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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 24, 2015 11:58:52 GMT -5
I see those two on AV Club all the time. The regular people one in particular irks me, as if celebrities are demi gods who only occasionally turn into swans or bulls and come down to mix with us mortals. All of those "articles" are so terrible. Like there's the one that keeps popping up about celebrities who let themselves go, and it has a picture of Carrie Fisher next to someone else (Steven Tyler maybe?). If you look at the article, there's like one person who went really bad, and then 15 people who just surprisingly got older. Carrie Fisher is 58 and looks 58. Of course she doesn't have the same body she did 40 years ago. I was looking at that exact one yesterday and thinking how damned misleading the Carrie Fisher photo was. You can click on the right top hand corner and choose a reason why you don't want to see it "Uninteresting", "Offensive", "Misleading" , etc. I keep clicking those thinking I can train the site to understand I don't give a shit about celeb stories, particularly ones that seem written out of spite "Look how ugly they are now!" "Look how ugly the person they married is!" anyway it doesn't seem to be working. But at least I can make them go away for a bit. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 24, 2015 21:50:13 GMT -5
18 Signs You're Not Basic, You're Acidic.
Fuck you, Buzzfeed.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 24, 2015 22:21:52 GMT -5
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 24, 2015 23:06:29 GMT -5
Oh and while looking up this subject, I found a dedicated twitter feed called @savedyouaclick that exists solely to mock clickbait by 'spoiling it.' But I also found this: Please Stop Saving Me A Click ... by Buzzfeed. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 24, 2015 23:54:36 GMT -5
Oh and while looking up this subject, I found a dedicated twitter feed called @savedyouaclick that exists solely to mock clickbait by 'spoiling it.' But I also found this: Please Stop Saving Me A Click ... by Buzzfeed. There's a Huffpospoilers twitter account that does the same thing. And Buzzfeed can go fuck itself. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 25, 2015 17:07:18 GMT -5
Well kids, I think we can officially shut this one down, from our friends at Deadline:
Pilots 2015: The Year Of Ethnic Castings—About Time Or Too Much Of A Good Thing?
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Mar 25, 2015 17:18:28 GMT -5
Well kids, I think we can officially shut this one down, from our friends at Deadline: Pilots 2015: The Year Of Ethnic Castings—About Time Or Too Much Of A Good Thing?
I read that article and was confused that it wasn't written by Alessandra Stanley. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 25, 2015 17:40:31 GMT -5
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Post by doctorhawkes on Mar 29, 2015 5:34:15 GMT -5
'Can You Guess The Celebrity From The Side-Eye? So much shade.' The "side-eye"? Huh? You mean their "eye" you goddamned monkeys? Ok, I've got to stop now or I'll just keep copying and pasting until i want to jump off of a bridge. Celebrities are very easy to identify from their third eye. |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Mar 29, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5
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Post by lackofname on Mar 29, 2015 22:17:46 GMT -5
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Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Mar 29, 2015 22:35:30 GMT -5
I would say that headline is accurate, I know I shed some tears over the current state of journalism after reading that. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 29, 2015 22:48:06 GMT -5
That's kinda stunning. Those guys should get a Pulitzer Prize for laziness. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Mar 31, 2015 5:21:57 GMT -5
 Happy toilet paper is happy! |
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Post by sarapen on Mar 31, 2015 9:54:03 GMT -5
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Post by dＬᵒ on Mar 31, 2015 10:51:47 GMT -5
Happy toilet paper is happy! that's a Natalie Dee! www.nataliedee.comI'm amazed how often I see her stuff ripped off. |
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Post by Smacks on Apr 2, 2015 12:57:16 GMT -5
Weather.com. You vague, ominous bastard. "IT HAPPENS THIS WEEKEND......." "The year has NEVER started like this."  |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Apr 2, 2015 13:18:58 GMT -5
"IT HAPPENS THIS WEEKEND......." 'Why yes, Weather.com, the weekend does happen this weekend!' |
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Post by [Citrus] on Apr 2, 2015 14:18:39 GMT -5
I see those two on AV Club all the time. The regular people one in particular irks me, as if celebrities are demi gods who only occasionally turn into swans or bulls and come down to mix with us mortals. There's another one specifically about "celebrities who married ugly people". Oh yeah, and that has a picture of Pierce Brosnan and wife, who is a totally normal looking woman and not ugly. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 7, 2015 8:26:52 GMT -5
This one from that section above the comments on AVC
"11 FAMOUS People With College Degrees" (with a picture of Sasha Baron Cohen in character as Borat)
I just have to ask, does anyone, anywhere actually find that interesting? They're famous and they went to college. My life is soooooooo muchmore enriched knowing that.
