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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 22, 2015 19:45:37 GMT -5
Books That Literally All White Men Own: The Definitive List Is the list just a blank expanse of nothing, given that there are surely white men who own no books?
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on May 28, 2015 23:19:49 GMT -5
Which Type of Bread Are You?
And, even stupider:
Can You Guess What This Snack Was Before I Crushed It?
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Post by Pastafarian on May 28, 2015 23:51:57 GMT -5
I envy you so much that you are now just seeing those goddamn photos. A year or so back, I started unfollowing people if they posted them. Yes, it's wonderful to have a partner who supports you, high or low. No, it can't all be boiled down to that dichotomous sound bite. And while I like Marilyn Monroe, given her rather public airings of some very personal issues, perhaps she may not be the best authority on the subject. Something to consider… After seeing that a few too many times I've been kind of wanting to put something like this on my dating profile. Oh for fuck's sake.
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Post by Pastafarian on May 31, 2015 11:41:00 GMT -5
Jared Leto Is Somehow Older Than These Celebrities
-Courtesy of that Clikbait Grid above the comments section of every AV Club article.
That is worthy of the time it would take to read it? That one person is older than another group of people..."somehow"? Here's a hint. the "somehow" is that he was born before them, you HOGFUCKERS.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 16:01:04 GMT -5
Jared Leto Is Somehow Older Than These Celebrities
-Courtesy of that Clikbait Grid above the comments section of every AV Club article.
That is worthy of the time it would take to read it? That one person is older than another group of people..."somehow"? Here's a hint. the "somehow" is that he was born before them, you HOGFUCKERS. tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/post/140723/thread
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Post by Pastafarian on May 31, 2015 18:56:50 GMT -5
Jared Leto Is Somehow Older Than These Celebrities
-Courtesy of that Clikbait Grid above the comments section of every AV Club article.
That is worthy of the time it would take to read it? That one person is older than another group of people..."somehow"? Here's a hint. the "somehow" is that he was born before them, you HOGFUCKERS. tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/post/140723/threadHmmm. I somehow missed that the first time around.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on May 31, 2015 19:00:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on May 31, 2015 20:11:32 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry. Leaves of Grass, my ass!
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jun 2, 2015 3:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 13:52:53 GMT -5
you know what? it actually is clickbait, b/c it got me hooked, and didn't deliver, which was the intent. if it had delivered, there would be nothing to brag about in the discovery, but the conclusion of the article is that the importance of the discovery is 2-fold: more reliable dating and transitional fossils, yielding a real anthropological 'moment.' so while it was a somewhat snarky, conversational article, it had a greater positive effect than just being funny. the author was able to use a grabber of a headline to give news that was already genuinely interesting-- which means they know their audience
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jun 2, 2015 16:07:01 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry. Leaves of Grass, my ass! Leaves of Ass
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Post by Paleu on Jun 2, 2015 16:28:51 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry. I couldn't get past the first paragraph. God, what an awful, awful article.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jun 6, 2015 17:34:46 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry. It's sad to think that something this aggressively stupid could have been written with a modicum of sincerity, and not as crude satire, by someone who "teaches" poetry at a respected institution of higher learning, and that it could be published in what presumably still wants to pass for (or perhaps doesn't anymore) an intelligent magazine. As a forceful corrective, the last of Geoffrey Hill's excellent poetry lectures at Oxford were posted recently, a running theme of which is the common, misguided conception of what poetry is or should be, appallingly illustrated by that. He's highly immodest, and occasionally I feel overdoes a vox clamantis in deserto affectation, but then I read garbage like the above and all is forgiven.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Jun 6, 2015 18:19:00 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's technically click bait but The New Yorker headline ' If Walt Whitman Vlogged' still makes me angry. It's sad to think that something this aggressively stupid could have been written with a modicum of sincerity, and not as crude satire, by someone who "teaches" poetry at a respected institution of higher learning, and that it could be published in what presumably still wants to pass for (or perhaps doesn't anymore) an intelligent magazine. As a forceful corrective, the last of Geoffrey Hill's excellent poetry lectures at Oxford were posted recently, a running theme of which is the common, misguided conception of what poetry is or should be, appallingly illustrated by that. He's highly immodest, and occasionally I feel overdoes a vox clamantis in deserto affectation, but then I read garbage like the above and all is forgiven. Dorothy Parker is rolling in her grave. The fact the first paragraph include the sentence 'But this ain’t no tree-hugger or Iron John' was, as Martin Amis would say, a ribbon-cutting to a festival of stupidity. Between this and the aggressively idiotic essay all about how YA sucks and Henry James is the best (seriously, that's what it boiled down to), among other flops, The New Yorker has been on a downward spiral as of late. Great legacy, and they still can produce some excellent cartoons and interesting articles, but they are definitely no longer on the level of something like The Paris Review or the London Review of Books. That's very good to know about Geoffrey Hill's poetry lectures. