White people like talking about Stuff White People Like.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 16 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i was just makin a joke about how some 20-something whiteys i have met are like OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1 because it's their version of saying "I'm cool with black ppl"
the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.
I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 16 November 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
too late already pissed my pants when i was afraid other white people might like the same thing as me
― the dan glickman from the hilarious motion picture association of america (max), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
The 20-something whiteys from the hilarious 'Williamsburg' neighborhood
― eman, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a kind of suburban, middle class voyeurism thing about the Wire though. "Now I understand what the ghetto is all about."
― Super Cub, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching TV is voyeuristic? Who knew?!
― polyphonic, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, I'm just trying to throw whiney a bone.
― Super Cub, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
You people are fucking weird sometimes.
― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"you people" = fans of the wire?
― Super Cub, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wire FTW, of course. The Sopranos always felt very dumbed-down to me whenever it got outside of its comfort zone of a bunch of assholes hanging out shooting the shit. I was always thinking "have the writers ever actually talked to a real therapist/liberal college kid/gay person?" That, and it got repetitive after a while with the "who's gonna be the rat/get whacked this season?"
The Wire always challenged the audience to keep up, and had a great way of making profound shit coming out of an asshole's mouth feel real.
― schwantz, Sunday, 16 November 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
it's capicola and mangia u fucken savage
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
dickens vs. shakespeare?
― ryan, Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
it does feel a bit apples and oranges to compare something that strikes me as almost a Dreiser like naturalism (people are what they/product of environment) a more distanced ant-farm realism. What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters. At least that bubbles up from time to time, like genre shame or something.
― ryan, Sunday, 16 November 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
or maybe hes just a really badass character
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it's really their way of saying "I'm cool with gay ppl."
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"who are black and badass."
"and carry double barrel shotguns, and have a chip on their shoulder, and a notion of honor and integrity at odds with the corrupt world."
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters.
this is what bothers me about the Sopranos!
― horseshoe, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I did not vote for the sopranos because I am not cool with italian ppl
― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1028/page2_g_hendricks2_400.jpg
Who is this, apart from my future girlfriend?
― caek, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody get this man an invite to 77 already
― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:55 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
DUDE IMAGINE OMAR IN A HOAGIE WITH BACON
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
AND CHEESE
AND MORE BACON ON THE ORIGINAL BACON
xxxp, Don't tell me she's Curtis.
― caek, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
BARBECUE SAUCE CHICKEN RIBS
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet thats what xtina h. eats every DAY
I wonder what omar thinks about prop 8.
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and tipping
― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
and funny bottle openers
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Omar Little won't be on dis ting 2008/09
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ caption to that christina hendricks photo??
― z z. st. z z. uv (Lamp), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
omar has no interest in whites and titties
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
^that was an omar quote BTW
― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
...
― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 November 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Your father, God rest his soul, had balls the size of an Irish broad's ass.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:01 PM
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/451212/2/istockphoto_451212_high_five.jpg
― eman, Monday, 17 November 2008 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the Wire by a mile, fuck jersey and fuck guidos. it's all about the polacks and the blacks.
― the table is the table, Monday, 17 November 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:5jto29_ghEnUSM:http://www.thebmi.org/images/WireLogo_Black.jpg
― negotiable, Sunday, 14 December 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070616212459AAVbmtp
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 14 December 2008 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
sopranos because i am fucking sick to death of wire stans.
― Just Johnson (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 14 December 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess there's something i like more about the sopranos' storytelling, it was more ambitious, more theatrical in a way, than the wire, which was very good at being straight-up layered journalistic narrative but was maybe too unwavering in its tone, or something. and ya, i thought the plain-jane look it had, the unobtrusive cinematography, had something going for it, but i want more sometimes.
― s1ocki, Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:07 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^ yeah. 'the wire', which i love, basically keeps a continuous pace right the way through. it was stronger on narrative, but didn't reach beyond that as often as one might have liked. i'm probably brooding on s05 still, but i admire the lack of thesis in 'the sopranos'. DS's fatalism is going to date real fast.
― Just Johnson (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 14 December 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
what everyone who picked the wire said.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 14 December 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing in The Wire's favour is that at least none of the cast have gone on to release books entitled something like "HOW TO BE A BLACK MAN"
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:53 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark
HOW TO ROBS DRUG DEALERS by OMAR
― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 December 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
that is so NOT in its favour haha
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
re-watching the sopranos has confirmed to me how very right i am
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
DS's fatalism is going to date real fast.
― Just Johnson (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:03 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark
You think we're entering a new era of faith in social institutions?
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
uhhh obama much?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link