Comments on: Yeah, I watched TV again

By: Mooska

Mooska — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:28:39 +0000

Belle O’Cosity:

“That poor child. I was in a very blamey mood, so I told him what I really think.”

Good for you! It sounds as if you went about it the right way, too. I am now kind of ashamed that I smiled politely when a girl at my yoga class said she’d been to pole dancing lessons and how much ‘fun’ it was. I would’ve said ‘no fucking way because…’ if she’d asked, but I was too English to just come out with it.

[And since this is my first post: I love this site, and I love your lucid, rational, amusingly colloquial style of writing, Twisty. Oh, AND the way you articulate things I feel but struggle to express. Ta very much!]

By: Virginia

Virginia — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:16:32 +0000

Mimi - despite general problems with human trafficking it’s quite a gross sterotype to suggest that ALL Eastern Europeans do this.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:39:27 +0000

Not that I don’t think they know they’re milking the system, but I doubt it’s based around a decision to fool the patriarchy into giving them the cashola. They simply understand that to “get ahead” in this world, you play ball. Or with aged balls. Whichever

I think that’s an accurate description of FunFeminists(TM), though many of them do like to act as if they are cleverly subverting the paradigm. Of course, that kinda undercuts their whole I’m Doing This For Myself(TM) argument. But hey, whatever floats their boat.

By: bellacoker

bellacoker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:17:11 +0000

Hattie:

I had not considered the possibility of ending up in retirement home tv hell, but now it is one of my greatest fears as well.

Thanks a lot, I am now praying that I go deaf.

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:56:50 +0000

You know in about 30 years from now the whole world will end because of global warming: hurricans; flooding; fires; etc.

With our blatantly violent misogynistic racist world we live in going into a downward spirl maybe that’s a good thing.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:13:06 +0000

MY greatest fear is of becoming old and/or disabled and living in a nursing home where the TVs go all day.

By: Lar

Lar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:15:24 +0000

Never move to Mexico. E! disgusted me enough when I lived in the states, here “Latin E!” provides you with such classic jewels as “Naked Wild On” (like normal wild on but about 200% more disgusting) and their between-misogynistic-programs clips called “120 seconds of sexy” where they barrage you with so many clips of T&A that you don’t even know who most of these body parts even belong to.

Why do we even bother naming these channels? They should just call them “Man channel 1, man channel 2… oh and women can have the Lifetime Channel because chicks like watching movies about bulemia and wife beaters.”

By: Gayle

Gayle — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:06:52 +0000

And to make you all feel a bit better, the A & E channel has become yet another E! channel! Why bother with Art when you can follow Gene Simmons around? Go Kiss Army!!

Does anyone else remember when people said we could do away with public TV because cable was going to fill the void? That hasn’t quite worked out the way they promised.

It’s great to read you again, Twisty.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:28:48 +0000

And here I thought they were Star Trek villains.

Yes! That’s what I always think of when I hear the show mentioned. “Keeping Up With the Cardassians”. I think to myself, what the hell is Garak up to now?

By: ghost of a dead Nazerene on a stick

ghost of a dead Nazerene on a stick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:22:40 +0000

You need to give the blame button a rest, hon.

I know, Twisty. I know. Sorry.

But hey, you started it!

Oh wait! This is not my blog. Crap and dammit.