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of poetry, although I have been working my way through Lord Byron's collection. I'll have to give a peek. Thanks for the heads-up! Plus, as annoying as immodesty may be, it's hard to argue when the immodest one is right.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jun 6, 2015 18:47:13 GMT -5
It's sad to think that something this aggressively stupid could have been written with a modicum of sincerity, and not as crude satire, by someone who "teaches" poetry at a respected institution of higher learning, and that it could be published in what presumably still wants to pass for (or perhaps doesn't anymore) an intelligent magazine. As a forceful corrective, the last of Geoffrey Hill's excellent poetry lectures at Oxford were posted recently, a running theme of which is the common, misguided conception of what poetry is or should be, appallingly illustrated by that. He's highly immodest, and occasionally I feel overdoes a vox clamantis in deserto affectation, but then I read garbage like the above and all is forgiven. Dorothy Parker is rolling in her grave. The fact the first paragraph include the sentence 'But this ain’t no tree-hugger or Iron John' was, as Martin Amis would say, a ribbon-cutting to a festival of stupidity. Between this and the aggressively idiotic essay all about how YA sucks and Henry James is the best (seriously, that's what it boiled down to), among other flops, The New Yorker has been on a downward spiral as of late. Great legacy, and they still can produce some excellent cartoons and interesting articles, but they are definitely no longer on the level of something like The Paris Review or the London Review of Books. That's very good to know about Geoffrey Hill's poetry lectures. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of poetry, although I have been working my way through Lord Byron's collection. I'll have to give a peek. Thanks for the heads-up! Plus, as annoying as immodesty may be, it's hard to argue when the immodest one is right. The Christopher Beha article? Yeah, I wasn't sure what to make of that. I didn't read the articles he's objecting to, or The Goldfinch, and wasn't entirely sure what he was arguing, but you may well be right. I do think the quality of the two magazines you mention tends to be higher. In the latter a few years ago Perry Anderson wrote, "Beneath the veneer of worldliness it still affects, what the New Yorker delivers today is mostly a sententious conformism."
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Jun 6, 2015 21:21:41 GMT -5
Dorothy Parker is rolling in her grave. The fact the first paragraph include the sentence 'But this ain’t no tree-hugger or Iron John' was, as Martin Amis would say, a ribbon-cutting to a festival of stupidity. Between this and the aggressively idiotic essay all about how YA sucks and Henry James is the best (seriously, that's what it boiled down to), among other flops, The New Yorker has been on a downward spiral as of late. Great legacy, and they still can produce some excellent cartoons and interesting articles, but they are definitely no longer on the level of something like The Paris Review or the London Review of Books. That's very good to know about Geoffrey Hill's poetry lectures. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of poetry, although I have been working my way through Lord Byron's collection. I'll have to give a peek. Thanks for the heads-up! Plus, as annoying as immodesty may be, it's hard to argue when the immodest one is right. The Christopher Beha article? Yeah, I wasn't sure what to make of that. I didn't read the articles he's objecting to, or The Goldfinch, and wasn't entirely sure what he was arguing, but you may well be right. I do think the quality of the two magazines you mention tends to be higher. In the latter a few years ago Perry Anderson wrote, "Beneath the veneer of worldliness it still affects, what the New Yorker delivers today is mostly a sententious conformism." That is the one. Basically, I agree with some of his broader points about a culture of infantilization through pop culture, but he misses two rather important points: 1. Not all literature aimed at adults is on the level of Henry James. He's an exception for a reason. 2. Quite a bit of classic literature, like The Catcher in the Rye, I Capture the Castle, and To Kill a Mockingbird, would fit the rubric of modern YA fiction, and they clearly aren't crap like Beha makes the whole genre out to be. Yes, there is a lot of shitty YA books. There are also a lot of shitty YA books, period. That quote from Anderson was beautiful and gave me a hearty chuckle. Again, I do like some of the stuff The New Yorker does these days, but the conformity and unearned supercilious attitudes are tiring. At least The Paris Review and the LRB aim to challenge.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 8, 2015 17:22:49 GMT -5
"What Does Your Phone Battery Percentage Say About Your Personality?"
