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I am sitting here writing code and I have the TV for noise in the background.

I look up to see in big bold bright yellow letters "Breaking News"

It's an announcement that Paris Hilton will be let loose around midnight. There are many many reporters hanging around the jail.

It just stuns me the attention this dimple head gets. It just stuns me people are soooo interested in her and are making it sound like she was a decident who was just freed from the Gulag.

One thing that is keeping me from thinking that we need to nuke this country is the fact that nobody is giving her money for an interview. Barbara Walters refuses to meet with her.

Ugh! Back to coding!

One thing that is keeping me from thinking that we need to nuke this country is the fact that nobody is giving her money for an interview

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I thought Larry King was going to do the interview..

Either way, I agree completely - our media's priorities are insanely out of whack. It's nothing new, really, and it was probably worse last century, but it's not getting better recently. :(

oh shit. someone troll, post nasty pics* or something in this thread, to get it closed down, cuz I don't want to imagine the bullshit replies this will get tommorrow.




* i am not condoning this action, and if you do it, may the mod hammer sodomize you all the way to deatland.

She'd better not get her license back. :mad:

oh shit. someone troll, post nasty pics* or something in this thread, to get it closed down, cuz I don't want to imagine the bullshit replies this will get tommorrow.

* i am not condoning this action, and if you do it, may the mod hammer sodomize you all the way to deatland.

I dunno - it seems most people are rightly fed up with the minute-by-minute in-depth coverage of complete nonsense by our media. I haven't seen too many defenders of it here.

She'd better not get her license back. :mad:

Yeah, that little detail seems to be conspicuously absent from the press coverage of this thing - drunk driving is no joke.

:headbang:

I look up to see in big bold bright yellow letters "Breaking News"
It's an announcement that Paris Hilton will be let loose around midnight. There are many many reporters hanging around the jail.
It just stuns me the attention this dimple head gets.

It's just that?

I'll give you another one about the great Western Culture, homeland of Freedom and Right and Justice for All etc.

Italy, one month ago.
We have a law about drugs here, that states that if you carry with yourself more than (cannot remember exact quantity, let's say 1 g) of cocaine, it is too much for your personal use - you will be charged with illicit drug dealing instead of getting a fine for possession of illicit drugs.

A rich businessman was caught by the Carabinieri with cocaine 20 times the quantity limit. At the trial, he defended himself saying that, since he's rich, he can afford buying more cocaine for his personal use on a single deal, so he can stock it and go to the dealer with lesser frequency, thus avoiding contact with "criminals" (note, he should be considered a criminal, too, shouldn't he?) and lessening the risk of being caught by the police.

You guess what? He's free. The judge ruled in favour of the defence. That is, all people are equal in front of the law, but rich people are more equal than others.

I would like to vomit, but I'm getting used to such filth.

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drunk driving is no joke.

Nooo.... why? Here in Italy, it is just the first cause of death for people under age 35, but nevermind...

:rolleyes:

Nooo.... why? Here in Italy, it is just the first cause of death for people under age 35, but nevermind...

:rolleyes:

It's never good. I was just remarking that most press coverage I've seen completely omits the fact that there was any kind of reckless or intoxicated driving in this case.

I am sitting here writing code and I have the TV for noise in the background.
*...*

It's television, stupid!

Ugh! Back to coding!

Put on something nice to help you think. I find J.S. Bach good for when I'm working, though I couldn't code my way out of a GOTO loop.

Not a problem. If you didn't have "television for noise" you wouldn't have Paris in your face ... and we could all think about something more worthwhile. Like big-ass pumpkin guns or cosmic inflation.

I can no longer defend the USA anymore
But can you continue to defend redundancy by protecting it?








sorry, I'll go now...

I am sitting here writing code and I have the TV for noise in the background.

I look up to see in big bold bright yellow letters "Breaking News"

It's an announcement that Paris Hilton will be let loose around midnight. There are many many reporters hanging around the jail.

It just stuns me the attention this dimple head gets. It just stuns me people are soooo interested in her and are making it sound like she was a decident who was just freed from the Gulag.

One thing that is keeping me from thinking that we need to nuke this country is the fact that nobody is giving her money for an interview. Barbara Walters refuses to meet with her.

Ugh! Back to coding!

We may not agree on much TBF, but I agree with you on this 100%!

I would like to borrow a line from Carlos Mencia

Why the F&*#K is this News?!

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Noice.

Paris is free! :eek:

At least in the US, our shit-head celebrities aren't a part of government.
*Sticks tongue out at the UK*

Paris is free! :eek:

I thought the Nazis would never leave.

*ba-dum-pish!*

Okay, what's the quickest way for me to get this thread locked without getting hit with the banstick?

At least in the US, our shit-head celebrities aren't a part of government.
*Sticks tongue out at the UK*

*whispers* What about the Guvernator?

Okay, what's the quickest way for me to get this thread locked without getting hit with the banstick?

