I'm starting to feel the same way about South Park now, but for an opposite reason. For about two or three years now I've had a "OK that was a good episode and all but I don't think I'll have the desire to see it ever again" feeling about South Park. This season so far though it's been "OK that sucked and I don't want to see it ever again" :(

South Park's becoming a real snooze as of late :(

south park always sucked too, though :(

dude i think i just hate tv idk

Southpark is also very much like the Simpsons in that they've made so many episodes it's inevitably going to start sucking eventually.

Are we even in the target audience for The Simpsons? Also, maybe South Park, but that one is a stretch.

Yeah TV sucks >:

Since Arrested Development got cancelled I haven't found a single show that I'm eager to regularly watch. A friend of mine got me into Lost recently when we rented the first season but I hear even that's already starting to get gay

I can't stand lost, my friends been watchin it online alot. It's the most boring, uneventful show i've ever seen. :(

Lost only starting to get gay? HA!

I think Simpsons used to be targetted for the 18-34 demographic. I cant imagine it still being that way though :(

OK well I like it at least, more because of the characterization than the magical-spooky-island part of it. :(

I need to find a new good show to like. I'm considering starting up on the X-files :x

I still watch SP religiously but it's seriously starting to get old. That and ATHF

but ill watch anything so what do i know

The problem with Lost is there isn't an ending (I read they're planing 12 seasons), or rather anything which happens in the current episodes will likely have no bearing any the show's conclusion. It's also annoying to me how they're always attaching significance to stupid things; each episode is basically just a string of random events set to a discordant cello soundtrack to make people say "OHHH THIS IS SO MYSTERIOUS I WONDER WHAT THE REAL STORY IS" when the joke is there probably isn't one. If you look back at the previous major plot twists almost none of them have any significance.

I hope not >:

If people keep watching I'd be willing to bet it'll go on a good deal longer than that.

everything you said was right, though. but you forgot that IT'S INCREDIBLY BORING AND ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE WUSSES BEYOND BELIEF

Isn't it one of the most popular shows on right now?

yeah people are dumb

i dont see how they're gona stretch that mundane shit for 12 whole seasons

did walt ever find his kid or whatever and did they eat the fat guy to survive is all i wanna know

you should watch House M.D. if you havent already its a pretty good show

becker too

last thing i saw was they had the baby again and they are all WE GOTTA START AN ARMY to defeat the bad guys.

How come none of the girls get naked is what I want to know >:

I haven't seen house in like a year, but it IS pretty good :O

That's the thing though. Because there is very little in the way of actual plot development they can keep going forever with stupid back-stories and sub-plots that supposedly "cleverly" link the characters together, which is fine... except for none of the relationships ever actually advance the major plot so it ends up being an exercise in pointlessness.

Every episode of House follows the same formula. MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS > FAILED ATTEMPT #1/WRONG DIAGNOSIS > BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD > FAILED ATTEMPT #2/WRONG DIAGNOSIS > BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD > "WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME" > SUDDEN EPIPHANY IN THE LAST 8 MINUTES OF THE SHOW > SUCCESS, HOUSE YOU'RE A GENIUS

I watched the first season & two episode of the second. Once they seemed in no way interested in explaining any of the things of which they spent so long labouring the importance, I quit.

YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE JOKES, MILHOUSE

Saying that, I do like how House is mean to everyone.

yes his dry sharp cutting british wit (sans cross-dressing) pub can back me up on dis

see?

IT'S BECAUSE HE CARES! :eek

"A patient comes because she's sleeping 16 hours a day, and it takes ten doctors and a coma to diagnose sleeping sickness." :rolleyes




"You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking." :rolleyes




"Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot." :rolleyes




"Oxygen is so important during those prepubescent years, don't you think?" :rolleyes




"Eighth time's the charm!" :lol

SHUT UP IT'S BETTER THAN THE SIMPSONS

I DONT WATCH TV THOUGH SO W/E >:

I want a show that feels epic and has episodes that aren't stand-alone storylines :x

But it has to be good >:

id prefer house insulting me and questioning my sexual orientation than homer gettin into some zany hijinks and meeting the random guest star they dragged on there anyday

there are story arcs and they are trying to revamp the cast and add new people, kumar is supposed to be there but ive only watched a few episodes of the 4th season so idk :/

WHY DON'T YOU FUCKS GO OUT AND GET REAL LIVES RATHER THAN WATCHING TV, GODDAMN!

:ROLLEYES

I will right after this show is over :LOL

:LOL

I don't need you to suggest my emoticons, Fag.

Ugh, does anyone else think it was too obvious for the disk to hack the FBI?

I love shopping for Groceries at Wal-Mart.

Just kidding! I hate it with a passion but where else can I find low low low low low low prices and grotesquely obese women in motorized carts?

