I've got a lot of hair up there (no MPB) but I also have a lot of forehead.
My head is rather large for someone my height anyway.
I'm sort of like a midget Klingon or a hairy Mekon.
Darth Solo said:
TV's Sheldon said:
We should talk about tv bracket, which as everyone knows, is UK's top brand for tv brackets.
Sorry Frink. If ever refer to you as Sheldon Cooper again, feel free to to undermine me by calling me Howard from the same TV series (because of the traits-works out worse for me than you) IF you stob being so anal.
Not that this is a surprise, but I have no idea what you are going on about.
Yep, i get that alot
For one you're making references to one of the shittiest shows on television, I don't think too many people around here watch that kind of tripe.
I am 100% clueless as to what you are trying to say as well.
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I dont have to expliain my jokes, do i?
I don't really care.......but, Erica would like you to explain it to her.
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Fred Hoyle says :
It took me a while to get into it too.
Thanks but I'm quite familiar with Big Bang Theory. I just don't get what point he's trying to make, especially in relation to the post of mine he quoted.
But as I said, it's nothing new.
I never was fond of that "Big Bang" tag. It'll always be the Horrendous Space Kablooie Theory to me.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I never was fond of that "Big Bang" tag. It'll always be the Horrendous Space Kablooie Theory to me.
Awesome! Glad to know you're a fan of Bill Watterson's brilliant work :)
I've been a devoted C&H fan since the good ol' days of 1996.
CP3S said:
For one you're making references to one of the shittiest shows on television, I don't think too many people around here watch that kind of tripe.
I am 100% clueless as to what you are trying to say as well.
Hey! I love The Big Bang Theory!
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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Gaffer Tape said:
Hey! I love The Big Bang Theory!
I can't stand it. I find it generally shallow and obnoxious. It is "nerd" culture as perceived by and mocked by non nerds. It's laughing at these types, not with them. It makes me cringe seeing the quantity of Big Bang Theory merchandise on sites like thinkgeek.com.
Sheldon and Leonard are akin to the Mr. Yunioshi and Black Sambo cultural stereotypes. Much like Yunioshi and Sambo, they are endearing characters that people love, but are also exaggerated and disparaging representations of that stereotype.
CP3S said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Hey! I love The Big Bang Theory!
I can't stand it. I find it generally shallow and obnoxious. It is "nerd" culture as perceived by and mocked by non nerds. It's laughing at these types, not with them.
If Sheldon actually is meant to have Asperger's, then it's not a stereotype.
CP3S said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Hey! I love The Big Bang Theory!
I can't stand it. I find it generally shallow and obnoxious. It is "nerd" culture as perceived by and mocked by non nerds. It's laughing at these types, not with them. It makes me cringe seeing the quantity of Big Bang Theory merchandise on sites like thinkgeek.com.
Sheldon and Leonard are akin to the Mr. Yunioshi and Black Sambo cultural stereotypes. Much like Yunioshi and Sambo, they are endearing characters that people love, but are also exaggerated and disparaging representations of that stereotype.
I find the fact that you would compare Sheldon and Leonard to Yunioshi and Sambo to be offensive. Sheldon and Leonard are no where near as offensive to nerds has Yunioshi and Sambo are to Asians and African Americans. Its not even close.
C3PS said:
I can't stand it. I find it generally shallow and obnoxious. It is "nerd" culture as perceived by and mocked by non nerds. It's laughing at these types, not with them. It makes me cringe seeing the quantity of Big Bang Theory merchandise on sites like thinkgeek.com.
Sheldon and Leonard are akin to the Mr. Yunioshi and Black Sambo cultural stereotypes. Much like Yunioshi and Sambo, they are endearing characters that people love, but are also exaggerated and disparaging representations of that stereotype.
I agree with your analysis completely. And yet, for the most part, I still enjoy watching the show because I find it entertaining and amusing. Sort of a guilty pleasure, I suppose.
