Fellow DUers who don't give a good goddamn about the Grammys, or the

[Redstone]

Oscars, or the Emmys, or American Idol, or any of that crap, come on over to this thread.

We'll have a drink or three and ignore the useless pop-culture nonsense that doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

Redstone

[MissB]

1. Everytime I see "AI" in a thread title

I think "artificial intelligence".

Hey, it fits even. :hi:

[LSK]

2. stupid question, but is it on tonite?

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. I couldn't care less...

those things are meaningless anyway, being more about popularity than artistic merit; I think the whole thing is sort of absurd. It's kind of like having a competition where Budweiser is named "best beer in the world" and the only other competitors are Coors, Miller, and Warsteiner.

[LeftyMom]

4. Pass the beer

I don't give a shit about award shows or "reality" :eyes: TV either.

[ismnotwasm]

5. I hear ya

I'm proud to say I've never watched one single episode of American Idol, that stars dance new one or even Surviver. In fact, MTV started that reality show shit and I'm still pissed at them. I can't sit throught the Oscars or the Emmy's (Yawn) without a urge to jump up and do anything else.

I'd rather watch an Attending MD on the U of W station discuss bowel surgery. With pictures.

[flvegan]

6. It's all shit.

And what's with all the awards, anyway? I swear, it used to be 3 awards, big shows, each year. Now, it seems like there's a dang awards show every other week.

Don't unleash me on the stupid categories either. "And the winner for best usage of cleavage in a pseudo hip hop R&B crossover, is..."

[fishnfla]

7. Well, I'll join ya

I just dont get the cult of celebrity worship in this country, nor do I like the fact that our culture seems to be defined by whats/who's on TV. But I am biased against the idiot box the most. Come March, I'll be 3 years TV free.

Its weird. I gave up smoking 4 years ago. Every once in awhile round about my 3 rd beer, I jones for a smoke. It passes
I gave up fast food about 3 years ago, once in awhile I get a whiff of the clown place and jones for some fries. It passes.

I never,ever have any inclination to watch anything on TV.

Now here's the weirder part: I can hang out with smokers or people noshing on junk food, no problem. But people who watch TV or talk about it, I can't seem to tolerate

[jpgray]

8. You're lucky that nothing others find silly or meaningless entertains you

:P

Even our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous, and all that. Nobody spends all their free time paging through Ulysses or writing "Thank You Pierrot Lunaire" graffiti. We all enjoy stupid crap in some form or other.

[Left Is Write]

12. Speak for yourself!

I'm paging through Ulysses right now!

:D

[jpgray]

24. And I'm toting a spraycan even as I'm writing this

But separating people based on where they go for passive entertainment makes no sense to me. One of the most brilliant people I know is obsessed with Project Runway, for example.

[greatauntoftriplets]

40. Molly Bloom's Soliloquoy....

Is hot....

A terrific book, if a bit time-consuming to read. I have been to Forty-Foot Beach. The guys I was with made me stay away from it. :eyes:

Finnegan's Wake is a more difficult read.

[Redstone]

13. Thank you so much.

Redstone

[jpgray]

16. You're welcome in like measure, I'm sure

I could easily page through your music collection and dismiss no small number of albums as "useless nonsense that doesn't mean a goddamn thing," but then I don't feel the need to separate myself from others based on what I find entertaining.

[Redstone]

18. Good for you.

Redstone

[jpgray]

19. Good for us all

:D

jpgray

[Benfea]

9. I'm with you!

Awards ceremonies are inherently boring. I have zero desire to listen to incoherent, vacuous, vain twits babble about their spouses and coworkers. I get enough of that at office parties.

[SofaKingLiberal]

10. I'll drink to that.

:beer:

[LynzM]

11. Hey dude....

You know I'd show up here, right? :hi:

Hope things are going ok for you. We still have to do lunch, one of these weeks. Work is a madhouse. I think I need to "schedule" a lunch! LOL. Oy.

I guess I don't much care if other people want to watch that stuff, though I find it obnoxious. It's when that's *all* they do or *all* they talk about, that they're probably not people I'm going to become friends with.

A drink or three sounds good, tonight.

[Redstone]

17. Hey, I never said anyone else shouldn't like that stuff. It's not for me

to tell anyone what to do. I just get tired of listening to the endless discussion about it. For example, one of the big reasons I'm happy I don't work in an office with other people anymore, is the maddening weeks of yack-yack-yack every morning during the college basketball tournaments in the spring. AAAArgh! Every time I would go to get a cup of coffee (no, there's NO way I'd ever let my secretary fetch coffee for me), there it was, blather blather blather...

You know where to find me; give me a call when you can break away for lunch. Usually, any day except Thursday (that's my weekly lunch date with Mrs R.) is good.

How's that bathroom coming along? Still bathing with bucket and garden hose?

Redstone

[LynzM]

23. Ayup, though it's now the hose and the tub, at least!

I just had the really evil thought, what kind of rumors I could start at my office if I had an 'older man' in a nice hat show up in his spiffy sports car to take me out to lunch :evilgrin: :rofl:

Actually, if anyone pays attention to that kind of thing around our office, I'm outta the loop. But that wouldn't surprise me.

I'll give you a call, maybe next week, about lunch!

[Redstone]

25. Rumors, huh? I'll wear my suit that makes me look like a minister,

and my good hat. That'll get 'em talking.

