American Culture.

[TheEschaton]

Two things I saw tonight on TV which distressed me, in the order I saw them:

1) Average Joe Hawaii. Did ANYONE see this shit? Holy shit. The girl's like, "yanno, this guy [the final Average Joe] loves me, he will always treat me with respect, he has depth, he has character" etc, etc, etc.....and then she picks the other guy. Why? Because she "trusts her instinct", and goes with him even though he's "shown you might not be ready to take it to the next level". She tells the average Joe she wishes they can be friends forever - and that she'll always cherish him...but he deserves a woman who can say she loves him back. Can anyone bring out that ladder theory thing again?

The poor average Joe guy was crushed. He was head over heels for her - and she squished him like a bug. Damn you women! One of the fallacies of society is that, even though you'd like to believe that guys are sensitive, none of you actually believe it.

1a) The hunk dumped her. Why? Because she once dated Fabio. She says, "I guess I shouldn't of trusted my instinct", he says, "To anyone else out there, I say, put yourself in my position...and think...Fabio. What irks you about it is what irks me." This girl gave up a guy who LOVED her, for a guy who dumped her because she dated Fabio. At one point, I was just really fucking confused, cause I honestly could not understand how he was upset that she dated Fabio. They kept hyping the secret she had to tell - but I thought it was going to be something like, "I was once a man."

2) Rollitos. This was a commercial. What are they? Dorritos, rolled up into little cylinder shapes. Why? To, and I fucking quote, "make eating Dorritos even easier!" Are you fucking kidding me? Were there complaints that Dorritos were tough to eat? Or that maybe, you couldn't fit enough in your mouth at once, that you needed to fucking make them more space-efficient? Or is it really because you use less chip when you roll them up like that, and it's cheaper to make 'em, yet variable enough that it might sell against the traditional chip? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I hate the American focus on shallowness (if indicated any by the two Average Joes, much better guys then their competition, being dumped for mindless muscle men), and the insistence on everything being instant, and as easy as fucking possible.

Then people wonder why we have problems with people using abortion as birth control, or becoming dependent on welfare, or even resorting to crime. All of them are easier, and more instant, than dealing with reality.

Fucking insane.

-TheE-

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by TheEschaton
They kept hyping the secret she had to tell - but I thought it was going to be something like, "I was once a man."

I had the same exact thought. And I do mean exact. "But she has a secret!" the commercial informed us all. Me: What? She used to be a guy?

That's it? That was the tremendous secret? She dated Fabio? And he broke up with her over that? What in the world for? He was afraid to compete with an over muscled, long haired, not very attractive romance cover model?

Damn. What an idiot.

Raven

[Snapp]

I never watched Average Joe, but I did see the "She has a secret" commercials as well. They also showed a part where the chick asked the "hunk" what he wanted out of this show... and he responded with "To be an actor" ... and she chose him...??? Morons. All of them.

[Pallon]

It's deceptively difficult to put an entire Dorito into your mouth without biting off half of it and getting crumbs and shit everywhere

[Satira]

Let me just say this.

I know her mother, I've talked to her mother on a few occassions. She goes to the gym that I go to sometimes, and the Average Joe girl went to high school with me. She's a bitch. That's all I've ever heard is what a bitch she is and how she's really ditzy and not all that deep. Even her own mother doesn't like her that much.

Don't be surprised that she picked the other guy.

[Zeyrin]

don't even get me started on how superfical women can be. i'm not saying all women are superfical, just the majority of them are.

[Snapp]

What can you really expect from a TV show designed to have a girl meet her potential husband from the producers' pick of 20 or so guys?

Dorito's are not hard to eat. Although, the 3D ones they used to make were cool. ;)

[Siefer]

Reality TV is sucking the life out of America.

[Sean]

Originally posted by Snapp
Dorito's are not hard to eat. Although, the 3D ones they used to make were cool. ;)

They still make them

I shall now go hunt down the bag of jalapeno 3d doritos i stashed somewhere.

