anyone hearing or noticing?

     

    What the hell kind of car deal requires you to make payments the very next day or the police come to arrest you??!?! How could any writer be so dumb to figure that there's nothing more to selling a car than a forged signature?* How would Devito not be busted the instant Broderick reports it to his boss, and at the very least get fired if not brought up on criminal charges? Why was the manager's office not the first place Broderick went to? Oh wait because this movie is terrible.

     

    I went and looked up the writers, all 3 of them (I have yet to find a good movie that had more than 2 credited writers). Two of them only did this movie and a TV show called Covert Affairs, which must be the worst piece of garbage on the air.

     

    The third writer? Hoo boy, get ready.

     

    Look upon Don Rhymer and despair

     

    Big Momma's House, The Santa Clause 2, Agent Cody Banks 2, The Honeymooners (Cedric the Entertainer version), Big Momma's House 2, Deck the Halls, Surf's Up, Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, Rio, Rio 2.

     

    The guy's entire career is the Big Momma trilogy(!) and bottom of the garbage barrel kids' movies. This is the worst HDTGM writing credit I've seen besides John Brancato and Michael Ferris (Catwoman).

     

     

    * The dumbest car sale in a movie goes to Steven Seagal's Half Past Dead, in which Morris Chestnut just tosses a duffle bag of cash at the salesman before driving the car right out of the showroom.

     

    Covert Affairs is a really shitty version of USA's Burn Notice. Ironically, both are on the USA Network. The lead in Covert Affairs is a woman who is always naked in anything else. I don't know her name, but when I see the promos for Covert Affairs, I start smiling because I bet she is SO happy to have all of her clothes on for once.

     

    I'll be honest, I did watch one or two episodes sort of half hoping for skimpy lingerie, but nope.

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    Wasn't that the episode where Kathy Griffin was a whacked out lesbian lobbyist who tried to make out with Benson and then was revealed to be bisexual and that she hid it because she felt being bi was worse for the cause than being completely gay?

     

    That ep was funny because Benson asked Griffin's character if she wanted to order take out, and then Kathy Griffin leans in for a kiss (and grope?). Benson pulls back and is like, "whoa! that's not on the menu."

     

    I laughed and laughed. Her pussy wasn't on the menu, guys....to eat...

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    This reminds me of when I was working on the emergency room scene in "One For the Money", as Katherine Heigl and John Leguizamo would be talking about Laurence Fishburne's daughter's recently-released porno between takes. Much of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are infinitely more interesting than what ends up on film, particularly when it comes to terrible, terrible movies.

     

     

    Reminds me of that old Chris Rock joke, "If your daughter is a stripper, then you get a 'F' for parenting."

     

    Also, someone, after seeing the box cover for the porno, joked that they couldn't hear anything over that girl's cries for attention.

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    The stories that the guest told about the on-set demeanor of everyone is the best part of this episode. Depressed Broderick. Absent Devito. The Sex and the City lady shilling for frozen eggs. Its so wonderful. I often wonder if the actors themselves know that are going to be in a bad movie, and how do they act around each other with that knowledge.

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    i feel Besser's pain, but i also feel like this is...business as usual? aside from the fact that money spent on packaged music is rapidly shrinking, the genuinely thoughtful 'good stuff' is under the radar and always has been!

     

    ("how do you make money on music these days" Besser asked. i'm in a band that opens for lots of people who do make a living off music, and the answer is: live shows. when you hit a certain level you can get quite reasonable cash guarantees from venues and promoters....)

     

    i think the 'best', most thoughtful, life-changing, whatever stuff (music, movies, books, comedy, anything) does not and *can not* enter the general mass consciousness. that stuff only floats into the mainstream slowly, reappropriated piece by piece after its already stale to the real artistic vanguard. i think a lot of people expected the internet to change that, but it hasn't.

     

    to be a massively popular, cross-over 'hit' in a country like this, it seems that you'd need to hit so many specific check-boxes while simultaneously not veering into territory that'd be considered too 'intellectual', too critical of our society, against the status-quo of culture, etc etc etc. so you end up with generally mediocre stuff that 'everyone can agree on' floating to the top.

     

    p.s. Macklemore sucks and the new Daft Punk album is mediocre at best ;-)

     

    This is the cycle of art in this society.

     

    Step 1. Neglected part of society creates art that celebrates them and their lives. It is important to them and is more than pretty sounds or pictures or words, it validates them as a people because society has drowned out their voice.

     

    Step 2. Larger society hates it. Calls it hack and does not consider it to be "true" art. True art is left to people society has deemed important.

     

    Step 3. Neglected young people and a few young folks that society has deemed worthy congregate around the new art. The neglected feel validated; their experience connected with someone else, they have been heard. The "worthy" young folks folk to the new art for a variety of reasons, but it is mainly about the art. Meeting and interacting with the creator is a side benefit.

     

    Step 4. If the new art is not abandoned by its creators for something else, it will grow into a "thing." Larger society will comment on the "curiosity" while still dismissing it as utter garbage. They will say it is corrupting the "worthy" young folks. They will blame crime on it. They will blame teenage sex on it. They will predict the country's downfall if it grows any larger.

