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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14846131 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41535 on: December 19, 2013, 09:14:43 pm »

I only think this could be a bad thing since they have the guts to fire someone for making bigoted homophobic comments.

By firing him, they may sink their own ship, so the progressive (ish?) station might go down due to being progressive.

If they stayed afloat by not firing him, they'd of lost all my respect....


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« Reply #41536 on: December 19, 2013, 09:16:25 pm »

I don't like TV anymore, so I don't care.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41537 on: December 19, 2013, 09:26:58 pm »

I've been skimming the interview, and it seems to me that it's supposed to be about this guy than about the show. Then again, it is a reality show, so that line gets awful blurry. That said, he didn't seem to be speaking on behalf of the network, the show's producers, or any of that. Given that that's the case, I'm not really sure he ought to have been fired over it. I'd say he should watch what he says more carefully, but that's purely practical advice, akin to advising people not to walk down the wrong alleys lest they be mugged. Obviously, I disagree with what he said, but in the context of his own beliefs and feelings, I'd rather he be an honest bigot than a liar. At least you can engage the former.

I'm really leery of tying a person's employment to their actions off the job - this comes off as a higher-profile equivalent of firing a teacher for being photographed drunk or something. I know that being on a reality show makes your personality a kind of inextricable mascot for the show itself, but I'm afraid I have to endorse the bigot here.

Not that I think the network ought to be legally required to keep him on the air. Provided they're still paying him in accordance with their contract as if he were not suspended, they're meeting the major obligation of an employer, and they generally shouldn't be obligated to broadcast material they don't want to.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41538 on: December 20, 2013, 01:09:23 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41539 on: December 20, 2013, 01:29:44 am »


What is this I don't even

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Oh god why am I so lucky?
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« Reply #41540 on: December 20, 2013, 02:37:00 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
Now now, pacifist hippies were only massacred once by the protagonists in the series as far as I know. And those hippies were "insufferably self-righteous" in their non-violent protest, so of course it was righteous to murder them.
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« Reply #41541 on: December 20, 2013, 02:39:36 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
Now now, pacifist hippies were only massacred once by the protagonists in the series as far as I know. And those hippies were "insufferably self-righteous" in their non-violent protest, so of course it was righteous to murder them.
Plus Richard's thing rising inside him.
And the food sex.
And the kicking a little girl in the face.
And the chicken that was not a chicken.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41542 on: December 20, 2013, 02:43:06 am »

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« Reply #41543 on: December 20, 2013, 02:47:41 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
Now now, pacifist hippies were only massacred once by the protagonists in the series as far as I know. And those hippies were "insufferably self-righteous" in their non-violent protest, so of course it was righteous to murder them.
Plus Richard's thing rising inside him.
And the food sex.
And the kicking a little girl in the face.
And the chicken that was not a chicken.
Personally it was the constant authorial soapboxing that did it for me. Purely as fiction those books are almost unreadable, and they manage to be even worse when you pay attention to the subtext. Sort of like Rand's... books. I'll be charitable and say that the Sword of Truth series does manage to be better than that, though, if barely.
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« Reply #41544 on: December 20, 2013, 02:48:57 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
Now now, pacifist hippies were only massacred once by the protagonists in the series as far as I know. And those hippies were "insufferably self-righteous" in their non-violent protest, so of course it was righteous to murder them.
Plus Richard's thing rising inside him.
And the food sex.
And the kicking a little girl in the face.
And the chicken that was not a chicken.
Personally it was the constant authorial soapboxing that did it for me. Purely as fiction those books are almost unreadable, and they manage to be even worse when you pay attention to the subtext. Sort of like Rand's... books. I'll be charitable and say that the Sword of Truth series does manage to be better than that, though, if barely.
Like where the guy bans fire.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41545 on: December 20, 2013, 07:59:37 am »

I found out about Sword of Truth.
Now now, pacifist hippies were only massacred once by the protagonists in the series as far as I know. And those hippies were "insufferably self-righteous" in their non-violent protest, so of course it was righteous to murder them.
Plus Richard's thing rising inside him.
And the food sex.
And the kicking a little girl in the face.
And the chicken that was not a chicken.
Personally it was the constant authorial soapboxing that did it for me. Purely as fiction those books are almost unreadable, and they manage to be even worse when you pay attention to the subtext. Sort of like Rand's... books. I'll be charitable and say that the Sword of Truth series does manage to be better than that, though, if barely.

Hey. Be fair. Rand was completely overt with the fact that what she wrote was an Author Tract by design. Goodkind tries to pass the soapboxing in the subtext.
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« Reply #41546 on: December 20, 2013, 08:30:31 am »

>builds £2500 PC
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« Reply #41547 on: December 20, 2013, 08:57:34 am »

I just heard a version of 'Holy Night'. Performed on a Harley-Davidson engine.
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« Reply #41548 on: December 20, 2013, 09:02:21 am »

So technically this wasn't today, but..

After literally months of having to use a mouse for my laptop because the trackpad wasn't working, I somehow managed to press the obscure key combination of the function key and F7.

That key combination toggles input from the trackpad.
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