Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Pidgeon]

Real Time

[wood and iron]

I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.

Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.

I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.

Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".

[Andy]

You can be mean or cynical without being a bag of shit, which seems to be a prerequisite for being a commentor.

[Andy]

Or commenter

[Pidgeon]

I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.

Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.

I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.

Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".

But the Youtube comments are usually so inhuman that I can't even really get mad at them. I can't picture a living, breathing human being typing up some of the things I see on that site.

[wood and iron]

I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.

Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.

I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.

Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".

But the Youtube comments are usually so inhuman that I can't even really get mad at them. I can't picture a living, breathing human being typing up some of the things I see on that site.

Touche.

[cutout]

Kevin Smith, being interviewed on WTF podcast:

"My wife is one of these yoga broads and shit, and at one point she fancied turning one of the rooms in our house into a yoga cave - I don't know what they're called - and she bought some wall hangings from a Buddhist-type store and..."

later:

"It's shameful how big a Kevin Smith fan I am. I'm the biggest Kevin Smith fan on the planet!" - Kevin Smith

[Alex_from_the_woods]

The mice are back. They taunt me in the ceiling directly above my bed at 1:30am. It sounds like they have those tiny new years eve noisemakers that you spin around in your hand. I just hope they're not wearing capes.

[Sarah]

Oh, you should hope they are!  Then you could catch them and sell them to a circus for millions of pennies!

My kitchen mouse seems to have moved on, for the moment.  I'm grateful but puzzled:  it and/or its comrades seem to be moving furniture in the walls; you'd think they'd need snacks to keep up their energy.

[Pidgeon]

I hate that Gary Puckett has two stepdaughters.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I hate having to kill mice to get them out of the house.

[Matt]

Kevin Smith, being interviewed on WTF podcast:

"My wife is one of these yoga broads and shit, and at one point she fancied turning one of the rooms in our house into a yoga cave - I don't know what they're called - and she bought some wall hangings from a Buddhist-type store and..."

later:

"It's shameful how big a Kevin Smith fan I am. I'm the biggest Kevin Smith fan on the planet!" - Kevin Smith

Ugh, I know. He's mastered the "Hey, I'm Kind Of Shitty At What I Do And I'll Admit It, But Man, I'm Really Fucking Great At What I Do And I Don't Give A Shit What You Say, But Man, Fuck You For Saying I'm Shitty At What I Do" thing.

I was curious to hear the interview because someone on AST wrote that it gave them a whole new appreciation of Kevin Smith because he's so humble. I listen to it, and it's the most self-aggrandizing bullshit I've ever heard.

[Sarah]

I hate having to kill mice to get them out of the house.

Sucks, don't it?

[Greggulator]

Is the Freakonomics guy the one who's always on NPR talking about baseball statistics?

That's the Freakonomics guy.

Also -- I read somewhere that Wurster was in a band w/ one of the Freakonomics guys. Anyone have any more info?

[Steve of Bloomington]

It's true. If memory serves, they were called the Right Profile, and it was Dubner (the journalist), not Levitt (the economist).