23 response about The Olympics are Now Even More Bullshit Than They Already Were »

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   Third! …. FUCK THE OLYMPICS!

   Comment by Ashley — October 26, 2009
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   Love the Winter Olympics. Can’t wait for a little Luge, some bobsled, some curling. Oh yeah Figure skating too. Should be a great winter! Lucky this LOST won’t get in the way.

   Comment by Big Scott — October 26, 2009
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   I <3 figure skating. And the Winter Games. Sorry, LOST, I'll catch up with you later.

   Comment by Jandy — October 26, 2009
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   I <3 figure skating. And the Winter Games. Sorry, LOST, I love you too, but I'll catch you later.

   Comment by Jandy Stone — October 26, 2009
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   I don’t know Andrew James, Winter Olympics was the best old computer game! I rocked at the ski long jump and trick ski jump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   Comment by Scott Yonke — October 26, 2009
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   Good thing I actually like the Winter Olympics. Suck it!

   Comment by Goon — October 26, 2009
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   Yeah the Olympics are great. The judging is corrupt and ice dancing is on TV all year round. Woot frakking woot.

   Comment by Andrew James — October 27, 2009
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   I’ve been in a real bobsled on the Lillehammer track in Norway. More awesome/terrifying than any roller coaster in the world. Watching it on TV simply isn’t the same.

   And yes, the judging, as well as the IOC, is corrupt. Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury’s autobiography touches on this. It’s a good read.

   I’ll take LOST any day, please.

   Comment by Ashley — October 27, 2009
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    yeah you can make fun of some dumb events, but I’ll take the regular ice skating, skiing, bobsled etc events over the summer olympics any day.

    I mean if you want to attack the olympics down to their weakest points, ice dancing and curling are still more interesting than the power walkers.

    Comment by Goon — October 29, 2009
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    hold on now. According to Alec Baldwin on last nights 30 Rock the Gay-Limpics* are on NBC this year.

    So that just means that the only thing that’s going to be interupted is endless Gay Leno episodes.

    * I’m pleading the South Park defense.

    Comment by Rusty James — November 6, 2009
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    what south park defence, that you can shoehorn an excuse to say fag so long as you have animated versions of gay people you, yourself, created saying its okay?

    Its weird how they tried to claim that when kids say ‘fag’ that there’s no homophobic overtones intended.

    Comment by Goon — November 8, 2009
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    I should explain to my sister that when everyone called her a fag in high school that they really just thought she was a biker.

    Comment by Goon — November 8, 2009
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    All I could say after that SP episode was, “well, I guess it’s good that they don’t wish to offend gay people”.

    I can’t approve of using the word “fag” but the truth is that the word I would probably use in its place is “lame” which is also a slur against a marginalized group.

    I’ll also refer you to this list from the always humorous cracked.com

    http://www.cracked.com/article_16967_8-racist-words-you-use-every-day.html

    So I think the lesson I take from all of this is that it’s best to avoid using slurs against other people. But they’re so embedded into our language and customs that they are unavoidable. We all use slurs from time to time so we shouldn’t be so quick to get on a high horse about it. We should be willing to forgive and move on as long as it’s explained to not be coming from a place of hate.

    I usually think it’s completely fucking stupid when some asshole makes a big deal over swear words. They’re just words move on. Maybe it makes sense to adopt a similar attitude about slurs. Even though it’s different.

    Comment by Rusty James — November 8, 2009
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    Of course the term “fag” is derogatory and unacceptable, but the point that South Park was making, besides that bikers like those are douchebags, is that words evolve. Kids used “fag” and “faggot” in high school, kids still use it today, and many who use it aren’t not referencing homosexuality, they are referencing somebody that they think is a douchebag or being a douchebag. That was one point, among others, and just because a kid calls another kid a fag doesn’t mean he’s a homophobe and people should lighten up about it. It is still a hurtful term though and is definitely still used derogatorily towards homosexuals, just not exclusively.

    Regardless, this episode had some funny moments, but I thought it was one of the weaker episodes of the season.

    Comment by Jonathan B. — November 8, 2009
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    nd many who use it aren’t not referencing homosexuality, they are referencing somebody that they think is a douchebag or being a douchebag.”

    The only reason they start using this word is because of the homosexual connotations, same as ‘gay’, and the fact is the legacy is that anything associated with being ‘gay’ is analogous with ‘lame’ as an insult. Its not just ’some word they say’. If the gay community all decided they were now going to refer to itself as “porkchops” instead of gay, within a week all the high school kids would be calling each other porkchops. And I think anyone who says otherwise is naive.

    At least Louis CK, who drops the word fag at least a dozen times per set, or Adam Corolla, who says ‘half a fag’ just about every episode, admit that they just like the way the word sounds and are not willing to give that up. I don’t think Trey and Matt are being honest. They’re just spinning a bad habit as some revolution, and its especially insulting when they’re doing it through their show through fictional minority characters they made up.

    I mean I actually generally agree with them about the hate crime laws episode, but there too its really shitty they had to drag out Token to make their speech for them.

    Comment by Goon — November 9, 2009
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    as for its overall quality, I frankly think South Park is a shitty shitty shitty show these days. This is from someone who has been a South Park character twice within the last decade for Halloween. But I can’t stop watching, its like touching a loose tooth or listening to new Weezer albums.

    Comment by Goon — November 9, 2009
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    Goon, I agree, those only reason “fag” is considered derogatory at all is because of the homosexual connotations, although before that it was a word to describe cranky old women.

    I think South Park is still just as good as ever. Okay, maybe not as good as ever, but still damn good. Like every single season, there are hits and misses. Margaritaville is definitely in my top ten episodes. I thought Fish Sticks was bizarrely hilarious. The Butters pimp episode was solid, as was the Jonas Brothers one with the nuts Mickey Mouse.

    Comment by Jonathan B. — November 9, 2009
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    the last one I saw that I’d call good was part 1 of Imaginationland, but they went and made that crap by the end. Couldn’t stand the Kanye episode.

    Comment by Goon — November 11, 2009
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    actually the latest SP parodying Glenn Beck was pretty good

    Comment by Goon — November 12, 2009
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    So I actually had a real question somewhere up thread.

    If the olympics are on NBC does that mean they wont be interferring with LOST?

    Comment by Rusty James — November 14, 2009
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    “Goon, I agree, those only reason “fag” is considered derogatory at all is because of the homosexual connotations, although before that it was a word to describe cranky old women.”

    At the end of the “NAGGERS” episode, the big moralizing speech from Stan was “I’ll never understand what it feels like for a black man to be called the N Word. I don’t get it” – but then they come back with this episode.

    Comment by Goon — November 19, 2009
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    Actually, very good point.

    Maybe the point is that there is no point. That people are going to do whatever it is they are going to say and do and we’re going to live and either suffer or excel or just get by and then die and that’ll be the end of it. Everything is up for mockery, because nothing really matters in the end. Because the end is the end.

    Okay, drunken rambling. Goodnight.

    Comment by Jonathan — November 19, 2009

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