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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 17, 2023 6:37:19 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 17, 2023 6:53:03 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. Yeah, and it's not really anything new from him. Like, he was a speech writer for Nixon, and his mentality hasn't evolved much since.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 17, 2023 7:13:34 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. He went there a loooooong time ago
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 17, 2023 7:55:54 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. Er, you might want to check his wikipedia page. Being horrible and vomiting bad takes is not a new thing for him.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Mar 17, 2023 8:07:27 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. Yeah, and it's not really anything new from him. Like, he was a speech writer for Nixon, and his mentality hasn't evolved much since. Makes sense since he doesn't believe in evolution
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 17, 2023 8:12:20 GMT -5
I feel like if there were ever any doubt before that then any professional credibility Ben Stein ever had should've died when he organized a fake documentary to go quote mining for a real one about the opposite subject.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 17, 2023 8:17:51 GMT -5
It's hard to be shocked that someone who made Bad Takes: The movie has bad takes.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Mar 17, 2023 9:51:42 GMT -5
Ben stein is poopy.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 17, 2023 10:02:30 GMT -5
And whaaaaaaaat is the deal with airline food?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 17, 2023 10:04:06 GMT -5
We're gonna see Dilbert's dick by the end of the week, aren't we? He's called Scott Adams. Boomroasted
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 17, 2023 10:48:50 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. Er, you might want to check his wikipedia page. Being horrible and vomiting bad takes is not a new thing for him. Oh, I’m aware, but seems he decided to go full bore this time.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 17, 2023 12:57:49 GMT -5
So our paper just replaced Dilbert with something called Crabgrass. It's,,not very good, but at least its not by Scott Adams (and it could have been worse, we could have gotten Peanuts reruns). Seems like the majority of papers that still ran Dilbert got Crabgrass as a replacement, presumably due to it being less expensive, although I am curious if other outlets had the choice of picking up another strip. A part of me wishes that we can now turn our direction on 9 Chickweed Lane and the revenge porn fantasies made by a geriatric Catholic. Oh jeez, what’s wrong with 9 Chickweed Lane? You know, aside from the characters being perpetually horny? Mind you, I have not read it much over the years, so my interpretation of the strip may be off, but I don’t recall anything too controversial.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 17, 2023 16:52:09 GMT -5
We're gonna see Dilbert's dick by the end of the week, aren't we? I recommend Googling Haus of Decline's thoughts on this Actually maybe I don't, but I had to see it so others must
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 19, 2023 4:09:35 GMT -5
Seems like the majority of papers that still ran Dilbert got Crabgrass as a replacement, presumably due to it being less expensive, although I am curious if other outlets had the choice of picking up another strip. A part of me wishes that we can now turn our direction on 9 Chickweed Lane and the revenge porn fantasies made by a geriatric Catholic. Oh jeez, what’s wrong with 9 Chickweed Lane? You know, aside from the characters being perpetually horny? Mind you, I have not read it much over the years, so my interpretation of the strip may be off, but I don’t recall anything too controversial. The author dropped a racial slur in one strip and got the strip pulled from a bunch of papers. It was in a WW2 flashback, but I mean, he ought to know you still can't use certain words even if you present it as "hey, it was wartime" if the strip was in like 2022.
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Post by Terry McConkey on Mar 19, 2023 9:30:42 GMT -5
Seems Ben Stein decided to go down the Scott Adams route in the last 24 hours, but since he's not really actively doing anything at the moment it's not going to be much of a career stopper. Yeah, and it's not really anything new from him. Like, he was a speech writer for Nixon, and his mentality hasn't evolved much since. Plus, you can only play a dry, witless bore yourself so many times before people lose interest and forget about you.
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Post by Terry McConkey on Mar 19, 2023 9:32:40 GMT -5
Yeah, and it's not really anything new from him. Like, he was a speech writer for Nixon, and his mentality hasn't evolved much since. Makes sense since he doesn't believe in evolution He's mad because evolution skipped him over. Don't change ever, Ben.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 19, 2023 11:16:25 GMT -5
Oh jeez, what’s wrong with 9 Chickweed Lane? You know, aside from the characters being perpetually horny? Mind you, I have not read it much over the years, so my interpretation of the strip may be off, but I don’t recall anything too controversial. The author dropped a racial slur in one strip and got the strip pulled from a bunch of papers. It was in a WW2 flashback, but I mean, he ought to know you still can't use certain words even if you present it as "hey, it was wartime" if the strip was in like 2022. So the context is that she added a commonly used slur against one of our adversaries during the war in a flashback set during said war? Did she also make a reference to the Germans wearing chamber pots on their heads? While I agree that it isn’t smart to have done so, we’re not even comparing apples and oranges here.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Mar 19, 2023 12:11:46 GMT -5
Makes sense since he doesn't believe in evolution He's mad because evolution skipped him over. Don't change ever, Ben. I say change everything but the voice
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 19, 2023 12:41:38 GMT -5
Oh jeez, what’s wrong with 9 Chickweed Lane? You know, aside from the characters being perpetually horny? Mind you, I have not read it much over the years, so my interpretation of the strip may be off, but I don’t recall anything too controversial. The author dropped a racial slur in one strip and got the strip pulled from a bunch of papers. It was in a WW2 flashback, but I mean, he ought to know you still can't use certain words even if you present it as "hey, it was wartime" if the strip was in like 2022. Don't forget the pride month storyline where a gay man decided womens is the best! Women have those women-legs, y'see. All men like the women-legs!
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 19, 2023 19:09:10 GMT -5
The author dropped a racial slur in one strip and got the strip pulled from a bunch of papers. It was in a WW2 flashback, but I mean, he ought to know you still can't use certain words even if you present it as "hey, it was wartime" if the strip was in like 2022. So the context is that she added a commonly used slur against one of our adversaries during the war in a flashback set during said war? Did she also make a reference to the Germans wearing chamber pots on their heads? While I agree that it isn’t smart to have done so, we’re not even comparing apples and oranges here. That was the context, but it also did not help that this was a creator who had already tested the patience of a lot of papers by then with his very strange, sexually charged comic strips, so it was kind of a "enough is enough" boiling point. If he wasn't on thin ice, it'd have probably been less of an issue.
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