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jun 8, 2015 17:38:07 GMT -5
The Christopher Beha article? Yeah, I wasn't sure what to make of that. I didn't read the articles he's objecting to, or The Goldfinch, and wasn't entirely sure what he was arguing, but you may well be right. I do think the quality of the two magazines you mention tends to be higher. In the latter a few years ago Perry Anderson wrote, "Beneath the veneer of worldliness it still affects, what the New Yorker delivers today is mostly a sententious conformism." That is the one. Basically, I agree with some of his broader points about a culture of infantilization through pop culture, but he misses two rather important points: 1. Not all literature aimed at adults is on the level of Henry James. He's an exception for a reason. 2. Quite a bit of classic literature, like The Catcher in the Rye, I Capture the Castle, and To Kill a Mockingbird, would fit the rubric of modern YA fiction, and they clearly aren't crap like Beha makes the whole genre out to be. Yes, there is a lot of shitty YA books. There are also a lot of shitty YA books, period. That quote from Anderson was beautiful and gave me a hearty chuckle. Again, I do like some of the stuff The New Yorker does these days, but the conformity and unearned supercilious attitudes are tiring. At least The Paris Review and the LRB aim to challenge. I agree. I was lately thinking of reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy at some point, which are well-regarded, it seems. Incidentally, what do you think of the quality of the Harry Potter books if you've read them? I only recall reading the first one (probably inattentively) only because I was prevailed upon to do so, but not the contents.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Jun 8, 2015 17:52:22 GMT -5
That is the one. Basically, I agree with some of his broader points about a culture of infantilization through pop culture, but he misses two rather important points: 1. Not all literature aimed at adults is on the level of Henry James. He's an exception for a reason. 2. Quite a bit of classic literature, like The Catcher in the Rye, I Capture the Castle, and To Kill a Mockingbird, would fit the rubric of modern YA fiction, and they clearly aren't crap like Beha makes the whole genre out to be. Yes, there is a lot of shitty YA books. There are also a lot of shitty YA books, period. That quote from Anderson was beautiful and gave me a hearty chuckle. Again, I do like some of the stuff The New Yorker does these days, but the conformity and unearned supercilious attitudes are tiring. At least The Paris Review and the LRB aim to challenge. I agree. I was lately thinking of reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy at some point, which are well-regarded, it seems. Incidentally, what do you think of the quality of the Harry Potter books if you've read them? I only recall reading the first one (probably inattentively) only because I was prevailed upon to do so, but not the contents. Harry Potter is a tricky one for me. I read the first five, mostly out of some strange obligation I felt to my generation, but I never had much interest and stopped after The Order of the Phoenix. However, I did watch and like the films (particularly Prisoner of Azkaban and everything after that the first; the first two were meh, IMO). So, while I wasn't a personal fan of the books, I see Rowling's work as having far more literary merit than some drivel like Twilight. But, all and all, young-adult literature (at least examples of it from the past 20-30 years or so) weren't really my thing. At the risk of sounding like a snot-nosed snob, most of the books I loved when I was growing up were the ones that decidedly not for my age group. Oh sure, there some exceptions, but all and all, I'd love to sneak something like Bridget Jones's Diary or V for Vendetta or The Silence of the Lambs. Now, I'm reading some books that would technically be considered 'YA,' but their classic status gives them some strange of immunity from the label, according to the 'serious' literary critics. Tl;dr–I missed out on a lot of the YA craze. So it goes…
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 8, 2015 18:01:16 GMT -5
Re: YA - There's a lot of really great stuff out there too, now and in the past 20-30 years. I read a fair amount of YA. You do have to sift through a lot of crap, but I feel like you have to do the exact same thing for "grown-up" novels or literature. Maybe a little bit more for YA, but not a whole lot in my experience.
If I listed my top 50 favorite books, at least half would likely be considered YA.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jun 8, 2015 18:13:21 GMT -5
Jared Leto Is Somehow Older Than These Celebrities
-Courtesy of that Clikbait Grid above the comments section of every AV Club article.