Sweatpants and thonged sandals for everybody!

so if I get an unbearable sore throat while smoking does that make me a pussy

also why do people like this, I could get the exact same taste from inhaling campfire smoke ;<

dont smoke cigarettes smoke weed :420 :blazin

so this post just makes me think of that other post "things you wish you could tell your younger self" where every other post says "don't pick up that first cigarette"

I miss the West Wing :(


That was the only show I've ever watched that had me going out of my way to see new episodes

:pagebrak

Fuckers shoulda had the balls to make Alan Alda president, though >:

Alan Alda playing a republican made him cry himself to sleep everynight. :(

Use your goddamn edit button to page break. >:

See, the West Wing would be perfect if it weren't for the inconvenient fact that I don't give a shit about politics. :(

Hell I imagine if I ever tried smoking I'd double over in coughing fits after the first puff. :wimp

I just get a weird rush of adrenaline. YOU SHOULD TRY THE MENTHOLS I'LL BET THAT'LL HELP

In the interest of my general affection for some of you, please don't smoke menthols or you will discover what inhaling asbestos feels like

I really like cigars, GW's a fruit.

I've actually comme into contact with an Opus X.

WILLIE

Fathom: what are your favorite cigars? Well, I guess it'd be better to ask if you were to that point yet where you have favorites.

I think I'd had some "aromatics"* before then, but the first time I had a truly "good" cigar it was a Cuban Romeo y Julieta. I thought it was so good, even with no basis of comparison, that I kept buying the Dominican-made R&J's when I got back to the States. One time my cousin was watching an episode of CSI and they said "Dominican's are just as good" as if it were scientific fact that terroir has no effect on the tobacco leaf. If they'd said something similar about wine, half of Europe would probably have cut off diplomatic relations until the script writers had been executed.

*In my observation, the way you get a cigar snob who rejects the idea of a flavored cigar to smoke one is this: add $7 to the price and call it an "aromatic".

I think I've mentioned the fact that I love cigars before, I'm glad we're in agreement on this.

Oh shit, I guess you might know cigars if you talked about a $50 one. I wasn't trying to sound like a dick with "if you were to the point...", I just didn't know your vantage point.

I think the highest rated cigar I've had would have been the Cuban Montecristo I had my sister smuggle back, I think she paid around £12 UK but obviously it'd fetch a small fortune on the domestic black market.

While she was kind enough to get me one in an aluminum tubo, I didn't discover until the New Year's ball had dropped that she'd opened it for a preview smell and it needed to be re-humidified. Still, that was one powerful experience.

cigars are gross, dudes

Seth, did you really like the Romeo y Julieta? I've seen that at the local supermarket and thought about trying it, but I don't know a lot about cigars so I never did.

Yeah, I've at the very least grown comfortable buying them. Obviously they're not as good as the Cubans because the Dominican soil isn't as rich, but they still manage to fit in a great deal of flavor in a very well-crafted binding.

I'll justify my premium name-dropping with the fact that I really enjoy El Mejor maduros, for which I generally pay no more than $2 a cigar. The problem with them is that the wrapper falls apart as the maduro leaf soaks saliva much worse than any other cigar type I've noticed, so it begins to fall apart and look nasty/be a pain in the ass toward the end. When R&J started making maduros, as I prayed they would for years, I at first was amazed at how the better construction improved the maduro experience but every now and then I'll run into the same problem after having paid four times the price as the El Mejors (albeit with more subtle overtones added to the experience). For the distinctly Romeo y Julieta experience, I think that their Viejo line is the best in the American market. I've only seen, I think, their 1876 line in places other than good tobacconists, so I'd guess that's what you saw. It's a good line to be sure, but I'd recommend their others for the fact that once you begin talking about cigars that cost no less than $6 for a decent size, tacking on 50 cents makes a huge improvement. I guess that has to do with "if our name is on it, it shouldn't cost less than..." marketing, but I was impressed when someone pointed out to me that Arturo Fuente has some very good values right beside their super-premium lines. (Their Curly Top, or whatever misnomer they gave it, only costs like $2.50 at most tobacconists.)

i saw in movies that baseball players chew up tobacco, and they splited like gum, i wonder what it taste like

So, if I was going to make the extra trip to a tobacconist, which cigar would be a good one to start out with?

Man I'm pretty depressed that John Linnell from They Might Be Giants can sing better than I can :(

I just recorded myself singing along to see if I can sing in tune and hahaha no. No I can't. >:

I've got a nice singing voice, did I tell all y'all this

I would know if you would record yourself and post it on the internet for freaks like me to listen to >:

I can't even sing baritone because half the time it's too high ;_;

I don't sing in front of people ;<

I'm sure I'd drive all the ladies crazy, though

Well, I really don't know because that depends on all kinds of psychological analysis I can't do well over the internet.

