Hmmmm - I don't care about Dr. C calling emo crap but he's very very RONG with the implication that Sebadoh and Superchunk were either emo or crap.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought "challenging opinions" was not actually a place for challenging opinions to be listed, but a place for things to be listed that the poster themself falsely believes to be a challenging opinion
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Exackly.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
-- roxymuzak, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:01 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
^correct
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
pish i was stating FACTS
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
not u sunny
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
:-( sorry.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
those political threads are chock full of challenging opinions from ilxors
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
see "ban burt stanton" on mod req
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Since when has journalism ever been about being talented? Anyone with a university education has the skills to turn out decent copy.
-- Zelda Zonk, Friday, 15 February 2008 12:29 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
He's so pretentious. It's amazing how, even though I don't really care to keep up with his career, every time I see him he manages to do something incredibly arrogant and self-indulgent that shocks me. That Grammy speech where he acts incredibly rude and conceited (the recent 2008 version) is another example of this. Telling the band to stop playing the music because he wants to go over the allotted time restriction and talk about his mother is a another example. If he hadn't started out his speech talking about how he "owned" the Grammy's and made the awards show his new home he'd have enough time to talk about how his mom is proud of him in heaven when she watches rap videos of her son, but he didn't think it through. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
-- Cunga, Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:28 AM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
flava flav is like kanye west with a big fucking clock
― DG, Saturday, 16 February 2008 09:30 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, that uppity negro!
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 16 February 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's mostly personal opinion for a lot of these.
-- our work is never over, Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
...
there no fucking wrong personal opinion.
-- our work is never over, Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 16 February 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there is an environmental cause eg a toxin that causes depressive thoughts. Plenty of places have deprivation and associated social problems and unemployment. Nearly everyone can access the internet. So they should be looking for a environmental cause specific to this area. Why is nobody doing this?
-- Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:37 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link
not so much "challenging" as "this guy is pretty twee for a heavy crack user."
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Environmental cause = living in fucking Bridgend
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"there's no wrong opinion" = something idiots say to justify saying something idiotic
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
could the US navy use one of its satellite-killing missiles to take out the primaries thread? just a thought.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 21 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
People are hating this movie for the rong reasons. They're getting worked up about the "issue" of abortion, when the movie isn't a morality tale or an after-school special. It's a comedy about a singular person in an individual situation. Then they're mad because of all the "indie signifiers", because they are still under the delusion that they somehow possess the magic key to jaded enlightenment and non-mainstream culture, as if these music / artists / or ideals will never cross over. Like, "Hey, other assholes are listening to MY MUSIC, and to add insult to injury, they're thriftshopping too!" Get over it. I don't hear clear arguements against the script, performances, production, etc.
And so, I ask again, what exactly is the bar for Teen Dramedy if not Juno?
-- Bobbi Peru, Friday, February 22, 2008 3:25 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 22 February 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 21 February 2008 17:22 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
daria-g morelike daria-godsake, stop posting, amirite?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 22 February 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dom Passantino, Friday, February 22, 2008 10:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― Mr. Que, Friday, 22 February 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
In its mass-market designs, it represents the oversaturation of a particular "indie" aesthetic that had started to grow stale by the end of the 1990s but somehow took on a new place by being subsumed into the mainstream in the early-to-mid 2000s with Seth Cohen wearing ringer tees on The O.C. and Modest Mouse in car commercials and such.
-- jaymc
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
fair trade thread is getting pretty fuckin' intensely challenging.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a little snotty to make "duh" comments that imply that an understanding of the Bretton Woods system is part of the obvious baseline of any casual discussion of trade among non-econ people.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Duh.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
re: this:
Bretton Woods was a cashcow for the west really
-- laxalt, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:01 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
maybe we need a "breaking news" thread for "western states will use every weapon in their armoury to their advantage whatever the consequences"-type challenging opinions.
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:06 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
no that's what i meant, hurting! dude was making like "Bretton Woods was a cashcow" was this kind of QED statement.
i have no idea what the fuck that even means -- like prior to BW the western powers had no sway in (what became the) third world, or that after BW broke down it hasn't.
my line applied to pretty much everything posted on that thread, but the bretton woods bit annoyed me because it was just so CHALLENGING.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it hasn't --> they haven't.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ah ok, I see what you're saying. So maybe I also misunderstand this thread, b/c I'm thinking "challenging opinions" means arrogant assertions of things that are obvious, but maybe it's more just arrogant assertions period.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
This list is rad so far.
-- call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 11:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
this list sucks!
-- Bee OK, Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:45 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 March 2008 07:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want to be like some, no offense, white folks who think they know what's up with other cultures when they don't.
-- tremendoid, Sunday, March 9, 2008 8:25 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
white folks be thinkin'
― gershy, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The actors weren't exactly playing very differently from the original. I get half way through a JD song and I'm already bored. They really do sound like a band having a jam together.
-- the next grozart, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:47 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Limbaugh is so deluded.
-- suzy, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:57 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not afraid to state loud and clear: this skit was not, is not, nor will ever be funny. Theres nothing funny about it, nor is there about Christopher Walken, Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrel, jokes referencing this skit, nor is there anything that resembles humour in the premises, foundation, and details (on a grand and microscopic scale) within, or around this skit.
The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time.
-- mehlt, Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:39 AM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG cowbell hater. my mind just BROKE.
― sunny successor, Sunday, 16 March 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the kind of form that could score our boy a shock victory here
The Importance of Being Earnest - ILM Chapter 1
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 16 March 2008 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
less cowbell!
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time. The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time. The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time. The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time. The fact it is so loved is truly symptomatic of one of the tragedy of our time.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 16 March 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Up there with the massacres in Darfur, certainly.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 16 March 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
tupac ruined hip hop. there, i said it.
-- oops (Oops), Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:01 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link
― and what, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
there, i said it.
^^my least favorite phrase of all time
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
there is no more surefire of a way to spot a CHALLENGING OPINION then if it's followed by "there, i said it"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lock thread" also a classic BRING THE CHALLENGE gambit.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
"im not saying. im just saying"
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Tupac ruined hip-hop! (room goes silent)
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, hey look, it's the man who does't like bob dylan! (runs out of room)
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
gristle mcthornbody
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 18 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
Film parts: this comedy show isn’t haha funny but it’s quite nice, don’t get the obsession but I’m chuckling Skits: alright this is some of the worst shit I’ve ever seen
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Monday, 18 October 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
I've seen many (and even love some) of the featured films but I still have yet to watch a MST3K. I dunno, if a movie is quip-inducing I guess I just prefer to generate the quips myself alongside whoever I'm watching it with.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 October 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link