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Post by Burst on Oct 27, 2011 17:28:35 GMT -5
I'm in a bit of a grumpy mood, and I just read Rhys Ifans' rant from Comic Con this year where he pretty much laid into everyone of the geeky or nerdy persuasion like they were lepers.
So what are we supposed to like, mister?
Granted, this is sort of preaching to the choir at a sufficiently geeky board like this, but... really, is there some sort of an ideal of personal tastes or hobbies that leaves you immune to being judged and condescended?
Because I'm tired of absolutely everything I enjoy being vehemently hated by seemingly everyone else.
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Post by The Tank on Oct 27, 2011 17:31:37 GMT -5
Well, considering that...
A. I have no idea who this person you're talking about is.
B. He made this rant at COMIC-CON.
I think the answer to this is either he's joking or who gives a shit what this guy says?
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Post by Orange on Oct 27, 2011 17:32:25 GMT -5
Without going into details, politics and religion are seemingly the only things you're supposed to like as an adult. Anything else is childish.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2011 17:34:21 GMT -5
Without going into details, politics and religion are seemingly the only things you're supposed to like as an adult. Anything else is childish. Art too, don't forget art. If you can prove that anything belongs in the arts, it gets almost immediate acceptance. If it's normal, it's mainstream. If it's anything that most people consider weird, it's praised as avant-garde. I'm trying to do this with wrestling, but it's difficult because a lot of people don't treat it as an art, but instead as the bastard sport that it is currently destined to remain.  |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 27, 2011 17:35:07 GMT -5
Comic-con is an odd place to air such a grievance.
Sounds like the Shatner SNL skit.
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 27, 2011 17:35:14 GMT -5
The most popular show on the internet right now is My Little Pony. I don't think anything is off-limits anymore.
And it's funny you mention lepers, since that's what Rhys Ifans' has always reminded me of.
BTW, he's playing a Spiderman villian last I heard, so he's either a master of hypocritical humour or really, really stupid.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Oct 27, 2011 17:38:13 GMT -5
Well, considering that... A. I have no idea who this person you're talking about is. B. He made this rant at COMIC-CON. I think the answer to this is either he's joking or who gives a s*** what this guy says? He was Xeno Lovegood in Deathy Hallows P1 and he's playing the Lizard in the upcoming Spider-Man movie. And he also got into it physically with a guard at Comic-Con. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 27, 2011 17:38:17 GMT -5
Golf and Dilbert or something. Keeping up appearances is a pretty pointless pursuit, anyway.
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Post by zeez on Oct 27, 2011 17:41:38 GMT -5
There's always going to be someone who doesn't agree with your personal tastes and preferences, to which I say who the hell cares what they think?
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Oct 27, 2011 17:41:55 GMT -5
As for what real adults enjoy? Stock reports, serious social or political discussions, fixing things around the house and Lawrence Welk.
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Post by Lazy peon on Oct 27, 2011 17:47:53 GMT -5
I dunno, affairs?
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 27, 2011 17:51:06 GMT -5
Smoking cigars and drinking port by a fire place.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Oct 27, 2011 17:51:57 GMT -5
That's the great thing about being an adult, you can do whatever you want within the confines of the law. So until they make a law against grown men watching my little pony or something, have at it and f*** anyone that gives you crap about it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2011 17:52:49 GMT -5
Male- sports, current events, and non-fiction books.
Female- fashion, celebrity gossip, kids, and trashy romance novels.
I'm glad most people are into kiddie stuff though than it seems like used to be. We should never lose our imagination and sense of wonder.
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Post by Red Impact on Oct 27, 2011 17:54:41 GMT -5
Sports, hour-long procedural crime dramas, and hour long medical dramas
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Oct 27, 2011 17:59:10 GMT -5
The Charleston.
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Post by dav on Oct 27, 2011 17:59:31 GMT -5
Chess... Screwing...
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 27, 2011 18:02:31 GMT -5
Well... let's see... I'm 22 years old, yet I watch wrestling (largely aimed at kids), watch My Little Pony (definitely aimed at kids, specifically girls) and play video games for hours a day (most of them non-violent). I guess if you've got a problem with that and consider it all childish, then middle fingers to you, sonny jim.
The one thing I can think of that adults are supposed to do... LIVE and LET LIVE.
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Post by VenomFang on Oct 27, 2011 18:14:56 GMT -5
Booze and hookers.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 27, 2011 18:17:20 GMT -5
According to television commercials: Drinking beer, get excited over tools, mowing the lawn, washing the car, reading newspapers, and do it yourself repair jobs of furniture and shit.
Except for the beer thing, that sounds like hell to me.
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