If you want something basic and won't cost you a lot to introduce you into the world of cigars, I'd probably go with the Arturo Fuente I recommended because it's good, it's hand-made, and it's cheap. It will start you with a basis of comparison as you work your way upwards, if nothing else.

If you want to enter the world of cigars with the pomp and circumstance you'd expect from the next British monarchial coronation, then maybe get a $9 (or so, depending on the market around you) Acid 1 by Drew Estates. Drew Estates is the brand responsible for the trend I mentioned where you take a flavored cigar and re-market it, but their Acid 1 is distinctly marked as "non-aromatic" as opposed to everything else in their Acid line. I don't know why, since I can't imagine any of its flavors coming from any substance that wouldn't kill the tobacco plant outright, but it's literally a candy bar that you puff. It might give you a false impression of what a classicist's cigar would be like, since they're nothing in common, but it'll at least serve as a gateway into the art of burning money in the most literal sense possible without offending federal agencies*.

That being said, I'm the type who rotates between mere puffing and the "french inhale". If your lungs find out that you're smoking an Acid 1, it will punish you severely by connoitering with your stomach and causing you to throw up.

*Have I posted this picture of me in the past month? Maybe? It'll be a fine tie-in with my admonition to Gus about Scav Hunt as the 2008 list release is mere weeks away.

Oh yeah me too I start crooning like Barry White and I have to fight off the vagina with a stick

i smoke menthol cloves on occasion!

God gave us cloves to make us feel cultured when we drink hot whisky and call it a toddy. Not so we could smoke them.

I love it when seth reminds us of how much more classy than everyone else he is.

Also!
:pagebrak

cloves are something entirely different

And thank you Seth, for both the advice and the picture.

With Carnivore on sabbatical, I have to over-compensate for the demand for situations where :posh seems appropriate but isn't used.

And he used it pretty often, if I remember.

SUBJECT: You have sent me a friend request
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... And I'm starting to think you're not a spambot, since usually when I ignore those for long enough they disappear.

Hi. I'm Seth. Do we know each other? While I always figured I'd eventually see a "Chicks in Vader Helmets" website, I didn't expect it to come to me through a Myspace friend request. All the same I'd normally ignore it, but since Vincennes is probably close enough (is it? I forget) that I could conceivably take you to dinner and brag about it to everyone I've ever met who's watched Star Wars or has the internet, I figured I'd at least get my chit/chat on first.

Hugs and kisses,
-Seth
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She has 72 hours to respond in a way that would keep me from linking to her profile before you guys get the link to her profile, unless Pub figures it out before then.

I know Dole used it a lot. :o

:posh was MADE for Dole.

For that matter, I-Mockery was made for :posh to be made for Dole.

The birth of Roger Barr? Oh, it goes on. It goes back far.

Guys, I'm glad in that Spanish thread that it didn't take me four years to get a joke. I explained to someone yesterday that it took me about three years to get a joke that my physics professor threw at me, and I'd be content with that as my personal worst.

It took me forever to get an Emmanuel Lewis/Michael Jackson joke. Mostly in part because I couldn't remember who Emmanuel Lewis was.

Also, I really thought Gary Coleman was Webster.

I'm not sure why posting a poem that wrote itself in my head into the books section makes me feel stupid, but it does.

It's not any worse than anything I've posted in there. Or no, it's better than... semantics aside, you get my point.

BEATIN THA TRUNK, TURNIN BUILDINS INTO CONFETTI

How's it goin

I see Seth wrote a poem, haven't read it yet but I'm sure that it will be awesome and that I will be infuriated with the complex sentence structure

But they're usually still readable at the least. I've noticed that my own sentences get nearly unreadable when they get longer, which means I usually have to improve upon them, and even then they're usually kind of ugly. Probably due to my limited vocabulary as well.>:

Uh, the infuriation at the complex sentence structure has more to do with MY reading comprehension than problems with the writing

Moving on, does anyone know if Region 2 encoded cds will be able to play on my computer

I really, really don't want to import a british cd player so I can play all of the good nwobhm bands

That post really burned my goat, but hell guys LETS ALL WAVE OUR COCKS! :eek

When did CDs get region encoding? WTH?

CDs and DVDs both


I can never watch my Blake's 7 dvds :(

I don't think it's an issue with cd's. All my american cd's work fine with my swiss boombox, and I've never observed any other issues of this kind with music cd's either.

Well, we'll soon see.


Oh man, I forgot about this one

DVDs have region encoding yeah, but Region 0 players are only slightly more expensive.

I have never encountered a regioned CD.

ARE THE VENTURES A DEATH METAL BAND, I FORGET

I'm hoping not, I've only recently been clued into Blitzkrieg, and the rest of the American public is still out of the loop, apparently

Why is no one ragging on T-Rex for his GW-esque behaviour?

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