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One thing that kept me a little confused about recognizing Richard is that he apparently just doesn't age. He looks the same now as he did when he met Locke and Ben when they were children. Are the original Others supposed to maybe be Black Rock survivors who are kept immortal by Island Magic or something similar?

Oh Em Gee, there are people who agree with me about the loathesome Penguin being a horrible film-wrecking monstrosity in Batman Returns? Well holy shit. Also agree on the "Not enough Batman in this Batman movie" point. Although I did think the Batman/Catwoman love/hate story was strong enough to still make it worthwhile, even though I really wish they had focused on that a lot more and just left Danny Devito at home. The scene at the fancy party where they discover each other still gives me a chill. But I wouldn't go anywhere near saying Batman & Robin was any good in any way. That was the single worst comic book movie I've ever seen. And I've seen Superman IV, Return of Swamp Thing, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and X-Men 3. It's like they were trying to go back to the old Adam West style of humor, but had no idea why that was funny. Arnold's endless puns were just the dirt worst, especially since it was fairly obvious that the script had been rewritten to make his part bigger once he was cast in the role. Not to mention that none of the actors were even trying; Clooney and Thurman both looked like they just didn't give a shit and didn't want to be there. Plus, the movie also killed Alicia Silverstone's career stone dead.

Lindsey Lohan Britney Spears Amy Winehouse Pink The Olsen Twin That Had The Drug Addiction Eating Disorder I wouldn't care if I got zero sex off any of them, or even if one of them bit me and gave me rabies, I'm just incredibly curious what the conversation would be like.

What? I still hate the last 60 seconds of The Sopranoes with a fiery purple passion. So it makes me a bit grumpy when the creators of this show are implying that their finale will be similar, what with comments like: That does not sound promising. That sounds like they're trying to be more controversial than satisfying with the ending.

Gimmick-stealing motherfucker. But seriously, at least most of the other ones on the list are ordinary English names. What the hell is a Jinger? Their retarded way of wanting to name a girl "Ginger" but still keep the egomaniacal retention of the father's first initial?

Can someone remind me who Richard and Abbadon are? There have been a couple dozen too many random supporting characters on this show and I'm losing track of them. I think you're right on the money with that one. Notice how he raised his arms, when the Captain had the gun on him, to reveal the device. As if to say, kill me, and you die too. Yeah, that was my take on it too. So it'll be a mostly really good finale except with an absolutely dumbfuck inexplicable last scene which will piss everyone off for no good reason? Thanks, assholes.

That's not really true, given that rottentomatoes surveys most of the top critics in the country. Speed Racer's metacritic rating is also a 36 Yeah, there are no "people there", it's gathered from just about every newspaper in the country and some of the more high-profile online reviews too. It's a consensus from the entire critiic industry. And they don't hate everything. While Speed Racer got 35, Iron Man got a 92. Hey now. The first movie, while goofy and disappointing, does not deserve the horrible fate of being lumped in with the other two.

Yeah, but it was still showing stuff after the crash on the island, so it didn't count as a real flashback. I'm just coming to hate the flashforwards more with every passing episode. They ruin too much tension telling you definitely who's going to live and get off the island, and I'm not a big fan of "OMG did you see what happens In Teh Future, how will we get there?" Blah. It's storytelling based on plot twists instead of actual plot.

I enjoyed this one. I like the episodes where they let the mastermind badasses like Locke, Ben, or Keany have some human doubts and foibles. Also, pretty much any episode with a bunch of Hurley is gold, and he's been kinda just standing around in the background for too long. And finally a return to the flashbacks. Thank God, cuz the flashforwards were really starting to get on my nerves.

That was my first thought when I saw the trailer: "Man, that would be a cool movie to see... but only if I was completely stoned outta my mind." Double ditto. Although that's not always a good thing, as anyone who's suffered through Bless the Child or Cursed will tell you. But truthfully by now Ricci's appeared in enough nude scenes to slake my lust so that I wouldn't go see some piece of shit like Speed Racer just to see her. Except you... Yeah, that came off a bit conceited to me too. Not very many.