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 7, 2015 8:29:00 GMT -5
There's another one specifically about "celebrities who married ugly people". Oh yeah, and that has a picture of Pierce Brosnan and wife, who is a totally normal looking woman and not ugly. Right? That pisses me off even more, that some dipshit decided that because she isn't movie star good looking she's UGLY. I wish I knew some people who are part of Anonynous, Instead of harrassing Iggy Izalea couldn't they just shut down these retarded sites with Denial of Service attacks? Cause I'd support that. |
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Post by sarapen on Apr 7, 2015 17:16:16 GMT -5
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Post by Pastafarian on Apr 8, 2015 7:32:56 GMT -5
Today at Salon:
Kanye’s West Bank blind spot: Is Yeezy missing an opportunity to speak truth to power?
Solidarity with Palestinians seems a logical cause for Kanye, but he and Kim are vacationing in Tel Aviv instead
The accompanying photo is of Kanye, Kim, and a defiant looking Benjamin Netananyu in the forefront. And I can't think of a sillier article premise that I've seen in quite a long while.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 8, 2015 7:50:17 GMT -5
There has to be some kind of pithy term for stuff that's just pure, trashy E!-level celebrity news that wraps itself in politics to make it seem respectable.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 8, 2015 15:47:52 GMT -5
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Post by dＬᵒ on Apr 8, 2015 22:40:22 GMT -5
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Apr 9, 2015 16:19:22 GMT -5
10 Reasons Why This Generation Is Losing The Ability To Be In Love
Really? I think there are quite a few people in my generation who are: 1) Still falling in love (particularly queer people, who now have the privilege of equal marriage). 2) Realizing that there are other avenues to happiness that are not all about finding 'the one' and starting a family 3) Feeling more freedom in their sexual choices. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's rather telling the article was written by a guy.
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Post by The Prighlofone on Apr 9, 2015 19:31:24 GMT -5
"IT HAPPENS THIS WEEKEND......." 'Why yes, Weather.com, the weekend does happen this weekend!' Oh, the weather outside is weather! |
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Post by Paleu on Apr 9, 2015 21:25:29 GMT -5
10 Reasons Why This Generation Is Losing The Ability To Be In Love
Really? I think there are quite a few people in my generation who are: 1) Still falling in love (particularly queer people, who now have the privilege of equal marriage). 2) Realizing that there are other avenues to happiness that are not all about finding 'the one' and starting a family 3) Feeling more freedom in their sexual choices. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's rather telling the article was written by a guy. I love how these articles always define Generation Y with traits that only apply to upscale white yuppies in NYC. I'm also pretty sure that alcohol use is down with the current generation, but I don't care enough to actually look up statistics there. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Apr 9, 2015 23:53:56 GMT -5
10 Reasons Why This Generation Is Losing The Ability To Be In Love
Really? I think there are quite a few people in my generation who are: 1) Still falling in love (particularly queer people, who now have the privilege of equal marriage). 2) Realizing that there are other avenues to happiness that are not all about finding 'the one' and starting a family 3) Feeling more freedom in their sexual choices. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's rather telling the article was written by a guy. I love how these articles always define Generation Y with traits that only apply to upscale white yuppies in NYC. I'm also pretty sure that alcohol use is down with the current generation, but I don't care enough to actually look up statistics there. Don't know the statistics, but the articles myopic views and sloppy, haphazard 'evidence' is festival of stupidity in its own right. God forbid that author ever read F. Scott Fitzgerald. Or Edith Wharton. Or George Eliot. Or the Bronte Sisters. Or Socrates. He'll be just shocked to learn these ideas about each generation being callous and caught up in inane frivolities to be, *gasp*, familiar terrain for centuries! If only he had taken Eliot's advice: 'It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.' |
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