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04 February 2007
Thread for people who don't care about the superbowl. I mean, I hear those football guys really, uh, play a good game. Or something.
*Sniff*.."Smell that son?"
"Yeah, dad, it smells like-"
"Football."
"I was gonna say religion!"
"Well son, you know they're both the same thing - it's all about herd conformity."
"Gee, I never knew that!"
"It's true, and you know what I taught you -
1. Don't swallow ideologies whole! Chew all theories 100 times before digesting.
2. Beware of subliminal messages in advertising! Deface billboards at every opportunity.
3. Give your subconscious a break! Make room for a well-integrated subjectivity in your social struggles.
Oh, and if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her SATAN!SATAN!SATAN!SATAN!"
Aside from the fact that it's -2°F outside right now, I've decided to stay indoors today, but will not watch the Super Bowl. The streets of Chicago will be crazy today, whether or not the Bears win, and I just don't want to be out amongst the football fans.
I tried to watch what you Americans have chosen to call football on NASN once, but there were just way too many commercial breaks. It was as if it was only meant for people with ADD.
Eurosport is showing the Malta Cup snooker final tonight. I think I'll watch this instead.*
* This paragraph is pure flamebait. I'm actually going to watch Miss Marple.
With the Superbowl, I used to find myself skipping the game and trying to catch the commercials. But the last few years even those have sucked, the GoDaddy ones being utterly and completely lame. Nothing of the caliber of the old "Herding Cats" commercial. I'll give the whole thing a miss.
Living in Chicago and not giving a crap about the Superbowl has made watching the local news or listening to talk radio not very desirable. But it's giving me lots of extra time to listen to CDs.
They have a whole entire channel dedicated to golf.
Watching golf is boring. Playing golf is fun. Yes, believe it or not, I have golfed (real golf, not miniature/putt-putt). Although I will admit miniature golf is funner.
Matildaben -- Yes, the Puppy Bowl will be on Animal Planet. I think it starts around 4? 5? Something like that.
The one upside of the brutal cold front currently making life miserable in the upper midwest is that it gives me a good excuse not to venture out and drive to my brother's house for the traditional Superbowl-watching party.
I drove through Chicago a few years ago during Super Sunday, it was fantastic! Traffic was very light, and Chicago wasn't even playing. It's pretty neat driving in a big city with no traffic. I imagine it'll be absolutely dead during the game today. Go drive! Let me know.
And, actually, I have a confession. I'm planning on watching the superbowl. And by watching, I fully mean I'm going to turn on the TV, have a nice little smoke and take a nice long nap.
Real men wrassle volcanos, smoke railroad spikes, piss whisky and bake a mean quiche. They most certainly do not grabass all over a putting green in shiny tart-pants chasing after an inflated pig bladder.
Give in to your desires! Soon you will wield the true power of the shorts!
Then you'll change the channel ...to your local PBS affiliate! Yes! You'll learn to quilt, you will! And dive deep beneath the sea with some French weirdo in rubber pants! Next you'll be exposed to the depraved, base sexual horrors of salmon spawning and there'll be no turning back! Chaucer! Pride and Prejudice on Masterpiece Theatre! Monty Python reruns! Next thing you know it'll be dawn and you're watching some vegan shrew of a Communist pig bastard doing sunrise Yoga asanas and you're enthralled with it, yes! You find yourself thinking "Hrm, those yoga pants look comfy. I wonder if I can buy them at the whole food co-op?" You'll sign up for podcasts of All Things Considered! Not one but five years of Mother Jones! Utne Reader!! Yes! YES!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahah!!!
*shoots satanic liberal art fag lightning bolts out of his hands and eyes*
I only care about the super bowl if the patriots are playing.
Mind you, I didn't say I understand it.
I just give a crap about it.
And a minor crap at that.
It was as if it was only meant for people with ADD.
I got irritated by that for about a quarter of a second, until I realized that this year, if I DO watch, it will indeed only be for the ads.
:(
Stupid ADD.
And so having held the hill for an arbitrary amount of time with only seconds left on the clock We do hereby declare Us the winner of Threadbowl 2007 so that We may Relax and go make Coffee.
Oh WTF it's on ITV in the UK! Still it's nearly 11pm and it's a school day tomorrow, so I can quite happily miss it. And it is on ITV, a channel renowned for the abysmal quality of its programming - I'm surprised I actually turned the channel on in the first place.
id you hear the one about the suicidal dyslexic who threw himself in front of a sub?
No, but I have heard about the agnostic dyslexic who lies awake all night wondering if there's a dog.
MSNBC Blogger and MeFite Gael F.C. blogged the Super Bowl commercials, and ifilm (with the help of a MeFite who put it in Projects) got the spots online in record time, allowing me to be selective what images I stuck in my head. Thanks.
My husband sat and watched it all by himself, which made me feel sorry for him, so I sat with him for about 5 minutes and wanted to kill myself, it was so boring. So I went and played Final Fantasty XII instead, and listened to him laugh at the commercials (which are unbelievably overrated).
Then I went to bed and had a weird dream about me and my best friend, Brad Pitt. He did stuff like call me first thing in the morning to see if I wanted to have coffee together, and he'd meet me at lunch just to say hi. He needs to get a life...geez. He was getting on my nerves.
I must confess. I did "watch it" as far as it was on and I was in the same room as the TV as I used my computer.
And it was fucking boring, even for a superbowl. Even for any given NFL game, it was so incredibly fucking boring. OK, the Colts getting that shitty start and then winning was neat, but other than that there was little excitement. The game sucked, the commercials sucked even worse than usual. It was total anticlimax.
If I was a football fan I think I'd feel ripped off or something.
ico, I don't think you're going to believe this, but I also had a dream in which Brad Pitt was a friend of mine, not too long ago. This is very weird, because I don't have any particular thing for Brad Pitt, I don't read celebrity stuff, and I don't dream about celebrities. The only thing that I can figure is the New Orleans connection, and that if we still lived in our old place, we would be neighbors.
I spent 7-1/2 hours at the darkroom and I was exhausted when I got home, so I watched reruns of the Puppy Bowl with the sound turned down and Beethoven playing on the stereo. Thanks, Animal Planet.
I'll wait for folks to tell me what the good commercials were and I'll watch them on YouTube.
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