Redstone

[LynzM]

29. OMG, John and I are dyin' over here...

:rofl: Sah-weet. Lunch with Reverend Redstone! :bounce:

[Redstone]

32. It's true! You know I always wear black jacket and pants, and when it's

cold, I'll throw on a sweatshirt (black, natch) and my jacket over that, rather than wear a coat.

When that's combined with a white shirt, it does indeed look like a clerical collar. I get called "Rev" by strangers all the time when I go to the bar in the winter like that.

(And you KNOW that when that happens, I reply "Bless you, my son (or daughter)," don't you?)

Redstone

[LynzM]

37. ROFL....

:rofl: <-- knock it off, I'm all sick 'n' stuff, and you're making me feel better! *grin*

I can totally see you doing that, and then ordering something very non-priest-ly to drink!

[Redstone]

42. Shot of Jack Daniel's and a Rolling Rock? What's non-priestly

about that?

Redstone

[Dukkha]

14. Yeah baby here's to intellectual prowess

fuck that "guilty pleasure" shit. If I want to numb myself I'll smoke pot and listen to Pink Floyd, or classical, or watch a Godfrey Reggio film. You don't need to cave in to the mainstream crap to relax.
:smoke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Yes! And if anyone wants to call me an "elitist" because of it,

then so be it. If standing up for artistic intgegrity and fighting for the right of legitimate artists to have their say and asking that artists not pander to the lowest common denominator of an already ridiculously and immorally ignorant American public is "elitist", then call me an elitist and I will wear the brand proudly, loudly, and brazenly.

[Redstone]

21. I hate pandering the worst.

That's what killed country music.

Toby Keith, for example, has a helluva voice (he could have been the current equivalent of B. W. Stephenson), but I can't listen to him, because his songs are all pandering crap.

Redstone

[jpgray]

22. I don't think it's possible to be an elitist and a fan of Pink Floyd

:D

I love early Pink Floyd and still enjoy the later stuff, but liking them wholly disqualifies you from the realm of good taste in the eyes of music snobs.

[Redstone]

26. So, an opinion on Pink Floyd either makes you a "regular guy" if you

like them, or a "music snob" if you don't?

Pretty narrow definition, there.

Redstone

[jpgray]

27. Neat logic Redstone

Me: All music snobs dislike Pink Floyd.

You: Therefore all those who dislike Pink Floyd are music snobs.

Hard to argue with that. :D

Seriously though, while all "true" music snobs will dislike Floyd, just because someone dislikes Floyd doesn't make them a music snob.

[Redstone]

28. Now, THERE'S some logic!

Redstone

[Rabrrrrrr]

52. You, sir, are getting the napalm first.

Pink Floyd are like unto gods.

:7

[sasquatch]

20. Can we watch Olympic Hockey in two days?

[Redstone]

34. Why not? I didn't tell anyone that they should or shouldn't do anything,

did I? No, I didn't. Do whatever you want.

(I'll be watching the curling if they show it, by the way.)

Redstone

[deadparrot]

30. Can I join?

God knows that I could care less about reality TV, awards shows, and "pop culture" at large. :puke:

[Redstone]

36. No joining required. This is just a quiet retreat of a thread.

Just a place to get away from the babble.

Redstone

[Dave Reynolds]

31. I do not play with the various cults of personality.

The worst use of airtime is those damn gossip shows, too.

[sendero]

33. Couldn't ..

... ignore them more. What a bunch of crap.

Oscars/Emmys/Grammys - a bunch of self-congratulatory self-important numbnuts getting together to self-congratulate themselves :)

American Idol: make fun of the delusional losers that are only on the show so you can make fun of them. How wonderful of them, and of you.

[AirmensMom]

35. Mind if I join?

I'm being ignored tonight, so I'll just sit here quietly and crash the party.

[Redstone]

38. Nah, you don't have to sit quietly. Pull up a chair, have a drink, and

talk about whatever you want to. As long as it's not the Grammys and that.

Redstone

[AirmensMom]

39. Gee, thanks, Redstone!

I never watch that stuff at all. What are we drinking tonight?

[Redstone]

41. Some have beer, others wine. I'm having V & V.

Redstone

[AirmensMom]

43. OK, I'll have wine, please.

Everyone else here (4 cats and husband) are in bed sleeping already. Did you see the picture of my nutty cat making Windows hibernate? He's learning how to use my computer. :rofl:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4722060&mesg_id=4722060

[Redstone]

44. Here's your wine. That picture gives me the willies; I could never let

an animal into my office; way too many things that would get screwed up by the pet hair.

Redstone

[AirmensMom]

46. It's not my office, it's my family room.

I usually close the lid when I get up, but sometimes I get up for just a minute and he comes out of nowhere. The cats have taken over. :)

Thanks for the wine! :9

[EstimatedProphet]

45. Never watch any of that stuff!

Yuck!

[johnnie]

47. I pay no attention to the award shows

I will admit to watching some American Idol. I like to see the different singers. There is actually a guy who made it through that can sing some mean soul. He probably won't make it through, but he is really good. I don't vote, but I will watch to hear the singers. They can't help it the show is a joke. But some of those people sing their hearts out and I can't resist a good soulful singer.

As for the award shows. :eyes:

[Progressive4Life]

48. Reality shows kill brain cells!

I avoid them like the plague.

[ghostsofgiants]

49. Fuckin' a!

[NMMNG]

50. Awards shows bore the heck out of me

I don't get the concept of a bunch of celebs gathering to pat themselves on the back for giving each other awards. :boring:

But then, I've never been a big on celebrity worship in the first place. :shrug:

[jeff30997]

51. BAAARF !

:puke: