PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

Not necessarily related to the topic of this thread, but I have to say that I found the fawning over Maddow's looks in lefty blogworld to be a little unsettling. I mean, (a) she's okay looking (I guess) but I don't think any impartial observer would ever confuse her w/ a super model or whatever (and she herself would probably agree) and so the pounding insistence that she's the most stupendously gorgeous creature to ever grace cable news really came off as kind of weridly condescending. Like, "Oh Rachel you're so beautiful! Words can't bring you down, girlfriend!" and (b) Why do her looks even matter? Isn't constantly emphasizing the way a woman looks as one of her chief positive attributes exactly the sort of gendered/sexist/patriarchal/etc thinking that liberal progressives are supposed to be against? Like, if she's such a smart witty liberal why does it matter if she's attractive or not?

This is cliche by now, but you are a fucking piece of shit. Not only of a poster, but of a human. Do us all a favor and leave the board forever. I don't visit the wrestling forums, but let me assure you, you will not be missed. There are other boards out there, stop polluting ours. I can almost predict that your reaction will be something along the lines of how you like the abuse (and if you say it as a reaction to this line, it will not be ironic), but instead of it being a coy shrug of the shoulders, it just piles onto the mountain of evidence that you are, in fact, a pathetic cunt. One look at your livejournal is enough to convince anyone. I, along with Adam, have fought your presence here from the very beginning. It's good to know that most of the board has joined our crusade (and yes, it is a religious crusade). Some may say that the board is shit enough, but if I want to clean up the chicken coop, I'm going to try to clean up the chicken coop. I'm not going to beg, I'm not going to plead, I'm not even going to ask politely, I'm just going to tell you what I, and most of the other regulars here have told you again and again and again and again and again and again: gtfo. Look at all them words about taiga star.

For some utterly inexplicable reason British people still totally lurve Oasis. It's baffling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_fallacy

I'm not sure what you're getting at? I never said that "songs about sci-fi shit = not prog"

She sounds stupid but she's (partially) right as authorial intent really is completely irrelevant when it comes to understanding/analyzing a text.

Erm, not really. Just because a band plays "complex" songs about sci-fi nerd shit doesn't necessarily mean they're prog. Illustrative example!: Prog: Fucking garbage:

Uhm, it's a metaphor for the oppressed white conservative finally rising up and burning down the house of PC Liberalism. Duh.

Pink Floyd's (kinda) cool and all but shit's basically the kiddie pool of progland. Expand yr horizons, dude!

*sucks a million dicks* *plays stupid masturbatory guitar solo* *is Dream Theater*

Hate 2 break it 2 u but Dream Theater is pretty much pure shit. Sorry bro! Also all you dudes who haven't heard Magma need to get fucking familiar. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh is basically the hottest (get it? magma = hot. lol) shit ever made.

haha

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence deserves at least an honorable mention.

End of an era

Well I'd expect nothing less from James Joyce's birthplace.

Right. I was more worried about the SERIOUS LIT CHAT getting buried under a bunch of stupid nerd shit. But I guess since we've got a dedicated comic books forum that probably wouldn't be that big of an issue.

The "best" western is probably McCabe & Mrs. Miller. But that one's not very fun, so

Well we all know that's not true. 1. High Plains Drifter 2. Dirty Harry 3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 4. A Fistful of Dollars 5. For A Few More Dollars I mean, come on. Let's review the action of that movie. He kills several men with a whip, rapes some floozy, and then makes a midget the mayor of the town. 1. Dirty Harry isn't even a western you noob 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is head and shoulders above the rest. Let's not kid ourselves.

I think you might be underestimating the "conservative base." But whatever, the bigger point the post was trying to make is that trying to win this election by shoring up the base is really not the best idea. Which is, I think, a fairly accurate assessment. I could be wrong, though.

I don't really see anything wrong with that?? Maybe the conservative's-view-of-Obama caricature is a little over the top, but I think in terms of pure analysis it's pretty dead-on. EDIT: This is obv. in response to pbone's post and not SuperJerk's stupid white noise.

I'd vote for a real books forum but I'm not sure how successful/good it'd be.

That's not even the best Clint Eastwood western ever made you dummy!!

Actually a lot of MTV's non-music stuff these days is pretty great. All those obv. fake "reality dating" shows (Parental Control, Exposed, Next, etc) are totally hilarious. And that new show where they send girls from My Super Sweet 16 to like the jungles of Africa and shit is awesome.