Like this...



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Paris is free! :eek:
Did I miss the Nazis taking it over again?

Congratulations!

You have now made a Paris Hilton Thread! You are officially Part of The Problem!

As an official Part of The Problem, you will receive your membership packet in the mail which will include a lifetime subscription to People magazine and a surprise visit from the trained scrotum-seeking attack weasels when you least expect them.

Take care, and good day. :)

Is it sad when I go through a thread and mostly look for only your posts LG?

Seriously, you bring the humor when I look for it haha!

I think I'll call it the Lunatic Syndrome...

You cant defend the USA anymore because the news companies are run by dumbasses?
'Cause, y'know, I've heard just as many people complaining about their crappy coverage of real news as I've heard discussing the events of OMG (random celebrity) IS RAPING BABY PENGUINS.
Although I wouldnt be too averse to nuking Washington.

Which reminds me, I happened to glance at Fox News over breakfast (parents watch it, not me >_>;) and somebody was proposing to take funds from the wall around Mexico and use it to build a wall around Washington DC.
I thought it was a damn good idea, myself.

Is it sad when I go through a thread and mostly look for only your posts LG?

Seriously, you bring the humor when I look for it haha!

I think I'll call it the Lunatic Syndrome...

The Goofball Effect has a nice ring to it. :)

You cant defend the USA anymore because the news companies are run by dumbasses?
'Cause, y'know, I've heard just as many people complaining about their crappy coverage of real news as I've heard discussing the events of OMG (random celebrity) IS RAPING BABY PENGUINS.
Although I wouldnt be too averse to nuking Washington.

Which reminds me, I happened to glance at Fox News over breakfast (parents watch it, not me >_>;) and somebody was proposing to take funds from the wall around Mexico and use it to build a wall around Washington DC.
I thought it was a damn good idea, myself.

I don't understand why such a country as the US doesn't already have giant fortifications from the 1800s.

Ah, the twenty-four hour news cycle.

Quite often, our constant need for instant information winds up with the news being forcibly dumbed down to fill all of that vacuum space throughout the day.

There's still good newsmen out there, but, yeah.

*whispers* What about the Guvernator?

Or Fred Thompson.

I don't understand why such a country as the US doesn't already have giant fortifications from the 1800s.

'Cause we're like Sparta. Walls are for sissies. Real men build bunkers. Big ones. In the middle of mountains. And they dig them out WITH THEIR TEETH.

The Goofball Effect has a nice ring to it. :)

Goofball Effect- a.k.a. Lunatic Syndrome-the condition of the mind when seeking the most extreme instability capable of mankind for the sheer purpose of sanity.

:D

Congratulations!

You have now made a Paris Hilton Thread! You are officially Part of The Problem!

As an official Part of The Problem, you will receive your membership packet in the mail which will include a lifetime subscription to People magazine and a surprise visit from the trained scrotum-seeking attack weasels when you least expect them.

Take care, and good day. :)

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It's television, stupid!

Put on something nice to help you think. I find J.S. Bach good for when I'm working, though I couldn't code my way out of a GOTO loop.

Not a problem. If you didn't have "television for noise" you wouldn't have Paris in your face ... and we could all think about something more worthwhile. Like big-ass pumpkin guns or cosmic inflation.

Well? I have the crazy desire from time to time to watch news and see what's happening in the world. My long term memory doesn't work much anymore and I forget how bad the US news system has become. Infotainment I think is the term these days.

Classical only worked for my with Physics. ;)

I usually have Jazz, Professor Longhair, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur, Billie Holiday.....

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Always knew Ned Flanders was gay. *nods*

Well? I have the crazy desire from time to time to watch news and see what's happening in the world.

Whoa! You're taking me seriously. Don't do that or I will have to release my POTP ferret (I caught the one that came for me.) Didn't mean you were stupid, just a hybrid of "it's the quarterback, stupid" and "television stops you thinking."

My long term memory doesn't work much anymore and I forget how bad the US news system has become. Infotainment I think is the term these days.

Nothing of mine works much anymore (didn't take a lot of care in my twenties) but I haven't watched live TV in weeks and feel better for it. It is startling how little even of the shows I used to love is worth watching, once they are on tape and I don't have the incentive of "I'll miss it if I don't watch it."

I used to have the silly thing on all the time, exactly as you said "for noise." It seemed to improve my concentration time, but I realize now it did that by preventing me concentrating so hard.

Then I noticed that I was believing things I couldn't remember hearing or reading, for instance that Dorothy the Dinosaur actually has a bloke inside.

I usually have Jazz, Professor Longhair, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur, Billie Holiday.....

I couldn't hack that! I'd get all cheerful :p

I am sitting here writing code and I have the TV for noise in the background.

I look up to see in big bold bright yellow letters "Breaking News"

It's an announcement that Paris Hilton will be let loose around midnight. There are many many reporters hanging around the jail.