Whoa. Dude. You just, like, blew my mind. Far out.

It's not like I got any compelling reason to stay around. No kids to support or anything like that. I'd rather enjoy my vices and live a shorter life because of it, than do a bunch of stuff I hate every day in order to prolong my existence and do more stuff I hate for more days.

Limbaugh's job is to basically sit around and remind us of what conservative pundits used to sound like, before the O'Reilly and Coulter types took over. And also to inspire fat jokes which are years out of date. And to inspire rehab jokes which I do always find funny.

Is it that unusual? Frozen microwavable stuff, fast food, various snacks which come in airtight plastic baggies. I don't think it's any more expensive than eating healthy. I'm a fucking chain smoker. Compared to that, eating unhealthy foods is like finding some toxic mold growing in the walls of a house which is currently burning down.

I was gonna say, all this talk of sex ed in grade school is outside my experience. The only time I ever had a sex ed class was in 8th grade. Apparently they felt like waiting until after puberty had struck to inform you about it. Also, you guys had foreign language classes before high school? Really? Man my schools sucked.

Exactly what stereotypes and generations were those? I was just trying to make a point that these hippie solutions don't necessarily work for everyone. Eric's not the only guy who's like this, but sometimes he comes across like a missionary who's trying to make you Care about the issues he's concerned with. But, much like with the bicycle debate a while back, I find myself in the position of either being unwilling or unable to follow his plan to save the planet. I don't live near any farmers markets, and aside from that I don't ever cook anything from scratch anyway. Hell yeah I'd take a fresh pulled-pork sandwich directly from the steaming pig's carcass, but there aren't any places like that within convenient reach that offers one.

I've never gone to a farmer's market. For one, I don't give a shit about eating healthy. But perhaps more importantly, I've never lived anywhere near one. It would've always been a road trip. And when Kroger is right there, I'm not bothering. Hey Eric, there's a conumdrum: is it better to burn the fossil fuels it would've taken to get me to the green-friendly farmer's market?

"Got to watch Channel One"? We were forced to. Nobody liked that shit. And yeah, same here with the weird letter grades in earlier elementary school. I think it was something like E for excellent, A for acceptable, but I dunno, I went to a few different elementary schools and it was a looong time ago.

I'd say the mere fact that people are complaining about Tommy losing means something. I've heard many people make the "wins and losses don't matter" arguement. But they do matter to the fans. An average mark watching the show tonight wouldn't be like "well, Dreamer gave it his best shot and put the rookie over, bah gawd", he'd be saying "why the fuck did they make Dreamer lose to that asshole?". I know Tommy takes pride in getting other guys over. But sometimes he just can't. (Anyone remember who Justin Credible beat to become world champion?) Like, case in point, a feud he had two years ago which didn't get over... and it was against Mike Knox. Where, again, he was getting beat every week. It didn't work then, and Knox doesn't have Kelly with him now, so he's even more heatless. And let's face it, Knox just isn't very good. No charisma, no mic skills, receeding hairline, wellness-violating body, boring offense, poor match structure, no rapport with the crowd, garners zero reaction when he walks down the ramp. This guy isn't going to draw money. He shouldn't be going over anyone. Compare his utter lack of progess to how over Kingston, Delaney, and Mizorrison have gotten in much less time than they've wasted on Knox. (And I can't believe someone implied that Knox's ring skills are comparable to those of any Guerrero ever, come on.) I never really noticed it before, but you're right. Sometimes Tommy will randomly have strong showings which are totally unexpected (wasn't he the first guy to beat Thorn?), sometimes he just has a competitive match and loses in the end, and sometimes he gets squashed like a bug. Problem is, he'll do all three things with the same opponent on alternating weeks.

