So I have the most time to set these up on Tuesdays, so we're getting a favorite of the almost-week poll. If anyone wants to set any up at any other time feel free.
Why doesn't society love man-flesh as much as woman-flesh?
First Impressions
My sister owes me $$$
Addicted to Coca-Cola
Boring data entry job
Pushing Daisies
The Simpsons is bad for you because...
Car boots
Why were lights on at DT?
Favorite of the Week(ish) Nov 2-6
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I gotta toss in my vote for the Simpsons question, simply because I agree with CPM's rant 1000%.
As a small aside, I've found in my dealings with people that someone's love of the Simpsons is directly correlated with how much I'll get along with them. It's always seemed to be a really accurate barometer to gauge how intelligent, knowledgeable, witty, sarcastic, and esoteric someone is.
Seriously. Best show ever. (seasons 1-8, at least)
As a small aside, I've found in my dealings with people that someone's love of the Simpsons is directly correlated with how much I'll get along with them. It's always seemed to be a really accurate barometer to gauge how intelligent, knowledgeable, witty, sarcastic, and esoteric someone is.
Seriously. Best show ever. (seasons 1-8, at least)
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Those aren't necessarily synonymous. The fact that they don't like The Simpsons probably indicates that they're not huge fans of social satire on that level or scale, which could certainly affect how much you're going to "click" as friends, but probably shouldn't lead you to dismiss their intelligence.Cognoscente wrote:As a small aside, I've found in my dealings with people that someone's love of the Simpsons is directly correlated with how much I'll get along with them. It's always seemed to be a really accurate barometer to gauge how intelligent, knowledgeable, witty, sarcastic, and esoteric someone is.
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Ha! The Simpsons made fun of people like that, too. The best episodes were like seven layer cakes baked from delicious irony. They made fun of others, made fun of themselves, and made fun of themselves making fun of others.Katya wrote:Looks like Cogn. and I were posting at the same time. I will say that one of my more miserable experiences in YW was when our teacher more or less bore her testimony of the evilitude of The Simpsons. (She'd caught part of an episode and the satirical aspect had gone over her head.)
Sorry about your experience with an ignorant, well-meaning-but-misguided YW leader, Katya. I've seen that happen a lot when members decide to editorialize during a lesson. That's why it's so important to stick to the gospel during gospel teaching! I'd have another rant to share about that, but you've already summarized my thesis point.
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One of my favorite classes at BYU was my screenwriting class. One day we just watched Simpsons episodes, sat back, and marveled at how good the writing was. Then we lamented that the recent seasons of the show seems to have forgotten to be a social satire, and in many ways lost the moral center the early seasons had (by early seasons I mean the first decade or so...).