Warb said:
I find the fact that you would compare Sheldon and Leonard to Yunioshi and Sambo to be offensive. Sheldon and Leonard are no where near as offensive to nerds has Yunioshi and Sambo are to Asians and African Americans. Its not even close.
So, you're offended because you find the one comparison more offensive than the other? No offense, dude, but I think you get offended way too easily!
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He compared Sheldon and Leonard to very offensive racial stereotypes. It is a terrible comparison.
How come it's so easy to find pictures of white people in blackface makeup, but impossible to find pictures of black people in whiteface makeup?
CP3S said:
Gaffer Tape said:
Hey! I love The Big Bang Theory!
I can't stand it. I find it generally shallow and obnoxious. It is "nerd" culture as perceived by and mocked by non nerds. It's laughing at these types, not with them. It makes me cringe seeing the quantity of Big Bang Theory merchandise on sites like thinkgeek.com.
Sheldon and Leonard are akin to the Mr. Yunioshi and Black Sambo cultural stereotypes. Much like Yunioshi and Sambo, they are endearing characters that people love, but are also exaggerated and disparaging representations of that stereotype.
I've heard this critique before and I don't get it. It's a very funny show. I don't think "nerds" are born as such or warrant some kind of protected status. If anything, the show is glorifying and popularizing "nerds." I think back to Steve Urkel or Screech and those characters perhaps come close to what you're saying, yet "nerd" status is not the same as race.
The mocking aspect to me is simply a reflection of reality. "Nerd" is not some noble title. It is word to applied to certain stereotypes. It is another n-word we have proudly adopted in order to try to claim a positive identity for it. And given the success of Big Bang, I think we've been successful.
But cf. (warning: racial humor)
The blue elephant in the room.
This years garden report so far.
Onions are a big hit with us and all our neighbours, haven't had to buy any for many months and shant have to for months to come.
Elephant Garlic also a hit.
Carrots are looking smaller than last year.
Potatoes close to being dug up by the looks of things.
Peas bigger than last year but less pods.
Greens huge (slugs and other squiglies have had their share) but red cabbage and celery not any bigger than the day they were put in their beds.
Tomatoes less with two plants than last year with one (maybe it was less rain??).
Strawberries everywhere, Raspberries doing quite well too.
Herbs still going strong.
Conclusion if I can live off a diet of onions and dried strawberries I would be self sufficient food wise..
Been making lots of soup.
Not bad for such a small patch.
More bees but less wasps this year and loads of butterflies of every colour, pattern and size.
Nothing exotic bird wise but the influx of cats are probably keeping the tits from my window.
!NERDGASM ALERT!
They've brought back KNIGHTMARE for a special episode with the original Treguard!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r-EbIqt9s
^ For those who don't know, it was a kids TV show that in the late 80s and early 90s featured computer graphics so advanced it was like being beamed into the f*ckin' Matrix!
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
I had the weirdest dream this morning. Very, very weird.
I dreamed I went to some pristine white auditorium/kitchen to get some tutoring in math from Gordon Ramsay, who then happily had a fancy cappuccino with a large, layered cake floating in the middle of it made up for me. When I informed him I hadn't actually paid for the course and couldn't due to other commitments, he got angry and had other people eat/drink my cappuccino cake until only an inverted pyramid covered in silver foil was left sitting in the bowl.
Then some weird semi-sexual crap happened involving some 50's-type song playing in the air, Laura Dern trying to land some role in a play while wearing surgical gloves, and me sneaking past glass rooms full of exercise equipment in a slo-mo search for an exit while an unseen married couple conversed.
From there, I left the auditorium/kitchen, and then was chased by a pack of police dogs for crossing some layers of dried mud rings inexplicably called an aqueduct, escaping only when they were distracted by other police dogs chasing an alternate version of me. I then ran up a steep ramp/flight of stairs, found an exercise machine sitting there at the top, and asked myself "Who needs to use a machine like this after climbing this monster?"
And then I woke up.