[Scott]

Originally posted by Tijay

Originally posted by Snapp
Dorito's are not hard to eat. Although, the 3D ones they used to make were cool. ;)

They still make them

I shall now go hunt down the bag of jalapeno 3d doritos i stashed somewhere.

Shouldn't you be eating Collard Greens?

[TheEschaton]

The Real World was bad enough back in the day.

Honestly now, some of these shows just want to make me absolutely go out and annhilate people.


And for someone who tries to adhere to pacificism, that's quite the accomplishment. The TV execs at FOX, the masters of the bad reality show (Forever Eden? Didn't take your lesson from Temptation Island, did you?), should be proud.

-TheE-

[Sean]

Originally posted by Gemstone101
Shouldn't you be eating Collard Greens?

Shouldn't you be eatting some prunes and metamucil?

PS. i like the real world

[Edited on 3-2-2004 by Tijay]

[TheEschaton]

I liked the real world, past tense.


I don't think there's been a good one since Seattle or Boston, whichever was later.

-TheE-

[Snapp]

Seattle was later.. and the current Real World is great (And not just because of the hot guy). Last season sucked butt...

:offtopic:

[TheEschaton]

New Orleans was okay. Hawaii, a wash. Last year, Las Vegas, blew major chunks. Everyone slept with each other on what, the second night?

-TheE-

thanks be to the Liberal's for allowing things like that to become accepted and common place

[Sean]

We don't have to bash liberals in every thread you know? I'm sure you could find people with a more conservative point of view who watch and promote these shows as well.

was ment in jest Tijay, seems that is lost on some people

[HarmNone]

Heh. I am most definitely a Liberal, and I have not seen any of these shows. Go figure. :?:

HarmNone has better things to do with her time

[longshot]

I haven't either. I think the last Real World I saw was Miami...

Honestly though, they are fun to watch to laugh at them. To hear these incredibly shallow girls twenty years old trying to talk about "life" is very high on the unintentional comedy scale.

[Warriorbird]

E... why were you watching that crap? Either one? :chuckle:

[TheEschaton]

I turned on the TV at 10:30 and anticipation of the Daily Show, and there was nothing to watch til 11, so I flipped it on to Average Joe. It's the first time I caught either of the Average Joe series (although I heard all the water cooler talk on the first one, and how all the women hated what's her name for picking the barbie doll guy).

And the Rollitos commercial came up during the Daily Show. I thought it was a spoof at first.

As for the crack on liberals - FOX is the purportrator of all the worst reality shows. Rupert Murdoch's FOX.

-TheE-

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

TheE, I'm with you. I caught the tail end of that one (and I watched the first Average Joe in its entirety). Both stuck up bitches ranted and raved how the nerds were so awesome, then picked the pretty boy with no depth.

I'm sure not all women are like them, but I know I've dated a couple briefly. I hope their superficial lives catch up with them when they get old and haggard, and no one likes them because they are ugly, both inside and out.

[TheEschaton]

The best part is, all the women at work rant and rave against the bitch who picks the pretty boy....


....but then they date assholes who look good but beat them up.


The world sometimes makes me puke.

-TheE-

[Galleazzo]

Originally posted by HarmNone
HarmNone has better things to do with her time
Galleazzo does too. What's wrong with American culture aren't the fuckwits ON these shows, it's that people watch them.

If I got so fucking bored with life I watched something like that I'd put in hours at the soup kitchen down the street.

[Edited on 3/2/2004 by Galleazzo]

Too lazy to eat a regular dorito? wtf some people need to seriously consider suicide.

[Warriorbird]

Agreed. Doritos only problem is their frustrating powderyness on hands.

Daily Show makes for some good TV though. Yer forgiven, E.

:grins:

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by TheEschaton
New Orleans was okay.New Orleans was freaking awesome. I had such a crush on Julie it was sick.

Doritos + reddi-wip = a princely meal