Heh, reminded me of something else. In middle school I was part of some kind of math competition team, Mathletes or Mathemagicians or whatever fucking lame name it was called. After we did our part in a field trip competition, we had an hour or two to kill, so we all went to a mall. I sat down in the bookstore reading, yes, Garfield collections. I lost track of time, and somehow nobody found me for like two hours, even though it was a fuckin' small mall so they couldn't have looked that hard. Everyone was pissed that I made them almost miss the awards ceremony. Of course since we naturally didn't win anything but the Official "Nice Try" Participation Certificate, I don't think it mattered anyway. EDIT: oh yeah, one more thing: How the hell is an eight year old capable of sexual harassment? They don't even know what sex is. Or, at least, most of them don't. I guess it's different if a kid has somehow watched porn or been raped or something.

To keep the pain as short as possible. Middle school is like the 60s: if you can remember it, you weren't there. (Although in this case it has less to do with heavy drug use and more to do with extensive repression of agonizingly painful memories.) Middle school was such a thoroughly miserable time for me that I have a feeling of deep distrust and alienation towards anyone who says they liked it. Huh. I seem to remember my middle school doing this once as a special occasion type deal, but nobody took it serious, it ended up consisting mostly of this one girl attempting to track down Elvis sightings. We had an on-again/off-again student produced show in high school, but it never lasted. The A/V guys who made it were fairly rambunctious and kept getting into trouble. And we had one of the more sickeningly controlling and stifling public school administrations I've ever seen, who constantly brought the Simpsons parodies of rules-&-order obsessed officials to life. To even touch any of the school equipment, first you had to be cool with the video production teacher, and then you had to go through a crazy amount of red tape to actually broadcast it over the school. And sometimes they just said no, basically "Fuck you kids, we're grownups, we run your lives and you're gonna like it". We were mostly just forced to watch Channel One every day like everyone else.

So what did you think I was referring to, in a post entirely talking about the possible effects of American gas taxes on American buying trends?

I vaguely recall being in some spelling bees around fourth grade. I think I stomped on everyone else in my school, but got to a regional bee and missed a gimme in the first round, more or less shattering my confidence and never doing one again. Come to think of it, any time I competed in any kind of regional competition, I never got to win. Even when I was "Bystander #3" in a one-act play and had no effect on the outcome, we still lost anyway. (That particular nonhypothetical example was especially infuriating since we lost to some incompetent dumbasses who must've had close friends or blood relatives among the judges.) And the only time I ever got suspended was for hitting a kid. It was this cocky little asshole who spent three years making fun of me, and one day in the library I just snapped on him. Teacher dragged me off after only one or two punches, though. Which was a pity, since I was like twice his size and was taking karate classes three times per week, and it would've nicely fulfilled my fantasy of at least once in my life having beaten the everliving shit out of someone who deserved it.

I thought Coach was a good worker for a non-worker, if that makes any sense. Sure he was awkward and nonathletic-looking in the ring, but I think part of that was by design. He was a wrestler in college, and had an athletic backgroud, so I think his clumsiness might've been part faked. I remember reading a tidbit one time about the Divasearch where they did the obstacle course; they had Coach go through it for a practice run, and he blasted through it so easily that he had to slow down and deliberately do worse when it came time to do it on television. But in terms of his in-ring work, he was perfectly fine with his selling and psychology, and never blatantly fucked anything up, and that's really all you can ask of a non-wrestler in the ring. On the other hand he was just utterly terrible as a heel commentator. (So, naturally, that's where Vince kept trying to put him.) He had no sense of rhythym whatsoever, no idea when to talk and when to shut up. When you're sitting next to Joey Styles, and you never stop talking while he never says a word, something's seriously wrong here. Plus way too often he would do that annoying shit where he'd get into an arguement with Lawler over some heel/face crap, which is always the most tiresome thing in the world for any announce team which doesn't include Gorilla Monsoon. I seem to remember Coach doing okay on his Heat announcing back in the day, but I never listened to much of it so I might me wrong there. Hey Czech: even though you admit he's the voice of Raw, you say you hate Jim Ross. What announcer is out there now that you like? Who do you think would be able to do the job better? Any answer including the word "Cole" is automatic disqualification.

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