It just stuns me the attention this dimple head gets. It just stuns me people are soooo interested in her and are making it sound like she was a decident who was just freed from the Gulag.

One thing that is keeping me from thinking that we need to nuke this country is the fact that nobody is giving her money for an interview. Barbara Walters refuses to meet with her.

Ugh! Back to coding!

[sarcasm]Alas the the celebs are more important than those who need to be important :eek:[sarcasm\] or so says the media

Seriously though, I guess they're treating her like a decident released from the gulags because most celebs look like they lived in the gulags. They have less meat on them than a veggie burger.

drunk driving is no joke.

It is when it involves snowmobiles, thinning ice and excess testosterone. In fact, nearly every year in early Spring I laugh myself silly at news from Lake Scugog.

I am sitting here writing code and I have the TV for noise in the background.

I look up to see in big bold bright yellow letters "Breaking News"

It's an announcement that Paris Hilton will be let loose around midnight. There are many many reporters hanging around the jail.

It just stuns me the attention this dimple head gets. It just stuns me people are soooo interested in her and are making it sound like she was a decident who was just freed from the Gulag.

One thing that is keeping me from thinking that we need to nuke this country is the fact that nobody is giving her money for an interview. Barbara Walters refuses to meet with her.

Ugh! Back to coding!

LOL. Paris Hilton does not need to be paid for interviews. She is filthy rich and that is the real reason why people wanted her in jail.
She was not treated fairly at all in this situation.

A white girl goes to jail for violating probation. An illegal immigrant runs people over while driving without a license or insurance and doesn't even get one day in jail, no community service, not even a slap on the wrist.

Paris isn't a criminal. Illegal aliens are and rappers are.

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Is he excited or disgusted?

Is he excited or disgusted?

Excited, I saw the episode. He LOOOOOOOOVES purple.

She'd better not get her license back. :mad:

(I have no idea why I'm defending a person I hate. LOL)

Hmmm....

That an interesting statement. If they took your license, I suppose you shouldn't get it back either? Or is it only because of her success and wealth that she should not be allowed to have her license back?

She hasn't done anything for the government to refuse her license.

I dunno - it seems most people are rightly fed up with the minute-by-minute in-depth coverage of complete nonsense by our media. I haven't seen too many defenders of it here.

The media sucks. They'll do anything for money, including making people look bad. I wonder how much money they made off this case, from the advertisers.

We may not agree on much TBF, but I agree with you on this 100%!

I would like to borrow a line from Carlos Mencia

Why the F&*#K is this News?!

Now that's what I want to know!


And while we're at that, why the hell is Reality TV popular???
It's a bunch of idiots suffering for money! And all the screenwriters have become a bunch of no talent lazy bums!

I ****ing hate TV.

Now that's what I want to know!


And while we're at that, why the hell is Reality TV popular???
It's a bunch of idiots suffering for money! And all the screenwriters have become a bunch of no talent lazy bums!

Well, actually screenwriters were part of what was frozen out of reality tv and instead it's 'scripted' by associate producers, who now think of themselves as writers...which makes them a tad more irritating then they would be otherwise...

Well, actually screenwriters were part of what was frozen out of reality tv and instead it's 'scripted' by associate producers, who now think of themselves as writers...which makes them a tad more irritating then they would be otherwise...

Interesting! Did screenwriters need qualifications, distinguishing them in some way from associate producers? Or is it some difference in the process of 'scripting'?

I know nothing about reality TV other than the names of some shows, but I am interested in screenwriting.

EDIT: Good answer, thanks. WGA I can google!

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Lrrr is confused by your fleshy displays of ambiguous emotions.

Interesting! Did screenwriters need qualifications, distinguishing them in some way from associate producers? Or is it some difference in the process of 'scripting'?

I know nothing about reality TV other than the names of some shows, but I am interested in screenwriting.

Well, technically the shows aren't 'scripted,' so there was no need to hire a screenwriter for the shows, and APs cost way less than a WGA writer and are just pulled up from the ranks of production co-ordinators. It's in the definition that allows them to pay one person to organize the shoot and 'write' the scripts for half the money it would cost to pay a WGA (Writers Guild of America) writer. For what they pay APs the Guild wouldn't let a screenwriter take the job.

(I have no idea why I'm defending a person I hate. LOL)

Hmmm....

That an interesting statement. If they took your license, I suppose you shouldn't get it back either? Or is it only because of her success and wealth that she should not be allowed to have her license back?

She hasn't done anything for the government to refuse her license.

she already has her license back. the length of time it was suspended was up before she even went into jail.

its an admisitrative thing, once the time is up, you get it back even if you violated probation.

I and no one I know gives a festive dung beetle.

My friends range across a broad demographic, so it makes me wonder who the fuck sponsers this kind of shit, and who the fuck is watching it..

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Good enough for me.

Locked.