People like to think they are special or better than other people, but don't like having to work too hard. Only about 5% of people are gay, so it leaves 95% of people who can be flattered by telling them they are awesome for being straight. For example, I haven't been gay all day, and I haven't even really been trying. I am totally going to heaven.
To be fair, JP covers a lot of area and has some very rough parts.
That said, I kept wondering if the producers chose the fattest deputies they could find to make Deputy Seagal look thin(ner) or if they are all really that fat. Watching them waddle up the street after a suspect only to be stymied after he jumped a 4-foot-tall chain link fence was priceless.
The best part, of course, was when Deputy Seagal tried to bust the two guys sitting in a car in their driveway. After the cops do the JP bumrush on them and get them out of the car, telling them to shut up and treating them like dirt, they were found to have done nothing wrong and were left alone. I mean, it's bad enough when the cops do it, but when it's Steven fucking Seagal? Damn.
Well, I guess shooting bullets into his computer would be like killing his brain and committing suicide. But if his computer is his brain, then that makes us his brain trust. Maybe he should just kill all of us. Or just me. I'm so lonely. Is that a suicide reference or a murder reference? Drano tastes like Scope, Pepto-Bismol and PopRocks. Ugh. Time for kitteh vids!
Well, context matters, and I think it's pretty obvious that Gabe likes playing with the silliness of stereotypes in this forum, as opposed to seriously trying to perpetuate them. Although, to be fair, he didn't say anything about mobsters and plumbers. And I don't know what's wrong with plumbers. And I don't see what's wrong with "Fuhgeddaboutit." Is Italian an actual race? But whatever.
The larger point, though, is that this is a subculture of Italian-Americans that not only exists, but is very proud of itself and its Italian heritage. Yes, they look like giant tools to many of us, but they are pretty clearly happy portraying themselves this way. We see total lack of self-awareness and low impulse control, and they see the passion! Where we see the narcissism of the gym rat, they see people who take care of themselves. And they obviously think the high hair and fake tans as an unmitigated good, since they spend so much time doing it to themselves in defiance of every commonly accepted sense of personal style.
On some level, I'm sure these young men and women believe they will be the first group of people to be portrayed sensitively and positively on a reality show, and this is sad. But they believe they are representing Italian Americans well. Why is their belief invalid, or less valid than the critics? Are you not just substituting your standards for theirs? We have a black President now, and I thought we had grown past all this. I for one embrace my Guido brothers and sisters. Not embrace, exactly, but tolerate, knowwhutimean?
I am gratified to see so many Samuel L. Jackson nominations. I think it is about time to recognize that no matter how much we like Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson is basically the black Nicolas Cage. Dead eyes. Expressing emotions by changing voice volume. You know.
And my nomination is "Rules of Engagement" in which a slimy NSA guy tries to railroad an honorable soldier because nobody appreciates soldiers or ever gives them the benefit of the doubt. So many of these movies but this one was obviously trying to be good, and failed miserably. Thanks, culture war of the '90s! You were right! We should just invade everywhere without thinking about it too much or we hate the troops! We have to be willing to make the tough calls if we want to protect our freedom. (Or is it "freedoms" now? I think it changed right around the time we were burning all those Dixie Chicks CDs.)
I hear ya, kid. In the '90s, Mountain Dew wasn't all that EXTREME, but they sold a lot of soda. And in the '80s, we got abominations like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOa-WE0l2M but people still watched those awful shows. I'm sure there was some flapper-oriented advertising in the '20s and '30s, but you would have to ask Gabe about that. I have a friend with some ideas for how to deal with this crap, but I can't really tell you about it without violating the first two rules of our club.
(BTW, still loving your gif SO MUCH)
And now RISK, you guys. A movie about a game about trying to dominate the world through warfare and not even the little plastic pieces get hurt. Because the last 9 years didn't happen.
"Ridley Scott has been talking about directing Monopoly for some time now. Peter Berg is still waiting to board a Battleship movie. Kevin Lima is going to take us to Candyland. And now, Sony Pictures is planning a big screen adaptation of RISK."
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/sony-rolls-dice-on-risk-board-game-movie-neilm.php
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