     

    (This is the sweet spot of the art. It can last one year or a decade, its just chance. This is when it will be at its most creative. Classics of the genre will come out during this period.)

     

    Step 5. Because the art is outputting really good stuff, people can't deny it anymore. Now the money men come in to try to make a dollar of it. To market it. To market products toward the new demographic. To create pre-packaged acts for the genre (Sex Pistols, any one? Vanilla Ice?).

     

    Step 6. Because of the increased marketing, there is a whole new group that comes in. They are really the death toll of the genre as a creative force. These are the people who are attracted to the music because of the marketing. They want to find a niche. The art is tertiary influence on their decision to consume it. First and foremost in their minds is what group listens to this music? is it cool? Second on their mind is do any of the people I hate listen to this music as well?

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    You guys are batting a 1000% today. Just about everything you say about bullies is incorrect.

     

    The schoolyard society is like the prison yard. Bullies pick on you because they perceive that you will not fight back. Fighting takes energy and no one wants to spend more energy than necessary. If you can pick on Person A without a fight or pick on Person B and definitely be in for a fight, you are going to choose Person A. Its too much of a hassle. Especially if Person B has friends that will jump in. Bullies never pick on popular kids that everyone in the class likes. Even if the bully can beat the hell out of the popular kid, its too much of a social backlash.

     

    Also fights are risky. They could lose. If they lose, the mystique goes away. The beast has been slayed and now it is weird for them. The power a bully has is that people perceive him as being indestructible. Once that goes away, then people start to think that maybe "they" could beat the bully. Now everytime the bully wants to get a quick thrill in humiliating someone, it becomes a hassle. People talk back. They have zingers. Now the bully can beat the person who zinged up, but its a Pyrrhic victory; no one is going to become scared of him like before he got his ass beat, and the social power will be with the person he beat up. In fact, that person will rise in stature because they didn't put with the bully's bullshit.

     

    I have never seen a situation where a person being bullied beats up the bully. But I have seen (and been) the person who fights a bully and lost. In both situations, the person who fought back, social status rose...and that is with losing the fight. Also, I think just getting through the fight and not being totally destroyed was key. Kids tend to exaggerate the outcomes of those things ("Don't mess with Mike, man. He'll KILL you"). So with that context, being alive after the fight with nothing but some cuts or bruises, resets their minds to thinking, "hmmm, so fighting Mike won't KILL you, then. I guess its not that bad if that dweeb could do it, then I know I could do better."

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    It's great that we have the staff of Cracked to stick up for the poor bankers. The reason, the economy collapsed is because bankers were making risky loans and then selling that shit to other people and telling them it was solid gold. The rating agencies marked all of those risky loans as AAA, which enabled this to go on. So, let's not blame working-class people for wanting to own a home, because ultimately, they didn't sell their mortgage to a pension fund as a great investment and certainly didn't contact Moody's to advocate that their mortgage be rated higher.

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    Agreed on all points. The stories have always been silly and pulpy; the thing that irritated me about this one was that it was, after the first act, essentially a retread of the first Raiders film with the alien skull standing in for the Ark. And I felt like they were actually way too on the nose with the "I'm too old for this" jokes. I guess that's what made the whole thing feel unnecessary; it was 19 years after the last movie! If they thought they could continue the franchise, this was not the best way to introduce it to a new generation -- maybe that's why Shia LoBoof was cast ("Hey, kids like Transformers, right?"). It could have been worse, Lucas could have tried to keep pushing Hayden Christensen.

     

    Is there a hot young thing? Younger and hotter than Ryan Gosling? It seems like with the flood of superhero films we're returning to a hunky kinda Hollywood guy. Chris Hemsworth is melting some theater seats, for sure.

     

    You are so right about the movie being a Raiders of the Ark redo. I didn't even think of it that way, but it is right on the money.

     

    Is Hemsworth the guy that plays Thor? Then, yeah, maybe he is The Dude right now. I think Gosling is like the new version of Jake Gyllenhall(sp?); he only does indie movies as far as I know. And I totally forgot about Hayden Christensen. The last I heard from him he played Stephen Glass in a movie, and then...proof! he was gone.

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    The thing that ruined this movie was Harrison Ford got old and no one told him he couldn't do stunts. It is not enjoyable to be looking at an old man attempt to run, roll, and contort his body. Especially, when the image you have of the character is that they are vibrant, athletic, and fit. They should have had Ford do the same role as Connery did in the Last Crusade -- play the mentor, not the hero. Let a young person be the hero of this story.

     

    I also think it is a weird thing that people are up in arms about the story. All of the Indiana Jones stories are fantastical. He's looking for the Holy Grail, or the Ark of the Covenant or the Kali Ma Stones. It seems like people are more willing to suspend their belief when he was looking for a religious relic than when he was looking for something with a supernatural bent than an extra-terrestrial one.

     

    And boy, they are trying to make Shia LeBeef into a "thing." He's not The Dude. He's not the one. Heath Ledger was the one until he offed himself, so now I don't know who The Dude is...maybe Andrew Garfield?

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