That is worthy of the time it would take to read it? That one person is older than another group of people..."somehow"? Here's a hint. the "somehow" is that he was born before them, you HOGFUCKERS. I want there to be a version of this article that explains it via relativistic time dilation, like Jared Leto was born after Helen Mirren, but because Helen spends so much of her time traveling at near light speed, Jared Leto will eventually be older than her.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 8, 2015 22:48:48 GMT -5
What Tampon Are You?
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Post by Pastafarian on Jun 8, 2015 23:06:11 GMT -5
Jared Leto Is Somehow Older Than These Celebrities
-Courtesy of that Clikbait Grid above the comments section of every AV Club article.
That is worthy of the time it would take to read it? That one person is older than another group of people..."somehow"? Here's a hint. the "somehow" is that he was born before them, you HOGFUCKERS. I want there to be a version of this article that explains it via relativistic time dilation, like Jared Leto was born after Helen Mirren, but because Helen spends so much of her time traveling at near light speed, Jared Leto will eventually be older than her. Now that is an article I would click on. Repeatedly.
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Post by Pastafarian on Jun 8, 2015 23:06:58 GMT -5
Is there a type that is pretty much useless at anything other than frustrating the woman using it and eventually letting her down?
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Jun 9, 2015 15:39:34 GMT -5
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Post by dLᵒ on Jun 10, 2015 2:31:26 GMT -5
That is the one. Basically, I agree with some of his broader points about a culture of infantilization through pop culture, but he misses two rather important points: 1. Not all literature aimed at adults is on the level of Henry James. He's an exception for a reason. 2. Quite a bit of classic literature, like The Catcher in the Rye, I Capture the Castle, and To Kill a Mockingbird, would fit the rubric of modern YA fiction, and they clearly aren't crap like Beha makes the whole genre out to be. Yes, there is a lot of shitty YA books. There are also a lot of shitty YA books, period. That quote from Anderson was beautiful and gave me a hearty chuckle. Again, I do like some of the stuff The New Yorker does these days, but the conformity and unearned supercilious attitudes are tiring. At least The Paris Review and the LRB aim to challenge. I agree. I was lately thinking of reading Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy at some point, which are well-regarded, it seems. Incidentally, what do you think of the quality of the Harry Potter books if you've read them? I only recall reading the first one (probably inattentively) only because I was prevailed upon to do so, but not the contents. I prefer YA 'fluff' for two reasons: - 'Adult lit' seems more concerned with becoming sprawling and circular time wastes, a.k.a airport novels; or 'true literature' which more often than not is a middle aged (academic) guy thinking of ways to commit adultery, but in more flowery prose.
- They are more likely to introduce innovative or thoughtful ideas and messages about society (such as Uglies) and be brisk/lean enough to actually say something new — unlike most 'serious' sprawling scifi which just ends up falling into the ruts Dune first created.
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Post by heroboy on Jun 15, 2015 13:34:38 GMT -5
I just noticed this one showing up on the AV Club Rotation:
"10 Possible Explanations For British Women Being So Unattractive" and it has a picture of Camilla (I'm unsure of what her current surname is, or what honorific should be used. Is Duchess Camilla correct?)
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Post by Pastafarian on Jun 17, 2015 9:37:27 GMT -5
Courtesy of the sentient robocallers over at HuffPo, this one made me think of a certain AV Club commenter:
"My Vagina Is Noisy -- The Underground World of Fanny Farts (Or Queefs)"
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Post by heroboy on Jun 17, 2015 9:48:33 GMT -5
Courtesy of the sentient robocallers over at HuffPo, this one made me think of a certain AV Club commenter: "My Vagina Is Noisy -- The Underground World of Fanny Farts (Or Queefs)" I have spent my whole life thinking the Fanny was where farts normally came from. Have I been living in ignorance?
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Post by Pastafarian on Jun 17, 2015 10:00:59 GMT -5
Courtesy of the sentient robocallers over at HuffPo, this one made me think of a certain AV Club commenter: "My Vagina Is Noisy -- The Underground World of Fanny Farts (Or Queefs)" I have spent my whole life thinking the Fanny was where farts normally came from. Have I been living in ignorance? We're through the looking glass here, people.
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