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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Surgoshan on 12 Apr 2009, 19:40
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So, I've not seen a topic about American Idol or any shit like that.
Watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY). It is shallow people being shut the fuck up.
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Do I have a new hero? Maybe.
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Generally speaking this sort of thing isnt just about talent, its also about looks. And before you go off on how you cant control how you look. well, I think Harper Lee said it best in To Kill a Mockingbird when he wrote "people in their right minds never take pride in their talents." when referring in particular to Atticus' uncanny ability to shoot, but it's sentiments are universal.
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They should know not to underestimate people on Britain's Got Talent by now! Everybody remembers Paul Potts, I'm sure.
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They should know not to underestimate people on Britain's Got Talent by now! Everybody remembers Paul Potts, I'm sure.
Pol Pot was pretty badass, too. In a completely different way
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I definitely didn't expect that. She was fantastic!
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She was amazing. I wish people would remember to hold their opinions until after someone performs, because I'm sure that whole audience was thinking, "My god, I'm an ass," after she started.
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Last year I remember there was that fat woman who came on, saying she was a single mother and stuff. Simon and Piers were thinking "oh god", Simon even buzzed her out after one second, and then she did this amazing (albeit slightly ridiculous) Britney Spears dance number. Everyone was cheering, Simon admitted he was wrong.
It was a good day. For her, I can imagine
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I was almost positive that you were going to post this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrLQUN8UJg Audition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-Y_Vb0wsw Result.
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I was under the impression everyone had forgotten him. With good reason.
But I guess this is the internet. Memes live on forever in the minds of teenages.
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Gives me a chuckle every so often I see it.
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Generally speaking this sort of thing isnt just about talent, its also about looks. And before you go off on how you cant control how you look. well, I think Harper Lee said it best in To Kill a Mockingbird when he wrote "people in their right minds never take pride in their talents." when referring in particular to Atticus' uncanny ability to shoot, but it's sentiments are universal.
Harper Lee was a woman.
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And a foxy one - she looked just like Catherine Keener and also a little like Sandra Bullock!
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Harper Lee was a woman.
Eat me
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Testy!
Anyway why are we talking about Harper Lee when this thread is supposed to be about manipulative-and-probably-staged-to-some-extent British television clips?
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British television?
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British television?
As in television they have in Britain
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its diff'rent from Amurrcan?
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Well, generally in America they don't show "Britain's Got Talent", I don't think.
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Britain's got talent?
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They have America's got Talent. Surely one can piece two and two together.
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That takes talent.
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It's lucky they've got it
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Supposedly.
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Britain's got talent?
I was confused at first too. Then again, they've probably got more talent than Australia. The ads alone are rubbish.
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Britain's got talent?
Britains got got talent.
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Ant and Dec RUINED that video :x "Hurrrrrr you weren't expecting that hurrrrr!!1"
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Didn't Simon once chew a person out primarily because they were overweight?
It was at that point that I said fuck him.
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Simon Cowell is in general pretty obnoxious yes, but he does judge fairly most of the time. Doesn't mean he's not a bit of a shallow cunt but what'reyagonnado?
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That was his Australian counterpart, Ian "Dicko" Dickson.
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This is an interesting audition where Simon kinda saves the kid from a bad music choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_kuxln9-M
Still not quite sure what I think about how he went about it.
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Simon Cowell is in general pretty obnoxious yes, but he does judge fairly most of the time. Doesn't mean he's not a bit of a shallow cunt but what'reyagonnado?
Simon confuses me. Sometimes he seems like the most level-headed, unbiased member of the team while the others are prancing about with fake enthusiasm and exclamations of amazement, and at others he appears to have a completely superfluous judging method. Despite this, I still prefer him to the other judges, because at least he doesn't fuck around.
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Huh.
So this is an Idol thread.
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Didn't Simon once chew a person out primarily because they were overweight?
It was at that point that I said fuck him.
Welcome to the real world.
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Man where'd the link to the cynical Sun-Times article go? I wanted to reread it again.
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I think Harper Lee said it best in To Kill a Mockingbird when he
Harper Lee was a chick.. just sayin'
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Harper Lee was a woman.
Eat me
I think Harper Lee said it best in To Kill a Mockingbird when he
Harper Lee was a chick.. just sayin'
just sayin'
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If you're name was "Plate of Cookies" I just might. And to think I actually scanned the thread before posting, just in case.
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Harper Lee was a woman.
Eat me
I think Harper Lee said it best in To Kill a Mockingbird when he
Two wrongs don't make a right, and two people pointing out your mistake don't make you less wrong.
Harper Lee was a chick.. just sayin'
just sayin'
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Making an ad hominem attack on my statement over some small piece of semantics that was unrelated to my actual point is license to eat me. And to have some other ass waltz in and do the same thing because he was too lazy to read a topic that only has one page?
Well you already know my feelings on the first guy doing it... just sayin'
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How the hell does correcting your mistake equal an ad hominem attack? Calm down, dude.
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Making an ad hominem attack on my statement over some small piece of semantics that was unrelated to my actual point is license to eat me. And to have some other ass waltz in and do the same thing because he was too lazy to read a topic that only has one page?
Well you already know my feelings on the first guy doing it... just sayin'
RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGEEEE... Got one thing right though. I am an ass.
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Arguing part of my statement that neither proves or disproves the statement is pretty textbook. And generally speaking I bite my lip when people say and do stupid things, but Im beginning to think Khar had it right all along.
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Man where'd the link to the cynical Sun-Times article go? I wanted to reread it again.
Hey Matt, I posted that link in a different thread about the same sort of stuff in the music forum. You probably saw it there. It linked here. You should all read it. (http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/04/reality_what_a_concept.html) It's a great article.
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Arguing part of my statement that neither proves or disproves the statement is pretty textbook. And generally speaking I bite my lip when people say and do stupid things, but Im beginning to think Khar had it right all along.
I think where you may be going wrong is assuming this is not the place for "stupid" things (cf. many, many threads). That is to say, I was not being serious. I saw an oddly placed mistake and thought that correcting it might be as or more worthwhile than furthering the topic at hand. I still think I was right in that, though I seem to have provoked some ill feelings, which is unfortunate and rather more unsightly than just derailing a thread.
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Arguing part of my statement that neither proves or disproves the statement is pretty textbook.
It's not ad hom though. Ad hom is attacking the arguer instead of the argument.
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Woman who is not pretty can sing.
World is shocked! This has never happened before!
:roll:
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Well, in recent times women seem to be selected by shows like '... got talent' and others because they're pretty and cannot sing so in essence it's pretty refreshing.
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On the other hand, woman who is not pretty (and not young) made it onto T.V.
I'm pretty astonished.
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(http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/columnists/jimbaumbach/blog/celebrity-quote-of-the-day-joan-rivers-0.jpg)
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Technically I don't think she's a woman any more. I don't think she's even human.
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She didn't always look like that.
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I know. What I'm saying is that she's moved beyond human now. She's like the next stage of evolution. Or devolution.
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I was going to come to her aid but after some google image searching I can safely say she was never very attractive